The global credit crunch is already having an impact on the spending habits of holiday makers and more people are considering camping in France for their holidays than in recent years Camping holidays are cheaper than hotels, apartments and foreign rentals, but it’s also an ideal way to see the country and enjoying the wonder of nature right on your doorstep of your tent or mobile home

Everybody knows that tiredness is a major cause of traffic accidents, and everybody knows that lorry drivers work a huge amount of hours Unsurprisingly, the two often combine with catastrophic results – indeed, a recent report revealed that of all the accidents that involved injuries or deaths on British roads over the last 5 years, 31% of them involved lorry drivers – a figure far worse on the M20 in Kent, where the figure hit 40%

Make no mistake about it; being behind the wheel of a lorry for the first time is hugely intimidating No matter how many years you have been driving a car for, nothing can prepare you for the sheer number of controls, the view and the responsibility you need to get a handle on when you first climb into your haulage vehicle’s cab

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 Not only do the darker conditions make crime more likely, but exhaustion is more likely to set in, and it’s very easy to make the kind of slip up that will add you to the growing pile of haulage crime victims

Over the years, the truck driver has made for a great series of stories Amidst the standard tales of traffic jams, incredible journeys and more incredible bad driving, when involved with a freight exchange, you hear the type of outlandish tales more commonly associated with fishermen

The world of HGV insurance has never exactly been the most thrilling, and while I’m aware that writing an article on what to look out for in haulage insurance is enough to put a good deal of my readers into a narcoleptic coma, I nonetheless think it’s an important, and sometimes confusing, issue worth covering

I, like pretty much every man, woman, child, cat, dog and mouse in the country, am something of a Facebook addict Sure, I can deny it – and always claim that time spent on it in the office is invaluable networking time (even when networking involves playing a rip off of Scrabble with old friends) – but there’s something of a compulsive delight in spying on old acquaintances and seeing what they’re up to

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 Well, consider the confusion gone; as I lift the lid on the mystery of haulage company speak: Wagon Wagon’s just a standard term for one’s haulage vehicle

When you spend more time in your lorry than you do at home, it’s only natural to want to make it into a comfortable living environment But did you know that some of our country’s lorry drivers have installed stylish portable fridges and cookers and even Christmas trees to make their lorries more lovable