THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has called on British hauliers to maintain the same roadworthiness standards abroad as...

THE GOVERNMENT plans to remove 631 million truck kilometres from UK roads by awarding L44m in grants to companies that...

PD PORTS IS taking legal advice to ensure its £30am expansion plan for Teesport is judged on a "level playing field". The port...

DfT figures show that 726,400 CVs travelled to the Continent in the first quarter of 2007; up 2% increase on the last quarter...

Drivers who park in coach bays will have their trucKs clamped, even if the designated La/ parking area is full. Roanna Avison...

stolen Perry trailer WEST MIDLANDS-based Perry Transport is offering a £2,000 reward for the recovery of a trailer with its...

THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering a crackdown on drivers who claim to be selfemployed, and thereby exempt from the...

LGV driver L Radley has unwillingly swapped her 12-speed Stralis 430 for a 16--speed 480, and is gearing up for an interesting...

Soon, anyone who commits an offence in another EU state may be prosecuted by their home country. Roanna Avison reports. THE...

THE Ml WILL BE closed in both directions between J8 and J9 from 9pm to 9am on Saturday the 9, 16 and 23 June as part of the M1...

London Gateway Port and its logistics centre will create thousands of jobs in Essex. Chris Tindall reports. THE GOVERNMENT...

A FORMER AMTRAK line manager has accused the parcels firm of making his family homeless by unfairly dismissing him after he...

Rikki Chequer, community manager for TruckNet UK reports on the past week's hot topics of discussion among members of the UK's...

DAFTRUCKS NV marketing and sales director Kerry McDonagh will step down on 1 September to be with his family in the UK. He...

A RUSSIAN BANK is buying 1,000 MAN TGAs. JSC TransKreditBank ordered the MANS though MAN's local sales subsidiary, MAN...

Eight of the haulier's trailers have been damaged by the fires, which the fire service is treating with suspicion. Chris...

DE RIIKE HAS taken delivery of 17 FH 400 Volvo tractor units-the first Volvos to be purchased for its UK operation.They were...

Enviro Technology Services believes it has the solution to policing the London lowemission zone (LEZ). The air pollution...

Stephen Tetlow Chief executive Vehicle and Operator Services Agency cc: Stephen Ladyman, Minister of State for Transport ;...

A BP tanker driver lost his job after claiming to have unearthed a terrorist plot to blow up an oil terminal. Peter Swingler...

FIRSTGROUP'S LAWYERS are trying to stop a trade union federation using the firm's name when representing its employees. The...

PLANS TO BUILD a major freight distribution depot in the heart of the Suffolk countryside have been revived four years after...

for Hubbard reefer firm HUBBARD, the Suffolk-based truck refrigeration specialist, has been sold to Italian firm Zanotti. MD...

About two million vehicles end their working lives in the UK every year. So what happens to all that metal, plastic, rubber and...

The End - of - Life Vehicles (ELVs) Directive, which came into force in 2000, requires EU member states to: • Ensure all ELVs...

Philip Brown shares his thoughts on his time so far as Senior Traffic Commissioner — and on the challenges that still lie...

I READ WITH the usual disappointment and general disgust that Mr Livingstone is pressing ahead with this extremely unpopular...

[WOULD REPLY to Ralph Ingham-Johnson's letter [criticising the London LEZI (CM 24 May) as follows. As founder-members of the...

The agency is taking a high-tech, intelligence-led approach to cracking down on foreign and domestic offenders. Roanna Avison...

An operator faces an "uphill task" to prove he can meet requirements on maintenance procedures and finance. Mike Jewell...

A RESTRICTED LICENCE holder running "elderly" vehicles whose drivers could not fill in defect sheets because of a lack of...

A FIRM WITH a one-vehicle restricted licence has been warned that undertakings about its maintenance arrangements amounted to a...

WELSH DEPUTY Traffic Commissioner Timothy Hayden has adjourned a public inquiry while he considers what action to take against...

THE USE OYAN unauthorised operating centre and going two years without an active transport manager led to a firm's 0-licence...

Union recognition can be voluntary or statutory — but what's the difference and which is best? Mike Sherrington reports. M...

covered by the Employment Relations Act 1999, but the law does not apply to firms with fewer than 20 employees. After...

