by Mike Jewell and Miles BrignalI • At least four major truck manufacturers are producing vehicles which allow drivers to...

• Volvo has sold 500 FH12s to Hungary's largest transport company, "lungai.,..ar in a deal that includes 500 Schmitz...

by Charles Young • South West Water is cashing in on cheap haulage by employing unlicensed farmers and agricultural...

• Leading Trans - Action member Frank Stears is calling on the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association...

• Hauliers are threatening to fight hack against the Government's plan to fine them if it finds illegal immigrants in their...

• A Scottish haulier has slammed his insurance company, Crowe Insurance, for paying can a £10,000 claim to French police...

FIDDLING WHILE DETR SLEEPS T here now follows a message to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions: "Is...

by Tim Maughan • Ratifiers felt the brunt of the storms which have battered the UK over the last fortnight. High winds and...

• Truck operators travelling into Russia are being warned that their mobile telephones may be confiscated by Russian border...

by David Craik • Hauliers are warned that the traditional pre-Christmas lorry-hijacking period has begun after a load worth...

• New and used truck prices are set to tumble following European Monetary Union (EMU) and the cross-border price transparency...

II Plans to build Britain's first tolled motorway have been given the legal all-clear by the High Court. The Alliance Against...

• The two bosses of an Essex motor parts company have been jailed for three years for stealing and dismantling lorries. Paul...

• A haulier who thought an operator's licence came with the vehicle he had hired, which he then overloaded, has been fined a...

by Peter Swingler II Bulk tanker operator Tankfreight has been fined C12,000 by Warley Magistrates for failing to provide...

• Link Romania, the group which has been shipping humanitarian aid to Romania since 1990, has launched an appeal for...

• The predicted traffic jam nightmare of last Friday did not happen, admits TrafficMaster, the company responsible for last...

by Miles Brignall • The UK could have a new "super" truck show which would replace the individual IRTE, SMMT and Tipcon shows...

• Sainsbury's supermarket distribution centre at Charlton in South London has received approval from the Vehicle Inspectorate...

• Drivers who use tranquillisers are involved in 1,600 road accidents every year-110 of them fatal. Researchers from the...

• Scottish hauliers may have to pay financially damaging road tolls on one of the country's busiest commercial vehicle routes...

Last week Home Secretary Jack Straw said he wants to fine hauliers £2,000 if they are caught with illegal immigrants on board....

• Land Rover's Defender TD5 was revealed to UK buyers. As well as the new fivecylinder turbo-diesel, which will give the...

The International Motor Show at Birmingham's NEC is primarily a car event, and seems to have less to do with commercial...

by Colin Barnett • Volvo is set to launch Dynafleet, a "global" vehicle monitoring and communications system, on to the UK...

• Doncaster trailer manufacturer Montracon has acquired a partial share of Pacton BV of Ommen, Holland, and will share its...

• Daihatsu has launched an upgraded version of its Hi jet microvan and pickup. The major change is the fitment of a 1.3 litre...

• Hauliers and main agents seeking to switch from a policy of in-house wheel alignment can now realise the capital costs of...

• Friction material produc Don has recently been engag in work with regional fi services to raise awarene about the...

• Anglian Water is switch ing its 1,500 mixed vehicl. fleet to BP's Vanellus Fl Extra oil. The advantage is that tb....

• In response to last week's European Week of Safety and Health, the road safety campaigning group Brake has made Driver...

• Models in the new PET series of cabletie installation tools from Panduit are designed to install cable ties automatically...

• Truck-Lite has extended its range of light emitting diode (LED) products with the introduction of the Model 45 LED. This...

• Hella's new Luber-finder Heavy Duty Filter Application and Cross Reference Catalogue is available. The 1,000-page...

• The latest version of the Loadlocker, from Maple Fleet Technology, is available. It's on easy-to-use slam lock for...

• Checkpoint is a new, highly visible fluorescent yellow movement indicator designed to be fitted over wheel nuts as a...

• Sykes-Pickavant has a new free workshop catalogue. The 52-page production introduces three special features; Payback...

CM drives the new MAN F2000 Evolution range, including the Eaton-Fuller Autoshift. Colin Barnett reports. • In the week MAN...

• Speeding by its drivers has led to the suspension of the licence held by Newmarketbased DC Ball Transport for a fortnight...

• The two-anda-half-year satisfactory record of Newbridge-based Valley Building Supplies had been followed by "eight months...

• Insufficient publicity for budget changes, and a High Court decision which meant asphalt hailer vehicles have to be taxed...

• The use of Fastrak tractors and trailers to carry goods has ended with two Yorkshire men being ordered to pay fines and...

• The wife of a 436 haulier who took over the business when her hus band became ill has been given a licence to operate in...

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T read with great interest the 1 article about Superdrug, "Healthy Outlook" (CM 10-16 September). I was employed at Superdrug...

w hen Steven Norris tells UK. hauliers to follow Norbert Dentressangle's example, does he mean block all the roads until they...

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

ED ere ore two smart chaps—they're not the sort to miss a window of opportunity. When John Pyatt (on the left), director of...

ii he memorial service of Edwin Foden, great-grandson of one of the founding fathers of the great British trucking industry,...

S U CC Take one family-run haulage business with 40 trucks, send it to work in the construction industry and wait for falling...

Bungle your battery buying and you'll have nothing but trouble. Chris Graham finds out some of the reasons for this. H Ling on...

sparks As vehicles become more advanced and electronic control systems assume ever greater importance, so the need for...

Portsmouth is experie a boom in freight bu46 s Tim Maughan *ited the South Coast port to find out why its traffic has grown by...

Nigel Deacon is general manager of driver agency Westbourne Services and also managing director of general UK and international...

Short.torm buy-back contracts could be on their way out as manufacturers try to persuade fleets to switch to deals lasting for...

Independent dealer Malcolm Harrison is carrying out a growing number ot auctions at hauliers' premises as Firms slim down or...

Iveco Ford Trucksure Services director Peter Rhodes has dismissed criticisms of the fixed margin approach which forms part of...

Hewitt area The John Hewitt MercedesBenz territory in Devon and Cornwall has been taken over by Bristol-based WSM Motors as...

over the Neachalls Hall Garage Mercedes operation in Wolverhampton and will have at least 20 second-hand trucks and vans in...

Sarnia has implemented a major reorganisation of its wholly-owned dealerships. And two well-known names are disappearing amid...