by Juliet Parish • About 150 hauliers who bought bulk dery through Fuel Management Supplies have been stranded by the dealer...

were given 12-month prison sentences this week for aiding and abetting drivers to falsify tachograph charts. Peter Housby and...

h■ Amanda Bradbury • "che biggest road transport strike since the 1979 "winter of discontent" looms for 3,500 BRS drivers,...

• On-board vehicle diagnostic systems could be used in future annual commercial vehicle testing according to Department of...

for privatisation • The Government is expected to divide British Rail's Trainload Freight into three regional units in...

• Two more Leyland Daf dealr:are making moves to switch Iveco Ford. Northamptonshire. based Peter Brown Leyland Dal, will...

• David Green will become the Freight Transport Associatic director general whe Garry Turvey retires October. Green, 50,...

drive a 3+3 licensed truck with one axle retracted as a 3+2, no matter how heavy its load is, although Construction and Use...

by Amanda Bradbury • The CBI is among employers' organisations warning operators they could be wasting their time competing for...

• Government officials are considering paying compensation to a truckstop owner whose roadside cafe business is being ruined by...

• Conglomerate Harrisons & Crosfield is inviting tenders for the purchase of 1.000 replacement trucks ranging from 7.5 to...

• Speculation intensified this week of an imminent announcement on the future ownership of commercial vehicle testing. Senior...

ERF to have an Allison World Series automatic transmission. The six-speed MD3560 auto box has been chosen to handle the...

EXCLUSIVE • Seddon Atkinson will begin engineering a new premium tractor—codenamed 77—at the end of this year. It will be...

• Engine compression brake manufacturer Jacobs plans to launch an exhaust brake in Europe later this year called the Xtarder....

MA 7.5-tonne MAN 8.150 has been modified to incorporate an electric driveline for use in a Munich-based city collection and...

• The Lane Group is using sulphur-free diesel from Sweden in nine Volvo FL10 distribution vehicles operating on contract for...

One first first cl emerg South( tender is an ; ageme Mere M Cab rigid chassis. tamed subsidiary SAVE fields Aerodynamic...

by Juliet Parish • Bleak prospects of redundancies, fleet reduction and a pay freeze face north-east coal hauliers as they...

• BRS Taskforce is looking for around 15 drivers for work it has won in South Wales— it wants about 11 drivers for ADR work at...

dealer buying spree • National motor dealer Reg Vardy has bought Mercedes-Benz light commercials and car dealership Callanders...

his cub by angry French farmers who destroyed his £20,000 load of strawberries earlier this month thinking they were...

• Paint manufacturer Cromadex will contract out its London inhouse transport operation to Hay Pollock of Essex next month. Hay...

• Receivers are looking for buyer for Thompsons Worldwide Removers, the Margate-based firm which crashed owing around .£400,000...

by Juliet Parish • British Gas is offering operators a dual-fuel conversion for light trucks costing up to £4.000. The deal...

• Insurance premiums could soar if European plans to ban independently produced lorry parts are introduced. The warning comes...

Mil • A band of 32 protesting residents have succeeded in having restrictions placed on SW Pegg (Haulage)'s licence after...

• A series of prohibition notices and a 100% annual test failure rate have led to the revocation of the licence held by William...

• Derbyshire heavy haulier 66 Heanor Haulage has had £560 knocked off its overloading fines after a Crown Court Judge said...

• Drivers' hours offences and tachograph falsi fication have resulted in early termination of Norwich-based Machayes...

• North Western Traffic Conunissioner Martin Albu has issued a formal warning to seven drivers formerly employed by Derbyshire...

Impounding the vehicles of rogue hauliers who operate outside the law will be the ultimate deterrent if the long-awaited...

According to Transport Secretary John MacGregor if you don't like the way other EC countries enforce road transport law:"Don't...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

TCM in the east • United Forktrucks of Thetford has been appointed official dealer for the TCIVI range of lift trucks in East...

Trucks show off • WV driving skill, best kept truck competitions and recovery/ emergency vehicle demonstrations are among the...

Circuit isolation • Isolating up to four main circuits, the Iveco Ford electric circuit immobiliser antivehicle-theft device...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min off-peak:...

Wales: (0836) 401 11 Midlands: (0836)40 East Anglia: (0836) North-West (0836) , North-East: (0836) 4 Scotland: (0836)401 N...

O nlernational hauliers will have to make up their own minds whether to use The Channel or slick with the ferries. But...

m an drivers, your hour has come. Style guru Andy Warhol predicted that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes and this could...

5 ruckfes - t supreme winner Dave Crowson (right) tells me his beautifully prepared Smnia rigid was no flash in the pan. The...

verheard at last week's Institute of Road Transport Engineers' annual conference: "BS5750? It's not a quality standard, it's a...

Sussex operator John Jempson has battled through two of its toughest years during which it had to fight to save its main...

I f nothing else, last week's Institute of Road Transport Engineers' exhibition proved that truck manufacturers, and truck...

Fly - tipping is a multi-million-pound crime that is a )light on the haulage industry and the environment. CM talked to the...

Following the success of a DoE-backed project to produce a streamlined 17tonner, aerodynamics experts have now applied similar...

comments bizarre' 4 H aving been involved in representing many hauliers, operators and drivers in connection with the loss of...

/1 ay I say Wow', what a Truckfest we had. At the truck section the vehicles were so clean it was almost impossible to accept...

T read CM every week and 1 I am appalled to see that yet again the Department of Transport is going n ■ do more surveys on...