Jeremy Vine appears on both the BBC and Channel 5; he is no stranger to controversy: In October 2021, Ofcom received at least 300 complaints about the content of his Channel 5 show.

In May 2022 Vine's Twitter account shared a video where Vine encouraged his team of cyclists to make negative comments about the driving standards of a Waitrose HGV driver, and included comments from a Met police officer that the driver would "get 'undue care and attention' for that".

Waitrose have since investigated Vine's video; a Senior Media Manager for the company contacted Change.org to state "The driver has not been suspended and continues to be a valued employee." This petition has now been edited to include this statement.

It is likely the public have a limited amount of leverage when complaining about the content of commercial TV. However, as a publically-funded service, the BBC must be answerable to the licence-fee payers for the conduct of their employees, whether that be within or outside their own broadcasting purview.

For a very high-profile BBC employee to act as Vine has done in promoting unfair accusations against a hard-working member of the public, one of the people partly-responsible for paying his BBC-reported salary of £320,000-324,999, is intolerable and an insult to all HGV drivers across the country.

The 300,000-plus HGV drivers of the UK have a very demanding, essential, yet unappreciated role in society. Generally they are highly conscious of the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs); many undergo specific training created by organizations such as FORS & Transport for London, purely to safeguard VRUs. They should not be vilified on TV by cheap, sensationalist reporting of the kind promoted by Jeremy Vine. 

The BBC should remove Jeremy Vine from their Radio and TV programming immediately.