• Hays has bought courier Corporation for £65m. It plans to merge two thirds of ICS into Hays Express Services and the rest...

by Derren Hayes • Hundreds of small tipper operators are close to collapse because they can no longer absorb the continuing...

• Southampton haulier JP Alford, its managing director and 20 employees have been fined more than £20,000 for a series of...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers travelling through France in the next few days face massive disruption as French farmers step up...

• Hauliers in the North-East who appeared in court for gross overloading offences are to be penalised twice because Traffic...

t' s the season of the communal F re roast. Once again British hauliers expor beef and lamb are likely to suffer del and...

• European customs laws discriminate against truck drivers over drug-finds simply because they are driving trucks, Fair Trials...

by David Harris • Jackson Transport (Ossett) pleaded not guilty this week to the first charge of corporate manslaughter to be...

• About 100 hauliers who could lose their licences following the sale of a London lorry park are trying to get a judicial...

by Karen Miles • Insurance rates for hauliers are set to rise by 10% this year, ending a three-year pause in premium increases....

• Ministers look set to announce tighter rules on livestock haulage later this year after hauliers are given a second chance to...

by Miles Brignall • A Lancashire haulage firm has became the latest in a string of operators to stop trading because they can't...

• Swift Transport Services and TNT Logistics have failed with bids to land the lucrative multimillion-pound Ministry of Defence...

• The RAC may face legal action from angry hauliers following its decision to wind-up its Quality Assurance service just...

* Hauliers driving through Belgium are advised to take the R14/E17 or E41 1/R1 and E1 9/A1 to avoid nine months of roadworks on...

by Mike Slingsby • A Dutch lorry driver who slammed into a metrolink tram injuring 18 passengers has been fined a total of...

• The postal workers' union says it is to ballot for industrial action at Parcelforce following the outbreak of a row over the...

• Cross-channel ferry price cutting has resulted in Stena Line announcing losses of nearly £ 34m for the first half of the year...

1993 saw the arrival of the Volvo FH. Now it's Mercedes' turn to set the pace. The Actros is not only good to drive, but the...

• Doble Quality Foods has taken delivery of the first UKbased eutectic refrigerated vehicle to use the new AZ20 gas. The gas...

by Bryan Jarvis • Nooteboom has developed a low-bed trailer with redesigned integrated dolly in response to hauliers' needs to...

• The London Borough of Camden has introduced a new mobile library with a number of unusual features. Based on a Leyland Daf...

J udging by the iiinktiping truck show, Sweden's truck market is on a high—despite environmental questions over access by older...

by Steve Sturgess and Brian Weatherle2; II In April this year Volvo Truck Corporation boss KarlErling Trogen declared that the...

by Jeff Weaver • A court has decided an international haulier should stand trial for tachograph charges despite arguments that...

• A bid by David Davies & Son to renew its licence has been adjourned until early next year. The company is in administrative...

• Concerns over maintenance have led to one vehicle being removed from the licence held by Doyle Demolition & Excavation of...

• Scottish TC Michael Betts took no action against the licence held by Stuart Walker, who trades as Walker Haulage, of...

• Glastonbury-based Gerald and Suzanne Cox received a warning at a Bristol disciplinary inquiry. They appeared before Western...

• An Essex haulage company was warned that its existence was at stake when a Cambridge public inquiry was adjourned until late...

• Transport con sultant Paul Carless has been warned of the dangers of standing in temporarily as the nominated transport...

• A Lancashire company had its licence revoked when it failed to appear at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry. D W Briggs (Land...

by Michael Jewell 6 A • An Essex lorry driver, who killed three people and seriously injured a fourth when her lorry ran on...

• Another trio of 6x6 Reynolds Boughton (Devonl ' s Barracuda 6 airfield crash trucks has been despatched to Pakistan as part...

Dilemma over brakes W e operate our own fleet of 45 Mercedes commercial vehicles. We have recently added to our fleet two 412D...

comment on cowboy hauliers and what to do with them. Last week was no exception with the Sound Off article (CM 22-28 August)....

do not have an Operator's Licence. Let's face it, if you get caught with red dery in your tank you lose all rights to that...

Oh what a picture 0 had that Cobra sports car on the side of my cab," is the proud boast 4 if one Edinburgh taxi driver whose...

lat2 ROADTEST INELY UN I:1 E ver wondered what marketing departments do? Marketing itself is so vaguely defined that it can...

Not all curtainsided trailers are created equal. Now that Lawrence David's comes with a fully anodised aluminium front...

Deck Trailers and the Trinity group's RTS Traihnaster. Such tough steel has been used for many years in the US and is now also...

44 T 44 T he first we knew about it was when we got the bill," says Paul Hellowell, director of Sowerby Bridge-based hauliers...

company that could give him the chop at any time? Not a bit of it, in fact the big distribution groups could learn a great deal...

A slong ago as the beginning of this year, the Department of Transport announced both that the UK would be adopting some of the...

0 ne of the favourite sources of revenue for Continental customs and border officials is excess diesel—usually anything more...

Post, recently ran an article 6 y local newspaper, the Liverpool about a motorway toll plan, the European so-called vignette...