• Hauliers are rejecting the leading driver union's demand for a maximum 10-hour working day for truck drivers—they say it...

at the Royal Mail advice on used trucks • The Trading Standards Institution is supporting an ownerdriver's warning that...

• Ten drivers have been charged under the little-used Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 in a clamp-down by Sussex police on...

by Juliet Parish • Midland union chiefs representing 8,000 drivers are threatening industrial action to force employers to...

• Police are appealing for a truck driver who saved a baby's life after an accident on the M6 to come forward to receive...

by Karen Miles • A wholesale change to the prohibition system looks set to be announced next week with operators likely to...

• As Britain's only roadside truckstop with a swimming pool is earmarked for possible closure, embattled truckstop...

by Steve Sturgess • Cummins has launched the 11litre Mll engine, which is designed to combine the power of the 14-litre N14...

• Marshall Commercial Vehicles of Ipswich, part of the Marshall Motor Group, has been appointed Foden main dealer for...

warranty for ERF EC • An EC12.37 ST 4x2 tractor is the first ERF EC to enter service with the 24-strong Cawley Brothers...

• Royal Mail's Parcelforce is investing nearly £8m in 109 4x2 tractive units and 84 parcel delivery vans (PDVs) as part of...

• Air Products has added eight Seddon Atkinson Strato 1733L 4x2 tractive units to its 100strong fleet for the movement of...

• Volvo's first FL10 6x2 pusher axle tractive unit fitted with Geartronic automatic gear shift has entered service with South...

• Leyland Daf's receivers have had 19 enquiries from international based companies over the past two weeks after putting the...

• Cardiff-based Damdale Enterprises' bid for a five-vehicle/10-trailer licence has been withdrawn at the last moment....

• Overloading, taking insufficient daily rest and the unauthorised use of a vehicle cost a father and son £782 at Rochdale...

• Permitting drivers' hours and tachograph offences has cost Sitfingbourne international haulier Edcrest £2,775 in fines and...

• Ardrossanbased Irvine Movements has been forced to pay ,C2,000 compensation for unfair dismissal to a driver sacked after...

• TI-IF (Rainford) was given a conditional discharge for 12 months after being convicted of overloading offences. Telford...

UK REGISTRATIONS: TRUCKS AND ARTICS OVER 3.5 TONNES by Amanda Bradbury • South-East tipper operators are looking forward to...

• A leafleting campaign is being launched against an Irish haulier which sacked two drivers who wanted their pay negotiated...

by Karen Miles • Hundreds of distribution staff working for William Morrison Supermarket are this week expecting to hear the...

• The negotiating strength of Wincanton staff based at a dedicated Safeway depot has been boosted following ballot results...

• Overnight parcels company Business Post is to increase bonus payments to its 42 UK franchisees to make them equivalent to...

by Brian Weatherley • Just how far can a Traffic Commissioner's decision be challenged? A recent attempt to subpoena the West...

had a sinking feeling after a cashier unwittingly dropped £5,000 into a skip which was then transported to a landfill site and...

to the recovery of his vehicle or a conviction of the thieves. The MAN 17.332 38-tonne 4x2 tractive unit was unhooked From its...

A rguments have raged for a long time as to whether truck driving tests should be conducted on laden vehicles and whether LGV...

clinically clean laboratory hummed with activity as they stretched the limits of technology, attempting to revive the...

Like Parcelforce, its opposite number in the Post Office, it might well be bought by its existing management— but the plot is...

W hether you are fighting for better access to your site or questioning the administration of the Uniform Business Rate,...

T he foundations for privatising LGV and PCV test stations will be laid on 1 September when they become a separate division...

Inspectorate enforcement effort is adequate to needs' g 1 have worked for Department of Transport Central and the Vehicle...