What we do
IRU is the trusted voice for mobility and logistics, upholding the interest of bus, coach, taxi and truck operators as well as the broader mobility and logistics industry.
IRU promotes and enhances cooperation between the industry and decision-makers, helping facilitate trade and build prosperity.
IRU champions excellence in road transport through international certification standards that create real competitive advantage.
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Latest news
Kazakhstan | Almaty
Road transport is like electricity: IRU to Almaty
With over 1,000 delegates at Kazakhstan's major transport and logistics event this week, IRU highlighted road freight’s transformative role in Central Asia and Eurasia in recent decades, and the need to now focus on the “three Ds” in addition to the overarching “D”, development.
3 Oct 2025 · Environment
EU | Brussels
IRU leads policy discourse at Busworld 2025
The world’s biggest business-to-business exhibition dedicated exclusively to bus and coach returns to Brussels and IRU is at the heart of it. As a partner of the Busworld Europe Congress 2025, IRU will lead key panel discussions.
3 Oct 2025 · Environment, People
EU | Brussels
IRU calls for fair energy taxation across all EU road passenger services
As the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union seeks to close negotiations on the long-stalled Energy Taxation Directive, IRU is urging Member States to ensure that all road passenger transport services are treated fairly.
1 Oct 2025 · People
United States of America | Washington DC
US truck tonnage up 0.9% in August
IRU member the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has been calculating the tonnage index based on surveys from its membership since the 1970s. Here are the results for July 2025.
30 Sep 2025 · Prosperity
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