• You've got to hand it to the French Government. Only they could allow thousands of drivers to paralyse their road system, and...

• Desperate British hauliers who lost up to £2,500 in the illegal French truckers' blockade are being warned that they stand...

. Planned spending of £6.3bn on desperately needed new roads is at risk now that ministers have been told to expect cuts of...

• Immediate prohibitions were slapped on 12 trucks out of 75 examined in spot checks on the M25 near Heathrow last week. Five...

• Scottish Licensing Authority Keith Waterworth is returning to his native Yorkshire as North Eastern LA, replacing Leedsbased...

• Hauliers buying HGVs from this Saturday will have another important piece of kit fitted as well as that K-reg number plate —...

• What is claimed to be Britain's most expensive list price truck is up for sale, six months after its owner snapped it up in a...

• Robin Sparshatt has launched a bodybuilding business at Havant, IIants using plant from the former bodybuilding business...

• A former Red Star road operations manager has been jailed after exploiting lax accounting procedures at the company and...

• TNT Express is appealing against an industrial tribunal decision to award £80,000 compensation to 13 of its former employees...

• Euro-1 emission requirements have prompted further changes to the C-suffix versions of the Caterpillar 3306 and 3406 engines...

• Tetley Walker Brewery has put two Iveco Ford Cargo 180E21 urban artics into service at its Lake District distribution centre...

• Midland-Grau has developed a range of braking and air suspension products ahead of changes in legislation. Its new slack...

• Mercedes tractive units fitted with the high-roofed Euro cab will not be available in the UK for some time, but Dereham,...

• Reynolds Boughton and Renault Trucks have jointly developed a five tonne 4x4 vehicle based on Renault's 50 Series S46 chassis...

• Leyland Daf has improved availability of Allison automatic transmissions on its 45, 50 and 60 Series chassis and...

• Parcels operator City Link has taken delivery of 11 MAN F90 38-tonne tractor units with five double-deck and six singledeck...

• Cummins is extending its base engine warranties to two years from 1 August. All parts and labour are included in the...

• Mansfield-based Neville Charrold has taken orders for four of its 42m 3 Magnum 2000 bulk tipper trailers from Spanish...

• The United Road Transport Union aims to double its declining 18,000 membership with a recruitment campaign. General secretary...

/ A fresh application for an Operator's Licence has been made by John Dee Ltd in a move which is set to guarantee interest from...

• Construction starts this week on a multi-million-pound depot in Cambridgeshire for Turners, despite the threat that a...

• Road/rail distribution company Charterail is set to buy into Railfreight Distribution when the company comes up for sale as...

• Tanker manufacturer and refurbisher Newby Tankers has gone into voluntary liquidation because its directors see a bleak...

• British Rail parcel carrier Red Star has lost business by starving its marketing arm of cash to promote its services,...

• Some former customers of the liquidated Speedwell Group have switched to Macclesfield haulier RH Stevens, owned by Reg...

ai trading as ACC of Beattock, has • John D Hyslop, Beattock, has been given a final warning about the maintenance of his...

• A failure to disclose and declare overloading convictions led to Great Sutton, Wirral-based D Morgan (Plant Hire) appearing...

• Prices Transport (Dinas Powys), whose licence was cut 12 months ago, has been successful in obtaining a full five-year...

• The largest double-decker ever seen on London's streets has gone on trial with London Buses subsidiary Selkent. The 96-seat...

• Chesterfield-based bodybuilder Frank Guy has completed the first PCV conversion on Mercedes-Benz 711ID turbo van. The...

• Staffordshire-based PMT is to be the first bus operator to fit satellite equipment which can locate its buses to within 50m....

• Plaxton has laid off another 20 staff at its manufacturing plant in Scarborough. Most of the redundancies are service or...

• The one group of people that can haul Britain's beleagured transport industry out of the gloom refuses to help. Consumers,...

OF CHANGE, • Your average haulier, doing his best to earn an honest living, could be forgiven for feeling that his truck is...

to Simon Carpenter, JT Carpenter; BV Hundro, Leggetts Transport; Jo Birdshall, RNB Transport; CR Stubbs, Walkers Crisps and JN...

outings in the best of company. This Sunday, 2 August, the 24th Trans-Pennine Run will take more than 300 vehicles across...

El ust as I was getting used to calling HGVs LGVs, as we are all supposed to now, out comes a Vehicle Inspectorate report which...

as well as a financial and legal maze, so they need all the help they can get. With this in mind, Commercial Motor has joined...

• Following the merger of Saviem and Berliet with Renault, it was the square BerLiet cab which survived to adorn the...

— used on the R390, replaced the old KKK blower, All the "300" series engines got a French-built Livit speed limiter as...

TA I. • Hi-tech electronics have been a feature of truck chassis for a few years now, controlling everything from injection...

We are civil engineering contractors engaged on constructing a new bypass and we use an old 10,000-litre tanker on a four-wheel...

Police required my artic to be weighed at a public weighbridge which was too long for the drive axle to be weighed on its own....

ON TEST E xtra power is a luxury that the majority of van operators can do without, particularly in the current economic...

(25 June-1 July) from Mrs .1 Coping of Thatcham, Berks, I believe that this view is typical of that held by the great majority...

it I very much welcome any clampdown on Vehicle Excise Duty dodgers as this evasion has been the thorn in the side of many...