• EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has formally unveiled the rises in Eurovignette tolls due to come into force from 1...

by Karen Miles and Lee Kimber • UK hauliers who face losing Elm after French transport company Euroway SA went into...

• A Sunderland-based haulier which owes more than £350,000 has gone into liquidation with the loss of around 20 drivers jobs....

by Lee Kimber • Northern Irish hauliers were this week counting the cost of a week's rioting in the province after the last...

• Four men have been charged with conspiracy to defraud hauliers of thousands of pounds following a three-year investigation by...

I f politics is all the about the art of the possibli just possible the Government will ignore the I coming report on road...

by Karen Miles • The private parcels sector is not keen to take on the Royal Mail if the Government suspends its letters...

• Thousands of protesters occupied a west London section of the M41 this weekend in an elaborate anti-vehicle demonstration....

II North Yorkshire Police are warning hauliers using a notoriously dangerous stretch of the A169 to be extra vigilant after a...

Small freight forwarding companies are doing better than their bigger competitors, although the entire industry is sliding into...

by Lee Kimber • Selfish truckers are risking drivers' lives by blocking laybys at Scotch Corner, say police, who fear that a...

• Police are asking hauliers to come forward with clues concerning the Manchester bombers—and offering a £1 million reword as...

• Truck dealers and ouyers opinions are to be canvassed on whether the system of changing registration prefixes an new vehicles...

• Road freight busi booming and will coni grow over the next months, according to a t vey of freight operators. The Freight...

• WRM Logistics Paperlink has a £2m-plus, five-year contract to move MoDo paper from the Port of Sheerness to Brooklands, then...

by Derren I layes III Hauliers in the NorthWest who break the law will be called to more public inquiries and face tougher...

• Port authorities have been urged to check trailers leaving their parks for ice after magistrates in Harwich threw out a case...

by Karen Miles • Lorry drivers who fail to pay court fines could lose their driving licences if Government thinking on the...

• Reports that British beef is being smuggled into mainland Europe are under investigation at the European Commission. The...

• Jenny Hawes has won her long-running fight to keep her Cambridgeshire roadside cafe following a decision by the Department of...

• A Nantwich snack sel Faces eviction after Chesh County Council ruled that site on the A500 is a haza Jim Carter is ignoring...

by Bryan Jarvis • Croydon-based Thompsons has introduced a Loadmaster range of light tipper bodies for rigid trucks, based on...

• Cannock-based framework and enclosure specialist Spacetrekker Systems hopes to attract CV bodybuilders to its patented...

• Mercedes-Benz Turk AS is producing a new eight-tonner, designated MB-800, based on the Indonesian-built MB-700. With an...

by Oliver Dixon. • Hythe-based heavy haulage company Laser Transport was recently involved in moving the European Space...

• 1DV is hoping to increase its export sales with the new Convoy model—the replacement for the 400 Series. Last year the...

• Dutch trailer builder D-tec Trailerbouw is developing a curtainsider version of its spaceframe Ultralight pallet trailer....

by John Kendall • Series production of Volvo's 5.5-litre supercharged and turbocharged engine will begin this October, after...

• The Ily-Tec Controller, introduced by Oxford-based Zeta Controls, is described as a stateof-the-art digital electronic...

• Agriemoch has launched an easy-fit product called Exhaust Insulation Wrap which it claims provides a simple method of...

• Motor Wheel Service (Distribution) has produced an HGV wheel identity key to act both as a training tool and as a safety...

• Montracon's Speedtrack opening system for curtainsiden; is easy to operate. The lowfriction, all-weather curtain glide system...

• Connector specialist Voss (UK) has introduced System 208, a range of push-in fittings for truck air brake applications. The...

The Transport Select Committee is about to report to Parliament on the measures it thinks should be taken to improve the...

by Derren Hayes • Drivers want better, cheaper and more frequent motorway service station facilities, a CM opinion poll has...

• A team of researchers from Aston University is testing truck drivers' eyesight in a bid to establish how often poor eyesight...

• Scottish TC Michael Betts cut Denny-based M & D Russell (Haulage)'s licence from 45 vehicles and three trailers to 30...

• A West Yorkshire tipper operator and one of the company's drivers were given absolute discharges after pleading guilty to...

• Fines imposed for drivers' hours offences on a North Wales livestock haulier have been cut by threequarters on appeal at...

IA • Ramsbottom haulier Howard Schofield was the victim of a weekend arson attack in which six vehicles and a number of...

• Moving his reefer because the noise o. fridge motor was disturbing other drivers cost a Norfolk lorry driver £250 in fines...

A driver has admitted falling asleep before his truck ploughed into a van on the M25 motorway, killing a man and badly injuring...

T found the letter by Jack CriNs fi eld of the 1 Drivers Action Movement (CM 27 June-3 July) extremely interesting, especially...

I have just received your letter with my winning cheque for £500. Now I know it's really true! I just couldn't believe my luck...

T he thought of handing out full C+E licences to all drivers who held the old Class 2 and 3 licences previous to 1 April 1991...

enthusiasm for the game remains undimir every level. Take, for exi new team of hotshots, Frig FC, who leave next week I of the...

T he new go-faster Labour Party hopes to put an extra spin on its message by its choice of advertising executive to mastermind...

fl ust to prove that it realy -las got plenty of horsepower, Scania has taken to sporsoring the gee gees with its name linked...

passenger spotted in a car crawling past roadworks on the M25 appears to have allowed a measure of fantasy holiclaymaking to...

• 23 July-7 August: Question and answers with the Vehicle Inspectorate hosted by Retail Motor Industry Training division...

• The RAC has joined forces with London-based Capital Radio to provide a UK-wide traffic information service. By using road...

• The British Road Federation (BRE) has produced a new report, Modern RoacL5. It calls for more environmental planning, better...

• The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA), the trade body representing the UK's contract hire and daily...

• A new service by fuel card company DKV promises to make reclaiming tax on fuel much easier, quicker and more efficient. The...

R otherham owner-driver Vincent Whitehead is appealing for information following the theft of his tractor unit and trailer last...

Vehicle Width—The Road Vehicles (Construction • & Use) Amendment Regulations 1995 and the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of...

• Driver licensing: New measures staged testing, a limit on car licence h 3.5 tonnes gross, theory part of drivinf, photocard...

With high useage now the name of the efficiency game, multiple-role vehicles look increasingly attractive—not least among...

Sr (44 Working for the advertising and TV industry, Cars in Camera is a car transporting operation with a difference. And it...

FLEET: One Iveco Ford 0: two Mercedes-Benz 814s, two 1317s, an M-B 1628 tractor, am M-B 1834 tractor. The tractors Transporter...

RTS With truck drivers away from home for longer periods, accessories that make life on the road more bearable become...

*The Mobil life family of refrigerator products from Electrolux is a cooler way of moving. Lightweight and quiet, they can...

• The Trax portable microwave performs exactly how the household microwave should, thanks to a voltage inverter. This is a...

• A new series of the 0-files is available on a X Marks the Spot and Darkness Falls are jii the series of double cassette-boxed...

• Essentials is a new specialised truck a range from Unique. Beginning with persona quality and snug-fitting non-slip truck...

• Harlequin has introduced a mobile olio range which allows the phone to be stored se. within easy reach. Fitted by suction or...

quali of life is being recognised as an in reasing problem. Research commissio d for the Department of the Environmen4...

even better to listen, recent survey proved 6 hen did you last tell one of your customers that they are wrong, you don't want...