Fears that HGV drivers around Heathrow Airport could face a daily congestion charge to pay for airport development have been dismissed by BAA. The suggestion was that BAA wanted to introduce a £3 daily congestion charge for HGVs to help pay for further airport expansion. However this is not planned for Heathrow “or any BAA [...]
Supermarket giant Tesco is looking to build a 75,000 sq metre warehouse near Andover to handle distribution for the South. The giant logistics facility will provide 1,000s of jobs – many of them of for HGV drivers and warehouse personnel. Tesco is currently awaiting planning permission for the site – and if it goes ahead [...]
Even with the increase in trainees becoming HGV drivers, there is still a massive shortage of well trained, new blood entering into the industry – according to a group of hauliers and retailers. Huge expansion plans from companies such as Tesco and M&S means that more products need to be delivered to more places than [...]
The Green Party has called for foreign HGVs to be charged “as much as possible” for using Kent’s roads. Steve Dawe, spokesman for the party in Kent, said an HGV park need not be built at Aldington if the Government charged HGVs from other countries, like governments in other EU countries do. He said: “There is no [...]
The controversy over whether HGVs should be given special permission to go into a bus and cycle lane has taken a new twist after the city council decided to oppose the proposal. Norfolk County Council has teamed up with Foulger Transport for a six-month experiment which would see HGVs which usually rumble into Norwich stop at Snetterton [...]
Suffolk Police say the roll-out of new Operation Stack procedures for HGVs bound for Felixstowe Port last week was a “huge success” that prevented traffic chaos in and around the town. High winds at the port over several days led to the launch of plans to park hundreds of HGVs on the old A45 rather than on [...]
Just one day after Labour gave up on a vignette scheme to charge foreign HGV’s for using UK roads, the Conservatives re-confirmed their interest in a lorry road user charge (LRUC). Speaking to MT readers at a Fraikin-backed debate last Thursday, shadow roads minister Robert Goodwill said: “We have already announced our intention to look [...]
A safety device that detects and alerts drivers of fatigue is in the final stages of development. The system, which has been developed by Volvo Trucks, monitors the way in which the driver operates the vehicle, emitting an audible warning if it detects a particular pattern of movement changes. So far the tHGV maker has only [...]
Advantage HGV Training and The Highways Agency have released the following information on M4 closures: There will be an overnight closure of the M4 on Friday 14 March between 22.00 hours and 05.30 hours to allow electricity cables to be renewed over the motorway. Highways Agency project manager Dave Frampton (brother of musician Peter Frampton) said: “We [...]
Hauliers, emergency services and local businesses have launched a campaign to get the A82, which runs from Tarbet to Inverness, upgraded.The trunk road is famous for the landmarks it passes, which include Loch Ness, Ben Nevis and Glencoe, but it is also has a high number of accidents. Between January 2005 and the end of [...]