40 Surrey - based waste man agement firm AgJBull has bought 29 Fodens to join its fleet of 150 vehicles. • Truck dealer...

• RHA director-general Steven Norris is to meet Home Office Minister Mike O'Brien to tell him to stop treating drivers who find...

• Not one truckstop visited as part of an RNA project into overnight parking security could be described as 100A secure. David...

REPORT: RHA CONFERENCE, CYPRUS by David Craik MI Road Haulage Association directorgeneral Steven Norris faces a revolt from...

disputes are not on the agenda in the United States, where drivers' pay has been increased by as much as 20%. In contrast with...

• Lucas Varity is to sell its tachograph division to German manufacturer VDO over the next four years. LucasVarity owns 60 of...

• A thug who attacked a truck driver after the driver hi stopped him throwing stones at his vehicie has been sentenc to nine...

by Charles Young • Canny hauliers are hitting back at the price of parts in Volvo dealerships by inventing "competitive quotes"...

by Karen Miles • Ventura International is to make "an orderly retreat" from international haulage. The eight-yearold operation...

• P&O Stena Line has said it will after all increase fares for hauliers on three of its major Continental routes next year just...

ity the top brass at the Road Haulage , Association. Tormented by the Treasury on fuel I : tax and VED. Ignored by civil...

• Union leaders are asking the governments of Eastern European countries to repatriate thousands of drivers who have been...

Quiet roads could cut fuel bills toll scuffle are denied • Reports of a scuffle between protesters against Skye bridge tolls...

reduce tyre noise could hove a beneficial effect on hauliers' fuel bills. A welcome side effect of "whisper concrete" is said...

• A London truck driver who tried to extort money from the haulage company which had sacked him has been found guilty of...

• Danish-owned freight forwarder DanTransport (UK) has more than doubled in size with the acquisition of Croydonbased Inter...

• Road Haulage Association director-general Steven Norris has told the UK haulage industry to follow the example of French...

by Ian Wylie • New research commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture suggests conventional advice about the transport of...

• A Dublin truck driver, arrested as he tried to board a ferry with a container of stolen computer parts, has pleaded guilty to...

• Neil Kinnock is sei to leave the top transport post in Europe, swapping his Brussels job for another in the European...

• Ryder has won the contract to move steel drums for Van Leer UK out of its Ellesmere Port, Burton-onTrent and Hull plants. 29...

by Peter Swingler • More than 60 0 1 of trucks weighed during an investigation last month were found to be overloaded—...

• Hauliers in Ireland face an uncertain rime as they await a pre-Christmas Tesco announcement on the winners of its...

• A lorry driver has been found guilty of smuggling £180,000-worth of cannabis. Canterbury Crown Court heard that 54.4kg of the...

• An Ayrshire lorry driver's nine-month jail sentence for causing the deaths of a young couple in a road accident has been...

by David Craik • Michael Rayner, the driver involved in April's MI runaway Scania drama, has been sent out back behind the...

• A Guildford driver who has one artificial leg has passed the rigid HGV test. Marc McFarlane had a leg amputated in 1995 as a...

As recycling schemes continue to be introduced on the back of evertougher environmental legislation, transport opportunities...

Many operators on both sides of the Atlantic are blissfully unaware that Renault owns Mack Trucks. Yet in the seven years since...

• As Mack develops the E7 straight-six, time is running out for its 16.4-litre E9 V8, offered in the Magnum at 560hp. According...

• CM recently drove a left-hand drive Ma bodged Magnum demonstrator arou Allentown, Pennsylvania; home of Renault's subsidiary....

At 1 0 litres: Mack engineers are jointly working on a new uprated version of the six-cyl der 10-litre Renault engine (used in...

• The unauthorised use of a vehicle has led to two vehicles and two trailers being suspended for three days from the licence...

• Grimsby Crown Court has acquitted a Fleetwood driver of c a using death by dangerous driving following detailed examination...

• Cumbrian hau Okr lier Keith Law escaped with a final warning at a second disciplinary inquiry within six months. Law,...

• Failure by BOC staff to distribute a load evenly on a semi-trailer has cost a Barnsley haulage company and one of its...

• Several overloading offences and a failure to produce tacho records has cost Wetherhy-based AB Couriers 1.:2,100 in fines and...

• Clitheroe-based AJA Smith has lost an appeal against a 2600 fine imposed on the company by Leyland magistrates for an 18%...

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Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

'Thank goodness someone (the British consul in Bucharest, Romania) is at last trying to get clarification over an issue that is...

W e can fully understand the confusion of Paul Williams as highlighted in his letter (CM 15-21 Oct). We believe the simplest...

T he item in industry news headed "Tractor licence loopholes" (CM 8-14 (Jct) makes a very valid but disturbing point. I hope Mr...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

la he Hawk is not a great political bird. So when it comes round to party conference season he is more likely than not to be...

emember summer, where did that go to? Well way back in June at the 1998 Leyland Rally, held at the British Commercial Vehicle...

0 ometimes traffic wardens (who do a very difficult lob in trying circumstances) can be their own worst enemies. The jobsworth...

Six months ago CM road-tested Renault's new version of the Master. On a short acquaintanc we were impressed. Now CM has lived...

'MUCKS How do you conjure up a tanker from a curtainsided trailer? Securicor Omega Logistics certainly knows the secret,...

The trend is now for premiums to .1 rise, so how can this be addressed? PDid you know you can take on an element of...

years ago gave h his big break. Now he has cornered a lucrative niche market: machinery haulag T hirty years ago, Chris...

The spectre of low pay is crippling the haulage industry. Battered by meagre wages in return for punishing work schedules, HGV...

from slow paying clients—but will they dare use the law when there are so many competitors ready to take over their work? Guy...

of IBC: the international haulier is evaluating a bulker trailer built by Belgian specialist Stevens...out of plastic....

W hen the previous government launched the National Cycling Strategy in 1996 to double cycle trips by 2002, it also formed the...