UK motorways to get new 60mph limits.

House prices in England and Wales continue to rise for sixth month.

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UK Truckers driving on Class A drugs to 'relieve boredom', allegedly!

The UK Fuel strike that has not even started yet creates panic at petrol stations across the country

The UK Driver CPC training gap has reached five million hours, with almost half of the UK’s logistics firms set to miss the 2014 legal deadline.

Unite Union says long-hours culture is putting overworked UK HGV drivers at risk and accused road transport bosses of operating on “the edges of legality”

A UK judge has warned that tired truck drivers could kill other road users as he jailed a lorry driver who failed to take proper breaks.

M5 closed in Somerset as 26 vehicles involved in multiple vehicle pile up

Britains best known Haulage boss Edward (eddie) Stobart dies aged 56 after suffering heart problems

Nearly half (46%) of fatal and serious crashes on the M25 in Essex in the past three years involved drivers who had driven too long or had been drinking, police said. Officers will carry out regular night time checks on drivers and vehicles. Two lorries were clamped in Thurrock last week to ensure the drivers rested. Speaking of the statistics, Essex Police casualty reduction manager Adam Pipe said: "These crashes have involved heavy good vehicles or vans going out of control and running into other vehicles, road signs or crash barriers on either side of the carriageway.".................Read more here.

Did you know that at £131.9 per litre The total duty and vat paid to the UK government is .81p per litre the cost of the product including about 5p to the retailer is .51p per litre. For those who still work in Gallons (like myself) that equates to £6.00 per gall of which £3.68 goes to the UK government , actual cost of product inc 5p to retailer £2.32 per gallon. The British government take almost two thirds of the costs. To blame the greedy oil states (as our government would have us believe) is a complete lie, Mr Dick Turpin our chancellor.................Read more here.

POLICE say Welsh communities are endangered by foreign lorry companies which cannot be banned from our roads, however low their standards. One of Ireland’s biggest trucking firms has been barred from opening a depot in Swansea – after clocking up 4,000 safety offences on UK roads in five years. Officials would probably have ordered the company off the roads if it was British, but it’s still allowed to use our roads because it’s foreign. . Read more here ..........

A growing number of lorry drivers in north Wales are using electro-magnets to stop tachographs fitted to their vehicles working properly. Read more here..........

A lorry driver killed a cyclist while chatting on his mobile the morning after he had been on a mammoth drinks binge. Dennis Putz – who had a string of convictions including three for drink-driving and 20 for driving while disqualified – hit Catriona Patel as he accelerated away from traffic lights. A court heard he was over the drink-drive limit and had consumed almost a gallon of Guinness the night before the accident. He was said to have been suffering from the ‘most God-awful hangover’. City public relations director Mrs Patel, 39, was pronounced dead after being airlifted to hospital, where surgeon sbattled to save her life. Read more here..........

Speed cameras have triggered at least 28,000 crashes since 2001, according to new research. The devices also cause motorists to drive erratically, to not concentrate on the road and to brake suddenly when one comes into sight, a study has revealed. Read more here..........

Australia did not suffer to the same extent as many other countries during the recent economic downturn in 2008 and 2009. The unemployment rate over the last two years has been between 4 percent and 5.8 percent; Very low compared to most Countries. The Australian economy is now in great need of skilled workers. Many industries including the housing and mining industries are worried that as demand picks up, they will be unable to find the skills they need. Read more here..........

There will be new tougher requirements to come under the Canada temporary worker scheme from 1 April 2011. Canadian work visas are used by employers who are unable to find suitably qualified employees locally and so need to employ overseas nationals on a temporary basis. Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney had the following to say: "The government is taking action to protect temporary foreign workers, including live-in caregivers, from potential abuse and exploitation." "We owe it to them, their employers and all Canadians to ensure that the program is fair and equitable. After all, they are an essential element of Canada's economic success.". ..Read more here..........

Canada's economic growth slowed sharply in the second quarter of the year, figures from the Canadian statistics agency have revealed. GDP increased by 0.5% in the three months to June, down from the 1.4% growth seen in the first quarter. That means the economy grew at an annualised rate of 2% in the last quarter - down from 5.8% in the first quarter. ..............Read more here..........

2 Year old Boy In Truck Horror!

Councils urged to remove unnecessary street signs

Hungarian lorry driver jailed over Cumbrian man's death

Bulk Carriers manager pleads guilty in immigrant workers case

Truck driver arrested after 12 people were injured in a pile-up on the M6 in Warwickshire has been released on bail.

UK Truckers Fit Cab Cameras.

MPs urge foreign lorry crackdown