by Juliet Morrison • The Government is considering fixed penalty fines for minor road haulage offences in a bid to cut the cost...

buy-back prices for its products. It will maintain a database on residuals as well as selling used trucks.

Department of Transport report that suggests that the building of new roads only generates extra traffic.

off-shoot was put on the market for sale two years ago but no satisfactory offers were received.

years as chief executive of the Vehicle Inspectorate after beating off an estimated 100 applicants for the post.

a group of companies formed to promote the movement of road trailers by rail.

contract with a foreign-owned supermarket chain: an announcement is expected next week.

of England rail link from Avonmouth to the Channel Tunnel, which could attract freight from road to rail.

• The Department of Transport is warning international hauliers that they could be banned from their regular Sunday route...

UN drivers' working time when it takes over the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers next January. Speaking at Monday's...

• As the belly tank row rumbles on, the French government has asked the European Commission to arbitrate on whether the ban on...

penalty fines for minor road transport offences seem to offer "great capabilities (see opposite)." Our old friend Joe Soap...

by Miles Brignall • Nottingham-based parcel delivery firm Placketts is in the hands of administrative receivers less than a...

• Twenty two drivers and owner-drivers convicted of falsifying tachograph charts when carrying limestone products have escaped...

• Leyland Daf Vans (LDV) has announced interim pre-tax profits of .C8.3m on a turnover of £72m in the six months to 30 June....

• West Wales animal health inspectors are mounting roadside checks at Pembroke Dock and Fishguard to uncover breaches of the...

• Pressure to axe the charges levied on hauliers following checks by customs will increase next month. This follows the...

by Jane Sayer • The taxman will be dipping deeper into hauliers' pockets when the insurance premium tax comes into force on...

to hard-pressed hauliers who are trying to control their costs. Dr Clive Car-foot, managing director of Preston, Lancs-based...

• As predicted (CM 23-30 June), NFC has announced that BRS is to concentrate on contract hire and truck rental, leaving Exel...

• Hopes of 125 extra truck movements a day for Derbyshire hauliers have been dashed by a £2.6m government grant to keep quarry...

• The police, haulage groups, motoring organisations and tyre distributors will meet next month to seek a way of avoiding...

• West Mercia police are setting up a specialist team to check LGVs, following a campaign in the summer which found 94% of the...

by Ian Wylie • A London agency LGV driver has been jailed for 30 months by Kingston Crown Court and served with a confiscation...

• The body which sets standards for training of hauliers and drivers says that colleges of further education could fund CPC and...

• Trailers displaying reflective strips are 18% less likely to be involved in accidents, according to a two-year study by the...

• Aston Clinton Haulage, a profitable subsidiary of Norbert Dentressangle, is celebrating its parent company's half-yearly...

by Lee Kimber • The rates war in the grocery distribution sector depressed Tibbett & Britten's turnover growth in the first...

by 15% to £203.1m and its pre-tax profits by 11% to £12.6m. This was largely off the back of the Silcock car distribution and...

• Eurotunnel is offering International Road Transport Union (IRLT) affiliated organisations, including the Freight Transport...

• Hays' distribution division has bucked the recent trend of flat logistics company results with a 29% surge in operating...

• MRS Environmental Services is to take over refuse collection in St Albans, Herts from the local council agency on 1...

• Walsall-based parcel carrier National Couriers Network is shedding 12 jobs in a bid to improve "the service customers...

by Toby Clark • LDV has revealed its lineup for 1 99 5. These include new bodywork options and the final changes to the...

P1 1 3 6x4 with a Bronto 30m telescopic boom and ladder to its fleet. The Bronto has an outreach of 22m and sits on a 25-tonne...

Dafs for work with Iwo South Coast companies. Nine tipper chassis will operate with pipeline installation company Pipeworks....

gully emptier on a Dennis Elite-cabbed chassis. The right-hand-drive vehicle is designed for single and two-man operation: the...

• The recent Hanover show revealed ways in which Mercedes is looking to improve efficiency. According to Norbert Veit, head of...

Natural gas vehicles could supersede diesels in the 21st century: we assess an early example. by Bill Brock • BOC Distribution...

• The licence held by Londonbased international haulier European Express Cargo has been renewed for the full five years. South...

• The one-vehicle licence held by Chahal Fashions of Walsall was revoked when the company failed to attend a Birmingham...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has adjourned a disciplinary hearing and renewal of the four-vehicle/onetrailer licence held...

• The international licence held by Hinckley-based MJ Morris & Sons has been renewed for 20 trucks and two trailers without...

• The four-vehicle licence held by Khalid Pervez of Nelson, Lancs, was suspended when he failed to attend a Manchester...

• The four-vehicle licence held by Philip Williamson, trading as Williamson Commercials of Burslem, was revoked when he failed...

• South Eastern and Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael Turner has renewed the 12-vehicle licence held by London-based tipper...

* Skip-hire operator Ian Sharpies is waiting to see if he will be allowed to move his operating centre, following objections on...

A - , 1! • The licence held by Joseph John Wilkinson, trading as North East Transport, of Stockton-on-Tees, has been revoked...

• Although David Moscrop was disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0l icence for five years in December 1993, he acted as a...

Will the recent rise in interest rates prove to be a blow to the growing confidence in the road haulage industry? by Karen...

been having a lean time of it in aid late so here's a heart warming story from Hastings, and it even features a hero called...

lot of squeaking has been going on since a colony of dormice were discovered by workers building the A34 Newbury bypass and...

O lorry overturning in the French terminal left 100 guests of Eurotunnel stranded in the Channel Tunnel for nearly an hour....

5 earn building weekends are now all the rage. In this modern version of masochism, employees are shunted off to some...

II right, I give up—this is the silliest picture sent to the Hawk for many a long moon. What on earth are those smartly tunic'd...

T he proliferation of excessively detailed regulations which attend the road transport industry require rolling back. Whenever...

T wholeheartedly agree with 1The Road Haulage Association's Tim Inman's comments in your Industry News story (CM 22-28...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

HORS The new, lighter Hino multi-wheelers are here, complete with Euro-1 engines and a brand new cab. Can this Japanese...

For a second opinion on the Hino eight-legger CM spoke to three tipper °aerators who have already responded to its eastern...

If your haulage business is suffering to the extent that you have to lay off drivers, you'd better check the law governing...

forced ferry companies to ban the transport of live animals for slaughter. Will tougher government guidelines reverse the ban,...

The threat to international livestock hauliers comes as their reefer counterparts are still reeling from the EU ban on carcass...

The crunch For livestock hauliers comes at the end of the month. On 1 October PD's pledge not to carry live animals destined...

• have been spelt out in Continental CEN and homegrown BS equivalents. But from 1 January 1995 they will take on the force of...

of dangerous goods, based on an existing Dutch standard. UK operator JW Suckling already adheres to the Dutch registration...

year specialising in dangerous goods tanker operations. Clients include Shell UK Downstream and Phillips Petroleum Products; it...

Some of the existing conditions contained within the existing ADR requirements, which are outside the scope of current UK...

N ext month I, and other interested parties within the transport industry, meet the Association of Chief Police Officers to...

high customer perception of a product, is the best strategy for a vehicle manufacturer to pursue. However, it seems to have few...