A HGV driver has quit his job after winning over £1m on the National Lottery. Robert Hutchison, who is 62 and from Seaford, won £1,158,038 in the draw on Saturday June the 11th. He had already planned to retire at Christmas, but decided to terminate his contract early in light of the additional pension funds [...]
To improve their green credentials, Global Freight Solutions has just announced that they are going to go 100% paperless. The company say that to achieve their goal, all customers will now receive electronic bills, as well as being able to use an online claims handling system to solve customer problems. As well as being more [...]
VOSA has announced that it has hit its target of opening 40 Authorised Testing Facilities (ATFs) in the last financial year. Although the target they set themselves for the opening of the new ATFs has been hit, there comes a blow to some areas of the country because of the closure of three ATFs in [...]
No amount of HGV training could help a Robert Burns HGV driver last week, when a sewer collapsed under his vehicle and left it stranded in Frampton. Robert Burns are temperature controlled transport and storage specialist and operate a fleet of HGVs across the UK. They are a market leader in Scotland and offer cold [...]
Leeds based print logistics specialist Bedfords Transport have announced that they are in talks with three companies who they hope they will acquire over the next few months to strengthen and grow their business. The managing director of Bedford Transport, Steve Pfadenhauer, would not name their acquisition targets but commented that they were all in [...]
The most controversial episode of Top Gear (the one that featured a HGV crash stunt) was discussed in depth on the forums even before it aired. After transmission, the programme’s coverage of HGVs and HGV driving was the main subject of further postings and comments. However, most seem to feel that, on the whole, the [...]
It may sound like a plot of an episode of Doctor Who, or some children’s TV programme, but a HGV driver on the A328 in Devon was forced to flee his HGV as his load of custard started to explode. His deadly cargo, 60,000 tins of rice pudding and custard, exploded, starting a fire that [...]
An Employment Tribunal has given partial support to a sex-change HGV driver in a discrimination case after he transformed himself from Mike Gaynor to Vikki-Marie Gaynor. Gaynor went to the tribunal after she claimed she had been put in a position where she had to resign from her job with Exel Europe. Gaynor took her [...]
A NORTH Warwickshire dustman – who doesn’t believe in eating rubbish – has been presented with an unusual “bouquet” to mark 40 years in the job. HGV driver Pete Dawe is celebrating four decades working for North Warwickshire Borough Council. And the borough’s mayor, Councillor Wendy Smitten paid him a visit at the Sheepy Road depot [...]
The Survival Tour – a charity organisation which hopes to save the natural habitat of elephants in India – is seeking help to transport 15 life-size elephant models around the UK and Ireland during the summer. The journeys will be from Cork to Dublin, Dublin to Windsor, Windsor to London (Royal Parks), Royal Parks, London to [...]