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CGI of proposed new James Latham PLC warehouse building. Image: Turley

£10m investment planned as timber company 'seeks to expand operation'

Planners have unanimously approved plans for a new purpose-built storage and distribution hub for James Latham PLC at Ballyearl Business Park, unlocking a £10 million private-sector investment in the borough. Pictured is a CGI of the new development

£10m investment approved for new NI timber storage and distribution hub

The proposed charging hub next to Creagh Roundabout, would cater for both cars and heavy goods vehicles. Image: Mid Ulster planning portal

Transport body endorses HGV EV charging bays plans for Toomebridge

A new £15m DHL distribution centre in Newtownabbey has secured planning approval, paving the way for a major investment and jobs boost for the area

Job busting £15m DHL distribution centre approved in NI after just 16-weeks

More than 3,000 Tesco warehouse workers and HGV drivers, including around 400 based at the retailer's Belfast distribution centre, are being balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay

NI Tesco could see 'empty shelves' as 400 Belfast workers ballot for strike

The tractor convoy at walking speed on the A1 heading north at Hillsborough, creating a massive tailback.

Tractors brings traffic to virtual standstill between Hillsborough and Lisburn

Department of Infrastructure of Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins who has said 20 mile per hour speed zones are a "no-brainer."

20mph zones a ‘no-brainer’ says minister as speed review begins

NCA director general Graeme Biggar

More than £3m seized from cross-border ‘money-laundering nexus’, says NCA chief

Belfast-based company Fleet Fixation has launched new software that will end time-wasting paperwork and improve safety and efficiency in the haulage industry. Adam Monaghan from Fleet Fixation located at Innovation Factory (centre) is pictured with customer Gareth Townsley (left), Kerbside Manager at Bryson Recycling and Innovation Factory Centre director Neil Allen. Bryson Recyclying is using the new Fleet Fixation software and already seeing reductions in both time and costs

NI haulage firm creates tech to improve safety and profitability for industry

Workers and union reps from Tata Steel in Lisburn take to the picket line to demand decent pay. Pic credit: Unite

Strikes at Tata Steel as workers seek pay decency

Lorry driver caught rolling cigarette with no hands on wheel

Lorry driver caught rolling cigarette with no hands on wheel

A quantity of suspected herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of £425,000 was seized

Police seize nearly half a million worth of suspected cannabis in County Antrim

General view of The Junction. Photo by: Google

New £14m filling station complex with 'drive-thru coffee pod’ proposed in Antrim

MotoGP racer Michael Laverty. Twitter

Michael Laverty inundated with race truck driver applications for European GP

Mark Murnin knew 70-year-old Giovanni Buggea, who died after a collision with an HGV in Ballynahinch.

Businessman shocked by CCTV of pensioner's collision with HGV

The Square area of Ballynahinch. Photo by Google

Pensioner dies in lorry incident in Ballynahinch which ended in Seaforde

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Luke Wagner, 26, was driving his HGV when he saw a silver car skid off an icy road near March,. Cambridgeshire, and plunge down a bank into a river. He help pull the man free Picture: SWNS

HGV dashcam records moment lorry driver rescues motorist

Lorry driver has miracle escape after shocking M6 crash near Birmingham captured on CCTV

Watch: Lorry driver cheats death on M6 near Birmingham as tyre blows

John Morgan, service delivery manager, Translink, councillor Clíodhna Nic Bhranair, chair of Belfast City Council’s City Growth and Regeneration Committee and Ciara Cavanagh, employability co-ordinator, workforce training services launch Belfast City Council’s fourth annual Transport Employment Academy which will give 140 Belfast residents the opportunity to train as a lorry or bus driver this September, with a guaranteed job interview.

Belfast people urged to take the wheel on their job prospects

Tributes to ‘much loved grandmother and mother’ who died in car crash

An Irish vehicle solutions provider has added a third premises to its Northern Irish estate to support an ambitious all Ireland growth strategy. Radius Vehicle Solutions (RVS), the only all-island provider of passenger car, van and HGV commercial vehicles service and repair services, has secured a second unit in Mallusk, totalling 5,000 sq ft and representing a £1million investment. Pictured is Ciarán O’Neill, commercial director and Paul McGuire, managing director at Radius Vehicle Solutions at new premises in Mallusk

Vehicle solutions provider drives growth with £1m new premises in NI

The car is seen smashing into the lorry.

