I’ve written about lorry driver urban legends before, but they just keep cropping up all over the internet. I’m not sure quite why lorry drivers and their vehicles often seem to be at the centre of these kinds of stories – my theory is that it’s the lorry drivers themselves who spread them while running […]

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If you read any lorry-centric news sites at the moment, you’ll be aware that times are not exactly good. Fuel prices are higher than ever, there are taxes to enter major city centres and to top it all off the whole world is suffering from an economic downturn. The big companies will manage to get […]

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With the price of fuel rising dramatically, the haulage industry faces some of its toughest years in recent memory. Owner operators and haulage companies are looking for ways to keep their businesses afloat as running costs rise and the economy weakens.
There is nothing that can be done to halt the rising cost of fuel – […]

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To some, trucks and lorries may seem functional, but not exactly prime inspiration for songwriting. But maybe that’s why you’re not a multi-platinum selling artist, because all of these artists have managed to find their muse in the form of the humble HGV or the owner operator’s job…
69 Eyes – Truck On
While some have used […]

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The rising price of fuel has already caused many woes for owner operators and haulage companies in recent months. Protests have been held by lorry drivers around the world, worried about the effect that the spiralling cost of diesel is having on their businesses. Now, people in the haulage industry are finding themselves the targets […]

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So, we all know that the price of haulage fuel in the UK is ridiculous at the moment, with lorry fuel costing 50p per litre in the UK as compared to 25p per litre in mainland Europe. It really is a rip off bleeding us dry.
With many owner operators and haulage companies struggling with the […]

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Those of us who work in haulage companies sometimes wonder what we’ve done to deserve such a villainous portrayal in the film world. Especially in B movies and horror films, it seems that every time someone runs into trouble on a deserted highway, the bad guy inevitably turns out to be a lorry driver…
The Driver, […]

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