If the road transport industry gave the Conservative Party a ringing endorsement in any way in the election last May, it was...

By Andy Salter and the CM team PLANS FOR A new Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC), which will see foreign trucks charged up to £9...

Stuart Laight – Aspray 24 MD: “A LRUC could level the playing field for UK operators to some degree. The issue of...

By Roger Brown ONE OF SCOTLAND’S best known haulage operators, Yuill & Dodds, has posted pre-tax losses of more than one...

A NEW TRANSPORT consortium, pulling together some of the most well-known names in UK haulage, will be launched this month by...

By Laura Hailstone and Roger Brown TRUCK RENTAL giant Hill Hire has been bought by competitor Ryder Europe for £151m cash....

SOS SKIP HIRE and Haulage has been ined £7,000 after it admitted illegally dumped waste, which could have covered an area the...

FROM NEXT NOVEMBER, truck operators buying new tyres must be given product performance information. The EU ‘Tyre Labelling...

By Joanna Bourke LANCASHIRE BREWER Daniel Thwaites has taken delivery of eight MAN trucks and unveiled a new livery to...

GERMAN CUSTOMS have charged a UK haulier more than £70 in tax for fuel carried in an additional tank and charged his driver...

THE ANNUAL East Coast Truckers (ECT) convoy, the lagship event for the truckers charity of the same name that raises money for...

By Chris Druce COVENTRY-BASED Reason Transport has bought ive new Scanias to meet soaring demand from the pallet side of its...

CHESHIRE-BASED logistics company Suttons Group has struck an £800,000 deal with trailer and body manufacturer Dennison for new...

UNSECURED CREDITORS for F Swain & Son will receive only a tiny fraction of the money they are owed with administrators saying...

By Chris Druce ESSEX-BASED Balin Distribution has switched pallet networks, moving from Palletways to Palletline, after a...

Why it will take a lot to throw Wincanton boss off balance ‘JUDO CHOP!’ exclaimed Austin Powers, International Man of...

By Kevin Swallow HYVA REVEALED its new partnership with chassis manufacturer Scania to provide skip loader bodywork for...

THE FMX CHASSIS cab from Volvo Trucks, launched last year, was clearly the chassis cab of choice at Tip-Ex 2011. There where...

SDC TRAILERS has built a moving-loor trailer for Stobart Biomass, part of the Stobart Group, using an aluminium chassis to meet...

By Kevin Swallow LINCOLNSHIRE-BASED trailer manufacturer Martrans introduced its walking-loor trailer, which is aimed at the...

AXLE AND BRAKING system manufacturer BPW has added alloy wheels to its range of products. In partnership with Otto Fuchs it is...

By Kevin Swallow DUNGANNON-BASED body and trailer manufacturer Muldoon launched a lightweight bulk trailer with a new...

BELGIAN TRAILER manufacturer STAS used Tip-Ex 2011 at Harrogate to introduce a fleet-spec movingfloor trailer with a steel...

WISBECH-BASED Priden Engineering brought its blower body, designed for wood chips and wood pellets, to Tip-Ex 2011. The...

supremacy CM meets Eric Born, the man in charge of keeping Wincanton on top of its game Words: Steve Hobson WHEN ERIC BORN...

Wincanton slumped to a £25.9m loss in the period, compared to a £3m pre-tax profit the previous year, highlighting Born’s...

The government has finally announced plans to include a chapter on HGV awareness in the Highway Code – but is it too little,...

A report by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), which was published a decade ago, concluded that the...

Calm down, longer semi trailers are no big deal IT WAS interesting to read in CM of the scare mongering and paranoia emanating...

I READ with interest how Stobart Group’s chief executive Andrew Tinkler is condemning two-for-one deals by the supermarket...

The latest comments on Roadtransport.com Yodel losing £1m per week (CM 2 June) “Ouch. That’s a huge amount of money to...

The haulier managed to secure its application for more trucks and trailers despite objections from residents By Roger Brown...

KPM Haulage expands fleet KPM HAULAGE, based in Ashford, Kent, has been given authorisation for three vehicles and one...

● A PI on 20 June will look at disciplinary action against RCS Commercials based in Crucible Road, Corby, Northants. ● On...

This month: contracts of employment Must the contract of employment be in writing? There is no legal requirement that an...

Words: Adam Hill A new campaign to protect cyclists from lorries is building steam. What can the road transport industry do to...

EU legislation on the use of blind spot mirrors came into force in April 2009 and requires all lorries built since 2000 to be...

For cyclists , collisions with lorries are far more likely to prove fatal than collisions with cars: in 2009, a cyclist was...

Europe plans to introduce a pollution charge on HGVs. But will the money raised really be used to improve road systems? Words:...

German drivers’ unions have lobbied the European Parliament (EP), demanding better air-conditioning in trucks. They sent...

The introduction of a new generation of fraud-proof digital tachographs is the aim of imminent proposals from the EC. The...

Forthcoming changes in the law in association with the Freight Transport Association Northern Ireland O-licensing reform The...

The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011, 29 March 2011 Replacement regulations on the management of waste (including...

Two lorry-driving brothers clutching redundancy cheques, a second-hand Scania 113 and plenty of ambition were the key factors...

A&D Logistics is rightly proud of its smart livery and recently approached Swansea-based replica builders Code 3 Models to...

Trucking technology A recent initiative at A&D Logistics has seen the truck equivalent of ‘Black Boxes’ to their 50-strong...

the East? Truck manufacturers need to watch their backs, as the Chinese up the stakes and set their sights on Europe Words:...

China has both the technical capacity – through joint ventures and R&D – and the production capacity necessary to launch...

But are the Chinese OEMs ready for the global stage? “No,” is the dismissive stance taken by European and North American...

transport CM quizzed four highly regarded women in the road transport industry to ask them how they became so successful...

Title: Chairman, Prestons of Potto Career history: started working for the family business in 1965 out of her mother-in-law’s...

Title: Chairman and chief executive of Pall-Ex Career history: 20 years in various distribution and logistics roles, including...

Title: MD of Isuzu Truck (UK) Career history: aged 40, King took a job as administration manager at a Ford dealership and...

Title: Founder of Sheddick Transport Career history: originally trained as a teacher, Sheddick became involved in the transport...

AP: Overall, being a female in the industry has been more of a help than a hindrance – I get invited to many prestigious...

AP: Always dress well – it always impresses and you will be noticed and remembered. Join an association – it is great for...

Big rigs have always fascinated me. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s in the US, big rigs were often featured in the...

Operators looking to acquire forklifts, container handlers and reach stackers find themselves faced with a bewildering...

Words: Kevin Swallow BORROWING BY operators looking to inance new trucks and vans rose by 32% during the irst quarter of 2011...

THE NATIONAL FRANCHISE Dealer Association (NFDA) is warning dealer councils about concerns regarding a lack of code of conduct...

Cloburn International’s website makes an effective shop window for its used stock, as Webwatch finds out Words: James Clark...

Four competitors are shortlisted for Dealer of the Year at the Motor Transport Awards 2011 Words: Kevin Swallow THE SHORTLIST...