Tory shadow Transport Minister Christopher Chope has added his support to CM'S 'Pushing 50' campaign. Jennifer Ball reports....

THE LUCKY, nay skilful, readers who won prizes in Commercial Motor's Christmas Charity quiz are listed below. Thanks to all the...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Alistair Darling is poised to convene an 11th hour meeting of employer and trade union leaders to resolve...

OPERATORS PLANNING to put the revamped Renault Magnum to work at 44 tonnes will have to wait until November.The new model was...

Two men have been charged with possessing drugs following the discovery of Elm worth of cannabis in a truck on the A20 in Kent...

The government has unveiled penalties designed to tackle congestion caused by badly managed roadworks. Utility companies and...

Voting is due to start on Edinburgh's City Council's plans for congestion charging in the city 300,000 residents will be asked...

Vauxhall is offering three years' 0% finance across its entire CV range; all offers end on 31 March.

A truck driver has been fined £2,000 and disqualified from driving for three years for drink-driving. Thomas Laurenson from...

Belgian transport giant H Essers has taken over As Dutch rival Centrum Transport & Logistics to give it greater access to...

The Ashford truckstop has new owners who have ramped up prices; drivers are not amused. Jennifer Ball reports. DRIVERS IN THE...

INDUSTRIALACTION by thousands of oil tanker drivers is looming after employers rejected demands for across-the-board...

RESIDENTS IN A small North Yorkshire village are up in arms over plans by logistics firm Reed Boardall to build a new 12,450m 2...

JOSE MARIA ALAPONT has left Iveco after just 16 months as chief executive officer at the Italian truck giant—the Spaniard is to...

Brian Lee of Alan Morris Transport suggests patient, reasoned argument can extrad better services from suppliers. If that...

Light brigade leads the charge as UK commercial vehicle sales break all previous records. Colin Barnett reports on the winners...

INNOVATIVE HAULIER Denby Transport is at it again. Less controversial than its experimental B-double outfit, the Denby Double...

Upgrading the Al 4 in Cambridgeshire is a matter of life and death. Jennifer Ball reports on the 'killer road. OPERATORS AND...

Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the transport industry this week... Two...

CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1909 and...

Hauliers keen on using rail freight in the future could be forced to fund facilities themselves. Guy Sheppard reports. RAIL...

THOUSANDS OF TRUCK drivers may be absorbed into a new super union of 2.5 million members. The Transport & General Workers...

Hauliers delivering to businesses in Manchester could be forced to pay for the privilege in the future. Guy Sheppard reports....

VAT cola fraud A NORTHERN IRELAND haulier has been convicted for his part in a £750,000 VAT scam. Investigating police...

Court win would save council thousands of pounds in wage bill of recycling vehicle drivers. STIRLING COUNCIL'S refuse...

THE LATEST addition to the burgeoning hatch-van sector is the Citroen C2 Enterprise. Powered by the same PSA 1.4litre...

A SHEFFIELD-BASED bakery is putting 30 drivers on a special training course in preparation for a new European Union directive....

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses after a van driver assaulted a motorist as he sat in traffic in Slough. The incident...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to an attempted truck theft on the M57 to come forward. The incident happened at around...

POLICE ARE HUNTING a gang who stole a load of exclusive computer games not yet on sale in the UK from a truck parked in...

The North East Assembly thinks its regional freight strategy will enable its transport system to keep running efficiently....

Ken Devereux, director of Billingham-based KW Devereux & Sons Any sort ot involvement with any local authority is good because...

With the implementation date just over a month away only one in seven respondents is fully compliant with the WTD. However, a...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's latest Quarterly Transport Activity Survey (QTAS) reveals that not all operators are...

Trade association bosses rarely praise Treasury officials. Ray Holloway, of the Petrol Retailers Association, does; but is it...

INTHE late '90s, the Department for Transport decided that it would allow trucks up to 7.5 GVW to have an increased speed of...

