C11/1 INVESTIGATION by Charles Young • Scottish hauliers are losing much-needed contracts to farmers and agricultural...

• A 50-year-old haulage firm has thrown in the towel after refusing to accept what it considered "silly rates" on a major...

• Supermarket firm Sainsbury's has moved its first consignment of Scottish spring water sc. The water travelled to Dagenham...

by Karen Miles • The British Embassy in Bucharest has asked the Home Office if it should continue to issue visas to Romanian...

• Sherwood Commercial Vehicles has taken over Stoke-onTrent Leyland Daf dealer Chatfield Truck which had been in receivership...

• A Leeds haulier wlicise nominated transport manager is serving an eight-year prison sentence for drug smuggling has lost his...

III More than 400 jobs will be lost as a result of 130C Distribution Services' failure to dispose of its business as a going...

L ivestock haulage hasn't had an easy ride over the past few years, as animal rights groups have alerted the world to the...

by Tim Maughan • A Belgian trailer manufacturer warns that trailer builders throughout Europe could go to the wall as German...

by Karen Miles • Slow traffic is to be banned from a stretch of the Al in a pilot scheme on Tyneside. The Highways Agency's...

• A truck passenger died and the driver was injured in o collision with a car in northern Scotland. The passenger, Lawrence...

• TDG has acquired William Spiers, the £2m-turnover automotive parts haulier based at Melksham, Wilts, for an undisclosed sum....

apparently holding out against the toughening economic climate. Only one haulier failed in September in England and Scotland,...

by Karen Miles • Employers in the road transport sector will face driver demands for a minimum wage of £5 an hour in this...

• One of the largest sheep transporters in the country and two of its management team have been ordered to pay fines and costs...

• The Government has published its consultation document on increasing the maximum domestic truck weights to 41 tonnes. Earlier...

• Tipper operators will soon be tendering for the first stage of a national plan to carry 340,000 tonnes of BSE-free cattle...

• The number of accidents caused by reversing vans has increased dramatically, according to an independent study. The findings...

by Charles Young II A London haulier drove a Renault Magnum for more than three years with a camshaft that could have fractured...

• A self-employed driver who used a blown fuse on a tachograph to try to get round driving hours limits has been fined just...

• Exel Logistics' Tankfreight has started moving four bulk tankers between Tilbury and Manchester nightly The trailers sit on...

• Rank Hoy has awarded TDG Nexus the contract to deliver flour from its Manchester mill to Parisian Pizza Hut restaurants. has...

by Bryan Jarvis • Cleansing Services Group has added six new Mercedes-Benz Unimog ECO-Waste Shuttles to its 170-strong fleet....

• Vauxhall's new Astravan is now on sale (CM 3-9 Sept). It comes with two trim levels, Envoy and LS; and three engines: a 1.6i...

• Components firm Albion Automotive has been bought by American Axle & Manufacturing. A company spokesman stresses that the...

• Cycle manufacturer Raleigh has taken delivery of 1 4 semi-trailers from Southfields, all fitted with the latest folding...

CM has had a better chance to drive iveco's latest EuroTech Cursor range with its new eight-litre engine. We're reasonably...

Despite fears of recession, Raven Trailers is targeting its new sliding flatbed machine at the construction market. Steve...

Not so long ago Nino was the only truck maker from the Far East prepared to do battle in the ultra-competitive UK market. Then...

Commercial Motor normally restricts its US truck exhibition coverage to mega-events, such as the Mid-America Show. But it is...

• A haulage firm has had its licence authorisation cut after one of its vehicles missed inspection dates, maintenance records...

III North Western DTC Brian Horner has increased the permitted hours of operation at the Middleton-by-Wirkswort h premises of...

• An owner-driver received a formal warning after collecting four prohibition notices in 12 months. North Western Traffic...

• An owner-driver left his tractor's tachograph head open for a journey to view a caravan he was interested in buying. Tony...

• Difficulties over maintenance led to the one-month suspension of one of the five vehicles on the licence held by...

• Russell Expi Distribution of 6 Govan has had to pay a driver

Eric Thompson told an industrial tribunal in Glasgow that he had agreed to make a delivery, hut had overlooked his girlfriend's...

• Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms has thrown out an application for a new licence by Thetford-based LCA...

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Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial ■ 11 , t , r? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the...

Copy of a letter to John Prescott MP from Andrew Rowe MP: Dear John, I write in connection with an absurd situation, which...

ran someone tell me what the exact legal situation is covering HGV speed limiters, in particular the recent drop to 85km/h?...

R egarding Professor David Rose's comments on truck drivers, I must agree with him—but he was a bit too kind to most truck...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

0 Is good to know that even thievin little so-and-sos have their off-days. A youth in Bacau. Romania was Particularly...

0 f you ever need an ambulance, be greatful it won't by like the horse-drawn bonecrusher pictured here. It was built by...

Two rival delivery firms put aside their petty differences when they joined forces in hot pursuit of a fleetfooted robber....

opposition fr facturers. We set an E s' latest Econic munici centre and normal-st Scania Frontline to se n are spoilt for...

keep the family haulage business one step ahead of the game with a constant stream of new ideas to compete in ever-changing...

Agency was set up two-and-a-half years ago, but ers believe small hauliers who carry waste are being victimised. ? agency too...

The Government is moving towards a national policy for road pricing which is designed to cut congestion. Hauliers know beer...

a sure sign that something's not right. As winter approaches road haulage is facing a crisis: strikes are looming while HGV...

CM as teame yin Donal Armour RECENT AND IMMINENT LEGISLATION The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations...

with travel insurance tax rises. He thinks hauliers are getting a raw deal and, if you agree, Phelan wants to hear from you......