MPs Kim Howells and Tony McNulty have been appointed to the Department for Transport in the government reshuffle. John Speller...

EXCLUSIVE • by Emma Penny The Road Haulage Modernisation Fund (RHMF) is being under-used by hauliers because they don't know...

• Part-time transport manager Michael Waddington, held to have lost his repute by North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom...

Criminal gangs are using the chronic driver shortage as cover to infiltrate employment agencies and prey on the haulage...

• Karl Kralowetz, the Austrian haulage boss jailed for employing hundreds of East European truck drivers on illegal wages, has...

• by Dominic Perry High-profile South Yorkshire operator Pete Osborne Logistics has been snapped up by one of the rising stars...

misusing kerosene • by Mike Jewell Three Greater Manchesterbased subbies who were caught running their trucks on kerosene have...

• by Jennifer Ball Five people have been killed and eight injured in a 10vehicle pile-up involving a tank transporter and four...

• Christian Salvesen is axing 21 contracts with smaller clients this month because they are no longer profitable. Letters sent...

• Almost 90% of artics break the speed limit on non-built up dual carriageways, according to a report released by the...

• Truck drivers blocked motorways and held go-slow convoys last Monday (16 June) in support of the Blue Ribbon campaign for...

• The number of deaths in accidents involving heavy goods vehicles has fallen 26% in the ten years to 2001, according to a new...

Try these for size: you can't teach an old dog new tricks.., you can take a horse to water, but you Can't make it drink..,...

• by Dominic Perry Subcontractors working for Wincanton could be facing hard times ahead as the logistics giant attempts to...

• Hauliers believe VOSA needs to improve waiting lists for tests and ensure greater consistency at test stations. These...

• TNT has overtaken Exel as the largest logistics company in Europe, according to the latest figures from analyst Transport...

• Irish hauliers are calling for the introduction of an infrastructure levy to replace road tolls in Ireland. The move comes...

0 Articulated vehicle traffic has risen by a third in the last 10 years to 21301 and now accounts for nearly half of all IleV...

11 Soaring wages for drivers are being blamed for the closure of West Midlands-based container specialist Jona Haulage....

LiTIWIDDDS PURCHASE LIttlewoods has acquired Argos and Nomebase retail groups' catalogue business GUS and its logistics group...

• by Nicky Taylor Road freight growth in the UK is at its lowest level ever recorded and is expected to fall further, with...

• Marks and Spencer is to begin a pilot of its food-only stores at motorway service areas (MSAs) later this year. The first...

E The United Pallet Network (UK) says it has seen 277% growth in the number of pallets moved over the past year. Speaking at...

CM EXCLUSIVE • The Road Haulage Modernisation Fund. Not a particularly snappy title, even for a government initiative. Not a...

a single fund, but an umbrella title for a number of different measures designed to help hauliers. There is no central...

Scheme, which is running a couple of years behind the project south of the Border—and that's perhaps why fewer than 10% of the...

Distrust and disbelief are the • hallmarks of Welsh hauliers' response to the help available to them from the Road Haulage...

• by Kevin Swallow The tipper market has long been a graveyard for Renault Truck in the UK with sales figures making it little...

The Premium 6x4 Highway, with Distribution day cab and Aliweld aluminium aggregate body, is powered by the 11:I-litre del...

The long-running debate over whether it's safer to raise the body of a tipping trailer with its air suspension inflated or...

• by Colin Barnett DaimlerChrysler's Brazilian off-shoot has launched a new range of Mercedes-Benz lightweight trucks which may...

xi The latest product from tail-lift and demountable specialist Ray Smith Group Is literally a life-saver To speed up the...

• The UK commercial vehicle market has a new contender with the launch of the Proton Jumbuck. Built in Malaysia for the...

dedicated underlift, which leaves your vehicle with limited capabilities. To overcome this problem, Andover's J&J Conversions...

• Protective footwear is vitally important given the very high level of workplace accidents invoMng feet and ankles, says the...

I Truck drivers who suffer hay feverInspired sneezing fits, streaming eyes and runny noses when driving are a potential danger...

• Employers prepared to enlist the help of rehabilitation specialists are likely to find that employees off sick with strained...

II At least 80% of the complaints received about workplace noise by the Noise Abatement Society relate to the highpitched note...

Burton upon Trent-based Parker Bros have been given a formal warning about their future maintenance standards. The company had...

An alleged 'phoenix' company formed by the son of an operator whose licence was revoked last year has failed in its bid for an...

Mil A Liverpool skip operator has escaped wtth Its licence intact despite serious concerns about its repute, thanks to a...

A haulier and his driver have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £905 for using a vehicle in a dangerous condition...

The Court of Appeal has said that it hopes that it will receive "few, if any" appeals from the Transport Tribunal which are...

While the haulage world is a hot bed of gossip, innuendo and downright lies, every now and then a big story breaks that clearly...

We're extremely grateful to the RAC for letting us know that company car and van drivers aged between 31-40 years who drive a...

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: 26 June 1928...

Daf replaced the 45 Series with its new IS range of distribution vehides in the 6.o to 18.o tonne weight range. The 7.5-tonner...

name." Chris Whiting Rental companies buy about 40% of the medium-weight trucks sold in the UK and The Oxford Van Company,...

Seven years ago, a marriage break-up left Lyn Flegg with a transport company in crisis. Since then she has changed the company...

very well." Martin Green Delice de France was established 15 years ago and today functions as part of IAWS, the largest...

Wright is MD of Commercial Vehicle Auctions. OVA holds sales at Doncaster on two Wednesdays each month with a throughput of 160...

It can't be coincidence that the two market leaders use similar versions of the EEA's Cummins' latest smallcapacity engines....

filling up, offer discounts on forecourt prices and provide an effective way of monitoring how much diesel each vehicle or...

very operation has different requirements which is why hauliers choose different fuel management systems to meet their needs....

1g Use a cost benefit analysis when considering on-site refuelling facilities. If something went wrong, the environmental...

depots, the number of trucks it runs, or its list of blue chip customers, you would probably conclude that it had been around...

of a wellrun operation providing good value for money. Test failures and prohibition notices are rare, fitters seem to enjoy...

country have to work too many hours to earn a fair wage. With the advent of the Working Time Directive, drivers will only be...