• United Transport Container Haulage can afford to wield the big stick against the small hauliers it depencts on for its...

• The recession in container haulage hit a new crisis last week as hundreds of operators working for United Transport's...

• The Freight Transport Association says that French national law could provide a better route to compensation for losses...

• RoadExpress, the courier firm which works for British Rail parcels operator Red Star, has discovered one of its drivers...

• Struggling building firm Tarmac hopes to raise £100m from the sale of its environmental subsidiary, Tarmac Econowaste, as...

• Unaccompanied British trailers which are collected in French ports for delivery in France will no longer have to be pulled by...

• Fewer hauliers are being prosecuted after roadside and other spot checks because traffic examiners are being more lenient on...

• Calls for height and width restriction warning signs on UK roads to be metricated are being made this week after a French...

• Taxing employees who use company vans for private mileage has been slammed as "bureaucratic and costly" by Liberal Democrat...

• Iveco Ford will use next month's Ambex '92 show to launch a TurboDaily 40.12 ambulance equipped with specially developed air...

• Seddon Atkinson is supplying 174 tractive units to the Ministry of Defence in a contract worth an estimated £9m. The order...

• Northampton-based C Butt has invested £.2m in 36 environmentally friendly refrigerated trailers to service a six-year/ £20m...

• Volvo has made a series of revisions to its FL cab, including improved suspension, new colour schemes and revised interior...

• Leyland Daf has won an order for 21 tippers from civil engineer and contractor Norwest Hoist Pipework Services. The order...

• Mobil Oil has taken delivery of its first three Foden 4275 tractive units. The Cummins L10-275-powered models with petroleum...

• Scania could bring in a righthand-drive version of its lowheight tractive unit if current UK trials prove there is demand for...

• Joloda has supplied the first of three vehicles to be equipped with a specially developed invehicle nine-lane loading and...

• The first 21 Renault B110 chassis to be specified with automatic transmission have gone into service with Manchester City...

• Thermo King claims significant improvements in cooling capacity have been achieved by using its SMX front-mounted...

Oct 1991), Mercedes-Benz (UK) has contracted out its entire car and commercial vehicle parts distribution operation. About 30%...

• Securicor Omega Express has beaten four other operators to win a three-year/t3m national delivery contract from TSB, the UK's...

• TNT Express is backing a claimed 8.5% increase in parcel traffic in the South-West by investing more than £500,000 in two...

• Nash Readymix has stumped up a further £6,000 in its offer to a former owner-driver for his vehicle after CM revealed last...

• A West Country haulier has been refused payment by freight forwarder Northrise since October because he should have returned...

IN A Northern Counties management/employee buyout team has been named as preferred bidder for the Wigan-based bodybuilder....

• The first Volvo B6R midi coach is due to arrive in Britain in August from Portuguese bodybuilder Salvador Caetano (CM 17-23...

IN Dennis is poised to sell the Dart on the Continent with the appointment of former Jonckheere employee Pieter Donck, who...

• Henlys has issued a defence document warning its shareholders to reject a takeover bid from T Cowie. It promises changes at...

• Last week's announcement that Parcelforce is to be privatised ended more than two years of speculation. The Post Office...

Money for this move could be raised from venture companies and from the 13,000 employees themselves. Heseltine says he wants to...

• A haulier has won back his 0Licence after the Transport Tribunal ruled that a financial assessor exceeded his powers at the...

• Unauthorised use of vehicles and vehicle excise duty offences cost Jolly Roger Trucking £16,414,93 in fines, back duty and...

• DC Furber Partners' bid for a licence has been adjourned until September by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh,...

CM don't know? Perhaps the EC has new width regulations in the pipeline which wili force lorries to be no wider than the...

where he discovered that "the sunny Mediterranean island is the last resting — and working — place for thousands of aged trucks...

comment made to us by a tipper operator. Not everyone's power crazy!" Low to medium power trucks are still in the majority and...

but the FL7-260 differs by having tougher 12R 22.5 tyres on the front axle and saves weight by using alloy rims all round. Our...

C.,unr-rwarrisl M-tnr 91-90 11Ihr 1009 JG M ost hauliers would be pleased to win a year's free use of a new 7.5-tonner. But...

• Enterprising training companies are latching on to a change in the law which allows hauliers to employ part-time transport...

Applicants for a standard (hire and reward) 0-licence must satisfy the LA that they are "professionally competent" under the...

RAID • Boalloy has been bought by its bosses for the third time in 46 years. It may be losing money, but the new owners of the...

the offer of a seat on the board of the company he has been with in its various guises since 1958. "It was a hollow offer, made...

manager can relax. Yeardley is investing more than £1.5m in the latest Volvo/Tasker rigs with full, front-to-rear air...

very concerned at the results achieved with the SpanSet lashings because we find them inexplicable. None of the three test...

, T he road haulage industry seems to get more than its fair share of rules, laws and qualifications — all bound together with...