• A new three-lane section of the Al 3 has been opened between Dagenham and the M25, connecting J30 of the M25 with the London...

fuel duty rises is being set up by Road Haulage Association national chairman John Bridge. He invites trade organisations to...

• Only 6°i, of Freight Transport Association members increased their domestic road freight business in the third quarter of...

• Animal rights activists attacked four trucks at a meat market in Brighton last week, in what is feared to be the start of a...

by Miles Brignall • A Tibbett & Britten ware. house supervisor stole £500,000 worth of Mars bars by programming robots to put...

• Thirty skip and haulage companies have staged a four-hour blockade of a Cornish landfill site protesting about its owner's...

by Charles Young • European Transport Corn. missioner Neil Kinnock has thrown his weight behind the UK haulage industry's...

• South Yorkshire traffic police are warning hauliers who regularly use Woodall Services on the Ml to stop parking on the hard...

LIONS LED BY DONKEYS R emember the old childhood game where somebody blindfolded you and you had to try and stick the tail...

by David Craik • Harrogate-based haulier Manton Transport has been awarded more than £15,000 in damages against North Yorkshire...

• A Cork County Council official has been sacked and is being questioned by Irish police after a driving licence scam was...

• A Welsh haulier has slammed French police and Customs officials after 11 illegal immigrants were discovered in one of his...

Tyre has won Commercial Motor's Livery of the Year award for 1998. The awards, sponsored by Sigma Coatings, were presented...

• In our issue of 29th October we printed an unsigned letter which made a series of criticisms of Steven Norris, the Director...

will 'sink firms ' Worn-out tyre disposal could cost £7.50 each by David Craik • Dozens of Kent hauliers fear their...

• Hauliers should be ready to pay voluntary charges of at least L7.50 to tyre suppliers for every worn-out truck tyre casing...

• Cheshire Fire Brigade has completed trials of its two 11,000-litre foam fire tenders. The ERE EC8s will be stationed at...

by David Craik • Cumbria police are putting pressure on two BP truckstops to improve their security after loads worth £250,000...

• The Freight Transport Association is urging hauliers to show the public that they are working hard to reduce the effect their...

• Two Es:_s-ex drivers have been jailed for their part in smuggling cannabis with a street value of Robert Diss, of Kingsdown...

• Within the next two weeks livestock and refrigerated hauliers should receive notice that the European Union ban on British...

by Miles Brignall • The Home Office plans to withdraw police escorts of abnormal loads on motorways and dual carriageways in...

• An Essex-based haulier is baffled by Leyland Daf Truck Finance's rejection of a lease application for one of Dafs own drawbar...

• Steve Bryant, the British lorry driver imprisoned in Morocco, has been rebuffed by the United Nations after appealing to its...

• Truck sales are still growing, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Last...

• Ed Weetman of Great Haywood in Staffordshire has become the first customer in Britain for Volvo's new FM. Weetman's two FM380...

• Three new Renault Kerax rigid tippers, all equipped with Telma retarders, have been purchased by Smith Plant of Stonehouse,...

• Paden is offering tractive units ready for January's Al -tonne legislation, with a mid - lift 6x2 and a 6x4 variant of the...

• A Perthshire haulier's holiday idea for truck and trailer wheel spray control has been "highly commended" at last month's...

The launch of Vauxhall's new entry in the 2.83.5-tonne van sector heralds the company's return as a serious contender in the...

• Vauxhall, with its Opel cousin on the Continent, has been without a full range of vans since the demise of the Bedford CF in...

• Sam Malpas, Cheshirebased operator J1 - I Butler & Sons has developed a range of skips for Multi Lift HL5 hook-lift vehicles...

by Bill Brock • A two-level, open-frame, foldflat, ISO container known as Car-Rae could revolutionise the global car...

It's not every day that ERF launches new models—and its latest Turkish-built EP range is bound to make UK operators sit up and...

• Willenhallbased LDS Haulage has been granted a onevehicle/one-trailer licence at a Birmingham public inquiry. The application...

• Once the spotlight is on an operator, it is not switched off until the operator is getting everything right, North Western...

• Bolton haulier Graham McGlynn was arrested and bailed to appear before Bolton magistrates later this month after he failed to...

1 • The two-vehicle licence held by Neath-based Thomas Kelly, trading as Kelly Plant Hire and . Transport, was revoked when he...

• A Gwent operator, who admit ted operating without a licence for more than 12 months, has been granted a licence at a Cardiff...

brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products, training, company moves, personnel changes, truck thefts,...

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial N1u,..F . ? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the...

A report in the national papers on 4 November 1998 reported an accident in Exeter, Devon, when a car driver jumped a red light,...

urther to your article on batteries (CM 29 October-4 November) we would state that battery failures have been discussed by a...

A s you will be aware there has been much publicity regarding a particular Scania truck that for various technical reasons was...

I am the person who I won the G290 Renault tractor unit in 1988. After 10 years I wonder if any of your readers have any idea...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent. lir.? R:Irsk, steps off his perch to take a humorous...

13 o what does happen at the end of Titanic? No, don't tell me, you'll spoil it; I'll get the video. Luckily there are plenty...

hen it comes to staying power, Dick Bolton from Lincolnshire, together with his 1 962 Triumph Courier van, proved they've got...

ID hese men in yellow certainly know how to shift it, but when they want something shifted, it is to freight booking...

Having been involved with the compilation of the Haulage Handbook over the past year I can strongly recommend that as a serious...

Inspired by US sales of well over a million vehicles a year, pickup manufacturers are pouring new models onto the UK market....

or a flowering shrub, spare a thought for Foulger Transport, because your latest acquisition was probably delivered to the...

STANDARD BEAR RS After a hard-fought industry campaign led by Commercial Motor, the DSA's voluntary register for driving...

If tales of driver shortages and declining numbers of test candidates make you think about becoming a professional truck...

Operators hauling hazardous goods must soon appoint a dangerous goods safety adviser to meet new ADR obligations. With the...

is likely to suffer more than most. In tact, it could not be arriving at a worse time. ,Guy Sheppard reports on the countdown...

T he Transport White Paper, published in July, restated the Government's intention to continue to use real increases in fuel...