Can a Scottish judge overrule the Transport Tribunal? Chris Tindall reports. THE FREIGHT' TRANSPORT Association has raised...

understand how it's got that far" But the FTA's Gavin Scott says he is sure Lord McEwan must have been mistaken. He would have...

THE OWNERS OF a major temperature controlled transport company have avoided insolvency by selling the business to another of...

KETTERING-BASED operator Knights of Old has taken del lvery of two of the first new Scan a R-Series tractor units in the...

PARCELS FIRM Lynx Express faces a drivers' strike over back pay. The RMT union will ballot the 600 drivers on industrial...

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The winner of CM'S Win your weight in cash competition is Steve Poretta of Coventry — £850 is on its way to him now,

Dover Port recorded its busiest freight day for four years last Wednesday (11 August) servicing 7,900 trucks after bad weather...

A driver was trapped in his van last Monday (15 August) after being hit by a train as he drove over an unmanned railway...

USDAW has won union recognition at Bargain Booze's depots in Crewe, Cheshire, and Newcastleunder-Lyme after taking its case to...

Illegal dumps in Counties Cavan and Monaghan, near the Irish Border have been linked to a multi-million-pound illegal waste...

The government has unveiled measures to crackdown on the one million uninsured drivers in the UK. These include police powers...

Another driver has found himself without a defence against stowaway fines despite clearing every check. Jennifer Ball reports....

DIRECTORS AT Berkshirebased transport firm Nelhams Transport have called in liquidators to begin winding up the business just...

THE MAN RESPONSIBLE for overseeing Europe's road haulage industry over the next four years will be Frenchman Jacques Barrot,...

A LONG-AWAITED underpass at one of the country's most notorious traffic bottlenecks opened last weekend, bringing an end to...

Mr X looks on in awe as the French government asks its populace for advice... What's this I hear - a government ministry...

PUT PRIVATISATION TO THE TESL, 1: USED Ma. ROADIESTS • NEW ARRIVALS I _KU ,...31NLJ iSg Ku If it moves, privatise it! That...

Torrential rain cut off the rest of the UK from the far north of Scotland; ex-pat Emma Penny reports. THE A9 TRUNK route...

THE LEVEL OF UK traffic rose by 0.8% between 2002 and 2003 with light van traffic up by 5.2%, according to government...

A BILTON, Warks, skip-hire firm has been fined £.5,000 with £2,133 costs for dumping and treating waste on land without a waste...

failing in the first half of 2004 was more than 10% down on the same period in 2003. Business solutions company Experian says...

LACK OF INVESTMENT in roads is being blamed for the closure of a distribution centre in Dorset with the loss of 580 jobs....

London mayor Ken Livingstone wants to double the geographic area liable to congestion charging. Industry leaders are appalled....

voted to strike following claims that some of them are on lower wages than 10 years ago. British Bakers are due to meet the...

Look out for Des 13-litre engine at the Hanover show. Andy Salter reports. DAF IS EXPECTED to give a sneak preview of its...

BOSSES AT SOUTHAMPTON Container Terminal claim that it is now the most efficient container terminal in the UK following...

GROWTH IN DOMESTIC freight activity is expected to reach a two-year high next quarter. A third of respondents to the latest...

IN THE NEWS Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this...

Gang steals four trucks with high-value loads. Jennifer Ball reports. POLICE ARE HUNTING a gang who broke into a haulage yard...

A CM photographer snea <5 you early pictures of the M-B Sprinter and VW LT vans. Andy Salter reports. Exclusive! OUR SCOOP...

Westminster Council has finally admitted that its bonus scheme for traffic wardens is causing more problems than it solves. Are...

CV registrations broke monthly records yet again in July, with 29259 new vehicles registered-up 3% on July 2003, according to...

Light CV registrations rose 4,1% in June, helped by the continuing march in internet shopping and home deliveries. Growth in...

July registrations fell 3.3% to 4,426 but annual truck registrations are still heading for a year-end figure close to 56,000....

Fuel prices continue to rise after US al prices soared to a 21-year high at $44.99 (£24.49) a barrel after unrest in Iraq...

John Russell has 180 trucks in his fleet and they're all painted lilac. Dominic Perry finds out why. L il ac is the sort of...

LAST WEEK'S CM (12 August) carried an article headed "Rough Justice; 10 things you need to know about the rescue and recovery...

in CM 5 August, I find the comments made by Pat Nicholson (pictured, right), in defence of her actions to be misleading. There...

I WAS most interested in the article on new vehicles which were built years previously ( CM 5 August) as I have some experience...

Greenhouse gases must be cut, but UK policy struggles to differentiate between essential and elective use. Dominic Perry...

A haulier has been disqualified indefinitely for allowing his 0-licence to be misused by a disqualified operator. Mike Jewell...

A DEALER who claimed the Traffic Area Office told him he did not need an 0-licence for his car transporter has won the return...

BARKING MAGISTRATES have levied more than £2,000 in fines and costs on an Essex operator guilty of running a dangerously...

A DRIVER sacked after a minor accident has won more than £750 in back pay at a Glasgow employment tribunal at which his...

THE LICENCE of a one-vehicle operation has been given a reprieve after the company accepted an undertaking to put its house in...

Last year the Working Time Regulations introduced a minimum four weeks' paid holiday but some employers got round the new law...

In addition to holiday entitlement, employees are entitled to reasonable time off to carry out "public duties". These include...

Tipper drivers are exposed to harmful dust in quarries and building sites. What can be done to minimise the danger? Sally Nash...

Up and coming law with the HA Future legislation 'EU drivers' hours rules: The European Commission has published proposals to...

CM does not shy away from highlighting weaknesses in the vehicles it tests so it's only fair to applaud excellence, and the...

Most new trucks come with breakdown recovery cover. But if a vehicle not covered by a scheme has to be towed home how do you...

Rod Cooper from Liverpool-based TMS Transport was forced to pay a £1,000 police recovery bill following a series of police...

Vehicle tracking systems are great for fleet management purposes — but users need to ensure that they comply with the privacy...

The Human Rights Act gives people a basic right to privacy. Although it is widely accepted that privacy at work is inevitably...

1 NG PR 1 ifitTE VOSA test centres are run down and often offer patchy, delayed service. Should testing be privatised?...

At the giant IAA truck show in Hanover next month MAN will make a number of revisions to its line-up, Andy Salter has had a...

The future is here, housed, a little surprisingly, n the unassuming body of a Fiat Doblo. CM looks under the surface. W hile...

When Adnams Brewery threw down the gauntlet to local dealers to supply a highly unusual dray, MAN/ERF Eastern of Colchester...

Adnams' Kevin Welts managed to find a two-hour lunchtime slot when the MAN was between jobs and kindly agreed to let CMtake it...

Why can't the roads be run more like the rail network and give compensation for delays, asks Peter Orr I f! was a closet News...

Owner-drivers can slash start-up costs on used market says operator. you're planning to start up your own haulage business...

Used vehicles sales are still strong but some sectors are lagging behind. Glass's Information Services rounds up the trends....

C ustorner support is becoming an increasingly important tool for marketing used commercial vehicles. It's all too easy to pop...