• Police investigating the M4 coach crash in which 12 pensioners were killed are appealing for the driver of a blue flatbed...

by Lee Kimber • Strike action by nearly 200 Redland Readymix drivers came a step closer this week when 76% of the owner-drivers...

• Southampton-based international haulier Kingswood Transport has been put into administrative receivership and will be wound...

of tachographs from 1 January 1998 is set to be postponed because EU ministers can't agree on which system to use. The...

by Karen Miles • The rugged British Bedford is the truck thief's favourite vehicle, according to early results from the first...

• Hauliers carrying milk are being warned to step up security following fire bomb attacks on two Milk Marque depots that...

he old music hall expression "it fell off the back of a lorry guvnor" took on a chilling aspect late last week. Judging by...

by Ian Wylie III The road safety record of owner-drivers is seriously deteriorating, according to Greater Manchester Police,...

• One of the country's oldest heavy truck dealers has been rescued from receivership by a rival MercedesBenz agent. Cossington...

• Humberside Police are calling on the haulage industry to donate surplus personal computers so they can improve their fight...

at court this month after allegedly taking several thousand pounds from an aspiring haulier and then failing to provide the...

• Government proposals to end vehicle excise tax breaks for many idle commercial vehicles have been opposed by the Road Haulage...

by Lee Kimber • Millions of pounds worth of warehousing and distribution business will be contracted out by the Army, Navy and...

in charge of highvalue loads to be vigilant after the arrest of three people believed to be connected with an armed hi-jack in...

• Truck safety experts are warning operators to check their tyres regularly after an Oxford man was killed trying to retrieve a...

• Haulage boss Edward Stobart has signed a shirt sponsorship deal with local football team Carlisle United just days after it...

by Mike Jewell • The 50-vehicle, 18-trailer licence held by Kirkcaldy-based Thomas Muir (Haulage) has been revoked by Scottish...

• Drivers are being urged to give others a piece of their mind in a newly launched defensive driving campaign. The Partnership...

• A Labour Government would not cut the road spending programme but would shift spending from new roads to existing ones, arid...

by John Kendall • Daihatsu has introduced a six-seater MPV version of its Hijet microvan. The people carrier retains the twin...

a The Widdowson group of Leicester has bought three straight-framed plant trailers that allow it to carry equipment but keep...

• Poole, Dorset-based Gator Security (Devices) is offering operators an unusual roll-over hire offer on its anti-theft...

• CopriSystems of Winchester is offering bodybuilders a new Italian-made galvanised steel sliding or fixed roof system. It's a...

II The trial of Merseyside haulier Paula Fenney, who denies operating a vehicle without an 0-licence, has been adjourned for a...

• A Bolton owner-driver who ran without an 0licence for 18 months has been granted a licence by North Western Deputy LA John...

• The licence held by Dumfries coal merchant William Borthwick has been revoked by Scottish LA Michael Betts on maintenance...

• West Yorkshire driver David Mellor has won part of a claim against his former employer, Stansfield Transport, for unlawful...

• Cappull, Lanesbased haulier Carl Rigby and four of its drivers have been fined a total of £10,000 with .£350 costs, after...

Don't know who to turn to? Commercial Motor can help! The latest version of CM'S Legal Directory is now available to readers,...

You can't carry petrol in bulk through the Channel Tunnel, but you can carry ammonium nitrate. Which is the more dangerous?...

H o"' refreshing it was to read Ian Rogers' Sound Off (CM18 - 24 May). He has used his experience and knowledge to completely...

T read with interest about lthe DOT's "figure juggling" (CM 18-24 May) on money to enforce the law against unsafe vehicles....

A note to say how much I enjoyed this year's Truckfest. At a time when the industry is receiving so much bad publicity (Channel...

M ay I thank all the kindhearted truck drivers who were at Truckfest for all their generous donations. Our aim is to help as...

o you suffer from traffic congestion? Need a 7 way to encourage slow-paying clients? No , problem! Simply equip a low loader...

ne of the Hawk's favourite TV programmes is of course Birds of a Feather in which two young women wait patiently for the...

DA s young bridegrooms through the ages have learned, often to their cost, young brides melt anyone's heart and can twist mere...

p.m! aerators in the UK I and Ireland can have a free ride'n'drive of the Seddon Atkinson of their choice during a summer...

D mong this summer's top i music attractions are the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart. With scarcely one of these...

Market report • Finance sales of LGVs grew by 21% in the first quarter of 1995—but finance sales of used LGVs were down 21.5%...

0S9000 courses • Quality Management International is offering a series of half-day, one-day, three-day and five day courses on...

Business shop • A Business Shop has opened in Stranraer, extending the Scottish Business Shop network to 32. Scottish Business...

IoTA on the road • The Sussex centre of the Institute of Transport Administration will be out on the road this summer to...

Disk friendly • BBA Friction launched a Don-brand range of discfriendly brake pads with good life characteristics at the...

The latest Astra vans include a 1.6-litre petrol model with the option of an automatic box. We test the newcomer back-to-back...

the past few decades. More trucks are being fitted with discs and ABS has become compulsory for heavier trucks and trailers,...

lifters, from four depots: one beside Junction 21 of the Ml; two covering main roads out of Leicester and recently acquired...

The Drivers Action Movement was on a recruitment and awareness drive for its campaign to uphold driver's rights and...

the commercial transport industry's failure to deal with the appaling conditions that lorry drivers are being forced to work...

ince the end of the Seventies employers have concentrated on recruiting young workers at the expense of older ones, with many...

I n an apparent reversal of the industrial norm, drivers lbelieve that older workers in the haulage industry stand a better...

be able to specify what age group they wont: "The price of the vehicles these days, you don't want to let them loose on...

Leicester as a contract driver employed by Ace Appointments. He has been with Ace three years: "You can stay as long as you...

Phillips Petroleum contract for P&O, says: "Age discrimination in job ads should be banned," though he admits that "as you get...

drivers employed by Ken Thomas, Wisbech. He is driving an ERF E82 11 on a Brooke Bond contract. "Most drivers are between 30...

its Feltham depot. "They won't take anyone under 25 for insurance reasons," he says, but there is no early retirement...

Hays Distribution based in Manchester. He joined recently having been made redundant after 15 years elsewhere. There is no age...

employer, United Transport, Southampton, scrapped an upper age limit of 35 because of the difficulties of getting tanker...

for six months and is unaware of any age rules. In his view, there is one test which counts: "If a person goes for an interview...

Storey Evans of Leeds. "Providing a person is still capable of driving, age should not be a barrier," he says. The firm's...

as an ownerdriver on the Continent. This alone, he believes, makes a mockery of discrimination against younger drivers. He now...

Allinson at Rotherham. Youth is no bar to a job here and neither is retirement age—one of the drivers is 66. "As long as you...

Ford, Dagenham. He delivers components and says most LGV drivers are recruited internally from either the production line or...

for Lincolnshire haulier, TW Roffe of Sutton St James. Barnes says 25-55 is the preferred age range. But once in, "you try and...

Cyril Knowles of Purfleet, says that the firm is more likely to employ a driver his age than a youngster of 25. Two drivers...