The Road Haulage Association

Woolwich Ferry Closure.
A reminder that the Woolwich Ferry will be closed while an upgrade programme is carried out from Saturday 6 October until late December 2018. https://bit.ly/2Nq1a4B
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France – Minimum Wage Declarations.
It would appear that the French police may be doing a purge on checks for minimum wage declarations. https://bit.ly/2zTfNd7
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RHA Pleased to Support Drive Out Waste Crime.
Drive Out Waste Crime is a new initiative seeking to drastically reduce the illegal haulage and disposal of waste. https://bit.ly/2Oyldma
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Two men arrested after lorry driver robbed near Cyclopark in Gravesend.
Two men have been arrested after a lorry driver was robbed.Police were called to Watling Street, near the Cyclopark, in Gravesend.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/…/two-arre sted-after-lorry-dr…/

ALE's M6 Bridge Move Challenge.
We've been in touch with ALE, a member of the RHA, to see how they got on with moving the M6 Bridge.
Article link: https://bit.ly/2Ovr9w8... Youtube link: https://bit.ly/2yewvS3
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RHA Welcomes Fuel Duty Freeze, But...
The Prime Minister’s announcement that Fuel Duty will be frozen for the ninth year in a row in this month’s Budget is welcome. https://bit.ly/2IzdjDv
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Severn Bridges To Be Toll-Free From 17 December.
The M48 Severn Bridge and M4 Prince of Wales Bridge will be free for all customers before Christmas. https://bit.ly/2P7ICIb
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ALE and Conbit Reach Half-Way Milestone on World’s Largest Wind Farm Project.
RHA member ALE have been in touch to share the news of their successful worked with Cobit on the massive wind farm project. https://bit.ly/2zMx3kl
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Increasing Driver Wellbeing & Resilience in Scotland
RHA Members in the North East of Scotland will soon be able to take advantage of an excellent initiative which aims to increase wellbeing and resilience in drivers. https://bit.ly/2zLqKNG
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Three men take lorry and steal 16 high value marine engines from the trailer in Heywood Park, Bicester.
The incident took place at 2.30am on Tuesday 25 September.
Police are appealing for information or dash cam footage. Call Thams Valley Police on 101 – quot ref: 43180292532. Or Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111. Article in The Oxford Mail: http://bit.ly/2zMhFnY

Paul O'Neill visits Tom Ingram in the Vision Express truck - BTCC 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0RqA06T8 3s

Free Cure of Your Compliance Headache - new RHA Analysis WalkMe feature
It’s now even easier for you to stay compliant and give the authorities the information they require with the launch of a brand new feature of RHA Analysis.
WalkMe is an intuitive online help function that enables you to get even more out of RHA Analysis. It’s like having your own personal helpdesk expert at your disposal, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
... Why not see the difference it can make to your own haulage operation and sign up for a free trial? Just call 01733 263 434 or email enquiries@rhaanalysis.uk.net and quote ‘WalkMe’.
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Richard Burnett on the Kay Burley Show at the Conservative Party Conference 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6BR9EPaB aY

Traffic Management Bulletin For The Coming Week.
Highways England have sent out their latest Traffic Management Bulletin. https://bit.ly/2xQzzES
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Lorry Driver Shot In The Head On A14.
The lorry driver suffered head injuries after a ball bearing passed through the lorry's windshield. https://bit.ly/2IrESyt
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Shocking news that a lorry driver was shot in head with ball bearing whilst driving west on the A14 in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire on Sunday 30 September at 3.45pm.
The ball bearing smashed the windscreen but thankfully the driver managed to bring the lorry to a safe stop.
Cambridgeshire Police are appealing for information. Were you passing along the A14 yesterday at the time of the incident? Dashcam footage? Dial 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111. More on RoadwayLive: http://bit.ly/2R8ECZj

Don't miss out on the Northern Ireland Conference! It's free to attend, but you still need to book tickets. Follow the link to find out more.

