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Eighteen grand for just two days as a forklift driver isn’t bad work if you can get it – and that’s just what a Corby dad was paid when he fraudulently claimed he’d worked for nearly six months despite only two days on the…
Monday, February 1st, 2021 3:19pm
The M1 has been closed this afternoon after a lorry overturned on the carriageway.
A closure is in place between J16 at Daventry and J15A for Northampton Services on the southbound side.
Recovery and Highways Engl…
City Plumbing went ‘back to the future’ by returning to tried and trusted bodybuilder Bevan Group for the first vehicles to wear its striking new livery.
Key to the heating and plumbing specialist’s decision to place its order for 51 bespoke Luton bodi…
Emergency services dealing with the three-vehicle smash near Junction 18 on Monday. Photo: @Northants_RCT
A 67-year-old trucker is in hospital with serious injuries after a crash which closed part of the M1 near Northampton for more than three hours …
Laminates manufacturer, Rearo, has taken delivery of its first commercial vehicles on contract hire, after Fraikin won a competitive tender to replace the company’s fleet of owned trucks and vans.
The five-year, full-service contract hire agreement inc…
Isuzu Truck UK has announced the appointment of Sparks Commercial Services as its full dealer in Swindon, covering new truck sales, service and parts. Continuing its UK dealer expansion programme, Isuzu said Sparks Commercial Services would hand…
A LORRY driver who knocked a woman off her motorbike in an “unforgivably reckless” piece of driving has avoided being sent to prison.Keith Franklin was driving an articulated lorry on the A40 in Monmouthshire when he struck his victim, sending her cras…
Gasrec has completed a £1 million (€1.1 million) upgrade to its flagship refuelling facility in Northampton, UK, to meet the growing demand of transport operators making the switch to bio-LNG and bio-CNG.New fuel dispensers, new supply lines, and a new…
Jean and Fred Pritchard and, inset, Stuart Ratcliffe.
Nothing could have been done to prevent a tragic crash that claimed the lives of a Rothwell man and his elderly grandparents earlier this year, an inquest has heard.
Fred Pritchard, 98, and his…
Nothing could have been done to prevent a tragic crash that claimed the lives of an elderly Northampton couple and their 40-year-old grandson earlier this year, an inquest has heard.
Fred Pritchard, 98, and his 90-year-old wife, Jean, were being dr…
One unhappy driver lost his shiny new set of wheels before the ink was dry on the logbook.
But it could have been worse as he narrowly missed writing off a police car less than a minute after buying a Renault Megane in Northampton, according to pol…
Police are searching for a gang they believe stole £5m of Apple products during a hijacking on the M1.
Officers said a lorry was targeted on a slip road in Northamptonshire. The driver and a security guard were tied up while the thieves drove th…
Noise from the generators at a new Leicestershire coronavirus test centre has been keeping people awake at nights.
Residents in Market Harborough said they were unable to sleep due to the ‘constant drone’ coming from the walk-in test centre in the Harb…
UK: Trade association Logistics UK has stepped up pressure on the government to ensure that the freight sector benefits from capacity released on the conventional network by the opening of the first phases of High Speed 2.
Logistics UK — formerly t…
A PALLET transport company has been fined £107,000 after a forklift driver was killed when his forklift overturned.
Mr Reginald Bacon was working as a forklift driver at Fortec Distribution Network Limited’s pallet hub at Watling Park, Watford Village,…