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Rhdtc Launches Campaign To Recruit 100,000 Drivers
RI by Dominic Perry The Road Haulage and Distribution Training Council (RHDTC) has announced ambitious plans to to recruit an extra 20,000 drivers a year over the next five......
■ More Than 40% Of Transport Firms Are Finding Driver
recruitment difficult, according to a new survey commissioned by the RHDTC. The UK-wide survey found that drivers with C+E licences are in particularly short supply. Driver......
■ Eu Proposals On Driver Training—which Would Make...
ongoing training compulsory—are expected to receive their first reading at the next transport Council of Ministers' meeting on 27-29 June. The council's working party on land......
,tolen: A White Volvo Fh12 420 12 With Large Fuel
tanks ielonging to Freightmasters IM ransport of Northern Ireland. legistration, X231JCW: chassis, 1 1244DAC31A522163. Taken rom outside Central Tyres in lugby, Warks, on Monday......
Schoolboy Tragedy
Vinchester Crown Court has ward that schoolboy Daniel leveridge was "scythed down" whilst out walking with friends when a metal stabilising arm low out from a passing Iveco.......
Stowaway Fiasco
Two men were caught trying to eave a Dover ferry after allegedly losing the keys to a truck containing 68 asylum seekers, Canterbury Crown Court has heard. Christakis lapitis......
Close Call
A trucker is recovering in hospital after crashing into a crash barrier on the M6 near Blacko, Lanes. He is thought to have suffered a medical emergency at the wheel.......
Red Lights
Two freight trains, both operated by English, Welsh and Scottish Railways (EWS), went through red lights in Newport in March. The incidents were highlighted in a Health & Safety......
New President
Wincanton chief executive Chas Lawrence has officially taken up the presidency of the Freight Transport Association. He has taken over from Safeway supply director Lawrence......