plans for a stock market listing following warnings of a slowdown in world trade, but it stresses that volumes are unlikely to...

freight-only sailings on the Poole-Cherbourg route throughout August and September. It is also running an extra sailing on the...

to the European parliament building, saying this reflects the increasing power of the parliament.

six children when he crashed into their car after only 2 hours sleep has been fined £100. Steven Anderson admitted driving...

his £200,000 load of bath robes, say Kent police. Driver Metin Senor had stopped at a lay-by on the A20 at Wrotham when he was...

guard after vandals targeted trucks from a footbridge across the A38 near Burton on Trent, Staffs, twice in a matter of days....

as finances are investigated • by Cliff Caswell ERF has moved to allay customer fears after parent company MAN suspended two...

• The Institute of Directors (100) has branded the government's 10-Year Transport Plan as ineffective: it is calling for...

• A strike that threatened to paralyse fuel deliveries to Jet filling stations has been called off with just hours to go. The...

• by Miles Brignall Roadside checks are regularly cancelled because police officers are not available to stop vehicles— but...

Oil giant BP is continuing to ;all down its bulk fuel operaow in the OK with the sale of vo depots in the South-West Takao° as...

• 0-licence discs in truck windscreens could be phased out following the computerisation of the Traffic Area Offices. The...

by Dominic Perry Geoff Hoyle, one of the former directors of failed Dover haulier Frigoline, has condemned the government and...

• The rise in the number of foreign-registered vehicles entering the UK appears to have slowed, according to new figures from...

• Polluting trucks could be stopped and operators fined £60 if local authorities are given new powers to tackle air quality....

of warrior ' s weight gain IIII A specialist heavy haulier overloaded an artic with two armoured personnel carriers after the...

• by Dominic Perry :urotunnel has taken its fight against stowaway problems to a mew level this week by issuing a art to close...

I Holyhead-based Gwynedd "ansport's 0-licence is under reat after repeated speeding ffences by 14 of its dryers, Welsh Traffic...

• The government should pay heed to the warning that its ro-Year Transport Plan is ineffective— particularly as it comes from...

John Spellar was appointed Transport Minister in June—the fourth hand in three years to take up the reins. In his first...

• It's not just on tax that Spellar toes the government line. Commenting on the fines international operators face for carrying...

ri A Sheffield man who set up an unregistered haulage business as a front for drug-smuggling has failed in a bid to cut his...

• by Cliff Caswell Utility companies have slammed a new congestionbusting initiative which gives local authorities the power to...

• by Kevin Swallow Daihatsu has expanded its UK Net microvan range with two new factory-built bodies and a dual-fuel vehicle,...

see what difference the dual-fuel system makes to the driving experience. With the addition of a 32-litre LPG tank fitted at...

Volvo FM12 360 4x2 drawbar units and lightweight Don-Bur closecoupled tandem-axle trailers to shift pallets for CKH-CHEP: and...

BRS, the 1.1K's largest manufacturer-owned rental fleet, has been approved to the new 1509001: 2000 quality standard by Lloyd's...

Transmission firm ZF has bought the German component supplier Mannesmann Sachs from Siemens in a deal that wil increase its...

one et Geodis Cavewood's 40 new Volvo FH12 420s. The Frenchowned group makes the most of the fleet's frequent Continental...

• Have you been offered a quick-release mudguard system recentlyP If so George Matthew, inventor of the Quickwing system, would...

• Cumbrian operator Sam Ostle and Sons has an unusual approach to sourcing its 22strong fleet of Oaf tractive units: pay cash...

• by BM Godwin and Colin Barnett The disastrous fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel in March 1999 has led to a complete review of...

device designed to prevent wheel loss, and claims that it could pay for itself in terms of reduced maintenance. The Wheelcrown,...

• Schmitz is moving away from its traditional UK fare of reefer trailers with an increasing number of curtainsider sales. The...

PI MAN has decided to withdraw from full-time Involvement in European truck racing; from next year it will only supply engines...

A new approach to cleaning up truck engines has been launched by le. Dinex, in conjunction with the Energy Saying Trust....

• Since the introduction of the Reduced Pollution Certificate, the government's generosity has been both reduced and harder to...

Is Unless you are involved in buying after-market truck exhaust systems, the chances are you may not have heard of Dines before...

A Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based liaulier narrowly escaped having its licence revoked after years of ongoing maintenance problems, a...

after the Widnes-based firm pleaded guilty to 22 offences of using a vehicle when the speed limiter was not functioning....

from 16 vehicles and 16 trailers to 12 vehicles and 12 trailers for speed limiter offences. The company appeared before Welsh...

Cumbernauld-based Mitchell Soil Contractors lost its licence following its third disciplinary inquiry since 1997. The firm was...

Using a vehicle with defective brakes and a trailer without a test certificate cost Liverpool haulier Theresa Postlethwaite...

Ali articulated truck driver , .^. , ho started delivering hazardous loads after his HGV driving licence was suspended has...

An Erith haulier who persistently failed to respond to letters from the Area Traffic Office has lost his appeal against the...

A haulier was sent away with a stern warning after a discipli nary inquiry was told how one of his vehicles had been caught...

Dave McCall (Sound Off, CM9 15 Aug) is right to highlight road safety by whatever means he considers appropriate. The subject...

With reference to alcohol and tobacco smuggling (CM9-15 Aug), I think you are using the term "smuggling" in the wrong context....

I note from recent issues of CM that David Holmes, MD of Holmes of Heathrow, has written to you yet again about the London...

August), I resent the implication that there is something wrong with this company because there is a burnt out building at the...

Following recent reports that many of Britain's wagon drivers may have difficulty reading as well as counting, Spagthorpe Motor...

We know, we know—CM missed the year's most important anniversary. A letter has flooded in, complaining that we failed to...

is anything to go by, hauliers should stick to drivers under the 85-years-of-age mark. The case in point involves an...

are not quite as keen to speak to us as we are to them. Our reporters are used to having the odd phone call "accidentally" out...

he managed to crash into two of Buckingham Palace's gates on the same day. The unlucky trucker, who was carrying marquees for...

! PRICE AS TESTED: £15,245 ex-VAT (£15170 for basic vehicle, plus full bulkhead, £75). Delivery cost: £473 ex-VAT. ENGINE: 2.8...

transport industry has diminished. Insurance companies get a relatively small return for each vehicle, and where it was once...

vans. II Morgan fields all of these. As Tim Maughan reports, the company is living proof that you don't have to be a jack of...

But, as Pat Hagan reports, many hauliers say they are paying too much for this essential service. f truck drivers ever get too...

model for the rest of Europe and is even studied by foreign governments keen to learn how to improve their own industry. What...

Dutch transport companies carry around 540m tonnes of freight by road each year and the sector represents a third of all those...

the roadmaps of our major cities are likely to look quite different. Not that there will be many changes in geography; rather,...

transport plan for London, which is going to cost us a lot of money. The idea of congestion charging is becoming increasingly...