Hauliers can expect lc' delays, and possible cancellations, through the ports of Calais and Dunkirk and the Channel Tunnel...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers are invited by Transport Secretary Brian Mawhinney to give their views in his newly announced debate...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has been accused of running stop-go enforcement as it emerges that vehicle weighing has varied from...

by Mike Jewell • The trial of a haulage company director whose drivers were said to have made falsification of tachograph...

• Blackpool haulier Eric Valiance was horrified when he turned on his television set to see one of his own company's vehicles...

B e honest. How many times have you threatened to send a "Yours in disgust..." letter, only to let the moment slip by? Well...

by Miles Brignall • Lewes Magistrates Court has confirmed that traffic examiners are entitled to remove tacho charts from...

II The second major roadside check on hazardous goods trucks in three weeks has confirmed the worst fears of enforcement...

• County councils are to unite in their fight against a decision by the Government to reduce their control over lorries serving...

• Two men who ran a legitimate truck breaking business have received jail sentences after being found guilty of handling stolen...

by Amanda Bradbury • Directors of failed companies are now more likely to be disqualified by the courts, and for longer,...

• Four road improvement schemes have been added by the Department of Transport this week to the list of road building projects...

• Two ferry operators accused by the European Commission of illegally fixing a freight surcharge are set to appear at Brussels...

• Spalding Haulage and 19 of its existing and former drivers are to appear before magistrates on a catalogue of tachograph...

_J Robin Beresford of Park Avenue, Spalding, faces four charges of failing to take 11-hour daily rests in a 24-hour period. -.I...

by Nic Hanna • Shadow transport secretary Michael Meacher says a Labour government will reverse Tory plans to deregulate the...

• Commercial Motor helped save owner-driver Jason Bunce from going out of business last week after we publicised details of his...

• Harris Logistics, the recently formed food and drink arm of TDG, has signed a £3m three-year contract with -to distribute...

by Juliet Morrison II Hauliers with suitable vehicles are invited to bid for a series of Welsh timber distribution contracts....

• Insurers say they will no longer cover theft of vehicles when keys have been left outside in the absence of the driver. The...

• Transport Development Group has bought Reading - based Adrian Truck Hire as part of a planned series of acquisitions in the...

EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • As three major manufacturers prepare to launch heavy truck ranges in 1996 CM has spotted a...

by Toby Clark • The 1995 Escort Van incorporates many of the features of the latest saloon. As before the range has three...

M&G's high-cube delivery body is innovative in its own right, and also breaks new ground for a company best known for tankers...

The Skoda Foreman pickup's strongest selling point is its price: a new electric version is certainly quiet, but loses the...

• Dumfries-based Stanle3r J Boyd has been given a final warning by Scottish LA Michael Betts, Boyd appeared at a Dumfries...

• North Western LA Martin Albu has renewed the licence held by Oldham-based haulier Martin Darlington, but Albu issued a formal...

• A disciplinary hearing against Walsall-based Mohammed fftikhar has been adjourned for proof that fines have been paid.

• Maintenance problems and convictions have led to the licence held by Leeds-based William Melvyn Jones, trading as L Naylor,...

• A bid for a licence for eight trucks and eight trailers by Scottish Motor Auction Group of Kinross was granted at an...

• Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by Halesowen-based Round Oak Motor Services being cut...

• North Western LA Martin Albu has granted Brendan Hickey of Openshaw, Manchester a new licence for three vehicles and one...

• Hauliers who pull another com pany's trailers could be blamed if the trailers are found to be defective. North Western...

1 -. Worthing based Trevor Martin, trading as Chrisleigh Plants, has been warned that further maintenance problems could...

T found the 10 truck makers' lresponse times to a breakdown (CM19-25 Januar0 interesting reading, with MAN picking up top...

(- V ie of the most colourful Vand longstanding characters in the truck business has passed away. Sid Joyner collapsed and died...

• Invicta Trucks, the Ford heavy truck dealer in east Kent, is opening a new dealership in Ashford. near the Channel Tunnel...

▪ Renault Trucks Essex is to open in West Thurrock this summer. Parent company Renault Truck Commercials will invest £1.2...

• A new MAN centre in the Midlands has opened at the Grovehall Estate in Exha11. It will offer a full service including 24-hour...

• The Forum of Private Business has arranged a special deal for businesses who feel their rating revaluations are too high....

• Compair's distributor Motivair has introduced two customer services aimed at saving plant downtime. Protect Air covers plant...

• A recent survey suggests that some firms are charging U p to 23 times more than other companies for the same overnight...

• The Health & Safety Executive has a new free leaflet Read the Label explaining the importance of reading the labels on...

• The Road Haulage Association's TipCon exhibition and convention for the tipper sector will be held in Harrogate on 28-30...

2500 being stolen from the Harrow Civic Centre car park in Middlesex. The white truck, signwritten Transend—a customer of...

• The national conference of the Freight Transport Association will be held at the Belfry, Wishaw on 1-2 March. Fees, excluding...

• A seminar on the issues raised by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution will be held by the SMMT in London on 22...

• A new conference focusing on the controlled temperature distribution market will take place on 6 April at the Centennial...

• A three-day programme of seminars is being staged from 24-26 April by the SIVIMT in conjunction with ReMIT, the automotive...

• North Sea Ferries has announced the introduction of a roll-on roll-off service between Middlesbrough (Teesport) and Rotterdam...

• Brittany Ferries is looking to start a new long distance service to the French Atlantic Coast. Bordeaux and La Rochelle arc...

• German company Hoppecke has developed a CV high-energy density battery that uses a hybrid dual-alloy system. It offers...

• The Estepe close-coupled connector, designed to give extra truck/trailer clearance on drawbars on ferry ramps, is now...

• National Breakdown has renamed itself Green Flag National Breakdown in a bid to create an easily recognisable symbol for the...

• Linpic-Sovex has published a brochure outlining the firm's conveyors for rapid loading and unloading of vehicle carrying high...

• The Walsall section of the Black Country Route, from the Keyway to junction 10 of the M6, was opened last week (10 Feb). The...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following M Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min off-peak;...

concept vehicle materialise into the real thing. When we saw the impressive Renault Virage in the mid-eighties it seemed to be...

AE500.19TD Magnum over CM's 1,183km Scottish route. While the big 76.4-litre Mack engine set new Power standards, its 2,000Nm...

Price as tested: £10,575 ex-VAT (210,485 plus £90 for dual passenger seat). Engine: 2.0 litres, 110hp (82kW). GVW: 2,800kg....

Tr atnin g is an overused word. Is there any point in trainin g someone to do a job they are already doin g perfectly well? No,...

• As a Brit, who passed the HGV test in Scotland, and drove trucks in Britain and on the Continent for five years, I believe...

approve a centre for verified schemes. The centre could be a haulage company assessing its own staff, a college of further...

LEVEL ONE Assisting in Road Haulage & Distribution Operations. 10 units, £50 LEVEL TWO Transporting Goods by Road Seven units,...

by the CBI to cost the economy £10000 million a year in wasted time and energy. Yet a question mark continues to hang over the...

More than 300 years ago Sir Isaac Newton stated: "Every action has an ..... equal and opposite reaction." So that does this...

Brake, the campaign for tougher penalties on operators who break the law, should be supported by all law abiding hauliers, says...

A nyone who's enjoyed a few pints of liquid refreshment at an open-air concert or sports event will know that the most welcome...

T he day is fast approaching when in-cab fax machines will be standard equipment for large fleet operators who are increasingly...

N o one would argue against the potential efficiency gains if you can contact your drivers on the road, and the first reaction...