Female HGV Drivers Needed

In 2016 HGV firms will target women in order to improve the amount of women truck drivers.

It is repported in the Daily Record that "a recruitment drive to get women behind the wheel of Scotland’s HGVs is key to saving the £5billion haulage industry."

An extra 11,000 truckers are required to solve a shortage of HGV drivers and so now  HGV firms plan to target females to take up the profession by working with colleges and employment agencies with the aim to set up a “logistics academy” that will recieve a substantial sum of funding to get women to become HGV drivers.

The Daily Record also report "that around 1500 new drivers will be needed each year for the next decade. One per cent of HGV drivers are women."

Female HGV drivers needed to help save our £5bn haulage industry https://t.co/iQmfacQMiZ pic.twitter.com/tCrXwEHZsT

— Truck Wash (@truck_washing) January 18, 2016

Coca-Cola Christmas Truck in Birmingham

This might get you in the spirit. 

Watch this short film from when Coca-Cola's iconic Christmas truck visited Birmingham in the UK.

Merry Christmas - Happy New Year

Autowash Engineering would like to wish all customers, clients and staff of all in truck washing equipment industry, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

To all customers, clients, staff and @twitter followers, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from @truck_washing. pic.twitter.com/EXy2f2qhkH

— Truck Wash (@truck_washing) December 21, 2015

National Lorry Week - A Success

The first National Lorry Week (26-31 October) has been a success say the Road Haulage Association.

Due to the event's success there are plans now for an even bigger event in 2016. 

“We launched National Lorry Week with the #LoveTheLorry strap line to raise the profile of our magnificent industry in the eyes of the public and the popular media and to hammer home to government the very real challenges we face with particular emphasis on the critical driver shortage," said the RHA Chief Exec Richard Burnett.

Companies who are members of the RHA  got behind the campaign by opening their premises to the general public such as schools. This generated media interest from the national and regional press outlets and also regional BBC and independent radio stations.

The pinnacle of media interest was when Chris Evans, the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast host, featured Lorry Week through his entire programme. A lot of the media events focussed on excellent drivers and the stories they have to tell about their journeys on the UK's and Europe's roads.

“The enthusiasm of our members and industry stakeholders from the start was overwhelming and the variety and scale of events amazing," Burnett added. "Members parked their HGVs in busy town centres, took them to schools and turned up at sporting events. The M6 also held a week-long event which was another great success. The RHA’s team in Scotland quite literally played an absolute blinder with Falkirk FC who ran a Love the Lorry day last  Thursday and repeated the event on match day. This gave thousands of supporters a great opportunity to get up close and personal with trucks and hear about our industry first hand.”

As well as media the first National Lorry Week recieved attention from MPs and civil servants after the RHA held a National Lorry Week Parliamentary reception in the House of Commons.

So it's good to see the HGV industry getting attention and the credit the logistic companies and of course the drivers deserve considering the way they keep the UK ticking over by distributing food and products we use on a daily basis.

Truck Washing on Pinterest

Pinterest is an image-streaming website where Autowash Engineering now have a profile that collects photographs from the truck washing systems industry as well as images of the kind of HGVs, trucks and lorries that are used with Autowash's innovative HGV washing systems that are manufactured in the UK.

To see the HGV images we've uploaded, you can click the Pinterest logo below or click the link here - Truck Wash Online

View truck washing pictures on Pinterest

Survival Guide for Truck Drivers

Because Autowash Engineering are prominent on social-media, we've recently joined (or rather have a profile) on Google Books. This is the website where you can browse previews of all kinds of books and pubications such as magazines.

For example, you can see below a preview of A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers: Tips from the Trenches, which is written by Alice Adams and Andrew Ryder.

The truck driver's manual "Examines many aspects of a trucker's lifestyle, including topics from money management to communication skills to maintaining a healthy lifestyle on the road. Filled with practical tips for succeeding on the road, making it the perfect addition to any truck and lorry and HGV driving training program."

We've added it to our To Read list on Google Books where there're lots of other trucking and HGV related books.

Check out A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers by scrolling the panel below.

Trucks and HGV Playlist

We've set up a playlist of trucking and HGV videos on our YouTube Channel ... Click below to watch a variety of videos that we've found online, some of which are about the future of trucking, and some of which are fun.