• A Hungarian truck driver and two Turks have been arrested for smuggling 80ic of heroin worth £7.5m after armed police and...

by Miles Brignall • The Government has finally stated that it intends to impound unlicensed trucks, and has suggested a major...

outlining its members' concerns over the inclusion of transport workers within the Working Time Directive which proposes a...

• Transport Development Group is to sell its Cox plant hire business following poor results in its hire TDG's overall operating...

by Sally Nash • Electronic tachographs could be delayed for a year while the industry wrestles with a number of issues...

• A 42-year-old Fraserburgh owner-driver who was involved in a fatal accident and convicted of falsifying tachograph charts has...

by David Craik • Parcels group United Carriers' decision to sack up to 70 drivers and other staff has been branded as...

ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS A , nd now a few words on impounding. Why the hell does the Government need to ask the industry yet...

• Edward Stobart, head of Eddie Stobart, has caused a storm of protest by describing truck drivers as tramps when he was...

by Robin Meczes • A British driver was beaten around the head and twice forced to strip naked during a prolonged interview by...

• Wincanton Logistics has made its first long-awaited sortie onto the Continent by snapping up Rokold European Transport....

• BP is introducing hi-tech diesel pumps at its truckstops that will recognise the truck being filled up and bill the owner...

• Hoyer (UK) has backed down over its demands on drivers' working hours which sparked a health and safety row last month (CM 29...

• A shell-shocked haulier is spending hundreds of pounds to update the security of his lorry compound after having six vehicles...

• A KwikSave driver helped save two children from a wrecked car after it crashed into his vehicle and went down an embankment,...

by Sally Nash • New legislation could be on its way to cut the growing number of weekend lorry bans on the Continent. A plan...

• A truck driver and his mate had a lucky escape when their vehicle fell into a disused mine shaft in west Cornwall. Stephen...

by David Craik MI Truck drivers could soon be involved in tests to find out if using hand-held mobile phones damages their...

• An unattended truck which was left without its parking brake applied ran backwards onto a pavement and killed a 15-year-old...

• A haulier's decision to hire a vehicle out on his own insurance to save money is costing his two-van business hundreds of...

• An Essex truck driver has been jailed for helping to smuggle 14 illegal immigrants into the Derek Baker, of Basildon, was...

II A Scottish haulier based at Muir Street, Kirriemuir for 16 years has been forced to change his schedules by two local...

by Charles Young MERCEDES-BENZ'S new Atego range of trucks will arrive in the UK in June, with 10 basic models spanning the...

by Bryan Jarvis • One of East Anglia's largest rigid bulk tipping operators, G Webb Haulage, has taken delivery of rhat it...

by Colin Barnett • CM recently had the chance to take the electric version of Peugeot's Partner high-cube van for a brief drive...

• Econ Engineering has supplied plant hi re specialist Cornpactors Engineering 0 with 15 Foden 3340 6x4 rigids fitted with...

• Swedish vehicle products supplier Haldex Group has bought Midland-Grau Heavy Duty Systems, a division of Echlin Inc of...

by Steve Sturgess • America's newest truck company, Sterling Truck, has launched vehicles aimed at the construction, heavy-duty...

by Bryan Jarvis • Volvo Truck is to supply the Royal Engineers with 121 self-loading 6x6 dump trucks based on its heavyduty...

• North London international removals firm Trans Euro Worldwide Movers is showing off a versatile pantechnicon at this week's...

• The latest Fleximats range of matting from Plastic Extruders is said to be an economical and efficient way to cover large...

• ZF Great Britain has launched a new "2+1" warranty programme for remanufactured Ecomat automatic transmissions. It comprises...

• The route planner navigation system TECmobility, developed by Magneti Marelli, is now available as the RP NAV 100N and the RP...

• Kaba (UK) is marketing a product which is intended to extend the life of locks fitted tovehicles and external doors that are...

• Five tanker dri vers carrying hazardous loads of chemicals have been ordered to pay £4,050 in fines and costs after admitting...

• Ammanford-based David Jones was ordered to pay £200 appeal costs when he failed to appear at Worcester Crown Court. Jones had...

• A director of Ashton & Manchester Waste Executive was cleared of a tachograph offence after Manchester City magistrates...

• An Aberdarebased company was granted a licence for two vehicles and two trailers after South Wales Traffic Commissioner John...

• In the first of a series of prosecu tions involving milk delivery vehicles to come before the Llanelli and Swansea...

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Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial ? Does someone in the industry deserve a at on the back—or a public...

W ith reference to your article headed "Wide of the mark" (CM 12-18 Feb): has Daf come up with an answer to the wheel loss...

I n this week's issue there are comments from six or seven operators about a fair day's pay (CM 19-25 Feb). It was interesting...

I write concerning the old adage "Catch-22" I faced when I first became a Class 1 driver on leaving the forces as a tank...

I read with interest the Legal Bulletin about VED, SORN etc and the penalties for offenders (CM 12-18 Feb). I would ask the...

haulage very seriously. However. once a week our quirky corre spondent. , steps off his perch to take a humorous look at the...

hen heartless thieves recently stole the Bur - stow Wildlife Sanctuary's Mitsubishi Shogun 4x4, the outlook seemed rather...

o here are some well-known get-you-home dodges if your vehicle breaks down: a pair of tights in place of a broken fan belt, or...

13 ongratulations to Cliff Wragg, who was awarded the Diploma of Honour by the Swiss-based International Road Transport Union....

O f you were to visit the Hawk at home you would discover that the floral arrangements which adorn his cosy habitat are of the...

the wellproven driveline includes the ultrareliable, economical Cummins Celect engine, which is light enough to contribute to...

In the first of this year's regional specials, Patric Cunnanetakes tea with the good folk in the Home Counties: those six...

the warehouse and he is unable to operate a hand-held terminal: "I write the systems, I don't drive them," he says. He is...

,ESAVINGS Selling safety products to operators is difficult: one operator's essential safety item is another's unaffordable...

employees do try to hoodwink their bosses into paying compensation for faked or exaggerated suffering. So how do you tell the...

Scania's Approved Used Trucks scheme has been running for a year—is it meeting its original targets and what developments are...

ALREM, wants equipment purchasing decision , to take into account the important issue of load restraint. 'Purchasing decisions...

A nsalor push into the used truck market is being mounted by Derek Jones Commercials, The Islip, Kettering, Northants-based...

Hartshorne has opened a used truck site next door to its Volvo distributorship on the Parkhouse Industrial Estate in...

RENAULT * Renault VI is to gain representation in Coventry later this year after a 15-year absence. Diamond Truck & Van of...

Late-model, low mileac I7 - tonners with box or curtainsider bodies are proving popular sellers at present, reports Warren Cole...

Thomas Hardie Commercials and Volvo subsidiary Manchester Truck & Bus are to merge in a move which will create one large,...