• It's official — road hauliers want cowboy operators to have their trucks impounded. So why isn'thit happening? Commercial...

unhurt when their Daimler ran into the wreckage of a crash on the M56 near Warrington, Cheshire last week.

• The UK has won its battle for a simpler VAT system dealing with "triangular" transactions where three EC members are involved...

• Parcelforce has recorded a £21m loss for the six month to September — clawing back from £27m lost during the same period last...

• A new transport task force, comprising Confederation of British Industry members is calling for "urgent action" to ease...

• Transporters of hazardous cargoes have faced doubling of premiums as the insurance industy tries to recover losses sustained...

• Westminster council in London has set up an "eco-vigilante" hotline and is urging residents in the borough to "shop" lorries...

• Amber Transport of Brighton has called in the receiver.

• UK hauliers want police and enforcement agencies to be empowered to impound trucks they find running without tax discs or...

• Notts police are appealing to truck drivers to help them unravel the mystery surrounding an HGV driver's murder, which...

• Lancashire owner-driver Clive Eccles claims he is the target of a vendetta designed to wreck the business he set up this...

• Police are warning hauliers involved in the livestock trade to be extra vigilant following a firebomb attack on a...

• A trailer and load worth over £50,000 became too hot for thieves to handle when news of its disappearance appeared in CM's...

• Fears over the introduction of private sector escorts for abnormal loads have prompted the Heavy Transport Association to...

• Hauliers face fuel price increases averaging £600 per truck when a European carbon tax is introduced, rising to £2,000 a year...

been banned from driving in Britain for two years and fined £1,250 after being convicted by West Midlands magistrates for being...

been awarded a Zlm contract to supply the north London borough of Harrow with 11 refuse units based on Leyland Daf Freighter...

Parliament that road tolls could force small hauliers out of business in his Middlewich constituency.

six of its European reefer businesses under the name TDG Temperature Dirigee (TDG Temperature Controlled).

compensation for a faulty Bandvulk remould tyre after a battle lasting almost four years.

rental firm, announced a 10.2% fall in pre-tax profits to £.35.2m in the six months to 31 October 1992, compared with the same...

threatened strike by 37 employees on a local authority refuse collection contract with a last-minute pay deal worth more than...

• A haulier is offering a £5,000 reward for the capture of thieves who raided his premises twice within six weeks, leaving him...

• Garry Turvey is to retire as director-general of the Freight Transport Association on his 59th birthday; three years before...

• Swift Transport Services has won a one-year/21m contract with Fiat Lubricants, after beating off competition from TDG company...

With the 75 and 85 Series Leyland Daf reckons it has a range of products that will win sales from traditional hauliers and big...

by Bryan Jarvis IN West Country heavy haulier Dunkerley Transport has invested over £100,000 in the first top-powered MAN F90...

• Farmer and haulier Denis Reynolds has been warned that if he has been keeping vehicles at his farm without authority he is...

• The unauthorised use of vehicles and other offences has cost Ian OsborneShaw, trading as Sussex Tipper Services, £3,100 in...

II Corby ownerdriver John Whyte was "put on probation" by Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd when he appeared...

• W Maher & Sons of Manchester has been ordered to pay 0,597 compensation for unfair dismissal to driver Frank Cunnion. The...

• The inter national licence held by Nigel Butler, trading as Mars & Butler, of Luton, was suspended after his nominated...

• Thomas Maxted Removals and Storage of Manchester has been ordered to repay E35O, said by an industrial tribunal to have been...

• Two vehicles have been suspended for six weeks from the licence held by Ian and Noel Loukes, trading as Lottkes Haulage of...

• Maintenance problems led North Eastern DTC Brian Horner to direct that Ingleton-based Douglas Taylor's licence should expire...

• Allegations that Preston haulier DA Hesketh, and driver Richard Jacques had used a vehicle with an insecure load were dropped...

• NFC is to use subcontractors for more of its less-than-12month distribution contracts. It wants to free more resources to...

• ERF has turned in a half-year pre-tax loss of £2.7m — compared with a profit of £330,000 for the same period in 1991 — after...

• Christian Salvesen's distribution arm Comtrans has won a 12-month contract to deliver cable TV equipment for General...

▪ P&O Roadtanks started a £3.5m/five-year contract for Kuwait Petroleum products on 1 December, delivering to its retail...

• Lucas Industries in Birmingham is carrying out an urgent review of its £500,000-a-year UK parcels movement costs. It plans to...

• Two former Nexus managers, Andy Cowie and Sandy Walker, have bought the air cargo trucking business from parent Transport...

• Stoke-based Staffordshire Tippers went into voluntary liquidation last Thursday with debts of £367,000. The firm, formed...

/ The European Commission's Internal Market Directorate (DG3) has issued draft directives for bus and coach construction which...

with Enterprise / Norfolk Trading Standards has invested £135,000 in a weighbridge test-rig to service the high-capacity...

/ Italian bodybuilder Alkom Alluminio of Arcoli near Verona is looking for UK agents for its folding-body/roof-sealing Cover...

ten 13.6m curtainsiders with self-supporting/lifting roofs from Transport Enterprises of Leicester. The roof system allows...

