• Freight services through the Channel Tunnel resumed on 15 June with up to three departures per hour to and from Folkestone...

by Jane Sayer • Hard-pressed hauliers are paying a private detective to spy on drivers illegally selling pallets in a racket...

• UK hauliers have still not received a single penny of the £1.7m owed to them by the French in compensation after...

• The Government is considering the biggest change to lorry driving tests for 30 years with a consultation paper examining...

by DeeIan Cullen • Battling Irish hauliers have won rates increases of up to 48% from shipping companies after they brought...

WHOSE PALLET IS IT ANYWAY? he subject of today's talk is...er....pallets. Hardly the stuff to whip Joe Soap Haulier into an...

milk manufacturer MD Foods have voted "overwhelmingly" in support of a new package of improved terms and conditions after 18...

• Felixstowe port will open early on Mondays after management conceded to demands from battling local hauliers fed up with...

• Road transport workers could soon be subject to a maximum working week of 48 hours. The long-awaited European Commission...

by Sally Nash and David Craik • Staff at parcels firm Lynx could be heading for industrial action over pay and conditions as...

• The fight to exclude cowboy operators from all sectors of road haulage has been given fresh impetus by the Government's...

by David Craik • Hauliers are to be offered a new credit management service that has been evolved within the fishing...

• International hauliers are being warned that transit problems in Russia could occur "at any time" as the country's Customs...

• Warehousing and distribution firm Alf Vaughan & Co has gone into receivership owing .1.500,000. The Worksop-based company...

• A Cumbrian haulier who has connections with a number of failed companies has applied for a fresh licence in his own name....

by Karen Miles • Hauliers should be operating under a statutory minimum wage regime by next summer. Legislation to introduce...

• Finelist, distributor of automotive products to trade and retail customers, has acquired the entire share capital of...

• The family of a BFI Wastecare mechanic who was killed while repairing a tanker is planning to sue the company after an...

• Wincanton Logistics is to change its management in the wake of disappointing results For the year to the end of March. The...

by Bryan Jarvis • Bedfordshire police aim to crack down on vehicle recovery operators who dangerousely overload axles....

• New measures to reduce the opportunities for criminals to legitimise stolen vehicles have been agreed between the Driver...

• Haulage and environmental organisations believe that the industry will benefit from this week's merger of the Departments...

• Trade union membership in the road transport sector has remained constant despite a steady decline in other sectors,...

• Rules introduced to curb careless driving mean that new drivers who incur six or more penalty points within two years of...

• What do you buy for the truck driver who has everything? Believe it or not, this month sees the launch of the world's first...

• Two drivers working for Dudley haulier Mark Nixon received jail sentences of up to six months after a court found them...

• Preserving nice views of the countryside is more important than truck drivers' welfare, a planning inspector said last week...

• The problem of driver stress and fatigue was highlighted at the annual Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union road...

by Dan Gilkes • Renault aims to capture a big slice of the multi-wheeler market with the introduction of its Kerax tipper...

by Oliver Dixon MI Volvo has unveiled an Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control (AICC) designed to increase motorway traffic...

• Lincolnshire Haulier Denby Transport is now running its fleet on 60-series low-profile tyres to comply with the French...

• US and Canadian authorities have approved Freightliner's purchase of Ford's US heavy truck business. The Daimler-Benz...

• Alfretonbased NFT Distribution was given an absolute discharge by Beaconsfield magistrates after the company admitted...

• A Liverpool haulage company lost its licence and community authorisations when it failed to appear at a St Helens...

• Progress Motors (Radcliffe) has been given authority to keep two of its four vehicles at a new operating centre because of...

• Bournemouth Borough Council have been given a warning about its maintenance standards by Western DTC John Robins The...

• Maintenance problems led to Scottish TC Michael Betts revoking the licence of Fraserburgh haulier Duncan Henderson at an...

• Consideration of disciplinary action against Birmingham haulier Linford Riley has been adjourned for three weeks to enable...

• A Wednesfield haulage company, which lost 12 months' tacho graph charts after the wife of a tachograph consultant threw...

B etween rain showers the Institute of Waste Management's annual display attracted the usual huge vehicle and equipment display...

• Stallion UK is offering a new heavy-duty type 2399 bolt-on angle-drive PTO for the Allison HD/MD transmissions commonly...

starts at back and side • Truck-Lite has introduced the Model 30 LED rear-end outline marker lamp to the UK. The Model 30...

• Premier Weighing Systems, the on-board weighing system and management information specialist, has launched the first of a...

• GEC-Marconi Communications has developed an electronic tag that allows vehicle movements to be monitored as they pass...

• New from charging experts Merlin Equipment is the Powerline range of three-stage alternators which are designed for...

news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products, training, company moves, personnel changes, truck thefts, UK...

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

I feel I must respond to the letter you published a couple of weeks ago from Jon McDermott about the negative attitudes in the...

I was ashamed to read about the cocaine smuggling haulier who was imprisoned last week (CM 511 June). I have been reading...

L ike most of the people 1 know in this business. I've always reckoned that that haulage was a pretty well-organised industry...

y our editor Brian Weatherley is right to ask whether the industry's image is served by truck racing. I doubt whether the...

I felt I had to write to say that i am not in the least bit surprised that 30% of hauliers have completed the new...

spondent, • steps off his perch to take a humorous look at the industry to keep us all sane. If you have any off-beat yarns...

ever mind 44 tonnes, intermodal transport and satellite communications, the future of international transport, nay,...

A PR stunt by watch-maker Swatch was sunk at the last minute when Dublin Bus pulled out of a plan to float a bus on the Liffey...

a 23-yearold tyre fitter from Sunderland, who has won the UK Tyre Fitter of the Year Competition for the second year running....

!MIL' rfilt DIU ROADTEST: SA STRATOCRUSER It's a long time since Seddon Atkinson has been able to tempt British operators with...

the Freight Transport Association's legal department to highlight laws in the pipeline. He is unable to take telephone calls at...

ON TEST VW CADDY SDI Base price: £8,730 (ex-VAT). Engine: 1.9-litre DI diesel, 63hp (47kW). GVVV: 1,730kg. Payload: 550kg....

Say you need some cash to develop your business—where do you go? Is the traditional bank loan the best source of funds? Karen...

mandmen In-house or out-sourced? The debate over what's best for vehicle maintenance will run and run. But if you do want to...

London-based John McIntosh has staked a claim to a base in London's fruit and veg centre at New Covent Garden. It may not seem...

Targeting vehicles which don't need to be on the road is the first priority of transport policy, says Simon Festing, transport...