• Peugeot has renewed a contract with Delive . to deliver cars from Ryton to Sheerness. The number of cars was "substantially...

by Karen Miles • The City has joined small subcontractors in giving its voice to attacking Europe's second largest transport...

4% in the first six months to 30 June compared to the same period last year In the transport division, operating profit...

• An group of about 30 prot es ters marched through the centre of Dublin on Monday 15 August demonstrating against the French...

by Amanda Bradbury • An external warning signal, visible to other road users, if a driver has driven over any legal period of...

• Eurotunnel is refusing to lower its freight prices despite the gravest indica• tions so far that the haulage industry is...

y ou've got to hand to Brussels. It certainly knows how to write a snappy title for a planned legislative document. For...

by Patrick Hook • Prices of spare parts for LGVs could rise under proposals being considered by the European Commission, say...

Hauliers keeping Britain moving • Hauliers are being offered one of the largest-ever slices of rail traffic this week as...

• Brittany Ferries has added its name to the lengthening list of protesters intent on stopping international haulage of...

• The head of South Wales traffic police says he has been forced to reduce the number of WV checks in the region so far this...

• Calls for tougher penalties on operators not maintaining vehicles have come after no prosecutions resulted from a check which...

£10,000-worth of diesel fuel from his employer, Quantock Transport, when he appeared at Knutsford Crown Court in August, is now...

• Small business insolvencies fell by a fifth in the first quarter of 1994 compared to the same period the previous year....

• Police launched a sharp crackdown last week, specifically targeting foreign-registered LGVs In separate operations police...

could pay more for the same vehicles on contract hire in the future if they wait to make a long-term commitment. Fraikin...

The force is having to look for a sponsor to help it develop a Statements and alleged offences can be method of cornprinted out...

• At its second court appearance in less than a month, Staffs-based 43-vehicle haulier K Transport Services (Midlands) was...

by Karen Miles III The parent company of Central Trailer Rentco is predicting trailer rental customers will soon have to pay...

• The new road fax certificates which will apply to vehicles of 12.5 tonnes and above travelling through Germany, Luxembourg,...

• Nightfreight will be looking for new drivers as it expands its operations. And it has announced trebled pre-tax profits from...

Nightfreight reports that turnover has more than doubled from £9.31m to £21.8m during the half year to end May. About £11.9m of...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Government appears to be pressing ahead with its plans to introduce private sector finance into roads...

• Pressure for a speedy announcement on a second Forth road bridge is mounting as the Chambers of Commerce in Edinburgh, Fife,...

Among its features is a safety lock system incorporating a failsafe deadlock mechanism on the electro-pneumatic moving floor....

• Car transporter Walon is set to become the first haulier to operate from a 1,200 acre US air force base in Oxfordshire....

• Worley-based Black Country Commercials is looking For a buyer For its commercial vehicle repair business which ceased trading...

by John Kendall • Front disc brakes, a new 12.8litre engine and Eaton 16-speed synchromesh gearbox are features of the MAN...

With the launch of the L2000 4x4 model at Hanover, MAN has completed its L2000 range. Eight and 10tonne GVW models will be...

• A 60% gross overload on a 7.5-tonner has cost the driver Stephen Clancy, a partner in Northampton-based Clancy Light Haulage,...

• Opposition from local residents, a haulier and Delyn Borough Council has resulted in Andrew and Elizabeth Hughes, trading as...

• Disciplinary proceedings involving Cardiff brothers Robert and Anthony Powell have been adjourned, pending enquiries into the...

• Convictions have been set aside on all but three of the original allegations against the truck driver and his former employer...

Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by Ivor Gaffin, trading as ITD Deliveries, of Glasgow,...

• A tipper driver, who admitted that he stopped his tachograph functioning during quarry work, has been fined £240 for...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Licensing Authorities' report for the year 1993, published last week, yields the most complete...

Despite worries about drink driving, the LAs' report appears to show that LGV drivers are becoming more professional. Drivers...

The harder line being taken last year by LAs against operators becomes clear when looking at the 1,435 fewer applications...

said to be the greatest problem for LAs—ther was a doubling in the number of disciplina ry cases arising out of maintenance...

vehicles over 3.5 tonnes in issue last year dropped by nearly 6,000 or 2% on 1992. And although London and South-east suffered...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

a hose of you interested in the history of the Bedford truck as a military vehicle can do little better than curl up with your...

3 M's Women in Transport survey (4 - 10 August), which revealed how Few women are employed in the transport industry, has...

3 oncerned that youngsters do not share its enthusiasm for the national sport, the Welsh Rugby Union is breathing fire into...

• Ryder has opened a contract hire and rental outlet at Saville Road, Peterborough. The 2,880m 2 premises also has a workshop....

• The fourth South of England Scammell Road Run will be based at the Whitbread Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent on 1516 October....

• The Joint Industry Council for lift-truck operating standards has published the NVQ/SVQ standards for lift truck operations....

• Crossing times between Newhaven and Dieppe should be reduced by up to 25 minutes now that a new port has opened outside of...

• Parcelforce has extended the closing date for its Small Business Awards until the end of August. VAT registered companies...

• Harvey Plant has launched an aisle changer for the Komatsu automatic storage system. It says the cost of a three-aisle system...

• The M62 between J24 and J25, major reconstruction is expected to last until October. The eastbound entry slip at J24 is...

rrhe new "experimental" 1 crash barriers in the central reservation of the M4 west of Membury have to be seen to be believed. I...

T hank you for your news story about drivers' worries about the possibility of a serious accident on M25 roadworks ("Drivers...

Thave just been fined for ltachograph offences: my trade association said the particular tacho card used to prosecute me showed...

an F10 was the first to break the 8mpg barrier around CM's Scottish test route at 32 tonnes. Now an FH12 has done it at 38...

drivers with long experience in HGV driving to give their impressions of the Volvo FH12.420. They found it had plenty of power,...

Price as tested: £11,120 (ex-VAT) Engine: 2.5-litre diesel, 75hp (55kW). GVW: 2,750kg. Payload: 1,1 15k9. Fuel consumption...

cif = coming into force Vehicles Excise and Registration Act 1994—cif 1 September 1994 Consolidates the much amended Vehicles...

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

of Italy's biggest hauliers, despite the country's tough transport law, specialised truck thieves and its railways' failure to...

trailers in which the floors move and the load is tipped without manual handling. • The problem with moving floors in Britain...

at the Royal Opera house in Covent Garden after yet another rendering of Nessun dorma, and the audience cheers and yells for an...

antic ocebn. Upgrading the operation hat meant purchasing a £35,000 Boalloy trailer with Wilcox moving floor for loading...

Home made fruit pies like your mum used to bake are the temptation that drove CM'S roving gourmet to park up at the Standeford...