Sole trader John Mould was fined £40,000 at Reading magistrates court recently, with costs of £17,060 for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, after employee of 20 years Brian Gutteridge, was killed in 2010.

Automotive industry body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), has just completed its largest ever analysis of vehicle ownership in the UK.

On Sunday 30 June, 2013, Pound Gates and Sevatas have a team participating in the 37th Orwell Walk.

Crown Worldwide Moving & Storage in California is moving its Los Angeles operation from San Leandro to a new, larger facility within the city.

Beverly Smyth was recently invited to a reception by Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland, at Áras an Uachtaráin (House of the President).

This year the Kenworth Truck Company is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

The national road tax in France, Ecotaxe, is planned to introduced across the country 20 July, 2013, for all trucks from 3.5 tonnes.

Chris Lansbury has been appointed Commercial Manager, both for the UK and Ireland, for Crown Relocations. He has 30 years of experience in the relocation industry.

Crown Relocations has promoted David Hollins to Regional General Manager, UK and Ireland. He was previously Regional General Manager for the Southern Region and will now be responsible for increasing the company’s revenue across a variety of sectors.

Electric vehicle drivers are set to benefit from a £37m funding boost that will see the roll-out of thousands of new domestic and on-street chargepoints as well as new charging facilities at railway stations.

Scania Driver Training has invested in eight new trucks for its UK driver-development fleet. The new vehicles comprising four rigids and four articulated units, will provide pupils with state-of-the-art equipment in which to learn to drive a truck.

The British Institute of Facilities Management’s (BIFM) Ireland Region has announced the establishment of a new Southern Branch in the Region - the Institute’s first branch outside the UK.

Road safety charity Brake has strongly welcomed the news that Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin is resolved to cancel proposals for 80mph motorways, although an official announcement may not be made until later in the year.

The Forum of Private Business has said data released in the BDRC Finance Monitor for SME lending highlights ongoing problems with business banking in the UK.

The EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas has floated the idea of the EU legislating to oblige member states to provide more charging points for electric vehicles.

AIReS in Pittsburgh has been collecting teddy bears to give to the surviving children from the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary in December last year.

The majority of small businesses in the UK have taken a dim view of changes made to the tax system by the current government, research by the Forum of Private Business shows.

It’s not every day that a removals company has to use the services of a landing craft to deliver furniture for a customer, but for the guys at White & Company’s depot in Guernsey it’s all in a day’s work.

When the royal tunnel gates from the original Wembley Stadium went up for auction in November 2011, few would have predicted that the successful bid would come from a museum in Chile. But successful they were, and Anglo Pacific has now shipped the gates to capital Santiago.

The Mayor of London has announced the creation of the world’s first ultra-low emissions zone by 2020.