HGV drivers will only have to take one test rather than two, the Government has announced, in a move designed to help quell shortages. The Department for Transport said up to 50,000 more HGV driving ...

HGV drivers will only have to take one test rather than two, the Government has announced, in a move designed to help quell shortages. The Department for Transport (DfT) said up to 50,000 more HGV ...

62 per cent of HGV test centres currently have a waiting list of at least 11 weeks, indicating the severe shortages of lorry drivers causing the UK economy to grind to a halt will not end anytime soon ...

Changes to the HGV testing system designed to address a shortage of drivers are a risk to road safety, the Road Haulage Association has said. The UK has an estimated shortfall of 90,000 lorry drivers, ...

A campaign to recruit more HGV test examiners to help reduce the lorry driver shortage has been launched by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA. Some 40 new vocational examiners will be ...

A photo of a lorry which fell into Bristol harbour, backside first, demonstrates why the government should not have taken reversing out of the HGV driving test. Our verdict The government hasn’t taken ...

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 ...