• Containerlift of Dunmow, Essex is offering the services of its latest drop-deck Sidelifter semi-trailer for use with...

• Telford-based Norteck Bodies has produced the first of a new range of lightweight, bolt-on curtainsider bodywork systems that...

• Encouraged by the interest shown in one-man-operated gulley emptiers by municipal authorities, Whale Tankers has uprated its...

• Vauxhall Motors has invested over £1m in a fleet of 99 semi-trailers built by Montracon/Tasker. Seventy one are tandem...

nearly 200 aluminium semi-trailers to Germany and Denmark in the past 18 months, has signed an agreement with Portuguese...

truck-mixer weighing just 2,745kg with PT-0 for smaller loads and restricted access sites. The first three Minimixers, based on...

its plywood from sustained-yield countries, Rochdale-based panel maker CVR has gone even greener by sticking to solvent-free...

phenolic-based structural foam with enhanced fire resistant characteristics. It is available in sheet form or as a sandwich...

range of rear-carry forklifts for trucks and trailers. The rough terrain and man-riding versions weigh 2,000kg and will lift...

es, it's that time of year again. Fortified by a tumbler of mother's ruin and a couple of splendidly fruity mince pies bagged...

lj irst out of Santa's bag is SP Tyres UK, the Birmingham-based manufacturer of Dunlop tyres. These kindly Midlands folk have...

hat better way to relax at Christmas than to turn the telly off awhile and pore over a full-colour history of brewery...

y goodness it's true! Those popfabtabuious folk at Iveco Ford, who are so nice it makes you want to send them a Christmas card,...

ith the revival of popular interest in classical music, the Hawk suspects many a trucker has consigned Texas Sam and his...

ou won't catch a cold if you stick with those hardy citizens of Sandbach, Cheshire who have been making trucks even longer than...

n a , nd why not? A little tipple before the burning home fire never did anyone any harm, especially if it's a decent glass of...

cania is keen for you to remember what day it is and it wants you to keep in touch with your pals and business contacts...

a alking of anniversaries, Volvo has this year reached a quarter century of selling trucks in Britain. To help you celebrate...

—1—ti e're really getting festive now. German truck manufacturer MAN knows what a trucker needs at Christmas — a decent vessel...

lj or those who have still got money after the festivities, MercedesBenz is anxious that you should be able to carry those...

A Q s I've said before, the truck manufacturers are really keen to keep you lot warm this winter. ERF is no exception and has...

Price as tested: £57,349. Includes ECAS, optional splitter gearbox, seatbelts, night heater, electric mirrors and full aero...

— Total Transport Person? Do you know your trucks from your artics? Well here's your chance to prove it and while away a few...

or do you keep meeting people who can top your stories? CM brings you some of the sorriest yarns it has heard this year... T ie...

AT WHEAL NELL • Inspector Morose stared gloomily into his pint of beer — his latest case involving spook trucks running from...

I Settle down now. It's Christmas Day: you opened your presents ages ago and have given up wondering what excuse you can make...

Flying the Flag • Brian Monks of Ossett, West York-based HS Commercial Spares has been appointed as PAGID's first Chequered...

Living with technology • To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is to host Tecon...

• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has launched The Safety Officer of the Year award to draw attention to the...

The Iceman cometh • An automatic reefer temperature monitoring system has been developed to comply with the food hygiene...

portable radio transceivers to be used hands-free has been developed by Farnborough, Hants-based Technotrend_ The Vox is housed...

Major Hants works • Major maintenance work will start on the A31 between Southampton and Bournemouth before the end of next...

Brymack body, was stolen from the rear of Stanley Handling in Harpenden, Herts on 24 September. The vehicle, registration E861...

in the UK at the legal maximum of 30 tons GVW. To say the F88 was ahead of its time in UK terms is something of an...

during the Gulf war, but its heavy equipment transporters gave the British army the mobility it needed. • While it's generally...

We recently tendered for a local bus service but did not get the work, so we wrote to the county council involved to say we...

I hold a Category A&E driving licence issued in 1976 as well as a CPC. During the past four years I have been driving a...

There seems to be an anomaly in the lighting law which says that a vehicle not fitted with any obligatory front and rear lamps...

One of my artics was stopped outside a port on its way to Spain via France. When the driver left the depot he had picked up...

As coach operators we have to comply with the ban on carrying alcohol to sports meetings. Can you remind us which events are...

Can you confirm that the holder of a current HGV Class 1, 2 or 3 licence will be able to drive a bus with more than 17 seats...

trying to get my Class I HGV licence renewed but have been refused by DVLA. They said that because the pass certificate was not...

in transport, from owner-drivers to large operators and their staff. Here are some from 1992. Wincanton employees Gerald Box...

Times are hard but throughout the UK haulage companies are helping charities in many foreign countries by lending their...

When you read our roadtests every week all seems to be swimming along serenely— but sometimes under the surface there's a lot...

LONG-TERM TEST Leyland Ir 253 The 200 loses out to more modern vans on driveability but it's holding its own on productivity...

." there a lorry ban in London, there's a people ban' 4 T he Official Monster Raving Loony Party has thought for a long time...