So that was 2006. Hard conditions, hard graft and, for some, hard luck, Looking back over this year it diff icuq to see how...

Fransen has joined the casualty list at Cherrystone Investments, which bought the reefer specialist with its own money. Dominic...

THREE TRANSPORT firms are among Wales" top 3(X) businesses in a list compiled by the Western Mail. Cardiff-based Rhys Davies...

PALLETWAYS HAS consolidated its position as the biggest network in Europe with the launch of a dedicated French service. A new...

UK MARKET LEADER Daf has overtaken Volvo to become the second largest player in tractor sales throughout Europe — with only MAN...

DHL-EXEL Supply Chain employees at its Iceland distribution centre in Enfield will strike for two more days this week in...

cm is looking for two dyn, individuals to contribute tc class-leading news desk. This Week section require section head and a...

Bucks-based CV dealer Imperial Commercials ha increased its geographic coverage with the acquisi of Hawarden Commercial...

Villagers of Chideock, Dot are calling for a diversion trucks to cut their pollution levels, w'nich are exceedir average EU...

A Croatian driver has bee arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after his trucl , overturned near J1 of the M32 early on...

On 13 December a driver from Beckton, east Londoi died when his tipper rollec over and crashed down ai embankment on a slip roa...

Drivers are taking the battle against truck crime into their own hands by launching a text alert service in the new year. Sally...

BRAKE, THE ROAD safety campaign group, has published statistics showing that 25% of British road deaths involve 'atwork...

CORBY-BASED LOGISTICS specialist DDS has been acquired by Keswick Enterprises and renamed Enterprise Logistics. The DDS...

JIM MCLAY OF Glenhire Express, Glenrothes, died on Monday 11 December. aged 44. He had been suffering from leukaemia for some...

Goodwill to all men? Not if you'i Mr X. Run ragged in the run-up Christmas, he's preparing for thE post-holiday slump — and not...

The Highways Agency hopes that distributing Fresnei lenses to drivers at ports will help prevent blind-spot accidents. Chris...

SOME 40,000 drivers across five continents are expected to take part in a new competition organised by Scania to find the best...

NEWCAST LL UPON TYNL hauliers are sceptical about the need for a new website designed to act as a "one-stop shop" for...

LEIGHTON BUZZARD haulier S&J Pierce has stepped in to save the town's Christmas float after insurance companies refused to...

DISCIPLINARY ACTION against a refuse driver who left his vehicle only for joyriders to hijack it and cause thousands of pounds...

Two agreements have been signed defining the functions that Vosa performs for the Traffic Commissioners. Louise Cole reports....

strengthening — 40 more to go NORFOLKCOUNTYCouncil has completed 130,000 worth of improvement work on the 150th bridge to need...

NORFOLK HAULIER Jack Richards & Son has added 10 new Euro-4 compliant Mercedes-Benz Actros to its 150-strong fleet. They are...

costs firm E2,00 WEST MIDLANDS-BASED Charlton Whitehouse Fuels has been lined £2,000 after one of its drivers failed to check...

WILLI BETZ chief executive Thomas Betz could be spending Christmas at home after a German court announced that a decision will...

EC anti-terrorist plans which would have forced up operators' costs for little reward appear to have been quietly shelved....

Based in Bourton-onthe-Water. Peter Gilder Commercials joins forces with Tanker Solutions of Peterborough and East West Heavy...

Clyde i land began last week. It is ex to cost £2.1m and will conth most of next year. The bridge will remain while the gantry...

CIVIL ENGINEERING firm Clancy Docwra, which specialises in the utilities sector, has taken delivery of a vehicle fitted with a...

The Dakar Rally is the world's most arduous motorsport event. CM reports from Germany as the MAN-equipped entrants strap...

A new SfL survey offers an interesting insight into working in road transport and logistics. A survey oi transport industry...

F rom an early age John Martin,the owner of website lorryspotting.com,waS interested in trucks. The playground of his primary...

MAY I FIRSTLY say how sorry I feel for the people who work for Vosa in the present uncertain conditions (CM 30 November). There...

I AM WRITING regarding your recent item wondering why the haulage industry is unloved (CM 7 December). Firstly, let me state...

I WAS ASTONISHED to read reports in Commercial Motor that an old-established and well-respected livestock haulier —Wm Armstrong...

