• If the Department of Transport has got its sums right on enforcement it should be congratulated. But if the traffic examiners...

• Law-breaking hauliers will find it easier to escape detection from next year, because of cuts in traffic examiners overtime...

• Graham Marshall, founder of the 63-bedroom Truckworld truckstop at Thurrock near the Dartford Tunnel, is bidding to buy back...

• The RSPCA has abandoned its plan to take legal action to stop hauliers from taking live sheep to France, but is stepping up...

• NFC's transport businesses have turned in a patchy set of contributions to the group's year-end results. Group pre-tax...

• An inquiry by the French transport department has blamed the deaths of 49 sheep in a truck on board the French SNAT ferry...

• EC transport ministers have finally agreed on plans to harmonise the length of drawbars. At their council in Brussels this...

• Hauliers who are owed up to £400,000 following the crash of Stone Supplies (Stoke St Michael) last month (CM 8-14 November)...

• The Government has announced tough new regulations to stamp out fly-tipping. From May operators who carry waste will be...

• Waste haulier Hales of Hertfordshire has boosted Commercial Motor's wheel loss research campaign by £250 this week, taking...

• British Rail's choice of Wakefield as the site for its West Yorkshire rail freight terminal has contradicted plans which last...

• Somerset County Council's national campaign to restrict trucks over 17 tonnes to motorways (CM 13-19 December) is "a ragbag...

• AWD has abandoned its plan to introduce a 38-tonne premium tractor based on the old Bedford TM cab. Instead it is...

IN Renault's long awaited new contender in the 3.6-7.4 tonne market, the B-Series, will go on sale in the UK from the new year....

• ERF is putting its workforce on a four-day week during January to reduce the levels of trucks in stock. It has also shut down...

• Trailer rental giant Tiphook has snapped up a 10% stake in rival company TIP Europe. Tiphook chairman Robert Montague...

• More than half of Speedlink's customers could be left without a viable rail freight alternative following Railfreight...

• Dedicated Magazine Deliveries — the magazine distribution consortium formed from the ashes of Times Sensitive Deliveries...

• Walter Alexander, Plaxton and Northern Counties are in the running to produce approved bodies for VL Bus & Coach's new Lynx...

• South Yorkshire Transport has introduced a computer system on one of its high frequency routes in Sheffield to prevent bus...

• The final Omni minibuses came off the production line at City Vehicle Engineering in Shildon, County Durham last week, as...

• Overloading fines against Llannvst-based Cawley Bros have been reduced from 21,200 to 2300 at Knutsford Crown Court after...

• Ray Witts, who trades as Ray Witts Transport, has successfully appealed aga - nst a conviction for three offences of...

• Worcesterbased haulier John Williams, who is currently serving a sevenyear prison sentence for smuggling cannabis, has had...

• An Essex truck driver and his employer, J Loveric Transport, have been charged with a series of hours and tachograph...

Paul Ashwell, the Northampton lorry driver, hit the headlines when he was jailed in Greece for unwittingly carrying part of the...

The Commercial Motor first tested the Ford Model AA in June 1930. We thought that it was time to reappraise the forerunner of...

IT • "Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way . . ." — the plaintive voices of the kids carol singing their way down the...

• The giant Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square is the 44th tree the city of Oslo has given to the city of London. The first...

• Peter Christian is one of the most famous truckers in Britain. To soap opera fans he is Frank Rogers, resident lorry driver...

He turned, realising calmly that it hadn't been a dream after all. His great, great grandfather, still looking like an extra...