West Yorkshire lorry driver Ian Lowe has been sentenced to 10 years in a Moroccan jail after pleading guilty to attempting to...

NFC, the international logistics and moving services group, has bought the Xpress Group, which supplies wheel and tyre assembly...

The latest Government figures show there are now 1,000 road haulage and distribution modern apprentices in the UK-20% of them...

Renault has won a contract worth more than £870,000 to supply the Vehicle Inspectorate with 43 new Master vans for use on...

Councillors in Talgarth, Wales, have urged the Welsh Office to reconsider plans for a bypass because a series of HGVs have...

A search has been launched for transport driver Darren Stoner of Arnbleside, who went missing after his employer was fined £500...

Seventeen drivers' jobs have been lost at St Helens-based Suttons Distribution, following the failure of rates review talks...

A bill to ban the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving was introduced in the House of Lords last week by Lord Davies of...

• The future of Norbert Dentressangle's UK fleet should be clarified this week when the French haulier reveals whether it will...

• UK hastens have changed the date of their "do or die" demonstration on the M25 to 18 May—followed by a show of strength to...

• by Karen Miles The first hint of financial help for hauliers emerged this week, as Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott...

• Animal rights activists have admitted planting the firebomb that destroyed two tractive units belonging to an Exeter-based...

• Aviemore timber haulier Donald Watt, who runs 34 HGVs, is leaving the industry in June after 15 years because he has never...

• by Tim Maughan Tachograph and drivers hours violations more than doubled last year, according to a Vehicle Inspectorate...

Missing link... This week we got a phone call from a trade association asking us what our position was on the planned day of...

• Hauliers are about to challenge the Government's punishing levels of Vehicle Excise Duty in the High Court. Next week...

• by Karen Miles Transport managers are being urged to take on their bosses if they are being forced to work longer than 48...

A truck driver who stole a 141.000 trailer from a • A Shropshire truck driver has been given a suspended 10month prison...

company he claimed owed him thousands of pounds in back pay has had his 18-month prison sentence cut by a third by London's...

• Sales of new trucks and artics are at the same level as last year, according to figures from the Society of Motor...

• Trucks are facing severe delays at the Frejus Tunnel. Drivers are blockading the tunnel to protest against the French...

by David Craik Truckers have been promised the chance to tell the Government face to face what they think of plans to fine...

• Hay Po)ock, the freight forwarding and logistics subsidary of Nlghtfreight, has bought Bowler International Freight for...

ea A Liverpool firm has been charged under the Health & Safety Act following the death of a truck driver at its West Bromwich...

• by Karen Miles Trucks bearing the distinctive blue and yellow livery of Wilt Betz are becoming a familiar sight in the...

1(0 by 1600,000 • by Peter Lawton Tesco is to cut its Vehicle Excise Duty by £600,000 a year by putting into service 600 new...

• Iveco promises no fewer than 3,000 variants of the Daily City, which was launched this week. The range includes vans of...

• Fifty new Volvo FM12 tractors are taking to the road with Freightliner in the first phase of an £8m deal. The intermodal...

• The first King Trailers rigid beavertail has gone into operation with the Luton-based haulier T&,M Doherty. The beavertail...

Ford's much heralded Ranger pickup goes on sale here on To June: CM has now driven the newcomer in its final UK...

II As in many countries, including our own, the nature of Thailand's vehicle pare is dictated by its fiscal peculiarities. As...

• by Colin Barnett In a Budget largely free of pleasant surprises, one of the Few pieces of good news was the doubling of the...

+ Most chassis manufacturers are still considering their strategies, but the majority offer either Eminox or Wasey kits for...

Consideration of disciplinary action against AP&N Christopher Rant Hire has been adjourned for a month. The Tonyrefail,...

1 Neighbours failed 3 to block a bid by Mason Potatoes to move its operating centre for 10 vehicles and four trailers from...

It bid by Leslie Marshall. trading as Marshall Bulk Services, of Castle Douglas, for a new international 0-licence for three...

the licence and community authorisations held by Letham. Angus-based Express Freight (Scotland) being suspended for two weeks....

authorisation an the licence held by Spalding-based Hargrave International Transport being cut from 85 to 60 vehicles. The...

Two vehicles have been suspended for two weeks from Carshalton, Surrey-based Highways Surfacing's licence because of breaches...

A bid for a new 10-vehicle , ' two-trailer national licence for Cheslyn Hay-based Wilkes Distribution Services has been turned...

The Transport Tribunal has quashed the revocation of the Operator's Licence held by Lai Hussain and Mohammed Arshad, saying...

A North Wales owner-driver who used a pin to draw traces on his tachograph charts has been ordered to pay .81,000 in fines and...

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John Prescott's performance at the FTA dinner owed more to a Nuremburg Rally than the quaint charm of the Hilton Hotel. His...

I have been employed as an engineer in the transport Industry for most of my working life, both in passenger transport and road...

I read your report, "150 jobs are lost as Plane goes down" with a great deal of interest. We air-freight hauliers have been...

Please find enclosed a newspaper clipping from the Daily Nation regarding the fuel tax in Jamaica. At least the Jamaican...

and our correspondent The Hawk takes a sideways look at road haulage. If you have suitable tales, charitable works, or quirky...

Angistora Vertiego Is not popular at Kildare County Council. That is because the council's IRE45m plan to solve one of...

Michelin Man has joined the Jet set. To celebrate Its centenary, Michelin built four 15-storey hot air balloons, one of which...

For the most part the Hawk is an even tempered old bird—there's not much that can ruffle his feathers. But when he heard that...

' PRICE AS TESTED: £20,528 (ex-VAT). Includes £17,528 for the basic vehicle; £1,064 for ABS/ETC; £847 for air conditioning;...

their destination on time and in one piece. Tim Maughan paid a visit to London-based Art Move, a specialist art transport firm...

potential lifeline to operators struggling to survive. But how easy is it to break into this sector—and what are the pitfalls?...

Steve Banner reports on Freightliner's latest expansion programme in which award-winning Overlander trailers are playing a...

In this, the second part of our survey of the issues surrounding the fuel you depend on, Steve McQueen reviews what rules...

SHARPS To help you pick the product that best meets your needs, we have collated the industry's most comprehensive survey on...

Fuel cards in their current form could soon be a thing of the past. Oil companies are exploring ways of developing smart...

heater was an undreamed of luxury—goodness knows what those pioneer hauliers would have made of night heaters, let alone the...

There are more than 25 million cars in the UK and, like any load, cars have to be moved from the factory floor to the customer....

haulage will follow the same gloomy path as the UK truck manufacturing industry... • if you want to sound off about a road...