• by Peter Lawton Volvo is taking over Scania, creating Europe's largest heavy truck manufacturing company, second only to...

• Scoria sharEs leapt up 20% on the news of Ihe merger endri,g trating last Friday on a ligh of SAr 306 (423). The previlus...

Road capacity could be used more effectively if space was reserved for specific categories of vehicles, such as lorries,...

led by Andrew Wishart, met Scottish transport minister Sarah BOyack to discuss their concerns about high levels of VED and...

and lveco's Cursor 8 350hp engine all now qualify for the Reduced Pollution Certificate (RPC) E1,000 VED rebate.

distribution centre in Bedfordshire early next year, replacing the company's existing site in Flitwick in the same county.

of her bike and collided with a tipper in Newport, Shropshire.

to point out that in the news story "Driver runs away from hidden fuel" ( CM 22-28 July), it was the RUC—not the RAC— that...

Cross-border fuel smuggling is costing the British Exchequer £100m a year, according to Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs...

• Steven Norris faces increased pressure to quit as director-general of the Road Haulage Association at this month's board...

m by Michael Jewell Norbert Dentressangle's UK tanker division's licence has been cut from 40 vehicles and 50 trailers to 25...

• Transport Minister Gus Macdonald will take charge of road haulage and will attend the forthcoming Industry Forum, a...

• A Bootle owner-driver, who carried on operating after his licence was revoked in December 1997, has been sent to prison for...

is hoping a management shake-up and a more "forwardthinking agenda" will turn the business around after the group's half-year...

Five years ago a truck company bigwig declared: "By the year 2000 there will be only four manufacturers left in Europe." With...

• by Sally Nash Hauliers are up in arms over changes to the Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) which will hit anybody...

• Cornish hauliers are breathing a sigh of relief as the preeclipse hype about traffic gridlock has largely failed to...

1 by lain Wylie A former employee of NorthEast seafood company Ken Bell International has been defending his reputation at an...

• The row over British Sugar's plans to reorganise its transport fleet is expected to go to arbitration where the company and...

• Express Dairies has expanded Its chilied distribution business after buying Redditch-based Blokes Chilled Distribution for...

enforcement database 1 ;d!fgl;efl!sr? re by Karen Miles The volume of police intelligence for trapping illegal hauliers is...

confirmed in a new report from Huddersfield University's Transport and Logistics Research Unit. The study, Attracting more...

Solicitors are urgently seeking truck drivers who have come into contact with sheep-dip and might be suffering side effects...

• A Midlands transport firm might close, making some of its 200 employees redundant, if it cannot obtain planning permission to...

• Insurance premiums for commercial vehicles are expected to rise sharply over the next 12 months because insurance companies...

• The Irish Insurance Federation says its members will reduce insurance premiums if a police crackdown on defective vehicles...

• by Karen Nes The Vehicle Inspectorate's record on emissions testing is to face public scrutiny by watchdog MPs concerned at...

1111 The switch to twice-yearly number plate changes gave a massive boost to CV sales last month, with registrations up 146% on...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) has named the former national secretary for passenger services, docks and...

• by Charles Young A new digital camera to be installed on motorways from next month will make detection of speeding trucks...

• A proposed shake-up of the London Lorry Ban would improve the environment and slash journey times for hauliers at the same...

• An opportunist thief stole an Iveco Ford Cargo outside a shop as the driver was inside for a couple of minutes buying a can...

contracts: one with sugar manufacturer Tate & Lyle; the other with Fina.

2000 in Hanover, GeoLogistics Expo Services has also been appointed on-site forwarder for the Berlin Fairground starting...

contract as one of the two core transport companies operating out of Shoreham port.

Logistics' fleet vehicle refurbishing business as part of a threeyear venture.

Hull-based frozen-food distributor Albert Baxter has taken delivery of a trailer from Gray & Adams, the first to be supplied...

20 Schmitz Cargobull SK02 reefer trailers fitted with moveable bulkheads and disc brakes to its 230-strong fleet of trailers....

Detroit Diesel Corporation announced record profits of $12.0 million (£7.811 million) for the second quarter of this year-24%...

an expanding Midlands firm in a deal worth £750,000. Newton Vehicle Rentals is taking Hiloaders, dropside and 17-seat minibus...

