by Juliet Parish • Operators working out of one of British Steel's largest plants have attacked the company for plans to...

• I lave of the four owner-drivers working for ARC in West Cornwall will quit rather than sign controversial new contracts...

goes by road • Road haulage has been harder hit by the recession than the economy as a whole with the amount of freight moved...

• A truck driver will appear in court next month following a coroner's open verdict on the death of a motorist. Brian Daniels...

• A former Eddie Stobart driver found guilty of falsifying tachograph charts has told Crewe Magistrates Court that the firm's...

• Ford is investigating allegations by a delivery driver that hauliers have cost the company 115m in bogus claims on...

by Grant Prior • In the latest of a series of police victories in the battle against truck crime, 16 people were arrested...

II South Yorkshire police have joined the family of a van driver killed in a hit and run accident in appealing to hauliers to...

• A truck detergent salesman who learnt of a notorious lack of truckstops while selling to hauliers has been given planning...

EXCLUSIVE by John Kendall • Mercedes is launching a middleweight 4x4 commercial, the U140L, based on Unimog running gear. The...

by Gerlach Fronemann and John Kendall. • This is the first photograph (below) of MANs 7.5-10-tonne GVW G90 replacement cab,...

• ZF will show its TA90 frontwheel-drive transaxle at the Coach and Bus show in October. The three-speed automatic gearbox and...

by Alan Bunting • Marshall SPV is ready to put the civilian UK market version of its 13-tonne GVW 4x4 MT 13-16 chassis into...

• Aberdeenshire reefer operator Fridge Freight (Fyvie) dropped its bid to ease restrictive conditions on its licence during a...

• Morley-based Keadle Transport (Yorks) may lose its good repute as a result of a series of conviction and prohibitions...

• Container carrier Kabin King of I,ittleover, Derbyshire appeared at a Birmingham public inquiry after prohibition notices...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences committed on the Continent led to Scottish Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts...

• Rothwell-based Vanguard Vehicle Services and one of the company's drivers have been given an absolute discharge by Pontefract...

by Kathy Watson • The sell-off of British Rail's parcel arm Red Star has attracted fewer bids than expected: several companies...

• Leeds haulier William G Search has praised its local council for reprieving the business from disaster. The only access to...

• Five hauliers will fight it out for a am Toyota car parts contract which is to be re-allocated by the middle of next year,...

• Hauliers who face ruin because customers refuse to pay up on time would be able to claim interest from their debtors under...

by Amanda Bradbury • Brewery transport operators say a proposed ban on all vehicles over 7.5-tonnes at peak times along...

• Turnover in the truck rental sector is continuing to surge: Milton Keynes-based Dawsongroup has reported an 80% increase in...

• Bosses at Dutch freight giant Nedlloyd are assuring British drivers their jobs are safe despite a £90m global cost cutting...

by Toby Clark • The ambulance industry is as prone to fashions as any other, as the diversity of vehicles at Harrogate's AMBEX...

• The biggest news at AMBEX was Universal Vehicle Group's buyout of ambulance and bus makers WS Coachbuilders—formerly Wadham...

• Growing customer confidence is creating increasing amounts of work at Don-Bur's Longton factory, near Stoke-on-Trent. This...

• Borders Regional Council has added a pair of Leyland Daf 75270 6x4s to its fleet fitted with the first of a new family of...

• The latest addition to Colchester-based Vv'estside Hire's 50-strong specialist vehicle fleet is a 14-tonne GVW MAN-based...

will probably have spotted that they are getting nowhere and that the brick wall looming ahead is likely to impede any further...

Fruehauf curtainsided 12m trailer was stolen between 20:00 and 04:00 hours on Friday/Saturday 6-7 August from the yard of owner...

T he diesel is comparatively kind to the environment in terms of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and even carbon dioxide...

y ou have been contacted by an icecream manufacturer. He usually handles his own deliveries, but his van has broken down and...

In November 1981two Freighter models were launched at 16.29 tonnes with five wheelbases from 3.4m to 5.8m: the shortest...

and have not worked since. I have been told by my doctor to forget about my WV licence. I am an owner-driver, or was, and! have...

4 1 n June European Community transport ministers proposed that other member countries should pay £1,000 per truck per annum...