About Transport

Transport

Transport, styled Transport – Die Zeitung für den Güterverkehr, is the fortnightly German trade newspaper for freight transport, published by the HUSS-VERLAG in Munich. Founded in 1991 by the publisher Wolfgang Huss, the IVW-audited newspaper serves transport entrepreneurs and forwarders with commercial and traffic policy news, business management and key figures, proprietary vehicle tests, fleet technology, and courier, express, and parcel services. The sold circulation is 8,095 copies with a distributed circulation of 17,630 in IVW 4/2024, the editor-in-chief is Christine Harttmann, the publisher is Christoph Huss, and the print ISSN is 0946-7416.

Overview

The fortnightly rhythm gives the freight transport industry a regular trade pulse: 21 issues a year with the double numbers, each delivering the policy news, the business management, the vehicle tests, and the technology coverage that the transport entrepreneurs and forwarders need. The IVW-audited circulation, 8,095 sold and 17,630 distributed in the fourth quarter of 2024, documents the newspaper's audited reach among the industry's decision makers.

The subscriber model's exclusive content strategy, in the LinkedIn profile's words, reserves the exclusive content for subscribers alone: neither readable for AI nor search engines, the Transport journalism is available as print edition, on the website, as e-paper, or in single-article format, with the ten-year article archive as the knowledge advantage. The 70 percent figure from the 2024 LAE decision-maker media usage analysis, that industry-specific trade magazines remain the most important media genre for professional activity, underpins the subscription pitch.

The sustainability award gives the brand its industry platform: the biennial European Transport Award for Sustainability, awarded since 2011 for the following year by the newspaper and the HUSS-VERLAG, honors the commercial vehicle industry's sustainability leaders, from the large corporations of the commercial vehicle and supplier industry to the typical Mittelständler and the start-ups.

Transport is an independent newspaper concentrated on its target group, providing an overview of the industry: news from commercial and traffic policy, associations and companies, business management and key figures for the entrepreneur, proprietary vehicle tests, technology for fleet, workshop, and warehouse such as telematics, forklifts, or hall construction, topics around courier, express, and parcel services, and topics of commercial road freight transport.

The newspaper appears fortnightly with 21 issues a year, including the double issues 1/2, 14/15, and 23/24. The LinkedIn profile counts 18 issues a year plus the subscriber benefits: the exclusive content available as print edition, on the website, as e-paper, or in single-article format, with full access to the article archive containing all Transport articles of the last ten years, digital and searchable. The European Transport Award for Sustainability, the Europäischer Transportpreis für Nachhaltigkeit, has been awarded every two years since 2011 by the newspaper and the HUSS-VERLAG to commercial vehicle industry companies that combine economic success with social responsibility and environmental care, with winners ranging from large corporations to typical Mittelständler and start-ups.

History

The 1991 founding places Transport in the generation of German transport media that grew with the post-reunification freight boom and the European single market, when the German forwarding industry expanded across the opening Eastern European markets. Wolfgang Huss's publishing biography shaped the newspaper: the Frankfurt evening grammar school graduate who followed his uncle Heinrich Vogel's call to Munich, learned the publishing trade in the family business, studied law and business administration, introduced the multiple-choice driving test procedure, and founded his own publishing house in January 1975 after Vogel sold to Bertelsmann in 1969.

The Huss-Verlags's program history shows the group's transport focus: the 1977 taxi heute as the first trade magazine, the 1979 Logistik Heute, the 1983 takeover of the SPD-owned Bavaria-Druck print shop, and the 1989 Eurocargo congress that became the LogiMAT trade fair in 2003. The 2017 portfolio of eight periodical trade magazines documents the group's scale at the founder's late career.

The January 2025 death of Wolfgang Huss, at 84, closed the founding era: the publisher who had built the independent specialist publishing group from the 1975 Munich-Schwabing founding through the 1990 Treuhand acquisitions of the East German publishers to the 1.5 million annual circulation. The Huss-Medien GmbH's January 2026 takeover by the VDE-Verlag marks the group's post-founder restructuring.

