More than a hundred French fishermen blocked trucks carrying fish from the UK on Thursday night, in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they have dismissed as ‘a sham’. Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc’s fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a license. … Read more
What Brexit chaos? Just three lorries turned away at the Kent border on New Year’s Day Despite fears of Dover becoming a carpark only three lorries were turned away Ministers were given the figure at a Cobra meeting chaired by Michael Gove Hauliers require new paperwork as part of revised trading with the EU By … Read more
Fewer than 200 lorry drivers were last night waiting to travel to France following a week of disruption at the English Channel border, the Department for Transport said. Thousands of drivers spent days in queues to reach the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel after France temporarily closed its border on December 20. The move came … Read more
The Port of Dover suffered more delays today, with a long line of lorries seen queuing on the approach, after Storm Bella forced Channel crossings to be stopped overnight. After days of disruption following France’s decision to shut its border with the UK, the port suffered another setback overnight when freight ferry services had to … Read more
Lorries are queuing for 10 miles on the other side of the Channel as lorry drivers try to deliver essential goods before an impending no-deal Brexit on January 1. There have been 50 percent more heavy goods vehicles on the roads leading to the Channel crossing in the last three weeks, sources close to the … Read more
New Highway Code ‘pins blame on drivers’: Cars and lorries ‘will automatically be at fault for accidents with cyclists’ due to sweeping changes Government rewriting official guide to give cyclists more protection on the road ‘Hierarchy of users’ guideline says pedestrians and cyclists will have right of way Another change would grant cyclists the right … Read more
Drone photos show a vast 27-acre Kent field dubbed ‘Farage’s Garage’ being turned into a lorry park for up to 2,000 trucks in case of mass hold-ups at Dover before the Brexit transition period ends this year. The development, next to Junction 10a in Ashford, Kent, is being constructed by the Government as it prepares … Read more
An electric road system which would see a network of overhead charging cables along the UK’s major road network ‘would almost completely decarbonise UK road freight’, a report has found. The plan, which would cost an estimated £19.3billion, would see National Grid powered catenary cables charge 65 per cent of the nation’s lorries using an extendable rig … Read more