RHA CONFERENCE REPORT by Miles MooIll • The Road Haulage Association wants the Government to launch an "essential user" diesel...

• Parcelforce Worldwide is joining forces with its Post Office stablemates to extend its range of logistics services and focus...

• A Cork trucker watched helplessly as five Romanian . cut their way out of his curtainsider and ran away. He had collected...

• North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth is to crack down on operators who regularly park their trucks illegally....

by Rob Willlock • Clues emerged last week about the likely focus of the Government's White Paper on transport policy....

STOPPING THE BUCK A re you ready to shoulder the blame, face the music, take the rap? If you're the manager of a road...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers have been given notice by the Government that if they cause death through negligence they will find...

• RHA director-general Steven Norris (left) says his organisation intends to stand side by side with hauliers caught up in any...

• A month of strikes by uo to 44 drivers at Braciforcbased Allied Industrial Services Wiper/Floorcare division has been averted...

• Peter Hobbs and John Mills, sentenced to serve seven-and-ahalf years in a Bulgarian jail for smuggling 20.5kg of heroin, have...

by Ian Wylie • Pilot trials could begin in the next two weeks which would allow operators to order 0licence discs by phone and...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has set a new target of May 1998 for the launch of its Joint Enforcement Database Initiative Project...

* A handful of hauliers have finally received compensation payments from the French for losses suffered during November's...

• Renault VI is facing court action from an owner-driver who bought a Magnum AE520 last year which developed a "catalogue of...

• Jacobs has expanded its interests in the car transport and vehicle recovery markets with two company purchases. The £3.1m...

by Karen Miles • British Rail's last rail freight business will be sold to the private sector this month as the controversial...

by Karen Miles • The log-jam over the Humber Bridge debt problem appears to be clearing, but hauliers are being warned not to...

• Hundreds of UK Shell forecourts face closure as part of a sweeping reorganisation of the company's European network....

• The eradication of bull-bars is being proposed in a consultation document released by the Department of Transport. Over the...

• Thirty five pigs died when a livestock carrier owned by Robert Neill of Perth overturned on the A697 between Carfaemill and...

• A £.60m trailer investment programme has helped Central Transport Rental, formerly Tiphook, lift its operating profit by 40%...

by Karen Miles • Drivers expecting to see their earnings bumped up by the introduction of a minimum wage could face...

• The TGWU and GMB trade unions have criticised Government proposals on training for being "too modest". The unions want every...

• CM's Trailer of the Year '97, Clayton Commercials' road/rail tanker trailer for BRT International, has SAF running gear,...

by Oliver Dixon • Unimog is predicting that its smaller models will become increasingly important as the company concentrates...

• Truck sales are increasing slowly with last month one of the best this year, though most manufacturers have shown a dramatic...

by Toby Clark • Mercedes-Benz is radically restructuring its UK truck and van dealer network, cutting the number of franchise...

• J&M Kennie has put the UK's first Renault Kerax ax4 on the road. It's Fitted with Harsh Kl 10 tipping gear and a steel body...

After years of languishing under an independent importer MAN's wholly owned UK operation is finally approaching something like...

like its rivals, MAN has been watching ERF's Fuel Duel campaign with keen interest. While acknowledging its marketing merits,...

• A Scottish owner-driver tore up his tachograph chart, threw the pieces out of the cab window and then climbed from the cab...

1111 The use of unauthorised operating centres resulted in warnings from North Eastern TC Keith Waterworth for Rainworth...

• Maintenance problems have led to a two-week suspension of the licence held by North Yorkshire haulier John Thompson....

• The licence held by Fife operator David Pearson has been suspended until his vehicle has had a fresh MoT test, a new...

has led to the revocation of the licence held by Van i Adams, trading as Adams Haulage Contractors, of Auchenheath,...

• A Northants tipper operator, who picked up several prohibition notices after deciding not to follow advice given in a warning...

• Insufficient rest and breaks have cost two drivers employed by Skipton livestock haulier Howard's Haulage a total of £280 in...

• The managing director of an Oldbury haulage company, who was warned in June that he needed to spend money to try to avoid...

• A truck driver who veered off the M25 near Sevenoaks and killed a motorist who was changing a lyre may have suffered a memory...

and an extraordinarily diverse population: the demand for commercial vehicles is large and expanding fast, so manufacturers are...

Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

T he article on bald tyres (CM 11-17 September) might mislead readers into believing that all vehicles require tyres with a...

T feel I must take issue with 'Ilona Richards (CM 11-17 Sept) on the subject of agency drivers. Yes, there are agencies about...

A y late father spent all —VI his working life in road transport. I remember him telling me that on one trip from a livestock...

W hy should an employer recruit a driver when he has to: • Spend thousands of pounds purchasing a vehicle; • Spend thousands...

0 n Ireland you don't have to visit the country's galleries to see great works of art. The Republic is in the middle of a major...

A s readers will know, the Hawk's favoured A s readers will know, the Hawk's favoured mode of transportation is his trusty...

151 he two young men holding up their certificates are looking very pleased with themselves, and so they should. Gordon Gray,...

A !though initially cautious, the A !though initially cautious, the Hawk is now only too keen to embrace modern technology....

PINNACLE OF SUCCESS Some products are so successful that they become part of the language—plenty of people refer to ballpoint...

If you are forced to make staff redundant make sure you follow the rules—or face the consequences. F F very haulier has to...

used to castigating the Department of ansport for delaying implementation of islation that much of the industry was ady to...

of the most sophisticated heavy haulage equipment in the country. Ian Shaw reports on a company where biggest is beautiful......

Will a £60-a-week government subsidy encourage hauliers to recruit youngsters off the dole queue? CM has been talking to...

strike that caused so many problems for British hauliers. So why are they still waiting for the payments promised by the French...

Truck operators had better start looking over their shoulders. After years of declining volumes, rail freight is winning new...

Ian Fowler, general manager of Seddon Atkinson Preston, pleads for mercy from the speeding parcels vans and Irish-registered...

BRIDGE BASHER! Avoid the potentially tragic consequences of striking an overhead obstruction—or costly diversions—if your...