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Drivers Hours · Total News: 0 · Total Reads: 0

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Legal News · Total News: 3 · Total Reads: 2995

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  Legal News: FOREIGN TRUCKER JAILED FOR M5 DRINK-DRIVING (admin)
  Legal News: Please arrest us, beg the EU truckers made to drive for 30 hours (admin)
  Legal News: Defective Tyres (admin)

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FOREIGN TRUCKER JAILED FOR M5 DRINK-DRIVING
by: admin
2007-11-18 17:04:58

A foreign driver was nearly four times the drink-drive limit when he was caught on a Westcountry motorway at the wheel of the heaviest type of lorry allowed on British roads.

Navigation · Total News: 4 · Total Reads: 3941

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  UK drivers face 5 years prison for avoidable careless driving (admin)
  FTA wants LGV friendly sat-nav (admin)
  Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs' (admin)
  Navigation: Lorry driver had to sleep in cab for three nights after sat-nav blunder left him (admin)

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UK drivers face 5 years prison for avoidable careless driving
by: admin
2008-08-28 19:31:51

Today – Monday 18 August 2008 – sees the introduction of tough new prison sentences to crack down on careless UK motorists who continue to flout laws aimed at eliminating the avoidable use of mobile phones and satellite navigation whilst driving.

Road safety · Total News: 0 · Total Reads: 0

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Running Costs · Total News: 5 · Total Reads: 4680

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  Higher Road Tax (admin)
  The Fuel Protest Group Transaction 2007 (admin)
  Q: How high must price of fuel go before motorists are driven off the roads? A: (admin)
  Hauliers avoid fuel cost protests (admin)
  Low Emission Zone high cost, minimal benefit (admin)

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Higher Road Tax
by: admin
2008-03-16 19:13:51

Nine out of 10 motorists face higher road tax under changes announced in this week's Budget, it has been claimed.

The TaxPayers' Alliance calculated that 88% of vehicles would be hit with higher duty, while only 9% would leave their owners better off.

Women Truck Drivers · Total News: 3 · Total Reads: 4446

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  Women Truck Drivers: She's Driving the Lorry (jodie)
  Women Truck Drivers: A woman's place is in the cab (jodie)
  Women Truck Drivers: Scottish initiative to fill the trucking skills gap (jodie)

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She's Driving the Lorry
by: jodie
2007-11-25 13:41:34

Junk-food bellies, greasy T-shirts and a hairy armful of tattoos probably sum up most people’s image of a typical lorry driver. Trucking is the last bastion of machismo. Only about 1% of truckers are women, a smaller proportion than among airline pilots and firefighters.