The series is about Britain through the lives of truck drivers working in Nottingham, and was written by William Ivory.

The series was announced on 11 January 2012 by Ben Stephenson, controller of drama commissioning at the BBC at the Broadcasting Press Guild lunch.

[4][5][6][7] David Butcher of Radio Times said the following about the first episode: "The trouble is, none of it makes a lot of sense, and the long, colourful speeches that writer William Ivory gives Tompkinson can’t save the drama from clattering oddness.

[9] Ellen Jones of The Independent said: "The laboriously regional script didn't make it any easier.

The dialogue was so crammed with earthy wisdom and quaint sexual euphemisms that the actors struggled to get a breath in."