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Police issued five tickets to lorry drivers for reportedly failing to wear their seatbelts on the Wendover Road yesterday morning, August 26.
A bin lorry driver has been sentenced to 133 hours of unpaid work and banned from driving for a year for causing the death of ...
Safety fears as tests for lorry and van drivers on UK roads are relaxed to tackle shortage after Brexit Campaigners condemn ‘watering down’ of the rules – also hailed as benefit from ...
LORRY driver shortages have contributed to significant delays in the UK supply network. So why is there a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK?
Plans to offer temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers will not make a big difference to the UK's skills shortage, the boss of one of Europe's biggest goods vehicle firms has said. There was no ...
A shortage of truck drivers, exacerbated by Brexit and COVID, is pushing up delivery costs and leading to empty shelves in stores.
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) estimates there is a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the UK. But what is the industry like for those just starting out as lorry drivers?
The WSWS spoke with a UK lorry driver with 16 years’ experience on the road about the exploitative conditions which confront workers in the sector, exacerbated during the pandemic.
You can make £50,000 a year as a lorry driver as UK faces shortage All you need to know about becoming a lorry driver ...
The UK ’s lorry driver shortage reached a critical point on September 27 – as hoarding ran thousands of petrol stations dry and ample fuel supplies remained stuck in terminals and refineries ...
The difference between an army lorry and driving what is a state-of-the-art modern-day class 1 tractor unit and trailer are as night and day. Truck drivers are skilled people.