by Karen Miles The chances of cowboy operators losing their trucks rose this week as a peer pledged to fight on to introduce...

II A British truck driver who served eight months in prison in Belgium and Germany for a cr i me he says he did not commit has...

BBC's political programme East at Westminster last Sunday. The programme referred to RI Steward of Manningtree, who has flagged...

death toll of the Mont Blanc tunnel fire last March has been developed by an Italian engineer.

£40,000 which took 40 hours to make was found smashed to pieces when it arrived in a truck after a trip through the Channel...

found at the wheel of a sheep transporter without any trousers. He had fallen in some manure.

a truck collided with a car on the A48 near Carmarthen.

250 to service its home shopping network. The service is to be offered in more than 100 stores by February 2000.

and Convoy vans in a deal worth £15m. This brings the total number of LDVs in Royal Mail's fleet to more than 9,500.

• Hauliers might have to pay as much as £15 a day to deliver goods into the centre of London, if Ken Livingstone becomes the...

• Hauliers are more likely to find tax inspectors knocking at their doors next year. The government is urging its VAT...

IA female lorry driver who killed a retired schoolmaster in a head-on collision has been jailed for eight months and banned for...

by Karen Miles Plans to harmonise weekend lorry bans throughout the European Union are in disarray. European Commission...

by Guy Sheppard • A major reduction in duty has failed to increase demand for cleaner fuels among hauliers, The Energy Saving...

The Lord giveth... Just seven days ago on this page we welcomed John Prescott's statement that he wanted to help make the...

• A West Bromwich firm where a truck driver was killed 18 months ago is to face trial in the new year. Haulier John Payne, from...

II Nem Ford is transferring 42 employees to Hays Distribution as part of a five-year £200m contract in which Hays will deriver...

im Sales of new trucks in November were marginally up on the some month last year, but overall sales are still down on last...

m Detectives investigating two hijack attacks on the same lorry have arrested three Glasgow men and interviewed a fourth....

• Thieves have escaped with nearly £1,000 worth of diesel in a raid on a transport yard at Skelton, near Penrith, Cumbria....

by Guy Sheppard A recovery operator has been criticised for the second time this year for charging £700 to tow a broken-down...

smuggling has been jailed for four years after he was caught trying to bring more than two-and-a-half million cigarettes into...

• A Dublin driver has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for driving a truck used to steal a trailer and its IR2400,000 load...

• by Guy Sheppard More than 100 Parcelforce Worldwide drivers have been assured that they will keep their jobs despite staging...

Haulier Brian Walton has begun a six-year jail sentence after playing a pivotal role in a bootlegging empire which defrauded...

• A rail-freight renaissance is predicted for Scotland following the launch of a £10m scheme to re-establish a missing link in...

Norfolk-based distribution company Jack Richards and Son has expanded its operations with a new depot in Northwich, creating 12...

exhibitors and more than 22,000 haulage professionals, including many from the newly emerged Baltic and Balkan states. Trailer...

Ledel's Wheel Shift weighs In at 36kg and a driver with a flat tyre will be glad he spent Bft 29,600 (approx £480) on this...

Ancra has developed the CTD 11 extra deck system for curtainsiders. Four vertical pillars down each side of a standard 13,6m...

Kapellan-based Coxx's latest conversion is on the Renault Master/ Vauxhall Movano van range, where it turns the FWD van into a...

spray-on covering for a range of uses including tippers, pickups and horse boxes. Coating a Stas tipper costs £2,800. Contact:...

Koni's latest type-9110tonne hydraulic damper is a sure sign of new suspensions for next year. It can be fitted horizontally...

Van Noel's Mexl-Liner is a Mega/Maxi hybrid trailer designed for operators who want extra height without resorting to...

Hard on the heels of Euro-3's confirmation, MAN has revealed its lineup of compliant engines. Colin Barnett has been checking...

