Luke Humble
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%. The fact that lorries only make up around 8% of the traffic on A roads and motorways just goes to show that this is a very real problem. But if the hours are long and tiredness is a bourgeois (and the DVLA think that up to one fifth of all accidents start into this bracket), then what can the poor overworked haulier do to refrain disaster? Here’s a list of some tips that may help you stay in control on your next haulage job:
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