Lincolnshire’s Treasure Transport Services recently announced that they would be installing new blind spot sensors on some of their trucks for the purposes of testing their effectiveness. If the trial run proves successful, they plan to fit all of their trucks with the sensors. The sensors are designed to alert drivers when a smaller vehicle […]

You can bet students getting their HGV training in Staffordshire are being reminded about the need to pay attention to height limits after a lorry crashed into the Abbey Hulton Bridge in Stoke-on-Trent. Traffic was stopped for quite a while due to the lorry becoming stuck underneath the bridge that carries a disused rail line. […]

Are you one of the many planning to take your HGV training in Northamptonshire later this year? If so, you may be among the first to pay a visit to the brand-new Bio-LNG fuelling station recently opened in Daventry. The fuelling station, built by Gasrec, opened on May 23 in a gala ceremony attended by […]

Are you one of the many planning to take your HGV training in Northamptonshire later this year? If so, you may be among the first to pay a visit to the brand-new Bio-LNG fuelling station recently opened in Daventry. The fuelling station, built by Gasrec, opened on May 23 in a gala ceremony attended by […]

As a commercial lorry driver, it doesn’t matter whether you took your HGV training in Cornwall or Nottingham; it doesn’t matter whether you work out of London or Sheffield. Your livelihood depends on a modern road system kept in good repair and with traffic flowing freely. Knowing that, London has just embarked on a new […]

Europe’s lorry and bus drivers are already not happy with new requirements making CPC training mandatory every three years in order to maintain one’s license. Now it appears drivers may have to pass another HGV test every day they get behind the wheel. How so? Through a ruling now being drafted that will make it […]

With the full implementation of the new CPC requirements under way, two prominent industry trade groups have come out in opposition to one of the Directive’s requirements they believe will put undue burdens on freight transport and haulage companies throughout the UK. The Freight Transport Association (FTA) and Road Haulage Association (RHA) recently wrote to […]

If you were to receive your HGV training in Derbyshire, you would learn things like traffic safety, load-balancing, preventing road crashes, and identifying possible hazards. However, nothing could prepare you for what happened to a lorry driver in Derbyshire late last week. That is, unless you are used to illegal immigrants traveling in the back […]

Every year the Freight Transport Association (FTA) publishes their annual European Road Transport Guide for UK lorry drivers who work throughout the EU. The guide is an essential tool to keep drivers abreast of ever-evolving regulations and guidelines. Without it, far too many drivers would not have the information they need for driving safely and […]

Late last week, a line of 18 cars and a lorry proceeded to the streets of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire in honour of a good friend and family man who had passed away. It’s a scene normally associated with police offers and firefighters, except this procession was for a beloved former HGV driver.