last week. It contains in amendment which could ihow heavy hauliers to provide hair own escort on motorrays and dual...

;Guth Wales-based Express 'alletised Storage, trading as .PS Storage and Distribution, as no connection with Express 'allet...

narkets in the first six months if 2002. Turnover was up 2.7% o 12,235m with profit before ax up 13.2% to 1100.3m.

toll collecting at the lartford crossing to help ease raffic congestion on the M25.

being :onsidered by the police to help ake people with poor vision off he roads. Research shows up o 3.5m people could be...

in .eeds and London and seized housands of litres of red liesel and gas oil. Five men vere arrested.

crashed in a bridge above the Leeds to lull railway line. Caville railway iridge on the ABU near lowden was seriously damged...

0-licence checking plans by Sally Nash Traffic Commissioners are not doing enough in the battle against cowboy operators if...

customers to check 0-licence arrangements, says hire companies cannot force them to reply. The main problem, it argues, is...

• Dairy Crest staff—including transport workers—could be voting for industrial action after they turned down a 2.5% pay offer....

I Eight drivers who work for the ;ame Hexham-based haulage firm lave all been jailed for two months 'or falsifying tachograph...

11 The Traffic Area Network and Vehicle Inspectorate are to merge on April 1 next year after a shock announcement made in...

I The National Stolen Lorry Load )esk (NSLLD) will be expanded later his year in an attempt to cut the ;oaring rate of lorry...

• A lorry driver is beginning a year-long prison sentence after a wheel came off his truck on the M6 motorway, killing a...

• More drivers will be willing to take strike action over pay if they are not valued properly in the future, according to the...

I by Chris Tindall lontroversial plans to begin charging ;ommercial vehicles in Edinburgh have leen slammed by trade...

• The Metropolitan police hay' urged London drivers to be vigi lant after a spate of brick: being thrown from a bridge or the...

. Regular contributors and callers to Commercial Motor will be sad to learn of the death of CMs longserving Editor's Secretary...

• A car driver in Wakefield was killed when a trailer on top of a stolen flatbed vehicle fell on his car, Leeds Crown Court has...

Truck tester/staff writer If you've always fancied travelling around Europe reviewing the latest trucks and vans, then have we...

_ast week's news that the Traffic Area Network and Vehicle nspectorate are to merge was a big surprise to the haulage sector....

• Transport lawyer James Backhouse of Backhouse Jones warns that the biggest single danger about the TAN/VI merger is that it...

• Given their statutory position, Traffic Commissioners will not themselves be part of the agency, though their staff will....

Not worth talking to Why is it the government no longer sees fit to consult with our industry before landing us with yet more...

• Process and decide applications for 0-licences to operate trucks and buses, . Provide information to Xs to help them make...

by Jennifer Ball iesidents in Felixstowe have launched a fresh ;ampaign to improve safety at the dock spur roundabout after...

• Road safety campaign group Brake has welDomed the government's plans to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by...

The chairman of airline British Midland (bin!) has angered the haulage industry by claiming noise caused by HGVs is a major...

• The Environment Agency has warned that the EU Landfill Directive, which phases out the cheap disposal of tyres to landfill...

by Chris Tindall armonising diesel duties ill not cost the governierrt billions in lost revnue, but it is set to oppose s...

• Tyre Collection Services, part of the Brandrick Truck Group that went into administration in July, has been sold to its...

I The government has hit back : severe criticism meted out by e Transport Select ommittee in May over its 10tar transport plan...

• The AA has produced a new type of road atlas—one that identifies the country's most dangerous roads. The map shows that the...

I Black Country business leadrs want lorry drivers to add heir voice to the campaign to . elieve worsening traffic con;estion...

Ell5m in upgrading its Witham premises and fleet of vehicles. It is to spend a further £200,000 on developing its IT systems,...

• The M25 was shut for over nine hours last Friday (26 July) after car crashed with a chemical tanker, causing it to spill its...

The issue of speeding foreign trucks has sparked a strong response from CM readers concerned about the perceived Lack of action...

• "I drove a Belgian-registered truck in the UK for four years and was caught many times by the speed cameras but I never heard...

Calling for the move, the Professional Drivers Association (PDA) says that Its members feel that they are at a disadvantage...

