• Leeds-based A-One Transport is laying off drivers. The company imposed the redundancies after staff rejected changes to pay...

by Lee Kirnber • Dozens of hauliers breaking driving hours regulations have been prosecuted in the past year as a result of...

• Industrial action at the household removals division of Pickfords moved closer this week after negotiations on working...

by Ian Wylie • Calderdale magistrates will meet next Wednesday (30 April) to hear a pre-trial review of manslaughter charges...

• A Basingstoke owner-driver could lose his house and business after thieves stole his second specialist timber hauling truck...

I t all sounds wonderful. And very worrying. What are we talking about? The plans by architect Sir Norman Foster to remove...

by Lee Kimber • Armed soldiers have been rigorously enforcing France's Sunday truck ban despite the unofficial agreement to...

• A truck driver whose evidence helped convict three members of a drugs gang has been forced to seek police protection after...

• Officials from the Transport & General Workers union will meet this weekend to discuss tactics in their campaign to improve...

by Sally Nash • The Inland Revenue is predicting that up to 15% of hauliers could be contributing to the the Chancellor's...

• A lorry driver who earned a pittance for moving cannabis for a drugs gang has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Peter...

• PCM Recruitment is on the hunt for more agency drivers to meet demand. Barnstaple, Devonbased PCM says it is creating 15 new...

• Three drivers working for Cumbria-based Lawson's Haulage have won praise from Harwich fire fighters for saving five lives....

• A senior vehicle examiner in the Vehicle Inspectorate will not IX prosecuted following a police decision to take no further...

by Sally Nash • Car transporter drivers at Axial's Sheerness depot have won a range of improved terms and conditions now that a...

• The British Commercial Vehicle Museum may be forced to close by the end of the year because its main financial backers have...

• A lorry ban in Salisbury city centre is to go ahead although the council's own refuse vehicles will be exempt. The move...

• The parents of Charles Mitchell, who was killed by a Belgian lorry driver, have failed in their High Court bid to have a...

• The Lane Group has won 212m worth of business since the end of 1996, including a £5.2m deal with DIY firm Great Mills...

by Lee Kimber • Hauliers who deliver to businesses in the West End of London face higher costs after Westminster Council teamed...

• Railtrack has published a 10. point commitment to increasing railfreight volumes but there are no promises of new money or...

by Jane Sayer • 1 Ialifax-based haulier Spruce International looks to have been the innocent victim of a "sting" after...

• Hopes are rising again that Steve Bryant, the owner-driver in a Moroccan jail on u drugs conviction. could be free by the end...

by Charles Young • Ford's changes to the 1997 Transit range (reported in last week's CM) are as follows: • Standard power...

• Dominion Oils has bought an ERF six-wheeler fitted with a steering rear axle, giving it a turning circle of just 14.0m. The...

• Operators using compressed natural gas (CNG) will gain a new fuelling point when a British Gas station opens in Bournemouth...

On 2-4 May the RHA's annual TipCon show makes its final Harrogate appearance after 22 years at the Yorkshire venue—next year...

to the Transport Tribunal against the decision of Eastern TC Brigadier Compton Boyd (below), to cut its licence from 34...

for three vehicles and three trailers by Umberleigh, North Devon-based Morley Heal was refused by Western TC Christopher Heaps...

• Grays magistrates have adjourned proceedings against Anthony Myers, a director of BJ Myers (Haulage) of Purtleet, Essex; and...

• The South Wales licence held by Dursley, Gloucestershire-based MAL Transport was suspended when the firm failed to appear at...

to be getting worse rather than better, was told that this was his last chance when he was given a final warning at a Bristol...

• West Midland Traffic Commis sioner John Mervyn Pugh has warned Telford-based haulier Gerald Jones, trading as GB Transport...

• A Liverpool haulage company which was said to have continually failed to meet required maintenance standards has had two...

• A Kingswinford operator has been granted a fresh licence for four vehicles and two trailers, on condition that he deposits...

• 28 April: PTA annual dinner at the London Hilton. Open to members only. Cost: £77.50 (ex-VAT). Contact: 01892 552337. •...

• Norse Irish Ferries will introduce two superferries on the Liverpool-Belfast route in July. The Mersey Viking will operate...

• LEP International (France) is offering direct airfreight consolidation from ParisRoissy to Montreal. Daily departures allow...

• Baillie Brothers (Truck Services) has moved to Linkwood Industrial Estate, Elgin, Morayshire, where bigger premises allow it...

• Vanguard Vehicle Services has decided to prefix its name with TSL for advertising purposes to avoid being confused with...

II Dennis Hall has retired as manager of Ford & Slater's commercial vehicle special services division after 45 years with the...

• TDG Vehicle Rental has appointed Nigel Hinch as engineering director to implement its ..C200in fleet investment programme,...

• Solution One has launched Safe 200, the latest version of its self-assessment software for employers. The program is designed...

I refer to the article in CM 3-9 April 1997 I headed "Misleading hours guide". With clarification on certain aspects of the...

I n the Legal Bulletin section of Commercial Motor I was surprised to read the statement "If you're overloaded, you must be...

position seems to be that the operator is guilty, unless he can prove otherwise, at least as far as dynamic axle weighbridges...

Tread with interest some of 1 your comments and those of JS Cook & Sons in last week's Commercial Motor. As the managing...

T am writing, in sheer disbelief, to warn other parents of the perils of arranging a trip to Truckfest for a truckmad...

Hawk is forever in the debt of seven-year-old Ben Howarth, whose father is $.1 - arage manager for UK Waste at Great Yarmouth....

Communication is of prime importance to Mixed Freight Services, based near Heathrow. It uses an advanced NB3 system which also...

the plethora of mobile i communications networks now available is that it is a fixed-price system, working locally, regionally...

Is it for you. Most hauliers have strong feelings on invoice factoring—they either love it or hate it. But there seem to be...

Report to Leyland ads 95 Series tractors. Since then Daf has held its own in the power wars, upgraded its cab and chassis specs...

so the early model we tested back in 1992 didn't meet the Euro-1 regulations that came into force the following year Daf's...

adult life in the armed forces, and your days in uniform are numbered, how can you best adapt to civvy street? How are you...

T rends in retailing come and go. One minute, out-of-town hypermarket developments are being lauded. The next, hypermarkets are...

T imes are tough in the trailer market at the moment, but Tidd Trailers sales director Roland Merrill believes he can detect...

After a gap of seven years, opportunities for youngsters to start full-time LGV driving careers at the age of 18 are coming out...

Europe wants tougher entry conditions to road haulage in a harmonisation programme that will require operators to be more...

T he age of road building in the developed world has come to an end. This termination brings a large number of opportunities...