Yearly Archives: 2019

Passed your HGV test with HGV Training Network, and looking for that first job on the road?

Making up the second part of your two-part theory exam, drivers are shown 19 videos on a computer screen and in 18 of them, there is one developing hazard which is expected to be identified as quickly as possible. One video contains two developing hazards.

There are some essentials that HGV drivers who regularly travel up and down the roads of Europe and the UK simply cannot do without.

“Bob was my ‘other dad’: Wise, experienced, honest, educated” says Sion Waspe. Simon’s a “certificate of professional competence” lecturer and a dangerous goods safety adviser. He’s also a road haulage enthusiast and friend of the late Bob Carter.

Ice road trucking jobs in northern Canada are a specialist role which only a small segment of the trucker population will ever get to experience.

Truck drivers can face some truly horrific working conditions – imagine being 13,000ft up a mount, driving along a narrow gravel road, sandwiched between a sheer drop and a solid rock face.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has welcomed the HMRC announcement of a short-term suspension of the introduction of Safety and Security Declaration to allow operators to focus on post-Brexit border issues.

Dramatic pictures have emerged showing chicken organs scattered across the A453 after a lorry shed it’s load of some 40 tonnes of offal.

This 83-year-old great-grandad, definitely not over the hill, has been crowned the world’s oldest HGV driver.

Ocado has opened a self-funded natural gas refuelling station in the UK for it’s HGV fleet – a move claimed to be a first among retailers.