SP Training has welcomed plans to include acquisition of the Category C+E HGV licence within the apprenticeship standard. The training provider was responding to the news that The Large Goods Vehicle (LGV) Driver Apprenticeship should incl…
This is the shocking moment an idiot driver smashes into the back of a lorry after attempting to overtake THREE CARS on a blind bend.
Scott Lowe, 30, told cops he crossed the double white lines because he was in a rush, before admitting he had “been an…
A lorry driver has been refused a taxi licence on the back of violent offences committed more than 25 years ago.
John Metcalfe, of Wolviston Walk, Stockton , appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday afternoon to fight Middlesbrough Council’s …
Footage of an ‘idiot’ driver who attempted to overtake three vehicles before smashing into the back of a HGV has been caught on a dashboard camera.
Scott Lowe was driving along the A54 ‘in a rush’ where he then crossed over the double white lines to ov…
Shocking footage of a lorry driver using a credit card to make a payment on his phone on the M40 near Leamington has been released as part of a campaign to raise wareness of the dangers of using mobiles at the wheel.
The footage was released at the sam…
Shocking footage of a lorry driver using a credit card to make a payment on his phone on the M40 near Leamington has been released as part of a campaign to raise wareness of the dangers of using mobiles at the wheel.
The footage was released at the sam…
Highways England is planning to roll out a safety initiative across its motorway network after hailing the success of a week of action on the M1.
It said there were 64 collisions during the week in May, down from 90 during the previous week.
The week s…
Police have caught scores of dangerous drivers on the M1 using Highways England’s unmarked HGV ‘supercabs’ in a week-long operation.
The supercabs were used by six police forces and recorded almost 200 offences, including 57 drivers on mobile phones, 3…
Two West Suffolk villages have signed up to a scheme targeting HGV drivers who flout road restrictions.
Fornham All Saints and Barnham have joined Lorry Watch which sees volunteers monitor and report those ignoring weight restrictions.
They join nine o…
A 35 year-old lorry driver has been sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment and banned from driving for 3 years after admitting being over four times the legal limit for drink-driving after he was stopped by police on the A14 near Ipswich.
Vitalijus Kriveno…
