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When people contact us for information about driving a horse lorry, the questions are usually relating to licencing issues. People want to know if they need a special horsebox licence when towing horses for an equestrian hobby, for example. However, lately there has been a little bit of rumbling among horse owners about the taxman. […]

A couple of months ago, we brought you the story of the UK’s first ‘poo bus’ powered by biomethane gas. The unique bus operates in Bristol powered by fuel made partly from human waste and raw sewage. Not to be outdone, Reading Buses has thrown down the gauntlet by way of setting a new land […]

Lorry driving is by no means a mindless type of employment that allows workers to get away with a lack of concentration. Drivers have to constantly pay attention to a long list of issues ranging from traffic conditions to weather to other vehicles on the road. Safe driving requires quite a bit of discipline and […]

Fleet operators that do not maintain full compliance with the law could soon find themselves in trouble with regulators, according to a recent report from Commercial Fleet. The online magazine says British traffic commissioners will be targeting operators of HGVs, buses and coaches in the coming months to make sure the law is being followed. […]

How severe is the commercial driver shortage in the UK? At last count, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) estimated that an additional 30,000 to 35,000 drivers are needed to meet the current demand of the haulage industry. That does not even take into account the tens of thousands of drivers required by coach and bus […]

Go to your favourite search engine and look for recent news stories involving forklift truck accidents. It will not take long to find one story after the next. Unfortunately, many of the accidents we hear about in the news are the direct result of driver carelessness or improper training. Any company that uses forklift trucks […]

As a UK leader in professional driver training, the HGV Training Centre is committed to recruiting as many new drivers as possible. Yet we know that truck driving is not right for everyone. It is a career choice that brings with it some unique circumstances not experienced by workers in other sectors. For this reason, […]

It used to be that lorry driving was a matter of purchasing a rig, getting some work, and earning a living as a self-employed owner-operator. Things are not that way anymore. For the better part of 20 years, owner-operators have been losing ground to company drivers. That is not necessarily a good or bad thing, […]

The public service vehicle (PSV) licence is one of the more obscure licences required in the UK by some operators and drivers. It is a licence used to regulate vehicles with a capacity of nine or more that carry passengers for hire. It is also for vehicles, such as taxis, that carry fewer than nine […]

As the leading provider of HGV training in the UK, we are frequently asked about the HGV/LGV class licence. There seems to be a lot of confusion inasmuch as many people believe they are two separate licences. They are not. In fact, ‘HGV’ and ‘LGV’ are not license classes at all. The licence needed to […]