by Amanda Bradbury II Lancashire produce hauliers who operate 100 truck movements a night are under threat from planners. But...

• Vehicle examiners furious Over preparations" for the privatisation of LGV testing may strike to disrupt the sell-off. The...

by Nicky Clarke • Christian Salvesen has bought automotive and industrial haulier Swift Transport Services for almost £84m,...

• Anti-truck theft checkpoints will be dotted around the country within two months as part of a joint venture between the...

• Strathaven tipper operator Yuill & Dodds has lost its appeal against a one-week suspension of its licence for 101 vehicles...

Commission is to review operator licensing legislation in an attempt to achieve greater harmonisation of 0 licence conditions...

U nions are gearing up to demand a substantial increase in drivers' pay—a move that will scupper hopes for smoother pay talks...

• Vital A-road approaches to the Blackwall Tunnel in southeast London used by nearly two and a half thousand LGVs a day could...

fresh life into the Flowers name by buying the York-based firm's warehousing, truck rental and maintenance business. Last week...

• Union chief Victor McGeer, who speaks for 30,000 truck drivers at many of Britain's transport companies, is stepping down....

by Juliet Parish • Contract hire and rentals firm Transfleet Services has bought assets worth £3.5m from rival Rockfield,...

• A massive shake-up looks set to take place at Ford next year as the UK's largest seller of cars makes plans to invest...

• Spanish-owned FOCSA (Services UK) has beaten French-owned Onyx UK and the British-owned AAH Environmental Services to a...

by Amanda Bradbury • National Ash, the ash sales subsidiary of National Power has strongly refuted recent press reports that it...

• Four ports have joined Russell Davies and P&O in the bid for British Rail-owned rail container company Freightliner, which is...

by Toby Clark • MAN has completed the longterm revision of its truck range with the launch of the L2000, a replacement for the...

• Solihull-based Whale Tankers has developed a low height Jetvac tanker for working in areas such as underground car parks and...

• Wootton Trailers of Ancaster, Lincs has developed a six-wheeled trailer with extending side and integral hydraulic floor...

by Alan Bunting • Volvo is to dual-source electronic unit injectors for its new overhead camshaft D12 engine, in order to...

by Alan Bunting • Air suspension has two major advantages over steel or rubber. The ride is generally better: and changing the...

by Amanda Bradbury • A truck crime investigation expected to uncover evidence of the theft of about 300 LGVs by one gang is...

• Problems with maintenance at the Littlehampton depot of Rowe & Co, which the company blamed on human failure, led to its...

• Hucknall.based Gedling Plant Hire's licence has been suspended for a month to allow a dispute between mother and son over the...

• The licence held by William Coutts Trans port (Peterhead) will be renewed for two years only, with a final warning about...

• A 62% overload led to Abery st w yt h-based John and Karen Walsh appearing at disciplinary proceedings before South Wales...

• Premier Poultry has been granted authority to base 24 vehicles and 10 trailers at its poultry processing plant at East...

by Juliet Parish • Campaigning trucker Ilona Richards is to host a glittering awards night to salute the industry's under-rated...

He's not the only one. After years of peaceful co-existence it appears that West Lancs District Council doesn't want nasty...

week after loading it with caravan parts from a factory raid, Mercia Transport's FL6 curtainsider was parked overnight outside...

EICCLUSIVE I t's always easier for a vehicle manufacturer to aim at an existing market than to shoot for a new one—and...

I veco Ford's UK truck dealers and salesmen, we suspect, know just how General Gordon's troops must have felt at Khartoum. Like...

Mike Walton drives a Daf 2800 for Nelsons Transport, Keighley, Yorkshire. Before he opened the door he commented: "The handle...

on freight were cut to a minimum with the arrival of the much-vaunted single market. Since that time: • international journey...

F lip through Commercial Motor's legal pages on any week and the chances are you'll find a court case on overloading. Some are...

• Overloading a goods vehicle is an absolute offence. In other words the vehicle is, or isn't operating within its plated legal...

in 1976 and realised they needed to put their one asset to work to replenish the coffers. The asset was a van and so the couple...

The Association of Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers has published a Code of Practice for the safe application and...

theoretical ability to lift 11 tonnes with an extension ability of 53 feet (16m). "Realistically it can pick up about 8.5...

disciplines of that cut-throat sector into a 34-yearold family haulage firm. Former Red Star boss lvan Couchman is now running...

The Lincoln Farm Cafe T his is the kind of place where you might arrange to meet someone to whom you owe money: it's not easy...