Eddie Stobart truck spotted on CCTV weaving across M6 toll

Shocking footage has been released showing a drunk lorry driver reversing along a busy motorway forcing cars to dodge his Eddie Stobart truck.

CCTV charts the faltering and dangerous progress of Czech man FrantisekFormanek as he wove across the M6 Toll in Staffordshire just before 11.25pm on March 1.

Fellow lorry drivers were forced to veer out of the 56-year-old's way, flashingtheir lights, as he backed up 800 metres in the wrong direction on thenorthbound side of the motorway at Norton Canes.

The video has been released by Staffordshire Police after Formanek was jailed for six months for dangerous driving, and four months for being drunk at the wheel - to be served concurrently.

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He was also banned for 12 months and will have to take a test to get his licence back.

Formanek pleaded guilty to both charges before being sentenced at Stafford Crown Court last month.

His employers, the logistics firm Eddie Stobart, issued a statement through the police saying the driver had been immediately sacked after his driving came to light.

Formanek was arrested at the scene and later found to be more than twice the legal limit for alcohol in his breath.

Chief Inspector Jed White, of the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG), said: "On this occasion this driver was clearly putting lives at risk, including his own."

James Hodson, of the M6 Toll's operator Midland Expressway, added:

David Pickering, Eddie Stobart chief operating officer, said: