• We should all think ourselves lucky. We don't live in a Police state despite what some people say. But judging by the...

• An acid leak from a truck, which last week put five into hospital and caused a six kilometre jam at the Dartford Tunnel, has...

• The future is looking brighter for British truckers marooned in the Middle East after Saddam Hussein's takeover of Kuwait....

• Troubled Telehoist is closing its Cheltenham plant and moving production in with the hydraulic division of parent Warwick...

• A group of Midland tipper operators, set up to fight for better rates from quarry companies, has plans to go national. The...

• Truck drivers are facing huge hold-ups near the German-Austrian border following a weekend decision by two regional...

• Omni European Van Line, the consortium of 24 removals firms, has folded due to lack of cohesion between members. The group...

• The end of the Cold War could lead to improvements in in-cab technology, as arms manufacturers aim at new markets for...

• Veteran prizewinner Barry Jackson, owner of a T-reg Volvo, was pipped into second place for CM's best kept working truck...

• A Gloucester haulage boss and his two sons who forced a Bristol company director into a car boot and then a lorry trailer...

• Grandfather rights for drivers of large buses which are not carrying fare-paying passengers are to continue, the Minister for...

• Fibreglass component manufacturer Hatcher Components is offering bodybuilders an aerodynamic body styling kit, designed for...

• Three tri-axle CO2 tank trailers are being built by Ryland Tankers for its customer Imperial Tankers of Billingham. The...

• Southfields of Loughborough is unveiling a slidingdoor box van and the first of a new range of Comet drawbar trailers at the...

• British tanker manufacturers this week begin a series of meetings which they hope will lead to Europe-wide acceptance of a...

• Chassis builder M&G Tankers and Trailers and Italian tanker body manufacturer Omep have agreed to sell each others'...

• Grau comes to the Motor Show with a new trailer antilock braking system called Modal. Grau says it is interchangeable with...

• Despite the depressed market conditions which caused it to drop out of next month's Birmingham Motor Show, Eveco Ford remains...

• Volvo is exhibiting three fire tenders at this week's Fire 90 exhibition and conference — each of which, according to the...

• The first Foden I 7-tonne 4m . ' capacity mixer has been snapped up by Northumbria Mini-Mix based in Northumberland. It was...

• AWD Trucks has put three TL 17-18 17-tonners into service at London Heathrow fitted with scissor lifts for the catering firm,...

• Carrier refrigeration units have been specified by Gateway for nine of its trailers.. Carrier's north west distributor, CB...

• Containerlift of Dunmow, Essex, is the European agent for the Steelbro Sidelift, a demountable box aimed at companies in the...

• Securicor's poll tax collection service has won its first contract. The one-year Community Link contract with Dacorum...

• Nine European garment distributors have joined forces to form Euro Fashion Logistics, a pan-European client exchange...

• Trailmaster Trailers, part of the Crane Holdings group which went into receivership last June, has been bought by a team of...

• Bristol-based operator Peter Lane Transport has won a number of new contracts, including one with Body Shop International to...

• Swift Transport Services has clinched a three-year contract with Unipart for overnight parts distribution to more than 300...

• Midlands-based parcels company Panic Link is looking for a further 40 franchises to complete its nationwide network — and it...

• BRS has completed a 13.8m vehicle replacement programme for its rental fleet — the majority of which will go to the Midlands...

• Staff and management at Scottish Citylink have been named as "preferred bidders" for the company. The sale of Citylink is...

• Whitehall Investments of Delaware has become the first US firm to buy a significant stake in the UK PSV industry with the...

• A narrow majority of drivers at Go-Ahead Northern voted in a secret ballot to accept local pay and conditions changes in a...

• Dublin Bus starts to take delivery of 45 Leyland Olympians double deckers this week. This is part of a replacement programme...

• London Transport is setting up an action team to work with police and councils to devise bus schemes for London's traffic...

• Four new Mercedes 811Ds, the first for Plymouth Citybus, are going into service as the first replacements for the company's...

• South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is one of the first transport authorities to fall victim to poll tax capping...

• A low-floor aluminiumframed midibus body, which will be launched in October, is being developed by Reeve Burgess for the...

• The three York bus operations acquired by Rider Holdings last month are set for a major revamp under Rider (York), a company...

• A fleet of eight East Lancashire-bodied Scania 113s have joined Kingston upon Hull City Transport to increase its...

• Failure to pay a driver a week's wages was a matter for the county court a Birmingham industrial tribunal ruled. It said it...

• A truck operator based in Bedfordshire has • e appeared at dis ciplinary proceedings before Eastern Deputy Licensing...

• Scots haulier Thomas Lithgow Jackson was ordered to pay 1,341.65 in fines, costs and back duty, when he appeared before...

failing to display a PSV licence identity disc cost Phylis Woodend, trading as Uiswick Airport Services, £250 in fines and...

• Aboynebased haulier Adam B Middler has been ordered to pay £2,275 compensation for unfair dismissal to a driver he sacked...

in A poor maintenance record, and convictions for drivers' hours and other offences, has led to the PSV licence of Westbourne...

• Anyone who has ever met the colourful head of the Transport and General Workers' Union's road transport division Jack Ashwell...

• Approach high street banks about setting up in business and you will get a warm welcome, but it can start to get a . little...

• Back in 1957, Harold MacMillan was sure of one thing: most post-war Britons had "never had it so good." But 33 years on, the...

formance and economy at 38 tonnes. The Scania, therefore, not only takes on Continental rivals, like the Volvo and Merc's...

CRISP • The introduction of cabotage on 1 July was not greeted with much enthusiasm from Northern Ireland hauliers. They had...

1 • One haulier has scooped 60% of the Republic of Ireland car parts distribution business and has become one of the first...

• "The English and the Irish are very much alike, except that the Irish are more so," said James Dunne during the Irish...

TO EUROPE? • At less than 3,000 new units sold each year, the market for commercial vehicles above 3.5 tonnes in the Republic...

• ADT Auctions has clinched an exclusive sale of Royal Mail Parcel Force vehicles and associated equipment. The sale — which...

• World Champion truck puller Jamie Reeves, who also holds the World's Strongest Man title, pulls a fully-loaded car...

• A fall in the number of vehicles coming up for auction from major haulage fleets has been offset by an increase in throughput...