• Lawyers in Pontefract's Crown Prosecution Service will meet next week to consider the case against J Wright Heavy Haulage...

• Unions have continued their campaign against the closure of two Traffic Area Office's in a highly critical submission to new...

by Herren Hayes • The Government has backed down over plans that would have allowed holders of rigid and drawbar licences to...

• Armed police are now taking part in roadside spot-checks as part of the nationwide anti-terrorist effort. Officers maintain...

o road haulier has ever been convicted of corporate manslaughter (see lead story). It's always been difficult to define, let...

over Rockwood by Karen Miles • Hundreds of staff formerly employed by the collapsed transport giant Rockwood Holdings are...

• Truck winner Chris London Transport is calling for witnesses after the iveco Ford EuroTech he won in a Commercial Motor...

• The proposed emission testing for trucks by city councils (CM 1 1-1 7 July) could make hauliers the victims of...

• Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal accident at the Dartford crossing in Kent which killed an 11-year old girl and...

• Country lanes will become seriously clogged with congestion within 30 years, with hauliers witnessing a tripling of rural...

by Lee Iiimber • Eurotunnel has stopped installing new chocks in its cross-Channel truck carriages after drivers complained...

• Disappointing sales tor the Dart Line freight ferry have held back Jacobs Holdings' half. yearly profits, despite increasing...

• Tanker operators across the country could be undercut for major contracts with water utilities following Welsh Water's...

• Nightfrc , Dist , 1ition has won a £4m five - year contract to deliver forklift trucks produced by Bit currently delivers its...

by Lee Kimber • Fair Trials Abroad director Stephen Jakobi is pressing European Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock to stop the...

by Derren Hayes • A three-week check of lorries using Cheshire motorways found nearly 60% were breaking the law. The...

• Foreign drivers need better information about driving in British towns and cities if accidents like last week's accident in...

• An acute shortage of lorry drivers means that only half the number of temporary vacancies are being filled, says a leading...

• Drivers' hours convictions, which resulted in fines of £6,700, led to Oriel Jones & Son, of Llanybydder, being given a...

given a formal warning about his maintenance standards. Dickson, who trades as William Dickson Haulage, of Prestonpans,...

• Aiding and abetting dangerous driving has resulted in the revocation of the 0-licence held by North Humberside haulier Peter...

• K Transport Services (Midlands) of Slade Heath, Wolverhampton, escaped with a warning after being called before West Midland...

• The transport manager of a Leicestershire company admitted he would probably have been making environmental representations...

• A brain-damaged man who dropped eggs on to four lorrie. from a bridge over the M56 in Cheshire has had his three-yec , prison...

• .1 haulage firm which left its Lancashire operating centre without notifying the Traffic Area Office claimed that an...

• Croft Backstop has a new Body-Guard system aimed at giving the driver a visible or audible warning if the tipper body is not...

by John Kendall • As predicted in Commercial Motor, Renault will fit the 12-litre Mack E7 engine in its European product range...

• Tata has introduced a drop. side version of the Loadbeta as an alternative to the conventional pickup and has increased...

• A forward-looking range finder for commercial vehicles and buses has been launched by Lancashire-based ControLazer. Using...

• Nissan has developed a seatbelt pre-tensioner designed to reduce the chance of injury in a frontal impact. Incorporated in...

• CM has driven the Fiz:t Scudo—one of the "mini-Seve7 family of vans—and first impressions suggest that :t could be a winner....

• Whale Tankers is to sup - ) custom-built tanker chassi, t ) Biwater International for use at a new sewage works at Larnaca in...

• TIP is to supply 12 cu sider trailers to Cheshin based WP Twibell and The trailers will service 4 contract. Twibell operat...

by Toby Clark • Peugeot intends to double its sales of light commercial vehicles by the end of next year, thanks to a broader...

• 1 September: Truckex 1996, South Cerney Airfield. South Cerney, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Cost: £2 Adults & Li...

Weighing it up • Vehicle weighing fir in, Maywood On Board, is developing new product plans following its purchase by Halma...

Licence chart • Driver agency Driver Hire has joined forces with the Freight Transport Association to produce a poster-size...

• Publishing group Phillips has designed a new range of road atlases for road transport users. The maps come in three different...

Three for two • Road Skills is offering to train three drivers for the price of two during August and September in its...

South-East and London • Hendon, M1 J2: The two sliproads closed for emergency repairs are expected to be closed until 30 June,...

