It's good news that Liverpool Port is to double its container capacity. Such investment is long overdue in many of our ports...

WINCANTON has confirmed that 180 drivers are set to lose their jobs when its depots atTewkesbury, Glos. and Ross-on-Wye,...

results in 2006, its strong financial performance is continuing into 2007. According to firstquarter results, the German...

AN ESSEX TRUCK driver has been jailed for 15 years by Canterbury Crown Court for smuggling more than a million ecstasy tablets...

AMTRAK EXPRESS Parcels, recently saved from administration by another express parcel company. faces a winding-up petition from...

A crash on the M25 in the early hours of Monday (7 May) involving an LGV and a recovery vehicle has left six people dead and...

European Transport Solutions has designed a GPS safety system called Indic8tor for LGV operators. It costs under 2100 and has a...

Short-sea operator Containerships Group is streamlining its UK operations; Teesport will replace Felixstowe as its UK...

A woman has died after being crushed by a truck at the Port of Dover.

Dunlop has launched the SP382 and the SP482 tyres for on/off-road running. The SP482 drive tyre is aimed at tippers, concrete...

A lorry loader's unfair dismissal claim is rejected as an Employment Tribunal hears of a sexual harassment claim. Peter...

NORTH YORKSHIRE police want to hear from two truck drivers who may have witnessed a fatal crash. The accident happened on the...

TIPPERS RETURNED to Harrogate last week for the first time in 10 years for Tip-Ex 2007. More than 125 exhibitors supported the...

THE TRANSPORT AND General Workers' Union (T&G) has merged with Amicus to form a 'super union' named Unite — the UK's biggest...

UNITED PALLET Network has launched a 'Micro Pallet' service to bridge the gap between the parcels and palletised freight...

ENERGY GROUP Total has launched an electronic toll card for LCiVs which is designed to reduce delays in France. Once fitted to...

Lose the queues — Vosa's response Commercial Motor has been putting your concerns direct to Vosa, while protecting the...

a retest; I was informed that the earliest date in Newbury was mid-June and told to call Vosa's national number. I did, and...

A government subsidy is designed to encourage women already working in logistics to train as truck drivers. Chris Tindall...

EURO MPS FEAR for the future of the GaIlleo satellite-navigation project, which is designed to provide sat-nay services for...

Romanian operators have fallen foul of EU regulations by buying trucks with analogue tachos after the rules changed. David...

HOYER UK's pre-tax profits plummeted in 2005. The bulk liquids operator, part of the giant German-owned Hoyer Group, made a...

THE WEST MI DLANDS Business Council, which includes local businesses, police and the Home Office, is undertaking a survey of...

KENT-BASED civil engineer FM Conway has taken delivery of six Euro-5 Mercedes eight-leggers comprising four Actros 3236s and a...

A driver loses a compensation claim after saying his boss's attitude towards him changed following an accident, Peter Swingler...

SOMERSET-BASED transport and distribution firm RT Keedwell has ordered 75 Euro-4 Scanias. As with most truck purchases these...

HEAVY HAUL IS celebrating its golden jubilee with the purchase of a Volvo FH 16 tractor unit plated at 150 tonnes and bearing...

Why do senior industry figures view an EU Directive on type approval with such deep concern? Roanna Avison reports. he Whole...

The legislation is before the European Parliament. A launch date has yet to be revealed but it is likely to come into force...

Foreign freight and vehicles entering the UK ramp up demands on the country's ports. CM'S Yardstick looks at how foreign...

CM'S Julian Milnes caught up with Vauxhall MD Bill Parfit at the CV Show to quiz him about the company's current position and...

LIKE SO many of us who earn a crust driving I'm getting fed up with the industry. I'm not an operator,I'm just a driver-which...

AS BRITAIN faces the challenge of adapting to the decline in manufacturing and a move towards a knowledge-based economy, our...

I DON - 1 doubt the scrupulousness with which Kevin Upson and his colleagues at Mercedes-Benz carried out their air-management...

promises to act p eel Ports Group (PPG), which runs the Port of Liverpool, is promising to spend £4m on the terminal — and...

"[The situation] is affecting business in a big way. It's been this bad for a couple of years now. Straddlers are just stood...

You can't make a living here like you used to. People are getting up earlier and earlier in the morning just to beat the...

enhancement programme includes: • additional plant three straddle carriers have been added to the terminal fleet in recent...

for permitting offences A Polish driver who spoke little English was given a booklet on the hours regs which was written in...

A COMPANY THAT destroyed a car when a wheel came off one of its vehicles has escaped with a warning. North-Eastern Traffic...

FAILURE TO CARRY out regular safety inspections on its fleet has led to a company receiving a warning at a Leeds disciplinary...

A RECOVERY OPERATOR running 50 vehicles has been given an additional 0-licence on the condition it appoints a second transport...

Vehicle maintenance and drivers' hours problems have led to the licence held by Wimbome. Dorset-based Keith Martin, trading as...

pulled over by a vehicle whose markings made it look like a cross between an ambulance and a police car. It was a Vosa vehicle,...

England and Wales to stop truck drivers under the Police Reform Act 2002, Paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 of the Act gives Vosa...

Tax dodgers who come forward and pay what they owe are being let off with a fixed 10% penalty. Andrew Watt reports. H . .. M...

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With a new engine and a facelift, the heavily revised Rodeo has plenty going for it.. but so has the younger competition. Will...

The big truck manufacturers currently have little trouble finding apprentice technicians, but with application levels falling...

Tie tyre manufacturers focused on enhanced service life and fuel economy, but a - yre maintenance product stole the limelight...

B ulk transport isn't seen as the most glamorous part of road transport. What's more the put-i t-on-a-train-orboat brigade puts...

AviaTrucks.formerly Daewoo, will be showing its brand new l2-tonner.This provides a useful extension of the brand's portfolio....

There's a new name in the truck-mounted forklift market — and, by concentrating on offering its own UK and Ireland-specific...

M AN-ERF's last F2000 rolled off the production line in April 2004. At that year's CV Show, in a reserved suite in the depths...

M5 north of Bristol, our circular route took in the city, Chipping Sodbury, Yate and Stroud. With the 020 developing 395hp and...

With road transport "a hard industry to be in", the man behind GA Transport has diversified into truck-mounted forklifts,...

Grant Arnold last appeared in these pages back in 1995, when he had already experienced an all-too-common problem: "Quite early...

Like road transport operators across Britain, Grant Arnold is acutely aware of the driver shortage. This partly explains why...

Moffett Mountys roots go back 40 years to the Netherlands: "The good thing about them is that you can deliver what you want,...

After 10 years of buying and leasing CVs, Alliance & Leicester has set up its own site in Manchester for retail disposal. Kevin...

The Mercedes-Benz approved used vehicles department has reaped the benefits of trading at the CV Show, reports Kevin Swallow,...

stand at the CV Show could focus on a new wearand-tear guide for trucks and the firm's current success. Kevin Swallow reports....