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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Radar technology installed across England’s smart motorway network is still not meeting performance targets, according to the country’s roads regulator. National Highways (NH) came under pressure to fit stopped vehicle detection technology on ev…
HGV drivers are being warned that the M20 will be closed overnight for four nights this week in preparation for the activation of the Operation Brock contraflow system, which is being rolled out to prevent […]
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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…
Couriers believe smart motorways are more dangerous than not taking enough rest, according to a survey. The Courier Support Survey, conducted by Courier Exchange, found 40% of courier firms put smart motorways as the greatest risk to health and …
Logistics operators gave a thumbs up this week to National Highways’ plans to close motorways and A-roads for up to two weeks in order to speed up the delivery of roadworks. Other measures announced this week by National Highways include an incr…
An important road freight survey has been launched by the Department for Transport and National Highways to help inform future road scheme transport investment appraisal. After Covid-19, the departure of the UK from the European Union, and chang…
Lorries headed for Dover were trapped in 20-mile long queues again this weekend with further delays in the pipeline as another wave of holiday-makers prepare to head for the port this week, ahead of the Platinum Jubilee weekend. The queues began…
Smart motorways are the safest roads on the strategic road network, in terms of serious or fatal casualties, according to new analysis from National Highways (NH). The new data was published this week in NH’s Smart Motorway Stocktake – the Secon…
Lloyd Morgan Group has become an official delivery partner of the government-backed National Highways programme Driving for Better Business. The scheme, which is free to access, aims to improve the levels of compliance for all those who drive or…
Operation Brock will remain in place until at least after the May Day bank holiday on 2 May, in order to manage the flow of traffic to the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel. The Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) said the decision to keep the traffic contro…
National Highways paid out £865,254 in compensation for the damage caused to vehicles by poor road surfaces on its network, between January 2018 and October 2021. Research shows that drivers submitted more than 145,000 compensation claims betwee…
National Highways has misplaced over one hundred key devices, including hard drives, laptops and iron key storage devices, according to official figures. A Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, analysed by litigation practice Griffin Law, fo…