Cherrystoñ ac Reefer operator Fransen Transport has suffered the same fate as its tvvo sister firms and is now in receivership...

An operator who ran a truck with no accelerator pedal had his licer revoked immediately by a horrified TC. Michael Jewell...

A FIRM that received three prohibitions over five years for loose vvheelnuts has had its licence authorisation cut from three...

A LONDON scaffolding firm which operated three vehicles despite the refusal of an interim licence and repeated warnings from...

AN OLDBURY-based company has had its licence authority cut for the second time in two years because of maintenance...

Middlesbrough-based Bulmers Logistics (Mahon) £1,000 in fines and costs after it admitted the offence when it appeared before...

A new generation of digital tachographs will make it easier and cheaper for operators to stay compliant. Patric Cunnane reports...

Mention the following to international operators and their hearts are likely to sink at the thought of more Brussels red tape...

Satellite communicatiur is are set to take a giant leap forward with next year's partial introduction of the Galileo system, a...

Redundancy is inevitably painful but the process can at least be civilised if employees' legal rights are respected. Patric...

FUTURE LEGISLATION Corporate manslaughter: The government wishes to introduce a new offence to hold organisations to account...

We've been waiting to get out hands on the new Daf XF105 for quite a while now — and our first 44-tonner at Euro-4 hasn't left...

back amongst the very front runners in the flagship tractor stakes. It's not only a highly-drivable machine, but a pretty...

soon as it passes your lips. "Let's test the freight carrying capacity of a bik' I said. "We can see how many Christmas...

a Euro-4 Citroen Berlingo, complete with revised torque delivery from its 2.0-litre HDI engine (up from 205Nm at 1,900rpm to...

Smart Nay from Traffic Master is linked to a 24-hour control centre which can be contacted with a touch of the screen on the...

Julian Milnes writes Of the four separate journeys the first had the most potential for a win: partly due to the distance...

Roly Lambert writes My part of the test was as a human with a 2003 edition of the A-Z. The locations I was given were at...

pulling — where multi-engined tractors packing up to 10,000hp battle for supremacy. But for dairy farmer Peter Clarke and his...

• A laser beam is used to measure th distance the sledge has moved with p point precision. • A competitor has three minutes...

Its all about pulling a weight transfer device called a sled along a 100m track. The tractor that moves the sled the furthest...

W hen something gut-wrenchingly awful happens, your mind can become paralysed, stuck in the headlights of the event and unable...

various lements of the South African road transport industry must work together o succeed — and failure is simply not an...

Its not every day CM has the chance to get behind the wheel of a 1931 Bedford. But this outing revives memories for Colin...

Do you know the density of balsa wood or plutonium? Do you need to calculate the volume of a pyramid? Or even know how ESP...

I 'rpm the Illustrated History of British Motoring series, Forty Years of the Ford Transit 1965-2005 is a compact but thorough...

Bored ith the daily grind around the M25? You could always follow Michael Palin's lead and become a lumberjack in British...

You can read about our recent drive in one of the first Bedfords on page 64, but if you want a bigger fix of Britain's...

Ihis is an unusual volume, a novel about to written by a driver. It tells the story of the u and downs of a fictional North...

Forget what you think you know. Let go for a moment of the comf half-truths picked up in the pub -'the US has trillions of...

Roadside Relics is the culmination of a decade spent by our own Will Shiers, of sister paper Motor Transport, travelling the US...

WOOD Every year Norway sends us a giant Christmas tree to brighten up Trafalgar Square. Tim Maughan traces its journey from...

its 10am on Thursday 30 November. British Embassy staff and Ann-Helen Holmslet from Oslo City Council have brought us to the...

It's Monday 4 December and we're up at 4am. By 5.30am we're crossing Westminster Bridge to link up with Petersen and Rumble...

This is the 60th Norwegian Christmas tree to grace Trafalgar Square It is a gift. from Norway, in memory of British assistance...

— but as Julian 'Wines 4 , found out, modern technology takes away much of the strain. 9 T here comes a time in the life of...

It's worth remembering that tne great ano the good also have truly bad days. Hilary Devey's speech to her members at Pall-Ex's...

The bodybuilding operation run by Junction 6 Commercials is thrivin: reflecting rising demand for new trucks. Steve Banner...

Hauliers wary of Euro-4 are hanging on to late-year Euro-3 trucks, forcing dealers to scrap for anything that is available....