FTA calls for action after reports show our Continental rivals aren't abiding by INTD legislation. Jennifer Ball reports. THE...

THE OWNERSHIP of a cashstrapped freight forwarding firm remained a mystery as CM went to press. Rainham-basedKaritrans,which...

THE OPERATOR of the M6To11 has begun discussing a possible reduction in charges for trucks following widespread criticism that...

THE BREWERY Logistics Group is the latest association to join the fight against parking tickets in London, urging its members...

The House of Lords has voted in favour of a bill to raise toll charges for the Mersey tunnels. The extra money will fund other...

Eurotunnel has broken its record for the number of trucks carried in a 24-hour period. From midnight on 23 June to midnight on...

A truck driver has been jailed tor nine months for having unlawful sex with a 15-yearold girl. Michael Nally, 36, from Leeds...

Denby Transport has become the newest member of the Transport Association. The firm runs 50 trucks and 125 trailers from...

Winners from Commercial Motor's stand at the recent SED construction show: Tiny Truck winners are Nick Livingstone and Daniel...

The A59 from Skipton to Harrogate is the most dangerous road in Britain with the highest crash rate, according to the AA.

Road deaths are up — but not among truck drivers. Jennifer Ball reports. THE NUMBER OF truck drivers killed on UK roads fell...

RECEIVERS FOR Mayflower Vehicle Systems, the truck and car body panel manufacturing division of the Mayflower Corporation, have...

MERCEDES-BENZ has launched a range of Euro-4 and 5 compliant vehicles, allowing some European operators to benefit from fuel...

THE DEPARTMENT for Transport has launched a consultation on TransportEnergy grants in a bid to increase the use of cleaner...

Barry Proctor balances an industry fighting too many villains with a couple of home-grown heroes. In between running a...

surveys slamming all that is British appear to becoming a bit of a habit. First it was our enforcement, now it's the motorway...

Transport for London made nearly El 1 m from its bus lanes last year, but claims a 62 0 /0 improvement in bus journey times....

A SPANISII TRUCK driver was tricked into handing over £90,000 worth of designer clothing by a gang posing as factory officials...

CONTAINER HAULIERS at Felixstowe, already hit by long delays at the port, are now facing extra charges as part of a new...

NORTH YORKSHIRE police have issued a photo of a man wanted in connection with the theft of a £70.000 truckload of KitKats....

FEARS LAST WEEK that hostilities had moved to the Surrey stretch of the M25 were unfounded. CM's exclusive picture shows a...

FORMER TRANSOLVER MD Tim Davies has replaced Mick Marsh as sales director at Renault Trucks UK. Davies left Iveco-owned...

In the run-up to the VVTD Exel drivers have hit the T&G target of E 1 0 an hour. Guy Sheppard reports. EXEL IS to double the...

CUSTOMS OFFICERS have seized five tankers and over 13,000 litres of illegal fuel as part of their crackdown on fuel laundering...

THE DRIVERS Action Movement has criticised the reluctance of local authorities to take action on overnight truck parking...

a disaster? Views vary, as the old employment agreement breaks down. Guy Sheppard reports. A UNION campaign to improve the...

HAULAGE firm William Martin Oliver & Partners is waiting to see if it will lose its 0-licence following a public inquiry. The...

£4,000 reward for information leading to the return of its stolen truck. The orange Scania was taken from the yard in Mitcham...

The trade associations are banding together to create a VVTD buffer zone for agricultural hauliers. Guy Sheppard reports. FIVE...

INTERMODAL OPERATOR Freightliner has launched Logico, a new division aimed at companies running container operations. Logico...

BLUE ARROW EXPECTS demand for agency drivers to soar by 12% following the introduction of the Working Time Directive. Wayne...

Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the...

POLICE ARE HUNTING a gang who left a truck driver needing hospital treatment for burns after throwing a liquid in his face in...

There's a E1,000 first prize for CM'S top Euro 2004 pundit Are you still in the running? I n the end, it was England's...

