Whether you were out on the road in an HGV, passenger vehicle, or van, driving without a seatbelt could have got you in trouble last week. Police agencies were out in force, actively checking on seatbelt usage all across Europe as part of an annual campaign to increase safety and consumer awareness. Last year’s campaign […]

It has certainly been a rough winter in some parts of the UK struck by high winds, lots of precipitation, and flooding. So it is nice to see that the Somerset County Council has offered to help local residents by providing a minibus to shuttle individuals to the various locations where assistance can be found. […]

When a new driver is taking his or her LGV test in the hopes of getting their commercial licence, the last thing they are thinking about is becoming a victim of a fraudulent ‘cash for crash’ scheme involving other drivers trying to rip off insurance companies. In fact, they have probably received only minimal training […]

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 […]

A recent recruiting drive at a Devon-based haulage company shows just how positive the job market is for commercial drivers. The company, Gregory Distribution, recently undertook that drive in order to hire 20 new LGV drivers to fill open spots and provide the necessary personnel to launch the company’s new flexible driving pool. The Express […]

If you have your van driving licence and you work in Norfolk, you might want to keep an eye out for a man who calls himself Ricky Muddy. Apparently, he has taken to adorning Norfolk’s dirty white vans with graffiti art. You could walk inside to make a delivery only to find, on your return, […]

Police and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) recently joined forces in Cornwall and Devon to crack down on LGV drivers breaking the law. The operation resulted in more than 1,000 offences being identified and cited. Operation Fatigue was conducted by the agencies over a three-week period spanning November and December of last year.

The next six months of van driving for some 28 British Gas engineers will be a bit different from what they are used to. How so? Each of the engineers will be driving an electric van from Nissan. In the first-ever trial looking at the viability of commercial electric vans in the UK, the Nissan […]

Throughout last week’s National Road Safety Week campaign, drivers were receiving comprehensive HGV training in West Lothian, London, and all across the UK. One of the skills they were learning is that of making wide turns correctly. Meanwhile, already licensed lorry drivers took the occasion to plead for a wider berth when making turns.

For the second time in little over a week, masked men accosted a van driver in Northern Ireland in order to drive a suspicious package to a local police station. The man was delivering food to the Creggen area of Derry when the unidentified men approached him.