To some, a job involving trucks and haulage work is their absolute ideal occupation Most little boys dream of driving a big rig, and their childhood play in the sand pit usually revolves around heavy machinery and shiny remote-control vehicles...

No disrespect intended, but driving for haulage companies is a bit like being a snail...

When you spend the major part of your waking life in the cabin of a big rig (or even a little one for that matter) fulfilling contracts for haulage companies, it can sometimes get a little lonely...

There are many reasons why people consider getting into the haulage industry: a life spent on the open road, the freedom of travelling around the country on various transport contracts, no need to spend all day in an office...

Ask yourself – could you spend three months driving a truck in sub-zero conditions with only snatches of sleep for days on end...

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...

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...

Trucking movies form an interesting genre of their own, with stereotypical masculine lead characters played by the likes of Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone...

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...

Hitch hikers were once able to rely on the kindness of haulage companies whose friendly drivers would oblige with a lift...

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...

The Royal Logistics Corps is the arm of the British Army that deals with supply, rail and road haulage and distribution...

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...

Everybody knows that tiredness is a major cause of traffic accidents, and everybody knows that lorry drivers work a huge amount of hours...

Every lorry driver knows that theft is one of risks of their profession Lorry trailers, often filled with valuable goods, have long been tempting targets for haulage thieves, and this kind of crime is believed to cost the haulage and groupage industry over £100 million every year...

So, we all know that the price of haulage fuel in the UK is ridiculous at the moment, with lorry fuel costing 50p per litre in the UK as compared to 25p per litre in mainland Europe...

So, the Low Emission Zone has now been in effect for three months and fuel prices are continuing to rise...

I read a fairly alarming survey earlier this week – it estimated that 33% of haulage companies would go out of business over the upcoming year...

With any job, it’s remarkably easy to slip into a routine after you’ve been doing it for months, years and decades...

With jobs for owner operators often hard to come by, lorry drivers and haulage workers may increasingly find themselves working the less popular anti-social hours involving overnight trouble...

The London Low Emission Zone has now officially come into effect Quite a few readers will doubtless be asking what it is, what it does, and how it will effect haulage companies and owner operators if media reports of the public being unaware of its existence are to be believed...

If you’ve ever heard a couple of truckers chatting between road haulage trips in the UK, you may have found yourself baffled by the assortment of phrases and expressions littered throughout the conversation...

There’s been a lot of unrest lately from Haulage Exchange members about the rising fuel prices in the UK, and I can’t say I blame them...

This may seem a slightly unlikely article for me to be writing at first Working in the road transport industry as I do, many people assume it is automatically impossible to have a green conscience...

Truckers and haulage drivers have a tough choice sometimes And while the sweet taste of a juicy breakfast may seem the perfect end to a job well done, a well planned backload from a freight exchange can create more paid work on completion of a job...