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Lucky Mascots For Van Drivers For as long as cars have been on the road, drivers have been adorning their windshields with lucky amulets designed to provide them with safety on their long journeys... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Ice Road Truckers Ask yourself – could you spend three months driving a truck in sub-zero conditions with only snatches of sleep for days on end... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Women on the Road Traditionally, the trucking industry has been a man’s world, and transport contracts have seldom been entered into by females... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Top Ten Tips For Reducing Fuel Consumption With the rising cost of fuel around the globe, courier work is becoming increasingly expensive Drivers and companies are having to pay more and more per trip, which is taking its toll on the courier industry... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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The Best and Worst Roundabouts in the UK Roundabouts, rotary systems, islands or traffic circles, whatever you decide to call them one thing’s certain, we Brit’s have a love affair with roundabouts... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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The Roadkill Café – You Kill It, We Grill It Those employed in delivery work in the United States appear to have a much better deal than us in the United Kingdom... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Entertainment
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Dekotora - Works of Trucking Art Dekotora is an emerging fashion for customising trucks that originated in Japan It’s a craze that’s making motorways more interesting and truck stops brighter places to visit, as lorry drivers increasingly put aside their dull delivery work liveries and opt for artistic haulage vehicles... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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The Great White Van Mystery It seems that the humble “white van man” is being targeted by something other than just the clichéd humour of every amateur comedian from Lands End to Loch Laxford... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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Is Private Clamping Legal? Private clampers certainly make carrying out courier jobs that little bit harder, as you struggle against the clock to deliver a parcel, all the while praying that the clampers don’t spot your white van parked on their private driveway or office block car park... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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Customised Trucks From Around the World Stringing a tree with tinsel or spraying fake snow around your double-glazed windows is fairly normal behaviour when it comes to celebrating a religious festival at home... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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The Best Trucker Movies Trucking movies form an interesting genre of their own, with stereotypical masculine lead characters played by the likes of Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Entertainment
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Tyrone Malone: The World’s Most Famous Trucker Possibly the most famous trucker of all time is Tyrone Malone And his unique haulage work load, known as Little Irvy, is equally famous in the trucking world... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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A Guide to Lorry Spotting Try starting a conversation with most people (aside from the haulage companies) about trucks, and they’ll be asleep before you even get to discuss the merits of a mid-lift axle... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Roadside Cafes For Owner Drivers After a hard day of courier work on the road, there is little as rewarding as seeing the turning up ahead for your favourite roadside café... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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Top Pizza Delivery Movies Of all the courier jobs out there, pizza delivery must surely be the stereotype And evidence of this can be found in the high number of movies including a pizza delivery scene... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Entertainment
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Top Ten Songs for the Road Delivery work can be a tiresome job at times, and truckers can sometimes feel a little despondent when they’ve got a long road ahead of them, particularly on their way home... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Entertainment
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Futurama: Courier Work in the Galaxy Driving down endless winding roads whilst carrying out your courier work can get rather tiresome and monotonous... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Jobs
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The Wire Makes Shipping Gripping It’s difficult to imagine that any crime drama could take the everyday drudgery of haulage work, transport contracts and shipping and make it compelling, but that’s what the second season of “The Wire” has achieved... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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The Most Scenic Roads in England, Scotland & Wales Courier work can be monotonous, driving the same routes day in day out and delivering the same packages to the same people... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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Hitchhiking Stories Hitch hikers were once able to rely on the kindness of haulage companies whose friendly drivers would oblige with a lift... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Top 5 Courier Vans Whether it’s a courier job delivering a single document or an entire van load, the name of the game is to get load X from location A to location B - right... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Who is the White Van Man? Do you avoid the mythical ‘White Van Man’ when you see him on the road A scientific survey has shown that it’s unfair to prejudge the drivers of light commercial vehicles on courier jobs and owner driver jobs on Britain’s roads... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Haulage Companies – Top Funniest Call Signs Long hours on the road are an unavoidable hazard of delivery work and long distance haulage work, so any source of entertainment (no matter how minor) to fill the silence, is a welcome relief... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Top Five Most Hazardous Lorry Loads Most lorry drivers transport ordinary goods to their destination, pickup their backload if they’ve arranged one, and drive back... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Five Outrageous Lorry Stories You Couldn’t Make Up Whether it is through luck or fate, lorries just seem to keep finding their way to the centre of the most bizarre news stories and urban myths around the internet... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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Combat Haulage – Lorries in the British Army The Royal Logistics Corps is the arm of the British Army that deals with supply, rail and road haulage and distribution... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Opinions
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The Top 5 Oddball Lorry News Stories of 2008 Ask the vast majority of lorry drivers and owner operators if the year has been kind to them, and they’ll most likely laugh... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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December 2008 – the Top Five Computer Games Involving Lorries The Top Five Computer Games Involving Lorries
Lorries are an every day sight on our roads and motorways, ubiquitous in modern life and a common sight (and sometimes annoyance) for drivers... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Computers and Technology Rating:  |
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Cala Galdana – The Mediterranean’s Unspoilt Gem It’s January The wind is cold, the rain is cold, the house is cold, and most importantly, we’re cold... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Travel
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The 5 Best Fictional Lorries The world of haulage and lorry driving has never been seen as the most glamorous, despite there being some truly memorable lorries in the world of film and television... Author: Lyall Cresswell - Category: Automotive
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