Transport and Logistics Network
The strike by Eastern European truck drivers, who are demanding outstanding wages from their Polish employer, continued on Tuesday at the Gräfenhausen motorway service area in southern Hesse. According to trade unionists, there are now 63 trucks at the…
A brutal military-style attack at a rest stop in Germany, carried out by a Polish private militia on striking truck drivers from Eastern Europe, sheds a harsh light on the slave-like conditions under which thousands of long-distance truck drivers work…
Ignorance can be cured by information. There is no cure for stupidity. In America, Faux News is the temple to the high priests of stupid. In the UK, the Daily Mail fills that role. Last December, the Daily Mail ran a story[1] with this scary headline:…
A strike by Eastern European truck drivers, who are demanding outstanding wages from their Polish customer, continued on Easter Sunday at a motorway service area in southern Hesse. Around 50 truck drivers have been on strike there for days. They are su…
Fed-up delivery drivers say the M6 through North Staffordshire is the worst road in the country. It’s a stretch which regularly sees delays whether down to collisions, breakdowns or roadworks.
That congestion was made even worse when the ‘Smart Motorwa…
A woman and child were injured in a two-car crash at a notorious junction on the A5[1] this week. The incident happened at the junction with Woodford Lane, close to Fenny Drayton and Higham on the Hill, near Hinckley[2], around 5.30pm on Monday, (April…
Concerns have been raised about drug dealing and use in an area commonly used by families in Co Tyrone[1].
The area off the Park Road in Strabane is used frequently by those in the local community as a walking route.
Sinn Féin representative Brian “Bar…
Part of the A5 road in Co Tyrone will be closed on Monday night, April 3 as the PSNI[1] investigates the circumstances of a fatal road crash last September.
Niall McDonald, 44, died in the collision on the A5 Tullyvar Road near Aughnacloy on Monday, Se…
Motorists in West Northamptonshire[1] were told to expect delays on the A43 this afternoon (March 30) after a car transporter overturned and emptied several cars over the northbound carriageway. One lane of the road was closed for more than four hours …