Fast Forward International says it is adding a Shepherd Neame liveried FIA7 curtainsider to prepare for the millennium rush on...

UniDrug Distribution Group is adding 18 Montracon colour impregnated trailers to its fleet. The 16 Scania P114LA 4x2NA sleepers...

200 3.5 tonne multitemperature Volkswagen box vans to Tesco for its Internet home shopping operation. The units are supplied in...

• by Peter Lawton The largest car transporters in the UK are entering service with Mainland Car Deliveries. Designed by...

• Wessex Group of Hampshire believes that its Fassi F600-24 crane is the first to be fitted on to a trailer. The crane replaces...

• by Bryan Jarvis Eddie Stobaft, the UK haulage specialist, has moved into temperature controlled distribution with an...

• A new one-person refuse collector and compactor designed by Schmidt UK and TransTrend is based on the Volkswagen 1146. With...

• Citroen is offering a series of cashback deals on its vans in the Monkey Business promotion. Buyers can get half a monkey...

The first UK vehicle to use Allison's new automatic transmission for light trucks has begun to earn its keep but, before it...

CM was allowed to put the truck through its paces before it entered service. From its home at Feitham, we jumped straight in at...

IM by Toby Clark lveco Ford says customer relations don't end with selling the truck—and a positive relationship with the...

Modern trucks are an assembly of dozens of systems, both mechanical and (increasingly) electronic. It's a formidable task to...

A Chester haulage company, whose vehicles were said to have been putting the safety of other road users at risk because of its...

Welsh IC David Dixon has revoked the licence held by Clive and Keith Griffiths, trading as Griffiths Bros. of Pentre Halkyn....

Walkers Transport (Turriff) has been given a warning about the consequences if further convictions are recorded against the...

Though deciding not to take action against the licence held by JB Currie & Son, of Peebles, Scottish TO Michael Betts has...

Merseyside owner-driver Robert Ashley was fined £25 with g5 costs, after admitting 52 oftences of failing to produce tachograph...

David Roadnight, who trades as Roadnight Haulage, has beaten off a three-way challenge to win the right to use a site as his...

Drivers' hours offences have cost a driver employed by Bolton-based Gresham Bennett £780 in fines and costs. Alan Gibson...

• An owner-driver who gained up to 45 minutes a day by falsifying his tachograph record was fined .23,000 by Wrexham...

Michael Betts, the Scottish Traffic Commissioner revoked the licence held by Stuart Gibson, trading as Gibson Road Services, of...

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This letter has been sent to Prime Minister Tony Clair from the Transport Association. • The Transport Association, which has...

This letter has been sent by new transport minister Gus MacDonald to the director general of the Freight Transport Association,...

Earlier this summer, the Hawk and Foden the dog, had, as the song says, a "perfect day", when they took an excursion to witness...

As a lad the Hawk liked nothing better than a game of footer down at the local park. Today as he is not so nifty on the old...

An Irish motorist has found that there is a steep price to pay for living in today's throw-away society. Quite rightly too. An...

Proving that safety at work isn't a mug's game Phil Chell (left) and Andy Guest (right) raise their tankards to toast their...

the world of Grand Prix racing consisted mainly of small British manufacturers who bought in engines and other major components...

• PETER BRUCE of Rosman Transport called In at the BP truckstop at Crick in his Volvo F1112 420 drawbar on his way up country...

a price-conscious market few manufacturers have been prepared to upgrade security systems beyond the most basic, and...

left for 40 years, says one expert. And long before the oil wells are squeezed dry, fuel prices will rocket as demand exceeds...

an interesting history to relate which is a reflection of how road haulage has developed over the years. And the next couple of...

SAIF When an HGV crashes, it is often big news. But risks are not restricted to the roads. It is vital hauliers adhere to...

extortionate fuel hills and VED, they do seem to have a case. But could the industry make it easier on itself by improving its...

to help retain future business. It is a strategy that has proved successful, so has the operator's own workshop got a future?...

Hauliers are being asked to become unpaid tax collectors once again as self-assessment now extends to corporation tax. W atch...

• We operate a two-axied tractor which was upplated from 32 tonnes to 38 tonnes before we bought It, though we have always used...

• There has been a lot in the trade press recently about HGV drivers from Romania and other Eastern European countries. I have...