HOW MUCH WORSE can traffic congestion get? Gordon Brown has promised consultation on motorway charging, but what difference...

YOUR CORRESPONDENT Robert DodsBrown (CM 20 January) has prompted me to write the letter that has been rolling round my head for...

THE PERSON who has taken the most broad-minded view of forthcoming events to be inflicted upon our industry is Steve Hobbs. (CM...

The GM-Fiat deal, signed long ago, is about to come apart, laid low by heavy debt Oliver Dixon looks at the potential fall-out...

Long-distance operator and four of his drivers are fined nearly £13,000 for working excessively long shifts. A LONG-DISTANCE...

TWO FIRMS RUN by the same family have escaped penalty after the TC accepted they were taking steps to resolve maintenance...

USING AVEHICLE without an 0-licence or tachograph has cost a fruit and vegetable merchant £600 in fines and costs. Stuart...

A FRENCH DRIVER arrested by Welsh police for drivers' hours offences was kept behind bars for two days before being given a...

UNREPORTED OFFENCES, maintenance problems and missing tachograph charts have led to a scaffolding firm losing two trucks from...

Few transport companies pay into a pension scheme, but the latest government proposals could force operators to contribute...

What can a driver do when traffic police cross the line from being 'firm but fair' to over-zealous? Pat Hagan reports. T...

Win one of 20 copies of The Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook in our competition! T here are so many legal...

Peugeot's 206 van has been around for almost five years, and it's prove( a hit with many buyers. But can it keep up with the...

ES II ON The UK commercial vehicle preservation movement has never beer stronger — we asked Bob luck to find the best places...

for choice when deciding which show or event to attend. If you scour the relevant specialist (classic, veteran, heritage, steam...

There are bad truas, good trucks — and a few truly great trucks. As part of CM's centenary year celebrations we open the great...

"PICK UP YOUR UNIT, get to Avonmouth by 6am to collect one of Forsey's fridge trailers with a load of pears for Rungis, Paris—...

GREAT BRITAIN IN 1947 was still a place of post-war austerity and rationing. Nothing was more affected than the motor industry,...

Moon of Commercial Motor after testing the TK at its 1960 debut. "There is no doubt," Moon continued with uncanny prescience,...

Ford has come up with a practical solution to cope with the rise of urban deliveries — an engine that switches off when Ws not...

A 1,000-strong armada graced this year's Schroders London Boat Show. But, as Tim Maughan discovered, they could not have got...

Colin Barnett takes a closer look at Eaton's collisior warning system. Can it make the roads safer for us ail! s little as...

Ray Dickson is outraged that operators have been challenged to pay for combating truck crime and settles down to re-watch The...

R nault Trucks UK has kicked off 2005 by offering a limited edition Pr mium tractor through its used dealer network with bags...

Our series on some of the UK's most desirable used commercial vehicles focuses on the eagerly anticipated Mercedes-Benz Axor....

T he auction houses have started the new year in fine form with January proving profitable for van auctions at British Car...

Engine: M-B 0M457LA Euro-3 11.97-litre charge-cooled turbodiesel with four valves per cylihder, unit injection and Tel ligent...

best of both worlds, or of neither. Fortunately for DaimlerChrysler's UK ambitions it falls more into the former camp. Its...

The shortage of neariy-new tractor units is boosting demand for older models — if they have the right spec. Steve Banner...

ADVERTISING A TRUCK as "ex-owner-driver" might not be the good selling point it used to be says Phil Holmes, used sales...

FRANCHISED DEALERS are investing heavily in new facilities on the back of a buoyant market. S&B Commercials is spending 17m on...

JANUARY WAS A great month for used sales. "It was lhe best January I've known in 20 years," says Phil Holmes, used sales...

RENAULT DEALERS are wondering what impact the manufacturer's decision to scrap its 1.9% low-rate finance deal on used Premium...

3E1TINGTO grips with the van narket is one of the fresh hallenges that faces Paul Banks, iewly appointed sales manager at Enza...