Running Be , is repeated at 17:30 on Friday 5 May. Described as one driver's view, it claims to expose the "murky world of...

Groh Miller has been elected president of the Freight Transport Association. Miller succeeds Angus Clark, distribution director...

increase in c. g profits to £1.04m on a turnover of just over £17m for the year to the end of December 1994.

Duke of Westminster awards for business and industry in the North-West. Stobart took the award for firms employing more than...

the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association (VBRA) in association with the Motor Industry Training Standards Council (mITSC),

"Rounding Up the Cowboys", considering the options for curtailing illegal operators.

by Miles Brignall and Mike Jewell • North Western LA Martin Albu has been heavily criticised by the Transport Tribunal for...

• Livestock haulier Gordon Gilder is poised to follow his brother Peter into the courts to protect his right to trade. Gordon...

by Miles Brignall • Trailer manufactures designing extra capacity low height vehicles look to have been wasting their time as a...

• Continental drivers and operators were blitzed on the M1 in a stop and check operation which revealed that two thirds of the...

ccording to legend whenever the late, unlamented Hermann Goering heard the word "culture" he reached for his gun. Whenever CM...

by Lee Kimber • Nearly 200 National Owner-Drivers Association members carrying concrete for Redland Readymix are to vote on...

• The link between drivers' hours and road safety is to be formally examined by the European Commission. The study aims to look...

killing after a lorry driver drowned when his vehicle crashed into a river when its brakes failed. Robert Atkinson of Grogan...

• Pennine Haulage, formed to take over the operations of Fewston Transport—the company involved in the Sowerby Bridge...

• The transport industry is enjoying greater growth than many other sectors of the economy, according to figures released by...

• NFC has given notice that its long-running era of employee power looks set to end within six months. In an announcement lost...

by Guy Sheppard • The Government's plan to make the retro-fitting of self-sealing valves to each air line on trailer couplings...

to take action against operators who use earth-wired hoses to fill tankers after an Essex company was fined £11,000 for...

• Brake, the campaign for lorry safety, has secured £25,000 from the road transport industry in a move which has secured its...

• Northern businessman Geoffrey Whittaker, accused of committing a £10.25 million fraud involving non-existent commercial...

• Plans to ban lorries from using the two-mile Queensway tunnel in Merseyside have moved a step closer as the Department of...

• The Health and Safety Executive is investigating Cumbrian haulier Stalkers Transport after a toxic leak from one of its...

• Poor diet is costing many drivers their jobs and possibly their lives, according to the United Road Transport Union. It is so...

by Guy Sheppard • In a move widely perceived as a Government Uturn, transport secretary Brian Mawhinney is to defer making a...

MI Up to 2,000 ex-employees of truck manufacturer Leyland Daf won the first battle in their twoyear fight for redundancy...

freight forwarding firms and are charged with conspiring to defraud hauliers has been delayed until 2 June at the city's Crown...

• When CM last tested a CNG-powered Iveco, it was a TurboTech 240.26 tractive unit in service with Svelast, the road transport...

has launched the Euro-2 version of its 122litre Eagle Tx engine, tagged Eagle Tx 2000. Three power ratings will he available...

• Castrol has introduced Syntruck. its fully synthetic 5W/40 engine oil, and will guarantee engines using it for up to one...

• Poplar Recovery Systems has introduced a beavertail car recovery body for the Sevel range of chassis cabs with an AL-KO...

by Brian Weatherley • A light eight-legger, a concept municipal truck and a high-roof "Strato Cruiser" tractor are just three...

B - Series CNG engine in the UK is being fitted into a 17-tonner ERF EC6 for delivery to Slough Borough Council. The engine is...

by Colin Sowman • Volvo has delivered the first of 59 gas-powered trucks to the authorities in Gothenburg. Based on the FL10,...

• Wigan Magis trates have decided that charges alleging the falsification of tachograph charts by haulier Carl Rigby of...

Raymaon Butterworth and Neil Holmes, trading as Fylde Concrete Products, of Lytham St Annes was turned down when they failed to...

Hegarty falsified tachograph charts, drove excessive hours and took insufficient rest have been adjourned by the Wigan...

on the licence held by Walsh Waste Disposal, of Alloa, being cut from five vehicles and two trailers to two vehicles. Scottish...

William Miazek, trading as Aberdeen Trailers, of Fyvie, has been cut so that it expires at the end of next February, instead of...

Commercial Motor can help! The latest version of CM's Legal Directory is now available to readers price £10 including p&p. The...

• Paul and Edwin Carter, trading as C & J Express, of Pocklington, North Yorkshire, were given on absolute discharge for using...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has reduced Kingclip Seafoods' licence from international to national after the Aberdeen-based...

4,16 • A bankrupt has had his 0 licence renewed LA Martin Albu at a Manchester public inquiry, even though he currently has no...

W ell is it or isn't it? If you had talked to the manufacturers at last week's RHA TipCon show you'd have got a different story...

for local distribution work where traffic conditions and access problems made it impractical to use anything larger. The...

T he Irish Exporters Association seems to have come up with a new definition of "invention". Despite their claim reported by...

S o livestock hauliers are finally able to carry out their perfectly legal trade through Dover again. Cue the animal rights...

T he Freight Transport Association does not take sides on the dealer versus in-house workshop debate (CM20-26 April). The...

The drive for better fuel consumption, more power and the relentless pace of emissions regulations means that all manufacturers...

has led Iveco to research alternative fuels as well as ways to make the diesel more environmentally friendly. Experiments have...

Common rail injection system MR Turbocharger actuator actuator 0 O ne of the most promising alternatives is natural gas....

Everybody knows about Truckfest the family show. Truckfest the show for thrills and spills. Truckfest the show for the...

The cost of complying with new hazregs is forecast to rise: a revision of these rules may mean you have to comply with ADR. E...

journeys, even if there is a single package of dangerous goods on a vehicle, but extending this policy to collection and...

According to a survey conducted by hazardous goods carrier JW Suckling, only 4% of respondents in the hazardous goods industry...

6 e are transport people, running trucks and moving freight around. It is said we cannot appreciate beautiful things and...