Wayne Story, managing director of recruitment agency Blue Arrow Operations, believes that for one sector of the industry at...

I AM PART of the Convoy 2000 drivers' team which takes a large convoy of trucks to Romania each year with humanitarian aid to...

HAVING SEEN your news item headed "Rail wagons find it's a bridge to jar" (CM 24 June) 1 felt I should contact you with regard...

AS A LONG-serving Salvesen driver I am extremely disappointed that Commercial Motor should not only carry the story of a"24%...

A report by a group of European motoring organisations has once again shamed Britain's motorway service areas. Our snapshot...

MSA operators have their say Moto: 'We are disappointed that this Pan-European Survey of motorway service areas failed to...

Kevin Swallow from our operations team used to drive for a living so he's spent plenty of time at MSAs and tnidtstops. He...

recently refurbished; they were modern, looked and smelled clean and the shower was a good size. Mike Piggin from Norpak says:...

Not quite as nice as Oxford Services but clean and functional. The toilets and shower looked OK. Paul Babb from MFI Runcorn...

It looked clean and perfectly serviceable but as we explored, a driver came out of the shower and stomped angrily towards the...

There were fountains, grass and trees: the building itself was airy and spacious with an array of food shops including Burger...

looked at were wonderful either Although some, like Oxford, were bright clean and modern, the fact is that they don't offer...

An operator lost its repute, and its bid for a new 0-licence, by running vehicles without a licence for nine months. Mike...

It was conceded that the new company had been operating vehicles since that date without licence authority. Nils Christy said...

POSSIBLE ACTION against a transport manager's repute was dismissed after aTC blamed "wholly unacceptable" delays in launching a...

AN ESSEX OPERATOR which repeatedly ignored requests for information from the Traffic Area Office has lost its appeal against...

Simpson had had to wait for so long for a decision about her repute as a transport manager.

to notify the Traffic Commissioner promptly of all material changes in their circumstances, including changes of address.

A MANCHESTER builder's merchant has escaped an inquiry without penalty after a TC congratulated it for a "huge amount of...

A FINANCE COMPANY which - turned a blind eye to a regular customer's lack of an 0-licence has lost its bid to have an impounded...

the first impounded vehicle had been returned to Murton. He therefore felt he was unable to treat the finance company as a body...

v‘ino take quick action to nvestigate and correct problems brought to their attention by VOSA have little to fear from the TCs.

Our series on how operators are preparing for the Working Time Directive continues with a look at some medium sized fleets....

With pensions under increasing pressure the spectre of a future generation of poverty-stricken pensioners is terrifyingly real....

I own a 1987 ERF tractor which I am renovating for national shows. It won't be a working truck It is fitted with a tachograph...

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That may be a useful defence for the CM test team but Rat's improved Dobla Cargo...

As we prepare for Euro-4 in 2005, ArvinVeritor has unveiled a system that could knock EGR and SCR for six. Brian Weatherley...

from October 2006 on all new vehicle registrations, truck engines will have to meet the Euro-4 emission standard. Compared with...

UK operators wit associate the Mentor name with truck and trailer axles: few will know that Arvin was a major North American...

European hauliers and truck manufacturers aren't the only groups of people looking at selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with...

Iveco's seven-seater Daily shows the Italian job just keeps getting better. Brian Weatherley reports on this tradesman's...

Never mind those Swedish-style 25m-long rigs, a collapsible "safety nose" on the front of a truck is as far as Brussels is...

Recruitment agencies must uphold their integrity if they are to flourish in the road transport sector, as Tim Maughan found...

Projections of cashflow figures can be illuminating. Let there be light, says Jason Hamer. y ou must have heard the haulier's...

Buying second-hand trucks is an effective way of keeping your company overheads low says a financial adviser. A n independent...

Each month we present a star of the used market to see how it could perform for you. Put your hands together for the lveco...

Few dealerships can match the presence of Thomas Hardie Used Vehicle Sales in Viddlewich. Over the past 14 years it's gone from...