So, 2010 is upon us with a flurry of snow and consolidation in the industry: is this a case of starting as you mean to go on?...

COVER STORY By Dominic Perry DHL HAS BEEN busy over the Christmas period, selling off two loss-making businesses: DHL...

By Laura Hailstone TRANSACTION spokesman Peter Carroll has sold his Kentbased haulage business, Seymour Transport, to...

WEST SUSSEX-BASED haulier PJ Brown has gone into administration, making 150 employees redundant just before Christmas. On 22...

THIS YEAR WILL mark the Motor Transport Awards 24th successful year — and with the second half of this year expected to see a...

By Christopher Walton SCOTTISH HAULIER Hayton Coulthard has joined up with the Scottish arm of Gregory Distribution, creating a...

Looks at HGV ban UP TO 160 SURREY roads are facing an HGV ban, following residents' complaints about the number of lorries...

Works to hit Watford Gap services WATFORD GAP SERVICE area on the M1 is set to close temporarily while resurfacing work takes...

By Chris Tindalt THE TRANSPORT Tribunal has allowed an appeal by a haulage firm after it found that "natural justice was not...

THE ASSOCIATION OF Pallet Networks (APN) has reported "positive Christmas volumes" across all pallet networks, but the industry...

ATF contracts to be seen in February VOSA HAS REVEALED that the longawaited Authorised Testing Facility (ATF) contract will...

CM COVER STORY By Joanna Bourke and Roger Brown ONGOING WINTRY weather, including heavy snowfall across much of the country,...

Councils in Scotland are reporting "critically low levels of salt" for treating roads due to problems obtaining stocks from...

The Highways Agency (HA) says it is maintaining its fight to combat icy roads, but warns drivers they must still continue to...

By Christopher Walton '1 ill' MINIMUM financial standing to become a hire-andreward 0-licence holder rose on 1 January by...

Truck & Driver calls on you to name and shame the worst on the road CARAVANNERS, OAFS, BMW drivers, cyclists or farmers are...

Fiat's new Doble Cargo is a world apart from the old version, in that it's actually pretty good. CM went along to the European...

Fiat's latest generation Doble) Cargo I van ; claimed to be 97% new. We like Second-generation multijet engines; excellent...

New year, new outlook Ill1T Mien MGdIrati 2009 is over, so CM's Trucking Britain Out Of Recession survey reveaLs RV IMMHZ...

or have considered rewarding drivers for improved performance. The bare statistics look like this: • Already rewarding drivers...

Understanding the small print THE LEITER FROM Jim Duckworth (CM 10 December) is interesting in that he is a long-standing and...

I THOROUGHLY AGREE with John English that we are "drowning under too many rules and regs (`Letters', CM 5 November). But, with...

Abbey Road Tanks might not have to work Eight Days A Week to head up Penny Lane, but it is keeping the Taxman happy. CM meets...

ART makes sure all its drivers are trained to nationally recognised NVQ Level 2 for Driving Goods Vehicles. The specially...

to help charities, aria in 2009 the company put Macmillan Cancer Care advertisements on the dome end of 10 of its tankers. The...

The company operates tanker wash factities at its main sites on Merseyside and Humberside. These provide hot and cold water...

Isolation, running on inadequate roads and competing with underhand farmers; hauliers in the east of England have got a lot to...

the middle of a recession makes Ending work difficult "East Anglia as a county is just shutting down," Cooper complains. Most...

The HA struggles to confirm which projects will definitely start and when, sh - iply because it is waiting for the government...

THE UK SUBSIDIARY of a Dutch haulage company has lost its 0-licence through the importation of trucks from Holland on false...

A WEST YORKSHIRE company that had been operating for up to six years using a sole trader's 0-licence has won its own licence,...

Operator wins appeal after address mix-up AN OPERATOR HAS won an appeal against the automatic termination of her 0-licence...

What do hauliers want in 2010? We asked our operator panel that question, and the responses were reasonably predictable,...

Chris Roe Managing director Alert HGV Training Leicester Top of Roe's wish list for 2010 is an immediate change to the muddle...

end to the ongoing uncertainty over the introduction of longer semitrailers would be a real bonus. The DfT is currently...

Forthcoming changes in the law in association with the Freight Transport Association Northern Ireland 0-licensing reform The...

Goods Vehicles (Enforcement Powers) Regulations 2009: 1 October 2009 Introduces impounding as an enforcement power for...

class of Words: CM test team It won t have escaped the attention of many readers that the truck sector is in a bit of a state...

NISSAN NV200 Engine: 1.5-litre, 85hp Transmission: five-speed manual GVW: 2,000kg < Load volume: 4m" Tested: 26 November The...

VOLKSWAGEN CRAFTER CR35 Engine: 2.5-Litre, 108hp Transmission: six-speed manua, GVW: 3,500kg Load volume: 11m 2 Tested: 1...

TOYOTA HILUX Engine: 3.0-kr-, Transmission: five-speed automatic GVW: 2,980kg Load volume: 2.1m 2 Tested: 3 September The...

Fi -4 SCR, overhead camshaft, charge-cooled turbo-diese, Transmission: ZF six-speed manual GCW: 12,000kg Tested: 16 July This...

IVECO STRALIS AT450 Engine: Cursor 10, 444hp, 2,100N E 3etective catalytic reduction, overhead camshaft, charge-cooled...

TITLE Chief Executive ORGANISATION Wincanton Having joined Wincanton in 1994, Graeme McFaull (president of the Chartered...

What pie hasn't DHL got its fingers in? Whether it's parcels with Express, drinks with Tradeteam, and just about everything...

Strong beer, the winning combination of chips and mayonnaise, and cycling legend Eddy Merckx are just some of the great things...

Whether of domestic or foreign origin, poorly maintained, poorly driven vehicles are the bane of this industry. Quite clearly,...

TITLE Senior Traffic Commissioner ORGANISATION VOSA Philip Brown was appointed Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner in August...

TITLE North Western Traffic Commissioner ORGANISATION VOSA OK, this is a little bit cheeky: Beverley Bell ahead of Philip...

If there was a housewives' favourite haulier, Eddie Stobart would be it. We know Stobart Group is much more than those iconic...

Alastair Peoples has spent practically his entire career in enforcement of road vehicles and drivers. He joined VOSA in 2004 as...

TITLE ORGANISATION Retail and Logistics Director Tesco David Potts has been retail and logistics director at Tesco since...

When we debated this top 20, one colleague remarked that nominating drivers as the most powerful people in road transport is a...

Running with under-inflated tyres is a more common occurrence than you might think, and it can cost you fuel and shorten the...

Euromaster sent technician Mark Marsh, He is one of 1,000 mobile service vehicle operators in the UK. ATS inspects tyres on...

Iveco Trucks provided a Stabs AT450 6x2 tractor and a box trailer to perform the test. The Michelin tyres on the tractor unit...

After completing the optimum track-test work, the tyre pressures rose by approximately 7psi on the trailer 12psi on the drive...

The trailer industry is embracing aerodynamics in a very big way. Mega-fleet owners such as Asda and DHL are both looking into...

a long one; think 12 to 15 years. Not only is trailer refurbishment a cost-effective means by which old can be made new again,...

Broadway Motor Company has opened a new site in the North-East with the aim of selling clean, saleable stock sourced from...

With so many vans bought by builders, not to mention electricians, carpenters, plasterers and so on, has Broadway been hit by...