Following police raids on Willi Betz's headquarters last month, director Thomas Betz has been released on almost - 5m (13.4m)...

in central England to provide independent vehicle maintenance services for commercial fleet operators.

INDS Transport has reported UK profits of £3m in 2002, an increase of 9.3% over the previous year, despite turnover remaining...

Heylake Commercials (CM10-16 April) wishes make it clear that it has been granted an Increase to its 0-licence, and proprietor...

Apologies to Chf readers in Scotland whose copies arrived late last week; the delivery truck got stuck behind a major accident...

1111 has won a DfT contract to build and run the first UK truck driver training simulator, to be based at Its Barks HQ. It...

last year, up 6.8% to 47.5 million tonnes— the largest increase of all ports from Bordeaux to Amsterdam.

• by Dominic Perry International hauliers claim that the installation of scanners at Calais port has reduced the number of...

• The Treasury has announced there will be a clarification of the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) banding system, amid fears that the...

II A director of a multi-million pound storage and distribution firm has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment after...

• Thirty-five drivers from Hexham-based haulage firm William Martin Oliver 86 Partners, who were convicted of falsifying...

Freight Transport Association chief executive Richard Turner has slammed London's congestion charge fleet scheme, insisting it...

NI by Emma Penny The EU is set to insist that its 5 August 2004 deadline for fitting smart-card digital tachographs is met,...

I. Hauliers are to be consulted by the Vehicle Standards Agency in June over EU proposals to make HOY drivers sit written, oral...

15th in Profit Track 100 Snowie Holdings, which earned Vain of government money for its work during the foot and mouth crisis,...

European Commission has reacted positively to a call to combine smart-card tacho technology with lorry road user charging kit...

• The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has called on the Greek authorities to tighten security at ports to deter...

• Operators' opinions are being sought by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over the controversial trailer registration...

It's unfortunate that the response from Home Office Minister Lord Filkin to Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes' question: "Why...

" by Dominic Perry A South Wales operator whose truck was Involved in a fatal motorway smash has had its licence cut and...

• Only one in four people questioned at last month's Commercial Vehicle Show believe manufacturers are doing enough to tackle...

• Police are appealing for witnesses after a truck driver was hijacked and his 135,000 cargo was stolen. The driver was...

TA by Chris Tindall Hauliers have offered a cautious welcome to Chancellor Gordon Brown's seventh Budget speech, but feel that...

spell bankruptcy • by Kicky Taylor Small to medium-sized hauliers face bankruptcy this year as insurance premiums soar even...

ki West Midlands Police have stopped over 2,500 drivers—and prosecuted 1,109 of them—since February, after videoing them using...

• A Bedfordshire HGV training school has slammed the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) over an examiner shortage at the Leighton...

t Commercial Motor is sad to report the recent death of John Nancoills at the young age of 52, after a long, pragmatic and...

• An alarm system that sounds a warning if a would-be intruder releases an anaesthetic spray into a vehicle could prevent truck...

Bibby Distribution is to open a new site at Kingswinford as part of its expansion programme. The 3,900m 2 property will provide...

Ninety-member strong pallet network Palletways has joined forces with DFDS Transport to offer a Scandinavian service to its...

Reefer operator Baker Group has added 1,500 pallet spaces for frozen food and up to 2,000 for chilled products to its 2,800m 2...

Interoirte Transport Service has secured a deal with OMYA to take over the UK bulk distribution of Its chalk and...

Fortoc Pallet Distribution Network has completed the £50,000 reconfiguration of its Rugby hub, taking capacity to 4,650m 2 ....

David Hathaway Transport has become the latest operator to join the Pa!lettere° distribution network. The Bristol-based company...

Exel has been selected as Lead Logistics Provider (LLP) for services company Bluocurrent. Exel will provide distribution and...

• by Guy Sheppard The UK's first low emission zone (LEZ) for vehicles could be introduced in London within three years,...

• Exel has been named as the biggest contract logistics firm in Europe for the second year running, according to a new report....

• Police are hunting thieves who stole more than 238,000 worth of Honda vehicle parts from Bibby Distribution's Northampton...

Will jail become a standard threat for hauliers who allow drivers to work illegally and are then involved in a fatal accident?...

by Colin Barnett Hybrid diesel-electric trucks could be commercially viable within three to five years, according to US...

IIII The lure of the '03 plate saw the UK's commercial vehicle registrations increase following February's worrying reversal...

Balfour Beatty Fleet Services has taken delivery of six MAN 4x4 M2000 Evolution an/off-road chassis. The 18.225LARKs will be...

LDV continues to strike major deals for the Convoy 3.5-tonne panel van. The latest is a £185,000 deal for 10 vehicles to Robert...

Beamish Transport has added a new Oaf XF95 430hp 12.6litre 4x2 tractor to its fleet complete with AS-Tronic 12speed auto...

