“No one really knows what a nightmare it is to be a subbie at the moment.” That is what one tipper subcontractor in the...

By Chris Tindall OPERATORS ARE being urged to check their licensing status after lawyers warned revocation was on the cards if...

FRAUD EXPERTS are warning hauliers to remain vigilant of attempts by criminals to stage accidents with LGVs, after a report...

By Derren Hayes THE FUTURE OF the reborn TruckPol initiative ( CM 20 September) is expected to be cemented today (22 November)...

A NEW CROSSING over the M9, at one of Scotland’s bridge bash hotspots, has been designed to reduce the number of strikes...

Palletways new 60,000ft 2 hub in Morley, Leeds last week. The hub will cut annual fuel costs by £650,000 by reducing...

“British truckers are having their nuts screwed off anticlockwise” Dick Denby Denby Transport (page 381 “I don’t see...

By Ashleigh Wight THE MANAGEMENT team at Sims Worldwide Logistics has completed a prepack administration, after the...

co-founder of well-known haulier Maguires of Cheltenham, took place last week with a strong show of support from the road...

Technical reporter George Barrow went to visit CM Downton in Moreton Valence and learnt to be a transport manager for a day....

• Norfolk haulier has restored Volvo F10 stolen from yard • O-licence revoked after driver gives false details to Vosa •...

@VosaOfficer – My first customer of the day tacho infringement £60 fine for going over 4:30hr by 1hr with no excuse or print...

By Chris Druce THE DVLA has claimed the problem that saw digital tachograph cards to fail en masse in March this year has been...

eBay charity auction of sister title Truck & Driver’s pimped Scania. The outfit won the unique tractor unit with a bid of...

PALL-EX IS launching a range of services and products for its members to sell next year in a bid to keep close to the UK market...

Lorries over 17 tonnes using a Kent village as a cutthrough will be asked to find alternative routes by Kent County Council...

By Roger Brown STOBART GROUP has been fined £30,000 after a problem with a refrigeration system at its facility in...

PLANS FOR a ‘super cycle corridor’, linking east and west London, could spell trouble for hauliers making kerbside...

St Philips-based truck dealer Imperial Commercials has invested £160,000 in an authorised testing facility (ATF) at its Daf...

for help after one of its Volvo trucks was stolen from its yard. The 1993-registered Volvo F10 was last seen at the firm’s...

THE HEAD OF Skills for Logistics (SfL) has said a new scheme aimed at recruiting ex-services personnel into the road transport...

By Chris Tindall DRIVERS IN Scotland are organising a protest against 40mph speed limits, after the government said plans to...

CONSETT-BASED Elddis Transport has put its first urban artic on the road, as an alternative to the 18-tonne Mercedes-Benz...

Haulage goes child friendly with kids’ club IT WAS BOUND to happen: road transport’s most prominent haulier, Eddie...

Armistead European Transport has put the Schmitz Cargobull’s speed curtain trailer to work on its multidrop operations. MD...

A central tyre inflation system (CTIS) was one of the reasons behind Tir-Y-Berth, Mid Glamorgan-based Karl Jones and Son...

Oxfordshire-based tipper operator Smiths (Bletchington) has spent more than £400,000 updating its fleet with four new trucks...

Bristol-based Charles Saunders Foodservice has taken delivery of two 7.5-tonne 7C15 Fuso Canters from City West Commercials....

CM takes a look at the full scale of the digital tachograph failure that rocked the road transport industry earlier this year...

THE LOSS of ING (CM 15 November) comes at a time when CV finance has seen strong growth – September recorded new business...

A TRANSPORT manager with too much to do (CM 1 November)? This is a phrase that is often heard within the industry – but how...

REGARDING THE London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) (CM 1 November), here at Goldstar Heathrow we converted 25 trucks into Euro-4 to...

Trackwork has had its licence curtailed due to its failure to review maintenance procedures after a wheel loss incident By...

THE LONDON operation of ISS Facility Services has been given a formal warning and told it has six months to appoint an extra...

TARDIS Environmental UK has been fined £15,000 after a worker cleaning a blockage using a road tanker, with pump and hose...

ANTHONY GROVES AND PARTNERS has received authorisation for its four vehicles at the Pump House Garage facility in Northiam. It...

HOYER HAS BEEN granted permission to base 10 vehicles and 10 trailers at the South Eastern Tanker Services site in Dagenham.

BP HAS BEEN given the green light to base 10 vehicles and 10 trailers at a new operating centre at the Vopak Terminal in Grays,...

EXPERT LOGISTICS has applied to run 25 vehicles and four trailers out of a new site at Commerce Way in Croydon, Surrey.

WOKING-BASED South East Demolition and Waste has been given the go-ahead to base three vehicles at a site on the Martland...

A & S FARM SERVICES can run seven vehicles and five trailers out of its Butterfly Yard site in Colchester. A condition attached...

PARCEL FIRM Nightfreight has received authorisation to run 20 vehicles and four trailers out of its new operating centre in...

● A public inquiry on 29 November will consider a new application made by Leicestershire-based SJB Transport. ● Melton...

Police in Scotland have agreed a process with the traffic commissioner to take action against drivers flouting mobile phone...

deadly sins A new European regulation lists seven key offences that threaten the good repute of operators and transport...

Exceptional service and organisation How many Fs can you spot in the following sentence? “ Finished files are the result of...

Much has been said by various parties about the government’s plans to charge foreign trucks for using UK roads. But what do...

Possibly the biggest company you’ve never heard of, Pullman Fleet Services repairs and maintains more than 20,000 tractors,...

The Cabtec cab used by Seddon Atkinson, Pegaso and Daf is still alive and kicking 25 years on in the flagship Daf XF105 Words:...

Mercedes-Benz general manager of used CVs Adam Slater discusses the importance and support of the used truck market following...

OUR FAVOURITE truck this week is a 2010-registered Renault Premium 18tonne box body, listed by Allports Truck Centre....