• A haulier with no criminal record was jailed for 45 days for failing to pay VED on a truck that usually operates on the...

11 The receivers of AWD say they are confident they can sell the entire business as a going concern and are talking to a number...

lexday franchisees • Desperate Nexday franchisees who have sent customers bills since the recent £.3m crash of parent company...

• The seven Licensing Authorities are believed to be attempting to wrest control of traffic examiners back from the Vehicle...

• Wembley, Middlesex-based Boxer Removals has been saved from the receiver by an off-theshelf company called Cravenview which...

• The traditional police job of escorting abnormal loads on motorways should be hived off to the private sector, says David...

• Drivers of road tankers carrying flammable petroleum spirit no longer have to have protective fire screens in their cabs by...

• Local authority chiefs are to ask the Government for powers to fight large-scale transfers of freight from rail to road. The...

MI Hauliers who regularly use the Dartford crossing have won back toll discounts from the crossing operator, although the...

• Transport Secretary John MacGregor has overturned the unintentional ban on LGV learners using motorways which was revealed by...

• Earlier this year German truck giant Mercedes-Benz introduced a range of variableratio steering boxes with the launch of its...

• Major transport operators are snapping up good quality secondhand tractors and rigids from nearly 700 ex-Federal Express...

• Serious traffic flow problems are arising in Felixstowe due to an influx of new hauliers using the port, says the Road...

• Charterail is holding talks with two major UK supermarkets which it hopes to add to its contracts with 12 retailers and...

over new routes / The Freight Transport Association says the planned extension of London's red routes must not be allowed to...

• Leicester-based distribution company British Shoe has bought 19 Renault M160 Midliner 13-tonners and two Renault Manager G300...

• Exel Logistics' Newsflow division has placed an order worth up to Z4m for 128 Leyland Daf FA60 210 17-tonners to replace...

• Jobs agency Manpower predicts that recruitment is set to double in the transport industry, but leading operators have...

• ICI Paints has signed a fiveyear deal with Transport Development Group's Glasgow-based contract services specialist McKelvie...

• Two reports published this week suggest that UK truck manufacturing is showing signs of recovery, with May's output up more...

• St Helensbased John K Philips (Haulage Contractors) has been cleared of the misuse of trade plates by the town's...

MPermitting three drivers to breach the 4½hour driving rule has cost Saltash food wholesaler Appleby Westward £275 in fines and...

• A failure to report convictions has led to the authorisation on the licence held by John Dalziel Meats, of Preston, being cut...

• PMB European Transport's bid for a new international licence has been turned down by North Eastern LA Fred Whalley. The...

• The licence held by Philip Husband, of Croesycoiliog, Cwmbran, has been renewed only until the end of December following...

• Six months after its debut at the Geneva Trans Public Show, Volvo Bus has launched the right-hand-drive version of the }MOB...

• Scottish coachbuilder Walter Alexander is targeting smaller bus and coach operators for the first time with a ready-made...

• The fast-changing road recovery industry may have an uncertain future, but this week operators can at least take heart in a...

[I t may only be little, but Rover, the Yamaha pooper scooper, carries an unusually large vacuum cleaner to clear dog mess from...

his year's CM Truckfest was the 10th, and arguably, the finest of Europe's most spectacular trucking events. Now you can relive...

important new powers for dealing with driving offences. From 1 July, they will be able to convict drivers solely on the basis...

Because too many drivers, loaders and operators are careless about the possibility of a load moving in transit, coming off the...

Vauxhall Midi production at the IBC Vehicles plant. Vauxhall is said to be considering a plan to axe UK manufacture so that...

• The large distribution companies have spent the past few years telling smaller hauliers that they will soon be out of a job....

RESTRICTIONS LONDON LORRY BAN • They don't cost operators much, they're easily fitted and all the truck manufacturers offer...

21-27 May) might have led some readers to believe that this involved the fuel bunkering on the site, This is not so. I wish to...

H auliers who deliberately or carelessly overload their lorries and are found overweight at an enforcement check deserve all...