Transport and Logistics Network
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…
Problems with the government’s post-Brexit customs IT system, out-of-commission ferries, and Easter surge traffic have combined to create HGV gridlock on the Channel crossing between Dover and Calais.
A 23-mile stretch of the M20 has been closed as par…
Channel-crossing mayhem continues: P&O Ferries suspends all services to Calais until Good Friday with thousands of lorries stuck at Dover – as meat industry demands hauliers carrying fresh food are given priorityBad weather, Easter holidays and&nbs…
Holidaymakers heading towards Dover or the Eurotunnel have been warned to take food and drink with them as a “perfect storm” of problems caused more Easter traffic chaos.
There have been huge tailbacks along roads in Kent for days after P&O Ferries…
Lorry drivers forced to sit in queues of up to 26 hours toward Dover or the Eurotunnel say they’ve been treated like “animals” and left with no water, food or toilets.
Stranded truckers have been forced to go to the toilet on the hard shoulder, with th…
Customs IT meltdown adds to long delays at Port of DoverChaos as outage of key HMRC system combines with P&O Ferries problems and surge in tourist traffic UK customs officials are battling to resolve an outage at a key post-Brexit IT system, with d…
7 April 2022, 13:51 | Updated: 7 April 2022, 16:17
Lorry drivers are facing 12-hour waits because of P&O. Picture: Alamy
Lorry drivers have told LBC they are being forced to endure the “worst queues they’ve ever seen” on the approach to Dover,…
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…
A lorry has crashed in Operation Brock on the M20.
The HGV jackknifed in the coastbound queues near Junction 10 in Ashford.
The jackknifed lorry on the M20 near Junction 10 in Ashford. Picture: National Highways
The jackknifed lorry on the coas…