• Iceland Foods is building a composite distribution centre in Swindon to handle frozen, ambient, chilled and fresh products...

• Owner-drivers and larger operators driving at night and early in the morning will be the most highly targeted group by the...

• Goods vehicle traffic fell by 3% during the first three months of this year.

• The jury was still out on the case of the Rotherham nighwatchrnan said to have been murdered for a truck as CM went to press...

• The Road Haulage Association says it is unhappy with the Vehicle Inspectorate's recently revised Overweight Prohibition Form...

• Animal transporters could be targeted by Shropshire County Council in its crackdown on the sending of calves to market when...

by Juliet Parish • Car transporter Toleman Automotive is cutting jobs in the hope of retaining compound contracts at Halewood...

than current law if they want to join a quality assurance scheme introduced last week by an animal welfare charity. The Royal...

• The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association are warning that dangerous goods driver training could...

by Karen Miles • The Government's decision to privatise HGV testing could still be reversed through pressure from the road...

• EC transport ministers are expected to resolve the 25-yearlong argument about truck taxation in an emergency meeting on...

• The move to contract out escorting of wide loads to private companies would not be scuppered by the need to change the Road...

• Hauliers can expect to pay at least £3.30 when Britain's first toll road around the north-east of Birmingham is opened in...

• George Devlin of Shepherds Bush was found not guilty of carrying an insecure load but was fined £80 for defective brakes...

• The 55 hauliers owed around £95,000 by defunct bulk diesel supplier, Fuel Management Supplies, will be told at a creditors...

• The proposal to use convicted prisoners with HGV licences to make deliveries between prisons has been condemned by prison...

• Twenty-eight drivers employed by Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart are to pay nearly £12,000 fines and costs for falsifying...

haulage scene after an absence of six years following the takeover of the Leyland Daf manufacturing operation in Lancashire....

III Pressure group Transport 2000 is planning a meeting for the autumn at which it will formulate green codes of practice for...

The Government's "green shoots of recovery" have taken root in the tanker market, judging by the optimistic feel of the RHA's...

still a rarity: only seven of the 40 exhibitors at the Electric Vehicle Association's Move Electric 93 show had vehicles in...

• Catalytic convertors could replace particulate traps in the search to clean up diesel exhaust emissions. Michael Davies of...

Automotive marketing director Ric Kleine says its arrival will probably coincide with the Euro2 emmissions limit.The M11, which...

by Amanda Bradbury • A South Wales haulier's refusal to compromise on maintenance or lawful operating is forcing him to sell up...

operations rose by 3.5% to £20.5m last year. Distribution accounts for 44% of group trading profits worldwide, which rose 13.6%...

• New legislation, education and cash will be needed for the Government to succeed in its aim of salvaging 50% of recyclable...

• TankCon delegates were told by TDG's European transport managing director Steve Bodger that safety should be the key...

• Fraikin has won a contract to supply eight vehicles to Eatfresh for its nationwide operations using aggregate mileage...

£12.8m to £15.4m, according to the latest trading figures from parent company Unigate. Turnover was up from £171m to £205m. The...

• An angry Scots haulier preparing to fight a 11,600 bill mainly for replacing two tyres in France. Jim Macaulay, managing...

by Juliet Parish • Four hauliers are to fight it out for a Toyota (GB) contract worth more than 1:2m a year, They will be...

• North Yorkshire-based quarry and demolition site haulier Bellman (UK) has gone into compulsory liquidation owing about...

• United Transport has switched from being a spot hirer to a contractor with liquid oil refiner Cargill after winning a...

Here's one for all you barrack room lawyers—what constitutes Good Repute for the purpose of an 0-licence? According to the...

• Tipton-based hauliers William Gabriel and SG Humphries heard that their licences are likely to be revoked when they appeared...

• Cheshire haulier Gary Murphy has been fined £1.500 with 1700 costs for the theft of a semi-trailer. He was also ordered to...

• A Dutch driver checked by traffic examiners at Ross on Wye, appeared before Hereford Magistrates after it was found that he...

• Malpas-based Alan Yoxall, whose bid to operate an artic was blocked on appeal by Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council, must now...

to move its opt ing centre from hivernes Paisley, after neighbouri residents who had made environmental represent tions, failed...

• Dover-based Momart cleared of permitting a driver to falsify tachogr records and take insuffic weekly rest after the pro...

• A Manchester Indust Tribunal has decided the was reasonable for Transwift Freight Servic to sack a driver after he changed...

III Spanish lorry driver I Maria Ranajo-Zayora, w was fined £4,200 by the Coventry Magistrates af driving for 12 consecuth...

was prematurely terminated October after maintenar problems, has been grar a full five-year renewal. told South Wales TO Job...

• A bid for a new licence by Stokeon-Trent-based Eric Wilkinson was refused on grounds of repute when he failed to appear at a...

Vehicle safety is not the only worry if the 0-licence threshold goes to six tonnes— traffic area offices and jobs could go and...

ave you heard the one about the Lada driver whose patience finally snapped after suffering the double whammy of a flat tyre and...

and woman being less than bright; the Larke family of Leaden Roding, nr Gt Dunmow, Essex, reckon they may be unique as every...

a he "Accident Black Spot" warning is not unconunon on the public highway-less so in a car park. This cautious advice is...

Ei orkshire lasses can be a mite passionate, according to one of my Northern colleagues, but clearly none more Sc than young...

3 ssex haulier Containerlift has just bought its third Sidelifter from New Zealand. This nifty piece of kit is capable of...

Truck insurance premiums have soared by 30% over the past year and insurers are getting tougher on claimants. But there are...

for drop body work. The Leyland 17-18 Freighter is worth 245,000 and belongs to Mark Webster Furniture of Sutton in Ashfield...

having to buy in £300 worth of haulage a day to keep its business running following the theft of its heavy plant carrier, a...

get to a Ford Transit 100 panel van belonging to truck and van rental firm Hinkley Business Vehicles. The white van, (reg J3...

Langdon Industries in Somerset during the night of 7-8 June. The unit, registration number H8775YA, is a Scania 143-170...

when it lost its Mercedes tractive unit from its Blaby industrial estate site. Thieves smashed the window of the vehicle, broke...

was stolen from a lorry park in Doncaster last week. The red trailer, which has a cream band around it, has the company name on...

From sick cover for owner-drivers to holiday relief in large fleets, agency drivers are an essential part of the industry— but...

by introducing a lifting second steer axle. Combined with an improved weight transfer device this makes Scania's unusual...

• If the Government introduces motorway tolls two-thirds of Britain's truck drivers plan to switch to Aroacis in a bid to avoid...

UK hauliers on international work have long been used to paying as they go. Now the DOT is evaluating road pricing schemes for...

any thanks to editor Brian Weatherley and all at Commercia/Motor for organising a most successful competition and the...

'p he article on road haulage 1 of nuclear warheads and materials covered the issue very thoroughly and Patric Cunnane hinted...

rp he reoent pronouncement 1 from the unions that drivers have taken more than enough of the economic stick came as welcome...

VED for 44-tonners on six axles?' , N oise limits, weekend and bank holiday lorry bans, 28-tonne gross vehicle weight limits...