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A friend told me that in 8th Transports can carry more than one unit (if capacity allows). For example, a Rhino could carry two five man units. The rulebook doesn´t forbid it but doesn´t expressively allow it either.

From 'Transports':

When you set up a transport, units can start the battle embarked within it instead of being set up separately – declare what units are embarked inside the transport when you set it up.

Note several other places where they use the plural 'units' instead of the singular 'a unit'.

 Luusormi wrote:
A friend told me that in 8th Transports can carry more than one unit (if capacity allows). For example, a Rhino could carry two five man units. The rulebook doesn´t forbid it but doesn´t expressively allow it either.

The rules allow a unit that ends its move within 3" of a transport to embark upon it. Since units move one at a time, that gives permission for each unit to embark on a transport when they end their move within 3" of it.

Therefore the RAW would have to forbid multiple units from embarking on a transport to stop it from happening. Since they do not, you are allowed to embark any number of units onto a transport.

This is necessary because characters are their own units now. A standard line in a given transport description is "any number of Infantry Characters and one other Infantry unit, to a maximum of XX models."

silentone2k wrote:
A standard line in a given transport description is "any number of Infantry Characters and one other Infantry unit, to a maximum of XX models."

Actually that's only found in the rules for Buildings as far as I can see. Most Transports don't have a limitation of a single unit plus characters, but can carry as many units as will fit in the Transport.

silentone2k wrote:
This is necessary because characters are their own units now. A standard line in a given transport description is "any number of Infantry Characters and one other Infantry unit, to a maximum of XX models."

Most of the Characters we have now have always been their own units. They just can't join other units any more, so it wouldn't be one single unit boarding the transport.

The only thing I would add here is that some transports are very specific about what kind of units, or even mentions specific units, that can use the transport.

 Tamwulf wrote:
The only thing I would add here is that some transports are very specific about what kind of units, or even mentions specific units, that can use the transport.

Yes, you need to check each transport. For example, poor Tyranids have the Tyrannocyte that can still only carry 1 unit.