Watch as driver runs a red light before smashing into a lorry

An artist's impression of what the new business units will look like at Kilcronagh industrial estate, Cookstown.

Cookstown open for business: work starts on industrial units at Kilcronagh

Motorists caught on camera watching a film while driving

Watch as motorists are caught watching films while driving on motorway

Police officers overtaking a heavily-laden car transporter were shocked to discover the driver was using just one elbow to control the huge vehicle as he travelled along a busy motorway.

National Highways to patrol major motorway in unmarked lorries

National Highways has launched a new ‘blind spots’ safety campaign

National Highways issues advice on overtaking HGVs in safety campaign

Renata Karkocha from McCulla Ireland Ltd, LCCC’s Development Committee Chairman Alderman Allan Ewart MBE and Janice Cooke from South Eastern Regional College.

HGV Transport Academy is driving careers forward this month
The Lisburn and Castlereagh Labour Market Partnership (LMP) is driving forward the careers of those interested in the transport and logistics industry – with the launch of a new HGV ‘employment academy’.
Julie-Ann Spence

Aldi stores will have special opening hours this weekend (image: Aldi)

Aldi to recruit 500 apprentices across the UK in biggest ever intake

Castlewellan Road, Clough

PSNI appeal over three vehicle collision involving HGV - one person critical

CGI images of how the new warehouse facility will look

Belfast Harbour welcomes planning approval for new £9m logistics hub

Motorists could drive lorries without a formal test under licence plan

Smith Street, Moneymore

Man dies after HGV lorry collision on August 2

New Highway Code rules: 2022 changes and how cyclists are impacted

William Wright, a member of Moneymore YFC

Funeral is held for 22-year-old HGV fanatic who was ‘one in a million’

Ann McGregor, chief executive, NI Chamber and Steve Harper, executive director, International Business, Invest Northern Ireland

Brexit, one year on...new report assesses the costs and opportunities

Funding sought for HGV training academy in Mid and East Antrim

Crisps have been emptied from shelves after a computer glitch that occurred during an upgrade to Walkers’ computers systems slowed production (Photo: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Why there's a shortage of Walkers Crisps - and when they will be back on shelves

Tanya McGeehan, managing director of MCG Investments

Rising costs and delays in materials present challenges for NI construction indu...

An Occasional Tipple With Raymond Gleug

Never too early for wine, love or cheer

This little boy looks happy in his jaunty woollen tank top, but is he really?

Nostalgia: the torture of the scratchy jumper

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Amazon ‘warns shoppers to order their Christmas presents in November’ amid suppl...

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Warning over icy roads this winter across Britain ‘due to lack of gritter driver...

Letter to the editor

A certain mindset blames everything that goes wrong on Brexit

Boris Johnson says Rishi Sunak is right, shortages could last ‘until Christmas’ (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson says Rishi Sunak is right, shortages could last ‘until Christmas’ ...

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for months' (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for ...

Fuel prices hit eight-year high amid supply issues

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will also provide examiners for lorry driving tests (Photo: Getty Images)

10,500 foreign workers to get temporary visas to save Christmas from shortages

Drivers will be hit with a £30 fuel limit at hundreds of petrol stations (Photo: Getty Images)

Hundreds of petrol stations set £30 fuel limit as panic-buyers race to fill up

Drivers queued for fuel at petrol stations across the country on Friday (Photo: Getty Images)

Temporary visa scheme being considered to tackle HGV driver shortage

A shopper peruses near-empty bread shelves at a supermarket in the centre of York, northern England, during the first lockdown (Getty Images)

Panic buying in run-up to Christmas could be ‘far worse’ than lockdown, Tesco wa...

Police use the supercabs for a better vantage point to spot offenders

Shocking footage shows trucker with a phone to each ear on motorway

There is a serious shortage of migrant labour in food processing across the UK.

UFU: Shortage of migrant labour may hit Christmas in Northern Ireland

Amazon to offer bonuses of up to £1000 of ‘urgently needed’ new hires (PHOTO: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon to offer bonuses of up to £1000 of ‘urgently needed’ new hires

Tesco is offering £1,000 bonus to new HGV drivers amid 'pingdemic' worker shorta...

There may be a shortage of Haribo sweets in the UK due to a lack of lorry drivers. Photo: Shutterstock

Haribo sweets are struggling to reach UK supermarket shelves - here's why

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