All hail to the Transit. Commercial Motor rarely devotes such a big chunk of its editorial pages to any one vehicle, especially...

Britian's favourite haulier Eddie Stobart is seeing its business turned around following a change in ownership. Chris Tindall...

PALLET NETWORK Pall-Ex is gearing up to fight a race discrimination case brought against it by its former head of credit...

lead to peace THE TRANSPORT unions have settled their dispute with the Morrisons supermarket chain. The company has signed a...

CONTAINER OPERATOR Maritime Transport is to open a new site in Leeds on 17 October; it is advertising for new drivers. The...

DUBLIN-BASED O'Reilly Transport has been named Irish Haulier of the Year at the Irish Road Haulage Association's annual awards...

The International Transport Workers' Federation and the T&G union are organising a "mass leafleting" session and rally at the...

The European Commission has launched a free guide to the 110 types of driving licences currently in circulation around the...

UPS has completed the £55.5m acquisition of UK parcels firm Lynx Express Lynx boss David Burtenshaw will continue with the firm.

Catering firm Compass Group is to sell its UK MSA operator, Moto.

New research has shown that the M6 Toll Road has failed to cut traffic levels in the West Midlands and may actually have...

London mayor Ken I _ivingstone has announced that London's congestion charging zone will be extended westwards into the Royal...

Good news for Widdowson Group, where profits have doubled year on year. Lucia Cockcroft reports. LEICESTER HAULAGE firm The...

HICKS LOGISTICS of Caldicot, Monmouthshire has won a E1 .6m contract with SG B Powered Access, taking its turnover to more than...

TWO STOKE-ON-TRENT owner drivers who falsified their tachograph records while working for hauliers F Swain and Sons of Poynton,...

WORCESTERSHIRE-BASED haulage and logistics company Taylors of Martley, which trades as TM Logistics, has appointed a new...

THE ONGOING investigation in Germany into Willi Betz director Thomas Betz has revealed further evidence of alleged bribery and...

ON YOUR BIKE! There are nine million bicycles in Beijing, as the latest song by Katie Melua goes. And if the price of fuel...

COUNTY DURHAM-based bulk haulier Hargreaves (UK) is on the acquisition trail again. The firm is in talks to take over the...

commercial road transport committee, has accused the government of breaking its commitment to review the impact of the Working...

FRENCH-BASED international logistics company Geodis is preparing to make nearly a quarter of its 60 UK-based staff drivers...

The closure of Whitburn Car Transport has led to allegations of asset stripping from a former manager. Guy Sheppard reports....

second motorway in the country using variable speed limits to manage congestion. The Highways Agency says from December the...

ATRIAL BAN on overtaking will come into force next week for trucks travelling along a stretch of the M42 in the Midlands. The...

CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1943 and...

Description Fully updated with the very latest road and postcode data,Travelmanager is still the UK's No I selling route...

LITTLEWOODS IS offering a f10,(XX) reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a gang who overpowered...

The incident took place between 9pm on 22 September and 3.30am on 23 September.The driver woke up to see a white 7.5-tonner...

Tony Purkiss was driving through a section of roadworks on the Al 4 eastbound when an A -reg silver Mercedes C180 approached...

• Thieves made off with £15,000 worth of goods Including computer equipment from Pendragon Haulage's yard at Kington Business...

Drivers at 3663's Banbury depot have been overpaid for months — but the firm is not snatching its cash back. David Harris...

MITSUBISHI HAS released the first official picture of the all new L200 pick-up which is due to reach the dealers next March ....

THE TARNISHED image of White Van Man is set for a much needed revamp with a government sponsored programme designed to change...

NORTH WALES operator McCarthy's Haulage recently played host to a safety day staged in Wrexham by the Health & Safety...

THE NUMBER OF accidents involving commercial vehicles on Britain's roads has fallen by 6% over the past year, according to the...

Truck drivers cause more accidents than anyone else on the road says a new report. Louise Cole asks why. T ruck drivers are...

of nature have devastated the Gulf of Mexico it is perhaps not surprisIng that there has been a general increase in fuel costs...

Millers of Longton was born out of anger. Andy Salter taks to the man who sowed the seeds of a successful fleet when the...

RE YOUR NEWS story about - faulty bulb cost £1.000 (CM 1 September). Surely any responsible haulier makes sure that each of...

RETHE letterWhere are the decent employers?' (CM 22 September), we are a small Midlandsbased warehousing and distribution...

WHY HAS Commercial Motor not highlighted the shambles that has become VOSA's new scheme for booking HGV test appointments? In...

The Territorial Army makes sure its transport regiments are well prepared for driving in a war zone. Dominic Perry falls in and...

Licence suspended for two weeks after Deputy Traffic Commissioner says she will not tolerate such blatant breaches of...

A LIVESTOCK haulier who 'repaired' a hole in a fuel tank with a rag has been given a formal warning over his poor maintenance...

A HAULIER HAS been granted a licence for two vehicles on condition that none of his three sons take any part in his new...

operator gets second chance rr A COMPANY WHOSE drivers repeatedly reported defects before action was taken to put them right...

1ELFORD-BASED Rob Hughes Transport has added three trailers to its three-vehicle licence after a family dispute over the...

When the Tories tried to sell the haulage industry back to hauliers no one was trampled in the rush. Patric Cunnane reports....

Finding the money for fleet replacement may be a headache, but there are some handy tax allowances. Paula Tallon does the...

If you want to be taken seriously in the recycling market, you need a credible infrastructure. Tim Maughan reports on three...

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is a non-profit making organisation, founded by the government in 2000. WRAP's...

THE IfICIIIE* *with credit to those well known Transit fans, Slade Fort years on and with a major revamp just around the...

In real terms, the Transit has improved beyond recognition In its 40 years. Viewed relatively, tnough, it has made less...

The Ford Transit has changed the face of road transport more than any other single vehicle. Cohn Barnett examines its history....

On 10 October 1965 Commercial Motor's Ron Cater reported on a new light CV from Ford called the Transit. So who better to...

• In the new model payload capacity is 1,053kg • In the old model oayload capacity was 865kg The latest model also does well in...

There's been some jostling for position at the head of the tipper market. Andy Salter went to Scunthorpe to check out a likely...

OUR CASTLE Being attacked in his cab must be every driver's nightmare — Julian Nines assesses the risk and reviews products...

Peter On returns to the UK to find the price of diesel too high, the fuel protests poorly supported and the future for hauliers...

Successful dealers will change their selling tactics to stimulate sales in future. S uccessful dealers will change their...

This month CM is after a no-frills 75-tonne box van for urban delivery work to get us started in the commercial world. T he...

With dealers offering variable prices for all the vehicles we enquired about it proves the theory that its best to shop around....

account for offloading a commercial vehicle at the end of its life and disposal costs can hit them hard. Louise Cole reports....