The Government has announced changes to the HGV driver test in order to free up capacity for 50,000 additional tests per year. A new streamlined test means drivers will only need to take one test to ...

This time last year, the UK faced a shortage of around 100,000 HGV drivers leading to shortages on shelves, a lack of fuel at the pumps and numerous more supply chain shocks. Whilst the immediate ...

The UK can count HGV test passes, licences and vacancies, but it still cannot say how many newly qualified drivers actually ...

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Drivers who hold an HGV licence are being encouraged by the government to get back behind the wheel of lorries to solve the current shortage crisis with nearly one million letters being sent out. It ...

SINCE the pandemic, there has been a high demand for HGV drivers. As a result of the shortage, the government is providing funding to help train new HGV drivers – but how much exactly do they earn?

A major UK delivery company has axed 60 HGV haulage jobs, according to trade unionists who have blasted the move as “cruel”.