by Sally Nash • Industrial action, pay disputes and tribunals are threatening to rock the tanker industry this spring as...

• The Government has confirmed that it will reward operators of low-emissions trucks with a reduction in vehicle excise...

• Parcelforce has secured a £45m contract renewal with elecom to deliver almost two million telephone directories a year. •...

by Rob Willock • Agents and franchisees of Panic Link are collapsing unpaid as the Leicestershire parcels carrier hits a...

• A Manchester operator is advising other international hauliers to carry trailer ownership certificates after one of his...

• Surrey County Council Trading Standards is using a dynamic-axle weighbridge (DAVIT) statically and prosecuting IIGV operators...

• Matilda Morgan and Brian Nobes, the owners of a catering company whose truck hit a car after its brakes failed on the Queen...

by Martial Tardy • UK hauliers can now transit Switzerland in 40tonne trucks—but by 2005 they'll be paying £132 for the...

MAKING ROOM FOR TRUCKS S o the upgrading of the Al 3 Thames Gateway is likely to include a number of lorry and busonly routes...

• ERF has launched a finance operation offering a range of conventional leasing and contract hire deals and allowing hauliers...

by Sally Nash • Hauliers in Northern Ireland have given a cautious welcome to news that the European Commission looks likely to...

• The upgrading of the A13 Thames Gateway, which goes around East London and the Docklands, is likely to include a number of...

• A truck driver who used worn and damaged straps to restrain a metal container he was hauling has been Fined £240 after a...

• BMW (GB} has extended its 16 - year relationship with Walon in a distribution contract worth 24m a year. • Parcels carrier...

• The Frejus tunnel company has upgraded a further 20km of the A43 on the French side of the border, promising quicker journey...

by David Craik • Preston-based haulage subcontractor Charles Mayor has quit working with Mersey Docks & Harbour subsidiary...

• Goods vehicles travelling on the A82 trunk road between Inverness and Glencoe are being urged by the local Northern...

• The trial of four men accused of bootlegging 14 lorry loads of alcohol across the Channel, evading over .C2m duty on imported...

by Rob Willock • Half of Britain's truck drivers have been with their current employers for six or more years, and nearly a...

• Drivers born under the signs of Libra, Virgo and Pisces could face higher motor insurance premiums if new research from...

by Brian Weatherley • ERF's first EC-range Caterpillar engine is the 12-litre C12 straight-six. It joins engines from Cummins,...

by Steve Banner A new range of Italian semitrailer reefer bodies with a claimed payload advantage of up to a tonne is to be...

• Initial Textile Services has completed the upgrading of a double-deck artic which replaced three 17 - tonners on runs between...

by Toby Clark • Leyland Dar s new CF range will be launched in Amsterdam next week, with the firm showing the 65, 75 and 85CF...

by Bryan Jarvis • Waste handling is becoming a growth market for push-out trailer specialist Wisbech Bulk Systems. WBS...

• Vauxhall is selling the Arena SWB at a delivered price of £10,370 (ex-VAT). It has a 1.9-litre diesel engine producing 61hp...

• Curtainsider specialist Lawrence David has built a dual-height straightframe mega-trailer for Wakefieldbased textile...

• Tata will launch three variants of its Loadbeta and Gurkha pickups this spring. There are also price reductions on two...

• Esso has launched Esso Index, a high specification pan-European oil condition monitoring service. The necessary oil samples...

• Baron Products' Nutlock, a patented wheelnut lock, is designed to help prevent wheel loss. The Nutlock is manufactured to...

• New from vehicle electrics control specialist Antares (Europe) is the Auxiliary System Manager which is designed to support,...

• Magneti MareIli's initial line-up of original equipment rearview mirrors includes 80 models for cars and commercial...

• Moffett Engineering claims to be a leader in the manufacture of truck-mounted forklifts and is bullish about its prospects...

• The defence costs of Scans. brick-based MA Foreshaw are to be paid out of public funds after the company was cleared by...

• Derbyshire-based Allsop (Plant & Haulage) and Dunbartonshire-based lain Gardiner (Haulage) denied overloading offences...

• The wife of a disqualified operator, who then obtained a licence in her own name, was not a "front" for her husband, North...

• Derbyshire heavy haulier Heanor Haulage and one of its drivers were cleared of an overloading offence by Wetherby magistrates...

It's Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

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

S ome thoughts on the collapse of GB Express._ roll-on, roll-off, roll-over. Once again we have witnessed the demise of a...

O ne of your reporters wrote an article on the attitude of certain vehicle inspectors (CM 18-31 Dec 1997) and, in the course of...

C ould I ask through the pages of Commercial Motor for families or friends of drivers and co-drivers who are held in prisons...

Commercial Motor takes road haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky corre spondent, hi. steps off his perch to...

0 t is unlikely that those attending the annual "Commercial Motor Truckfest" would see it as a religious experience. But if...

at it again. There's no stopping them—they made an appearance on this page before Christmas with their idea for the Perfect...

hile Truckfest has joined the ranks of the heavenly choirs, others have set themselves less tasteful goals. Since the untimely...

The Iveco EuroStar is quiet, roomy and comfortable. Used values were dented by new vehicle discounts but it's proved to be...

To launch our series looking at the equipment that helps make your business run smoothly, we review the tail-lift market. T...

least four reasons to be cheerful—his four trucks are all paying their way and the work keeps flowing in. Nicky Clarke talks to...

a change in the law which bans insulintreated diabetics from holding HGV licences. Is this a genuine road safety issue—or just...

Like everything else in the shops, books don't get there by magic. In fact, the specialist distributors are prized for their...

When the TUC set up a hotline for workers to report bullying bosses, truck drivers were first in the queue. The range of...

on the right side of the Traffic Commissioner then seems like a lottery? Some hauliers carry on trading despite a catalogue of...

French gendarmerie would stop targeting UK trucks for special attention and imposing "random tolls" for bogus offences.. :...