HGV News

Materials World Handling magazine reported late last month that one of the UK’s leading equipment rental companies has made a significant financial investment in order to increase its fleet of equipment for short-term rentals. The new equipment includes a selection of forklift trucks that will be rented out for terms shorter than the standard five-year […]

Former Minister for Schools and Transport secretary Andrew Adonis has decided to embark on a mission to study bus service in London, blogging for The Independent as he goes. Mr Adonis hopes to learn everything there is to know about public bus transport in England’s capital city. In his first blog post, Adonis wrote about […]

The HGV Road User Levy Act of 2013 will impose a new levy on all HGV operators using UK roads and will start from April 1. Moreover, while the levy is seen as a means of levelling the playing field between domestic and foreign drivers, there is still some confusion over how it is to […]

Imagine driving down a busy carriageway and looking over to see a van driver asleep at the wheel while still at top speed. A video of just such an event recently became available on Facebook, prompting police officials in Scotland to ask for the public’s help in identifying the driver and a passenger who was […]

Drivers taking to the roads across the UK have a reasonable expectation that operators of commercial vehicles have been properly trained and are fully cognisant of the law as it applies to them. However, a recent study commissioned by DAC Beechcroft and Allianz Commercial suggests we might want to lower those expectations. It would appear […]

We’ve been hearing a lot about CPC driver training over the last couple of years. Even more so since the deadline for PCV operators came and went last September. Nevertheless, petroleum drivers now looking to take CPC courses in order to earn their Driver Qualification Card (DQC) have something else to worry about – the […]

As a leading provider of HGV training in Derbyshire, the HGV Training Centre knows there are certain roads off-limits to heavy goods vehicles travelling in and around the town of Brethby. But apparently, a small group of rogue drivers continue to defy restrictions by using roads they are prohibited from. Local residents aim to change […]

If you were to receive your HGV training in Staffordshire, one manoeuver you would never be practicing is reversing up the M6 west of Lichfield. Yet an HGV driver from Bulgaria was observed doing just that late last week. According to the Lichfield Mercury, the driver managed to go about a mile before being stopped. […]

If you were to undergo HGV training in Essex, you would most likely not be driving along London Road in the town of West Thurrock. That’s because the Thurrock Council established new weight restrictions last summer to prevent HGVs from travelling through the area. Along many stretches of the road, houses are built very close […]

A group of would-be thieves attempting to steal a tractor in Great Ellingham found themselves in a bit of a pickle. Such a pickle, in fact, that it caused them to abandon their crime before it was complete. According to EDP 24, the incident occurred on the weekend of January 24, while businesses at the […]