• P&O Ferrymasters faces a four-week trial on more than 100 charges of - c , chograph . Eleven of the firm's 170 drivers face...

by Miles Brignall IN The Vehicle Inspectorate has dropped court cases against operators running overweight vehicles because of...

• Carlisle-based Eddie Stobart has lost a lucrative contract hauling plasterboard products around the country for British...

by Derren Hayes • A sub-contractor who lost nearly £50,000 following the collapse of John Dee has been threatened with legal...

former British Monarch once described himself as suffering from "oral pedolo gy"—when he opened his mouth he put his foot in...

IN A Labour government will do all it can to stop the live export of animals for slaughter— including acting to "persuade"...

by Martial Tardy • The French government's extended Sunday driving ban for hauliers will come into force on 2 April....

• Less than a month after Mercedes-Benz revealed its plans set up a used truck retail centre in the Midlands 1C/v1 19 Dec...

• Fears that six-month vehicle excise duty discs will be scrapped have been dismissed by the DOT. A Government document which...

• Driver Mickey Chinnick was this week tasting freedom for the first time in four years following his early release from a...

• A Scottish international freight forwarding firm with 20 county court judgements against it is to face legal action from a...

• The British Embassy in Athens is advising hauliers to avoid Greece over the next few weeks because farmers are threatening to...

by John Bell • A sleepy lorry driver who killed two car passengers walked away from court last week after the judge accepted...

the campaign to free British lorry driver Steve Bryant from his Moroccan jail. The Geneva-based International Commission of...

according to new figures produced by the International Road transport Union. Delays for hauliers at several Polish borders...

by Karen Miles • Freezing conditions on the UK's roads are already leaving some county councils close to exhausting their...

• A Stoke-on-Trent driver is urging CM readers to lobby the Radio Authority in support of his 24-hour traffic-news radio...

• Transport Development Group has bought French dry bulk goods haulier Blazy and is to merge it with TDG Innocenti. Blazy,...

by Karen Miles • .A massive increase in prices charged by the police for fatal accident reports is jeopardising research into...

* Toils are now being collected on a second motorway in Hungary. Trucks using the M5 between Budapest and Kecskemet now have to...

• The way the Department of Transport forecasts road freight levels is flawed and gives a misleading picture of what road...

• Transfrigoroute's second Cool Guide bulletin on temperature controlled distribution practices and procedures will be...

by Bryan Jarvis • David Brown has invested over £2m in a 1.5-acre design and development centre for Multidrive vehicles at...

• Topmark Vehicle Hire of Wednesbury has produced an extra-quiet, low-odour vacuum tanker for operator EcoClear. The Low...

• The University of Westminster's Transport Studies Group has helped to set up a Europe-wide User Group on Freight & Fleet...

While many 4x4s have become fashion accessories and rarely see mud, the TurboDaily is a serious player off road and there are...

by Bryan Jarvis • The Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA) is about to begin evaluating a new I-ILMC high mobility 6x6...

• East London vehicle recovery operator Leytonstone Motors has taken the first Whitacrebuilt crew-cabbed Isuzu NPR for its...

• London removers Bishop's Move has converted a G-reg Mercedes 1726 demount drawbar chassis into a modern pantechnicon for a...

• Worcester-based Atchison Topeka has deployed its first powder tanker on a dedicated delivery contract with Birdseye Walls....

Last year Western Star took over ERE Western who? UK operators may not know the Canadian company, nor the man who runs it— but...

came in the early '80s in his native Australia when he was running a large construction materials company. When the US truck...

• The latest winch from Warn to be added to the Ryders range raises the maximum pulling power available from 5,443 to 9,072kg....

II Just published is the 1997 edition of the Mahle Filter master catalogue, backing up the German manufacturer's recent launch...

• ZF Great Britain has just announced the introduction of a single pricing policy for service exchange Ecomat automatic...

• Ford has introduced the award-wining Barrier Deadlock security system into its aftermarket security range for the Transit....

cards giving engine descriptions based on German engine or vehicle designations. For example, a MAN engine designated D2566UM...

• Spreaders in Scotland from Econ Engineering have become the first in the UK to be fitted as standard with a weighing system...

Commercial vehicle registrations may have dropped by only 4% in 1996, but that figure hides a market that's been up and down...

• Vehicles oper ated by a Sheffield parcels (wrier and maintained by an authorised ministry testing station were found to have...

• A Cocker mouth tipper operator had a £625 overloading fine quashed after Carlisle Crown Court accepted that he was not to...

• An appeal by Joseph Taylor of Scunthorpe against his conviction on a variety of offences was adjourned after Bolton Crown...

• Scottish TC Michael Betts has decided not to take any action against the licence held by M&SJ Bell, of Galashiels, other than...

• Edinburgh owner-driver Craig Bruce escaped with a formal warning about his future maintenance standards when he appeared at a...

• David Scattergood's licence was revoked when he failed to appear before North Western DTC John Levin. Lancashire Police had...

• A Cumbrian hay and straw merchant lost his licence when he failed to appear at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry. George...

• Bayley Smith, stepdaughter of Wisbech haulier Michael Smith who was jailed in September for his part in a conspiracy to...

• The Road Haulage Association is holding a number of health and safety seminars in the New Year. Dates and venues are: 16...

• Waterfront Conferences has organised a one-day conference to discuss the impact of increased lorry weight capacity in the UK....

• PIRA has organised a two-day training course on packaging specifications to be held at its Leatherhead, Surrey offices on...

• Phillip Jordan has joined tachograph products and related services supplier Tachodisc as sales director and managing director...

• On-board weighing systems with full Weights & Measures approval are now available from axle weighing firm Axtec. The approval...

Uond memories of BRS? Far from r sending dedicated BRS spotters weak at the knees with nostalgia, your piece in Bird's Eye View...

I s every local council fitting these dangerous roadside cameras to catch speeding motorists? As I drive around the country I...

I f the French Government takes any longer than four months to pay compensation arising from the strike before Christmas there...

H "[laving read your article in Industry News, it now appears the French blanket Sunday driving ban is likely to come in....

if, buried away in an old shed, you found a rusting, 50 year-old, ex-brewery lorry that looked as though a breath of fresh air...

Price as tested: El 8,396 (ex-VAT). Includes 21,048 for dropside body, 2398 for tachograph. Engine: 2.5 litres, 100hp (75kW)....

With the 7.5-tonne market now dominated by four-cylinder Euro-2 lightweights can MAN's latest contender clean up? F...

* KEN DOLLMAN, Kr) op . HAULAGE, OWNER-DRNER Owner-driver KEN DOLLMAN was setting out for his first job after the Christmas...

I t was a chilling end of year tale for some of the UK's recovery operators and a holiday season of mixed motoring fortunes in...

Surviving in business is impossible without a good accountant but beware of paying more than you should. Savings can be made by...

1 1 000LS Hauling factory machinery is a niche not overcrowded with competitors but, as Gloucestershire operator Charles...

D espite continuing concern over the quality of friction materials in the UK aftermarket, and the existence of a European...