Dozens of Lincolnshire residents are being offered the opportunity to be trained up as HGV drivers after a local college secured funding. Lincoln College said it would create a “pipeline of job-ready” candidates to hauliers […]
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Spanish road freight transport start-up Trucksters registered a record €30m (£26.5m) annual revenue in 2022, a 300% rise on 2021. The company, which expanded its service into the UK last year, uses a relay model […]
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The co-owner of haulier Genesis 2014 (Ltd) UK and four of its employees have been locked up for a total of 34 years after being found to be part of a criminal enterprise run from […]
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Government plans could see HGV drivers heading to Dover and Folkestone ports held in off-road, virtual queues, in Kent and beyond, to prevent the 20-mile long queues to the Channel Ports seen last year. The […]
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A disaster response charity has been awarded a contract by the government worth more than £200,000 to provide food and water to HGV drivers trapped in queues in Kent. The department for transport (DfT) handed […]
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Container haulier James Kemball saw income rocket from a £1m loss in 2020 to a £42m pre-tax profit in 2021, aided by a major increase in container movements and the expansion of its off-dock storage […]
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An HGV driver who collided with a motorist on the M6 while changing lanes, resulting in her death, has been jailed for 34 weeks. Robert Ward (pictured) initially denied being responsible for Victoria Kavanagh’s death […]
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Freight start-up Trucksters has teamed up with healthcare app Cristobal to provide lorry drivers with a programme to improve their mental health. Trucksters said it was also putting together a driver experience team whose job […]
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The reinstatement of traffic management system Operation Brock in Kent will provide certainty to hauliers but must not result in lengthy queues for HGV drivers, according to Logistics UK. The Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) said […]
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Nearly two thirds of councils in England are struggling to recruit HGV drivers to grit the roads this winter, according to data from the local government association (LGA). It said 63% of authorities had struggled […]
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An agency lorry driver who stole thousands of pounds in red diesel to heat his family home while working for haulage firm Turners (Soham) has been sentenced to a 26-week suspended prison term. Carlisle Magistrates’&…
A driver apprentice at Moody Logistics in Cramlington has set a record by gaining his Class 1 HGV licence in just three months. Steven Cartwright (pictured) joined Moody Logistics in-house apprenticeship programme in August and […]
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XPO has hit its target of hiring 1,000 HGV drivers in 2022 as it seeks to reduce its reliance on subcontractors. The milestone was achieved earlier this month and since then, the logistics firm has […]
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It might rarely feel like it these days, but freedom of the open road was the reason many lorry drivers have given for liking their job the most, according to the results of a survey. […]
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