Carglass Improves Efficiency with a Cross-Border LHV Solution Across Four Countries

Ewals Cargo Care and Carglass® launch a smarter LHV solution across Europe

Meet Carglass®

Carglass is a leading specialist in vehicle glass repair and replacement, operating across Europe. With a strong focus on efficiency, reliability and customer service, the company relies on a well-structured supply chain to ensure timely delivery of products to its network.

To support its operations and sustainability ambitions, Carglass continuously explores ways to optimise transport flows, reduce emissions and improve efficiency across its European distribution network.

Ensuring Efficient and Scalable Transport Operations

As transport volumes grew, Carglass sought new ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact. One opportunity was the use of Longer and Heavier Vehicle (LHV) combinations, enabling more goods to be transported in a single trip.

However, implementing this solution was far from straightforward. Crossborder LHV transport requires strict compliance with national regulations, infrastructure limitations, and driver certification requirements. Each country operates under different rules, making it challenging to establish a seamless, compliant transport route.

This required months of preparation, coordination and regulatory alignment across multiple countries, involving authorities, infrastructure planning and driver readiness.

Key Challenges

Navigating complex and varying regulations across multiple countries
Ensuring compliance with road restrictions and infrastructure limitations
Securing approvals and certifications for cross-border LHV operations
Maintaining reliable and efficient transport flows during implementation

Creating Value Through Cross-Border LHV Solutions

To address these challenges, Ewals Cargo Care worked closely with Carglass to explore the feasibility and implementation of LHV combinations. This collaborative approach focused on combining operational efficiency with regulatory compliance and long-term scalability.

The solution involved detailed route design, regulatory alignment, and driver
training to ensure safe, compliant operations. Extensive research identified
routes that meet national requirements while maintaining efficiency from the
Carglass European Distribution Centre to key destinations.

How Ewals Cargo Care supported Carglass

Investigating the feasibility of LHV transport across multiple countries
Designing compliant routes aligned with national regulations
Coordinating approvals and agreements with authorities
Certifying and training drivers for LHV operations
Ensuring safe, efficient and scalable cross-border transport

In 2024, a key milestone was achieved when the Belgian government approved a designated route connecting the distribution centre to the highway, enabling LHV operations to begin.

From there, the solution expanded across borders, creating a seamless transport a corridor from Belgium to Denmark, via Netherlands and Germany

A Partnership Built on Innovation and Collaboration

The success of this project is rooted in the strong collaboration between Carglass and Ewals Cargo Care. Close communication, shared objectives and a willingness to innovate enabled both teams to overcome regulatory and operational challenges.

What defines the partnership

Close collaboration on strategic and operational challenges
Joint focus on innovation and efficiency improvements
Strong alignment on sustainability and performance goals
Continuous coordination across multiple countries and stakeholders
This cross-border cooperation required alignment not only between the two
companies but also with national authorities and regulatory bodies.
The result is a new benchmark for LHV transport across Europe.

Delivering Measurable Results

The implementation of cross-border LHV transport has delivered significant operational and sustainability benefits for Carglass. By increasing load capacity and reducing the number of trips, the solution enhances both efficiency and environmental performance.

Key results:

Increased load capacity through LHV combinations.
Reduced number of trips, improving operational efficiency.
Lower fuel consumption and reduced CO₂ emissions.
Seamless cross-border transport across four countries.
Improved logistics performance and delivery reliability.

Key benefits of LHV transport

Higher efficiency: transporting more goods per trip.
Cost savings: fewer trips reduce operational costs.
Lower emissions: optimised transport supports sustainability goals.
Enhanced logistics flows: improved planning and delivery consistency.

This solution sets a new benchmark for cross-border LHV transport in Europe and demonstrates what is possible when innovation, collaboration and precise execution come together.