| Road Transport | Freight association welcomes further government support for apprentice recruitment
13:00 Tue 13th Apr 2021 | Posted By UKHAULIER
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abour has ramped up calls for an inquiry into the Government’s links with Greensill Capital following reports that the former head of Whitehall procurement took a job with the firm without proper vetting.
Bill Crothers joined the board of the finan…
| Freight Logistics | Freight sector hopes bespoke Covid testing regime for hauliers is made-to-measure, not off-the-peg
11:00 Wed 31st Mar 2021 | Posted By UKHAULIER
Freight forwarders are hop…
The Batley Grammar School teacher had apologised after showing the cartoon, widely reported as taken from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, during a religious studies lesson earlier this week.
He was suspended on Thursday pending an inve…
The government has not acted on official calls to create a “hateful extremism task force” that could respond to incidents such as the storm over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad being shown at a Yorkshire school, The Independent can reveal.The Commissi…
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A trusted parts manager who bought bottles of prosecco with cash he stole from his Carlisle truck dealership employer has been spared immediate prison.
Andrew Robert Dickinson, 38, was initially caught using a computer…
A WOMAN has been rushed to hospital following a horror M80 crash near Glasgow this morning.
Emergency crews were called to the motorway in Stepps after they were alerted to a two-car crash at around 7.55am.
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A woman was rushed to hospital after a cr…
A TRUCK driver was pulled over after cops spotted them driving around with an upright 12ft tall olive tree in the boot.
The dozy driver was fined £100 and given three points on their licence when traffic police spotted the bizarre sighting in Earley, B…
Group Robert, which operates one of Quebec’s largest trucking operations, has announced plans to build a $150-million automated distribution center in Varennes, Que.The projects will be supported by $40 million from the Fonds de solidarite FTQ and a $1…
“It’s no surprise that the Government has extended the deadline for the introduction of checks and customs declarations on imports to the UK from the EU,” says Robert Keen, director general of the British International Freight Association (BIFA).
“The …