Major A64 Improvements Planned For Malton.
Drivers planning a trip along the A64 should be aware of upcoming closures over the next couple of months. https://bit.ly/2R6hP0a
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Office of the Traffic Comissioner: How Do Traffic Commissioners Deal With Conduct Issues?
Regulators have the power to take action against vocational licences. Dealing with driver conduct issues is a key part of the traffic commissioners’ work. https://bit.ly/2R3BTAg
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Urgent driving vacancies!!



Class 1 (C+E) driving shifts available from DE7 - West Hallam and WF10 - Castleford. Multiple shifts from now until the end of January.



Sat £15/Hr

Sun £18/Hr



FT midweek vacancies also available days and nights.



Please call Gavin on 07500 603070 if your interested!!

The ultimate place to learn .hats off to Bob the knowledge he has is mind blowing without doubt the best coarse i have attended

The RHA is there for its members. Providing sound advice, information and training in all aspects of the industry. We have been proud members for over 50 years

Looking for a Class 2 HGV driver ideally with some excavator driving and servicing experience. Job varies between 8 wheel plant lorry driving and general servicing work, possibility of long hours and weekend shifts.



Immediate start. Based near Lanark. Please get in touch, on here, email william@mvplanthire.com or call 07885692516



Feel free to share this status or tag anyone that might be interested!

Given a choice of route towards London out of an Industrial Estate, which would you choose for best fuel economy? Your first choice is straight onto a Motorway, 1.5 miles from the Estate. One set of traffic lights, and a roundabout to negotiate. Your second choice is through a village, 40mph speed restriction for 2.5 miles, 6 sets traffic lights, a hill, 2 roundabouts, but 3 miles less than the first choice. Takes about the same time. Which route would give the best fuel economy ?

Trying to find out if planners can plan you on a 15 hr day or is it 11 hour day?

Question to RHA wat is the permissable waight of a tractor towing an articulated flat bed trailer with a Dolly and wat licence do you need to do this .

Instead of just reporting things why not actually do something fucking useful that helps uk truck drivers instead of doing nothing at all execept talking about time you lot got of your arses and did something constructive

Your a waste of time there’s no support for our industry

What are the RHA doing for owner drivers and small family owned buisness's?? Not a lot!

They do nothing for employee drivers! They have made no moves to stamp out the plague of agencies forcing Drivers to be registered self employed or using umbrella systems to get work.

They do fuck all to help drivers they are in the goverments pocket, I bet not 1 of them as even been behind the wheel of a Hgv, they are a disgrace

Road Haulage Association representative on Sky Fake News right now. A few hours after a so called 'agreement' on phase one of the talks...



Project Fear Mk 3.0 starts immediately. Give it a rest, you Remainiac W@nkers.

If they did anything for drivers why are services charging such a rip off for parking and to make it worse one welcome break site in the new year is putting parking upto £42.50 a night!!!!!! Who the hell can afford that. You want something to do then sort this shambles out

I never wrote this but a chap on here did and hut the nail on the head !!!



I`ve been their seen it done it. trained over five thousand drivers now on cpc, and i can tell you all this at least 50% of all the drivers i`ve trained have told me they are not going to be working come september.

In my opinion, as an LGV driver that has worked throughout the country for over 20 years and instructor teacher qualified in logistics, i f***ing hate driving wagons for 15 hours a day it`s bloody dangerous, 9 hours off is a joke by the time you get home and have your dinner sometimes late in the evening you only get 6 hours snooze before your back up and driving for yet another 15 hours. How many jobs do you know of that would say start at 0600 and by 1200 say to you “your working until 2100 tonight” The Unions would be up in arms. All the money it takes to get the licenses only to have at the back of your mind “are Vosa going to stop me today?” up to £5000 on the spot fines and i could be unemployed in a day!!!! Imagine if you did not put your forks down properly on an flt then told your going to be docked a full days pay because of it!!! that`s how stupid this industry is getting but what the government wants to do is crash the industry. Without LGV drivers their is no commerce FACT. What are they going to do put all goods on trains and hand ball them to the shops? Drivers need to WAKE UP and stop working for peanuts, come on £8.50 all hours for doing what we do is an insult, yet, you bloody well do it?

