Renault Trucks launches social media competition to highlight Range T High UK launch

The Aquarius IT team returns to Tip-Ex & Tank-Ex on 30th September to showcase the company’s range of fleet compliance and  management solutions, including its new Asset Maintenance portal.  

60-tonne B-double road trains to be trialled in the UK    

Angry hauliers condemn Tarmac over new night-time pay rates

DHL Supply Chain is drafted in by the NHS

Ferguson Transport and Shipping has furloughed 26 drivers and 14 staff 

Ferguson Transport and Shipping drivers plead to be furloughed

The government is looking at alternative means of funding smaller hauliers struggling to access the Treasury’s COVID-19 funding packages

MP writes that HGV licence medicals are to be suspended, but no DVLA confirmation yet

Clive Brooks applauds the government's offer to pay 80% of employees' salaries

Abbey Logistics tops up pay of self-isolating workers

Police told not to challenge travel related to logistics  

HGV driver medicals under threat as doctors stretched by COVID-19

Fashion haulage company calls for clearer business support rules to halt job losses

Operators in danger of rise in non-delivery claims during COVID-19 crisis

TfL suspends road congestion charges during coronavirus crisis

The Green Group has bolstered its fleet with the addition of 63 curtainsider trailers from Lawrence David.

The HSE has clarified that bonded warehouses must provide visiting drivers with adequate toilet facilities after an HGV driver was told by staff at Expeditor International that she should use a portable toilet rather than staff toilets due to security concerns.

The HGV testing crisis is set to get worse following the revelation that the DVSA’s chief executive Gareth Llewellyn has ordered a temporary recruitment freeze with immediate effect, CM can reveal.

Both Derby and Nottingham have turned their backs on plans to set up clean air zones, insisting they can cut their cities’ emissions through other means.

  The DVSA has introduced nationwide checks to identify trucks using AdBlue cheat devices to circumvent emissions rules, after a smaller regional crackdown last year highlighted significant non-compliance.

Having a truck seized by Border Force can be a costly affair. Ensure measures are in place to prevent you from becoming a victim.

Volvo Truck and Bus Wales and West has wooed Somerset-based Briarwood Products back to Volvo after 25 years.

Peel Ports Group is making major improvements to HGV driver toilet facilities at its Port of Liverpool Seaforth site (right) after a female driver reported it to the HSE.

Operators whose trucks are seized by UK Border Force could suffer even greater financial penalties if the vehicle is leased, a leading lawyer has warned.

  Demand for retreaded tyres is soaring after the European Commission introduced a levy on tyres imported from China in May. 

Port operator Associated British Ports (ABP) has taken delivery of 11 new Fruehauf Smoothside Sloper bulk tipping trailers. 

HSE involvement over the lack of adequate toilet provision for visiting drivers at DB Schenker’s Tamworth site has resulted in the company pledging to provide better facilities in the future.

HGV drivers and Unite the union are calling for the HSE to investigate the lack of toilet facilities for visiting drivers at the Heathrow Airport sites of Dnata and Swissport.

The HSE has clarified the rules on providing visiting drivers with toilet facilities after a shipping company claimed it was entitled to refuse drivers access to its toilets for the first two hours they are on site.

A company that refused a visiting truck driver access to its toilet facilities has been rapped over the knuckles and forced to provide adequate facilities after the driver took her complaint to the HSE.

Switch International has added four New DAF vehicles to its fleet at its Andover base.

NV Transport has added four refrigerated longer semi-trailers to its 60-strong fleet of trailers to boost its supermarket delivery service.

Container haulier Port Express has ordered15 Mercedes-Benz Actros 2545 tractor units equipped with the manufacturers optional safety systems, after experiencing a demonstration of the technology.

Scotts Plant & Haulage has added two new Volvo FMX tippers to its 15-strong fleet of rigid tippers.

  Two new Mercedes-Benz Arocs have played a key role in keeping Manchester Airport’s runways open during the recent winter weather.

Gaining access to toilet facilities can pose a daily challenge for HGV drivers, both on the road and when delivering to depots around the country. CM takes a look at your drivers' rights.

The RHA is calling for an urgent government-led investigation into why some hauliers are breaking the law by installing AdBlue emulators and software fixes.

Alfreton-based HW Martin Waste has completed a 15-strong order of DAF trucks with the delivery of a DAF CF 460 FAT six-wheel draw bar unit and two CF 460 FAD eight-wheel hook-loaders.   

The inquest into the death of HGV driver Petru Pop will be heard by a jury in November this year.

Chemist chain Boots has been accused of providing inadequate driver facilities at its Beeston, Nottingham DC, requiring drivers to walk 0.5km to the nearest toilets.

Pallet networks have accused the HSE of placing the burden of responsibility for safe tail-lift deliveries onto drivers, with the regulator understood to have stopped short of imposing a weight limit.

Bowmonk Tapley will be demonstrating BrakeCheck, its DVSA-approved brake tester at the CV Show 2018.

  Flour milling giant Whitworth Bros has taken delivery of the first tranche of 19 new FFB tipping silo tank semi-trailers from Feldbinder UK.

Wincanton is adding 100 Mercedes-Benz Actros tractor units to its fleet.

Suttons Group has bought 800 baffle isotanks in a £10m deal to boost its ability to move a wider range of liquids and fluids.

Metals stockholder and processor Metalweb is refreshing its entire fleet with 10 new DAF box trucks.

Truck tyre supplier Tructyre Fleet Management has been purchased by Michelin Group, in a bid to boost the latter's regional presence in the commercial business sector.

We asked and you answered our call in numbers, highlighting that the problem of companies refusing professional drivers access to toilets is widespread. Offenders range from one of the high street’s best-known names to international IT companies and family haulage firms.