Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its staff twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway
Millions of families, commuters and school children are being encouraged to take up healthy habits this year. Local councils will benefit from skills training and a boost to green jobs thanks to a £32.9 million scheme launched today (2 January 2023) which will enable them to develop thousands of well thought-through local walking and cycling schemes, co-created by the communities that will use them.
2022 presented itself as another highly challenging year for the UK road haulage network. Record high fuel prices added further crippling costs to the already beleaguered industry that was recovering from Covid and Brexit restrictions.
On 16 November 2020, Robert Gifkins, who worked for Arnold Laver & Company Ltd, was delivering timber to a company in Whaddon near Salisbury. He had climbed onto the bed of his trailer to sling the load and attach it to the vehicle-mounted crane.
Lorry drivers will benefit from improved and safer rest areas and roadside facilities thanks to up to £100 million investment from industry and government, the Roads Minister Richard Holden has announced.
Having faced unprecedented rises in fuel costs during the last ten months, fleets have been warned they government may be plotting to increase fuel duty by 23% at the spring budget.
Maritime Transport, the UK’s leading provider of integrated road and rail solutions, has turned to Tiger Trailers for its latest order of curtainsiders, based on the manufacturer’s reputation for high quality products, efficiency, and a customer-focussed approach. Manufactured on time and in full at Tiger’s state-of-the-art facility, the new trailers have entered service throughout the UK.
The latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reveal UK CV production has risen 53.6% to 11,979 units – the best figures for September since 2011.
As the UK and wider world recover from the pandemic period, many transport organisations are looking for ways to increase profitability. The shock economic factors over the last few years have no doubt left some companies close to failure or have certainly forced them to reduce their operating costs somewhat. In this article we are looking at the key 5 challenges the industry continues to face in 2022 and into 2023.
With the goal to decarbonise its UK supply chain, the imitative sees Shell switching part of its UK fuel delivery fleet, operated by Hoyer, to the new Gd45 powered by Shell GTL Fuel as a drop-in alternative to diesel. Started in May 2022, the programme will run for six months, with the possibility to expand.
