INDUSTRY charity Transaid has published new dates for its Land’s End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) cycle challenge, with riders invited to saddle up between Tuesday 2 and Saturday 13 June 2020, with the changes incorporated […]
AN ANALYSIS of the different times taken by councils to repair potholes has underlined the need for a national pothole definition, it also raises the question of when is a pothole not a pothole and […]
A RECENT study has found that as many as 80% of Britons wrongly think that a truck driver’s only task is to drive, two thirds believe they sleep in the driver’s seat and over half […]
THE Road Haulage Association has called on MPs to avoid the disaster of a cliff edge Brexit. In a letter to MPs, RHA’s chief executive, Richard Burnett and national chairman, Andrew Howard, warned that business […]
PAYMENT of roadside enforcement fines is set to get quicker and more efficient thanks to a new payment portal, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced. The portal, which allows drivers to nominate […]
PRODUCED from data supplied by RHA members in a survey during October 2018, a report confirms that wages for HGV drivers are increasing faster than inflation. There remains a drastic shortage of HGV drivers in […]
BRIDGESTONE Europe’s widely reported transaction with TomTom Telematics, for a cash consideration of €910 million, will bring together the world’s largest tyre and rubber company with the number one provider of digital fleet solutions in […]
FURTHER TO the £4.5m investment in its Doncaster manufacturing facility in 2017, with a new semi-automated shot blast and paint operation, Montracon have announced further investment in its north east England site reintroducing refrigerated trailer […]
ROAD transport company, Dyce Carriers Ltd, is expanding into the central belt of Scotland with a new facility opening in Grangemouth. Established in 1973, Aberdeen based Dyce Carriers has grown to become a national road […]
EU COUNTRIES are pushing for the current no-deal Brexit legislation to be more generous to the UK, with a ‘bare bones’ arrangement, proposed by the European Commission, that would allow UK hauliers to carry goods […]
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