Truckers begins tonight at 9pm on BBC One

Truckers is a 5×60-minute series about modern Britain told through the lives of truck drivers working for a haulage yard in Nottingham. Funny, moving and at times painful – Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride.

Starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild At Heart, DCI Banks), John Dagleish (Lark Rise To Candleford, Beaver Falls), Jenn Murray (The Fades, Dorothy Mills), Harry Treadaway (Fish Tank, Control), Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy, Inside Men) and Sian Breckin (Tyrannosaur, Dates)