Transport and Logistics Network
Police[1] caught more than 70 speeding motorists on the A50[2] during a summer-long crackdown. Road policing cops teamed up with camera van operatives for the operation in Uttoxeter[3] – where the fastest recorded speed was 96mph.
It comes as part of a…
A Derbyshire farm hit by avian flu is looking to lease land for an excavator driver training facility to fill gaps in professionals for major projects including HS2[1]. David Poyser of DCP Farms filed the application for nine acres of unviable farmland…
A Royal Derby Hospital nurse[1] was left traumatised after a man terrorised her in a fit of road rage on the A50 in Derbyshire.[2] Helen Tidey was travelling back from Hilton at about 11.10am on Father’s Day (Sunday, June 18)[3] and had just exited the…
A prison officer was left with no time to react as he crashed into a wheelie bin in the middle of the A50[1] in Stoke-on-Trent.
Simon Russell says the bin came ‘flying out of nowhere’ as he overtook a lorry on the eastbound side of the dual carriageway…
Plans to turn grassland in the Green Belt into a lorry parking area are set to be refused by Staffordshire Moorlands councillors this week. MJS Transport (UK) Ltd hopes to extend its existing yard in Cheadle to provide more HGV spaces and create a staf…
A care worker was over the drink-drive limit when she brought carnage to the A500 after clipping an HGV. Stacey Jenkins was driving on the D-road through Shelton when she cut across the lorry, sending her vehicle into a spin.
StokeonTrentLive reported …
Dozens of people sadly lost their lives as a result of crashes which took place on Derbyshire’s roads last year. The 29 deaths registered in 2021 was up on the 18 recorded in 2020, when less people were driving amid the Covid lockdowns.
The newly-relea…
JCB has struck a deal with commercial van, bus and truck supplier Dawsongroup for six of its revolutionary pothole fixing machines to help tackle Britain’s backlog of road repairs.
JCB, which has operations in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wales, has d…
Police were forced to close a road as scores of children headed back to school this morning after a truck ‘took the corner a bit wrong’. Officers were called out to Holly Road in Uttoxeter to help the stricken wagon which appeared to be balanced on top…
Digger giant JCB is taking on 200 new North Staffordshire workers to help ‘fuel record growth’. The Rocester-based company – which employs 8,000 staff – is looking for assembly line workers, fork lift truck drivers, machine operators, and welders. They…