HGV News

With the New Year upon us, we felt it necessary to once again address the question of CPC driver training for operators of lorries, coaches, buses, etc. As you may already know, the driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is now a requirement for individuals operating commercial vehicles in excess of 3.5 tons or, in […]

Northern Ireland Minister for Regional Development Danny Kennedy has announced a freeze on Translink bus and train fares in Northern Ireland for 2014, due to what he called “record levels of passenger growth.” Analysts had predicted a 3% rate increase for 2014 as late as last autumn. Translink is the public corporation established to operate […]

In County Mayo, Ireland, motorists have been warned to be on the lookout for the dreaded one-eyed Cyclops as it roams cities, towns and even the countryside. Yet according to road safety officer Noble Gibbons, the creature of Greek mythology is not the problem. Rather, it is the modern Cyclops – a vehicle with only […]

A second-hand 4×4 being used for horse transport burst into flames near Ab Kettleby, Leicester. Fortunately, no one was injured in the December 30 incident involving a mother and son returning from a riding event. The occupant of the horsebox was unharmed as well. According to the Leicester Mercury, the pair were driving home around […]

Driver fatigue is always a concern when transporting dozens of passengers by coach. Although deadly coach accidents are rare, the sheer number of people on board makes any accident potentially life threatening. Hopefully a new technology from Seeing Machines will protect passengers against driver fatigue while making the PCV driver safer. The new technology uses […]

Residents of several Herefordshire towns will spend the next year or so learning to live with more than 100 HGVs scheduled to be travelling on local roads. What’s causing the increased traffic? A renovation and modernisation project at the Letchworth Golf Club. The project will require plenty of waste disposal and special soil being developed […]

In what can only be described as a very dramatic accident, a lorry driver’s dash mounted camera has cleared him of any wrongdoing. His camera recorded the entire incident – in real time – as it unfolded, leaving everyone involved thankful that the consequences of the M25 crash were not more serious. Video from the […]

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) just published its inaugural list of the UK’s most inspiring companies; companies that have demonstrated financial positive growth within the previous year, accompanied by an increase in contracts, occupied space, workforce or patents.

Ifor Williams Trailers, arguably the UK’s leading trailer manufacturer, has said customer response to three new models has heightened company expectations for the coming year. The Corwen-based company recently introduced a brand-new horsebox with living accommodations, a fully equipped business trailer, and one of the biggest livestock trailers on the market. Ifor officials have said […]

If you know anything about the record of futurists, you are aware that most of their predictions fail to come to fruition within the timeframe set forth. Therefore, we wonder whether predictions of driverless LGVs on UK roads by 2018 have any merit. If technology company Ricardo has anything to say about, those LGVs will […]