• The Port of Dover is benefiting from the Channel tunnel fire with record levels of freight: more than 6,500 trucks passed...

EXCLUSIVE SURVEY • More than 80% of hauliers think the haulage industry has fared badly under the Conservatives—but only 12%...

IN The Transport and General Workers Union is to canvas new members in two of Goodway's non-unionised depots after an...

by Miles Brignall • British hauliers face a French Sunday driving ban following an agreement reached between striking French...

• British hauliers awaiting compensation from the French for the November blockade can now submit claims forms. Copies of the...

ever again! Never again! How many of us begin the New Year having triumphed over the mother of all hangovers? And how many of...

providing the information they need to stay profitable, professional and legal. But we also like to talk to our readers, to...

by Derren Hayes • Drivers are being warned not to stray from motorways when travelling through Luxembourg because police are...

• Eighteen trucks received immediate prohibitions for mechanical defects at Iwo roadside checks on 108 vehicles carried out by...

• The leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union and the United Road Transport Union are due to meet within the next...

• Volvo is to offer insurance to lorry operators in the latest move by truck operators to boost their profitability. Driver...

by Karen Miles • A £12,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of criminals who abducted a P&O...

• Securicor's distributIon division increased its pre-tax profits by 50% to £21m for the year to the end of September....

seriously injured following an accident in France earlier this year has been told by doctors it is unlikely he'll ever , drive...

. Swift and its sister German company will provide transport throughout Europe. • Scottish-based vehicle carrier Richard...

• BT is buying a further 7,000 Ford Escort 50 diesel vans and 4,000 diesel Fiesta vans. Its nationwide fleet includes 16,000...

by Toby Clark • Renault and GM have finally signed the agreement under which an allnew panel van will be built in Luton and...

• Bakewell-based Donington Environmental Engineering (DEE) has produced a safe method of sheeting waste or high-volume loads in...

• West Country specialist bodybuilder Devon Conversions is in administrative receivership, with 82 jobs at risk. Trevor Frid...

The staid image of removals is changing—at least in some quarters. New flagship of the Andy's of Wokingham fleet is a radical...

• The left-hand-drive MAN 24.403 is as smooth as you could could wish for. MAN is a master of the drawbar combination; it also...

• Newport-based T&G Scaffolding has been given interim authority to operate pending consideration of its application for a full...

• A train weight overload cost Northern Irish hauliers Montgomery Transport £260 in fines and costs when the company appeared...

• A bid for a new licence for two vehicles and one trailer by Mark Peters, based at Bedwell Park Quarry, Herts, has been...

III Ayrshire haulier Alexander Anderson is appealing against the decision of Scottish TC Michael Betts to impose a three-week...

by Keith Hunt • A lorry driver who smuggled 25 illegal immigrants into the UK in a consignment of musical Christmas cards has...

• Assurances that a Bilston man is not a front for a disqualified operator have been accepted by West Midland Traffic...

A bid by a Bishop Auckland haulier to double his licence authorisation of three vehicles and three trailers has been rejected...

• A company that operated twice its authorised fleet without authority for almost three months escaped with a warning at a...

by Jeff Weaver • International haulier David Lynne, who denies a catalogue of tachograph fiddling charges dating back to 1994,...

• Groeneveld has just introduced a rear obstacle detector called Greensight for rigids, artics and vans. A sensor module,...

• Alentec Orion has introduced a range of competitively priced high-quality exhaust Filtration equipment which conforms fully...

• Wray-Tech (UK) claims to have set new on-board weighing accuracy standards for the waste industry with the introduction of...

• The days when most trucks and buses were painted in BS and RAL colours have long gone. A consequence of this is that...

• An interesting solution to blocked windscreen washer system has been developed by Somerset-based Hydro International. The...

• Mann+Hummei is now an approved supplier of filters to the Factoring Service Group (FS% in partnership with First Line, its...

• The Road Haulage Association is holding a number of health and safety seminars in the New Year. Dates and venues are: 15...

Another party • The United Kingdom Warehousing Associationthe trade association for third-party warehousing companies...

Top seller • Knowsley-based truck dealer Thomas Hardie Commercials has won the silver medal in the Commercial Vehicle Retailer...

Roll playing • The Institute of Petroleum has sponsored a driver training video to update tanker drivers and operators on the...

Milkman Mae • Unigate has appointed the Rt Hon John MacGregor OBE MP for South Norfolk as a non-executive director of the...

rr here are three rates of toll on the Severn Bridge—motor car, commercial vehicle and heavy commercial vehicle. The Severn...

T ransport minister Sir George Young personally promised that he would oversee compensation claims from hauliers caught in the...

ood old Peter Foden, VI who is to become a consultant after spending 46 years on the board at ERE As his son has also left,...

Tread with interest your 1 article about the Channel tunnel fire (CM 12-18 Dec). I feel compelled to write to you as, yet...

T read with interest in CM 1 the letters and articles on the use of JCB Fastracs and the like. I would like to bring to the...

E verybody will have sympathy for Ken Abram, the latest casualty in the haulage business (CM 19 December-I January) but, as...

ow here's a rare thing. a happy, optimistic haulier who's glad to be his own boss. Meet Michael Maguire, a determined sort of...

3 attle in County Clare, Ireland, are blissfully unaware that roads are supposed to be the exclusive preserve of cars, lorries...

a he Hawk's heart goes out to drivers who Find themselves spending lonely nights away during the festive season. Unfortunately,...

Until now, any man and his dog could drive a 7.5tonner, but this year legislation has changed, and new car drivers are limited...

Dutch magazine Nekstat enlisted the help of five professional distribution drivers from nearby Doetinchem to help judge tlie...

T his is an interesting test for a number of reasons: it covers a class of trucks that we'll see more and more of in the next...

and from the outside the Daf 55 Series looks the most stylish of the vehicles on test. Its curvaceous shape is reminiscent of a...

UK except as a special order, but it looks a good value truck with many virtues. It's high on power, with over 220hp coming...

is super-smooth and super-quiet too—it's a class act. Experienced drivers will recognise typically careful MAN design; light...

the most highly stressed----just over four litres putting out around 170 horsepower. But those horses didn't feel...

from the seventies. Names and details have changed, though the cab still retains grab-handles on the mudwings despite the...

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996. CIF 2 December 1996 and 1 April 1997. Implements the Second Driver...

• Vehicle Dimensions: Changes proposed to C&U regulations early in 1997 to allow drawbars up to 18.75m overall length, bringing...

Some operators, particularly in Scotland are fitting wide-single iyres on their steering axles. This has some advantages, but...

A rnong the gripes that unite brewers is the cost of distribution. After all, the product is 90% water and the name of the...

There's a wind of change blowing through supermarket distribution. But Canterbury-based Chris London Transport has found...

Bill England's family has been in a Wiltshire village for 500 years and for the past 25 he has employed local people in his...

C onvertible vans? A top that goes up and down in a matter of minutes? It all sounds a bit glamorous for these pages, surely...

Every haulier should begin the New Year with a set of firm and sensible resolutions that will help to reap financial rewards in...

W hen the history of the 1996 French drivers' strike is written children will ask their lorry driving parents: "What did you do...