The Department for Transport said up to 50,000 more HGV driving tests would be made available, with drivers now only having to take one test to drive both a rigid and articulated lorry.

The Government has announced changes to the HGV driver test in order to free up capacity for 50,000 additional tests per year.

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 ...

Changes to the HGV testing system designed to address a shortage of drivers are a risk to road safety, the Road Haulage Association has said. The UK has an estimated shortfall of 90,000 lorry ...

Applicants for HGV licenses are waiting three months to do a lorry driving test at nearly two thirds of testing centres in the UK.

A campaign to recruit more HGV test examiners to help reduce the lorry driver shortage has been launched by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA. Some 40 new vocational examiners will be ...

More that half of the UK’s HGV driving test centres currently have a waiting time of more than three months, but some sites can offer tests within one week.

The firm had used a centre in Nottingham but now aims to double test capacity from 10 a week to 20.

Mr Flynn wants more to be done to reduce the back-log of drivers waiting for tests A lack of examiners is largely to blame for the UK shortage of HGV drivers, a lorry driving instructor has said ...

Changes to the HGV testing system designed to address a shortage of drivers are a risk to road safety, the Road Haulage Association has said. The UK has an estimated shortfall of 90,000 lorry ...