It’s 3 AM when an alerter goes off and wakes a firefighter from a sound sleep. In mere minutes, he must be up, dressed, and climbing into the cab of the fire truck to head off to yet another emergency. It’s something that happens all the time, yet something very few of us think about.

Last week the Guardian published a story profiling seven women who work in fields dominated by men. One of those women is 21-year-old Katie Gillard who is now a licensed HGV driver working at a quarry in Wiltshire. Katie first sat for the HGV exam in 2010, after the law was changed to lower the […]

A group of caring and compassionate HGV drivers in Bristol have embarked on an impressive plan to raise money for charity. That plan involves each of the drivers losing a specified amount of weight before their August 31 deadline. They began the weight loss challenge early in April.

A demolitions firm from Edinburgh made the news last August when one of their HGVs lost a wheel on the A904. The resulting accident left the vehicle hanging over a flyover until emergency crews could stabilise it and bring it back. Now the company is back in the news after having its HGV license suspended.

In a move sure to put a smile on the faces of HGV drivers across the UK, Midland Expressway has announced the M6 Toll motorway will be free to them and their vehicles for the month of July. It currently costs HGV drivers £11 to use the roadway during the week.

In 2007, the Guardian published an excellent piece profiling what it is like to be an HGV driver. The article looked specifically at one driver whose job had him on the road, away from home, five days per week. It was an excellent article that gave readers a little bit of insight into the types […]

As any police officer will tell you, drivers involved in accidents can come up with some pretty strange excuses to explain their behaviour. But perhaps nothing is as strange as the excuse offered by an American man arrested after he crashed a stolen lorry. He told police zombies were chasing him.

In the little town of Barlby, North Yorkshire there is two groups of people having to learn to get along: village residents and HGV drivers. They have to get along when it comes to lorry speeds, child safety, and the peace and quiet normally expected in the village during the overnight hours.

Recently the Lurgan Neighbourhood Policing Team joined forces with the Driver Vehicle Agency and HMRC to crack down on PSV drivers and their vehicles. The result on the effort was the discovery of nine taxis found defective and unsafe for operation on the roads. Of the drivers caught in the operation, five had their PSV […]

It’s pretty common for us to field questions about how much HGV driver training cost. It’s actually not bad. Most drivers can complete their training and pass their test at an average cost of about £1,200. However, as a Grimsby teenager recently found out there is more to it than simply raising the money to […]