Sally Traffic, from BBC Radio 2, was at Welcome Break’s South Mimms service station, off junction 23 of the M25 in Hertfordshire on Wednesday to celebrate the motorway service operator’s first ever National Truckers Appreciation Week.

TruckPol, the dedicated road freight crime police division in the UK that closed in 2012 after its funding was cut by the government, has been revived by the National Business Crime Solution (NBCS).

Having recently achieved ISO 14001 status, Dijkshoorn Euromovers of Rotterdam, Holland has purchased a new removal lorry with the new high standard Euro 6 Engine.

Army Ants Removals has joined the Alliance of Independent Movers (AIM), the UK’s newest trade association.

There has never been a clear path into the removals business. Here, Steve Jordan asks whether it’s now time that there was.

Buzzmove.com. the new price comparison website for the UK moving industry, has just announced a $650,000 (£395,000) investment brokered by Telefónica, the owner of O2. The new investment will allow the company to roll out the service, trialled in London over the last nine months, nationwide.

This month I thought I might tackle a subject relevant to all of us that are European citizens. In March, the European Parliament (EP) Plenary Session adopted stricter rules upon the protection of personal data after voting on its 1st Reading of the draft regulation and directive - updating and modernising the 1995 Data Protection Directive.

Results from the 2014 KPMG’s Real Estate Invest Survey (RE-Invest Survey) show that the global real estate market will see a resurgence of deal activity over the next 12 months. A bullish attitude is back as investors target opportunistic assets to maximise their returns.

Long-term placements, where executives are encouraged to build a new life abroad for the good of their company, are being rejected in favour of short-term foreign assignments, with staff expected to uproot themselves regularly.

Hendley Removals & Storage is a new company, started by brothers Darren and Matthew Hendley, in Paddock Wood Kent. Steve Jordan stopped by to talk about the business and to find out the answer to two fundamental questions: What makes them different and why would two guys, with no experience in the industry, start a moving business in the middle of a recession?

Paul Evans has bought Momentous in Aylesbury, UK, returning him to the moving industry he left almost three years ago. It’s a small company with a big potential. Now that Paul’s involved, that future has taken on a whole new hue of rose. Steve Jordan spoke to him at the FIDI conference in Singapore to find out more.

The IMC Conference is now in its third year and has gained a reputation for being something out of the ordinary, not least for its exotic location in the Oriental city of Bangkok. The Mover’s Deputy Editor David Jordan took the 6,000 mile flight from London to check it out.

Margreet Ophof has recently joined De Haan in The Netherlands to work on the international sales team led by Charles van der Geest.

Worldwide Movers Africa has announced the opening of its 15th Africa operation, this time in Dakar, Senegal.

Firms or citizens recovering debts across EU borders could be able to get the debtor's bank account frozen under a draft law agreed with the European Council and endorsed by European Parliament’s legal affairs MEPs on Tuesday, 11 February, 2014.

Improvements to make the process of transferring business ownership fairer and more effective came into force on 31 January, 2014.

DVLA has introduced a new style photocard driving licence from February 2014.

Right! Here’s one for all you petrol heads out there.