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On April 30, the concession to operate and maintain Guatemala’s Palín-Escuintla highway comes to an end for Mexico-based Grupo Marhnos after 25 years.
Last week, the government announced there would be no extension of the contract, ringing alarm bell…
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb), shown during a committee meeting in 2022, is the legislation’s lead sponsor. (Drew Angerer/Bloomberg News)
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A train derailed along the Mississippi River near the border between Wisconsin and Iowa on Thursday, sending two cars into the water.The incident happened early Thursday afternoon in Crawford County between the towns of De Soto and Ferryville, Wis., ab…
The minister for transport, Eamon Ryan[1], has expressed his concern about Dublin Port’s redevelopment plans, which are currently open for public consultation[2].
Poolbeg Peninsula
Dublin Port plans to increase its capacity to have 3.1 million trailers…
Shocking police failings like those made during the bungled investigation into serial killer Stephen Port will happen again, a report reveals.
The police inspectorate said murderers probably continue to escape justice because their crimes are not spott…
Hundreds of tributes have poured in for a dad who was found dead in the trailer of his lorry.
Drew Howe, who lived in Widnes, died on October 19 last year. He was found in the back of his vehicle on the A18 in Lincolnshire after taking his own life, an…
Welcome to the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Newsletter[1]. In this issue, load board fraud rises, freight recession, dangerous states for truckers and kids crawling under trains.
Freight recession and the MSM
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A heroic lorry driver “saved a life” after grabbing onto the chest of a stranger on a bridge.
Kieran Walsh, 23, from Wallasey[1], had set off in his lorry from the Evri distribution hub in Barnsley and was travelling on the M1 when he saw a man walking…
Controversial plans for a major solar farm that will cross the Lincolnshire-Nottinghamshire border have reached a key milestone. Plans for Island Green Power’s (IGP) West Burton Solar Project[1], which would stretch southeast from land near West Burton…
A Joliet man was arrested after he was accused of damaging a woman’s Jeep Wrangler parked in a driveway and then using his own vehicle to collide into another man’s truck, police said.
The incident occurred on April 14, but Corey Benson, 22, of Joliet[…