The agreement with all 32 London boroughs is a "major step forward", according to the Freight Transport Association. Chris...

SATELLITE NAVIGATION system manufacturer Snooper is urging - fleet drivers to update their navigation equipment daily to...

DA IMLERCI IRYSLER and Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FPT) have agreed a major supply deal. which will see the Fuso Canterfitted...

Birthday honour for FTAs Turner RICHARD TURNER, chief executive of the Freight Transport Association (FTA), has been made an...

AB Volvo is investing more than 2122m in Volvo Powertrain to boost manufacturing capacity by 20% for heavy diesel engines and...

Over the past eight weeks, HM Revenue and Customs has seized more than seven million cigarettes with a duty value of around...

The government is to publish a consultation paper to gauge opinion on lowering the legal drinking and driving limit from 80mg...

Eurotunnel and Port of Dunkirk have signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop a co-ordinated approach to rail freight...

More than 150 employers from across England, including organisations from the automotive and transport sector, have signed a...

Weekend roadworks on the Forth Bridge will be suspended for the summer and start up again on 7 September.

The environmental transport body wants the government to revisit the idea of lorry road user charging. Roanna Avison reports....

A HAULAGE COMPANY in the North-West has hit back at complaints from locals over its application to increase its licence by...

A COMBINATION of red tape and stiff competition from European businesses is hitting Yorkshire and Humberside haulage firms...

EDDIE HARPER, long-standing member and chairman of the RHA's Livestock Hauliers Group, has been made an MBE in the Queen's...

TURNOVER AND profits at Yorkshire haulage company Archbold Logistics fell in 2006, but the company expects both to pick up this...

THE FIRST national truck drivers' conference will be held on 4 April 2008 at the Embassy Conference Centre, Skegness,...

The TCS and TGX ranges include a contender for the title of Europe's most powerful highway truck. Cohn Barnett reports. MAN...

THE UK VERSION of the European drivers' hours laws, 561/2006, was to be debated in the House of Lords this week after CM went...

The associations team up to provide RHA members with the ETA's well-established vehicle inspection service. Roanna Avison...

THE FREIGHT TRANSPORT Association (FTA) has this week launched a green website, called Sustainable Distribution, to help...

AITHOUGHTHL trialoflonger, heavier vehicles (LHVs) in the Netherlands has so far gone well. word has it that the maximum weight...

ESSEX-BASED supply-chain company SCS Logistics has taken delivery of five new Euro-5-compliant Volvo FH tractor units. The...

past week's hot topics of discussion among members of the UK's leading internet forum for professional drivers. This week's...

The FTA says the restriction has "enormous" safety implications because LGVs will not be able to turn around. Chris Tindall...

THE ROYAL MAIL has ordered its first electric vehicles for trials in the UK from Tanfield's Smith Electric Vehicles. The Edison...

VOLKSWAGEN COMMERCIAL Vehicles is launching an advertising campaign designed to convince buyers of the business case for buying...

The supermarket giant has decided to have just one union recognition agreement, with Usdaw. Roanna Avison reports. ALL THE...

MORE THAN A third of UK transport employers have no intention of paying more attention to their workers' health, despite new...

RYDER EUROPE IS introducing a programme of health assessment and maintenance for its entire workforce. More than 1,000...

There are many tales of illegal clamping, but what exactly is your legal position? Roanna Avison reports. C lamping is an...

Thurrock Services off the M25 because he had a stomach complaint. It was 3.30am and the truck park was full. He parked on a...

There must be notices posted where you can clearly see them, warning that unauthorised vehicles will be clamped. • Your...

• Don't lose your temper or attempt to remove a wheel clamp unless you have exceptionally good reasons you could be sued for...

With the LEZ only eight months away, this month's CM/Vichelin business monitor asks operators for their opinion of London's...

to Roanna Avison about his plans to increase the company's share of this sector. F leet sales have not been a major goal at...

AS SOMEONE WHO has studied articles on LGVs from the time when CM used to carry a few pages on buses (my main interest), I feel...

