by Karen Miles • Sub-contractors working for Beck and Pollitzer on its contract with Courage are celebrating B&P's decision to...

• Suffolk container haulier CEL Group has taken over neighbouring operator Peterborough Heavy Haulage, promising to restore...

e can't help but wonder how lawabiding hailiers will greet the news that young people with a list of motoring offences are to...

by Karen Miles • Lorry safety looks set to climb the political agenda as Labour MPs press for the issue to be studied by the...

by Guy Sheppard • Parking spaces for lorries take up a bigger area of the UK than Bristol, according to the Council for the...

• Proposals to bring the road transport of radioactive materials formally into line with standards already set for air, sea and...

• Truck dealers bidding to take over truck registration work might be forced to revise their offer after a trade union warning...

by Ian Wylie • Faulty batteries are threatening to spoil the 30th birthday celebrations of Britain's most popular panel van,...

• Britain's first new stretch of commercial canal in 90 years has opened and, in one corner of the country at least, it seems...

by Mike Jewell • Aston Clinton Haulage has had its 0-licence authorisation cut following a conviction for drivers' hours...

security rating in a league table of the most and least vulnerable vehicles. The Home Office has asked the Motor Insurance...

4' Watertight barriers on the vehicle decks of roll-on, roll off ferries will mean longer journeys for hauliers, say the ferry...

• Fern Tankers, one of the UK's largest independent bulk chemical hauliers, has called in administrative receivers after...

Save to service he supermarket chain's Wellingborough centre, due b open in June. The new Aeal will involve BO trucks and runs...

by Juliet Morrison • What began as a protective shield against terrorists may be used to keep vehicles out of Britain's...

9 The European Commission wants to set up a multimillion pound computer link-up between customs authorities to beat fraud. Tax...

• European fuel giants are expected to be among the bidders for 30 motorway service areas which are being sold by the...

• Hauliers are being asked for help to find a missing Yorkshire teenager by carrying posters of her on their trucks. Parents...

II A Warrington-based businesswoman who runs a fleet of five trucks is this week celebrating winning a prestigious business...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has renewed the one-vehicle licence held by Charlotte Cook of Furnace, Argyle but he issued a...

• The use of a vehicle without a current excise licence, and when the tachograph had not been checked in the preceding two...

• Maintenance problems and convictions have led to Kirkcaldy-based Shane Halstead, trading as Central Pallets, being given a...

• A bid for a new five-vehicle national licence by Terence Freeman, of Tallington, Near Stamford, Lincs, has been refused at a...

• No action has been taken against the licence held by Scottish LA Michael Betts has granted Dundee-based CJ Lang & Son a...

• Vehicles operated by Fast Forward Transport Services of Timperley, Altrincham, were repossessed by owners John Dee after...

• A director of Okt Middlesbrough based Group Vale has been cleared of using a semi trailer with dangerous parts. Les...

0 A Manchester industrial tribunal has decided that A Aplin Transport was entitled to sack a driver for claiming expenses he...

IN Convictions and a poor maintenance record led Junction Transport Services (St Helens) to disciplinary proceedings before...

• Concrete mixer ellicle operator David Anderson, trading as Spotmix RMC, has been given an absolute discharge on three...

by Bryan Jarvis • Andover-based RoHill Bodies has introduced a drop-frame conversion for 3.5-tonne chassis cabs. The...

• Seddon Atkinson is moving to high-tensile steel chassis side-members and can spray them in any one of 9,000 colours on-line....

• Truck operators should not face higher fuel bills because of emission legislation, says Mike Monaghan, technical director of...

EXCLUSIVE by John Kendall • Diesel engines might have much lower emissions than their petrol counterparts, but elderly...

The long awaited Bulldog range, said by LDV to be a 'dramatic transformation of the 200 and 400 series', will benefit from...

by Guy Sheppard Beware any truck with a flashing light—in future it could mean the driver has been too long at the wheel....

• Pain aux Raisins, salami/mortadella and walnut bread are all part of the fare at Granada's first Continental-style coffee...

• Truck drivers are less likely to be victims of "road rage" because other motorists are frightened to pick fights with big...

• While cutting back on the nation's roadbuilding programme the Department of Transport is nevertheless giving itself a new...

• Drivers fond of using company mobile phones for private calls should make sure their managers don't see a new report from...

• Tired of being an Isringhausen-chair football fan ? Want to get back on the playing field yourself ? Look no further than...

Tn your 30 March issue Andrew Thomas, a Welsh owner-driver expressed concern about Brake's efforts through Parliament to...

3 all me old-fashioned but. in my day young folk got married and spent a twoweek honeymoon in a romantic hideaway such as...

isitors to the RAF/Ministry of Defence firefighters reunion at Shoreham's D-Day Museum on 15 May will see this 1950s RAF fire...

F ollowing the introduction of plans to relax the current restrictions on gambling, word reaches the Hawk that we could soon be...

No one likes owing money but if you've borrowed from your bank to expand your business and find you can afford to repay early,...

Artic operators have been forced to run with ABS for some time. Now the legislators have rigid vehicles in their sights. Does...

from tailpipe emissions to include drive-by noise. The EL; has legislated to restrict the total noise made by new trucks, and...

replace the tyre valve caps. Each sensor contains a mechanical pressure switch and a transmitter which sends a signal to a...

• It is now known that a force of 22 tonnes is needed between wheel and hub to be sure of keeping wheels tight on LGVs and...

from leaving the wheel after a blow-out. It can be retrofitted by Iveco Ford dealers. The Tyron band is a steel ring that fills...

T he imposition of new vignette road taxes in half a dozen European countries threatens to push some UK hauliers out of...

A busy reefer factory at Harelaw, near Consett, is impressing British and Irish operators as well as its German owners. We...

4 riving a 15-hour day once a week might be a reasonable thing to do, but three times in the same week is just plain...