While cars are, in general, relatively cheaper than ever in terms of performance and safety, it’s still a thousand or two required to get anything reasonable, and then you have to insure it. As a new driver, your insurance could…

Hydraulic cylinders use pressure to provide force that moves parts of a vehicle in one plane, i.e. the cylinder can only move out or in. In the case of a lorry, this could be a tipper bin, sideloader cranes on…

When your engine is running but you are not moving, it is idling. Lorries commonly idle for short and long periods of time for various reasons: Stuck in a traffic jam or waiting at traffic lights Waiting to be loaded…

While light vehicles like cars and vans use foot brakes (also called service brakes), the service brakes on HGVs are not powerful enough to maintain a specific speed and stop the vehicle from running away on a long downhill. Lorries…

A concrete mixer truck (often called a cement truck, agitator truck, concrete truck, cement mixer or concrete mixer) is a rigid truck that has a rotating drum or ‘bowl’ on the back that keeps pre-mixed concrete moving so that it…

Some lorries have auxiliary equipment which requires power, but they don’t have a PTO or power take-off that draws power from idling the main engine. Instead, they have a small auxiliary engine which can provide the power. Common applications for…