Transport and Logistics Network
A bomb hoaxer who threatened to detonate numerous explosives around a Kent town for a second time has avoided jail.
Janus Freimanis, of Dover, claimed he would hurt and kill “everyone he can” in calls to Kent Police’s control room.
Janus Freimanis, …
A lorry park at a roadside cafe has been given the green light to continue operating, four years after temporary permission ran out.
The Airport Cafe and truckstop on the A20 between Sellindge and Newingreen, near Folkestone, holds up to 25 lorries.
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It has been exactly one month since the Operation Brock contraflow was brought in. The scheme was initially set up to help with post-Brexit queues and prohibits traffic on much of the coastbound carriageway from Maidstone through to the A20 at busy tim…
Mansfield’s 35-year-old Truck racer, Mark Taylor took to the wheel of the Taylor’s Transport sponsored #81 MAN TGA 12000 Super racing truck and, despite the team performing well, it was not enough to bring home a trophy with a fourth, a sixth, two 10t…
A new ITV drama starting tonight will bring to life the infamous tale of ‘Canoe Man’ John Darwin, who faked his own death in 2002 to pocket £500,000.
Here, we tell the story of the Kent man who cooked up his own elaborate scam – only to come unstuck wi…
Heidi Skinner, from Logistics UK, which represents logistics firms, said: “We are calling for an urgent review into the effectiveness of Operation Brock as a traffic management scheme, and most importantly, the humanitarian issues it raises as HGV driv…
Plans to build a 200-space 24-hour lorry park in Kent near one of the county’s motorways have been turned down.
The facility was planned for near Junction 2a of the M26 in Wrotham Heath, between Sevenoaks and West Malling.
Plans submitted show the p…
A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was found seriously injured by a bridge near the M20.
Paramedics and police were called to Hospital Road, Hollingbourne, at around 9am today.
Police and paramedics have been pictured in Hollingbourne. Pi…
Problems with a key post-Brexit IT system for customs checks are contributing to Easter traffic chaos in Kent as thousands of lorries are parked up awaiting Channel crossings.A 23-mile coastbound stretch of the M20 was closed from junction eight (Maids…
A bin man has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a truck.
Ambulance crews were called to the scene in Goodnestone Road, Wingham, at about 10.40am, to a report a man had been pinned between a truck and a lorry.
An air ambulance has landed in …