floods and ostrictions across France. oads have been deluged in alvados, Paris, Seine et lame, Yvelines, Val d'Dise, idre,...

• by Sally Nash and Miles Brignall Subcontractors have been left reelIng after Scottish transport firm John Adams & Sons went...

Ja The People's Fuel Lobby still seems set on some form of direct action this week but details were impossible to pin down as...

by Guy Sheppard More than 500 million miles' worth of truck journeys a year could be removed from the roads by a £4bn...

• Notorious haulier and farmer Stanley Fernyhough has been given an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for...

• The Road Haulage Association has urged the government to "pay up now and argue later' in a meeting with MPs on loans for...

by Dominic Perry ivers working for Wincanton gistics on its contract with ,feway in 8athgate, dlothian, have signed a pay al...

German haulage giant Willi Az has been fined .21,000 with 15 costs for overloading a arcedes-Benz tractor by ore than 20%....

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Fuel. There's just no getting away from it—certainly not for the thousands of hauliers who have to live with the injustice of...

by Guy Sheppard e of the world's most influtial oilmen has highlighted av the UK government is eping fuel prices at an...

Parcel delivery giant arcelforce Worldwide is to ose its depot in Leamington pa and transfer its operations Coventry. The...

• Protesting Cumbrian hauliers have been assured that they will be the last hauliers to be taken off foot and mouth work in...

II Thieves are targeting vans in the Midlands by cutting fuel pipes to make them easy victims of crime, the police have warned....

• Haulage operators have been warned by police that they are putting drivers' lives at risk by sending them out in defective...

I by Guy Sheppard No Labour Peers have attacked the government ir failing to make long-awaited changes to the ay abnormal loads...

in The maiden voyage of the world's largest cruise ferry was marred by the discovery of more than 2.5 million black market...

• A display system, claimed to pick out pedestrians and obstacles in the dark "better than full-beam headlights" and project...

• by Sally Nash Gwent Police Authority (GPA) has been forced to launch an internal criminal investigation into the way it...

IP Why do people come to Commercial Motor Truckfest? As one tired but happy owner-driver confessed: "Transport's a lonely...

by Brian Weatherley uring the past 18 months new truck Jyars have had every reason to be aspondent. Not only has advanced...

vs First impressions of the Trafic and Vivaro are excellent; access to the Gab is easy, the controls are well placed and...

by Toby Clark °owing a tantalising year of teaser pic- es, previews and show appearances ; have finally driven and examined...

• by Toby Clark MAN has developed a range of TG-A construction trucks which will go on sale on the Continent later this year....

U This year's BTAC/IRTE road vehicle evaluation event will take place on 2-3 dune at the MIRA proving ground near Nuneaton....

• BoaRoy MD Gerry Brown has called for legislation to govern the fitting of bodywork to chassis. Addressing transport managers...

• After two months in receivership, HMG Holdings, owners of the Stormont and Hancock Southern dealer networks, has been broken...

A Cheshire haulier, described as a 'disgraceful" threat to road safety, has been banned from holding an 0-licence for 10 years...

Swansea-based Gerald Evans, trading as the Ferndale Group, was called before Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourtet...

A Swansea company which had 'disappeared" lost its 0-licence after its directors failed to attend a Llanelli public inquiry....

Speed limiter offences have cost Leeds-based Lawcris Panel Products £1,085 in fines and costs, When the company appeared before...

duce a duplicate driver's defect reporting system. Referring to the forward planning system, Evans told the DTC: "We had...

A bid for a new licence by Halifax-based LOB Storage & Distribution was turned down when the com Tom Macartney indicated that...

In recent issues of CMyou have written about the industry reaction towards Truckfest in the light of foot and mouth. The...

There can be no question as to whether or not to attend this year's Truckfest—quite simply we must not go. Truckfest is by and...

I read with interest in last week's Commercial Motor the Sound Off by Bernard Jenkin MP, Shadow Transport Minister (CM 3-9...

Your report of Neoplan's American project of combining the carriage of passengers and containerised freight on a double-deck...

Eric Strongitharm Oswahltwistlie. As part of Spagthorpe Motor Company's support for civic activities, Sir Jos has loaned a...

MERCEDES IITEGO TIPPER =3:13 , r We met up with SIMON STORER at Premier Aggregates' Finrnere Quarry near Buckingham. lie...

si Angus Spooner, General Trailer's tipper manager, warns bulk operators to be careful when upgrading existing tippers to 44...

hazards facing HGV drivers, and suggests ways the man behind the wheel can maintain a sound body and mind. P R E SE R V ERS...

0 fall the approaches to cleaning up engine emissions, the most popular to date is the installation of particulate traps to...