WORKING IN THE commercial vehicle industry and specifically in contract hire, I spend a considerable time representing my...

The FTA has called on the government to invest more money in transport links leading to UK ports in order to solve the current...

The Deputy IC rejected the firm's 0-licence application after the fleet had run without a licence for eight months. Mike Jewell...

A TEESSIDE READY-MIXED IN concrete contractor has had its licence cut from 10 to five vehicles as a result of a string of...

LIVERPOOL-BASED Seaforth Haulage Contractors has won a three-vehicle increase to its nine-vehicle licence authorisation after...

A FATHER AND SON must wait to learn if their family business will lose its licence. In the meantime Welsh DeputyTraffic...

South Ockendon, Essex-based Clifford Adamson has won an appeal against the termination of his one-vehicle restricted licence by...

Despite the headlines that have followed a few spectacular accidents the UK tanker sector has a good safety record. Pat Hagan...

When all else fails grievances are handled by Employment Tribunals. But will a proposed change in the law reduce their...

least have instigated the statutory disciplinary procedure before dismissing an employee. An employee who wants to take an...

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

The International Transport of Goods Under Cover of TIR Carnets (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, CIF 1 April 2007....

iveco's revamped Daily has plen - y of promise, but in a sector full of stars it needs to produce the goods if it wants to...

vehicle. Having been bought from a bloke in a field and driven 80 miles home, it decided to break down just short of its...

van was slow, with appalling load access and a terrible payload.., basically the laughing stock of the van world. Unless one of...

existed, we might not have had the highly successful Vauxhall Vivaro, Renault Trak and Nissan Primastar, which are built in...

lead one to believe the Royal Symphonic Orchestra was tuning up in the back. There was a stereo, but we couldn't hear it beyond...

This challenge was designed to establish if you could buy a half-decent van for EON. The simple answer is yes —hut whether...

Ignoring the trials and tribulations of how each van found its way to the test day, I've assessed them purely on how they were...

make sure you are easy to see, which is why the law requires the use of high-visibility clothing in the workplace. CM takes a...

can be serious—but when deliveries are being made to high streets or built-up areas,it's not just employees who are exposed to...

for a report commissioned by the HSE to discover what they thought the dangers were on customers' sites and how they could he...

I t's not only the public that operators must protect against transport-related risks. Employees are also subject to a great...

MAN has gone to the top of the high-horsepower league with the arrival of its new TGX/TGS heavy truck range. Andy Salter...

I t was ironic that the first topic to be tackled by our panellists should be the problems of spurious parts and product...

of Whole Vehicle Type Approval (WVIA) would appear dull after more weighty matters of spurious parts and red tape. But the...

the responsibility yourself. If you're talking about safety-related products. and a lot of trailer components are just that, in...

For an industry beset with countless regulations we asked our panellists to engage in a bit of crystal-ball gazing. While the...

GE's TIP Trailer Services F.'leetCare — TIP's Contract Maintenance iolution has been developed to provide ustomers with fixed...

CLEAR Consulting Consolidation is corning to the European trailer industry if not today then definitely tomorrow. That was the...

Congleton, Cheshire. The recent buy-out by James Murray Fabrications of Northern Ireland has cured Boalloy's delivery...

In addition to an all-new aerodynamic tractor-trailer package and a new demountable systems, Don-Bur has become a major...

richard.owens@donhur.co.uk ▪ www.donbur.co.uk Gray & Adams Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Celebrating 50 years as a reefer...

KassTal UK marketsTalson branded dry freight trailers, including its air cargo range. Built at Goch in Germany, they can he...

KelBerg's broad dry freight trailer portfolio includes curtainsiders equipped with standard or'mega' style bodywork. Roofs can...

Long lead times stretching to next April have slowed Kogel imports to a trickle. but its model changes have speeded up...

A major European trailer manufacturer. Krone's impressive dry freight range includes Profi Liners, Mega Liners, steel coil and...

