• The Highways Agency has opened a unit to help it develop an "environmental Orate:: " for the planning, construction and...

by Miles Brignall • The Government has slashed the vehicle excise duty rises on recovery operators proposed in last November's...

• Town centre road charging schemes are not likely to be launched before the end of the decade because of technological and...

by Juliet Morrison • Hauliers can expect to encounter fewer roadside weight checks this year, thanks to cuts in local authority...

by Karen Miles • Brake, a truck safety campaign called launched today (2 February), has won the backing of the Labour Party,...

A nd now for a rhetorical question: How much money should be spent on road transport enforcement every year? £10...

• Hauliers are warning that Government plans to ban coaches from the outside lane of motorways will result in lane hopping,...

by Karen Miles • Recovery operators have warned every Chief Constable in the UK that the revolution in the management of police...

• Glenda Jackson, labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has spoken out against Government plans to end the London Lorry Ban. In...

• Helping a coachload of school children, a man needing insulin and a woman with a baby was all in a day's work for transport...

• Group 4 Nightspeed, express parcels carrier, has won back a £400,000 contract for next-day delivery of 1,800 product lines...

by Juliet Morrison • Livestock hauliers plan to ask Brussels to stop two major Channel ferry operators from banning their...

• Glasgow-based Carntyne Transport, part of the John Russell Group, has bought the Scottish whisky haulier McKechnie Motors....

by Martin Heminway • NFC's new chairman has warned of further job losses, a month after the group posted stagnant financial...

• BRS Scotland has warned its drivers that there is no money available for a wage rise this year. Transport and Genera l...

• A lorry driver's two-and-ahalf year sentence for a faked hijack of his L56,000 load was a fair sentence, a court has decided....

• Reader response to the CM/Scania CD offer has been phenomenal and we're in the process of sending out CDs to the first 250...

by Miles Brignall • The Health & Safety Executive is calling for warning notices to be made compulsory on tippers following the...

• Confirmation that the escorting of abnormal loads will fall into private hands is expected within days. But the long-awaited...

• A lorry driver who caused the deaths of five women as he jumped a queue after being cut up by a "Sunday driver" has lost his...

• Local Government's share of spending on English roads has risen twice as fast as Central Government's over the past six...

by John Kendall • In advance of testing the new Ford Escort vans, CM has driven the latest car and Estate versions which share...

• Trailmaster Trailers at Kettering has been sold to ML Douglas Equipment: it will be merged with RTS Trailer Systems. RTS...

• Wareham-based HMC Transport has bought three new Schmitz Cargobull reefers to go with a trio of Renault Magnum 420 tractive...

• Ford's current Transit could be the last to cover the entire weight range from 2.3 to 4.0 tonnes GVW with a single model....

• Roger Godfrey, trading as Blackhurst Wade at Chelmsford, has lost his appeal against the refusal of his licence application...

• Newport-based haulier Anthony Beese escaped without having his licence reduced after seven vehicles and four trailers passed...

• A gross overload cost Traffic Management (NE) of Newcastle upon Tyne 1535 in fines and costs when it appeared before Blaydon...

• A bid for a new licence by father and son James and Darren Flitcroft, trading as JW Haulage of Stockport, has been refused by...

• Doubts over the financial position of Wimbledon. based NK Transport Services have led the South Eastern and Metropolitan...

fli IN The defence costs of Runcorn owner-driver James MacDougall are to be paid out of public funds following his acquittal...

t Pontypridd based skip hire operator Colin Carter's licence was suspended when he failed to turn up at a Cardiff disciplinary...

• Salad products importer Paris Express has succeeded in upgrading its licence from restricted to standard international and to...

• MRJ Phillips (Metals) at Cross Hands, Dyfed had its licence suspended for 48 hours by Sot th Wales Licensing Authority John...

Mercedes has unveiled the Ti N Sprinter: the van that replaces the hardy Ti range after 18 years. The Sprinter is clearly...

T he 44-tonne issue now appears to have been settled: the heavier weight limit will be restricted to lorries serving railheads....

C an some reader or ...insurance expert tell me a way around a problem I have encountered? In September I sold a Saab car,...

More Ford • Warrington-based Ford dealership Bramallford is becoming a heavy truck specialist dealer. The franchise enables...

• Commercial vehicle parts supplier Camberley Auto Factors has opened a purpose-built depot at Cheney Manor, Swindon. Contact...

Spanish delivery • Gefeo UK is introducing a twice-weekly trailer groupage service between the UK, Spain and Portugal. There...

• Kudos Logistics, together with the French-based Assistrans Group, now has a daily overnight service between Britain and...

• SkanTrans-PSL has moved its northern distribution centre into bigger premises in Manchester. The new warehouse is at Unit C2,...

European phones • Eurotunnel has signed a contract with Eurotalk to supply GSM mobile phones at its Folkestone and Calais...

Super trip • Red Funnel Group's super ferries are carrying almost 10 0 0 more freight than they did in 1993 between

GROUP Southamptoli and East Cowes. Driver incentives include vouchers offering cheap hot drinks and other refreshments. Red...

FTA 1995 • The Freight Transport Association has published its Yearbook of Road Transport Law fin. 1995. The book, in its 33rd...

• Classic Trucks—The Power on llw Move is the book from the recent Channel 4 series. Written by Nicholas Faith and published by...

Freight '95 • The Freight Transport Association's annual conference is to be held at the Belfry, Warwickshire on 1-2 March....

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

• The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is holding its annual international recovery exhibition on 2-4 June at the...

• The Institute of Logistics national conference will take place at the Metropole Hotel at the National Exhibition Centre in...

• Solihull-based Whale tankers has produced a safety guard to cover up the WM1A frames fitted to large numbers of council...

• LONDON:

• SOUTH EAST: There will be a contraflow and additional night closures at the M25 J7-8(M23) until early March. There will be...

mirrors, has been stolen from Shrewsbury, Shropshire-based central heating and plumbing business D Webb. The van, registration...

sers of CDVs, whether small tradesmen or delivery drivers, are demanding ever-increasing levels of comfort and equipment. It's...

UNDER 3.5 TONNES OVW ith three new contenders in this group—the Sevel, a revised Transit and Nissan's reduced wheelbase Hiace...

3.5 TONNES GVW A disparate group, this, comprising one vehicle that has been discontinued; one coachbuilt specialist vehicle;...

1 7-TONNE oving up the weight range to the fiercely competitive 17-tonne sector, the battle lines are more clearly defined....

6x4/4x2 151 hrough no choice of ours, none oi the best sellers from last year's sixwheeled tipper market stepped forward for...

8x4 01 here were so many outstanding eight-leggers to choose from last year that our testers had to go over them with a fine...

e weren't exactly inundated with tractive units for test last year but what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality....

we publish one test a week, there are quite a number of other vehicles we tested last year that haven't got a mention so far....

H umble 24-volt electrics seem to have been totally eclipsed by the rush to add more and more electronic systems to trucks....

D riving along a rain-lashed motorway in February is a miserable experience however much you love trucks. For many drivers the...

Every haulier needs a good accountant—the right one for your business may save you money and headaches. But how do you make the...

g few parcel carriers are acting A irresponsibly by being unprepared to meet peaks in traffic volumes, such as in the hectic...