Honda British Championship touring car worth £250,000 from West Surrey Racing at Sunbury Cross, Surrey on Monday night. The...

insurance scheme which would cover hauliers served with a stowaway penalty, according to Mike Freeman of the RHA. He says:...

A heat wave in Romania led to trucks over 7.5 tonnes being banned from its entire road network. The ban, which lasts from...

Il by Mike Jewell and Charles Young One of the worst ever cases of a cowboy haulier has emerged after a firm: • Forced drivers...

A South-East Pauller whose driver was caught carrying five illegal immigrants has been hit with a penalty notice for £10,000...

Two Welsh hauliers are refusing to do any more work for groupage operator RMF (WO because it owes them more than 250,000. The...

• by Melanie Hammond The impact of the week-long demonstration against fuel prices planned for September could be undermined by...

The government has abandoned plans to introduce tolls for the next decade, but it proposes to reduce motorway speed limits to...

• Scotland's Transport Minister, Sarah Boyack, is under pressure from Scottish MPs to introduce an essential user rebate on...

• by Guy Sheppard New methods of hauling timber are to be tested as part of a drive by industry leaders and police to stop...

• A 10-year transport plan to be unveiled by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott later this month could boost hauliers' hopes...

We like to hear the stories readers think we should be following. CMis happy to preserve the anonymity of readers who provide...

Falsified tacho charts...disabled speed limiters.. .pressure on drivers to exceed their hours. ..links with green diesel...

• by Guy Sheppard A company planning a HO-RD rail service for trucks between Liverpool and northern France has unveiled a new...

• A firm was fined £430 on seven charges of failing to maintain a speed limiter last week after a truck overtook a Vehicle...

• Supermarket giant Safeway is expected to win a grant of more than 1600,000 later this month to expand its fleet of...

• A driver has begun a twoyear jail sentence after being caught smuggling more than a tonne of hand-rolling tobacco. Philip...

• by Pete Swing,ler A driver accused of causing the death of two pensioners in a road crash was cleared of dangerous driving at...

• Hauliers at Dublin Port are to press for higher rates for container work after it emerged that almost none of them are making...

career in education for a full-time truck driving job has been met with disbelief from drivers who say it's a case of out of...

• One of Britain's biggest removals companies has clashed with Job Centre bosses over the wording used to recruit a clerk....

Citroen has extended its summer cash-back offers for small to medium CV customers until the end of September. It is also...

servicing packages up to three years/100,000 miles on all vehicles throughout the summer, with special deals on alarms and...

Cursor Ss and four lveco Ford Cargo 130E18s to its fleet for the Fiat Auto UK parts and distribution contract based in Warrington.

entire fleet of 125 CVs over the next five years. The first newcomer, a Mercedes 814 Vane 7.5-tonner, has already arrived. The...

• by Peter Lawton Allison wants the start-up production of its new transmissions to match total sales for 1999 and to quadruple...

• Commercial vehicle registrations rose in June and for the year to date, according to the latest figures from the Society of...

the country, making a total of 87 UK Scania service centres. The sites are Southway Scania, Swindon: Silurian Scania, Symond's...

security design, which wires the back doors of a trailers and sounds an alarm if the doors are opened. Contact Terry Walker on:...

• Mercedes-Benz is celebrating 50 years of the Unimog with "major price cuts across the entire range, from the U90 to the 6x6...

Derbyshire operator 11W Martin (Plant) has bought four 6x4 Foden Alpha tractive units and four new bulk ejector trailers after...

Chatfields of Leeds has won an order to supply 11 LOY vans worth £190,000 to replacement window and conservatory company TWS...

Leicestershire-based King Trailers has landed a £250,000 deal to supply 10 truck chassis plant carriers to the Nationwide...

Wincanton Logistics will run 88 Scanla trucks on its new contract with Scottish and Newcastle Retail, delivering to 1,900 pubs...

Midland haulier Alan Smith is the first to operate a remote radio control Hiab crane for brick and block work for his Tarmac...

Air Cargo Transport at East Midlands Airport has taken delivery of a specially engineered four-way-access DonBur Trailer. Its...

• by Peter Lawton Michelin says independent tyre dealers should increase their profits by charging operators more for their...

• Aberdeen City Council has added a new Seddon Atkinson Strato 21.215B to its traffic management fleet after the workload...

BJ Transport, of Newton Stewart, has been cut from 10 vehicles and 10 trailers to four vehicles and four trailers for a...

what action Scottish TC Michael Betts will take against his HGV licence. Downie appeared before the TO after being fined 1150...

at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry after the company gave an undertaking to have 25% of its tachograph records randomly...

Kynaston to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £2,611.67 for using vehicles without excise licences and making false...

against Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon's decision to revoke the licence it holds in South Wales.

Having heard evidence that Dynamic Construction of Kempsey, Worcester had lent licence discs to another operator, West Midland...

A company formed by the wife and daughter of Alexander Cassels, who was disqualified from holding an 0-licence for two years....

The two-vehicle licence held by Royston Buckler of Buckley, North Wales has been suspended for two weeks following the...

North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell has heard that a restricted licence holder who set up a business in September...

Flints hire magistrates have fined Llandovery-based Owen James £1,000 with 285 costs after the company pleaded guilty to using...

Further to your article headed: "Hopes of overturning punitive fines fade away (CM15-21 June), I am an owner-driver of 32...

Part of an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair: Just who do you think you are kidding this time, Mr Blair? Do you really...

We reckon we get more than our fair share of rain in the UK, but compared with some we should be counting our blessings....

A group of charitable hauliers from Northern and the Republic of Ireland put their businesses to one side for a mercy mission...

No folks, this isn't science fiction—vehicles that can see around corners are on the way from Nissan. A prototype is now being...

No wonder our team was knocked out! Personally I blame the council! As excitement reached fever-pitch during Euro 2000 last...

The Hawk has only one thing to say about the latest releases from Corgi Classics: Cheers! As an enthusiastic imbiber of the...

Price as tested: £21,761 (ex-VAT) including £20,150 for the basic vehicle; £75 for a full bulkhead; £840 for ABS, ABD and EBD;...

Public inquiries: avoid them from the start A nyone who plans to operate HGVs must apply for an Operator's Licence, which can...

T he Licensing Review Board wili make recommendations to the Traffic Commissioner about disciplinary action. Appointments to...

T he Traffic Commissioner has the power to revoke a licence with immediate effect. The TC could, as an alternative to...

Representations are usually made by the owners or occupiers of land or buildings in the vicinity of a haulier's operating...

When deciding a site's environmental suitability a TC must consider: III The nature and use of other land in the vicinity; •...

A TC's decision can be challenged before the Transport Tribunal. However, the fact that the Traffic Commissioner's decision is...

up-and-coming drivers are in short supply. The training schools and trainees are out there hut, as Steve McQueen reports,...

drivers' 6. skills behind the wheel, maybe it's time they did. As Steve Banner reports, arranging defensive driver training for...

or had the harrowing duty of looking after the personal effects of the dead after a terrorist attack on a Jumbo jet. But...

th e ir bum p er as 0 po li ce t o d t th MacialSooDO 300,10-113 Om 0 I could and not to stop. Racing through a Edinburgh was...

dull. But last month it shocked everybody by announcing the closure of every one of its 109 UK stores. Squeezed between a cycle...

magnitude, to focus attention on an issue which has never attracted the consideration it really deserves. Sadly, such an event...

and was fined £2 2 ,000 when ii immigrants were found hiding in its trailer at Dover. Proprietor Malcolm Glover insisted the...

it was some enterprising ancient Briton who spotted a business opportunity when the Romans came and quoted them on keeping...