• Despite talking at the start of the Budget about championing the needs of small businesses, Chancellor Gordon Brown...

m The decision of Bolton magistrates to fine HM Commercials just £100 for using a vehicle without an 0licence has been...

RTITB Services has been bought from its administrative receivers by the CAPITB group. The new company, RTITB, will move to...

West Midlands haulier S Jones was on the verge of being sold to a management buyout as CM went to press. following the decision...

El by Karen Miles FlaggIng-out MI only make economic sense in a small number of European countries, says the Road Haulage...

One of the creditors, Eurodrive Consultants, was awarded £54,000 in Edinburgh Sheriff Court in January, while FISH Transport...

Within hours of the Budget it had emerged that one shipping line is demanding rates cuts of up to a third from hauliers...

• by David Craik Two hauliers and a vehicle examiner are calling on lveco Ford to recall and modify its 340E34 EuroTrakker...

Thanks for nothing Surprising? Hardly. Disappointing? Most definitely. But the Chancellor's failure to jump off the fuel duty...

• A £2,000 ransom is being demanded by a former Dalton Transport driver for the return of the brand new truck he took after...

a by Karen Miles UK hauliers are being urged to come together to fund a legal attempt to stop the UK Government from charging...

revealing he had personally witnessed details of a wheel-loss case before him. Magistrate John Ward was hearing a case of...

carrying a massive consignment of drugs into the country after being held responsible for more than ,2300,000 cash being seized...

et Stolen trucks and parts worth tens of thousands of pounds were uncovered during a police raid on a barn near Wolverhampton...

• by Karen Miles The Vehicle Inspectorate is not living up to its promise to prosecute hauliers using illegal eastern...

Exel Logistics Tradeteam has won a five-year contract to provide a centralised distribution service to Avebury Taverns 28...

• Truck drivers and motorists found themselves stranded in nine-mile tailbacks in Glasgow last Wednesday when the city's...

An Essex scrap merchant has been fined E9A100 with £2,900 costs for improper storage of parts, oil and batteries....

• An Essex driver arrested by French police in Folkestone on charges of smuggling Indian illegal immigrants into the UK has...

the landscape of Trans-Action's campaign against the Government fuel escalator after the Law Lords conceded the right to...

Last week the Department of Transport published its delayed "daughter document" on freight as part of its heralded White Paper...

• Impounding of illegally operated trucks; • Uniformed traffic wardens to be empowered to stop traffic: • Increased...

The new Mercedes-Benz Vito range goes an sale in the UK on 27 March CM25 Feb-3 Mare. MD FREE Land Rover now offers a head...

by Bryan Jarvis II Family haulier Max Lomas has added an eye-catching T-cabbed Scania 4x2 artic with Bonfiglioli 30.5t/m...

• The first ERF EP6 to enter service has begun work for Framptons International. The Turkish-designed 17-boner will cover...

• Tipmaster has introduced a new lightweight loading crane, the Swift Lift, which comes in six sizes designed to fit at the...

• The SM MT's latest figures reveal that CV registrations slumped to 12,462 last month from the 22,081 recorded for February...

Mentor will launch its TA ic).5-tonne heavy-duty trailer axle at the IRTE show in June, and it will also be promoting...

Forget new truck registrations: over the next five years the real battleground for manufacturers and their dealers will be how...

residuals at 1?tonnes and above fell 20% in 1998, Andrew reports. But Scania held onto pole position with its tractors, which...

Two drivers with Bridgend-based Carline Transport have been cleared of allegations that they had falsified tachograph records....

1ACHII FIE West Bromwich magistrates fined Burnley lorry driver John Birkett £1315 with £200 costs after he admitting...

Pembrokeshire owner-driver Morris Jones had his Operators Licence suspended for a week after his tractive unit was found to...

Alan Price & Sons (Bargoed) and one of its drivers were given conditional discharges for 12 months after admitting overloading...

The Transport Tribunal has directed South Eastern es Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Michael Turner to reconsider...

A driver who had continued to drive 38-tome artics for Wigan-based Steve Edwards Transport while disqualified has been put on...

Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down. Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room...

I don't know what you think, but this is not the sort of clobber to go jogging in. Johannes Olmann, a Ford Motor Company plant...

Sainsbury's is a major supporter of Comic Relief, and TDG Nexus distributes Sainsbury's petrol throughout the south of...

On long car journeys, the Hawk has often wished he could stick the old Reliant Robin on automatic pilot and sit back with his...

Foden, the Hawk's canine chum, likes nothing better than a run out in the Reliant Robin. He is never happier than when his nose...

The Hawk really is a lucky old bird; the job he loves is made a pleasure for him by the loyalty and dedication of CM readers,...

van in 1996 with the designed-fromscratch Berlingo and Partner, their curiously styled offspring may have looked faintly silly...

AT THE NEC Success breeds success Since 1994, visitor attendance and exhibitor numbers at the Commercial Vehicle Show have...

success. The company which ties itself too closely to one source of employment is doomed to collapse as soon as the economic...

Vehicle and fuel duty might be higher in the UK than the rest of Europe but how do drivers' wages and conditions compare? Guy...

the 0 wner-driver Christopher Hill's '3year-old Foden 6x4 tractor is a familiar sight on ferries all over Europe. Based in...

TO TALK Vehicle tracking and communications systems look set to play an increasingly important role in the drive to cut...

bombarded with a host of goods. Massive promotional campaigns coincide with distribution of the products—but money can only...

Hauliers need any amount of specialist industry knowledge, but what does a small operator do when he needs advice on a wide...

Danesbury Freight Services employs 70 people and has a £5m turnover. "We've grown by being a one-stop shop," says managing...

6 Trying to market safety devices in the haulage industry can be frustrating at the best of times—and this is far from the...