Transport and Logistics Network
The M6 northbound is closed due to an earlier lorry fire.
Emergency services were called to the incident at around 4.15m this morning and the stretch of motorway was closed from J17 A534 Old Mill Road ( Sandbach / Crewe) to J18 A54 Middlewich Road (Mid…
A lorry driver who stopped in a live lane leading to a motorway for a rest has been fined by police. North West Motorway Police revealed details of the driver’s potentially dangerous decision on Twitter – and shared an image of the HGV.
The lorry was s…
A lorry driver who stopped in a M56 to take a tachograph break today was issued with a fine by police after they spotted the immobile vehicle in a live lane. The driver stopped on the motorway on an open access slip road in the early hours of Wednesday…
A lorry driver ‘died doing what he loved’ after a tyre blowout led to a fatal crash on the M6.
Adam Tadeusz Wrobel’s truck collided with a bridge in Bradwall, Congleton, after his tyre suddenly deflated on the northbound between junctions 17 for Sandba…
Sausage manufacturer James T Blakeman and Co. Ltd has taken delivery of three Volvo FH Globetrotter XL trucks having taken the decision to switch its entire distribution fleet to the Swedish manufacturer.
The 6×2 tractor units join three existing FHs t…
An accident involving three lorries on the M6 in Cheshire caused to long delays this morning.
The accident happened on the southbound carriageway between Junction 19 ( Knutsford ) and Junction 18 ( Middlewich / Holmes Chapel ).
Two of the four lanes we…
Planning officers are recommending councillors approve an application for a new warehouse at the British Salt site in Middlewich.
The company wants to build the warehouse, with a floor area of 18,375sqm, for storage and distribution of its products.
Th…
The M6 is closed following an accident on the southbound carriageway.
Traffic monitoring system Inrix says the crash involves two lorries between junction 18 (Middlewich/Holmes Chapel) and junction 16 (Stoke-on-Trent/Crewe).
One of the lorries has over…
A stretch of the M6 in Cheshire has reopened – 12 hours after a lorry collided with a barrier and overturned.
The incident occurred on the southbound carriageway near J17 at Sandbach shortly after 4.40pm on Tuesday.
As a result the carriageway was clos…
A NEW logistics depot looks set to be built on land at Middlewich after councillors delegated the application to be approved once contributions for the bypass had been sorted.Tilstone Industrial Ltd applied to Cheshire East Council for permission to bu…