by Lee Kimber • The Government has laid the groundwork for a U-turn on European eyesight rules which were set to cost thousands...

• Bulk tanker firm United Transport has averted strike action from more than 120 drivers after reaching an eleventh hour pay...

over weak bridges IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST? by Derren Hayes • Closed circuit television is being used to trap lorry drivers who...

by Peter Swingler • Electrical distribution firm National Homecare has been fined nearly 140,000 because it failed to make its...

shhh listen carefully and you'll here the gentle rustling of skeletons as they prepare to tumble headlong out of hauliers'...

PC what to do! • Voice activated computei systems are poised to revolutionise the haulier's office, the Road Haulage...

• Two senior managers at Langdon Industries facing charges of conspiring to make false tachograph entries are set to go to...

• Stretches of road where the Fewston Transport lorry disaster took place are set for a 7.5-tonne limit. The restrictions...

• The Driving Standards Agency is set to publish its list of potential questions for drivers taking the new written section of...

on 0-licensing • The Government is being urged to give an amnesty to hauliers and drivers who break licensing, hours and...

by Karen Miles • Lorries, cars and buses have overtaken other energy users and now account for a quarter of total energy...

• Hazardous goods hauliers will be expected to send specialist engineers to chemical incidents within three hours following...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Department of Transport is planning to make hauliers' safety records public. Accident details, convic...

• Meat hauliers working for the failed abattoir Buchan Meat Producers are to be paid around a third of their £400,000 debts in...

• Truck drivers will enjoy better job prospects over the next three months. A survey of British employment prospects by job...

• The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) has cancelled this month's Engine and Rad show at Telford after four radiator...

by Amanda Bradbury • Kent police officers have raided a gypsy site near Rochester in the first stage of a national crackdown on...

• Granada's buy-out of Forte could go to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission if it does not quickly sell the 21 motorway...

• Wheel-loss accidents could become a tragic memory if a new wheel-stud from a British inventor lives up to its claims. John...

• Seat's Inca high-cube van is now available after a two-month delay. Initially there's just one model, powered by a VW...

• Swift Transport of Northampton has added three new Leyland Daf 85-330ATi 4x2s with cable reel carrying semi-trailers to its...

• MAN's long-awaited new F2000 eight-wheeler will make its first 1.5K appearance at TipCon in May, Two versions of the F2000 84...

• SuperTech International is marketing an electronic trailer lock/seal device via its UK subsidiary Newmark Technology of...

• TDG Industrial's bulk fluids specialist Linkman Tankers has invested more than £90,000 in a new stainless steel...

• Last week Commercial Motor revealed the story behind MAN's latest middleweight truck—the M2000—which is officially launched...

A vehicle examiner and North Western Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth clashed over the importance of a daily driver nil...

1 • Press cuttings of cases reported in Commercial Motor helped Michael Mercer, trading as Basingstoke Skip Hire, win an...

II A Welsh haulier has been warned by Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh "there are no second chances with continuous...

• A Wakefield haulier has been accused of pressurising one of his drivers to break the law by falsifying tachograph records....

T he Freight Transport Association shares the British Road Federation's concern about Government cuts to local road safety...

helps lead to the conviction of the thieves who took two white Mercedes tractors during February. The first disappeared...

Simon Sundedand, the 23 -year old who was jailed for five years last week after a Sheffield court found him guilty of covering...

building is no exception. There are plenty of books written about the British truck industry, but with a few notable exceptions...

13] ot many British drivers remember the days when hauling a load on German autobahns could lead to a sniper's bullet. But the...

Bernard Pike and his son Steve is this 1963 Ford Thames Trader. It was the first Ford model to have a sit-alongside engine and...

0 f the recent snow and low temperatures have been bothering you, spare a thought for the British Antarctic Survey. It has to...

Hold your game card so that )sition 1 is at the top right hand Place your card on top of the grid inted here, so that the top...

T his year's Commercial Motor Sleeper Cab Test was more exhaustive (and exhausting) than ever before, covering eight different...

ERF EC14 Olympic T his year's Olympic cab is updated in terms of trim and colouring, but is basically the same as the model...

Iveco cab AI give the impression of being the most solid. For )(ample most of the plastic panels tend to creak when you push...

Cab is claitned to be the largest cab f all, and certainly provides a terrific quantity of accommodation. But does it have...

cabs on test. The high roof Roadhaus, badged as the ltogether the MAN was judged as one of the best cabs on test. The high...

e Mere cab is the oldest in terms of design, having Ti been introduced way back in the early Seventies. In Ts respects this...

that was designed from the outset as a "super cab", and it is in the opinion of most of our testers still the most majestic of...

truck on test, came with a good deal of expectation. The Topline cab's innovative bunk design, in particular, had a lot to live...

the XL is higher and has a flatter floor. This results in NERIZIED I.93in of headroom on the engine tunnel, the largest of all,...

is was the most comprehensive cab test we've done, and it certainly proved a couple of useful points. First, that cabs have...

M oving freight off the roads on to rail is heralded a priority by the Government. Road congestion costs amount to Ll5bn a...

C hat you are doing is buying time and reducing the risk. If a thief wants something badly enough, it doesn't matter how well...

L istening to all of the Chancellor's annual Budget speech is a bit like going 12 rounds with Mike Tyson—you're left battered,...

But having dreamed a satisfying dream of felons slowly frying on the wire, he probably dismisses the idea as impractical. Odds...

advice for conventional society: "Your old road is rapidly agein', please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand......

in tree houses and ground camps were attempting to defend from the earthmovers and chain-saws. A group of up to 100 security...

for a year and a half' i aving had first hand experience, I'd like to guide you through the pitfalls of thinking you will be...