by Ian Wylie • Road congestion could rise even more than current forecasts over the next 15 years if the Government accepts the...

• Nearly 30% of trains dedicated to the Eurotunnel's LGV Le Shuttle service ran at least 10 minutes late during January and...

driver 'intimidation' THE FUTURE by Steve McQueen • The Transport & General Workers Union has launched five initiatives...

• Smaller hauliers are having to trust to luck when Ending their way through the maze of new health and safety and...

T he Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's recommendations For improving air quality ram home the message that the...

Portsmouth jam by Ian Wylie • The Department of Transport is asking industry representatives if operators would be prepared to...

• Truck drivers are bracing themselves for delays of up to an hour on journeys to and from Portsmouth, because of 10km of road...

II Hauliers carrying escorted wide loads in the Cleveland area have been sent demands for extra Vehicle Excise Duty because the...

by Patrick Hook • Truck thefts, load thefts and hijackings are costing hauliers 60% more than originally thought according to a...

half of new road improvement schemes promised by Government for 1994/5 have been postponed, according to the British Road...

prove a truck driver was speeding before a fatal accident on the A75 StranraerDumfries road last March is being challenged at...

A former Minister for Roads and Traffic, Tory MP Peter Bottomley, has warned that Government plans to privatise the Transport...

by Karen Miles • Drivers and management made redundant by administrative receivers and insolvency practitioners in eight years...

• French haulage giant Norbert Dentressangle plans to open a reefer company next month as part of a 40% UK fleet expansion this...

• Transport Development Group has decided to appeal against the decision of North Western Deputy Licensing Authority John...

lute discharges when they appeared before Halifax magistrates accused of using a dangerous semi-trailer following a wheel-loss...

• Brian Yeardley Continental has succeeded in obtaining a licence in the South Eastern & Metropolitan traffic area. The company...

.4 6 • A man whose scrapyard was used to cut up a stolen truck has been given 140 hours of community service at Leicester...

by John Kendall • Fiat will launch a 800kg payload panel van at the Turin Show next month, according to Italian magazine...

by Bryan Jarvis • lveco Ford's SPO (Special Production Options) department has developed a centre-lift pusher axle conversion...

by Cohn Sowinan III KUM De-NOx will not only cut Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) in a truck's exhaust but its maker, KHM of Doncaster,...

• Cab heater maker Eberspacher has developed a version of its popular Dlr, heater with an integrated control box which saves on...

EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • The Eaton Vorad EVT-200 collision warning system ((.TM 28 March) has been helping American...

a clause insuring employees against injury when on company business away from the workplace. Bearing in mind that companies...

It is my experience that regardless of the circumstances the police can enter your cab, examine your charts and retain whatever...

A sk six people to think "4x4 pickup" and the general image will probably be: two-man cab, one-tonne payload and increased...

Now that the Brava has separate front seats, there is no excuse for not fitting a proper handbrake lever. The umbrella-type...

or just a vehicle whose tooling has long since paid for itself? The Citroen C15 seems to have been around since Mitterand was a...

0 n the face of it, the European Machinery Directive is a sensible piece of legislation. It seeks to stop EU members imposing...

6 he quality-based licensing regime T which governs UK hauliers applies more rigorous standards than prevail anywhere else in...