• Christian Salvesen's halfyear distribution profits have increased by 20% through a strong contribution from the Continent and...

• Hauliers' total running costs rose by an average of 1.8% this week when Chancellor Kenneth Clarke's Budget increased diesel...

for trucks. Recovery operators' vehicle excise duty to be placed on a sliding scale from £135 to £5,000. • National Insurance:...

by Karen Miles • The Home Office is to publish a marque-by-marque league table of stolen trucks. The research will also provide...

• The Government is expected to ignore a European Commission plan forcing late payers to pay 3% interest on overdue invoices,...

IS ANYBODY LISTENING? J udging by the way he's lampooned by American TV satirists, maverick Texan politician Ross Peras method...

Drivers who fraudulently claim unemployment benefits while working now have less to fear... by Amanda Bradbury T he...

• The use of bullbars on trucks and off-road vehicles is to be regulated under the Construction & Use Regulations. By 1996 the...

• The UK's top 10 transport companies have voted on which of their competitors they most admire. Heading the road transport...

• Auction specialist CMA has developed a "vehicle locator database" to help hauliers find the right used truck anywhere in the...

police checks in Cornwall in the past year are likely to be prosecuted, Figures released this week reveal that out of 607...

33% in Cornwall EXCLUSIVE by our Brussels correspondent • The European Parliament is poised to reject the Commission's plan to...

• Hundreds of drivers' jobs are expected to go at Northern Foods as the company restructures. The job losses are being blamed...

• A TV programme which showed more than half a dozen major landfill sites allegedly accepting waste they were not authorised to...

• TNT Logistics has signed a £14m, seven-year deal with the Bocldington Pub Company to collect and distribute beer to its 470...

• Parcelforce has lost a major Reader's Digest contract. accounting for 8% of its traffic, to White Arrow. The Union of...

by Juliet Morrison • A 65-year-old pensioner and his son have been charged with handling stolen trucks after a police raid in...

• A new cross-Channel livestock ferry service is expected to be launched following its second trial run from Plymouth to...

by Miles Brignall • The largest single cause of prosecutions under the London Lorry Ban is Clause 5, which covers routeing. Of...

• Four "business angels" who want to buy a struggling haulage firm have widened their target area. The would-be buyers,...

• Police are warning drivers to be extra vigilant in the run-up to Christmas following another hijacking at a service station....

• As CMs campaign to register LGV training schools gathers pace MPs have been questioning the Government on its failure to...

The European Transport Maintenance Council's (ETMC) eleventh annual conference in Cannes revealed some new products on the...

• The possibility of lighter commercial vehicles has been opened up by Alcan and Ford with the development of an aluminium...

by Bryan Jarvis • Crane Fruehauf has added a high-cube dual coupling height curtainsider chassis and a skeletal semi-trailer to...

• British Gas has added two 6x4 EuroTrakker drawbar outfits to its fleet which are designed to carry remote control pipe...

Shuttle operator TML to recover broken down vehicles from the Channel Tunnel train and terminal areas. The El m contract...

III Bridlingtonbased RB&D Smith has won a fresh licence, despite having its licence revoked last September after its only...

• Eye Valley Transport of Eyemouth, Berwickshire has been fined £450 with £35 costs for the unauthorised use of a vehicle.

• Northern Irish haulier Michael McNally has been fined £650 with £35 costs for an axle overload. Driver Patrick Fitzpatrick...

• Needley & Fields (Immingham) was fined £100 with £25 costs after it admitted using a goods vehicle without an Operators Licence.

• Ronald Thompson, trading as Thompson Haulage & Fuels of Stainforth, near Doncaster, has been given authority to operate 10...

• The licence held by Grant Hancox, trading as Hancox Haulage of Benileet, Essex, was suspended at a Cambridge public inquiry...

• Derbyshire based farmer Mark Walker has succeeded in a bid to increase the authorisation on his licence, despite opposition...

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 truck involved somewhere; just my luck that Noel Edmonds is standing in front of it. Yes, the National Lottery is indeed...

t last a car that levitates--handy for avoiding damage on uneven roads and queue. jumping in traffic jams. It should also...

3 oing, going, almost gone...The British Army is selling the last few of its once-vast fleet of Bedford MK series trucks at an...

espite the fact that today, 1 December, is World Aids Day, much needs to be done to dispel the ignorance of the public...

hat is the explanation for the often-startling manner in which roadsigns are written—are the disturbing messages encountered...

I would like to reply to your Comment and the news story "VI plans to stop local truck test booking"(CM24-30 Nov). I am...

T refer to John Keetley's iSound Off (CM17-23 November). He works 15 hours spread over, and is home every evening. If, as he...

• The 12th International Week of Transport and Logistics is to be held at the Paris Convention Centre (Parc des Expositions) on...

• Barclays Bank has lowered the minimum amount its business customers need to keep on deposit in a highinterest business...

• Inter Forward Freight Services has added a daily road-ferry trailer service on its Paris to London route in conjunction with...

• Dawsonrental now has more than 50 new Volvo FH tractor units and 18 tonne rigids available from its 35 regional offices. To...

• Commercial Motor is preparing a new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert witnesses, haulage...

• The Association of British Insurers (AB1) has issued its fifth list of approved vehicle security devices. All systems have...

• Ordnance Survey has produced maps showing named streets in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Hertfordshire and Berkshire....

• The manufacturer of Scotchlite reflective materials, 3M, has produced a free explanatory booklet on the implications of...

• The Scimitar range of electronically controlled vehicle immobilisers and alarms has been launched by Conlog. Contact (0295)...

• Inmarsat is offering free software for companies to assess the cost benefits of installing its Inmarsat-C mobile satellite...

• Automated telescopic conveyors are now available from Sovex to solve vehicle loading problems. They are pre-programmable to...

• Serk Marston is now selling its own brand of antifreeze in 2.5-litre and fivelitre containers. These will be sold alongside...

• The Loa routeing and scheduling software now has the Track-LogiX module which can monitor a truck's position against the...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak;...

Virgin Transport seemed the perfect name for a brand new tipper company. But the people behind this two-vehicle operation...

Toyota's Hiace Compact does many things competently: it's inexpensive, frugal with fuel, and has a terrific payload. But how...

• Powering down the motorway at 60mph and then suddenly realising you are six feet away from the back bumper of a loaded petrol...

interviewed 15 truck drivers at the BP Truckstop at South Mimms on the M25 to gauge how many of them suffered from DWA—all of...

In a ground-breaking case the Law Lords ruled that employers must take care when writing references for former employees. What...

g he majority of drivers are concerned T about the way the haulage industry has changed over the years. Even though the...

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