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Swift Helps Research
by Juliet Parish • A leading haulage firm is offering its drivers as guineapigs for research into a syndrome which causes loss of concentration at the wheel. Swift Transport......
Requested Menu
• P&O European Ferries has introduced a new menu on the Dover-Calais route, based on driver's requests. Drivers can choose from steak, English or light continental breakfasts.......
It Is Believed Dwa Is Most Likely When:
• There are highly predictable road conditions; • Road conditions are familiar; • The driver is at his or her most tired; most often between 04:00hrs and 06:00hrs and between......
• A Woman With Cerebral Palsy Who Says She Is
"obsessed with trucks" wants a manufacturer to convert a cab to hand controls so that she can take her HGV I test. "Our first thought was a Geartronic Volvo," says Richards.......
• Latches On Diesel Pumps, Which Allow Drivers To Leave
their vehicles and rest while their tanks fill up, have been banned as a fire and environmental hazard by Surrey and Essex County Councils. But dozens of truck drivers have told......