Lawrence David's weekly dry freight output of around 50 units, is mainly taken up by doubledeckers of various types. Most of...

Specialist Trailer Hire. Rothwell, Leeds. STH sells the Tirsan range in the UK, but mostly curtainsiders. Recent orders...

Steady growth in demand for pillarless curtainsiders, and short two-axled urban artics with Tridec command steer systems looks...

Doncaster, S.Yorks. Montracon builds semi-trailers to bespoke and stock designs, at Doncaster, Market Weighton and...

Muldoon Transport Systems produces a range of curtainsided and box van trailers, mainly for its Irish customers. Many are built...

Harelaw, Co Durham. Having set so many ambitious targets for the years ahead, Schmitz Cargobull's CV Show line-up underlined...

SDC produces a wide range of curtainsiders. and standard or insulated boxvan dry freight trailers. Design options include the...

Scunthorpe, N. Lincs. SONIl's latest design of multipallet carrier claims to deliver a 31% increased load volume, simply by...

South Hedley, Essex. Belgian manufacturer Van Hoot produces around 5,000 trailers a year of all types.They comprise dry freight...

Keighley, W. Yorks. WTrailers' double-deck curtainsided trailers and bodywork includes the tri-axle Eco-Deck which enterprising...

Ryton, Tyne & Wear. Aliweld claims to have the lightest like-for-like trailer body available. It exhibited a 50m" aluminium...

Lievin, N. France. Benalu's two recent Tip-Ex exhibits were a 9.3m long, 49m 3 AgriLiner grain carrier weighing 5240kg and a...

Dungannon, Co Tyrone. Established in 1999, Dungannonbased BMI produces a range of moving-floor trailers and other smooth-sided...

Dungannon, Co Tyrone. Chieftain sells heavy-duty bulker and tipping trailers across the UK and Ireland. Its half pipe Rockstar...

EuroTrailers builds steel tipping trailers with straight, stepped or tapering frames and capacities upto 69m, its even larger...

Fruehauf continues to develop its product range while holding on to traditional characteristics. New "evolved' tipping models...

Granalu's two factories near Madrid, produce ribbed or smooth-sided tippers and a range of bulkers with either Keith. I lyva or...

JBCTrailers manufactures a range of standard tipping trailers plus ones that discharge using ejection and Keith moving floor...

Keiberg offers UK users a choice of smooth side and half-round tippers, bulkers,and 87m 3 ejector trailers. It is also planning...

Downham Market, Norfolk. Moving floor exponent Knapen sells them via its Downham Market office and UK Commercial Services of...

Dutch moving floor specialist Kraker sells and supports its products through Newton Trailers. Using either Keith or Cargo...

51200 Epernay, France. Legras moving floor trailers include side door options for backloads, and waste transfer models with...

Montracon Doncaster, S. Yorks. Montracon's 30th anniversary coincides with the completion of a £4.5m factory investment...

specialist products from tippers and bulk blowing trailers to articulated cement mixer trailers. One of these was on display at...

Allen Munro Commercials, Burscough, Lancs. poiski Trailers moving floor hulkers are sold in the UK and Ireland by coowned...

Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs. Reynolds Boughton builds hulk compaction and ejection body systems on rigids and semi-trailers with...

Rothdean's operation is quite a diverse one; tipping trailer manufacturer, used vehicle sales, trailer rentals and a full...

Built at its Gotha factory, the trailer is now in the fleet of Tiverton-based Stoneman Stainless Haulage. • Andrew Morley 2...

SDC's re-engineered bathtub tipping trailer is based on an original Geo. Neville design.On show at Tip-Ex, the 50m 3 , 6,540 kg...

Environmental is the UK sales and service agency for Belgian moving floor specialist Serrus Trailers. It favours the Keith...

Stas builds around 2,000 tipping and moving floors a year, and has 1,500 trailers operating here and in Ireland. Its very...

Trent is best known for heavyduty steel tipping trailers and muckaway truck bodies, all built with triple cross rails to...

