• County engineers have told Dorset County Council that it must decide now whether to strengthen the Poole harbour bridge or...

by Mike Jewell and Karen Miles • Drivers and directors found guilty of forging tachograph records for international journeys...

• A Conservative-led council is challenging Government plans to introduce three-lane link roads to take local traffic off the...

• An MP is planning to lead a delegation of hauliers and politicians to ask Home Secretary Michael Howard to crack down on...

by Amanda Bradbury • Co-operatives representing up to 136 dairy farmers who produce 170 million litres of milk could run their...

• Dieter Merz, the popular managing director of Scania GB, is leaving the UK in the summer to take over as managing director of...

• Hauliers who want to shift their loads on to rail can now apply for Government grants worth over £40m. But the three-year,...

by Nicky Clarke • Licensing Authorities' powers are to be extended and operators will no longer need permits to exempt them...

• Two troubleshooters, brought in last year to stem £10.1m losses at parcels firm Lynx, are putting together a management...

• The predicted deal between Wj Sims and Heron Distribution for most of Sims' Sainsbury's work was completed last week (CM 9-15...

• Traction services firms working out of Portsmouth harbour say they will continue to push for higher rates, despite recent...

Coal sites in Durham, Derbyshire and Nottingham are to be opened up this year by RJ Budge, using drivers from its...

by Juliet Parish • Wincanton Transport has guaranteed annual pay increases in line with inflation for 80 drivers working on its...

owner drivers to each rent a truck from the Cardiff-based haulier and carry out general haulage on its behalf. The recruits...

for P&O pay • The threat of stoppages continued to hang over P&O European Ferries services out of Felixstowe and Cairnryan...

• Used truck prices continued rising this week as an auction of over 200 vehicles brought in prices well up on last year. Some...

• Dutch construction firm Van Ord ACZ was fined £17,500 last week following the death of a dumper truck driver. Edward Dodds...

by Grant Prior • Police in Strathclyde are bringing a test case against 160 delivery drivers which could end the van drivers'...

by Steve Banner • Cummins will shortly unveil in the USA, an uprated compressed natural gas (CNG) powered version of the L10...

II If there is enough interest in a new security marking scheme for agricultural trailers, it could be extended to truck...

• Northumbria Ambulance Service has imported two more Chevrolet G30 ambulances. The 6.2-litre vee-eight diesel-powered vehicles...

• Westminster City Council is to begin a 12-month trial of low sulphur diesel in April. Four vehicles will be involved...

• Renault Vehicules Industriels (RV1) has developed an automatic clutch control system for use in distribution vehicles and...

Renault's automated clutch could take the leg work out of multi-drop routes. CM has been getting to grips with Renault's ACS....

• Scottish Deputy TC Allan Worthington has given James Craig a final warning about the maintenance of his vehicles. Craig...

• West Midlands haulier George Shelley Transport has been ordered to make a redundancy payment of 1.615 to truck driver David...

• West Midland Deputy TC Roger Seymour has adjourned consideration of disciplinary action against the two-vehicle licence held...

• The licence held by Fife haulier Ernest McPherson has been renewed, with a warning about his future maintenance standards, by...

• The hearing of allegations that C Dunn Transport of Rochdale permitted a driver to exceed the drivers' hours limits, take...

• An £1,000 tine imposed on Oldham-based Dew Group for overloading has been quashed. A sloping approach to a dynamic...

II Local residents have failed to block Antler am— Office Equipment basing a second vehicle at its Hornchurch, Essexbased...

Hays Specialist Distribution has been ruled to have unfairly dismissed driver Philip Braine. But a Birmingham Industrial...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu has not taken action against Fleetwood-based Tara Freight—but he wants to see...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu has granted Specialist Vehicle Transportation the authority to change its...

by Bryan Jarvis • There was plenty of glitz at Geneva's bi-annual truck show but fewer of the innovations usually associated...

Joseph Ash talks to us about the 10.5-tonner EuroCargo 100E-185 he drives for his family's Glasgow-based recovery business...

by Juliet Parish • A terrifying 47% of Britain's truck drivers have fallen asleep at the wheel, judging by a Commercial Motor...