Like many parts of the UK, Wisbech has had to suffer the economic ups and downs of recent years. Yet, despite all its trials,...

MI In the early 80s the 1PTE formalised a recommended code of practice regarding tipping stability. It defined stability as a...

• With major quarrying companies focusing on even greater site safety, there's growing interest in not only conforming to the...

1by Colin Barnett ird has confirmed that the II-important pricing of its aw Transit Connect light van inge will be revealed on...

LDV is launching a limited edition Pilot dubbed 'The British Job'—inspired by the late sixties film starring Michael Caine. The...

European Space Agency technology has been used to create knitted steel flameproof textiles, which have been designed to protect...

SAF trailer axles and air suspensions have been specified by Weightmaster Trailers of Scunthorpe for a new extendable heavy...

Brigade Electronics' new Backeye BE-856 rearview CCTV system features three camera inputs and a 5.6 inch TFT (thin film...

Newly-appointed East Anglian Tata dealer Woody's marked its official opening recently by donating a 4x4 Safari Access Van to...

• Trailer-maker Southfields has delivered 16 liveried semi-trailers to Bibby Distribution for use on an expanded logistics...

• Axle and suspension manufacturer Hendrickson has confirmed it is to stop making drum-braked trailer axles once current stocks...

• A fleet of nine lveco Stralis tractive units has entered operation with Sutton Coldfield-based distribution company AD...

:intenance problems have tutted in the Operator's once held by Dudley-based M Industrial Services being t to seven vehicles and...

a speed limiter offences and (Mg insufficient daily rest I to William Abram, a driver iployed by Liverpool-based :roma...

once and using a vehicle and tiler without test certifiLes have cost Winsford, eshire-based haulier David tier £1,147.92 in...

e five-vehicle licence held by try McKee, trading as ncan McKee Transport, of .drie. was revoked with mediate effect when she...

The licence held by Leedsbased Roadhaul Logistics has been revoked arid the company and one of its directors, Simon Greenwood,...

A St Helens haulier who operated more vehicles than he was licensed for, taxed vehicles at the private HGV rate and was found...

Eg What was Eg What was described as an "elementary ruse" failed when the Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms refused...

I was most interested to read in the Financial Times that the EU Commission is proposing that excise duties be harmonised...

Since the dawn of motoring, politicians have been obsessed with speed limits. Politically and legally they are important;...

lam writing with regard to the 40mph truck speed limit on two carriageway roads. Isn't this an absurd limit which should be...

I refer to the Welsh attack on the Irish ( CM18-24 July). I drive an Irish-registered truck for an Irish company. I think that...

Police and firecrews were yesterday called to the home of Spagthorpe Motor Company at Oswaldtwistle's famous "Ironworks"...

mouth-watering selection of historic cars of all descriptions, the annual Goodwood Festival often represents good hunting for...

lonesome nights on the road to foliow in the blue suede shoes of the world's most famous truckle Elvis and take up singing....

companies. Now it appears that the small-tomedium-sized fleet operator looking for a truck to fill a hole in the fleet is...

MAN Select Used Trucks is the approved network of 21 truck centres for second-hand vehicles coming back into play from...

157 ERC came back as a rental truck with Lex Transfleet before being snapped up by TT press, based in Oldham. The company began...

the hauliers who leliver them should be thriving. But car nanufacturers are screwing down ates, and big changes are looming in...

— Most car manufacturers use consolidation centres close to their plants to feed parts to the assembly lines. These centres are...

Output is increasing at several UK plants, boosting work for the car transporters handling their deliveries... • Peugeot's...

• Although this year's new car sales are outstripping previous records, car transporters are not necessarily reaping all the...

FROM RAIL: A GROWING THREAT • Rail looks set to take an increasing share of the new car delivery market, even though growth...

ransporting cars is a specialist task made increasingly ifficult by the growing size of modern passenger vehicles. obin Meczes...

of RLC Transport in Cheltenham, Glos, and his right-hand man, manager )avid Saunders. The pair readily Ldmit to having put work...

safety firm that is an offshoot of Loughborough University's Sleep Research Centre. He has a memorable anecdote about a truck...

Investigation of the Selby rail-crash, as a "mobile catastrophe waiting to happen". Ten people died as a result of that...