• A vehicle becomes a commercial vehicle in the eyes of the law when it becomes able to carry a load. For most vehicles, that...

• What with the recent invasion of McDonalds, Pizzas, Budweiser and Gridiron Football on Channel 4, the more cynical among-us...

• Surging demand for trucks is delaying deliveries and beginning to cause problems for hauliers keen to pick up new business_...

• The amount of freight carried by British hauliers is breaking all records, according to the latest Department of Transport...

• The Road Haulage Association has given a cautious welcome to suggestions, following the Herald of Free Enterprise public...

• Hampshire Police arrested 23 people in a raid on a Southampton-based company last week, as part of its continuing...

• Surrey County Council is spending £605,000 on a new computerised traffic management system for the Guildford area known as...

• Ford and Iveco Ford's overwhelming domination of Britain's van and truck rental and leasing fleets continues, judging by the...

• Merseyside Chamber of Commerce & Industry is pressing the Department of Transport to retain a loaded semi-trailer at the...

• National Carriers Contract Services has won a 2400,000 contract with pipeline suppliers British Steam Specialists (BSS) to...

• Scottish Parcel Services will merge with the recentlylaunched Lynx Express Delivery Network in early October, in a further...

• Tate & Lyle Distribution Services (TLDS) is selling its contracts division, which provides third party warehousing and...

• TNT Roadfreight has branched out into yet another distribution sector with the launch of TNT Extracare, a delivery service...

promotional vehicle for Swindon-based MANVW. Built on a 7.5-tonne GVW MAN-VW 8.136 chassis, the 8.22-metre Promobile is being...

• Rubery Owen-Rockwell is developing a new lightweight air suspension, specifically for step-frame and double-deck trailers. It...

• The future of Leyland's Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) looks like being settled — at least in the short term — with...

• Twelve drivers employed by Swains of Stretton have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £3,175 by Telford...

• The number of vehicles authorised on a licence held by Ella Sadler, trading as Willoughby & Sons, has been reduced by half...

• International haulier H W Services (Containers) has had its application for a licence in the North Western Traffic Area...

• An appeal court has upheld fines totalling 2530 which were imposed on Yorkley-based B S Mapps Transport and its driver...

• Refusing to allow a driver to take his vehicle home overnight does not amount to a fundamental breach of his contract of...

• Optare has added a new, larger, midibus stablemate, — the StarRider — to its City Pacer and Inter City Pacer minibus models....

• A new company, called Bus Parts, has been set up to distribute parts to major users. It also aims to take over the provision...

• National Bus Company subsidiary West Yorkshire Road Car looks likely to be sold in two parts in a deal authorised this week...

• Jack Mother, who trades as Easyway Bus of Blackpool, and was banned from operating local services in January by the North...

Magnet Joinery and Timber, is retiring after 25 years with the company. During his time there he has seen the Magnet fleet...

• Iveco Ford's Turbostar 190.42 has more torque, over a wider engine speed range, than any other tractive unit available in the...

BY THE HAWK • Ashley Jones, manager of the Hawick branch of Pickfords, has won the British Association of Removers'...

SIR AGENCY DRIVERS • Your article (CM 16-22 July) indicates that the proposals on agency drivers were put to the 32nd Biennial...

After just 18 months in the bodybuilding business Carlton Valley Coachworks has outgrown its workshops. How did it build up an...

Neville Charrold is well known for its top-selling aluminium tipper bodies. It has not made a loss in 19 years, still has a...