• P&O Ferrymasters is checking its trailers before and after sea crossings and has installed rolling-road brake testers after...

by Matthew Davis • A driver for one of Russell Davies' subcontractors who accused the container giant of "stitching him up"...

• Small haulage firms are almost as efficient as big operators but both are suffering from lack of cash to invest, according to...

by Juliet Morrison • Furious tipper owners are threatening legal action to force local councillors to waive a ban on parking...

• The Department of Transport has unveiled proposals which would allow some trucks to be built taller and wider. In a...

eople are still struggling with the past recession and are having to keep their margins low to keep the business." The latest...

by Karen Miles • NFC's income will receive a welcome boost of up to £3m next year as Exel Logistics takes Ford car parts...

• Barnstaple-based general haulage and bulk tipping company Evans Transport has become one of Devon's largest operators with...

• An Irish truck driver who flouted weight restrictions on the day after he was caught overloading was fined more than £3,500...

by Ian Wylie • Drivers, plant operators and distribution workers at Calor Gas have voted by a narrow majority to take strike...

• The firm whose runaway lorry killed six people at Sowerby Bridge last year has lodged an official complaint against the...

• A disillusioned haulier has sold his business after a Scottish ferry operator ended a longestablished fare concession for...

• The Highways Agency has warned truck drivers to slow clown on motorway contraflows if conditions are difficult. A Highways...

• Middlesbrough-based haulier Global Transport is pulling out of the haulage business and switching to skip hire after losing...

by Patric Cunnane • Truck dri vers have given the thumbs-up to CM's campaign calling for the compulsory registration of LGV...

• Tipper driver David Owen has given up driving after he and a colleague narrowly escaped death when his Volvo FL12 hit two...

• Lorries of more than 7.5 tonnes could be banned from Sleaford in Lincolnshire because of the numbers of LGVs using the town's...

• Avon and Somerset police are warning hauliers they will be "doubly diligent" at roadside checks after finding defects in more...

by Miles Brignall • Police suspect a disgruntled haulier of hacking down signs banning heavy trucks. The notices, imposing a...

• More than two-thirds of Elf Oil's 23 drivers have opted to join Wincanton following its takeover of Elf's remaining inhouse...

• Police investigating a fatal hit and run accident at Goosnargh, Lancs are trying to trace a commercial vehicle which lost a...

• Merseyside-based Nightfreight has bought Bidston Carriers of Ellesmere Port for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the...

by Brian Weatherley • Volvo Truck Corporation's new president Karl-Erling Trogen cultivates a self-effacing image but don't be...

by John Kendall • The revised Ford Transit had its first public showing at the Hanover Show; CM has driven it. The most...

• VW has made a number of minor changes to the Transporter van after four years in production. Central dashboard air-vents,...

• Injection Timing Control (ITC) is one of several changes to Renault's truck range announced at the Hanover Show. The...

• Weymouth-based truck driver Leonard Piggott was fined £175 by York magistrates with .£35 costs for taking insufficient daily...

• The licence held by Cardiff Bay Industrial Services was revoked when the company failed to attend a Cardiff disciplinary...

• Doubts over maintenance led North Western LA Martin Albu to grant Brands Scaffolding (Blackpool) a licence for five vehicles...

• Holborn Waste of Aston has been granted three more trailers to its 15-vehicle licence, but West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh...

• Penrith magistrates fined Glasgow-based John Smith Transport Contractors and its driver George Murdoch £805, with £80 costs,...

• A licence bid by Cardiff-based Patrick Kershaw was adjourned after Kershaw denied that he was a "front" for an operator who...

• Darlington based haulier W&M, and truck driver Ernest Byrne, were cleared of an overloading offence following defence...

1 • Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Rhonddabased Fernvale Transport being cut from 28 vehicles to 18 with...

• David and Carol Errington, trading as Direct Courier Express, unfairly dismissed driver Michael Murphy for failing to attend...

the summer, I took the opportunity to put my back issues of C,ammerrial Motor into order. While dunking a Rich Tea in my Typhoo...

as an easy entree to the world of commercial vehicles: easy to buy, easy to drive, easy to maintain. Start with one of these,...

A s we reported recently, Ford has given the Transit an extensive facelift (CM 25-31 August). The new twin-cam petrol engine...

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UK • EC Driver's Hours Exemptions—a European Commission decision has authorised the UK to grant a limited exemption from the...

adverts disguise the humblest of origins. The Hovis ad would be a more appropriate setting to show the.beginnings of Hanson—...

pension provision for drivers in small haulage firms. It plans to put together a package of pension proposals which can be used...

KC 's I t was the kind of day when the I t was the kind of day when the temperature outside seemed hot enough to fry an egg on...