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, the transport secretary has announced. Grant Shapps said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...