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Two truck drivers killed in East Java bridge collapse

Two truck drivers killed in bridge collapse

A section of a bridge connecting Babat Lamongan and Widang Tuban in East Java collapsed into the Bengawan Solo River on Tuesday, April 17, causin
Published 17 April 2018
British lorry operators found to be cheating diesel emissions

British lorry operators found to be cheating diese

Hauliers in the UK have been caught cheating emissions regulations designed to prevent air pollution.
Published 10 April 2018
Lorry operators cheating emission rules

Lorry operators cheating emission rules

Lorry operators are routinely fitting HGVs with cheat devices to allow vehicles to produce high levels of pollution, a government investigation h
Published 18 January 2018
Driving the Tesla Semi: the electric lorry with 500 miles of range and Autopilot

Driving the Tesla Semi, a 500-mile electric lorry

I’m sitting in the form-fitting driver’s seat of Elon Musk’s most powerful electric vehicle, flanked by high-definition touchscreens...
Published 17 November 2017
Revealed: the dangerous defects found on foreign and British lorries

Revealed: the dangerous defects found on lorries

FOREIGN LORRY drivers are more likely than their British counterparts to be driving vehicles with lethal defects. One in eight foreign-registered
Published 15 November 2017

Truckers turn to healthy eating

In the 1980s film Over the Top, a trucker played by Sylvester Stallone is travelling with his estranged son and suggests dinner at a steak restau
Published 24 October 2017
Driverless lorry makes late-night beer run

Driverless lorry makes late-night beer run

It was after midnight and the executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation was at the back of a convoy escorting an...
Published 03 November 2016
Land Rover Defender - Sunday Times Driving reader letters

Reader Letters: Brexit cars, HGV manners and more

The Land Rover Defender, reviewed by you last month...
Published 22 August 2016
Reader Letters: Walnut strip and blinking lorries

Reader Letters: Wolseley walnut strip, choice faults...

I was delighted to see my first car, the Wolseley 1500, reviewed by Jeremy Clarkson. I took mine over, aged 17, from my late grandmother in 1976...
Published 01 August 2016
Reader Letters: a Skoda driver retorts, a lack of variety, Austrian tolls and respecting speed limits

Reader Letters: a Skoda driver retorts, Austrian tolls...

"I’m a Skoda driver, Mr Clarkson, but my name isn’t Geoff and life’s been pretty good to me...
Published 31 May 2016
Reader Letters: HGV tailgating, average speed cameras and healthy cyclists

Reader Letters: HGV tailgating, average speed cameras...

"The authorities should recognise the danger caused by being tailgated by HGVs (often continental lorries) when motorists are trying to keep to the...
Published 03 May 2016
dash cam truck footage

Dash cam video captures lorry horror story

Footage has emerged of a 32-ton lorry overtaking a car in a manoeuvre that will chill the blood of any motorist...
Published 21 July 2015