• "The haulage industry is notorious for extended credit terms. In times such as these when the cost of money is so high it is...

• An angry London haulier has impounded cargo belonging to ICI until he is paid for delivery by one of the two freight clearing...

• The European Community has struck a deal with Austria and Switzerland over transit rights for trucks. Details will not be...

• European warehousing and distribution consortium Stockeurop Logistics International is trying to break its ties with its...

• The Road Haulage Association has had to resubmit a proposed operating costs table to the Office of Fair Trading. If approved...

• North Yorkshire haulier Flowers of York is expected to be saved from the receiver by a management buyout this week. Three...

• Derbyshire tippermen who went on strike at Tarmac quarries a year ago (CM 18-24 Oct 1990) have offered the company a...

• Car transport firm Walon has wrested a three-year Toyota distribution contract for 50,000 vehicles a year from BRS. BRS had...

• The recession has forced trailer manufacturer York to revise the way it repays the debts from its £61m management buyout...

• Fighting Condition 11 of the London Lorry Ban will cost the Road Haulage Association, Freight Transport Association and...

• Truck driver Anthony Moore, who was left paralysed after a crash with another lorry nine years ago, has been awarded nearly...

• MEPs are calling for a single document setting out which border regulations will be scrapped on 1 January 1993. A spokesman...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles finally launched its Rapier fire appliance chassis at last week's fire exhibition in Torquay,...

• P&O Distribution has now equipped nine of its 17-tonners to carry both packaged and bulk products on a contract with Kuwait...

• Ford has released prices for the new Transit; increases average about 2.5% across the range. Short wheelbase vans start at...

• Renault is set to fill a power gap in its futuristic AE tractive unit range next year with a new model offering around 317kW...

• Seddon Atkinson is offering lower height options on its Strato TC multi-wheelers. A lower cab takes 70mm off and a low-ride...

• Michelin has followed Continental in developing a widesingle tyre for 19.5 rather than 22.5in wheels which can handle...

• Saudi Arabia has ordered almost 800 high-mobility Steyr Pinzgauers for its armed forces. They come in 4x4 1.5-tonnepayload...

• Scottish fish haulier Charles Alexander may lose contracts worth more than £500,000 because London wholesalers fear the TDG...

• Rail Express Systems (RES), British Rail's new freight service, is attempting to woo large hauliers into chartering whole...

• Parcelforce could face disruption at Christmas after union members overwhelmingly rejected a 4% pay offer. A ballot on...

• Mercedes-Benz is cutting around 100 jobs within the next nine months, mainly from its 900-strong workforce at the head office...

• Small hauliers are being put out of business by late-paying customers, according to a new survey. Only construction firms...

• The Transport Users Group has offered to represent hauliers who have not been paid by Eezee Euro Services, which closed its...

• A Northumberland-based haulage consortium is poised to go national after a CM profile led to a spate of enquiries from...

• The son of the principal director of Staffordshirebased Shirleys Transport has had his plan to operate artics frustrated....

has had its licence revoked on maintenance grounds, but South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has granted a licence...

MI The partners in Carlisle livestock haulier T Bell & Sons, and one of the firm's drivers, have been convicted of a weight...

• Purity Soft Drinks has been warned by West Midland Deputy LA Roger Seymour that two prohibition notices have put its...

• Volvo has released details of its B6R midi chassis which has inherited most of its components from the manufacturer's FL6...

• Northern Counties plans to use a revamped version of its Countydec double-decker to enter the Hong Kong market. It is...

• Scania will be bringing a version of its single-deck citybus N113 chassis with a lower front floor to the UK. The modified...

• Minibus specialist Carlyle Group has gone into voluntary liquidation, making around 160 staff redundant. Liquidator Ernst &...

MI The recession in the new and used truck market is far from over. The picture painted by truck dealers, especially used truck...

week came as chairman Bobby Heaton launched the RHA's BS5750 video. It begins with an infuriated customer trying to get through...

IDENTITY DISCS The next time someone asks you to lend them your 0-licence identity disc, think twice... you could be breaking...

SCANIA R113.400 I/ Compound-turbocharging is hardly a recent invention — shipbuilders have been dabbling with it for years —...

AUTOS KY He believes that staff morale has been boosted over the past three years as more openings have arisen from an...

• Setting up a driver agency is easy. All you need is a licence from the Department of Employment and an office. Specialist...

drivers, but they are often the vital link in a transport fleet. To discover what transport operators really think of agency...