A Stoke-on-Trent lorry driver was forced to take evasive action after a runaway wheel bounced across the motorway and smashed into the cab.
Haulier Barry Proctor has told how one of his truckers was lucky not to lose control after being hit by the stra…
Nantwich-based Boughey Distribution driver Dimka Ivanova has driven to success as UK’s number one!
Dimka has been named “Most Improved Driver” in the premier HGV driver awards which recognise outstanding driver performance and excellence.
Judges sele…
Asda has paid out more than £13,000 to a Bristol lorry driver after unfairly dismissing him.
Matthew Addis filed a discrimination claim after losing his job in January 2019 at the Asda Bristol depot on Kings Weston Lane.
He claimed he had been “crushed…
A driver eating a Pot Noodle and a trucker using his elbows to steer while he poured himself a coffee were among those stopped by lorry cops, Wiltshire Police said.The force once again borrowed Highways England’s souped-up Mercedes HGV to patrol the M4…
Motorists have been caught up in “chaotic” traffic on stretches of the M5 motorway today (Saturday, July 4).
The reopening of the hospitality sector could be a factor in the apparent increase in congestion, which was particularly bad this morning as pe…
Mother, 33, gives birth to baby in fast lane of the motorway as her furloughed HGV driver husband races them to hospital
Laura Jackson, 33, was en route to the hospital with her husband Joe, 37
She realised she wouldn’t&nbs…
LORRY drivers and haulage companies were put under the spotlight in a police operation last week which aims to make the region’s roads safer.Officers from the Roads Policing Units at Cleveland and Durham and North Yorkshire Policeconducted a joint…
Police are renewing an appeal for information after the death of a Royal Mail lorry driver in a major crash on the A2, and officers now want to speak to one particular driver who may have seen the incident.Collision investigators have been investigatin…
A lorry driver died when his HGV veered off a roundabout and fell down an embankment.Devon and Cornwall Police said the crash involving the lorry happened at about 07:30 BST near Newton Abbot in Devon.The force said the lorry …
Police have renewed their appeal into the death of a lorry driver after a witness brought new information to light.
The man, aged in his 30s, died on Thursday, May 28 following a two lorry crash on the coastbound carriageway of the A2 in Darenth, about…
Firefighters had to cut a lorry driver free from the wreckage of his vehicle after crash which closed the M1 in Northamptonshire last night.
The smash involved two HGVs between the Crick turnoff at Junction 18 and Junction 17 where the M45 joins the…
Police are asking lorry drivers to be alert when leaving vehicles unoccupied following a number of reports of fuel being siphoned.Over the past two weeks, three reports have been received of fuel being siphoned from HGVs, two of which were parked up in…
As the lockdown eases , a UK medical company is focused on assisting driver-led businesses curtail the spread of Covid-19 and protect their drivers. Doctor Driver Assessment is now offering haulage, taxi, shipping and other transport services the oppor…
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As the lockdown eases and Brits return to greater movement, a UK medical company is focused on assisting driver-led businesses curtail the spread of Covid-19 and protect their drivers. Doctor Driver …
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Vehicle and fleet safety technology specialists CameraMatics asked over 600 small business owners in the UK, Ireland, and the US about their main vehicle-relat…