By Brian Weathortey /Dave Young WHAT WAS BILLED as a "modest protest" by haulage pressure group Transaction proved to be...

THE DEPARTMENT FOR Transport (DfT) was canvassing the views of Scottish haulage companies as CM went to press, to find out...

The convoy of protesters in London represented a broad mix of operators from across the country. Joe Cook, head of...

REPORTS BY DRIVERS that they have been gassed while sleeping in their cabs, allowing criminal gangs to steal their loads, have...

Manchester City Council's chief executive has told a meeting of haulage operators that a decision has not yet been made on...

By Bryan Jarvis WITH THE UK continuing to wait for a government decision on testing longer, heavier vehicles, prominent Irish...

A KENT RESIDENT has defended her decision to accept £3000 from a property developer to help her campaign for better facilities...

DRAFT CHANGES TO the European Union's Eurovignette Directive could mean that hauliers are charged tolls covering the direct and...

A REPORT INTO the impact of foreign drivers on UK roads estimates that accidents, congestion and insurance claims by goods...

is having on UK haulage and what it needs to do to survive. These are wonderful times if one leans towards pessimism. Oil...

By Andy Satter FOLLOWING ON from the successful CV Show debut of the 500 Series 18-tonner at the CV Show in April, Hino is...

A TRUCK DRIVER who complained that his delivery round was too large has been awarded more than £5,000 compensation against DHL...

LE JONES, one of the North-West's largest Independent haulage firms, appeared before Wrexham magistrates last week. charged...

FUEL CELL DEVELOPER Intelligent Energy (IE) and PSA Peugeot Citroen have developed a prototype electric van with a hydrogen...

Rikki Chequer, community manager of TruckNet UK, reports on current hot topics at the driver forum. Despite the whiff of doom...

By David Harris THE UK'S SPECIALIST road freight crime unit, TruckPol, wants to standardise the response and investigation of...

CARLSBERG UK HAS taken on 15 lsuzu NOR 7.5-tonners following a nine-month evaluation period in the urban delivery field. All...

emissions question Roger King FRIGOBLOCK HAS questioned why Transport for London (TfL) does not consider the emissions from...

VEHICLE COUPLING and landing leg specialst Jost, which restructured its management team before the CV Show, has revealed demand...

NATIONAL GRID IS using a pair of specially modified Daf LF45s to reduce disruption caused by essential road repairs. Designed...

ROAD HAULAGE Association (RHA) chief executive Roger King has revealed he is due to step down in May 2009 after nine years in...

The arrival of the Premium Lander eight-legger completes Renault Truck's UK multi-wheeler line-up. We're the first to drive...

The government's decision to drop plans for a vignette system for foreign HGVs and invest more money in Vosa could prove...

As managing director of Tiss, I felt compelled to respond to the letter published in CM (10 April) entitled: 'Shock tactics...

Recently, we've seen the police "too busy to arrest" illegal immigrants, (CM 20 March), which was reported by Turners of Soham,...

While exposing "bent" operators and prosecuting consignors is welcome, there is another side to it. For years, other lawyers...

URTU is a union for drivers, and general secretary Bob Monks explains what the most important issues are for those out on the...

Getting freight off the roads and on to other modes of transport is a hot topic as businesses consider their carbon footprints....

Licence revocation avoided because the offences were caused by incompetence rather than intent A COMPANY that had been fined...

NEIGHBOURS OF A rural haulier have failed in their bid to have action taken against the firm's licence due to concerns over its...

COMPLAINTS FROM residents blocked an application for the use of a site in Lenham Heath, but an application from another firm...

A DEPUTY Traffic Commissioner has ordered that a further maintenance inspection be carried out in June on a C.astleford, West...

A COMPANY whose driver invented an imaginary friend to fiddle tachograph charts has been ordered to pay fines and costs of...

Digital tachographs are proving a mixed blessing for drivers. They may simplify record keeping, but they have some annoying...

Operators renting a new property would be well advised to study the lease carefully it may prove to be heavily weighted in...

By Louise Cole _ _ A LACK OF BUSINESS confidence has manifested itself in the latest employment survey from driver specialist...

NATIONAL STATISTICS reveal the manufacturing sector is keeping its head above water with marginal increases in productivity,...

8y Louise Cote A SURVEY BY the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has highlighted a dramatic slowing of the...

THE ROAD HAULAGE market grew overall by 5.5% last year but only 5% of companies achieved the same rate of sales growth as in...

THE RETAIL MARKET shows a mixed picture, suggesting that transport operators in this sector should diversify where they can and...

ACCORDING TO THE Office of National Statistics, the UK's trade deficit on goods and services was £4.4bn in February. compared...

THE CHANCELLOR MAY be predicting between 2.25 and 2.75% economic growth hut the Confederation of British Industry has other...

IT MAY INTEREST transport firms struggling on sub-3% profit margins that other sectors do not feel their pain. According to...

No haulier can afford not to reclaim the full cost of fuel these days. So what is the best way to do this? Words: Louise Cole...

base level of diesel cost in its invoicing, with any rise accounted for by surcharges. However, customer contracts and...

major clients, but nonetheless, chairman Anne Preston says it is very difficult to administer. 'It is a major headache. It is...

There's no logistics without land. But is there enough land in the UK suitable for rapidly expanding haulage companies? Words:...

Words: Theo de Pencier Images: Graham Richardson Each year, the UK government collects around I:42bn in VED, fuel duty. VAT on...

Open-book accounting can clearly demonstrate and justify costs. But are there disadvantages in showing your hand to clients?...

The Lowdown on the trucking spectacular Say the words "Truckfest" and "Peterborough" and most people will immediately conjure...

Last year's Classic Commercial Motor Show attracted an amazing turnout of old-timers spanning 80 years of transport history...

Peterborough has always been a great place to kick back and enjoy yourself, not least at the 'official' Sunday-night bash,...

With a typically no-nonsense approach to the transport industry, Marco Haig is a man with some innovative ideas on how to...

On the face of it, Scotland has an awful lot going for it. By and large, property prices remain on the right side of ridiculous...

In the preliminary phone calls to set up our meeting, we asked Marco Haig to think less about the past, and more about the...

If you needed proof that electric vehicles are moving out of the shadows and into the mainstream, you only had to take a look...

Not exactly electric, but a definite fuel saver that the market has proved slow to take to its heart, Mercedes-Benz' automatic...

MERCEDES-BENZ and Volvo Trucks will both be selling used vehicles at this year's Truckfest. Dale Slee, sales manager at M-B's...

In less than three years Chris Hart has transformed Trucks 2 Go into a multi-million-pound business. But he isn't resting on...