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By promoting and enhancing cooperation between industry and decision makers, IRU contributes to facilitating trade and building prosperity.
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Balanced implementation needed as EU updates road charging directive
IRU acknowledges the Commission’s new proposal on EU tolling rules but underlines that fair and balanced implementation is vital to ensure decarbonisation goals do not come at the expense of road transport operators’ competitiveness and Europe’s supply chains.
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.
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.
Latest industry development reports
The latest Industry Development reports presented during the IRU Presidential Executive meeting in September are now available to members.
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.
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.