BELLEVUE, Wash. – Paccar will work with Schneider Electric and Faith Technologies to provide charging infrastructure for its electric trucks in the U.S. and Canada.The company is taking orders for the Kenworth K270E and Peterbilt Model 220EV battery-el…
Further concerns have been raised over the law currently making its way through the UK’s House of Commons, this time in relation to the haulage sector.
Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune was speaking to representatives of the Freight Transport Association…
After ‘Global Prayers for SSR’ campaign became a huge trend online, justice for Sushant Singh Rajput’s death has reached many corners of this world. The latest example is a van in London that was decorated with the late actor’s pict…
Village bakery creates 50 jobs
The Village Bakery has created 50 new jobs and is close to completing a new ‘super bakery’ to replace the one lost in a fire last year.
Managing director Robin Jones said: “It’s absolutely remarkable how we’ve got back o…
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Clements directors (left to right) managing director Adrian Hutchinson, operations director Paul Dixon and chairman Jim LongstaffPaul Dixon started with Clements Plant & Access Hire in 1974 straight from school. After an HGV apprenticeship he wo…
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UK based rental company Clements Plant & Access Hire has promoted works manager Paul Dixon to the newly created position of operations director.Dixon joined the company from school in 1974 and went through a Heavy Goods Vehicle apprenti…
White Paper Paints a Vision of the Future – But Gets Dismissed by Industry Opponents
UK – First it was horsepower versus mechanical technology, then we had external (steam) versus internal (petrol/diesel) combustion, the latter of which first had to wi…
As a US family were driving home on a still, warm evening 50-years ago, they had no idea their lives were about to be changed forever.
On September 1, 1969, the Reed family claimed they had an encounter with an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) as th…
The Duke of Cambridge paid a special royal visit to Cambridgeshire this week.
On Thursday, July 16, Prince William spent the day at a drop-in day centre for Peterborough’s homeless community where he called on society to be a “bit brave and a bit bold”…
The Duke of Cambridge has said the UK will “never have a better chance” to “crack” the problem of homelessness thanks to the opportunity provided by Covid-19.William’s comments were made during a visit to a drop-in day centre for Peterborough’s homeles…
The Department for Transport has signed off on the purchase of a vast site in Kent for a Brexit border facility and confirmed that it will be partly used as a giant lorry park just days after the cabinet ministerMichael Gove insisted that was not the “…
A father-of-four who was caught sharing a “horrendous” video showing a man sexually abusing a baby has been spared jail.
Aghahowa Evbuomwan said he was sent the four-and-a-half minute clip on Whatsapp and had only sent it to another person in “a misg…
An angry man racially abused and spat at police officers who stopped his car during lockdown.
Collis Pegg accused them of targeting him because he was black – and hurled a tirade of racist insults at white and Asian officers.
The 36-year-old spat at th…