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Wakefield-based Maia Waste has taken delivery of a Volvo FH Aero 8×4 rigid mounted with hookloader bodywork – meaning eight of the business’ 12 trucks are now supplied by Volvo Trucks.
The new FH Aero was acquired due to the customer’s consistently pos…
Transport minister confirms police have begun contacting affected drivers after 2,650 wrongful camera activations were found on English motorways and A roads since 2021
Ryan Price
09:57, 09 Jan 2026
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The Government has provided an update fo…
It has been reported that traffic is slow on the M62 Westbound from J25 A644 Wakefield Road (Brighouse) to J24 A629 (Ainley Top) following an earlier lane closure.
Traffic is said to be moving slowly with speeds of 36mph.
The lane closure was due to a …
An overturned lorry has shut a major route in Wakefield this morning (Friday, July 18).
The crashed HGV is blocking the A642 with the A61 Jacobs Well Lane shut in both directions at the A642 turn-off.
Traffic scanners reported the crash at 7.10am and t…
A man is due in court following an A19 crash involving two HGV’s.
Emergency services were called to the scene on the northbound carriageway on December 17. The road from near Crathorne between the A67 and A174 near Stockton[1] was shut for around 11 ho…
VEV, the e-fleet solutions provider backed by Vitol, has partnered with the UK’s leading provider of integrated road and rail freight logistics, Maritime Transport, to install high-powered electric truck chargers at three Maritime sites in Wakefield, D…
The issue is on the northbound carriageway of the M1, between junction 40 (Wakefield) and junction 41 (Carr Gate).
A lorry had broken down and was obstructing two of the four lanes.
Lanes one and two were closed while the situation was dealt with.
Traf…
A man is fighting for his life after being hit by a lorry in a major West Yorkshire road.
Drivers are being urged to avoid Normanton Bypass and Sewerbridge Lane in Wakefield[1] after the pedestrian was hit by a HGV around 12.30pm today (March 4).
It ha…
5th February 2025
DRS No 68033 at Teesport on 3 February. DRS/Simon Richmond
Direct Rail Services is operating a trial freight from Teesport to Trafford Park using ultra-low IDA wagons meaning that standard high-cube containers can be carr…
The man who was killed in a crash with a HGV in Wakefield has been named as Luke Croft.
Luke Croft, 33, was driving a blue Peugeot Bipper van along Hemsworth Road towards South Kirkby last Saturday at 10pm when he was involved in a crash with a HGV. Th…