Transport was founded in 1991 by the publisher Wolfgang Huss, who had founded the HUSS-VERLAG, the specialist publisher for transport, in Munich-Schwabing in January 1975. Huss, born April 1, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main and deceased January 4, 2025, had learned the publishing trade in his uncle Heinrich Vogel's family business, introduced the multiple-choice procedure for driving license examinations from 1962, and built the Huss publishing group with its eight periodical trade magazines by 2017.

The newspaper's three decades have accompanied the German freight transport industry's transformations: from the post-reunification logistics boom through the EU eastern enlargement, the digitalization of fleet management, and the current sustainability and alternative drive debates. The European Transport Award for Sustainability, awarded since 2011 for the following year, documents the newspaper's engagement with the industry's green transformation.

Coverage and Content

The policy journalism covers the regulatory framework that shapes road freight: the commercial and traffic policy news from Berlin and Brussels, from the toll systems to the driving time rules to the emissions standards, reported for the transport entrepreneurs who must implement the rules in their daily operations. The association and company news tracks the industry's institutional life: the Verband news and the company reports that the fortnightly newspaper delivers.

The business management journalism serves the entrepreneur's numbers: the Betriebswirtschaft and Kennzahlen für den Unternehmer, the business administration and key figures that the transport companies need for their costing, their fleet decisions, and their investment planning. The proprietary vehicle tests give the readers the independent machine evaluations: the Fahrzeugtests and Fahrtberichte that the LinkedIn specialties list alongside the electromobility coverage.

The technology journalism covers the fleet's tools: the Technik für Fuhrpark, Werkstatt und Lager, from the telematics to the forklifts to the hall construction. The CEP coverage addresses the courier, express, and parcel services' special market: the Themen rund um Kurier-, Express- und Paketdienste that the e-commerce boom has made central to the freight industry's growth.

Transport covers the freight transport industry's full agenda: the commercial and traffic policy news, the associations and companies, the business management and key figures, the vehicle tests, the fleet technology, and the CEP services. The proprietary vehicle tests, the Fahrtberichte, and the electromobility coverage, in the LinkedIn profile's specialties, show the technical journalism's range: Transport, Elektromobilität, Fahrzeugtests, Fahrtberichte, Lieferwagen, Verkehrsrecht, Transportrecht, and LKW.

The sustainability award extends the brand into industry recognition: the biennial European Transport Award for Sustainability honors the commercial vehicle industry companies that combine economic success with social responsibility and environmental protection. The subscriber model's exclusive content, in the LinkedIn profile's words, is neither readable for AI nor search engines but reserved exclusively for subscribers.

Organization and Ownership

Transport is published by the HUSS-VERLAG in Munich, the Huss-Unternehmensgruppe founded in 1975 by Wolfgang Huss. The group, with around 80 employees and some ten trade magazines, is led by the Huss-Verlag GmbH with managing directors Christoph Huss and Rainer Langhammer. The editor-in-chief of Transport is Christine Harttmann, the Chefredakteurin, and the publisher is Christoph Huss, the Herausgeber.

The Huss-Medien GmbH, part of the group until end of 2025, was taken over by the VDE-Verlag on January 7, 2026. Current ownership details beyond the Huss group are not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed.

Digital Presence

Transport-online.de is the newspaper's digital home, with the current issue, the subscription service, the free newsletter, and the ten-year article archive for subscribers. The LinkedIn profile, with 3,997 followers, carries the subscription marketing and the media usage research: 70 percent of decision makers still consider industry-specific trade magazines the most important media genre for their professional activity, in the 2024 LAE analysis.

Dedicated apps or podcasts for the Transport brand are not detailed in the sources reviewed; the brand's digital presence rests on its website, the e-paper, the newsletter, and the fortnightly print newspaper's freight transport journalism.