Milk industry hauliers probably thought they were in for a bonanza following the Government's decision to scrap the Milk...

Cribbs causeway in Bristol between 8 and 9 January. The 74901(1 model has a red cob and yellow body and was loaded with six40...

the Chiltern Hundreds layby at the top of Sittingbourne Road, Maidstone on the night of 8/9 January. The light blue cab has...

17:00hrs and 05:00hrs on the 18/19 January. The vehicle was parked up at New Cheshire Salt Works in Northwich and the thieves...

were stolen from the Holmewoocl Industrial Estate in Chesterfield sometime during the night of 20 November. It belongs to...

a he recent theft of a Leyland Daf 1718 Freighter from a west London warehouse would probably not have made headlines but for...

Darracq known as Genevieve back to England for auction after a soujourn abroad of 35 years. The car was sold by London...

Total Transport Person (TTP) Quiz in our double Xmas issue attracted a good turnout. The standard was higher than ever with...

Re of the Hawk's roving correspondents, Lawrence Sheffer, recently visited the Berliet Foundation near Lyon, home to what...

2 eyland DAFaid is not afraid to throw figures into the melting pot to describe a year in its truck recovery operation that has...

I t appears that the subject of tachograph chart seizure has caused some confusion expecially to John Allen, whose letter was...

W ith regard to your leader on central reserve motorway fences (CM 6-12 Jan), while high concrete barriers might stop lorries...

resisting the toll increases on the Severn Bridge and those in the trade have made their usual muted responses. I would urge...

Defensive driving • Customers and staff of BRS will be able to benefit from a new mobile training unit specialising in...

• Automotive firms in the West Midlands can get advice and help in running their businesses from a new localauthority...

• Operators o fleets of up to 40 vehicles with no design facilities of their own can take advantage of a livery production...

Atkinson activity • Atkinson vehicle enthusiasts are invited to attend a rally on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June at Worden...

• Truck drivers who renovate vintage CVs in their spare time have organised the Wheels 94 Transport Ertravaganza at Hooton...

• The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators will be holding its annual exhibition Avro-Ex on 3-5 June at the Hinckley...

Careful loading • A guide to safety in the use of pallets and associated equipment has been published by the Cold Storage &...

• The Glasstech Diesel Engine Maximum Governed RPM chart is aimed at MoT testing stations, garages and workshops designed to...

CHOICE 199 4 Recession? What recession? Looking at the vehicles launched in 1993, anyone could be forgiven for thinking that...

N o completely new panel vans came on to the market last year. The state of the art was advanced a little by warmed-over...

OTHER CONTENDERS Daihatsu Fourtrak Fieldman Mitsubishi 1200 pickup VW LT 45 4X4 T he Japanese might be quick to learn but Land...

W e didn't encounter any completely new 7.5-tonners in 1993, but the three we looked at displayed an interesting range of...

OTHER CONTENDERS Volvo FL10 310 "B" ride Renault Maxter G340ti.32D L ast year 32-tonne 8x4 chassis became legal. The only...

T he 260kW (350hp) sector is the scene of several David and Goliath battles, not least that between ERF and any one of four...

T here aren't many drivers who would turn down the chance to drive a toppower truck—mention 500hp within ear-shot of the CM...

N early a third of the tractive units sold last year were running on three axles and many of them were twin-steers so the 6x2...

Three British drivers spent a miserable Christmas in a Turkish jail, accused of being involved in an export fraud. They were...

• The Freight Transport Association is warning hauliers planning to work in Turkey to get in touch with it first. The RHA has...

• Three British lorries—two belonging to UK haulier Weetwood and one to Ralph Davies International—were confiscated on the...

is it delivering the goods? A survey of British exporters reckons that deliveries are neither faster or cheaper, so were the...

"No paperwork but there's still a long way to go. They're still talking about scrapping cabotage. We should have a common...

good repute? A lack of consistency in decisions means that where you are could matter as much as what you've done. N...

Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984 says that the LA must revoke a licence if it appears...

6 hate bureaucrats, whatever shape they I come in, but I hope I can put this prejudice aside when dealing with the problems...