by Miles Brignall and Grizelcla Graham • A haulage firm boss and an electronics specialist who used a sophisticated device to...

• Anothel established haulier has decided to get out of the business. blaming poor rates. The majority of...

by Derren Hayes and Michael Jewell • Allen Munro Transport and its director John Gillam have served libel writs claiming...

• A 63-year-old driver whose illegal lorry killed a mother and two children has been sentenced to two years in jail. Keith...

E xtra! Extra! Read all about it! 0-Licence cations leap by 25%! If you want to things look really good—or bad—ther centages...

by Karen Miles • The Sowerby Bridge disaster is about to become the first case where a manslaughter charge is brought against a...

pressure on rates • UK container hauliers could face rates cuts following the £2.6m merger of P&O and Dutch firm Nedlloyd to...

• • slam government subsidy as lobs are lost • Mushroom hauliers are laying off owner-drivers in the UK and Ireland amid...

by Derren Hayes • Abnormal load escorts on trunk roads and motorways could soon be privatised if recommendations to strip the...

• An owner-driver subaotracted to move containers for P&O Roadways who had "billocks mate" written by a member of Roadways...

by Miles Brignall • An owner-driver with ARC Southern is threatening to write to the Office of Fair Trading to challenge the...

by Karen Miles • McGregor Cory is withdrawing from owning its own facilities in three major continental markets in contrast to...

by Jane Sayer • HM Customs and Excise has come under fire from the Western and Eastern Traffic Commissioners for failing to...

by Rachel Ludsey • Pt cable laying firm has been fined more than £8,000 after vans it used were found to be riddled with...

by Charles Young • Volkswagen has released list prices for its new LT panel van range, now on UK sale. The LT spans the weight...

• Competition for the UK fire appliance market has come from a new direction this year with the arrival of the first...

by Bill Brock i f you were a truck builder the feelgood factor would depend on whether your product fell above or below the...

by Bryan Jarvis • Unimog has used last week's SALTEX (Sports, Amenities, Landscaping) exhibition as a launch-pad for its...

• The licence held by Lewis Land Services has been revoked: the company and managing director Peter Morrison have been banned...

MI A failure to follow the code of practice for d y namic-axle weighbridge has resulted in Welsh haulier Edward Hamer...

• A Gwent cornness. It had been done withou pany was allowed reference to his wife, also a direc to keep its licence tor, and...

• 17-18 September: Motorway Service Areas Conference 1996, Marriott lotel. London. Contact: 0171 233 7600. • 17-18 September:...

Weight problems I wonder if any of your CM readers have suffered the same experience as our firm. On 27 November 1995 one of...

W hy do French farmers feel they have to take to the streets every time they get upset about something? You never see British...

two new Leyland tippers started work in pristine condition, Scottish operator McIntosh Plant sent a low-loader down to...

might well have the average thief flummoxed with its new Scudo. Even if you were to hand over the keys and wish him safely on...

come last with the Scudo entering a photo finish for the first places. The worst aspect of the driveability is the visibility....

T here's always been debate about exactly what a business's assets are worth. Sonic people will give you the balance sheet...

FORD COURIER KOMBI I t's not often that CM tests a vehicle which has no obvious competitors, but here we have one: a van which...

June last year. That was the day his brother Andrew died when a 1401ig wheel came off a truck and smashed into his Rover on the...

11 While any road death has to be counted a catastrophe, research by the Transport Research Laboratory shows wheel-loss...

pursued as if they were major crimes' 4 y outlook changed after 24 ;41 8 running a six-vehicle fleet, when I was prosecuted...