CM INVESTIGATION by Miles Brignall and Rob Willock • Commercial Motor has uncovered a red diesel racket in East London...

• Neariy 500 workers at the port of Felixstowe are voting on possible strike action over poor pay levels. The "sinkers and...

• Worries over the economy look set to be ignored by the Transport and General Workers Union when it opens wage negotiations...

• A 32-year-old driver with Dewsbury-based Sewell Distribution is being held in a French prison on suspicion of trying to...

by David Craik • Trans-Action has cancelled its latest London demonstration planned for Monday 24 August to send a 100-strong...

• The Scottish Transport and General Workers Union is promising its drivers they can expect better pay in time for the new...

etter red than dead—a phrase that describes the views of some in light of our experiences this week in purchasing red diesel...

by Karen Miles • BOC Distribution Services is to pull out of a large chunk of its temperature controlled network as problems...

• Shaun Ryan, of Coniston Gardens, Wembley, arrested last month on suspicion of being a con-artist who borrows demonstrator...

• An Essex commercial vehicle engine broker under suspicion of dealing with stolen parts was raided last week by police,...

by Ian Wylie II A campaign by the United Road Transport Union to create a single union for the haulage industry has been slated...

• Tenneco Automotive, manufacturer of exhausts and shock absorbers, has chosen P&O Ferrymosters to provide inter-plant...

• Unions around the world will join forces on 8 September to protest about drivers' working hours. European activities will...

• Due to a dangerous manufacturing defect, owners of Woosung tyres are being urged to get them checked as soon as possible as...

by Karen Miles III A small South Yorkshire haulier amazed at the lack of data on stolen trailers has forced the Home Office to...

• A new group of protesting pig formers which last week held up hauliers entering the port of Immingham has said it has no...

• A survival guide giving drivers a range of "escape" routes from tailbacks on the M5, M42 and M6 has been published....

• The owner of a 61-year-old Lancashire container haulage firm is closing its doors at the end of August blaming low rates...

by Miles Brignall and David Craik • The incidence of illegal immigrants stowing away is out of control. Last week Italian...

halt the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the country, according to a firm which has found 52 stowaways in just two...

Any spin doctor will tell you that a campaign needs a beginning, a middle and, above all else, an end. But ERN Fuel Duel shows...

• Newlands Farm, in Cornwall, has bought two Mitsubishi Canter 7.5tonners for its milk distribuF tion fleet. They were bought...

• Nissan's Terrano II Van will be on sale from next month. It is essentially the same vehicle as Ford's outgoing Maverick....

• West Drayton-based Taybred Lines has added 11 new high-volume Montracon triaxle curtainsiders and a pair of twinsteer Daf...

by Colin Barnett • The proposed merger between Dennis and Henlys (CM 6-12 August) has developed into a boardroom battle....

by Toby Clark • Ford will be showing a "concept" Transit van at the IAA Show in Hanover in September. The van will give an...

Drivers have slammed truckstop and service station owners for ripping them off by overcharging for snacks, water, food and milk...

• An English ex-lorry driver is seeking urgent assistance from drivers all over Europe to help his one-man lobbying campaign...

• A Manchester waste disposal troi company has been given until the end of the year to sort out its maintenance. North...

• Scottish DTC Richard McFarlane took no action against the licence held by Millar (Skip Hire) of Kelso, and accepted its...

• Leicestershire haulier F Sherwood & Sons must wait to see what disciplinary action Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey...

• Welshpool-based David Bebb has had the authorisation on his licence reduced from five to four vehicles until he sorts out...

• North Eastern Traffic Commi ssioner Keith Waterworth has warned Dewsbury-based ICS (Northern) that further overloading...

• Abingdon magistrates have convicted Witneybased David King, trading as King Haulage, of three overloading offences, but...

CM'S Haulage Factfile pages provide busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

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...

W hile trying to make sense of all the forthcoming changes in our industry it appears that all the anti-transport lobbyists and...

T hepoor old UK haulier thought he could see a glimpse of light at the end of the long dark tunnel. As January 1999 got ever...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

Ei his mysterious shrouded figure is being hoisted into place on the wall of the National Maritime Museum's new £20m...

a ookbg radiant don't you think? And the bride seems quite cheerful too! This gleaming new Foden Alpha was chosen by the...

a here's simply no pleasing some women! Caring hubbie David Froggatt, of Ludlow, Shropshire, is so concerned about road rage...

MAKER Mention Scania to hauliers and many assume they are the motors of the more image conscious (and affluent) operators. The...

it's likely to get stricter. Onboard weighing equipment can help keep you on the right side of the law, and it can also...

to get your vehicle to its destination on time, only to face unloading delays when you get there. But by dragging along a...

leave specialists to handle ancillary jobs...such as transport. DTS Logistics has flourished by doing the exact oppos_ijts...

Ford's Transit is now well into its fourth decade, but that doesn't mean that development has stopped. We take a look at some...

F ord's contribution to the budding alternative fuel market is the Transit Bi-fuel. Based on the 113hp 2.0-litre...

T he UK is well provided for with independent bodybuilders, and after all these years it's not surprising that the Transit...

CM has teamed up with Donald Armour from the Freight Transport Association's legal department to highlight laws in the...

of the Environmental Services Association. Fly - tipping has increased and waste is disappearing into unregulated sites....