12m BACK • by Dominic Perry The Industry has reacted with fury to government plans to hang on to £2m worth of stowaway fines...

The Right Hon David Blunkett MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department, The Home Office, 50, Queen Anne's Gate, London...

• Securicor Is to sell off its express and logistics divisions to concentrate on its cash and security businesses. The move...

A Scottish car transport firm s defended its decision to ploy the former boss of four led haulage firms as its !neral manager....

• Transport for London (TH.) has dismissed recent media reports criticising the accuracy of DVLA records as "wild...

Distribution and warehousing group WRM has gone into administration. It called In administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers on 6...

II by Miles Brignall An organisation that registers thefts of trucks and heavy plant say they have discovered a "chop shop" in...

• Transport law specialist Cohn Ward died on 13 December aged 52 after a long battle against multiple sclerosis. To his...

• The Freight Transport Association is urging the Driver Vehii Licensing Agency to revise its Vehicle Excise Duty banding si!...

• An innocent nauiler whose truck was seized by bungling Customs officers who suspected him of smuggling diesel says they are...

European Union expansion, which was agreed at a sumtin Denmark last week, could help solve the UK driver ortage, according to...

IN A truck driver is awaiting surgery following a road rage attack by a BMW driver. Leicester Crown Court heard how Donald...

Give it back! "Chris nas? Bah, humbug!" Ebenezer Scrooge's pithy response to the season of giving would no doubt be seconded...

by Brian Weatherley Plans by Compass, owners of the Moto chain of motorway service areas, to create "superstores" at their...

The International Road Transport Union says it will continue to lobby the European Union in a bid to get Austria to drop its...

• A Scottish haulier claims he almost went out of business when fuel giant Shell slashed his credit limit from £60,000 to zero...

• Tipper operators suffering a sharp downturn in work as a result of a new green tax will get no government help for at least a...

• by Jennifer Ball The Office of Fair Trading is to launch an investigation into the UK liability insurance market amid...

• Operators have a new source of advice on updating their businesses with the launch of the Modernisation Operator Scheme....

• The European Commission has approved UK plans to provide up to £3m in state aid to help operators reduce carbon dioxide...

e; Up to 20% of all foreign-registered trucks crossing the Irish Sea were in such poor mechanical condition that they were...

day pallet deliveries into Holland, Belgium and norther: France; It expects to carry about 1,000 pallets a week on this...

It's been an action-packed year for the UK's road transport industry, from City Group's collapse and the merger of the Vehicle...

I by Rabin Meezes he European market for CV telemtics systems is set to skyrocket, ccording to latest figures from iarketing...

• A family-run waste collection and recycling firm has become a "telematics millionaire" by using Minorplanet's VMI system....

A leading industry figure has called for the government's proposed Traffic Tsar to be empowered to call on telematics...

• A radio-based tracking network just launched in the UK could help protect employees and equipment by allowing them to be...

IP A new trailer tracking system uses solar energy to ensure uncoupled trailer units don't run out of power. Astrotraq, from...

To dump or not to dump? Since tilt tests were conducted as part of a large tipping trailer contract for Lafarge Industries, an...

• by Robin Macros The Vehicle Inspectorate has already started to take action against operators whose vehicles are found...

• A reversing camera system that records images to an onboard hard disk is being introduced to the CV sector by Digital...

• Pictured here is one of two new mini-artics that combine Daewoo's D75T urban tractor with Vipex's purpose-built semi-trailer....

• The road tax rules change in February—and Glass: Information Services (GIS) warns that the new syster could create a two-tier...

Tribunal refuses appeal Hereford haulier Peter Morgan has lost his appeal against the revocation of his Operator's Licence and...

Halstead, Essex-based McFletch Hire Services has won an appeal against the revocation of its licence and the disqualification...

FEIN. WARNING The licence held by Dennis Parker, trading as Dennis Parker Haulage, of South Shields, has been cut from seven...

Ormskirk-based Anthony Rosenthal has lost his Operator's Licence after failing to attend a Congleton disciplinary inquiry....

A South Wales haulier has been sad by Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon to be unlikely to gain her repute for years,...

Further to the comment by Ruth Pott [head of employment affairs for the Road Haulage Association], eyesight is certainly an...

We agree with him absolutely when he says that the guide is as relevant today as it was at the time of publication. One of the...

There has been rather wild speculation recently about the accuracy of DVLA records in connection with the congestioi charging...

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago-2o December 1927...

izz, some people are inclined towards taking the odd tipple of omething to keep out the cold. While we all know how utterly,...

ever-we-are-this-week giant Wincanton. The Somerset firm has just sent us a yuletide press release telling us how it is...

I PRICE AS TESTED: 266,234 (ex-VAT). ENGINE:12.6 litres, 375hp (280kW). GCW: 40 tonnes. PAYLOAD: 26.1 tonnes. AVERAGE SPEED:...

Each Christmas, Commercial Motor takes a break from urn , . nk , v.! what's new in the world of transport for a look at how...

Volkswagen is at the forefront of extracting the maximum efficiency from small diesel engines, with class-leading combinations...

No longer stuck in a cramped city centre office in Glasgow, the RHA's new Scottish and Northern Ireland Regional office enjoys...

are remote locations, but someone has to deliver the goods. Tim Maughan ventured to these windswept lands with Scottish...

So what's It like working on Commercial Motor? Our very own technical desk guru, Colin Barnett, outlines a week of driving,...