a SKr14bn (11bnl stake in Scania, giving it a longawaited foothold in the heavy truck industry. Two weeks ago the EC blocked a...

Petroleum Exporting Countries that the world could be heading for an oil price crisis.

the Energy Saving Trust's Powershift programme. which aims to create a sustainable market for clean fuel vehicles.

legal to move tractive units on Belgian roads without a vignette. Places at the RHA's Dunblane conference are going fast;...

based on US technology. It would enable drivers in fast lanes to be charged while those in congested lanes would travel free.

by Charles Young The government's policy of encouraging hauliers to buy three-axle tractive units came unstuck last week when...

• The European Commission plans to extend the compulsory fitting of speed limiters to smaller commercial vehicles. The move...

a by Charles Young Flaullers in rural areas have welcomed two moves in last week's Budget designed to clamp down on the...

• Aggregates hauliers face a significant downturn in business two years from now when a new tax, announced in last week's...

haulage firms are to close within a week of each other, citing crippling fuel and vehicle excise costs. Newton Abbot-based HJT...

allow all hauliers to operate at 44 tonnes that was announced during last week's Budget. Speaking at the opening of the CV...

a difference to County Tyronebased haulier Donnell & Ellis Transport. Fifteen tractors and most of the firm's low-loader and...

• by Karen Wes A new system of driver identification to help end the illegal use of Eastern European drivers by Ell hauliers is...

• The Department of Transport is carrying out a consultation exercise to determine whether the level of finance required by...

• Eurotunnel is adding an extra departure an hour in each direction during peak periods for freight. The extra departure,...

It's hardly surprising that hauliers encouraged to move to three-axle tractors before last week's Budget are up in arms about...

by Karen Miles Truck drivers are top of the league when it comes to dying on the job, ahead of coal miners, construction and...

al Without "tough action" congestion is set to rise in central London by 34% in 10 years—and much of it in the next five, warns...

• The government needs to spend billions rather than millions if it is to achieve a transport System to rival the best in...

• A semi-trailer containing more than 2300,000 worth of computer games was stolen from Birmingham Cargo Airport on Wednesday...

which assists people facing criminal proceedings abroad, is calling for funding as demand for its services grows. Stephen...

• The overloading of refuse collection vehicles has led to the licence held by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council being cut...

by Miles Brignall The Institutes of Logistics Se, Transport (IoLT) and Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) failed to offer any new...

• Healers smuggling Gig . arettes will find themselves up against a tougher Customs regime under a government plan to disrupt...

a contract to deliver chilled and ambient produce out of Sainsbury's Rotherham RDC. The sleepercabbed 6x2s. with 380hp/14speed...

CEO and chairman. John Bryant; executive director is Klaus Wagner from MAN with David Smith as sales director (see page 24i.

another 484 LDV Pilot and Convoy vans, to follow the £15m order last December. The vans, in a variety of configurations. are...

II by Peter Lawton A Scottish transport company reports that it is saving so much by buying five Mercedes-Benz Ategos on the...

Registering a truck bought on the Continent for UK use is relatively easy, depending on how much you like filling in forms and...

be delivered in greener trucks. A batch of 72 Scania P940B 4x2 NA220 daycab rigids with 28ft fridge bodies, operated by...

• Peugeot has launched what it describes as the only Britishbuilt, car-derived van. The 206 CDV is based on the three-door...

Atherton-based heavy haulier J Fisher and Sons has bought its fifth King GTS-44 stepframe low-loader It has a payload of just...

• Oswestry Waste Paper chose a 10-tonne chassis for its latest hook-lifter, to boost payload in a compact package. OWP runs an...

IFI4 PRICE AS TESTED: £27,096 (ex-VAT) including £22,220 double-cab chassis and £1,404 for drop-side body (see panel for other...

new cab add up to a real 21st century truck. The new model is called the TG, said to stand for "Trucknology Generation"—not the...

By any standard, the launch of MAN's IC (Trucknology Generation) heavyweights has been a major event: in the UK alone MAN Truck...

• There were 140 launch events in Europe last week. including 19 in the UK. • The European Launch was seen by 100,000 people...

• The cab is the first thing you'll notice—and be impressed by. It follows Renault's Magnum and Mercedes' Actros in being...

• The TG's chassis owes nothing to the basic design of the previous model, although it shares the overall width and mounting...

• A TG-A driver can hardly fail to notice the new "intermediate stage" (we prefer "Euro-fudge") electronic tachograph which...

m The new TG range could be "the truck you can't buy" in Britain, according to UK marketing director Alistair Williamson. ''We...

• The TG-A's engines are basically the Euro-3 410hp and 460hp units seen in the F2000 Evolution late last year. with a few...

• MAN was determined to reduce whole-l(fe costs: maintenance and repair costs are predicted to be 10°-b lower than for the...

Falsifying a tachograph chart to enable him to get home at night cost Carlisle lorry driver Wayne Hewitson a total of £225 in...

the Operator's Licence held by Cumbernauld-based Mitchell Soil Contractors being suspended for three weeks. The company...

warning when it appeared before Western Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps. The IC had been concerned about the company's...

