by Karen Miles • Sub-contractors owed over a million pounds by crashed container operator Brain Haulage received little...

• Armed police are understood to he targeting HGVs at the seven 24-hour checkpoints set up round the City of London following...

by Amanda Bradbury • Truck rental companies are spending millions of pounds on new vehicles—the strongest evidence to date that...

• Thousands of Department of Transport officials are being balloted for a one-day strike at the end of the month in protest at...

• Street-by-street truck bans are emerging as the favourite option for controlling HGV movements in Southampton. The Road...

• Plans to put multi-millionpound police vehicle service con• tracts out to tender have been plunged into controversy as police...

Bridge will rise by 400% from 19 July. Operators will be charged .L60 for the first half hour and 30 for each quarter hour...

to use for pig transport starts this month. Reading-based Cambac JMA Research will survey hauliers at Britain's 12 main pig...

by Nicky Clarke • Kent Police have pledged to help hauliers in the county combat truck theft with a proposal to draw up a code...

• Trucks used exclusively on Britain's small islands will have to be equipped with speed limiters by the end of July, despite...

• Cummins has launched its 14litre 373kW (500hp) N14 500E Celect engine in the US. The engine is similar to that fitted in our...

• Whitbread has taken delivery of 12 specially lightened Mercedes-Benz 1834 tractive units for its distribution operation....

• Foden will supply more than 400 trucks to the Ministry of Defence over the next four years in a contract worth £75 million....

• Caterpillar's 3406E 14.6-litre engine is scheduled for launch in the US later this year. It has an overhead camshaft to add...

• Riko (UK) of Tonbridge, Kent is marketing Slavinianmade refuse body systems, not Yugoslavian-made, as reported in our...

by Brian Weatherley • First the bad news. British owner-drivers hoping to get their hands on Iveco's 383kW (513hp) EuroStar...

by Juliet Parish • BRS was expected to use a wage negotiations meeting on Tuesday this week to try to introduce a...

drivers at Manchester, West Bromwich and Grays, Essex are getting more money in the form of an additional voluntary...

• Construction materials supplier Tilcon has sold its remaining in-house tanker fleet to Derbyshire-based haulier Via Gellia...

• A Cheshire meat haulage business set up in 1956 and employing 19 drivers is being dissolved and its assets sold off next week...

• Hellmann Parcel Systems expects to add five carriers to its network of 28 UK partners in the next two years. It has just...

• Securicor's parcels business boosted its turnover by 15% and profits by 10% to £3.3m in the half-year to 31 March—the company...

by Karen Miles • Hopes of short-term postal work for private carriers were boosted this week as Royal Mail union leaders said...

• Marshall Commercial Vehicles has become a Foden main dealer for Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and East Bedfordshire, taking over...

• MaIpas-based Alan Yoxall's bid to operate an artic which was blocked by Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council on appeal, has...

• EC poultry regulations made it impossible for Hygienic Pullet Deliveries to comply with environmental conditions imposed on...

• The use of an untaxed vehicle without an 0 licence cost CF Freight of Bishop Auckland fines, costs and back duty, of...

Bartley barred • Dudley-based Bartley Green Plant Hire's licence for six vehicles and two trailers was revoked when the company...

• The eight-vehicle licence held by Midsomer Norton-based James Chivers has been revoked for repeated road traffic offences....

• Two drivers were given different unit fines for tachograph chart offences when they appeared before Rochdale magistrates....

• Richard Lawson has invested A:135,000 in the first of a new generation of Mercedes-drawn Lohr car transporters for the UK,...

• DHL's Nliddle Eastern operation SNAS has taken the first six of a new range of 13.5m TIR curtainsider trailer from Boalloy....

In our Tankcon report (CM 17-23 June) we said the I Iockne:' square-section tanker exhibited costs around .£125,000. In fact...

IN Nuclear Electric has bought two of Angloco's compact 7.5 tonne GVW, six-man fire tenders for its Dungeness and Sizewell B...

• An unusual livestock carrying drawbar outfit has joined T Langdown & Sons' fleet. It uses a converted Seddon Atkinson Strato...

o n a recent column I mentioned that many Stateside haulage outfits are so desperate to find LGV drivers that they are running...

0 mart-Alec kids, doncha love 'em? Oh, go on, of course you do especially when they come out with the sort of quip overheard by...

ost companies are reluctant to be associated with a lot of hot air, but not Unipart which is sponsoring its fifth Unipart...

0 es, it's those people again—Pavilion Services, stopping at nothing in a quest for publicity which included serving frogs...

"I feel immensely uncomfortable with what I've heard this evening" a senior police officer told Kent-based hauliers after...

been stolen from Liverpool-based L&H Transport's Widnes, Lancs depot; the owners are appealing for witnesses. It was blue with...

from Salisbury-based AJ Cassels Transport. The first (reg D892 OUR) has a sleeper cab and was pulling a Crane Fruehauf tri-axle...

hydraulic tail-lift owned by Gallagher Car and Van Rentals was stolen from Tip 'n Lift on the Boss Hall Industrial Estate,...

a Mercedes 1617 stolen from steel foundry and engineer Blackett Hutton. Thieves took the vehicle (reg D886 CAJ) from the...

haulier McLaughlan Transport. The Perth operator's trailer is a 1982 model with identification no 62193782 and chassis no CV...

Reconditioned components are an established part of the haulage industry. Scania main dealer Keltruck has taken truck recycling...

Cummins N500E Celect engine, £790 for Eaton RTO 15000 Series gearbox, £1,880 for Alcoa aluminium wheels, £650 for Eberspiicher...

When Doug Baker tried to sell hauliers the New Zealand-manufactured Sidelifter equipment, no-one wanted to know, so he decided...

trained workforce. What do they mean for the haulage industry and what do you have to do to get one? T he Government has long...

we usually have some preconceptions about it, based on its name, its paper specification and its price. But rarely have we...

If you've not been paid for a load—and the debt is no more than £1,000—you can fight for your cash through the "solicitor-free"...

recent report 1 on the meeting at Thurston tipper School on 19 June to discuss the future of the experimental lorry ban on part...

I would be interested to learn how other operators are dealing with the high cost of overnight parking at Motorway Service...

r Pusey (Dear Sir, –V1 CM1016 June) is mistaken: not all piggyback forklifts have to rely on counterbalancing their load....

t C urrent plans for taxing road use through electronic means or motorway tolls are rightly seen as panic measures by the...