Smart motorways ‘present an ongoing risk of future deaths’, a coroner has concluded, following an inquest into the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 with no hard shoulder. Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said the primary cause of death of Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, on the M1 in South … Read more
Lost truckers are clogging up a small village because the government is giving them the wrong postcode for their new Brexit lorry park. Frustrated residents living in Mersham near Ashford, Kent, have seen their narrow country lanes blocked by HGVs that have been given incorrect directions. Around 30 lorries arrived in the village since the … Read more
Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more
Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more
Earth swallows Brexit lorry park: 12ft-deep ‘sinkhole’ emerges at former airfield that housed 4,000 lorries trying to take goods across Channel Manston Airport in Thanet, Kent, was used to accommodate 4,000 lorries The hole first appeared on Boxing Day and estimated to be up 10 to 12ft deep Environment Agency and Kent County Council have … Read more
This is the historic moment the first lorry crossed the Channel to France after Britain began its new post-Brexit deal with the EU late on New Year’s Eve. Truck drivers with the correct paperwork – and a negative Covid test – were waved on to Eurotunnel trains with hardly any delay after 11pm GMT as … Read more
Small but mighty! Moment a tiny Lada -once the butt of every car joke – transports a huge lorry cab on its roof with ease Lada Riva was spotted with the huge front of a juggernaut on top of his motor The tiny car sets off at the traffic lights in Tbilisi, Georgia, with it … Read more
Around 3,000 lorry drivers are still waiting to cross The Channel after spending Christmas Day separated from their families in their cabs but more are arriving ‘every hour’. Despite efforts to help those stranded in their trucks get home before the festive season, thousands were still left waiting around yesterday as 800 military personnel were drafted … Read more
Around 4,000 lorry drivers are still waiting to cross The Channel after 800 military personnel were drafted in to help clear the logjams in Kent that kept them from seeing their families at Christmas. Despite efforts to help those stranded in their trucks get home before the festive season, thousands were still left waiting around … Read more
A group of Sikh volunteers have tried to the raise the spirits of lorry drivers stranded in Kent with a delivery of 1,000 Domino’s pizzas amid the ongoing border chaos. Thousands of foreign drivers are likely to spend Christmas stuck in the UK as the Government has indicated queues will not move for at least … Read more