by Karen Miles • The prospect of hundreds of hauliers suing the major ferry companies came closer this week as the European...

• Hays' distribution arm has increased operating profits by 29% to £49.1m on a turnover of £396.5m in the year to 30 June...

• An asphalt producer is asking its owner-drivers to fork out up to £1,000 on sheeting equipment in preparation for a Health &...

by Amanda Bradbury and Karen Miles • Department of Transport chiefs are considering making would-be hauliers pay a...

• Tiphook continues to insist that a bankruptcy petition faced by its flamboyant founder Robert Montague does not affect its...

FERRYMAN? commiEN'ir A ccording to Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all...

• Heavy haulier GCS Johnson has been fined £1,100 after a bulldozer carried on one of its low-loaders broke loose and crushed a...

• The Heavy Transport Association has submitted proposals to the Home Office which it hopes will establish standards in advance...

by Lee 'Umber • At least 50 hauliers face losing their Operators-licences because a loud authority wants to make room for a...

• A BRS engineer plans to buy the depot where he works from his employer's sister company Hyperion. Sen Mirza plans to use the...

by Karen Miles • British Rail's Freightliner operation could be sold to the private sector within three months, threatening...

• Ferrylink Freight Service has added a second ship to its Sheerness-Vlissingen route. The Ferry/ink Schelde has room for 63...

III Applied Distribution plans to expand two of its recent acquisitions after registering a 28% increase in turnover to £15.3m,...

• Experts are working on an EC quality standard for the transport of dangerous goods, but any plan to make the standard...

• A strike threat by 363 Calor Gas workers has evaporated after all but a handful of employees accepted personal contracts with...

by Ian Wylie • Hopes of salvaging the 1200m cross-Channel livestock trade were dashed this week as ferry companies dismissed a...

• Two Eddie Stobart managers have been fined for helping drivers falsify their tacho records. The two are both traffic managers...

• A Harrogate plant hire firm has been hit by three thefts in less than a month. On 14 September thieves broke into David...

by Jane Sayer • Essex-based heavy haulier Rod Done of Engineering Services is seeking an exgratia payment from Lloyds Bank...

• Merlin Distribution is trying to cast off the spell of former parent company Heron by breaking into the lucrative—but...

P&O joins the ever - lengthening list of major transport companies posting poor results for its road transport businesses: P&O...

by Bryan Jarvis • Iveco Ford's EuroCargo 4x4 range is now available, so if you want one for Christmas place your order now....

Haulage, has lost an appeal to move from Wimborne to Ringwood, Hants, increasing his licence from six vehicles and trailers to...

Vehicle Spares to repay £186.25 which it had deducted from the wages of driver Richard Cooper for damage to one of its vehicles.

as Gear Transport, of Felixstowe, has been revoked on grounds of repute and financial standing.

• Overloading a vehicle with contaminated soil, and allowing it to be driven by an unlicensed driver, cost Edwards Excavations...

• The licence held by Philip Stanford of Kidderminster, trading as Wolverley Plant Hire, has been renewed until the end of...

a condition imposed on the renewal of its 30-vehicle/100-trailer licence, banning reefers from its Lymne Industrial Park base.

Cumbrian driver John Stott £394 in fines and costs. Stott, of Newbiggin on Lune, admitted five offences before the Penrith...

• Untaxed vehicles and prohibition notices led to Dudley Freight's licence duration to be cut, to expire at the end of 1995....

by Juliet Morrison • Silentnight's Earl Dawson has seen off competition from 900 other drivers to he crowned Truck Driver of...

• Drivers are invited to truck on down to a taste of 1950s Americana at a Tamworth diner run by Granada. The Rock Island...

• Demand for temporary drivers in the South-East is so strong that Kelly Industrial believes it can place almost any LGV Class...

• The BRS Chesterfield truckstop was this week due to change hands to an owner who plans to spend at least 2100,000 on...

orcester truck driver David Yeomans is happy as a pig on a duvet having won £2.3m on the pools. Sticking to the same numbers...

ichard Cresswell proudly accepts the best livery award at the Biggar Veteran and Vintage Rally from Catherine Tuck, project...

5 rockiest faces potential threat from the Criminal Justice Bill which becomes law this autumn. Under this act gatherings of...

(der readers will remember that catchphra se by, I think, either Max Miller or Paddy Ashdown, that went, "Nice one Cyril!" It...

Children saved itself 225,000 on its vehicle budget by refurbishing four exDutch army Dais for its aid work in Bosnia (CM 28...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

of cough tipper work it has got to be designed single-mindedly for that job. And only one fits the bill the Leyland DAF 45...

• The Institute of Road Transport Engineers is celebrating its 50th anniversary with Team International `94—a major transport...

• The Port and Traction Association, a group of hauliers which is lobbying for improved rates and conditions, is holding a...

• The Transport of Dangerous Goods by Sea and Inland Waterways conference is being held on 7-9 November. It will take place in...

• Drivers of vehicles carrying or towing hazardous goods must pass an examination by 1 January 1995 if they want to continue...

• Hauliers who are looking for drivers in the South-West may be able to solve recruitment problems by finding staff from a new...

• Touche Ross Management Consultants has started to give advice on whether companies could benefit from switching their...

• The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) has set up an off-shoot to represent its members in the franchised dealer and...

• The cost for an annual test (MoT) for light goods vehicles in Class VII has increased from .C27.94 to .C28.84. The maximum...

• A curtainsider which is reinforced with a steel mesh, to protect valuable loads against thieves, has come on the market....

NI A floor sealant, designed to protect concrete floored workshops against corrosion, is available in four colours from...

• A range of pot pourristyled in-cab air fresheners has been introduced by Holt Lloyd. The Holts Fruits of the Forest...

• There will be major repairs until early December to the M62 in West Yorkshire, between J31, the A655 interchange at Whitwood,...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpea: 48p...

Take one Cummins/Eaton/Rockwell driveline, arrange it neatly in a Foden chassis and plant a Boalloy box on top. It's a...

to try out our test vehicle and give their opinion. We took the Foden 2210 to the BP truckstop at South Mimms... They hod few...

Cheshire haulier J Chadwick won a £1,000 pair of curtains in a CM competition—before you could say "cuppa" his prize was...

chess. Truck assemblers—and the operators they supply—want axles which are lighter than their predecessors, so that payload can...

That's the uncompromising view of Mike Thompson, sales director of GKN Axles' Kirkstall Division. With 98% of the European...

pay offs and share bonuses for the top dogs in industry. Can it be justified in the ultra-competitive haulage industry, or is...

You might avoid paying VAT by splitting your business—true or false? in this second of four articles, a former VAT inspector...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER W e must ask you to consider how ill conceived is the policy of a5% above inflation...