Palletline is in hot water for circulating an unsubstantiated rumour about a rival — and the row could end up in court. Dominic...

A REEFER OPERATOR is trying to prove he does not owe Customs & Excise almost £40000 in duty after setting up a system that drew...

A EUROPEAN COMMISSION transportbureaucrat, who last week said digital smart-card tachos would be delayed, now acknowledges his...

The Highways Agency has appointed Derek Turner as national traffic director for England. He was previously Transport for...

Police chief brands operators complacent and dangerous — and promises to crack down on HGV offences. Jennifer Ball - eporrs....

IVECO HAS LAUNCHED a robust defence of its Assistance Non-Stop breakdown service following claims by a Wigan operator, that its...

A BID TO SAVE UK trailer maker Crane Fruehauf with a management buy-out has been derailed following the administrators'...

CUSTOMS & EXCISE has shortlisted seven companies to provide the technology behind the Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC). C&E...

I wrote this in the Royal Navy recruitment office in Wrexham, waiting for my youngest son Patrick who was being i nterviewed as...

last year, rising to £170.2m from £148.4m in 2003. Turnover rose from £5.1bn to more than £5.5bn although these figures do not...

Treasury tax revenues could backfire on hauliers, according to warnings from the Freight Transport Association. The plan for a...

CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1913 and...

Stuart Thomas gives us the low down on the way the the world of transport has been characterised in the media this week. Are...

Better truck security could really lead to lower insurance terms. Guy Sheppard reports. INSURERS ARE promising reduced...

The Skye Bridge is now toll-free but hauliers have come under fire for keeping their prices high regardless. Guy Sheppard...

IRISH HAULIER MANAGH International Transport has bought the business and vehicles of Northern Irish firm Towmac Transport....

pensioner who complained about his truck being parked on the pavement. Pavel Haltmar will remain in jail for 21 days unless...

Tipper operators keen to add a Mercedes to their fleets are to get another option with the launch of a 32-tonne Axor...

SIX BOALLOYTRAILERS entering service with Accrington-based Earl Transport will sport a new reversing safety device from...

0-LICENCES WILL BE introduced in Northern Ireland by 1 August 2007 to bring the province in line with the rest of the UK,...

ABERDEEN'S HAULIERS are bracing themselves for a substantial loss of work caused by the closure of one of the city's two...

WELCOME BREAK, the motorway service station operator, has begun cracking down on 'boy racers' who are disturbing truck drivers'...

Exclusive WIDNES-BASED Sottons Transport Group has won a contract with minerals specialist LNEOS Silicas to carry its bulk...

On 3 March three men wearing balaclavas attacked the driver on A ltham Business Park near Accrington. The thieves drove his...

DS Steve Cotterill, director of intelligence, says operators should report all cases of curtain slashing, even when nothing is...

POLICE ARE HUNTING a man who hijacked a van at knifepoint in Northamptonshire and made off with its load of mobile phones. The...

POLICE A RE hunting a gang who left a truck driver needing hospital care after attacking him with,probably,pepper spray. The...

When so much was promised for telematics, why are 80% of operators still content to run things with mobile phones? Chris...

HAVING JUST READ your report on the guilty verdict on the partners ofWilliam Martin Oliver & Partners, I feel that VOSA has...

I READ WITH INTEREST the recent press publications regarding the road transport directive on working time.'The normal hostile...

JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS the road on the England/Scotland border was closed for 27 hours due to a truck crossing the central...

Everybody hates being done for speeding, but a team of enforcers in the South-West aim to change drivers' behaviour without...

offenders have been through the workshops. There are currently two a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year; some 500 workshops...

Despite a previous conviction for drug importation, an operator persuades the IC that he will operate within the law. A...

WITH AN 80% failure rate at annual test, missing inspection records and mislaid defect reports, a Denbighshire firm was lucky...

AN OWNER-DRIVER who failed to appear in court to answer charges of taking insufficient daily rest has persuaded the Harlow...

AN OPERATOR'S claim that more than a year's worth of tachograph charts had been lost in the post was branded "a convenient...

BLACKWOOD-BASED Helena Morgan. trading as Right Price Removals, has lost her licence and has been indefinitely banned from...

1. Registering your premises New catering businesses must be registered 28 days before opening with the local authority's...

What chance have you got of recovering your debts if one of your customers goes bust? John Davies reports. I s your insolvent...

and Wales show that in the fourth quarter of 2004 company liquidations declined by 11% year on year. However, the number of...

that you would like to sit down and discuss with an expert? Well, here's your chance. Following last year's success, Commercial...

If you want to sell a chassis in today's refuse collection market it had better have a low-entry cab. CM has taken the top two...

won such a strong following in the low-entry RCV market as they're both impressive contenders. Significantly, they display...

India's road transport industry is about to change dramatically. Emma Penny reports. I magine India and depending on where...

square miles (3.28 million km 2 ), but it has the second biggest ;f population in the world, with more than one billion...

it chaos. There is no point in visiting Mumbai if you are a nervous passenger but want to travel somewhere by oar. And...

Big, beautiful and bursting with potential... Oliver Dixon watches the rebirth of Brazil and its automotive industry. R...

Will Shiers has been to the US, where diesel has doubted in price to just over 1 a gallon, clients are happy to pay rising fuel...

Drivers, like all other employees, are given a stock option to allow them to share in the company's financial gains. This,...

Overloading can be a big problem, and not just for hauliers. On-board weighing systems do away with the guesswork — Steve...

fitted with bin-lift-mounted systems that will weigh the waste in each bin before it is tipped so that householders can be...

Ashfield District Council transport services manager David White is a happy man now that the authority no longer faces the...

Ray Dickson reckons that when it comes to parking in London, oppression is too weak a word. M y favourite example of witty...

George Alexander reports that it's a sellers' market, with exports fuelling demand for tractor units. T he used truck market...

Truck manufacturers have promoted the used sector from zero priority to number-one concern. Wth MAN-ERF UK tasking its sales...

Billowing sleet has deterred many prospective buyers says Steve Banner. But dealers say the demand will come with the...

ALTHOUGH THERE may be nothing wrong with them, pre-2000 trucks are becoming increasingly difficult to sell says Stuart...

NOT ALL tractor unit buyers are mesmerised by 420 and 440hp engines; there's still plenty of demand for units with no more than...

CUSTOMERS ARE having to come to terms with the fact that used tractor units are being offered with far higher mileages than...

DEMAND FOR 6x2 rigids is rising, says Fred Puttick, used vehicle sales manager at Faversham, Kent-based Renault dealership...