Felixstowe-based Multimodal Logistics has been ordered to pay £1.1m to trustees of a workplace pension after losing a bid to appeal a High Court ruling. The haulier and China Shipping (U.K.) Agency was found liable by the High Court last year to pay £1.1m and £6.6m, respectively, to PS Independent Trustees, which brought the litigation. […]
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There has been much talk recently of how HGV drivers are treated in the UK and whether companies, as well as the industry as a whole, are doing enough to provide them with decent facilities, good pay and relevant benefits.
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. […]
An HGV driver has been jailed for two years after he collided with a broken down lorry on the M4, killing the driver. Experts agreed that the lack of any reaction by Shane Davies to his Volvo artic leaving the road between junctions 15 and 16 was due to him becoming unconscious or incapacitated and […]