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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A sweet manufacturer has been fined £5,000 after an employee climbed on a forklift truck to help keep its balance while unloading equipment from a lorry and fell, breaking his arm. According to the Health […]
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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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Sussex has been revealed as the worst county for HGV thefts, with 87 incidents reported to the police since 2020, according to a freedom of information request. Of the forces that responded, Sussex came out […]
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The senior traffic commissioner is consulting on plans to amend statutory guidance closing a loophole that enables hauliers to ‘draw down’ HGVs not specified on an operator licence. The move was prompted by a recent […]
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An HGV driver was struck in the face by a gas canister that was thrown from a bridge over the A1(M) near Baldock and smashed through his windscreen. Police are now appealing for witnesses following […]
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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’&…
The administrator of a Herts-based TV and film transport company said creditors would now receive some of their money back after it was able to sell off plant and machinery for more money than expected. […]
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A Peterborough haulage company that was refused its application to operate 50 lorries and 50 trailers has won its appeal after the upper tribunal ruled that the traffic commissioner had acted unfairly. REL Haulage will […]
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A Lincolnshire food recycling firm has been fined £36,000 for illegally spreading waste on three farmlands. Whites Recycling pleaded guilty to eight offences, including the breach of environmental permit conditions related to the spreading of [……
A lorry driver who swerved his 44-tonne vehicle all over the A14 in Cambridgeshire, narrowly avoiding other motorists, has been jailed for almost a year and a half. Ronald Grant, 48, was witnessed moving in and out of the correct lane on the wes…
Transport managers are used to drivers physically ‘wet’ signing to say they have ‘read and understood’ a whole raft of information, including the content of policy documents, method statements, risk assessments and written instructions. However,…
Haulier Danny W Poole & Sons has launched legal action against the government’s ‘idiotic’ and ‘not fit for purpose’ immigration rules, after being advised by the Home Office to move to Poland to avoid border delays. The Hanley-based haulage …
FleetCheck is helping a police operation which is monitoring HGV driver behaviour on roads across the UK, with the aim of making the country’s highways safer. The software specialist is providing free fleet management software for use in three H…