Late last week some 800 students were able to partake in HGV training in Lincolnshire. However, this wasn’t your normal training session. Rather than adult students learning how to drive an HGV, this training was focused on pupils in classes 7 to 10 at Tollbar Academy in New Waltham.

When road crashes involving HGVs occur, it is easy to assume company drivers operating recklessly are the primary cause. Sometimes that is true. But is it always? Could speed limits on some roadways be contributing to unnecessary crashes and, in some cases, even serious injuries and deaths?

The owner of a Scottish haulage company has been denied an HGV license after one of his drivers was caught operating illegally. The determination was made by Scotland’s traffic commissioner Joan Aitken. In her written decision, Aiken said haulier John Baird is not an individual in whom she can ‘repose trust’. Baird’s trouble began when […]

A brand-new distribution centre slated to be built in Wiltshire offers the potential to create some 1,200 new jobs even as it supports the addition of 400 new Home Bargains stores across England. Home Bargains owner TJ Morris said they plan to spend upwards of £70 million to build the new facility and adjacent store.

Drivers undergoing their HGV training in County Durham over the last several weeks were probably oblivious to an unmarked HGV being used by police officers to monitor driving activity. Nonetheless, Operation Riding High succeeded in netting 16 lorry drivers for a variety of offences. Like several other police agencies around the UK, officers in County […]

The Irish minister for transport, travel and sport recently announced plans for a proposed toll holiday for HGV drivers using a number of prominent motorways in that country. Leo Varadkar made the announcement on October 1 (2013) while responding to parliamentary questions. If the government follows through, HGVs will not have to pay tolls on […]

Don’t look now, but that unmarked lorry in your mirror could be manned by police officers watching your every move. Such was the case recently went two lorry driving officers took to the roads of the Thames Valley and Hampshire areas in an effort to curb dangerous driving.

Like most other small towns in Somerset, Bruton is a riverside community with narrow streets, closely packed houses, and a population of fewer than 3,000 people. Yet the town is now apparently at the mercy of HGV drivers using it as a bypass to avoid an 18-mile detour resulting from the closure of a local […]

From April 2014, all lorries weighing 12 tons or more will be paying a new road user levy in order to drive on UK roads. The levy is designed to make sure that every HGV operator, regardless of where in Europe it originates, is helping to pay for the wear and tear their vehicles cause […]

The days may be coming when HGV training in Cheshire or Fife includes learning how to safely operate a vehicle while taking advantage of the same electrified power lines used by the old trolleybus systems. According to a report from Handy Shipping Guide (HSG), electrified HGVs may be a reality very soon.