Owner Driver

Welcome to the asylum

IT HAS BEEN SAID, time and time again – not enough people know what we do for a living. But that doesn’t stop the pseudo experts coming out of the woodwork. And they never let the truth get in the way of making the industry safer.

So let’s open up a can of worms that no-one seems intent on discussing, openly, honestly, decisively and without fear or favour. Many would have you believe that they are best placed to make inroads into correcting the problem, but their modus operandi isn’t to better our lives at all.

One of the most talked about situations escalated recently when a young fella took the safest way out by launching his B-double into the second arrester bed to avoid a

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