United Trailers (UK) manufactures quality aluminium tipping,ejection and Cargo Floor discharge trailers. They include...

Weightlifter has 25 years experience of building aluminium and high-tensile steel bulk tippers including the swaged...

Wilcox builds high-quality aluminium tipping trailers and bodywork, all designed to meet the IRTE's category A standards....

Allen Munro Commercials, Burscough, Lancs. Cafrime reel eis based on Leci trailer chassis are marketed here and in Ireland by...

Altrincham, Cheshire. Cartwright showed just one of a range of temperature controlled trailers at the CV Show including a...

Chereau's newest Inogam 2 reefer is one of the sturdiest, most durable designs available. Production is being phased in across...

68800 Kalby, Finland. Finnish reefer specialist Ekeri builds around 600 trailers, drawbars and truck bodies a year. and 80% are...

.iimy Gray imports and sells three basic Filippa reefers into the UK and Ireland:supermarket versions for palletised foods; a...

Backed by 50 years experience of building reefers, the Gray & Adams portfolio spans reefer boxes to complex multicompartmental...

Immingham, Lincs. Krone's Coot Liner 2 seen at the CV Show has gained a much sturdier front end, with wider, thicker run-up...

Lamberet's newest SR2 reefer design is attracting UK fleets— so says 'retiring md Daniel Laffly. After 28 years as head of...

Trials of Lawrence David's two multi-compartment prototype reefers are continuing but it is manufacturing several for some dry...

Montracon reefers produced at its Market Weighton factory include the largest straight frame single compartment trailers to...

Paneltex's Hull factory has the capacity to build up to five trailers a week ranging from refrigerated versions to highly...

A family owned business, Ouinns RV build a range of GRP rigid and semi-trailer reefers at its new 60.000 ft 2 facility in...

Schmitz's Harelaw-built S.K0 Cool reefers are one of the UK's two best sellers amongst Britain's big fleets. Using Ferroplast...

415 3 ZG Beesd, Netherlands. Van Eck offers two reefers; the Mega Unitrans for airfreight pallets and a dual temperature...

Along with a new programme of fitting pre-assembled A DR tanks to rigids. Cobo continues to supply its usual range of aluminium...

Clayton Commercials builds road tankers for the chemicals, edibles and liquefied gases industry. However, with the chemical...

Crossland produce around 400 road tankers at its two factory sites, to haul chemicals. bitumen, fuel oils and dairy products....

Although best known for its dry powder tan kers.Feldbinder is gaining ground in Britain's petroleum and fuel oil supply sectors...

Barely a decade old, the South African tanker builder 's UK office has already secured orders for RAF aircraft refuellers and...

Tamworth, Staffs. Since selling (Ails UK manufacturing base, Hell's Polish tanker building partner has supplied it with over...

Ros Roca's lndox division produces chemical, powder, petroleum and food grade carriers as well as GP tankers and LNG vessels....

KassTal is the UK sales outlet for Kassbohrer-badged fixed and tipping tanker and silo trailers. The range covers many dry....

(Williams Tanker Services) Morley, W. Yorks. Williams1 :1 riker Services are the sole distributor for Belgian LAG tankers,...

Lakeland's Innovator remains the only British-built large petroleum tanker on the market, and the version displayed at the FPS...

Boroughbridge, N. Yorks. Magyar is expanding into the UK's petroleum market and its vehicles displayed at both Telford and the...

Watts Truck Centre, Worcester. Normandy-based Maisonneuve builds around 200 stainless steel tankers a year, for the liquid...

Watts Truck Centre, Worcester. Munich manufacturer Rohr is already established in Ireland, and with Watts Truck Centre,...

Spitzer builds around 900 tankers a year — 70% go to Gallic clients who will be delighted that the 800kg lighter composite tank...

Vallely's lightweight, high spec' ADR vacuum tankers normally use US-made aluminium barrels but having recently been acquired...

