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These shocking pictures show what truckers get up to on some of Britain’s busiest motorways when they thought traffic police weren’t watching. Officers caught one driver texting simultaneously with a mobile phone in either hand, and another watching DVDs from a laptop on his dashboard. One offender was found eating his dinner from a plate balanced on his steering wheel, while another was filmed with his feet up on the dashboard and one swigged cans of lager on the move. Motorway officers caught them using video cameras in an unmarked lorry cab to put themselves eye-level with truckers. Since the operation was launched by the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) 12 months ago, dozens of lorry drivers have been caught flouting the law on motorways in the West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hereford and Worcestershire. Inspector Simon Westwood, of CMPG, said one of the most shocking cases was a lorry driver who was captured on camera texting simultaneously on two mobile phones – one in each hand. He said: ‘I couldn’t do that if I was in a quiet room sitting in an armchair, so the thought of someone doing it while driving a fully-laden heavy goods vehicle is positively scary. ‘The problem with trucks having collisions is that when they do it tends to be fairly indistinguishable from Armageddon. ‘It’s not the number of incidents we get, it’s the severity of them. More & Pictures