• Three Cumbrian fire-fighters "moonlighted' as truck drivers for Eddie Stobart without taking sufficient rest, according to...

• Cut-price diesel will soon be on offer to British hauliers, claims a new Belgianbased company which plans to bulk-buy fuel in...

• The former director of disgraced haulier Taphaul has now been sacked from his position at Curries of Dumfries. Thomas...

• Calais port officials discovered 700 illegal immigrants on board trucks bound for the UK in July—the first month of a...

could follow Dover.... a by Sally Nash Road Haulage Association chairman John Bridge is considering a last-ditch "live or...

• The Hauliers and Farmers Affiance is weighing up whether to press ahead with its demonstration planned for September in the...

• by Pete Swinger A livestock haulier who complained government red tape was strangling his business was fined a total of £1;00...

. The FTA was astonished to read in The Independent that it was fully behind the demo by the HFA in Dover last week The...

• The Road Haulage Association faces a blip in its cashflow following the closure of the company which provides members with...

• A trucker was travelling too fast when he hit and killed a pensioner as her car pulled out of a country lane near Castle...

• An MP has called in the Freight Transport Association to help establish how deadly TB bacteria ended up in the curtain...

IP by Melanie Hammond Rogue hauliers could soon find it harder to walk away from their debts and start up new companies, under...

• A haulier was fined 110,000 after one of its drivers was crushed to death while repairing a truck before its annual test...

• The government is to explore ways of improving training and recruitment in road haulage after worsening skill shortages...

Driving by moonlight With the number of drivers passing HGV tests at its lowest level for over a decade and a growing shortage...

• by Guy Sheppard A new traffic management system could help eliminate motorway bottlenecks by controlling the flow of vehicles...

• A council road worker was killed when a wheel came off a truck in Dublin last week. The wheel detached from the near side...

• Yet again motorway service stations have been slammed for their poor quality food with Granada's offerings branded...

be a costly celebration—thieves broke into the premises while they were out and stole £60,000 worth of lorry tyres. Complete...

• by Keith Nuthall Iveco could be denied Italian state aid worth £10 million if a Brussels investigation shows that the subsidy...

• Scottish livestock haulier Henry Thomson & Sons has taken delivery of a rigid 8x4 Foden Alpha truck. It is fitted with the...

IN Volvo has agreed to purchase 20% of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus for about 1230m, plus a possible profit-related sum. It...

million in refusevehicle orders from the Institute of Waste Management Conference in Torbay last June. The biggest order came...

franchises based in Ashford and Canterbury from lnvicta Motors. The new additions will form Haynes Trucks and integrate with...

Cellnet to provide vehicle equipment and services to its mobile phone network's PinPoint FleetManager corporate fleet tracking...

demonstrator from refrigerated vehicle manufacturer Gray & Adams has the Union Flag painted on the side. But the patriotic...

tractive units to Its fleet. The vehicles, supplied from two Scania dealers, are on a four-year contract hire package and will...

Schmitz Cargobull (UK) has supplied 16 curtainsiders to distribution and haulage company Taylored Lines, based in Skelmersdale....

• An American CargoMaster loading crane that can travel along the length of a trailer is now available in the UK through...

• by Peter Lawton General Trailers (Fruehauf) is not only targeting food hauliers with the new air-conditioned version of its...

w The Association of Body Repairers and the Retail Motor Industry Federation Bodyshop Services Division are looking at how they...

• A York-based engineer is looking for a manufacturer for his patented wheelnut locking design. George Mitchell reckons his...

for technicians and mechanics. The scheme is designed to provide a benchmark for competence, initially running in the coach and...

share capital of Duffields of East Anglia. its regional distributor in the east of England. The acquisition of Duff ields,...

crewcab tippers for its contract to maintain London's Regent's Park. The order is the first for the tipper Convoy, which was...

now on sale. The option is available for both 55 and 75 versions at a premium of £400.

Cabs at the end of September to mark Xregistered number plates. Additions cover all three derivatives. The 4-Life will get 16...

• Vauxhall is extending its Network Q used car programme to commercial vehicles, promising the best prepared second-hand vans...

Feather Diesel Services claims to cut fuel consumption by up to 6% in just two days thanks to its rolling road dynamometer....

licence held by Stephen Kiernan, trading as Dempsey Transport Services, being cut from four vehicles and four trailers to one...

led to the revocation of the five-vehicle licence held by George Graham Skip Hire, of Alexandria, Dunbartonshire. Scottish TO...

A five-yearly review of the licence held by Staines-based RH Freight Services in Surrey has led to the imposition of conditions...

4.5 hours' driving without the required break and failing to ensure the return of tachograph records within 21 days have cost...

The falsification of a tachograph and taking Insufficient daily rest cost Lanark driver William Gibson £350 in fines and costs...

Morecambe-based Richard Clarke lost his licence when he failed to attend a Trafford disciplinary inquiry before North Western...

revoked by North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Toni Macartney for what he described as a serious breach of the tachograph...

• You can now check out the latest Vehicle Excise Duty rates on road transportnet—the website operated by Commercial Motor,...

to attend an Edinburgh disciplinary inquiry after suffering a stroke and had his licence for three vehicles suspended until he...

A Cambridgeshire driver, who used a wire to interfere with his tachograph, has lost his HGV licence for 12 months. Michael...

Our thanks to all who attended the HFA protest last week, but what happened to the rest? One local haulier, who shall remain...

An open letter to Chancellor Gordon Brown: I his letter was delivered by hand using the RHA's Tax Tanker as transportation. Our...

An open letter to Mr Gayssot, the new president of the European Union Council of Transportation Ministers: Everywhere in the...

The Hawk is always touched by the willingness of people in the transport Industry to help those most in need. So step forward,...

Ifs hats off to Apollo at the ancient cart-marking ceremony of the Worshipful Company of Carmen in Guildhall, London. For all...

One was absolutely chuffed to receive one's winner's prize at a charity match organised by the Beaufort Polo Club in...

I hear that the four-footed inhabitants of the remote Hebridean Island of Taransay are faring rather better than their...

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depend on was his mirrors. But now he is more likely to be bewildered by the range of reversing equipme avoid damage to people...

Back pain is the single greatest reason why people take time off work for sickness. It is estimated that a person with back...

"Employers should involve their staff as much as possible to make working environments more back-friendly. Most initiatives...

Trade Unions have been strong svpporters of the European Week since it began, and they encourage their members to get involved...

Back the campaign and take part in this year's European Week for Safety and Health by calling the HSE hotline on 0845 2701100....

RTED "Investing in good health risk management can contribute to business success. Musculoskeletal problems cost money from...

the right equipment if they are to thrive. That doctrine has not been lost on Hire Power, a firm that operates an immaculate...

months of this year. As Adam Hill reports i tliis does not mean the ter of unscrupulous ope ors is increasing—it simply...

if the European Commission gets its way. The Post Office has been arguing about the issue of privatisation with governments for...

come clean and admit he was behind the wheel. But things could change with impending laws from Europe. looks at the effect this...

Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems in this regular column. Write to Commercial Motor; Room...

the sun for a wellearned break. But how much holiday must hauliers give by law? New legislation stipulates a minimum of four...

Before 1 October 1998 holidays were negotiated between the employer and the worker. Since then the Working Time Regulations...

Britain. By uniting, the Hauliers and Farmers Alliance and Farmers For Action hoped to improve their lot—but the cracks showed...

companies operating both within and outside the UK I knew—long before any British companies "flagged our—where in Europe it was...