Brampton-based haulier Stalkers Transport has been fined £2,000 with up to £10,000 costs by Northampton Crown Court for failing...

by Miles Brignall • Hauliers submitting vehicles for annual tests at designated operators' sites look set to be hit hard by...

• It's all a bit of a mystery to Sir George Young, Britain's bicycle-riding, Friends of the Earth-supporting Transport...

by Mike Jewell • Eleven Allen Munro Transport drivers have appeared in court over a series of alleged drivers' hours and...

• Hauliers across the country say the beef crisis may be lowering rates in other sectors as meat hauliers chase new work rather...

T he good Lord giveth...and the good Lord tt away. The Vehicle Inspectorate's prop, charges for annual testing should be gen(...

by Karen Miles • Who says hauliers can't make money? The Sunday Times annual list of Britain's richest people puts 13 lorry...

• A Tamworth bulk haulier and container operator is closing its transport operation with the loss of 28 driving jobs. When CTS...

• A Yorkshire tipper firm that lost its licence following a series of vehicle safety defects is to drop its application for a...

by Derren Hayes • Commercial vehicle insurance is set to rise by up to 10% this year because too many insurance underwriters...

• Rush-hour journey times on the most congested stretch of the M25 could be cut by 15% if the Highways Agency wins its fight to...

• A wrangle between the United Road Transport Union and the Scottish Trades Union Congress spilt over to the congress's annual...

• Driving instructors are to be told to avoid touching their students in a code of practice due out soon from the Driving...

• Warehouse specialist P;nnocle Storage, part of Transport Development Group, has secured a three year, contract extension with...

by Karen Miles • The London lorry ban could be strengthened to regulate hauliers operating throughout the capital following...

• Two north London drivers serving seven-and-a-half years in a Bulgarian jail for drug smuggling have lost their appeal. In a...

• People expect to work at home in such numbers that Britain's truck drivers will face only half today's congestion levels by...

by Derren Hayes • The National Owner Drivers Association has closed down after more than 30 years. blaming a fall in membership...

by John Kendall • Foden plans to launch a double-hunk sleeper cab at TipCon in Harrogate on 2 May. It is based on the new 4000...

• Ratcliff Tail Lifts has opened a national parts centre at Garforth, Leeds to back up its 50-plus UK service outlets and...

• Volkswagen chose last week's Leipzig Show—the biggest show in the former East Germany—to launch its new LT van and a...

• United Transpon has modified specialist acid tanks in its bulk chemical distribution fleet to comply with the Environmental...

Ford has finally joined lsuzu, Daihatsu, Suzuki and Land Rover by offering a commercial variant of an off-road passenger...

by Bryan Jarvis • ZF has developed a rearaxle-steer (RAS) system based around its Servocom power steering that is said to...

• Arnhem-based IC Systems has developed a bolt-on declutching system for commercial vehicles that takes over from the driver's...

• Continental has introduced its new livery on a fleet of Leyland Daf 65 Series 17-tonnersthe bright yellow paintworIc will...

• Kidderminster steel haulier John Phillips has opted for one of Don-Bur's latest canopied trailers to run with his stylish new...

• Robert Bennett, trading as RA Bennett Haulage, of Ferryhill Station. Co Durham succeeded in his bid for a new international...

• The hearing of charges alleging that Selby livestock haulier Alec Blades Storey permitted three of his drivers to drive...

• Rochdale Magistrates have fined Primestock (Manchester) £300 for a gross weight overload, and the driver of the vehicle,...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has halved the authorisation on the licence held by IVIackay's Bulk Haulage, of lnvergordon, from...

• Mail Renal ice problems and convictions have led to the two - 6i_ vehicle licence held by Bolton-based Wilsons Skips, being...

• An owner-driver who has had two previous 0licences revoked has been awarded a new licence by North Eastern Traffic...

• Two daughters of a man involved in a company that had its Operator's Licence revoked have told a Cardiff public inquiry that...

by Derren Hayes A tipper operator convicted 11 times for non-payment of vehicle excise duty told a Cambridge public inquiry it...

• A Lancashire haulier accused of using a vehicle with defective brakes after it crashed into the back of a stationary car...

