• The Channel Tunnel's opening, which was scheduled for mid-Summer, has been delayed until next year because of a row between...

by Jane Sayer • Furious hauliers aim to stop a gang of truck thieves who specialise in Volvos by offering a .C35,000 reward....

by Gary AlIden and Juliet Parish • Northamptonshire-based haulier C Butt believes a LlOm fire at a warehouse used for a Texas...

• Leyland Dal's receiver plans to reach agreement in principle for the truck business within a fortnight. However,...

• The trial involving three traffic planners and 32 drivers employed by Eddie Stobart began last week with the employees facing...

4/5March: D399 FPW and E358 XRM; taken 18 March: D592 LAH and H321 SVC. Trevor Matthews' F12: K97 JNG. Barry White's F16: G528...

• Police chiefs want to get rid of a legal anomaly which appears to prevent officers from entering a truck's cab to inspect...

by Kathy Watson • Operators could be asked to contribute to a fighting fund to claw back some of £423,000 pounds owed them by...

• Drivers who accidentally lose their licences can now get a temporary cover note on the spot from their local registration...

by Juliet Parish and Steve McQueen • Local authorities have been ordered to get tough with hauliers who run illegal livestock...

• The Transport and General Workers Union moved a step closer to international collective bargaining this week by making a deal...

still managed to put iat factory Lingotto. North seeing. vee-eight. The chassis can be specified with the lower P. and...

EXCLUSIVE • A sharp-eyed Commercial Motor reader has had an unscheduled preview of Iveco's long-awaited flagship, the EuroStar,...

III RD Fuels of Stafford has acquired the UK's first Strato 210 17-tonne tanker with the EuroCargo cab. The 210 was launched...

According to Kaiser Bill, the British Expeditionary Force which dared to stand in his way in France in 1914 was a "Contemptible...

By Kathy Watson and Amanda Bradbury • Waste hauliers could be hit by Government intervention to halt imports of toxic waste....

• Wincanton and Eddie Stobart are sliding towards a Transfer of Undertakings dispute with union chiefs after winning business...

• Russell Davies plans to double its non-container work within the next five years by expanding into the Continent and...

By Eugene SiIke • BRS will make more than 30 drivers redundant next month when their work is transferred to sister company...

by Karen Miles • The war of words over contracts for road rescue in North Yorkshire blew up this week as the RAC threatened to...

The 500 in-house Co-Op drivers who are covered by the General Distributive Workers Agreement are being balloted on a 1.75% pay...

• Linkman Tankers h opened talks with the TGWU after 20 driven Middlesbrough threatt an unofficial strike. It I appointed a...

A licence for 31 vehicles and 31 trailers held by Paul and Wendy Brennan, trading as Brennan Tankers (Leeds) has been revoked....

An anonymous letter detailing allegations of law breaking by Pembroke-based Nolan Transport will be investigated further...

• Warwick-based Tuffskips director David Hardwick was told to get his act together by West Midland TC John Mervyn Pugh at a...

Beck & Pollitzer Engineering's dismissal of a driver after he refused to wear a hard hat on a construction site was ruled fair...

Environmental conditions placed on Littleboroughbased Rodney Rudge & Sons' licence are alleged to have led to drivers...

Macclesfield lorry driver Robert Chapman has been sent to prison for five years for smuggling drugs into the UK hidden in a...

• Pembroke owner di Gareth Griffiths has bi given interim authorit operate from a new op ing centre at Goodwicl telling South...

• This years AVRO Expo stand at CM's Truckfest features a rescue demonstration of a laden car transporter and overturned...

• Handling heavy loads such as beer kegs from side-access vehicles can be made easier using Don-bur's new moving gantry system...

• Wheelbase Engineering has completed an unusual low-height tipping tanker trailer for chemical manufacturer Hickson Manm for...

• Walsall council has invested £85,000 in a Foden 4300 8x4 equipped with a Boughton Ampliroll hooklift and Atlas 8 tonne/metre...

by Brian Weatherley • Put a six-litre engine up against a seven and the bigger diesel will always win on performance, right?...

• This year's Harrogate show may not be awash with new models, but they are certainly heavier. Five months ago C&U regs were...

• The used vehicle market is experiencing an interesting time at present, with the good quality two or three-year-old vehicle...

One of our trucks was stopped in a check and diverted to a ministry test station for examination. After it had been on the...

Police stopped one of my trucks and claimed that a crack in the windscreen on the nearside was likely to interfere with the...

white Christmas had arrived early after 12 bales of cotton from a lorry escaped on to the motorway, scattering white cotton...

for the Heathrow Flyers who will be visiting the East of England Showground on 2/3 May to promote the group's latest single, My...

5 ruckfest certainly hauls them in—after the Hawk's recent mention of Ian Lawson and son Ross planning to travel more than 600...

visibility, of lorries at night by the use of reflective strips and decals. However, in darkest Dartmoor COWspicuity is all the...

ale_ 5 wo lorries carrying Guinness kegs valued at £100,000 were hijacked by armed gunmen on the Irish border last week —...

Paint seminars • Environmental implications for product finishing will be discussed in a series of seminars promoted by paint...

Bodybuilding • IRTE show visitors will be able to discuss their body building requirements with staff from the Vehicle...

Dealer courses • [veep Ford Truck is expecting over 3,000 delegates to attend its new dealer training courses this year as...

Estimating software • A new workshop estimating module is available for users of KBA Motor Trade Management Software. It...

Hauliers who innocently buy currently leased vehicles have little protection in law. But a proposed scheme may place the onus...

pack, £11,199; metallic paint, £140; other options, £600: see text). Engine: 2.5-litre turbo-diesel, 64kW (86hp). GVW:...

Bulletin some practical problems have become apparent, which are summed up in a recent speeding case. A businessman driving...

C an apolice officer enter the cab of a heavy goods vehicle to inspect the tachograph and any tachograph discs which are in the...

in Cambridgeshire, summonses have been brought against the haulier, its driver and the consignor under the Road Traffic Act...

H ow safe is your operation? During a recession it is tempting to try and answer this question by refering to your order book,...

r e e new Road Traffic Act has amended the law relating to disclosure of any relvant disabilities to the DVLC. While the right...

T he single European market affects every UK business which trades in goods or services with other EC states. A number of major...

Most haulier's are, from time to time, faced with a customer who won't pay. If the haulier is holding the customer's goods an...

Headlines like "Transport Tribunal Upholds Bloggs Appeal appear regularly in Commercial Motor, but what is the Transport...

A s an international haulier I have been somewhat perturbed over the past couple of years by the number of Turkish-owned....

4 i k n efficient licensing service is one which gives customers good value for money as well as ensuring that bona-fide...