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 [...]
BAD weather spelt disaster for a foreign lorry driver whose 40-tonne vehicle became stuck in a country lane. The giant Transmec Group lorry became wedged in a field off Symonds Lane, Yalding, after its Hungarian driver was forced to try to turn round to avoid a fallen tree. It is understood the driver’s satellite navigation [...]
Vehicle maintenance problems, along with drivers’ hours and tachograph breaches, have resulted in two of the three operational vehicles belonging to Dunfermline-based Ronald Mentiplay, trading as Murray Mentiplay, being suspended for eight weeks, and his HGV driving licence for four. Mentiplay appeared before the Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken. He blamed a failure to produce tachograph [...]
POPULAR Elvis impersonator Derek Russell is giving a concert in aid of a charity especially close to his heart. The East Anglian Air Ambulance transported Mr Russell to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge after he suffered a near-fatal head injury a year ago. HGV driver Mr Russell, of Magdalen, wants to show his appreciation by donating [...]