Communication is a key factor in the fight against truck crime, but it's not happening. Guy Sheppard and Jennifer Ball...

MERCEDES-BENZ IS to end its long-standing loyalty to V-configuration engines in favour of an in-line family of power units that...

THE GOVERNMENT HAS refuted press reports that it plans to introduce a £2 toll on the M4 to combat congestion. This follows the...

TNT EXPRESS SERVICES has met Digby Jones, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), in a bid to halt...

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) predicts recordbreaking CV registrations for March, boosted by van sales.

The IRU has called on the EU to ensure that all revenue from lorry road-user charging schemes is ring-fenced to improve road...

Customs officers have arrested two men following the uncovering of a fuel laundering plant in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. It...

VOSA has released a consultation paper on its proposed 13% average increase in HGV test fees. Pick up a leaflet from a test...

The ETA has called for larger trucks to be allowed to tackle rising traffic congestion and the shortage of drivers.

Arval PHH says diesel now averages nearly 80p/lit; its highest price for almost a year and just below the level that triggered...

Customs are questioning six men after 80kg of heroin worth £5.6m were found in a truck loaded with charcoal.

Scania has taken the wraps off its new R Series —Andy Salter outlines the highlights. SCANIA HAS EMBARKED on a mid-life...

IS IT ENOUGH? As our front cover says this week, 'It's Here'. By it, we mean the new Scania R-Series, of course, the most...

The Welsh Assembly is promising an £800,000 budget for high-tech exhaust grants for Welsh hauliers. Guy Sheppard reports. THE...

new operation has been launched to recycle older ERFs. EnviroTruckParts (ETP) will provide a source of major parts at what it...

LANCASHIRE CRUSHING has taken delivery of one of the first new Mega low-loaders in the UK from Faymonville; it has been running...

A NORTH WALES truck driver has escaped a jail sentence despite committing tacho offences at the rate of almost one a week....

Barry Proctor looks at Councils' struggle to control parking and the ubiquitous reluctance to employ common sense as a tool......

The T&G is pressing the government to keep its promise and launch corporate killing legislation. Guy Sheppard reports. THE...

A YORKSHIRE HAULIER has been fined £3,750 with £1,250 costs for polluting a controlled watercourse. Nigel Rice Transport of...

AN IRISH LORRY driver has disappeared on an overnight ferry between Mostyn in North Wales and Dublin. The man was last seen...

Nightowl creditors can expect payment within weeks say administrators. Jennifer Ball reports. CREDITORS OF beleaguered...

THE NEWLY OPENED service area on the M6 Toll motorway is only attracting a handful of truckers, despite protests about parking...

AN ESSEX TRUCK driver who faces a charge of causing death by dangerous driving has had his hearing adjourned until August after...

of the contract to supply the army with 8,000 combat support vehicles. JUST AS THE UK government was poised to reveal the...

PRESSURE GROUP Fair Trials Abroad (FTA) has launched a campaign for the release of a Lincoln truck driver jailed in Morocco for...

ALLOWING FROZEN PEAS to defrost proved an expensive accident for Christian Salvesen, as the troubled logistics operator told...

ONE OF THE BIGGEST ever roadside checks on livestock hauliers was carried out last week by 43 police forces and the Department...

Take a stroll with us through the little sideroads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the...

The European Court of Justice has ruled that truck drivers can be ordered to pay duty on any contraband found in their trucks...

Tibbett & Britten UK boss Martin Graham delivered a national distribution system in the US for Wal-Mart in just 13 weeks. But...

IT WOULD be a little churl ish to criticise Brian Weatherley (CM 18 March) for his assertion that the number of people killed...

'WRITE REGARDING the article in Commercial Motor on the ECJ ruling on drivers' responsibilities for their loads (18 March)....

OVER THE past few months I have read with interest the column written by Barry Proctor. I have to say that I would support most...

Turning scale into profit has been a DaimlerChrylser mantra for the past three years as the company strives to build on its...

An operator who bought trucks but ran them on their former owner's licence to get round a curtailment has been banned...

A DRIVER WHO was sacked because he was not legally qualified to drive a 7.5-tonne truck has won a week's wages for breach of...

A COMPANY with an 'abysmal' test record has lost its appeal against a decision to cut its licence from 18 vehicles and 25...

RESIDENTS' CONCERNS won the day when a haulier's application for extra vehicles was granted on condition that none leave the...

AN ESSEX OPERATOR and a driver have been fined £1,400 for a range of offences including the use of an uninsured vehicle without...

Logbooks are more common than tachographs on the islands off Britain's coastline. But what happens when operators from those...

Small operators can save time and money by signing up to the Flat Rate VAT scheme that was introduced two years ago and...

A fair day's pay for a fair day's work is a simple enough formula for remunerating workers. But is paying wages always as...

ORDERS The EU is working towards harmonised construction and use regs, but the rules on load restraint still vary. John Dixon...

When you deliver to a site with no materials handling kit you'll appreciate carrying your own fork lift truck. Colin Barnett...

Hands up all those who know the HSE's recommended lighting levels for industrial premises! Not necessary for a haulage...

Algeria... a primitive, dangerous desert — and a vibrant hydrocarbon-based economy offering rich pickings to European truck...

FANDANGO It's easy to cut whole life costs — you just have to get all 90 million vehicle specification variations right Emma...

YOUR BOAT Dominic Perry meets a Scots haulier who risked everything rather than let his business be crushed under rising...

Insurance doesn't just climb when claims are proved against you. Jason Hamer struggles with his insurer's contingency fund....

Engine manufacturers have found two ways to meet Euro-4 emission levels, but how will they affect CV residuals? It depends...

Fleet van operators are more likely to / buy from the used trade than ever before — and it's the big operators which are...