by Juliet Parish • Hauliers working for shipping and container agent Bell Lines of Avonmouth plan to repeat last week's...

• LGV parts vendors should beware of a man using stolen Halifax Building Society cheques to acquire tipper transmission parts....

Commercial vehicle and car components distributor announced this week twill float on the Stock Exchange this Spring. The...

by Amanda Bradbury 0 A former shareholder of £5m-turnover independent parcels carrier Acclaim Ltd says he is taking legal...

• Rod Heather has quit Foden within weeks of being passed over by an American from the truck manufacturer's parent company,...

• The United Road Transport Union plans to commission a report on drivers' pay, which it hopes will underpin wage negotiations...

• The haulier at the centre of the fatal Sowerby Bridge crash is understood to be considering applying for a judicial review...

charges last week when the Crown Prosecution Service ordered that the case brought against it by Sussex police should be...

• Silcock Express is planning to acquire its competitor Toleman for around £15 million: a move expected to produce "the largest...

• Shropshire-based haulier and freight forwarder L&D International Transport has gone into administrative receivership...

beef up bridges by Mike Jewell • Billy Walker, former managing director of Turriff-based Kildonan Transport, has been banned...

steady increase • Truck registrations continued to climb in February with an increase of nearly 12% over the same period last...

• British hauliers of all sizes have no confidence in the Channel Tunnel and will not be using it, according to an independent...

by Juliet Parish • United Biscuits' haulage arm, United Biscuits Distribution Services (UBDS), is to lose almost all of its...

• Tankfreight has offered 45 drivers working on its Shell Bitumen contract a 2% pay rise for 12 months from july 1993. The NFC...

• An MP has tabled a bill to freeze tolls on the Severn Bridge at the level they were at in January 1994. Newport Labour...

• British Rail's parcels arm Red Star is slashing its afternoon delivery services in a bid to stem losses and fatten up the...

We all aspire to high principles, but they won't keep a 38-tonner working. So when a small group of hauliers stopped working...

by Steve Banner • Four Renault Magnum tractors with lowered fifth wheels are going into service with Myers Group of Purfleet,...

• Iveco Ford Trucks has launched a number of Special Product Options (SPOs) on its Cargo 65E, 75E, 80E and 100E tipper...

• Hersham Valves is testing two Cummins engines fitted with its exhaust brake to see if they will meet the ADR endurance...

by Bryan Jarvis • MAN's L2000 light middleweight range, launched in the UK last December, looks like becoming a worthy...

tachograph traces • A driver who drew traces on to his tachograph chart with a pin was ordered to pay fines and costs of £450...

m U Exceeding the 0 first axle and train weight of a 38-tonne artic, and using it at the wrong rate of vehicle excise duty has...

• Carlisle-based McCracken Haulage (UK)'s licence was revoked by North Western LA Martin Albu when the company failed to appear...

• Taking no action against the licence held by Atonvale, of Paisley, at a Glasgow discplinary inquiry Scottish LA Michael Betts...

• Eurocove, of Grimsby, received an absolute discharge after Penrith magistrates accepted it was blameless for a gross overload...

• North Western LA Martin Albu has increased Southport-based North West Tiles' authorisation from one to three vehicles with a...

• Harvey Supplies, of Airdrie was warned by Scottish LA Michael Betts to take care of maintenance standards arid avoid further...

• Fines totalling £740 imposed on Salford-based Storey Bros and one of its drivers for using a vehicle with an insecure load...

• Skipton haulier W&G Taylor was cleared of overloading the third and fourth compensating axles of an artic when the company...

The Transport Tribunal has quashed the decision of South Eastern & Metropolitan Licensing Authority Brigadier Michael Turner to...

by Bryan Jarvis • When Boalloy's vehicle park overflows with rigids, triplestacked trailer chassis and body kits for foreign...

by Toby Clark MI When Andover Trailers decided to look for a trading partner on the Continent, they thought big. Goldhofer of...

T have followed the lcorrespondence between John Allen and Police Constable Stuart Ridgewell with interest. John Allen has...

A few weeks ago (CM17 23 February) the Hawk ran an impassioned plea from one Peter Kilden of Bromley whose father once drove...

know crime often pays—but luckily villains can occasionally be counted on to be their own worst enemies. An attempted £1m raid...

U n one of the sillier crazes of recent years, pop group Beastie Boys and their fans went around removing VW badges. Times move...

El ome people have funny hobbies, don't they? Take Anthony Heywood, a sculptor and lecturer at Kent Institute of Art and Design...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

and Sandbach pedigree has put Foden's latest 3325 eight-legger at the top of the 32-tonne CM league table. C ommercial Motor...

The Euro-1 L325 differs markedly from the LTAA10-325 that went before. Its peak torque has risen 21% from 1,288-1,560Nm and...

Foden's FF20 system is a development of the Hendrickson Norde original. It includes a so-called roll control device which acts...

Bernard Clarke-Lens is only weeks into his new job as boss of the Isle of Wight's 76-year-old haulage firm, Vectis, and he has...

Transport depots where food is handled can face closure if they fail to satisfy the Environmental Health Officer—how does yours...

After three decades at NFC, Phil Biddlecombe is now his own boss of everything he surveys having bought a truck dealership from...

Scottish timber hauliers claim a subsidised timber barge service is unfairly damaging their livelihoods—they want to see it...

4 oad transport insurance has been one of the most worrying problems for our business over the post few years. Many insurance...