Last week my colleagues on Truck & Drive r magazine conducted the Great British Motorway Service Area Survey , and I...

By Chris Druce PALLETLINE MD KEVIN Buchanan has attacked Olympic Games organisers for doing too little, too late to ensure road...

HAULIERS HAVE DROPPED their legal challenge against Olympics organisers for the effect trafic management orders will have on...

By Christopher Walton ANAlOGUE TACHOGRAPHS could be completely phased out by 2020 after the European Parliament tabled an...

covering the EH postcode. The West Lothian operator was previously a Pall-Ex member. MD Fraser Pollock says: “Our membership...

(OFT) investigation into the UK fuel market. FFUK wants the OFT to investigate after a report commissioned for G20 finance...

By Hayley Pink HAULIERS HAVE been warned to remain vigilant after a lorry driver was hijacked at knifepoint in Hampshire on...

AN EMPLOYEE at Lincolnshire family haulage irm George H Kime has died after suffering severe injuries while helping to load an...

TWO OPERATORS are trialling a security tarpaulin developed by sheeting company Dawbarn & Son and PVC textiles manufacturer...

THE NEW DTCO 2.0 digital tachograph from manufacturer VDO, part of Continental, has been upgraded to include a second speed...

By Chris Tindall A HAULIER CLAIMING to be owed £15,000 after Derbyshire haulage irm Cooper Transport was sold in a pre-pack...

POLICE AND UK Border Agency (UKBA) oficials are having a busy month thwarting stowaways from entering the UK in the back of...

ON THE ROAD Truck & Driver magazine is conducting the Great British MSA survey, and last week some of the CM staff helped out...

Fresh Direct takes on extra 39 Isuzu rigids Bicester-based food service firm Fresh Direct has taken delivery of 39 N75190...

By Laura Hailstone and Hayley Pink HAULIERS SPECIALISING in concerts and events are coping well with the wash-out summer,...

GARETH THOMAS of DR&FA Ford is the UK winner of the Young European Truck Driver 2012 (YETD) competition. He was one of 10...

Maggie swaps shop for top gear vocations REMEMBER THE LATE 1970s and early 80s when the highlight of Saturday mornings was...

ZF is about to replace its AS-Tronic automated gearbox with the Traxon, which it says will be faster, quieter and more durable...

This barmy ban idea will do nothing to help our economic recovery... I REALISE THAT writing to Commercial Motor is like...

PERHAPS THE industry should not dismiss the Sunday lorry ban plan before looking at the beneits? ( CM 5 July). It will tighten...

I HAVE JUST read about the Safer Urban Driving Course ( CM 5 July) and I am writing to say that I am dismayed. It is not the...

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I AM AN avid reader of your magazine and in CM 17 May edition Chris Druce wrote an article about the driver shortage that is...

Swinging tube trapped hand of employee cleaning out hopper on lorry-mounted concrete pump By Roger Brown TWO COMPANIES have...

Haulier failed to tell TC about partners JOHN WALKER and Son has received a formal warning from Joan Aitken, the trafic...

Fleet curtailed after defects found on trailer ASHBOURNE-BASED SA Transport has had its O-licence curtailed indeinitely from...

NORTH WESTERN AND WELSH TRAFFIC AREAS Conditions for Hollander Hyams OWN-ACCOUNT OPERATOR Hollander Hyams has been granted...

After delays, debates and disagreements, Beverley Bell has now been appointed the industry’s senior traffic commissioner, but...

right direction Milk collection specialist SJ Bargh came perilously close to exiting the industry, but now it has become a...

We slice and dice the 2011 truck registration data to find out what operators really choose when they pick their engine...

There would be an uproar if fuel suppliers created a new litre, equal to 986cc instead of 1,000cc, but still called it a litre....

The British military has run countless types of truck over the years, but some are definitely better than others. Here are our...

Stockport Truck Centre remains a consistent presence offering trailer rental and sales, and an awful lot besides Words: Kevin...

After more than 10 years, a franchised workshop is back at Shepton Mallet haulier Framptons – and this time it’s MAN Words:...

Used van dealers are beginning to turn their collective nose up at older stock Words: Kevin Swallow OLDER, HIGHER mileage...