by Miles Brignall • Edward Stobart, arguably the UK's best known haulier, is calling on Chancellor Gordon Brown to rethink the...

• Every new entrant into the road haulage industry intending to use only one vehicle will need to convince his local Traffic...

• Grampian Food Group has bought chicken producer DB MarshaIls. The deal includes MarshaIls` trucks; there will be no loss of...

• Van couriers across the UK appear to have been duped by a firm offering work in return for a registration fee. One courier,...

by David Craik • Securicor has sold 50% of its distribution division to the German state-owned post office Deutsche Post for...

• Furious residents of a small Cambridgeshire village plan a series of blockades on the A47 to force the Government into...

on a County Durham road for the past three years without any work being carried out. The "temporary" lights, which cover a 30m...

SPEAKING OUT ON FUEL DUTY hen lots of individually small voices sing out together they're bound to get more attention than any...

by Karen Miles • Sinai] hauliers have this week been given the statutory right to charge 8% interest on late payments following...

• The Highways Agency has set up high-tech overhead gantries on the M25 which tell drivers why they are being told to reduce...

by Guy Sheppard • High-tech equipment may soon be used to flush out illegal immigrants hiding in lorries, after the Government...

• A lorry driver checked the clearance between his mobile crane arid overhead cables minutes before he was killed by a massive...

• An AA patrolman was killed after being struck by a lorry while working on the hard shoulder of the A1(M) near Dishforth,...

• A new skip loader was stolen from Salford Skips yard the day after the company bought it. The red Mercedes 1317, registration...

• A group of MPs and House of Lords peers looks set to persuade the transport select committee to study the foundering...

The managing director of Transline Logistics, a firm which was granted a UK licence after claiming it had used another...

by David Craik • The future of P&O Stena Line's financially troubled Newhaven to Dieppe ferry route is to be decided later this...

• Bedfordshire police are warning hauliers to check their vehicles' tyres, after nearly 30% of lorries they examined were found...

by Brendan Nolan • An anti-competition action brought against the Irish Road Haulage Association ended abruptly in the Irish...

• A Dublin-based car transport firm has been fined a total of £13,500 for allowing its employees to break drivers hours...

• A Nottinghamshire haulier says he is on the verge of going out of business after being arrested in France on suspicion of...

, the UK vehicle logistics division of Tibbett & Britten, has been appointed by -ore to deliver its new Focus car range...

Recently hauliers have been calling CM complaining they are losing work to farmers using tractors without 0-licences, often...

hauliers can do without unfair competition in any guise. It's bad enough when cowboys force down rates, but when farmers, who...

by Colin Barnett • Powershift, the Governmentsponsored Energy Savings Trust initiative, has revised the way it provides funding...

• Ford and Peugeot have agreed to collaborate in a joint venture to develop a new small diesel engine. The companies will...

• Among the millennium products announced on Monday were two with applications in the road transport industry. The Design...

• Renault's recently revised Clio hatchback will soon be available in van form. It will come with a 65hp (48kW) 1.9litre diesel...

Volvo Trucks has made a number of changes to its FH truck range, and Commercial Motor has driven across some rugged terrain in...

With production up by 20% and a raft of new products on the way, trailer-maker Dennison is consolidating its position as a...

• A Lancashire international haulier, who operated for 18 years without being given a single prohibition, has had his licence...

• Though granting Marshall UK & European Haulage the authority to operate two vehicles and two trailers from Eaglesfield,...

le The misuse of rebated fuels has led to the revoca tion of the 0-licence held by a Nottinghamshire haulier. Robert Tompkins,...

• Two lorry drivers found to have driven excessive hours when stopped in a check in South Wales have been ordered to pay fines...

*A Gwent operator who admitted operating without a licence for almost 12 months has to wait to see whether or not his bid for...

6 • • In ordering Dewsbury-based West Yorkshire Bulk Transport to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £9,122 for a series...

Do you warn to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

C aminercial Motor for the L./past two weeks has carried articles about drivers' pay which highlighted the shortage of HGV...

"Cnimog takes on the Fastrac" (CM 8-14 Oct) with interest, and was flattered to discover that the Fastrac has now been accepted...

H ow interested I was to read your article "Falling Scale" (CM 15-2 Oct). Truck companies and good experienced drivers receive...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hek , steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

aking over the dying embers of the bonfire on Guy Fawkes' Night as he heads back to the warmth of the house to give Foden the...

icture the scene: it's a pitch. black night on an unlit coun try road. Approaching from one direction, a large motor vehicle;...

h yes it can. And G Stiller Transport, based in Teesside, proved it. The company was approached in June by Hartlepool Steel...

grass, but the latest FM line-up of rigids and tractive units looks ready to become a worthy successor. Commercial Motor is the...

BULLETIN NOVEMBER 1998 Self-employment and benefit fiddles A recent multi-agency roadside enforcement check on goods...

Life has a habit of thra the going gets tough. 7 up a few obstacles, but hauliers have a unique opportunity to express their...

Dutch carriers have made their business the success story of Europe. When Steve Banner looked at a way of working which has...

ioau Technology has revolutionised communications. Andrea Kirkby examines the ways the Internet could improve the lot of the...

Cheap manager Software companies, having developed fleet management systems for large users are marketing cut-down versions of...

in the economy SD as to pick up the first signs of recession, they face the difficult task of monitoring a broad range of key...

New working time legislation will come in soon. That will mean employers tackling low pay and changing working practices, says...