HGV News

A few weeks ago, we reported on a road rage incident involving a tour bus and two cyclists in London. In that case, the bus driver cut off the cyclists and then proceeded to verbally abuse them in broad daylight. Now we have another road rage incident involving a Ford fiesta and a lorry that […]

If you happened to go onto Google yesterday, and we suspect that is the case, did you notice the Google Doodle of the London Routemaster bus? The world’s biggest search engine frequently creates different doodles to honour important events and/or people. Yesterday they decided to pay homage to the Routemaster on its 60th anniversary. You […]

We talk a lot about driver safety in our daily blog posts, and rightly so. Highway safety is an important topic that needs to be constantly discussed in order to keep it at the forefront. However, today we want to change directions. We want to talk about an Austrian driver who has demonstrated, through an […]

Last week we reported on plans by the Kent County Council to build at least three new lorry parks that would alleviate some of the congestion caused by commercial vehicles in residential communities. Along with others, we voiced scepticism as to whether or not drivers would be willing to pay to use those parks, especially […]

October 14-19 are the dates set for the 2014 Motorhome & Caravan Show at the NEC in Birmingham. The annual show, sponsored by the National Caravan Council (NCC), is one of the premier caravan events in the UK. All of the major manufacturers will be there, giving customers a view of the new 2015 models […]

The results of a new survey just released by Fleet News indicate a serious problem exists in the UK where regular tyre inspections among fleet managers and drivers are concerned. The survey shows that neither fleet managers nor their drivers are giving vehicle tyres the attention they deserve. The survey tells us that we might […]

Lorry driving can mean a lot of sitting and doing nothing for drivers tasked with hauling containers to and from ports. Poor scheduling results in dozens of drivers sitting around waiting for their loads, further adding to traffic congestion on local roads. Such is the problem with the Port of Cork in Ireland. The Port […]

Now that the driver CPC deadline has come and gone, it is assumed that professional drivers operating HGVs and other large commercial vehicles have received the 35 hours of mandatory training to remain in compliance with the law. Enforcement efforts will now be engaged in the same way they were last September at the turn […]

A 20-year-old female student from Perthshire has done something very few young woman ever consider doing: she has earned her PCV licence to become a coach driver in her family’s business. Nicola Docherty is currently a student at Glasgow University, but she intends to return home after her studies to drive for Docherty’s Midland Coaches. […]

When traffic begins backing up at the port of Dover, it is not uncommon to see HGVs queuing up along the M20. It is also not uncommon to see lorries parked along residential roads at all hours of the night and day, disrupting the lives of locals. Now though Kent seems to be taking the […]