Freight volumes are softening but rates remain at record highs, according to ACT Research’s For-Hire Trucking Index for May.
“Consistent with some consumer-related macro softness as well as the deceleration in DAT’s load-to-truck ratios from the beginn…
A group that says it represents 30 truck training schools is pushing against Ontario’s timeline to introduce a licence restriction for drivers who take road tests using automated or automatic transmissions.
Under the plans, those who test for a new Cla…
National Crime Agency officers have arrested a man wanted in connection with the smuggling of migrants found dead in a lorry in Essex in October 2019.
The Vietnamese national, who at this stage is not being named, was detained at a supermarket petrol s…
After more than a decade of excellent performance from its other Andover Trailers products, Kilmarnock-based Blackwood Plant Hire has taken delivery of its first purpose-built plant bodies from the Hampshire manufacturer.
Mounted to two identical 32-to…
A shortfall of up to 70,000 HGV drivers in the UK is likely to soon have even greater consequences than those already seen, according to ParcelHero. It warns customers to expect empty shelves and delays to home deliveries.
ParcelHero says that around a…
With more than 45,000 HGV driver tests outstanding at DVSA as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Logistics UK is pressing government to introduce a seasonal visa for European HGV drivers to protect the nation’s supply chain while the organisation catc…
Drivers queue to cross from Liverpool to Northern Ireland. Image: AlanMorris/Shutterstock.com
Driver shortages that are already hitting wholesalers and deliveries to care homes and supermarkets could soon mean delays to home deliveries and shortages …
Dozens of unsuspecting drivers were caught out for mobile phone and seatbelt offences as police went undercover in a heavy goods vehicle.
Roads policing officers headed out across Nottinghamshire’s roads in the lorry borrowed from Highways England in o…
Shoppers are facing shortage of chilled food this summer due to lack of lorry drivers and production workers after Brexit and the pandemic, experts warnShane Brennan from Cold Chain Federation warned situation was now a ‘crisis’He said the supply chain…
Tributes have been paid to a ‘proper gentleman’ and ‘proper Liverpool character’ after a man was hit by a HGV lorry in Liverpool city centre.
Merseyside Police and the fire service were called to reports of a man being hit by a HGV lorry on Renshaw Str…