The Freight Transport Association had a meeting with Treasury officials last week. The talks, which were described as...

An MAN tractor and trailer loaded with zinc ingots were taken from AR Halfpenny's yard in Howard Avenue, Bromsgrave on the...

Greek operators threatened to strike last Monday to protest at what they describe as unfair competition from Eastern European...

A new insurance service by Crowe Insurance Group of Amersham, Bucks will cover legal costs for hauliers who are charged with...

The EC and Hungary have signed an agreement giving the European Union 12,500 access permits for Hungary; the Hungarians get...

Conservative MP for North Shropshire Owen Paterson told Energy Minister Helen Liddell last week: "If ministers continue to hide...

by Miles Brignall The Wakefield haulier organising a blockade of Dover Port to protest at UK diesel prices says he has received...

• The government has announced a 20% per year increase in spending on roads and public transport. Chancellor Gordon Brown told...

• Truckers involved in fatal accidents could face lifetime driving bans as part of legislation designed to improve road...

m The Scottish National Party has pledged to freeze fuel duty and to extend fuel duty rebates to the emergency services and...

• by Guy Sheppard Calais port officials are offering hauliers a free stowaway detection service as part of a .24m blitz on...

II A worldwide competition to win a 143,000 tractive unit on Volvo's web site descended into chaos and was over before the...

by Mike Jewell A Northern Irish driver has appeared before Crewe magistrates accused of three offences of causing death by...

• A Bristol truck driver has been released on bail after a night of police questioning following the discovery of a woman's...

• A driver who used his employees fuel card to steal 10,000 litres of fuel to run his own courier business has been jailed for...

When Gordon Brown "dumped" the fuel duty escalator in the last Budget, Commercial Motor resisted the urge to join in with the...

111 by Pete &ilk*ler A bather which is "just making ends meet" while expanding its fleet was fined £900 by Worcester...

NA Teacher turned owner-driver David Stride says he now suffers far less stress and describes his new career as "my idea of...

• A truck driver who studied martial arts fought off tote) muggers before delivering his next load despite having been...

Norbert Dentressangle has signed a six-year deal with household goods supplier Ikea to manage its new 56,000m 2 distribution...

the Pall-Ex network the contract to handle all its distribution through Leighton Buzzard-based Pall-Ex member Mini Clipper.

on-line retailer Virgin Wines after out-performing a number of other parcels companies.

to store 14,000 boxes of files at its data storage depot in Liverpool. The contract is worth 144,000 per annum.

Transfleet to supply all future vehicles on a contract-hire basis. Under the terms of the deal, Lax will also buy half Cherry's...

Ideal Standard to meet its entire distribution needs throughout Germany, France and the Benelux countries. As a result, Edwards...

Transfleet to supply 21 specially equipped MAN 1?tanners and two 7.5-tonne Isuzus as part of Plane's expansion programme.

• Last week Beverley Bell told a public inquiry that the North-West needs clearing up and that she is the woman to do it (see...

Driving opportunities at the launch were limited to a few laps of our regular proving ground in Surrey ERF warned that the...

• Daf's impending 45/55 replacement, currently being readied for production with a cab developed jointly with Renault, has...

back 10 0 /0 of shares • Volvo has spent about 2870m buying back nearly 10% of its own shares which were owned by investors....

Seddon Atkinson T5 18.235 through Pannell Commercials of Launceston. Downplated to 15 tonnes, the truck features a Hatcher cab...

King Pin lock thanks to increased investment in its production line. The lock now costs SAO regardless of the number ordered,...

staff for its new van programme. The posts include component development, project control and computer aided design. Contact:...

units from Transient following interest at this year's CV Show. The slidingbogie skeletal trailers weigh in at 4,7404, coming...

Transport fleet, making Foden the most popular manufacturer on the fleet. The 6x2 tractors are all powered by Cummins M11...

A conviction for a front axle overload, and the display of an expired 0-licence identity disc, led to Bloxwich, Walsall-based...

North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell has said that the NorthWest needs cleaning up and she is the one to do it....

The South Eastern & Metropolitan TC accepted the surrender of Surrey haulier Thomas McHugh's licence following the grant of a...

appealed to the Transport Tribunal against North Western IC Beverley Bell's ban on it taking artics to its operating centre...

of Peterborough, and Rudolf's HGV licence have both been suspended for two weeks by Eastern TC Geoffrey Simms, after Rudolf...

when it appeared before Western IC Philip Brawn at an Exeter disciplinary inquiry, because of concern over its maintenance record.

Nimmo's Stilling-based Ochilmount Transport with a warning about the future operation of its vehicles.

The licence held by Michael Powell, trading as MJP Pallets, of Ebbw Vale, was revoked when he failed to attend a Cardiff...

George Smith of Ysceiflog, near HoNwell has been fined £300 for 10 offences of falsifying tachograph records. Smith had denied...

Allowing an unlicensed operator to use its licence has led to the licence held by Poole-based Novahne being cut from six...

The Freight Transport Association appears more concerned with raising the gross weights of lorries to 44 tonnes than in...

The Hawk took the opportunity this week to catch up on some reading. Steaming is the magazine produced by the National Traction...

global warming was just a good opportunity to get some extra sunbathing in are in for a rude awakening. Anthony Astbury, a...

that CM has carried out for a good few years. While we've had a number of drives of Ford's crucial new Transit at various sites...

ove! • "SELF-LOADING" can describe a moving floor or an automated loading system using conveyors or powered skates. Moving...

11 C1(11 1 t's a bold assertion, but David Grahamslaw, development director at Tibbett & Britten Europe, makes no apologies...

joining the single European currency and few people take notice. Then Richard Branson, self-made millionaire and the driving...

Overloading is a serious business. But weighbridges can be few and far between. As Ian Shaw reports, hauliers are having to...

within a reasonable distance from the loading point can be far from easy. Many drivers inadvertently run overloaded before...

• The economies of having your own weighbridge depend on your operating doctrine. For vehicles that never load at base there's...

II The cost of not having easy access to a weighbridge can be very high indeed. The Vehicle Inspectorate's figures for the...

1 n the tough world of road haulage, expan tion: many operators plan to increase their fleets "one day". Typically it's all...

Common problems included poor safety information for passengers, no keys for lockers containing lifebelts, locked safety doors...