• Central Railway is bidding to get the go-ahead from Transport Secretary Sir George Young for a £3bn 180-mile freight railway...

• The Labour pm i o. %%arning hauliers who regularly run trucks part loaded that they will be more heavily taxed if it wins...

by Miles Brignall • ERF, the UK's last high-volume independent truck manufacturer, is to be taken over by the Canadian truck...

and management of the Australian-born Terry Peabody. He took over the company, which is not much larger than ERF, in 1991 and...

by Karen Miles • Smoking trucks will be hit by tough new emissions policing due to begin by the end of the year in four English...

SMALLER TRUCII BIGGER JAMS T here's something depressingly familiar parts of the Labour Party's National Tra, Strategy....

New owner-drivers should have to meet tougher standards of financial and professional competence, the Transport Select...

by Karen Miles • Livestock hauliers reeling from the beef crisis are preparing for another international setback with the...

• A major parcels carrier has upset some of its prospective customers by sending condoms to 1,200 of them in a marketing...

• Small businesses, including hauliers and owner-drivers, think it is too easy to set up a company and want action to cut the...

• The Piggyback Consortium has formally asked the Government for commercial parity with other types of intermodal...

by Karen Miles • The police are expected to introduce a scheme similar to delayed prohibitions that will require hauliers...

• The Road Haulage Association wants to hear from [lc who make heavy use of the Dartford Crossing so that put forward their...

by Derren Hayes • Thousands of drivers working for TransCo, British Gas's pipeline division, could lose their jobs following...

by Grizelda Graham • A couple whose haulage companies were trading at a loss "blatantly defrauded" sub-contractors of at least...

• Neil Kinnock has once again postponed his plans to triple motorway tolls in five EU countries after fierce opposition in...

• Transport planning is too important to be left to party politics, says transport minister Steven Norris. Norris said at the...

by Miles Brignall • Central Trailer Rental, the troubled trailer leasing firm, has unveiled a financial restructuring plan that...

• Government scientists are expected to recommend this week that part of the Olin Newbury Bypass should be designated a Special...

French stu dent Celine Figard (pic tured) is to stand trial at Worcester Crown Court on 2 October. Stuart William Morgan, 36,...

SE D stands for Site Equipment Demonstration but for the aver age truck operator it's more of a Special Equipment Display. If...

by Nicky Clarke • An extensive Government investigation into HGV and PCV enforcement is currently taking place in Parliament....

by Brian Weatherley • Andover Trailers has developed a dropwell lowloader for Burton-on Trent-based Roger Bullivant with an...

• German specialist trailer maker Goldhofer is developing a rear-steer system which, it says, will have an "almost...

• "Our aim is to broaden our customer base." Sandy Mathieson, director of Iveco's UK light vehicle division, told at the New...

T his year's IRTE Telford show was bigger than ever and, despite chilly weather, attendance was high enough to put smiles on...

by Toby Clark • Isuzu Truck (UK) finally launched its range at the IRTE show last week, as the firm released details and...

by John Kendall • The "New Daily", although little different in appearance, includes a new engine range, disc brakes all round...

• Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by J Pugh-Lewis being cut to 15 vehicles and six...

1 • I lereford-based 1 WS Transport has been issued with seven prohibitions and a defect notice since being granted a licence...

• Maintenance and its administration had been sadly neglected by DJ Transport (Littlehorough), said North Western Deputy...

• Selby livestock haulier Alec Blades Storey has been cleared of permitting four of his drivers to drive excessive hours and...

• Wixey Transport and its immediate neighbour reached a compromise over the firm's bid for additional vehicles and trailers,...

B oth CM and Motor Transport have recently reported the move towards more prohibitions. This is all very well but we still have...

T he Whistleblower's amnesty for drivers reporting employers who break the law (019-15 May) is all very well, but amnesty with...

please may! reassure your r readers that trucks heading to or from our ferry services at Fishguard Harbour (which is at nearby...

lain-spoken New York cabbies are to break the habit of a lifetime by being polite to customers. The revolution will be...

oliteness is not a problem on Venice's river-borne taxis, unless you are offended when a fellow passenger begins singing to you...

ugarworks mission to rot the nation's teeth continues unabated. The Essex promotional firm has just sold it 60,000th "truck" to...

watched a pick-i truck leave a shopping co Lfivichsvik, Ohio The yr crossed four lanes of trq9 a la /471, just missed a hou...

King, chairman of Castle Hill Quarries, Taunton. He recently collected the latest addition to his fleet, a new ERF EC12, from...

Mercedes-Benz has all the bases covered with its all-encompassing Sprinter range, but is there really a demand for a...

Most hauliers experience problems with slow payment but what do you do if phone calls, invoices and letters are ignored? Used...

If you want to win new business you'll probably have to enter the tendering game, in which case it's best to gather as much...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's Krone's Swap Trailer. This 18.65m drawbar/artic hybrid is creating a lot of interest with...

for deputy news editor. Miles II spent 10 nerve-wracking at Roadtrain's Essex centre ing for the big day... ometimes, in a...

In the run-up to the 1996 Commercial Motor Trailer ol Year awards our review of winners moves into the tank sector with...

fleet deteriorate' After losing his last maior contract, Notts tipperman Bill Ellis saw the writing on the wall and sold up,...