Companies signed up to the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) must now have policies in place to ensure their drivers are not impaired through drink and drugs, amid a growing...
A study of five years’ worth of government data has found that the West Midlands is, by a significant margin, the UK’s drink driving hotspot. The analysis of the data...
Waste management firm CSG is warning operators not to unwittingly break the law by continuing to store and use red diesel after 1 April. The company said businesses must ensure...
An eight-year jail sentence handed to a lorry driver who killed three people when he ploughed into their vehicles while looking at his mobile phone will not be referred to...
An HGV driver has been jailed for 20 months after he collided with a veteran car that had mistakenly been driven on to a motorway. Michael Black was found guilty...
A company whose directors have “a long history of failed road haulage companies behind them” has been refused an operator’s licence, according to a report by traffic commissioner Nick Dent,...
Charlotte Hunt was appointed transport and regulatory solicitor in the growing London office of law firm Weightmans in August 2021 after almost five years with Woodfines. Having completed her law degree...
A lorry driver who crashed into a Canadian millionaire taking part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally told a jury he did not think tapping a mobile phone...
The family of a man killed when a lump of concrete fell off a wagon and smashed through his windscreen are promoting the importance of securing loads and carrying out...
A lorry driver who hit and killed an elderly pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing whilst the traffic lights were on red, has been spared jail. Southampton Crown Court heard how...
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