• Families of .ted drivers in Europe and Morocco demonstrated at the Foreign Office on Sunday 21 September about the lack of...

by Rob Willock • Owner-drivers are being warned against renting trailers for unknown employers after several have been left...

• Portsmouth-based Freight Transfer ceased trading last week and is expected to go into voluntary liquidation early next...

would be greatly reduced if the Government introduced compulsory separate registration of trailers, as is required in most EU...

By Miles Brignall • Militant French haulage unions arc preparing to resume strike action. Ironically, news of the threatened...

• Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart plans to send up to 25% of its loads by rail within the next five years if it gets the right...

S o it's eyes down for a UK truck vignette scheme. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution wants one, and Deputy PM...

by David Craik • The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has launched a stinging attack on the haulage industry and...

• A last-ditch attempt has been made to avert possible strike action from 44 Bradford, Salford and Scottish-based drivers at...

• Battling Felixstowe hauliers have won their fight to reduce financially sapping delays at Felixstowe port. New working...

• Animal rights activists are vowing to continue the fight against livestock exports, bolstered by the latest decision by a...

fuel duty would help reduce pollution and congestion. Earlier this week he said he believed that increasing fuel duty would...

by Rob Willock • Radical plans to privatise the roads network were proposed last week by leading academics and economists as...

• A 35% wage offer to staff by parcels firm Lynx has been accepted by the RMT union. A row which had escalated after the RMT...

• Not one truck has been clamped as part of the DVLA's recent wheelclamping campaign to catch road tax dodgers (CM 7 - 13...

• A drunk truck driver who killed an AA patrolman and the driver of a car when he fell asleep and ploughed into the breakdown...

• Insurance premium discounts are being offered to hauliers in a scheme to promote a new wheelnut design and improve vehicle...

by Rob Willock • Operators in South Yorkshire are being invited to help the police trace stolen commercial vehicles,...

• Parcelforce suffered a public relations disaster last week when its loss of an urn containing a woman's ashes was...

consumer goods in the UK has boosted profits at Tibbett & Britten Group (TBG), the international distribution company. Last...

by Karen Miles • Friends of the Earth has attacked the Environment Agency for a "hopeless" prosecution record of water...

• The director of a waste disposal operation has been jailed for 18 months after admitting charges involving the illegal...

Just how important is it to operators where a truck is made? Now that its Cargo middleweight range is built in Italy, Iveco...

• Volvo has upgraded its Active Security system, which is now designed to exceed Thatcham insurance industry requirements and...

• Pioneer Concrete has taken delivery of seven Foden 3325 Tridem concrete mixer chassis converted from standard threeaxled...

Pickup and Loadbeta Van, both with the 2.0D engine, now cost 28,219 (down more than £900 each). The price of the Gurkha 2.0D...

by Brian Weatherley • The first fruits of the joint Iveco/Nissan truck diesel engine technology project are expected to be...

• Renault VI and Daf are planning to co-operate on selected components for their new generation of middleweight trucks in the...

Truck and bus operators have been describing their experience of operating low-emission urban fleets at an event organised by...

T his year's Scottish IRTE show provided much food for thought for Institute members and other operators North of the Border....

by Miles Brignall • EU social affairs commissioner Padraig Flynn says he will use legislation to implement his working time...

• When a shabby Ford Cargo drove through a vehicle check and refused to stop for police, two artic drivers came to the...

• A lorry driver has been described in court as a "hero" for trying to stop an armed gang escaping after they had robbed a...

• September 1997-April 1998: Evening seminars on drivers hours and tachographs throughout the RHA Southern and Eastern...

Bier depot • ANC has moved its Glasgow South depot to new premises with 50% more floor space and extra office...

Keep on track • GB Tachopak is offering a tachograph and documentation service including maintenance recording and defect...

EPS • Banbury-based EPS has appointed Steve Higgins as contracts manager. RIK • Simon Bowles has been appointed finance...

the revocation of the licence held by Peter Court, based at Craven Arms, Shropshire. Court, who had held a licence for 30...

• A Lincolnshire haulier has lost his challenge that the Boston Spa dynamic axle weighbridge did not weigh special types...

• A bid for a new licence was refused after Scottish Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts concluded the company did not meet...

• The use of an unauthorised operating centre has cost a North Wales haul ier £405 in fines and costs. John Davidson, of...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have cost a Liverpool company and one of its drivers .C1,350. Stephen Preator...

year developing a sirateo for the next centm, you tend to sit up and listen. To the many operators who plan no further than the...

EARLIER THIS YEAR tipperman Ronnie Anderson celebrated 35 years in the business by holding a big dance for his staff. But...

THF ISLE OF ARRAN is knovm as Scotland in miniature, containing within its 25-mile length all the elements familiar to visitors...

IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES Brodickborn Tony Morrow did a variety of casual jobs, from driving and labouring to working in a grocery...

a company are like first impressions of meeting individuals— they linger. After an hour on the Dumfries site of Currie...

HOW MANY PEOPII pouring milk on their cornflakes pause to reflect on the work involved in getting this placid liquid to the...

KEYLINE A B merchant. But not any old builders' merchant. Owned by Dublin group CRH, the operation has 110 UK branches and a...

AID AND THE REGIONS Scotland's convincing vote for a parliament combining legislative and tax-raising powers is bound to have...

investments, they are reducing the number of places where thieves on strike successfully. Increasingly, the drivers are viewed...

Advanced Perimeter Systems APS manufactures a range of fencing systems designed to provide effective protection From intruders....

• Mercedes-Benz middleweights have been around a long time. The 1617 dates back to 1976; in 1985 it was updated, with the...

the revised version of the M-type short sleeper SK cab , adding some 180kg to the unladen weight. Supplied on the second...

Even the smallest operator can benefit from successfully applying the basic principles of good marketing. D o you ever ask...

I am determined to take tough action against lorry, bus and coach operators who deliberately flout road safety laws. Bus...