An overhaul of lax enforcement in Northern Ireland may be further delayed by the transition of power back to Stormont. Chris...

Northern Ireland will bring it into line with the rest of the UK. It is hoped this will 'level the playing field', reduce the...

This Volvo FH 12 may not hold fond memories for its first owner — the truck was repossessed. But it's good enough to save as...

Volvo FH 460 range is very popular with both large and small fleets. Coming with , a choice of gearboxes, 14 speed, and...

There must be something about FH12s that appeals to the speedier members of the trucking community. Former motor cycle trials...

types. There's the 95% that are hard-worked fleet vehicles, but there's also a sprinkling of jewels that for one reason or...

The tanker market is going through a tough time as it faces increasing amounts of red tape and competition from Continental...

Steve Hardwick is MD of Integrated Tanker Services, a Walsall-based road tanker rental and sales business founded by his father...

Owner-drivers are rare in the bulk powder sector, where a new trailer can easily cost upwards of £50,000 and units must have a...

The family firm RH Stephens Macclesfield, Cheshire-based RH Stevens is a family firm established in 1949 with three depots and...

ISO tank haulage is an even more specialist and expensive sector, almost always multimodal, spanning the UK, Europe and further...

The UK market for refuse collection vehicles, with annual sales of about 1,900 chassis, is large enough to tempt all the major...

"Working in conjunctbn with UK-based RCV manufacturers and distributors, including Farid, Garwood, GeesinkNorba, Li nktlp, NTM,...

Mercedes-Benz has recently tweaked the Econic, reworking the cab and offering the latest Allison five-speed automatic...

The demise of lveco-owned Seddon Atkinson, which held about 10% of the FiCV market last year, has left a vacuum which newcomer...

& Ireland truck manager for Volvo Truck and Bus, says, "Landfill tax is starting to bite. Most authorities and private waste...

lalisalion; its bespoke chassis and bodies based on the Elite low-entry chassis-cab took 42% of the two, three and fouraxle...

of Wastes Management (CIWM) show. Scania expected initial interest to be for the 6x4 but operators are favouring 6x2 with rear...

Renault is one of only two manufacturers to supply a narrow-track vehicle, with its Puncher low-entry cab and chassis. "We...

Local authority operators, despite their apparent willingness to embrace green technology, have a limited choice. "Following...

Too RETRO? With truck manufacturers reaching Euro-5 emission levels and exhaust technology increasing rapidly, is there still...

two chambers with an oxidation catalyst followed by a ceramic wall flow filter. The platinum oxidation catalyst is the part...

Filmed on location in Iowa, USA it includes coverage of 100's of truckers 'showing' their highly polished and cleaned rigs in...

US truckers can trace their origins back to the days of the wild west and drive some of the biggest rigs in the world. The crew...

Dramatic coverage of the 1500 mile long 'Alcan' featuring trucks, drivers, forestry machinery, spectacular scenery and wildlife...

This fantastic film features some of the larger earthmoving equipment working on major projects in Britain including T5 at...

Four, not to be missed, features including the movement of cranes from Rotterdam to Canada, an industrial vessel through...

This programme looks at some of the larger JCB machines at work on sites. It takes in earthmoving for warehouse construction,...

Each of the exceptional loads shown required careful planning and equipment and includes the movement of a Boeing 747, bridge...

This 60 minute film shows how, with good planning and skillful driving, you can move almost anything and this film shows just...

EVERYWHERE , This DVD comprises of six promotional films dating from 1953 to 1973 and features various Bedford lorries and the...

This superb film covers from chainsaw to sawmill in British Columbia. It covers the transportation of timber by truck, train...

Truckers are among the skills in short supply in Canada. This great new film was aimed at Dutch drivers wishing to move to...

The new-generation Ford Transit is going from streng - h to strength on the used market, says British Car Auctions. Kevin...

Scania dealership TruaEast has changed hands for -E9m just 16 months after it was formed by an amalgamation. Kevin Swallow...

British Worldwide Auctions, a new name in the C1/ market aims to use the intemet to connect sellers Wth buyers from around the...