The agencies need to pay the drivers top rates instead of coining the profit for basically doing SOD ALL. Haulage firms should contact drivers directly via a local network and pay them cutting out the middle man (that do sod all) I saw what happened in lutterworth when a large supermarket company made 60 drivers redundant only to employ polish drivers….Thinking they would save a fortune on wages…. within six months the entire fleet (no sh*t) was ruined bigtime. and a certain agency at the time had half the polish drivers on the same driving license working for another well known supermarket company. Experience is priceless, good drivers should be retained not forced out of the market like is what being done now with the dcpc. The dcpc should be 2 days long or 4x 2 hour segments focusing on WTD/Tachos and safe loading/H/S that way it covers all facts… whats going to keep me safe, and legal. evryone agrees with me on that. too long in a classroom, we need updates and refreshing NOT sucking eggs or doing the same course again and agian, makes no sence. yes, the EU is designed to fail, and the government agencies see LGV drivers as an easy target to get cash out of, but what`s it going to take to make people sit up and say ENOUGH? NO ONE wants to drive a truck for 60 hours a week starting and finishing at stupid times….NO ONE!!! We used to just get on with it, because the cash was ok some ten years ago but now, naaa, it`s crap and the young see that. Class 1 drivers should be on at least 14 quid an hour, and if ANY government jobsworth thinks otherwise may i suggest they get in a truck do the job professionally and put the hours in for a few weeks then come back and say £8.50 all hours etc is ok.

Urgent driving vacancies!!



Class 1 (C+E) driving shifts available from DE7 - West Hallam and WF10 - Castleford. Multiple shifts from now until the end of January.



Sat £15/Hr

Sun £18/Hr



FT midweek vacancies also available days and nights.



Please call Gavin on 07500 603070 if your interested!!

The ultimate place to learn .hats off to Bob the knowledge he has is mind blowing without doubt the best coarse i have attended

The RHA is there for its members. Providing sound advice, information and training in all aspects of the industry. We have been proud members for over 50 years

Looking for a Class 2 HGV driver ideally with some excavator driving and servicing experience. Job varies between 8 wheel plant lorry driving and general servicing work, possibility of long hours and weekend shifts.



Immediate start. Based near Lanark. Please get in touch, on here, email william@mvplanthire.com or call 07885692516



Feel free to share this status or tag anyone that might be interested!

Given a choice of route towards London out of an Industrial Estate, which would you choose for best fuel economy? Your first choice is straight onto a Motorway, 1.5 miles from the Estate. One set of traffic lights, and a roundabout to negotiate. Your second choice is through a village, 40mph speed restriction for 2.5 miles, 6 sets traffic lights, a hill, 2 roundabouts, but 3 miles less than the first choice. Takes about the same time. Which route would give the best fuel economy ?

Trying to find out if planners can plan you on a 15 hr day or is it 11 hour day?

Question to RHA wat is the permissable waight of a tractor towing an articulated flat bed trailer with a Dolly and wat licence do you need to do this .

Instead of just reporting things why not actually do something fucking useful that helps uk truck drivers instead of doing nothing at all execept talking about time you lot got of your arses and did something constructive

Your a waste of time there’s no support for our industry

What are the RHA doing for owner drivers and small family owned buisness's?? Not a lot!

They do nothing for employee drivers! They have made no moves to stamp out the plague of agencies forcing Drivers to be registered self employed or using umbrella systems to get work.

They do fuck all to help drivers they are in the goverments pocket, I bet not 1 of them as even been behind the wheel of a Hgv, they are a disgrace

Road Haulage Association representative on Sky Fake News right now. A few hours after a so called 'agreement' on phase one of the talks...



Project Fear Mk 3.0 starts immediately. Give it a rest, you Remainiac W@nkers.