Lynton Transport being formally warned by Western Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps. The firm appeared before the TC at a...

A culture of falsifying tachograph records appears to have taken hold at a Lancashire operator. according to the North Western...

chart to try to conceal a stint of more than 12 hours behind the wheel. Matthew Fuller, of Tarleton, Preston, Lancashire, had...

Huddersfield haulier Robert Hirst has had his licence revoked for aiding and abetting drivers to falsify tachograph records....

Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room...

using Eastern Bloc drivers (CM16 - 22 March), it seems to me that this is the result of management in the office not charging...

The recent merger announcement between the Norwich Union and the CGU did not come as a great surprise to those in the insurance...

Amid all the fuss of the recent "friendly" Budget, let's not forget that slowing the rate at which you tighten the thumbscrews...

You don't see these on me road every day! Pictured at the recent 17th International Transport and Logistics Exhibition in...

Sometimes decorum is called for, and as David Evans (right) sales manager for Cranleigh Freight Services, is presented with the...

The Hawk likes to pride himself on being something of a connoisseur of the amber nectar. However, it seems that slightly...

If you're experiencing pangs of conscience driving around in your old gas-guzzler and onsidering trading it in for a modern...

• Deb has teamed up with specialist waste company One-Stop-Shop to come up with the Jizer Parts Degreasing Centre, which...

• Ma.PI.In. of Torino, Italy, has developed a dynamic wrench for truck wheels which is capable of exerting up to 550Nm 410Ibft)...

Ring Automotive has a new range of tinted headlamp bulbs that are designed to appeal to customisers of cars, CDVs and larger...

X Ashford Automotive Systems has a new device lor removing small dents. Called the Smart Stick, all it requires is for the...

• Gates Europa NV has extended its range of Micro-V range of ribbed drive belts and metal fittings including, For the first...

• Light CVs can now have their hydraulic dampers testedin-situ using Beissbarth's micro-SAT 8600 shock absorber tester. The...

Renault's futuristic concept vehicle with its big, slabfronted cab when it was first presented in the mid-eighties. Unlike most...

Warisa Distribution, out of Pemberton. Greater Manchester which is close to Junction 26 on the M6. The company was established...

Staffordshire CV of Stoke-on-Trent, was set up to return ageing Magnums to pristine condition. In many cases where the truck...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate's Safety Branch has not received any recall details from Renault regarding the Magnum range on...

an asset" Dave Watts lie re-engineered products are covered by a r a-month, r6o,000km Renault warranty. I or the finance...

Dick Matthews of Newington, Kent, has run his own trucks for the past 16 years. He operates a fleet of 10 tractive units on...

"They make a great Continental truck, and drivers certainly like them" Chris Wright Chris Wright, managing director of...

which is close to the Ml. Proprietor Ron Adams has been in the haulage business for 26 years and runs 12 trucks on Continental...

• Insurance brokers Roberts & Davis of Newmarket supplied us with a sample quote of 2989 for an owner-driver operating within...

Ten years old, and a much improved vehicle for all that. Th, light, compact, Mack 12-litre engine rated a 430 and 47ohp is...

a single customer. Many hauliers would be loathe to he so dependent on a single client but, as David Taylor found out, if you...

braking in trucks and trailers, nor those of traction control or the more recent electronic braking systems. There may be...

Owen's Service Equipment now specialises in equipment for the automotive trade from its base at Darlaston. Its latest offering,...

tool that only large fleets can justify. But now the Oil Lab has devised a method that small fleet operators and owner-drivers...

6.30am: Awake in Brussels after travelling over on Sunday afternoon for a meeting of the EU committee dealing with the digital...

the worst of the traffic and catch up g, on the backlog. Go through today's mail with my PA when she arrives and deal with...

London again and a meeting of the Associate Parliamentary Transport Forum, a valuable opportunity to meet MPs and peers from...

Start the day with Commercial Motorand Motor Transportto find out who's doing what in the industry this week. A rare chance to...

Another early start to drive down to the Midlands for a lengthy meeting with pension experts from our brokers, AON, and to...

• Independent dealer Cross Commercials is moving its depot 15 miles down the road from Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, to Leek, on the...

The move means that West Pennine, based in Middleton, Manchester, now covers an area from Greater Manchester as far south as...

Building on the success of its Elitebranded refurbished second-hand Magnum tractors, Renault VI dealer Staffs CV is marketing...

Renault VI aims to increase its network of franchised parts and ser vice points by 50% to 75 in the next three to five years...

Independent dealer Chris Hodge is moving into the 3.5-tonner market "It's a change of culture for us," says Fledge. "We're...

Mannheim is busy getting to grips with a new cycle of HGV auctions thz began at the start of the year, with weekly sales at...

With rriore than 40 trucks sold since the start of the year, business booming at Essex independent dealer Hanbury Riverside....