HGV News

A recent article published by the Shoreham Herald served as a good reminder to business owners that retained firefighters gain skills that might benefit employers in the long run. The story profiled six firefighters who recently left full-time service and are now heading to retained positions in Shoreham, Storrington, East Preston, and East Grinsted.

We guarantee that one of things we do not include in coach driver training is how to effectively count your money while driving down the motorway at top speed. That would be dangerous, would it not? Apparently not dangerous enough for a Citylink driver who was recorded doing just that while speeding down the M8. […]

A waste management company in Hampshire has decided to put each of its drivers through additional HGV training that will hopefully prevent accidents with bicycles and motorbikes. The training, being offered to drivers of the TJ Group, is different from other cyclist awareness training programmes in that it does not focus on giving HGV drivers […]

When we engage students during a van driving licence course, one of the things we address is compliance with speed limits. Speed limits exist as a means of keeping everyone on the road as safe as possible. Unfortunately though, there are people all over Europe who routinely violate speed limits. In Hampshire, the police aim […]

Lorry driving suddenly got very expensive for some trucks venturing on UK roads during the first week of April. As you know, the new road user levy came into force from April 1. Both foreign and domestic commercial vehicles are now subject to annual or per-day fees, with monies raised being used to maintain the […]

As one of the leading providers of van driver training in the UK, we assume every training provider instructs students in the proper use of the transmission and parking brake when leaving a van unattended during deliveries. Apparently, that lesson was lost on a FedEx driver who was recently filmed watching helplessly as his van […]

In a blog post published in late March, we referenced a big problem with stowaways crossing the border from Calais into England by riding on the axels of HGV trailers. It is a dangerous practice that can get people killed. In a related story, a number of haulage companies have taken a big step toward […]

Less than a week after the UK’s road user levy went into effect, France has officially decided to rethink a punitive HGV tax first put into play in 2009. French officials say the tax is still necessary, but it needs to be rewritten in order to make it ‘fair’. We refer to the French text […]

With the new UK road levy now just days old, one of the more prominent haulage industry trade groups in Ireland is calling on that country’s government to revisit its own tax scheme. The Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) says Ireland’s already steep levies make it difficult for haulage companies to compete with their UK […]

Next time you’re travelling down the road in Scotland, keep your eye out for one of the new green buses that may have been partially funded by the Scottish government. The BBC reports that the Scottish Green Bus Fund has already helped transport companies purchase more than 70 low-carbon buses as part of an overall […]