Having forged a partnership with water recycling specialist Kaiser of Lichtenstein,Whale Tankers is also busy expanding its...

Andover, Hants. Newcomers amongst Andover Trailers' SED Show line-up included a UKspec' power steered four-axle step-frame...

Grantham, Lincs. An extendible semi low-loader, seen at the recent SED show, was a variant of the 240 units which have been...

Rochdale, Lancs. Italian manufacturer Cornett° produces a range of heavy haulage trailers and its UK representative, Darren...

Dungannon, Co Tyrone. Chieftain produces a range of trailers for agricultural, commercial and industrial use. They include...

Lancaster. Dennison's range of plant and industrial trailers is extensive. They include extending stepframes, machinery...

Traffco, Corby, Northants. Faymonville has a range of modular multi-axle low loaders, step-framed plant carriers and road...

Faymonville's UK agent Traffco sells over 100 units a year with service support provided by Rydam Universal of Leeds. OE Peter...

Halifax, W. Yorks. KassTa I showed a 47t. payload extendible four-axled low-loader with excavator trough, 3.5m forward...

Bicester, Oxon. Kelberg UK office supplies the S30 low-loaders with STGO Cat 2 capability. These are 13.5m tri-axle...

antic plant trailer is a two-axle, short step-frame design offering 20t. payloads, and with matching 4x2 tractive unit, i t...

Doncaster, S.Yorks. Montracon builds machinery trailers for 48t. GCW operation. These have rear hydraulic run-on ramps, air...

Allen Munro Commercials, Burscough, Lancs. UK sales and distribution of Nicolas special types trailers are handled by Allen...

Corby, Northants. Nooteboom Trailers' SED line-up of six trailers were all for the UK's special transport and heavy haulage...

Redrock, Co.Armagh. Examples of Redrock's midweight dump and low-loader trailers seen at the SED show included a 14-tonner with...

Specialist Trailer Hire. Rothwell, Leeds. Specialist Trailer Hire sells the Tirsan range in the UK, especially single and...

WTrailers has ventured into the plant transporter field with a lightweight flatbed semi-trailer for hauling collections of...

Dennison skeletals are mostly built in Lancaster, including its familiar sliding-bogie model, tipping versions and a...

Kassbohrer's latest 12-lock flat or gooseneck skeletal offers an interesting alternative to the UK's sliding bogie - norm'....

Kogel's new Port-MAXX skeletal range includes the Simplex 40 with and without pull-out rear frame, and Duplex 45 with front...

MG like Boalloy is part of the James Murray group. hut still keeps its own trailer brand. Its product line-up of skeletals,...

1VIontracon is a prominent player in the skeletals sector; recent sales include 100 rolling bogie skeletals to Freightliner...

Ray Smith's Bogies division builds a range of centre and steeraxled drawbar trailers, plus its own unique dividing CornbiSlider...

S DC's rigid and extending sloping frame skeletals can carry all sizes and combinations of ISO containers at 44t.GCW....

An example of Cosby's speciallyequipped trailers is the 10m Audi trailer which. with its gull-wing expansion system, curved...

Houghton-Park house celebrates 60 years of building high quality steel and aluminium livestock transporters.All are made to the...

Part of the Showpoint group, Lynton builds small mobile exhibition, hospitality and display trailers. Glynne Stockell IT 0161...

A Smith specialises in manufacturing high quality trailer-mounted units, for blue chip corporate hospitality, outside...

SM Trailers Wisbech St Mary, Cambs. smT is a small, specialist trailer builder, producing purpose-built trailers and bodywork...

Britain's last remaining large cartransporter designer Transporter Engineering manufactures Evolution and Plus-11 combinations...

Rolfo car transporters are sold in the UK via Abbey Hill's Yeovil engineering branch. Its main offering is the Orion range,...

The question is not will the bubble burst for Euro-3 analogue tractors, but when? CM'S man in the know says it will be this...

Axle manufacturers are struggling to keep up with booming used trailer sales at SDC Northern. Steve Banner reports. Si ...',...