Why is speeding not a taboo?
There's a video up on the BBC News website asking the above question, namely why speeding is not a taboo as drink driving became as a result of years of public campaigns including regular...
Category: Road Life
Before we even think of expanding Heathrow …
So, Heathrow expansion is in the news again, with another round of consultations being by the government this week and a report, the Airports National Policy Statement, being released which, according to the Daily...
On Stephen Kinnock and regulation of labour markets
Earlier today I saw a Twitter thread posted by the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock (son of Neil) who is a member of the Brexit select committee in Parliament (starting here, ending here, claiming among...
Review: TomTom Go Professional 6250
If you're a truck driver nowadays, you'll need a HGV-aware sat-nav (GPS unit). There are many stories about truck drivers getting their vehicles stuck down back alleys, teetering on the edges of cliffs or...
Who’s celebrating Uber’s eviction from London?
Earlier this week the minicab firm Uber, which allows people to hire cabs using an app which calculates the fare to their destination, lost its licence to operate in London and will have to...
Why ‘platooning’ is a bad thing
I'm a truck driver and for the most part I enjoy my job. I get to see different parts of the country every day and much of what I see apart from roads (and...
Honi soit qui mal y pense
[Outcry over sexualised hijab schoolgirl](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/hijab-girl-in-childrens-books-is-sexualising-fouryearolds/news-story/ba831356aa747865914da54ffe24367a) (from *The Australian*) *Honi soit qui mal y pense* is a Norman French phrase, meaning “shame on he who thinks ill of it”. It appears on the British royal...
Tories’ road fund is no revolution
This morning it was announced that the government was diverting just over a sixth of the £5.8bn assigned two years ago to the National Roads Fund (NRF) from trunk roads and motorways to regional...
Pictures from the Devil’s Punch Bowl
One of my favourite parts of being a truck driver used to be driving down to Portsmouth, as this involved driving through the Devil's Punch Bowl in west Surrey: the road used to skirt...
Lower Thames Crossing: the worst possible option
Yesterday it was announced that the preferred route for the "East Thames Crossing", a tunnel under the Thames east of the current easternmost crossing at Dartford, had been announced. The proposed route branches off...
Stonehenge, and the A303, really need that tunnel
Stonehenge Tunnel plan finalised by government — BBC News So, the government have finally agreed on plans to build a tunnel to the south of the ancient stone circle, Stonehenge, outside Amesbury in Wiltshire....
What is a congestion charge for?
London mayor Sadiq Khan issues £2.5m VW congestion charge call So, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is demanding that Volkswagen pay up £2.5m to compensate the London taxpayer for a discount that drivers...
On safety around trucks and mobiles
Part of this is a public service announcement. I was involved in a minor collision a couple of weeks ago. The scene is in the photograph on the right. I was taking this bend...
Yes, Black lives matter. But so do other people’s journeys
Last week I was working at a site just north of Heathrow airport, the quickest route to which is down the Heathrow spur and off at the bottom. On Friday morning I was returning...
A new speed limit at midnight
Tonight at midnight, the speed limits for trucks on roads in England and Wales go up by 10mph: the maximum speed on single-carriageway roads to 50mph, and on dual carriageways to 60mph (in practice,...
City Link failure shows limits of cost-cutting
City Link: 2,000 staff to be made redundant on NYE – RMT Last week the British logistics firm City Link went into administration, with the potential loss of nearly 5,000 jobs once self-employed contractors...
Tories’ “£15bn roads revolution” is a pre-election con
Today the government announced their intention to spend £15billion on an ambitious set of new road projects, including improvements to several junctions on the M25, a tunnel near Stonehenge on the A303 and the...
I’m a professional driver, and I’m not a knucklehead
Last week Mark Reckless, who had stood down as a Tory MP in the Rochester and Strood constituency in Kent and re-stood for UKIP, won the by-election with 42.1% of the vote on a...
About those sarnies
The Daily Mail’s headline today reads “Is there nobody left in Britain who can make a sandwich?” and refers to an Irish-based sandwich making company, Greencore, which is seeking to recruit hundreds of workers...
Work
The past month or so, I’ve been working full-time, and most of that has been in one job that requires quite long hours — it usually starts at 9am (which is late for a...