The testing process for HGV licences is to be simplified in an effort to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers. “Streamlining” of the driving test should create an additional 20,000 ...

Up to 50,000 HGV driving tests will be made available each year through a ‘streamline’ of the testing process in an effort to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers. Announced today by the Department ...

HGV driving tests relaxed The transport secretary announced earlier this month that HGV driving tests will be relaxed to allow 50,000 more to be taken in an attempt to tackle the shortage of lorry ...

HGV drivers will only have to take one test rather than two, the Government has announced, in a move designed to help quell shortages. The Department for Transport (DfT) said up to 50,000 more HGV ...

Up to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year by shortening the application process and the tests themselves, it said. The UK faces a shortfall of around 90,000 drivers ...

A campaign to recruit more HGV test examiners to help reduce the lorry driver shortage has been launched by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA. Some 40 new vocational examiners will be ...

Last month the 18-year-old from from Bilston, near Wolverhampton, became one of the youngest people in the country to pass his class one HGV Test. One logistics firm warned it is struggling to ...

Before any HGV licence, you need to have passed your car (Category B) driving test and be aged 18 or over. This means you can apply for a provisional licence to learn to drive vehicles of more than ...

The transport secretary announced earlier this month that HGV driving tests will be relaxed to allow 50,000 more to be taken in an attempt to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers ahead of Christmas.

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