• Freight services through the will be delayed "for weeks" past their original 7 March opening: operator Eurotunnel denies...

By Juliet Parish • ARC is urging its contract owner-drivers to buy a second truck and employ a driver in case they are needed...

• The police are to form the first ever national, dedicated squad to investigate truck and vehicle theft. Responding to long...

by Karen Mlles and Amanda Bradbury • A disagreement over the acceptance of a pay freeze at British Steel haulier Thompson...

British Steel at Scunthorpe says it is reviewing 100,000 tonnes a year of steel section road haulage to Trent Wharf at...

• January truck registrations are nearly 10% up on those for the same month last year, according to the Society of Motor...

• Redland Aggregates was last week reminded by the courts to look after its subcontractors after the company was fined £5,000...

• The number of drivers jailed in western France on drug smuggling charges has risen by 400% in the past year to 85. French...

• International fish hauliers were told this week by the Ministry of Agriculture to protect themselves from rampaging French...

by Amanda Bradbury and Juliet Parish • Around 64 staff at Exel Logistics' Northampton regional distribution depot dedicated to...

• A far-reaching review of the car MoT system which could bring sweeping changes to the truck annual test system is nearing...

III The threat of delay to the start of Channel Tunnel freight services emerged this week as Eurotunnel admitted testing...

• The Government has reaffirmed its commitment to sell Parcelforce, despite the Trade Secretary's admission that possible...

by .luliet Parish • Elan International, the express freight and parcels delivery company, crashed last week leaving a £6...

III Essex police last week served immediate prohibitions on 10 operators and found dozens of offences during a multi-agency...

• Two former managers of Cardiff International have set up their own freight forwarding firm by supplying transport for 40...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers owed thousands of pounds by the collapse of two north-east freight forwarders and the disappearance...

• A £20 million investment plan by franchise parcels operator Panic Link could create hundreds of UK driving jobs. The company...

• Foclen Truckparent company -- Iccc] has produced financial results for 1993 with earnings standing at $142.2 million ((£95m),...

• The 75,000th ERF has gone into service with Shell (UK). The EC10.32TT 6x2 twin - steer day cab tractive unit is one of 27 on...

• Marshall SPV has won exclu sive rights from General Motors to use the Bedford name on its range of vehicles in the UK and...

• Mercedes-Benz is hoping to increase its share of the fire tender market, dominated by Volvo and Dennis, with its 1324...

• Luton haulier C R Firbank is planning to put a tractorplus - skeletal trailer demonstrator on the road during the next few...

by John Kendall • According to Daf the Super Space Cab cubes out at 10.2m, which beats the Renault Magnum, MAN Roadhaus,...

by Bryan Jarvis • Two new vacuum-filled sludge handling tanker semitrailers, built by Whale Tankers for Northumbrian Water, are...

• Duni Whittaker has 10 new Volvo FL611 rigids equipped with Ray Smith demountable gear with 18 swap bodies made by Van Bodies...

• Packaging haulier Rocma has enlarged its vehicle fleet with 20 curtainsided trailers rebodied and refurbished by Southfields...

• Gems/Clearway is offering a new range of Italian-made Slide Back recovery body systems for chassis from five to 17 tonnes...

• Bristol-based Hydrex Equipment (UK) has added a new triaxle step-frame lowloader from Andover Trailers to its plant...

by Bryan Jarvis • The push for more efficient distribution has Increased interest in Wilson's double-deck trailers, including a...

• Simon Aviation is supplying the Fire Service Training College with three new Protector rescue vehicles, a 6x6 foam tender and...

• A second axle overload cost Batley-based G Brocldehurst Transport £350 in fines and costs, when it appeared before Rochdale...

• Breaching the four and a half hour driving rule has cost Bury, Lancs-based truck driver Harry Hardman 1300 in fines and...

• Fines of £2,500 imposed on Horwich, Lanesbased Sylvester O'Gara have been reduced to £700 on appeal to Bolton Crown Court....

• A weighbridge owner called in Trading Standards officers after owner-drivers carrying topsoil to a West Wales park refused to...

• Jayne Howard, trading as Howards International Transport, of Scarborough, has been granted a licence for a year. But the...

"It's the rich what gets the pleasure, it's the poor what gets the blame", runs the old music hall ditty. Put it in a language...

T read with interest your 1editorial on Tunnel Refineries voluntarily avoiding Greenwich centre. (CM20-26January). The had...

a second attack on Lineal Construction Company's transport fleet within three months. On Sunday 30 January the Shropshire-based...

The Seddon Atkinson Strato is well established at 17 tonnes, but if you need more payload the factory will be happy to fit an...

In this vale of tears we call life it is not often that cherished dreams come true, but one did for Norfolk lorry driver Les...

Hauliers who do not want to get caught out by rogue companies can enlist the help of a credit agency before doing business. F...

N early a year ago international driver Simon Matthison was set upon by thugs at a Russian truckstop who robbed him and kicked...

Increasingly large fleet operators are buying truck parts from a slimmed-down list of preferred suppliers. What effect is this...

locked up in a French prison accused of having drugs on his truck. He has now been freed without charge and without his truck....

Mere pawns in a global smuggling racket, or cynical and heartless villains? Excerpts from just some of the letters received...

Experts agree changing the law on being "knowingly involved in importing drugs" would be arduous, if not impossible. Drivers'...

New drivers are sought by HMS Personnel Services, which has just launched a specialised nationwide service for the distribution...

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8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1993— made 13 November 1993. Makes provisions relating to the enforcement of parking...

UK • The Vehicle Inspectorate options for the future— Consultation on the privatisation of HGV Test Stations. Operator...

4 T hose who favour total deregulation and the privatisation of road tolls and service areas should perhaps examine the...