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Lockerbie-based John Miller Ltd. is strengthening its long-standing partnership with DAF Trucks as it continues to tailor its fleet to specific operational needs.
The family-run Scottish haulier has made the New Generation DAF XG 530 FTG 6×2 the tru…
With Halloween looming, it’s not only potholes and tailgaters giving drivers the chills. A new study has revealed that four of Europe’s ten most haunted roads are right here in the UK – and they’ve been giving truckers and motorists alike a fright …
Rail passengers are being given advanced notice of a huge programme of journey improving upgrades on the West Coast Main Line this Christmas and New Year.
Between 24 December and 15 January, a £196m package of essential work will take place to make fut…
A driver has been taken to hospital after a collision involving a lorry and a car on the A75.
Emergency services were alerted to the crash at around 5.05pm on Sunday near Dumfries.
The driver of the car was taken to hospital for treatment following the…
October 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A flooded road in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire [BBC]
Travellers have been warned of disruption across Scotland later as Storm Amy is set to hit parts of the country with winds of up to 100mph in som…
2 days agoBBCSafety warnings are in place as Storm Amy moves across the UK, with heavy rain and wind gusts of nearly 100mph in exposed areas. An Amber weather alert[1], where flying debris could pose a risk to life, has been issued for large parts of N…
Police found that Neil Platt, 43 of Bootle, Merseyside, had been checking his phone regularly during a three-hour journey on May 17, 2024, which saw him travel from Dumfries, Scotland to the M58 via the M6.
Platt’s truck slammed into the back of D…
Photographs of naked women appeared on the X social media feed of Neil Platt, 43, moments before the horrific crash near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on May 17 last year.
A “heavily distracted” Platt failed to notice stationary…
Neil Platt, 43, was looking at porn on his mobile phone while driving an HGV on the M58 in Skelmersdale before crashing into a car belonging to Danny Aitchison, who was tragically killed
20:13, 19 Sep 2025Updated 20:23, 19 Sep 2025
HGV driver distract…
A lorry driver who was “distracted” as he looked at pornography images seconds before he killed a father of two in a motorway crash has been jailed.
Neil Platt was sentenced to 10 years behind bars on Friday for causing the death of a man while driving…