• The Erskine toll bridge across the River Clyde is to stay closed to trucks until the end of the year despite being reopened...

by Lee Kimber • Fifty-year-old haulier Blackpool Van Transport has become the third British operator in as many months to...

• British hauliers have been cleared of German allegations of smuggling beef to the Continent after the European Commission...

by Derren Hayes • Around 100 hauliers may have to find a new operating centre as their existing London site is t, be sold...

• Road experts are questioning the Government's road building programme after the cancellation of a 110m project just days...

F orgive us a snort of derision but it really i say something for how deep road haulac in the mire when customers criticise...

by Lee Kimber • Transport companies are irritating their retail and wholesale customers with poor management, lack of...

small haulier says it will sue the cross-Channel ferry op :3tor Sally after an accident on one of its ferries caused damage to...

The fate of Eurolink Ferries' Sheerness-Vlissingen freight ferry hangs in the balance this week after the company announced...

• Tibbett and Britten could be sued by its foreign workforce if it fails to set up a European works council by next March,...

by Karen Miles • Government hopes that private parcels carriers will break the postal strike have again been crushed, with...

• Hauliers could be banned from using_ roads in Leamington Spa it proposals by Warwickshire County Council go ahead. The...

• Lawyers for imprisoned international driver Stanley Allsop are preparing a second appeal against the French refusal to...

a year with ing card and calendar tributor, The Ink Group Publishers. The rolling tract will be dealt with ANC's Swindon depot...

by Derren Hayes • The list of hauliers going to the wall continues to grow—Network Freight Services has gone into...

• Ferry operator P&O has ruled out any immediate merger with its cross-channel service rival Steno Line, but says it will be...

• Hauliers in the North-West are using their trucks more efficiently to survive the pressure on rates, according to figures...

• Hauliers' tough bargaining and difficult economic conditions have combined to hit this year's financial performance of the...

'a Italian motorways are to be privatised by the end of the year, says Michele Tecleschi, president of the state holding group...

by Lee kirnber • Civil service unions are appealing to hauliers to help fight the Government's planned closure of the Cardiff...

• The Department of Environment wants to cut vehicle pollution but doesn't want to spend too much money doing it. In its...

• John Mills, one of the north London drivers serving seven-and-a-half years in a Bulgarian prison for drug smuggling, has...

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this week. Among the many innovations there are new engines, cabs and "Telligent" electronic control systems for the engines,...

by Charles Young • Michelin's Energy truck tyres have shown fuel savings averaging 5.22% on a fourday test The testing, which...

• Blue Circle Cement has equipped eight Leyland Daf 6x2 tractive units with ZF Intarder integrated gearbox retarders. The...

• Harrogate Borough Council has fitted a new Macl,ift MacTipper recycling body to a re-cycled 1985 Dennis 4x2 RN4 crew cab...

has resulted in the first ERF cab to wear the Western Star badge. Both cab and chassis were built by ERF at their factories at...

• As reported last week (CM 22-28 August) Renault launches its four-cylinder Euro-2 engine in the Midliner this September The...

the vehicles operated by Charles and Virginia Cole, of Long Marston, near Tring, being suspended for a week by the Eastern IC...

use of an unauthorised operating centre at Aberaman by South Wales TC John Mervyn Pugh. The company is currently operating...

• Two of the six vehicles i)perated by Paisley-based PG Products have been suspended for a fortnight by Scottish IC Michael...

• The licence for 15 vehicles and three trailers held by Weycroft Services, of Newcastle, Staffs, was suspended when it...

• A bid for a licence by the wife of Paul Butterworth. whose company PDS Transport had had its licence revoked, was adjourned...

• The managing director of a Lancashire livestock haulier was said to be "wearing too many hats" when he appeared before...

• A Bradford lorry driver has had his LGV driving licence suspended for three days because of drivers' hours convictions....

• A West Midland haulier blamed his maintenance problems on the new waste disposal regulations that came into effect last...

Hauliers with slack maintenance procedures be warned: the Vehicle Inspectorate is to change the way it targets vehicles to...

• Antares (Europe) has updated its electronically controlled 12 or 24V automatic split charge system which protects the...

• Unidare Environmental has recently produced a new literature pack for its range of Heatovent industrial and commercial...

• All businesses disposing of waste oil will have to comply with new Government regulations from 1 September. The Special...

• Operators who have forgotten or failed to inform the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency when they sell a vehicle face the...

• A new quality-checking commercial vehicle repair network has been launched by the Motor Vehicle Repairers Association. The...

• The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association has developed a new business management system for commercial bodybuilders...

MI The Institute of Logistics has developed a new training course. The Foundation in Logistics is a nationally recognised...

III Overdue debts are at a three-year high in the transport sector, a study by credit insurer Trade Indemnity has revealed. The...

• The new fourth edition of Road Note 39, the Transport Research Laboratory's road surface design guide, is available from...

uring the preliminary debate prior to the ,11 compulsory fitting of speed limiters to I.,GV/PCVs, statistics produced by the...

y our story about the closure of every c a fe available to trucks on the road between Bangor and Chester (CM 15-21 August)...

C M Birtchnell (CM 15-21 %N./ August) writes about agency drivers working eight days a week. As an agency driver myself I, too,...

completely fail to under stand why the authorities are so slow to do anything about tuck drivers imprisoned for carrying drugs...

I see both Labour and Tories have changed their transport teams again (CM 8-14 and 1-7 August). How do they expect the industry...

S teve McQueen infers that Moody International is not satisfied with the work the Road Haulage Association had done to hope it...

• After more than 60 years of building trucks, ERF claims that over half of those it made are still in operation. When the...

Wh en the Government, exasperated at the continuing postal dispute, suspended the letter monopoly for a month, no-one seriously...

restrictions Cambridgeshire police have reduced heavy haulage escorts to a part-time service, infuriating many hauliers. One...

Are you paying too much in bank charges and could you save money by switching to computer banking? We take stock of current...

In 1994 I drove a Daf 2800 artic on the M40 towards London and turned off on to the M25 slip road to travel south. I do not...

I was involved in a bad accident and was not interviewed by police until 39 days after the accident. I was told I might be...

win hands down? Because the Government continually ducks the issues of effective enforcement by using spurious figures to meet...