Laurie Dealer’s truck news: drugs, oil, safety, lift, jammed and villain

A Dutch lorry driver has been charged with trying to smuggle heroin and cocaine, worth up to £3m, into the UK through the port of Harwich.

A County Durham farmer and haulier is threatening to bring Britain’s fuel supplies to a standstill by blocking oil refineries.

Children at Westgate Primary School, in Bury St Edmunds, were given a valuable safety message when a 44 tonne truck rolled in to visit them.

In-car video footage from Brazil which shows a man happily riding on the back bumper of an articulated lorry has caused a stir online.

A lorry driver will be prosecuted for careless driving after his vehicle became wedged under a railway bridge.

An RAC patrolman was under arrest yesterday after being filmed stealing wheels from a car belonging to a lorry driver and replacing them with an old set with bald tyres.