road freight statistics is being planned by the DOT. Chief statistician Hilary Hillier has admitted that more needs to be known...

MAN/ERF group, has spoken out about the need for government to provide funds "to get the old trucks off the road''.

The Road Haulage Association is about to launch an - OwnerDriver Programme", offering legal help and guidance to selfemployed...

running seminars at the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham in suite 32 . In 30 April from 10:00hrs to 15::.00hrs about their...

A passenger train +f as d era il e d after smashing in% a van on a railway crossing WI Suffolk on Monday morning. injuring...

m by Sally Nash Drivers who break speed limiter and hours rules are set to face stiffer penalties under new rules being drawn...

• A 1.5m scheme to help hauliers improve their fuel efficiency has been launched as part of the government's plans to modernise...

• by Sally Nash Months of tachograph records belonging to agency drivers will come under intense scrutiny once the Working...

Commercial Motor has long given up defending the indefensible. So whenever programmes like Radio 5 Live or tabloid newspapers...

I Transport firms Gilbraith Transtore in Blackburn, Ellis J Fellows Transport and Trading in West Bromwich and Rushden-based...

Gay Sheppard UK-based international hauliers are being offered a security service designed to ensure that foreign police...

• A truck driver was facing disciplinary action this week after his skip carrier ran down a hill for more than a third of a...

• by Pete Swingler The chilled distribution arm of Express Dairies has been found guilty of 29 offences of permitting drivers...

• Dozens of asylum seekers are on the run after they smuggled themselves into the UK on a freight train through the Channel...

A new pallet pool service is designed to give distributors an alternative to the dominant-supplier situation in existence for...

• Two men have been charged in connection with the death of delivery driver Jason Weaver who died after he was run down with...

error after 38 years • by Dominic Perry An HGV driver with a spotless 38-year record has been banned from driving for a year...

The largest seizure ever of smuggled cigarettes at Poole Ferryport in Dorset took place last week, when Customs swooped on a...

• Using a new toil road in Cork would be seven times more expensive than crossing the Severn Bridge, according to hauliers....

tive units, the first a 'lightweight" model designed for bulk haulage and muckaway work. It features hypoid drive axles and...

• by Colin Barnett The UK's first new model Volvo FH12 has entered service with Holyhead-based Gwynedd Shipping Group. The FH12...

Interest in a recent workshop pedestrian-controlled vehi(PCVs) was so keen that • i recycling company behind it planning a...

• by Toby Clark Elddis is aiming to maximise vehicle utilisation with a tractor and two trailers which will cover 400.000km a...

• Major Japanese truck manufacturer Nissan Diesel is considering sourcing some of its components from South Africa to benefit...

IN by Steve Banner Prices of three-year-old used tractors are at last starting to stabilise after a 20-25% plunge in value...

E ' Five drivers from Irish firms have been hit with fines totalling almost £2,000 after they admitted a stnng of speed...

Former haulier Richard Grossman was charged on Wednesday 11 April with eight offences of obtaining pecuniary advantage by...

A series of drivers' hours offences cost Bedford lorry driver Anthony Oatt £300 in fines and costs when he appeared before the...

North Western 1 Traffic Commis . 1 sioner Beverley Bell says she aims to clean up her traffic area. Her comments came when...

bucks and not necessarily lengthy jail sen tences or untimely death, is John Kennerley. owner of 16,000 Dinky toy vehicles....

E veryone who wants to run large goods vehicles for hire and reward must have to have an Operator's Licence. This licence is...

I f a company's professional competency and good repute is felt to be in doubt because of issues such as maintenance or hours...

O perators are not the only transport professionals to be regulated by the TCs—drivers also have to satisfy the TCs that they...

Disciplinary procedure Before taking disciplinary action against a haulier the TC will listen to recommendations from the...

T he guidelines recommend "a series of graduated sanctions", starting with a warning letter (and a satisfactory response from...

Following maintenance problems the TC will consider the operator's ability to cope with the size of his fleet and could order a...

be hired out either because no one can put them on their licences. This is a significant financial penalty. Warning letters...

and its seriousness—which equates to the size of the penalty as well as the nature of the offence, Failure to notify...

as well as two and threeaxled tractive units, was announced in the spring of 1998 giving a choice of Cummins and Caterpillar...

truck."Peter McLaren tgines with the Jake brake. is very useful in this area. 1th the Caterpillar it comes standard but adds...

Malcolm Gleeson The average family generates about 22kg of waste each week which means that GMW (Greater Manchester Waste) has...

Foden's 6x,4. is a wellbuilt, light, robust unit that delivers a high payload and low fuel consumption, and it doesn't...

field need look no further than the world's most successful logistics provider, Exel. Born out of a merger of the logistics...

a surpri to hear that the bon schemes that rewa truck drivers for d ving frugally seem be falling out of favour. "Of the 23 op€...

analyse." Alan Parker, TNT UK. "If you are a major, multi-site company, then make sure you get the local managers on board,"...

Henk Buzink, the Dutch-born boss of Fransen Transport, was reminded of that recently when he was walking through the...

ike coal, steel was once a powerful force in British industry. But since the end of the 196os and the dying days of the old...