by David Harris • Drivers working for Tradeteam, the Exel Logistics-Bass joint venture, are preparing for job cuts the company...

• Tipper operators are facing a bleak 1996 following forecasts of a further depression in the building industry. The Building...

by Miles Brig:nal! II European officials have warned the Department of Transport that it is not applying speed limiter laws...

• Transport Minister Steven Norris is holding talks with Department of Health officials in an attempt to clarify warnings about...

R emember "Say no to 50"? Four years ago Commercial Motor fought, and won, a campaign to stop Brussels introducing 50mph...

by Karen Miles • Police are to ask more than 1,200 lorry drivers to take DNA tests as part of the murder investigation of...

• Wisconsin Railways, the prospective owner of British Rail's bulk freight companies, is bullish about snatching large volumes...

• Latest figures from the Lorry Control Unit show that nearly 25% of vehicles checked were prosecuted for breaching the London...

by Mike Jewell • One of Britain's privatised electricity companies has admitted that its managers were so ignorant of drivers'...

• Eutotunnel's Le Shuttle service will be faster and more frequent this year, says the Channel Tunnel operator. Eurotunnel...

by Derren Hayes • LGV driver training school Roadtrain is at the centre of a legal dispute with a former franchise holder who...

• Scottish-based fish haulier Blue Water Transport has gone into receivership with debts of more than .€2m and the loss of more...

by Miles Brignall • A Lancaster LGV driving instructor says he is having to turn away business because he is unable to get...

• Hauliers with strong views on commercial vehicle enforcement are being invited by the Parliamentary transport select...

• The fate of the Government's road safety research body should be decided this week when the Transport Secretary announces the...

by Toby Clark • Daihatsu has introduced a diesel variant of the Hijet which is designed to boost sales of the Italianbuilt...

• Citroen sold more light commercials in the UK last year than ever before with a total of 5,825, up 42% on 1994. Best seller...

• ERF dealer S Jones Truck Centre is saving time and money by having vehicles tested at its Walsall, West Midlands site instead...

by John Kendall • The first lean - burn compressed natural gas-powered artic in Europe has started service trials with BOC...

IN Improved rubber compounds have been introduced by the Continental Tyre Group for its HS 45 and HD 75 ranges of tyres for...

NI Maple Commercial Vehicle Security has developed the Loadlocker heavy duty slamlock. By ensuring that the door is locked...

• Filtakleen Manufacturing has launched a monitoring device for its Lubrakleen automatic lubrication system. With Kwik-Check...

14th Geneva commercial vehicle show, Road Transport—Indispensable, underlines Switzerland's reliance on a proficient and...

• Norwich-based Machayes International Transport and its managing director Alec Machaye have been fined £6,000 by Chelmsford...

• Cardiff haulier Gareth Jenkins, trading as CBL Transport, had his licence revoked in December by South Wales Licensing...

on good authority that importing gold legally simply doesn't pay Kinghtsbridge Crown Court was told by gold expert Alan Baker:...

roaring fire the other night I was rudely awoken by the lady wife's stentorian bark:"What's a Volvo Elite III Panorama?" "Eh,...

T read with interest the story in last week's CM (11-17 January) "First JIC settles at 3%" which referred to the first round of...

F d very time CM tests a Japanese panel van, the same comments come up: it's well made and it's got a great warranty, but IT...

I f you've ever used a computer network, imagine a whole load of similar networks linked together. No one owns -the net itself;...

taken pictures to record the occasion, and failed to back a winner. Truck driver John Lees has to do all of these things every...

T here are three questions to ask while deciding if vehicle aerodynamics will work for you, according to Val DareBryan, a...

S elf-made hauliers and hard-pressed transport managers could be forgiven for finding Andrew Joy a little too smug for their...

can already be taken to court under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, as fuel distributor Charringtons discovered last...

rne B used truck dealers pondering current residual values must look out of their windows and wonder if there isn't a better...

C e talk about our industry's image constantly—but are we making any progress? I think not. Why? There are several reasons but...