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Guide: Cleaning Your HGV

A tidy cab equals a tidy mind. However, when you’re out on the road a lot, regularly making long journeys, experiencing unfavourable weather conditions and sometimes difficult road conditions, it’s not always easy to keep on top of cleaning your...

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Finding an HGV Driving Job Post Qualification

As with any career, it can be daunting applying for positions without having any prior experience. The same goes for newly qualified HGV drivers, who may also face challenges when applying for jobs in logistics. Fortunately, the demand for HGV...

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Driving an HGV in London: What You Need to Know

Regardless of where you drive an HGV, you need to be armed with as much knowledge as possible. Having said that, it’s worth remembering that operating a heavy goods vehicle in London is quite different to driving anywhere else in...

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Night Driving Safety Tips

With the days getting shorter, staying safe and alert becomes even more crucial when driving at night. For many commercial drivers, driving late at night is their preferred time, as it often means fewer cars on the road, less roadworks...

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HGV Driver: Your Responsibilities

As an HGV driver, you will oversee the safe transportation of goods for suppliers and customers, locally, nationally, and in some cases internationally. Therefore, you need to be equipped with the fundamentals, and that includes everything from information on drivers’...

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The Benefits of Dash Cameras for Commercial Fleets

National statistics from the Department for Transport have revealed that annually, thousands of people are killed or severely injured in road traffic accidents. Dashboard cameras can be an extremely useful addition in these situations, across all vehicle types, as they...

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National Lorry Week 2022

The logistics industry is at the centre of all our lives, every day and we’re proud of Driver Hire’s role in helping to keep the wheels turning. That’s why we are core sponsors of the Road Haulage Association’s National Lorry...

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Everything You Need to Know About Your HGV Theory Test

There are 195,000 logistics businesses in the UK and 2.5 million individuals working in wider logistics positions. With this in mind, it’s no surprise that the industry plays an important role in supporting the UK’s economy, development and standard of...

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4 Ways to Maximise Vehicle Uptime

As the manager of a fleet of HGVs, one of your main priorities is to ensure your vehicles continue to perform efficiently. Vehicle downtime can not only cause delays and therefore customer/client dissatisfaction, but it can also be detrimental to...

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Loading and Unloading Goods Vehicles Safely

For many businesses, loading and unloading lorries is a daily duty, and it can come with risks of workplace injuries. As well as this, if a load isn’t securely properly and goods fall from a lorry, it could be catastrophic...

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Are you exempt from Driver CPC?

All professional drivers, whether they drive a truck, bus or coach as the main part of their job, must have a valid Driver Qualification Card (DQC) . Although there are a small list of exemptions, most drivers need to abide...

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5 Ways to Develop Your HGV Career

The recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has seen a huge increase in the demand for logistics and transport, and this is something that will continue to rise. And therefore, this is met by a need for drivers to develop existing...

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Keeping Your Fleet Eco Friendly

Each day, sustainability becomes a more and more important matter, and this is as true  for the transport and logistics sector as it is for anyone else. With the UK Government’s bid to introduce more eco-friendly policies with their net...

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Driver Hire Training at the FORS Annual Conference 2022

Tuesday 12th July saw the FORS Annual Conference, held at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. Chaired by Andy Salter, MD of DVV Media and former editor of Commercial Motor magazine, the conference explored how FORS can work together with operators...

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