• The not-in-myback-yarders are at it again. The same people who are quick to berate their local supermarket manager when there...

EXCLUSIVE El Engine manufacturer Gardner is up for sale. Parent company Perkins has sent tender documents to potential bidders...

MI A county council has had its 0-licence curtailed from the end of August after a string of faults were found in its fleet....

• Edward Stobart, managing director of Carlisle-based Haulier of the Year Eddie Stobart, is furious over an apparent smear...

• Hauliers face chaos if a London borough goes ahead with plans for a total ban on night and weekend movements of trucks in a...

• Removals group Brewer & Turnbull has taken on two more franchisees. Coates Removals at Swindon and Jacksons Removals of...

• A haulier has been jailed for six months, with a further 12 months suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to charges...

• The latest German plan to slap an annual levy on all drivers using its autobahns from 1994 has been slammed by the Freight...

• Ryder has supplied 14 Mercedes 814 boxvan vehicles to Croydon-based retail group Allders Department Stores. They have...

• Go-Truck, the truck sales and rental firm set up by former Intertrail boss John Goodreid, wants five transport firms to lease...

• Unit 91, the owner-drivers' co-operative set up last year to fight for better rates, is being wound up, owing thousands of...

• The Transport & General Workers' Union is due to meet with Linkman Tankers this week "in a last ditch effort to avoid...

• Truck drivers who do not understand lorry weight restriction signs risk prosecution, a local authority traffic chief has...

• Reflecting the confidence in a slowly recovering American economy, the International Truck Show at Anaheim, California on...

• Car transport firms Richard Lawson of Dundee and BRS of Milton Keynes are to share a major contract with Toyota. They will...

• Waste carriers in Lancashire fear massive cost increases from 1 September, when the region's biggest tip operator changes its...

• International operator Offshore Transport Services has won a contract worth more than Z100,000 a year, carrying Spanish...

• Derbyshire County Council's decision last week to investigate the re-opening of a disused railway line could dash tipper...

• Transport Development Group subsidiary Beck & Pollitzer has signed a £1.5m contract with Finnish forestry products company...

• Owner-driver Stuart Cornforth, who started trading a year ago with help from the Prince's Trust, has picked up work following...

• Fly tipping by a Staffordshire tanker driver has cost his company a £100,000 waste disposal contract plus a £1,500 fine, and...

• Harrisons Transport Tarleton has been cleared by Solihull magistrates of "using" a trailer with defective brakes, after an...

• The dismissal of a driver by AA Leeds-based JA Magson, after he refused to pay the cost of repairs to his vehicle, was...

11"" • Represen tations from resi tations from resi dents living along the access to the operating centre of Spalding-based...

• Cumbrian lorry driver David Shepherd has been ordered to pay £1,050 in fines and costs by Manchester City magistrates, for...

• The licence held by George Taylor (Wolverhampton) has been revoked by West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh, in the light of a...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has cut the authorisation on the licence held by Scarborough Borough...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

• The first Japanese high-cube car-derived van, announced at the 1991 Brussels show (CM 24-30 Jan 1991), went on sale in the UK...

• Scania has deleted its Computer Aided Gearchanging (CAG) option from its righthand-drive truck chassis. The low customer...

• A growing order book has prompted Alexander to transfer its minibus production from Scotland to Northern Ireland. Production...

• Henlys is telling its shareholders to reject an increased and final bid from Cowies for the car sales-to-Plaxton bus and...

• London Transport's first ultra-low-floor accessible bus experiment is likely to begin next February. LT's Unit for Disabled...

• A record-breaking order from Badgerline Holdings for 396 Plaxton bus bodies reveals how keenly manufacturers are having to...

Automatic licence revocations occur at a point on the scale of serious offences. But the rules apply differently to companies...

I The autumn/early winter schedule of Institution of Mechanical Engineers' meetings has been fixed. Except where stated...

11 The National Materials Handling Centre has issued advance details of seminars being held at the Cranfield Institute of...

VAT rules for 1993 • To prepare businesses for major changes in EC Customs procedures from 1 January, and for the new EC...

• A four-part handbook has been published explaining the new diesel engine exhaust emissions regulations which take effect for...

• The Institute of Grocery Distribution and Europanel Database has produced Prospects for After 1993, a study of European...

Motor industry NMI • National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) are now available for the motor industry. The institute of the...

Pallet calculator • JM Low of 27 Lime Tree Walk, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcs DY13 8TY wants to hear from anyone who is...

Pallet weigher • Central Weighing has developed a new heavyweight pallet weigher with a capacity of up to 2,000kg. The...

▪ For the latest information on the roadworks and road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

ichael Jackson has been good news for rock tour specialist Edwin Shirley Trucking. The all-singing all-dancing superstar has...

nce again, the Hawk hears from Foster an Angler, the charity which provides angling weekends for children with special needs....

ii he International Thomson Romania Fund urgently needs vehicles for a convoy in September. As well as taking supplies of...

fil he average Australian's appreciation of ballet was summed up by comedian Paul Hogan when, in a TV commercial, be exclaimed...

EN, the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund, has contacted CM to advise that its Christmas catalogue is available and it is...

A t the sharp end of A t the sharp end of the distribution industry a postman has been sacked for taking 700 days off sick...

Some fuel charge cards offer direct cost savings, others don't. But nearly all allow improved management control and security....

DEMAND You need to be financially viable to get an 0-licence. But how much cash is actually required? The answer is difficult...

After several lean years, many hauliers are still delaying the purchase of new trailers. Instead, they're extending the life of...

for new vehicles. As the recession drags on interminably, transport operators large and small can't run old vehicles for ever....

of their road blockade. But many UK hauliers lost thousands. CM examines one man's fight for compensation and the options open...

IN I was extremely concerned to read Sound Off (CM 30 July-5 Aug), because of the totally incorrect impression that is conveyed...

• "Loaded questions (CM 6-12 Aug) refers on several occasions to RTITB and RHITSC. The article states that the "RTITB has been...

• Well done for bringing attention to loaded driver training. I read with interest, surprise and astonishment your article (CM...

Surely all the wrong signals were sent out by your article regarding Malcolm Harrison's re-emergence from receivership owing a...

• I read with interest the article on Pam Murgatroyd in this week's magazine (CM 13-19 Aug). Perhaps you could monitor her...

, B ritish newspapers had a field day reporting the French lorry blockades. They were unanimous in their vilification and...