Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4.4m after a digger used to load a truck hit overhead powerlines which landed on the M6 in the path of passing vehicles. An HSE investigation also found that in another incident a lorry was hit by an overhead cable brought down by the Kier workers. […]
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A coroner has raised concerns about the dangers of coupling and uncoupling trailers to tractor cabs after an HGV driver died in a rollaway incident in Widnes. Cheshire’s assistant coroner Charlotte Keighley has written to haulage and warehousing firm 3D Trans demanding it takes action to prevent future deaths following the incident in November 2021 […]
Meachers Global Logistics said one of its drivers could have been killed after youths threw rocks at its lorry from a bridge over the M271 in Hampshire.
The RHA is calling on the government to give greater importance to lorry cargo thefts, which currently fall under the same category as the theft of a pair of sunglasses from a motor vehicle.