• A472, Pontypool: Expect long delays around the A4042 and a contraflow between Pontymoile and the Heron roundabout during...

• Gloucestershire, A38 Gloucester: Regular delays during roadworks will continue at Cole Avenue roundabout and affect Shepherd...

• Derbyshire, A632: Diversions on to langwith Road at Bolsover Lane. Roadworks are expected to end on 25 August. • Derbyshire,...

• Cheshire, M6 J20-J21: Three narrow lines in both directions during widening work near Thelveall Viaduct will last until 20...

IIICity of Glasgow, M8 J15: Restricted westbound traffic at the Townhead junction will continue until 15 September. There are...

• County Antrim, A2 Carrickfergus: Expect delays due to restrictions on Larne Road at the junction with Rawbrae Road. • County...

K aren Miles (CM 25-31 July) deserves congratulations on sounding a warning note on the downside of franchising and having the...

I write in response to the recent article by Karen Miles about franchising ((M 25-31 July). As she says, franchising is often...

rm sure it was just an over sight, but Dart Line missed out on its entry in the Ferries Route Guide '96 (CM 8-14 August). Dart...

Y our story on whistleblowers this week (CM 15-21 August) is all very well. Lots of us drivers want to keep within the law and...

a he Hawk's closest encoun[er with tapdancing was drumming my fingers on the armrest during Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...

5 he discovery of life on Mars, albeit in microscopic form, three billion years ago, has made Steve Upton, a London furniture...

always gladdens the Hawk's heart to see a Reliant Robin in the spotlight where this trusty little vehicle belongs. And where...

a he discovery of two 1915 London County buses has brought to a halt work on clearing the site of a demolished bungalow at...

ost motorists groan inwardly at the sight of a squeegee merchant with a bucket of filthy water at the next set of lights. Many...

4-Series cab. After a long delay right-hookers are finally arriving in numbers, so was it worth waiting for';' A ll right, all...

This new Scania is the truck owner-drivers will want to have a look at. We asked some drivers for their verdict after a short...

New Government proposals will give employers the right to know if job applicants have a criminal past. Will it deny a second...

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act introduced the idea that convictions could be regarded as 'spent' after a set period of...

Merseyside's used truck dealers aren't finding life too easy, as CM discovered when it talked to three key players in the...

Manual handling legislation has made many distribution firms ensure their vehicles can be loaded safely and efficiently....

The nine-to-five working day might never have been common for those in road transport but even the same set hours each week...

P&O Distribution, a division of POETS, started to introduce annualis?..i hours at six depots in February last year. The system...

Merseyside immediately lorings to mind the pop music explosio of the sixties, the phenomenal success of the Beatles and a leg...

man • director. FLEET: TR Trailers, 30 veh TR Transport, 20 vehicles. Buys ne fleet is almost entirely Renault, incl some...

Deveney. CONTACT: Bobby Maguire, operations director. FLEET: 25 vehicles including 18 Volvo FL10s, two Seddon Atkinson Stratos,...

occasion, a quarter of a century ago, he visited an antiques fair at Lloyds in London. Casting his expert eye over the...

Glasgow and Immingham. The general hau lag e arm is based at St Helens with 3,700m 2 of warehousing and a depot in London....

Yarmouth. A subsidiary, Dorsanval Shipping, organises freight forwarding by sea from Liverpool. FOUNDED: 1976, Brom borough....

you imagine the sires of moving home to another country? Bob Clarke can. Each year his co-npany, John Mason International, is...

moved coal during the day and handled removals during the evening. "It was," says Clarke, "a sensible utilisation of vehicles."...

and Croydon. 21,000m 2 of storage/handling space in Liverpool. FOUNDED: 1884, as a coal merchant, by Mary Mason. CONTACT: Bob...

1930 by Arthur Darlington, grandfather of the present managing director. CONTACT: John Darlington, managing director. FLEET: 20...

I NEED SOME MO? BUSINESS FUNDINI MERSEYSIDE M erseyside is one of only three M re g ions which q ualify as Obje( One areas...

Merseyside Developtr Corporation: 0151 236 6090. Government Office Merseyside: 0151 224 6460. Liverpool City Counci 0151 227...

Local authorities will soon ha ve the power to penalise operators with heavily polluting vehicles. But there are fears that...

The Department of the Enviror allocating £11m-worth of aid c next three years to pump-prime tiu for vehicles run on liquified...

6 mpounding of vehicles seems to be the I only option being considered to rid the haulage industry of "cowboy" operators. But...