Transport and Logistics Network
A number of government-funded projects are putting zero-emission HGVs on the road with real fleet operators to generate data and insights that will shape the future of cleaner road freight. We explore how these projects are progressing
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A Hertfordshire logistics specialist has invested in its first electric HGV as part of its ongoing sustainability drive and transition to a lower-carbon future.
Aztek Logistics will be able to charge the new DAF XB Electric 19-tonne vehicle at its Letc…
Suffolk police officers were called at 10.40am on Tuesday to reports of an overturned lorry on the A14 eastbound by the Copdock Interchange.
A police spokesperson said: “Delays are to be expected whilst emergency services and highways agency attend.”
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Sparks Commercial Services (SCS), part of the Renault Trucks dealer network, has officially opened its brand-new state-of-the-art Head Office, Van Centre and Electric Vehicle (EV) Education Centre in Southampton.
Creating 25 jobs and expanding the com…
A vehicle fire has resulted in part of the M25 being closed as firefighters battle to put out the blaze[1].
National Highways South East said the M25 in Surrey is closed anti-clockwise between J10 for the A3[2], Guildford and J8 Reigate due to a vehic…
HGV drivers who were once praised as heroes for keeping the country moving during Covid have now been “forgotten,” according to shadow cabinet secretary for transport, Sue Webber MSP.
Speaking at a Scottish Parliament roundtable hosted by Logistics UK…
Michael Moore, 62, who had an unblemished 30-year professional driving career before the incident, was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court after he admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving on the A591 near Kendal.
Prosecutor Tariq Khawam outl…
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
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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…