HGV driver, Barry Meyer, 53 was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court after belatedly pleading guilty to careless driving causing death of Alan Neve, a music executive. Meyer was jailed for three and a half years for killing the cyclist during the morning rush hour, leading road transport solicitors,DrivingDefences.com reports
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Truck drivers will be riding round Belfast on bikes as part of a new scheme aimed at improving safety for all road users. The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has joined forces with the walking and cycling charity Sustrans to create Safe Urban Driving – a best practice training programme to help prevent collisions with vulnerable road users in an urban environment
Read More »The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has said that the announcement by the Department for Transport (DfT) to introduce a temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours makes “perfect sense” to help those caught up in Operation Stack in Kent, and help clear out of Kent trucks which have already made the crossing
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The most northerly haulage company in the UK is continuing to fit Michelin tyres as original equipment and replacements across its 30-strong heavy truck fleet, nearly 100 years after its Michelin policy began
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Our nation’s tyres are unloved and dangerous, according to new research backed by Highways England
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BPW exceeds axle targetsLeicester based company, BPW Limited, which last year invested in a second jig at its Leicester warehouse, has exceeded its manufacturing targets. Last month it assembled its 100,000th trailer axle, well ahead of the projected schedule
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So impressed was Shetland Transport with its first two Gray & Adams insulated and refrigerated curtainside semi-trailers that it is now running another three, and has four more on order
Read More »The rejection by Highways England of a contraflow on the M20 in Kent during Operation Stack has been described as “extremely frustrating” by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) today
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Cosham Plant Hire has added a new Andover Trailers plant body to its fleet, mounted to a 32 tonne Volvo FM420 8×2 rear-steer rigid truck
Read More »The Freight Transport Association of Ireland is calling on the government to press British and French authorities for a resolution to the continuing problems in Calais
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