by Amanda Bradbury and Karen Miles • NFC is warning of large-scale redundancies in managerial staff following a cost-cutting...

IM pounding move by Nicky Clarke • Transport Secretary John MacGregor has rejected industry calls to introduce impounding of...

• A local authority operator has shortlisted two top waste hauliers in its bid to win one of the biggest rubbish disposal...

over speed limiter tests • Britain needs a "sound multimodal transport policy to ensure maximum mobility", United Road...

by Juliet Parish • The campaign to make hauliers pay for permits to use London during the night and weekends is gathering...

• A truckstop proprietor who has spent five months barricaded in his own roadside cafe, in protest at planners' moves to shut...

• Leyland Daf will restore its UK dealers to pre-receivership levels by the end of October, says managing director David Gill:...

• A working party is drawing up training plans and pricing structures for companies to escort abnormal loads, bringing the...

• Leyland Daf will launch lowemission Euro-2 engines for its 65, 75, 85 and 95 trucks next month—two years ahead of the legal...

• Agreement is inuninent over the future of the Bedford brand Marshall SPV is negotiating with General Motors over control of...

• Walkers Smiths Snack Foods is operating five close-coupled drawbars that take two 8m bodies within the 18m overall limit....

• Leyland Daf Vans has launched a tipper version of its 400 model for builders and municipal buyers. The 3.5-tonner is...

• Fruit and vegetable distributor John Sharrock of Preston has used a lifting/pusher axle to increase the payload of its new...

• Total Oil Great Britain is to equip its 85 tankers with £750,000 worth of on-board computers and radio communication gear...

• Perkins has demonstrated that its Eagle 400Tx, fitted with a Retro Super VES exhaust brake meets the ADR endurance braking...

by Brian Weatherley • Commercial Motor has had an exclusive preview of Mannesman Kienzle's revolutionary Integrated Driver...

We have assessed the technology in the company's 1735 Mercedes-Benz demonstrator tractor. With the 1735 running solo the...

by Karen Miles • Directors from TNT last week made light of the massive losses being sustained by the Austrailian group and...

• Bi-modal rail agent Allied Continental Intermodal is to publicise its tariffs for hauliers and road and sea freight forwarder...

• Directors of Roadexpress, the Coventry-based courier which called in the administrator earlier this month, have withdrawn...

• Cement giant Blue Circle's next financial results will be boosted to the tune of millions of pounds by its latest round of...

by Nicky Clarke • P&O European Transport Services plans to expand its distribution arm by over the coming months with an...

• The founder of County Wexford-based Nolan Transport has been bound over to keep the peace for two years for assaulting a...

by Colin Sowman • Last weekend 300 ERFs from number 1 to the latest EC range assembled at Oulton Park race track. Despite heavy...

We refer to the Commission's "informal proposal" to amend its own directive on truck speed limiters, allowing them to be...

• A Crown Court judge has described as "manifestly excessive" overloading fines of £20,000 imposed by Lytham Magistrates on a...

1 • Unsatisfactory maintenance led North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Homer to cut by three years the...

II Stoke on Trent truck driver Norman Coventry has appeared in court on falsification of tachograph chart charges and with...

• A series of convictions has led to the authorisation on the licence held by Newton Stewart haulier Robert Wallace being...

Wallace Transport of Kirkinner, Newton Stewart, had been called before Scottish Licensing Authority Michael Betts in the light...

• Disciplinary proceedings involving Tonyrefailbased Ronald Latcham have been adjourned for a month while the operator decides...

by Amanda Bradbury • Last week's announcement that road/rail operators look set to use 44-tanners throughout the UK to trunk to...

an attempt on the land-speed record for a truck at Elvington Airfield near York. The attempt on 2-3 October will include...

I operate several tipper lorries on road works. They are plated for 24 and 30 tonnes and are used mainly on motorway...

DRUG mistreated child, afraid to accept affection, he fished for more information as to why a journalist he'd never heard of...

that you come to expect everything, there should be a product to suit your particular needs, no matter how unusual those needs...

maximum braked trailer weight of 3,500kg relies on a perfectly balanced trailer—travel at varying speeds or on rough ground...

I t's customary to start road tests with a cliche, so here we go: familiarity breeds contempt. But this cliché is all too true...

17 Eastbourne Council binmen who successfully persuaded an industrial tribunal to reconsider their dismissal in favour of a...

I n CV/19-25 August you refer to "the wrong kind of snow" as an implausible excuse by BR As the quality of snow in question has...

it is appalling PR' 4 ne of the few occasions that members of the public see live farm animals is during transport. This time...