Don't know who to turn to? Commercial Motor can help! CM's 16-page 44 Legal Directory, priced £10 inc p&p, is a valuable...

• Aquaduct believes its latest Micro Atom is the roost portable refrigerant recovery unit yet, weighing just 8kg and designed...

• Roadlink International has been appointed as the exclusive UK distributor for Zen brake drums and discs. Zen is an Italian...

• Conlog UK has launched the UK's first range of alarm immobilisers with an integrated manual override facility in the...

• Kalmar has launched its new range of diesel sideloaders offering enhanced operational and service benefits for handling long...

• Bosch has developed the Portable Multiscope, a batterypowered multirneter and twochannel oscilloscope that allows technicians...

• The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published a third, updated edition of the approved supply list for the Chemicals...

• A number of publications charting market patterns in the worldwide motor industry have been produced by the Society of Motor...

• Manchester-based Hyva UK has launched a spacesaving cargo loading system which can be fitted to LGVs or cargo loading bays....

T he defeat of the proposed bill to ban bull-bars (House of Commons, 29 March) is a victory of common sense over...

Twrote to you a few weeks lag() about bad lorry driving (CM 29 Feb-6 Matt Shortly afterwards a lorry driver contacted me and...

given a great deal of thought to redesigning its famous bulldog logo, described by its PR wallahs as an "important change". The...

eing on the road for long stretches means that drivers have to squeeze in to short home breaks the routine things that ordinary...

C toying with the land of the free for a moment, Texan truck driver John Robles has taken revenge on his neighbour's three...

Vehicle Width—The Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Amendment Regulations 1995 and the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of...

UK • Driver licensing: new measures including staged testing, a limit on car licence holders of 3.5 tonnes gross, theory part...

draw parallels with Douglas Adams' fictional five-part trilogy, The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. On a visit to the...

ears of a troubled industry. Driving on a TNT subcontract for parcel carrier PCS. Vardy has already eaten beef three times this...

Chewing the fat with drivers K aren English, driving for West Country operator Gregory Distribution of North Tawton has no...

Jutland is avoiding British beef even though he thinks the BSE scare is exaggerated. So what does he plan for lunch? "I have...

of Newton Grange, has complete confidence in the Scottish product but he is still happy to eat English beef south of the border...

carries beef, When we meet he is returning with a backload of food from the Continent: "I've been away for two weeks so I've...

and was on his way home to Chichester when we met. His supper last night was spaghetti bolognese, featuring minced beef. "I...

has a family interest: his stepfather is a farmer. He points out that BSE isn't confined to the British herd. "The French have...

have decided to err on the side of caution, Logan is eating less beef than before to minimise the risk: "You can eat beef all...

reckons Bob , Couchman, polishing the bodywork of his immaculate Leyland Daf Roadtrain, in the traditional green and yellow...

tipper owner, plant hirer or specialist CV )perator then make sure you put May 14, 15 & 16 in (our diary. Only SED gives you...

BEATE R S ' T he UK commercial vehicle market has seen better days. Despite heavy discounting and a squeeze on margins, sales...

fly similarities between the Fiat Ducato and the Citroen t Relay are intentional. Both products of Sevel, the Italianbased...

to the Relay, shares many of its features, both good and bad. The model used in this test is the (3.2m) mediumwheelbase variant...

few vehicles to have passed, if not into the nation's consciousness, certainly into its language. "Transit" is now a generic...

in the Sprinter range. Other variants are offered with wheelboses from 3.0m to 4.03m, five gross weights from 2.6 to 4.6...

in the past year, but with nigh-on 40% it still has a vice-like grip on the market. This loss has almost certainly been due to...

Our heavy recovery vehicle was towing a broken-down cartransporter truck and drawbar trailer when it was stopped by police....

In a street which runs alongside our yard we had a Transit van parked and someone crashed into it at night. Police were...

S ome years ago I was asked to help a company, described by the owner as a ",C12 million company" which was under pressure from...

T o want your trucks to have as clean, tidy and highprofile image as Eddie Stobart's fleet is a reasonable aspiration for a...

larger predator. Last September, Roadsea Express enjoyed the satisfaction of turning such an offer down. Roadsea had been...

4 1 t may not be the impression you get From the media but there are far fewer lorries on the roads and motorways of Britain...