by Rob Willock and David Craik • Hauliers face new maximum weight limits of 40 and 41 tonnes following publication of the...

• About 2,000 lorry loads a year will switch to rail between London and Glasgow following the launch of Parcelforce Worldwide's...

III Just days before the White Paper was published, the Government came under renewed pressure to raise lorry weights to 44...

by Karen Miles • Five thousand distribution workers at Exel Logistics are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute...

• Ho : . £1.7m, three-year contract with IC for the distribution of water-treatment chemicals. • Tibbett & Britten has signed...

• A west London man who was disqualified from driving last year has just been granted provisional entitlement to drive HGVs....

• A Dorset haulier lost £15,000 in earnings after the French Ministry of Transport wrongly impounded his truck for two months...

by Ian Wylie Tough trading conditions have forced one of Northern Ireland's largest hauliers, Connor Freight, into...

• The European Commission is pushing ahead with plans for a directive to force employers to consult staff over redundancies,...

THE DARK NEW DAWN 66 fter 20 years in the wilderness, this is the day transport policy bursts out into the light of a new...

by Steve McQueen • A Welsh livestock haulier has been fined £5,000 by Birmingham magistrates after being found guilty of 15...

• Police are calling for increased powers to breath-test suspected drink-drivers at the roadside and charge them if they fail....

• Refuse collection workers in Welwyn and Hatfield are being urged by smokers to group with other council employees to head-off...

• The world's biggest container lines will have to wait another six weeks before their futures are decided by the European...

• A subsidiary of the giant Ready Mixed Concrete Group, fined £150,000 after an employee was crushed to death by a lorry at its...

• A truck driver from Leeds has been charged with assault after a "road rage" incident on the AIM in North Yorkshire. A fight...

• Long-distance truckers on overseas hauls breached driving time restrictions to avoid prostitutes and bandits, and also to...

• Irish tipper operators have won an increase in the rate offered to shift 25,000 tonnes of barley to Cork's Ringaskiddy port....

• Ramsgate traffic ground to a halt last week when Richborough Power Station was transported four miles to the town's docks for...

The Freight Transport Association knows what's wrong with your truck—and thousands of trucks like it. The FTA's...

Occasionally, a vehicle comes along which stretches the rules of what belongs in the pages of CM. One such vehicle is the...

by Patrick Hook • The cost of worldwide vehicle tracking will come down next year with the launch of a new low-orbit satellite...

• Volvo is offering free servicing on Mitsubishi Canter 3.5-tonners. The three-year/1 00,000km package will apply to all new...

• Renault has developed a robotised gearbox that could revolutionise the way light commercial vehicles are driven. The BVR...

• New tests confirm that Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines produce significantly lower emissions than state-of-the-art...

• MAN has launched a mass-produced lean-burn natural gas engine for its articulated city buses which could be adapted for use...

by Charles Young • Deutz engines could eventually power Volvo light trucks under plans by the two companies to extend their...

• Volkswagen is launching a limited edition short-wheelbase Transporter 1200 which will arrive in selected dealerships next...

• A Tyneside tipper operator has had its licence cut from 20 vehicles and six trailers to 17 vehicles and three trailers after...

• Environmental representations from residents have led to the refusal of an application for a new one-vehicle licence by...

• West Wales haulage contractor Celtic European Freight has succeeded in a bid to triple its 0-licence authorisation despite...

• Derbyshire coal hauliers and skip-hire operators Richard and Steven Troth, trading as GS Hepworth, have been warned that...

• Operators could not come to a public inquiry making promises —they had to get it right from the start, said Eastern Traffic...

• Erdington based Viajay Sharma has to pay £1,030 after being convicted of two overloading offences by Stourbridge...

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S o while the Chancellor's fuel duty rises continue to kill off haulage firms, the RHA has protested by parking trucks in a...

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

[El ere's a wizard idea that gets the Hawk's seal of approval. Auto Shuttle Express, based at Cranleigh, Surrey, is taking over...

he Hawk and his faithful companion, Foden the dog, turned out in force to wave off the plucky cyclists tak ing part in this...

TOWN 8i COUNTRY The Citroen Dispatch is well suited to urban deliveries, but makes light of motorway cruising. It may be hard...

onspicuity systems help reduce accidents; they can also oniribute to an effective livery. Hauliers in the US are Iready...

a fraction of the cost of new ones, and provided you know what you're looking for, you could end up a real winner. N obody...

Hard-pressed hauliers thinking of selling up would do well to make their decision soon, as the Chancellor has decided to phase...

I3AL PAC (AG Parcelforce Worldwide's livery was redesigned last year to reflect its global ambitions. It is still realising...

The Irish government is bringing in a law to make consignors share the responsibility for overloading lorries. Meanwhile, the...

New rights for trade union members will soon be law, including a right to recognition. Do the proposals introduce a balance...

bridge-bashing incidents is to be reduced and safety on the roads improved, argues transport consultant Rhodri Clark. 'Route...