• The first of the Euro-3 vehicles that we sampled at the launch was a 26.284, the 280hp 6x4 rigid chassis developed...

• by Cohn Barnett The first factory-built Scania heavy haulage tractors in the UK have gone into service with McIntosh Heavy...

• UK Waste has ordered nine more LNG (liquid natural gas)-powered ERF EM multi-axled refuse collection chassis for its Stafford...

Builder Center is the latest operator to try one of ERF's EP6 truck chassis. The Um rigid with its 212hp Cummins 6BTA5.9/...

presence felt. Welsh company Day's Rental has added 20 hi-cube 3.5-tonners to its fleet. Half of the new vans are 35S11s with...

The millennium promotion organised by Wakefield gearbox reconditioner Northern Truck Services has produced a winner (CM21-26...

Budgens has joined the supermarket home delivery market An initial batch of 30 Renault fridge vans, a mixture of Kangoos and...

Trucks franchise. The ERF dealer for South and West Wales aims to become one of the largest Isuzu outlets, with major expansion...

LDV is targeting Ford and Mercedes van operators with its VANfit Parts initiative. Its dealers are offering service and repairs...

point of use, but the gaseous fuel itself can be produced in a number of ways. The most straightforward of these is...

rough ground is no excuse Browns Mech anical Services from Stoke on Trent has had its licence suspended for a week despite...

in Complaints by neighbours about inconsiderate actions by drivers led to Jillian and Philip Blake, trading as Fast Freight,...

granted an additional five vehicles and five trailers on the licence, Scottish IC Michael Betts has issued a formal warning...

held by Dundee-based Tayside Recyclers, Scottish IC Michael Betts issued a formal warning about its future maintenance standards.

Burntwood, Staffordshire, haulier John Shein was adjourned until 21 December when he failed to appear before Lichfield...

A bid for a new three-vehicle licence by Mytchett-based MW Facility Management was turned down at a Woking public inquiry...

of the Operator's Licence held by Hereford Profiles. The company appeared before the DIG at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.

A Merseyside owner-driver possibly did not realise what he was taking on when he applied for an 0-licence, a vehicle examiner...

The complexity and jargon of operator licensing forms was blamed for the unauthorised use of a vehicle by Pontypool based...

Worthington, of tord Street, Bolton, failed to appear before Halton magistrates to answer 12 allegations of exceeding the...

events and traffic blackspots to theft and fuel prices. If you have information for inclusion send it to Commercial Motor, Room...

Does someone In the Industry deserve a pat on the bark, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room H203,...

You have yet again singled out users of the JCB Fastrac as being a particular threat to the road haulage industry (CM25 Nov-1...

As regular reader of your magazine, I would like to comment on your roadtests. You talk to operators about the reliability and...

and our correspondent The Hawk takes a sideways look at road haulage. If you have suitable tales, charitable works, or quirky...

You know the festive season is well and truly under way when in every supermarket and pub in the land you hear the raucous...

Here in Britain we take our high-street pharmacies for granted. In Kazakhstan, in central Asia, bandages and medicines are sold...

On first inspection, a pair of grown men standing by the roadside waving clumps of foliage is a worrying prospect. Closer...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £12,765 (ex-VAT). ENGINE: 2.8 litres, 86hp (64kW). GVIV: 2,800kg. PAYLOAD: 940kg. FUEL CONSUMPTION (laden):...

impossible task. No matter how many options they offer, they can't please all the operators all the time—which is why the cab...

but few of them grasp the scale of the problem: the number of stowaways has increased by 400% in a single year. speaks to some...

III ilk Marque, the national farmers co-operative which handles around 40% of British milk distribution, has already cut the...

Many police forces are handing over their pivotal role in recovery operations to private garages. But are hauliers being stung...

don't try hard enough the customer can walk away. Ipswich-based PTS has invested in state-of-the-art accommodation aimed at...

Traffic offices live and die by the telephone, but how many hauliers realise that schemes such as Call Sc Save can slash their...

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