The Daf automated transmission seems to be catching on, with Scottish haulier AAR Craib Transport the latest to add a Da XF95...

!veto has delivered two EuroTech curtainsiders to Fraikin Truck Hire. to be used for its rental fleet. Both vehicles are plated...

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council has taken delivery of two Seddon Atkinson refuse collection trucks. Both vehicles are...

With the departure of Foden manufacturing to Leyland. and ERF to Munich, you could be forgiven for thinking that the truck...

Against all odds, the US trucking industry is betting on a return to better times as new products and services are showcased in...

• by Steve Banner Safety experts have welcomed new sentencing guidelines that mean that drivers who cause death by falling...

• Company van drivers are among the four groups of motorists most at risk on UK roads, along with the young, the elderly, and...

• New rules aimed at reducing the number of workplace deaths and injuries caused by falls from heights should prompt hauliers...

• Alcolocks--alcohol ignition interlocks— may be about to undergo official trials in the UK, according to RoSPA. They're...

• Workwear specialist Dickies has launched a new catalogue that for the first time includes a coverall with reflective stripes...

• Brigade Electronics is busy promoting a reversing alarm called bbs-tek. When reversing, it fires off a burst of noise on a...

A part-time bus driver nominated as transport manager on eight different licences has lost his repute after it was found that...

Aberystwyth-based AJ (Civil Engineering) being cut to four vehicles. The company appeared before the Welsh DTC Roger Seymour.

Lianwit Major, was revoked after Welsh TC David Dixon refused to accept Its surrender. The firm had been called before the TC...

Blyth-based operator Hunter Haulage has had Its licence cut from seven vehicles and four trailers to five vehicles and four...

he had nojurisiiictIon to consider an application by William Lantie, of Motherwell, for a certificate of qualification to...

Horsham-based Andrew Mason has successfully appealed against the suspension of his 13-vehicle licence for a week by the South...

an operator who takes appropriate action without being prompted, and an operator who only recognises the need to take action...

Disqualified director Richard Bryan has lost his appeal against the revocation of his Operator's Licence and his...

Perthshire timDer haulier has nad its Operator's Licence cut from six vehicles to two for a fortnight following drivers' hours...

If a TC finds revocation appropriate then he needs no further evidence to disqualify a director. Disqualification can be...

Professor Alan McKinnon is partially right that congestion is not as costly as some 'experts' suggest (Sound Off, CM 3-9...

I write with reference to the points raised about the CV Show by Albert Hendrikse of Volvo Truck & Bus and Ian Jones of...

I have just read your article Parking: 2003 space odyssey (CM10-16 April) in which you state: "June will see the launch of the...

I would like to congratulate CM on the superb edition which included a Show Guide and the regional spotlight on Northumberland...

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: 24 April 1928...

of its inadvertent inclusion in the latest stunt from former dance music pioneer Bill Drummond (you may remember him as the guy...

'Win a Grafter' competition at the recent CV Show in Birmingham. The keys to the Isuzu Grafter truck were handed over to the...

This week, we have government transport minister David Jamieson cutting the 'wedding cake' after officiating at the marriage of...

heralded a new streamlined look, the single-driver cab and more power. CM talks to operators who rely on it daily, asking: is...

the basic R cab does not put them off altogether." Chris Wright Chris Wright is MD of Commercial Vehicle Auctions at...

Damien Grove Ray C Smith Haulage started life as a coal merchant 33 years ago at Ketton near Stamford, and it moved to Corby...

m Build date: 01.01.99 to 31.12.01: Defect: Faulty interlocking valve could apply park brake. ii Build date: 01.01.00 to 31.12...

Ward We visited PMP logistics at Fareham and spoke to director John Ward, who runs a fleet of 22 artics—mainly Scanias, apart...

Not everyone would describe the 4-Series as pretty, but there are those who think it a handsome vehicle, Perhaps the 124 420...

Barry Travis Barry Travis is the editor of the heavy commercial edition of the CAP Red Book. He comments on the Scania 124:...

fleet engineers. For many hauliers, vehicle maintenance is a necessary evil to stay on the right side of the law. For the man...

T o seasoned truck watchers regularly cruising the UK motorways, this company will need no introduction. Gregory Distribution...

bounced back and now he runs one of the few truly specialist heavy haulage operations in Britain. Tim Maughan visits his...

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2003, CIF 1 April 2003. These amendment regulations alter...

II Registration plate national identifiers: The DVLA proposes to amend the regulations to permit the voluntary display of the...

and Wincanton, have this month switched from final-salary to money-purchase plans—where the employer pays in less, with no risk...

Final-salary scheme (aka defined-benefits ■ cer-9/1.1 Many of these schemes are being wound up or at least closed to new...

• If you want to sound off about a road transport Issue write to features editor Patric Cunnane or fax your views (up to 600...