The charity provides free training and certification to veterans looking to start driving lorries.

Charity helps former soldiers get into the lorry driving industry

The Road Haulage Association say there is currently a shortage of 80 thousand HGV drivers, with warnings it could lead to "significant disruption" at Christmas

How bad is the HGV driver shortage?

The contractor is offering the money due to shortages across the county, which is causing disruption to some rubbish collections.

Truck drivers offered hefty bonus if they join Somerset waste collection team

Food shortages and waste collections delayed - the impact of a national shortage of HGV drivers is starting to be felt in the South.

HGV shortage hits the South's supermarkets as haulage firm describe 'heartbreak'

Sebastian Gabriel Podar from Romania was arrested in the port of Dover in December 2020.

A Romanian lorry driver who attempted to smuggle migrants out of the UK has been jailed for six years. 

Haulier who tried to smuggle migrants out of the UK has been jailed

File photo dated 23/10/19 of police and forensic officers at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, after 39 bodies of Vietnamese migrants were found inside the lorry on the industrial estate. Four people-smugglers could be facing life sentences for the manslaughter of 39 migrants who died in the back of a trailer.


The bodies were found in a lorry container in Grays in Essex in 2019

People-smugglers face life sentences for deaths of 39 migrants found in Essex

Malino Wilson told ITV News he wants people to follow his lead and show kindness to others because it doesn't "cost a penny". 


Lorry driver stops vehicle in middle of the road to help elderly lady cross

Jaroslaw Mieczan, 44, wept at Carlisle Crown Court as he was locked up for causing a head-on crash on the A689 near Carlisle last November. 

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