If they did anything for drivers why are services charging such a rip off for parking and to make it worse one welcome break site in the new year is putting parking upto £42.50 a night!!!!!! Who the hell can afford that. You want something to do then sort this shambles out

I never wrote this but a chap on here did and hut the nail on the head !!!



I`ve been their seen it done it. trained over five thousand drivers now on cpc, and i can tell you all this at least 50% of all the drivers i`ve trained have told me they are not going to be working come september.

In my opinion, as an LGV driver that has worked throughout the country for over 20 years and instructor teacher qualified in logistics, i f***ing hate driving wagons for 15 hours a day it`s bloody dangerous, 9 hours off is a joke by the time you get home and have your dinner sometimes late in the evening you only get 6 hours snooze before your back up and driving for yet another 15 hours. How many jobs do you know of that would say start at 0600 and by 1200 say to you “your working until 2100 tonight” The Unions would be up in arms. All the money it takes to get the licenses only to have at the back of your mind “are Vosa going to stop me today?” up to £5000 on the spot fines and i could be unemployed in a day!!!! Imagine if you did not put your forks down properly on an flt then told your going to be docked a full days pay because of it!!! that`s how stupid this industry is getting but what the government wants to do is crash the industry. Without LGV drivers their is no commerce FACT. What are they going to do put all goods on trains and hand ball them to the shops? Drivers need to WAKE UP and stop working for peanuts, come on £8.50 all hours for doing what we do is an insult, yet, you bloody well do it?

The agencies need to pay the drivers top rates instead of coining the profit for basically doing SOD ALL. Haulage firms should contact drivers directly via a local network and pay them cutting out the middle man (that do sod all) I saw what happened in lutterworth when a large supermarket company made 60 drivers redundant only to employ polish drivers….Thinking they would save a fortune on wages…. within six months the entire fleet (no sh*t) was ruined bigtime. and a certain agency at the time had half the polish drivers on the same driving license working for another well known supermarket company. Experience is priceless, good drivers should be retained not forced out of the market like is what being done now with the dcpc. The dcpc should be 2 days long or 4x 2 hour segments focusing on WTD/Tachos and safe loading/H/S that way it covers all facts… whats going to keep me safe, and legal. evryone agrees with me on that. too long in a classroom, we need updates and refreshing NOT sucking eggs or doing the same course again and agian, makes no sence. yes, the EU is designed to fail, and the government agencies see LGV drivers as an easy target to get cash out of, but what`s it going to take to make people sit up and say ENOUGH? NO ONE wants to drive a truck for 60 hours a week starting and finishing at stupid times….NO ONE!!! We used to just get on with it, because the cash was ok some ten years ago but now, naaa, it`s crap and the young see that. Class 1 drivers should be on at least 14 quid an hour, and if ANY government jobsworth thinks otherwise may i suggest they get in a truck do the job professionally and put the hours in for a few weeks then come back and say £8.50 all hours etc is ok.

Urgent driving vacancies!!



Class 1 (C+E) driving shifts available from DE7 - West Hallam and WF10 - Castleford. Multiple shifts from now until the end of January.



Sat £15/Hr

Sun £18/Hr



FT midweek vacancies also available days and nights.



Please call Gavin on 07500 603070 if your interested!!

The ultimate place to learn .hats off to Bob the knowledge he has is mind blowing without doubt the best coarse i have attended

The RHA is there for its members. Providing sound advice, information and training in all aspects of the industry. We have been proud members for over 50 years

Looking for a Class 2 HGV driver ideally with some excavator driving and servicing experience. Job varies between 8 wheel plant lorry driving and general servicing work, possibility of long hours and weekend shifts.



Immediate start. Based near Lanark. Please get in touch, on here, email william@mvplanthire.com or call 07885692516



Feel free to share this status or tag anyone that might be interested!

Given a choice of route towards London out of an Industrial Estate, which would you choose for best fuel economy? Your first choice is straight onto a Motorway, 1.5 miles from the Estate. One set of traffic lights, and a roundabout to negotiate. Your second choice is through a village, 40mph speed restriction for 2.5 miles, 6 sets traffic lights, a hill, 2 roundabouts, but 3 miles less than the first choice. Takes about the same time. Which route would give the best fuel economy ?

