• by Alan Osborn and Dominic Perry The campaign to outlaw the practice whereby hauliers employ East European drivers to cut...

disqualified from holding an 0 licence for a year after they committed a series of hours and tachograph offences. At a...

• Stephen and Julie Bowles, the first haulage directors to be convicted of corporate manslaughter, have both been barred from...

siso (WEIN ANNE'S GATE • The Home Office expects to publish Its final proposals on reforming the law on involuntary...

• A strike by boatmen at the Seaforth Container Terminal on Merseyside has been narrowly averted after their union won an...

• by Miles Brignall The operators who responded to government calls to help move slaughtered animals to burial sites are...

pulling out of Truckfest, but the May Bank Holiday event will still go ahead, following an all-clear from the East of England...

I by Dominic Perry round 200 drivers working for he AA fear that they will be arced to sign new contracts Mich, they claim,...

• Commercial Motor has been named joint Publication of the Year in the SACC/Seahorse Transport Journalism Awards. The criteria...

• The Road Haulage Association has launched phase one of its national training scheme promising "quality training at a...

• BOC drivers making deliveries to Marks & Spencer's European stores are waiting to hear their fate after the retailer...

• Rail-freight operators are in line for a huge cut in track access charges in a bid to boost traffic volumes. Rail Regulator...

• by Dominic Perry The chairman of a government advisory body on transport has called for a radical reappraisal of the way...

• A Bedford solicitor is appealing for information on injuries involving rave hooks on trailers following an incident in which...

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Levelling the field... Foreign firms using non-EU drivers within the EU have traditionally enjoyed significantly lower labour...

he sense of injustice among hauliers iurns as strongly as it did when the 12,000 ines for carrying illegal immigrants into he...

II A woman truck driver who was sacked after complaining about a male colleague's refusal to work with her has won a 25,600...

by Bob Tuck n-Bur and Silvertip Design ve staged an on-road demonation of their Steering Irrection Mechanism (SCM) mi-trailer,...

Daf has announced full details of model rollout for its new IF six to 18-tonne range, Production of versions up to 7.5 tonnes...

;cania's lightweight 6x2 - or Carlsberg promises ipper and tanker operators he maximum payload i by Brian iVeatherley he first...

A Merseyside waste management company has had its licence authorisation cut in half and faces a two-day licence suspension....

Newton Stewart-based haulier William Jolly has had his licence revoked and has been disqualified from holding an 0-licence for...

a Sumo Overland Direct International Transport (SDDIT)— which only succeeded in obtaining an Operator's Licence last...

A fencing contractor from South Wales had his licence suspended for two weeks and its authorisation cut from two vehicles to...

• You can now check out all kinds of legal information on road transport.net—the web site operated by Commercial Motor, Motor...

A Cleveland haulage firm which had failed to tax vehicles on international work as a "protest vote" has lost its appeal against...

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1 2, 11101:DIJCIED IINI ASSOCIATION! VVITIF41 FORE, A. WARREN! SCOL.ICITOFIS Working Time Directive Immobile workers T he...

) There is no definition of "special hazards" so some form of risk assessment is required. Every night worker is entitled to a...

Self-employed Directive T he proposed gapfilling directive ran into trouble at the EU Council of Ministers because of...

W hat is the relationship between these two sets of rules? Taking the 48-hour week as an illustration, it can be seen that...

• A key problem in the European Union which seems to be largely ignored by the media and even politicians is the rule of law....

E very European Union state is required to submit regular reports to the European Commission out its enforcement of the...

T he UK has challenged the Working Time Directive before the European Court of Justice. Putting it bluntly, the UK said that...

year and also holds the record for the best fuel consumption return around DM's Kent route...a formidable competitor. Along...

rear-wheel-drive guises, from a 2.5-tonne fwd model to the latest "Jumbo" rwd high-roof 3.5-tanner, which boasts a substantial...

Iveco is rightly proud of the fact. The latest Daily City Van version is substantially improved over older models, and is...

those working to a strict budget, while LDV's "bespoke" vehicle operation allows buyers to specify more or less any relevant...

a price to match; in the UK its popularity is second only to the ubiquitous Ford Transit (travel to Germany and you'll find...

world when it was introduced a couple of years ago, setting a high standard for handling and driver comfort combined with the...

the closely related Mercedes-Benz Sprinter due to its less compelling range of engines and a slightly less comprehensive range...

If you're in the market for a 3.5-tonne van, you're in luck: standards of performance, comfort and economy have improved beyond...

braking ;ystem; in fact the better your brakes the less you tend to mtice them. But the humble brake is not immune to...

Not many. But that is what Jeff Lewis, owner of Heavy Lift Transport, did just one year ago. A Emma Page reports, things are...

Richard Turner, new FTA chief executive, says the industry must continue to fight its corner. He believes that diplomacy is...

Centre for Transport udies at UCL, warns that now methods of measuring congestion must be found. If you want to sound off about...