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Lostock Skip Hire welcomes first Renault Trucks

Family-run waste disposal and recycling specialist, Lostock Skip Hire, has taken delivery of four new Renault Trucks, the first to join the 30-strong fleet. Two C440 8×4, one D12 Low 4×2 and one D18 High 4×2 will operate out of Lostock Skip Hire’s base…

Housing development for Scottish freeport

2024-04-22T13:23:00

A Scottish freeport is keen to cement its benefit to the local region with a 66-home development
The consent for the housing on the edge of Easter Ross town, Invergordon, is the first granted in the area since the nearby Inverness …

Lorry crash on Dereham Road in Norwich causing delays

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MAN: First autonomous truck on the motorway

MAN has become the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to send an autonomous truck onto the German motorway. On board of the test truck, which drove around ten kilometres on the A9 between the Allershausen and Fürholzen junctions, were Federal Transp…

Cartwright Bros: Celebrate 80 Years of Excellence

As of this year, Cartwright Bros celebrates its 80th anniversary and lays out its operational and investment plans for the many years to come. 

Cartwright Bros featured in T&L issue 261. Click to read

Cartwright Bros was founded all the wa…

Road closed after lorry crash spills sand over the highway

Mon 8 Apr

The overturned lorry south of Selby. Photograph: Phil Cain
Mon 8 Apr 2024  @ 2:26pmYorkMix[1]News, Travel[2][3]
This was the scene after a lorry overturned after a crash with another HGV, spilling its load of sand across the road.
It has bl…

A12 near Ipswich reopens 24 hours after driver killed in crash

Supt Chapman said: “We had concerns that fuel was leaking underneath the tanker, both as a fire risk as well as environmental impact, and risk assessments and safety measures were carried out, with contingency plans also made with our partners.”He said…

Lorry driver dies on A12 at Copdock after tanker overturns

A lorry driver has died after a fuel tanker overturned on the A12 in Suffolk.The emergency services were called to the Copdock Interchange near Ipswich – where the A12 meets the A14 – just after 04:30 BST on Sunday.The driver of the tanker, a man in hi…

M40 driver caught speeding with no insurance or licence

Thames Valley Police’s Roads Policing Team spotted the car speeding along “in a bit of a hurry” on the M40 near Beaconsfield on Friday, April 19.
Its driver reportedly averaged 100mph along the motorway near the Oxfordshire border for nearly half a mil…