Trying to find out if planners can plan you on a 15 hr day or is it 11 hour day?

Question to RHA wat is the permissable waight of a tractor towing an articulated flat bed trailer with a Dolly and wat licence do you need to do this .

Instead of just reporting things why not actually do something fucking useful that helps uk truck drivers instead of doing nothing at all execept talking about time you lot got of your arses and did something constructive

Your a waste of time there’s no support for our industry

What are the RHA doing for owner drivers and small family owned buisness's?? Not a lot!

They do nothing for employee drivers! They have made no moves to stamp out the plague of agencies forcing Drivers to be registered self employed or using umbrella systems to get work.

They do fuck all to help drivers they are in the goverments pocket, I bet not 1 of them as even been behind the wheel of a Hgv, they are a disgrace

Road Haulage Association representative on Sky Fake News right now. A few hours after a so called 'agreement' on phase one of the talks...



Project Fear Mk 3.0 starts immediately. Give it a rest, you Remainiac W@nkers.

If they did anything for drivers why are services charging such a rip off for parking and to make it worse one welcome break site in the new year is putting parking upto £42.50 a night!!!!!! Who the hell can afford that. You want something to do then sort this shambles out

I never wrote this but a chap on here did and hut the nail on the head !!!



I`ve been their seen it done it. trained over five thousand drivers now on cpc, and i can tell you all this at least 50% of all the drivers i`ve trained have told me they are not going to be working come september.

In my opinion, as an LGV driver that has worked throughout the country for over 20 years and instructor teacher qualified in logistics, i f***ing hate driving wagons for 15 hours a day it`s bloody dangerous, 9 hours off is a joke by the time you get home and have your dinner sometimes late in the evening you only get 6 hours snooze before your back up and driving for yet another 15 hours. How many jobs do you know of that would say start at 0600 and by 1200 say to you “your working until 2100 tonight” The Unions would be up in arms. All the money it takes to get the licenses only to have at the back of your mind “are Vosa going to stop me today?” up to £5000 on the spot fines and i could be unemployed in a day!!!! Imagine if you did not put your forks down properly on an flt then told your going to be docked a full days pay because of it!!! that`s how stupid this industry is getting but what the government wants to do is crash the industry. Without LGV drivers their is no commerce FACT. What are they going to do put all goods on trains and hand ball them to the shops? Drivers need to WAKE UP and stop working for peanuts, come on £8.50 all hours for doing what we do is an insult, yet, you bloody well do it?

The agencies need to pay the drivers top rates instead of coining the profit for basically doing SOD ALL. Haulage firms should contact drivers directly via a local network and pay them cutting out the middle man (that do sod all) I saw what happened in lutterworth when a large supermarket company made 60 drivers redundant only to employ polish drivers….Thinking they would save a fortune on wages…. within six months the entire fleet (no sh*t) was ruined bigtime. and a certain agency at the time had half the polish drivers on the same driving license working for another well known supermarket company. Experience is priceless, good drivers should be retained not forced out of the market like is what being done now with the dcpc. The dcpc should be 2 days long or 4x 2 hour segments focusing on WTD/Tachos and safe loading/H/S that way it covers all facts… whats going to keep me safe, and legal. evryone agrees with me on that. too long in a classroom, we need updates and refreshing NOT sucking eggs or doing the same course again and agian, makes no sence. yes, the EU is designed to fail, and the government agencies see LGV drivers as an easy target to get cash out of, but what`s it going to take to make people sit up and say ENOUGH? NO ONE wants to drive a truck for 60 hours a week starting and finishing at stupid times….NO ONE!!! We used to just get on with it, because the cash was ok some ten years ago but now, naaa, it`s crap and the young see that. Class 1 drivers should be on at least 14 quid an hour, and if ANY government jobsworth thinks otherwise may i suggest they get in a truck do the job professionally and put the hours in for a few weeks then come back and say £8.50 all hours etc is ok.