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Supports Needed For Young Truck Drivers
Truck driver Sophie Howard, from Quin, recently qualified to operate a double trailer rig. Photograph by Eugene McCafferty, Clare Champion. 2025-04-15
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Ger Hyland elected President of the IRHA
Ger Hyland (of Hyland Transport, Depot TPN 113) recently spoke to Laois Today, regional newspaper for County Laois, about his new role as President of the IRHA (Irish Road Haulage Association).
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Six months on, people still confounded by Eircode system
This is a recent article from The Irish Times, printed on Dec 24th 2015, about the mindblowingly useless Eircode postcode implemented in Ireland during the summer of 2015. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/six-months-on-people-still-confounded-by-eircode-system-1.2476492 The pattern has become all too familiar. An Irish government rolls out a system which has been very poorly designed despite having gone through an incredibly…
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IRHA Calls For Driver Apprentice Scheme
The IRHA is lobbyig the government to develop a driver apprentice scheme for HGV drivers. “The average age of a truck driver today is 48,” says Verona Murphy, president of the IRHA. “Young people are not coming into the industry: they see it as anti-social and governed by too much legislation. at the same time,…
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New Driver For IRHA As Eoin Steps Down
Verona Murphy has become only the second woman president of the Irish Road Haulage Association as Eoin Gavin of Eoin Gavin Transport, Depot 130, finished four years at the wheel of the industry’s guardian body. “I will still be involved in running the Irha,” says Eoin, who completed two, two-year terms, “but I wanted to…






