• Question: If a haulier hires a temporary driver to do a day's work, and during that time the driver is stopped by the police...

• Hauliers want to see tighter legal controls imposed on companies which supply temporary HGV drivers. The Road Haulage...

• Despite the first fall in truck registrations for more than two years last month, the market is reporting booming figures for...

• The Freight Transport Association has dismissed the National Association of Local Councils' call for a national sys tern of...

• In a surprise move, Stagecoach Holdings has taken over Southdown Motor Services. The company would not disclose the precise...

• ERF is cutting its workforce by around 5% and reducing its daily truck output in anticipation of a downturn in the UK truck...

Current European Chammship leader Rod Chapman w off the competition from e restarted "A" final this !ek in the second Truckeed...

• Senior traffic examiners in the North-East and the Midlands are taking unofficial industrial action as negotiations with the...

• The number of HGVs on Britain's roads will fall over the next five years, according to a forecast by the British Road...

• EC Transport Commissioner Karel Van Miert has said that "black box" style monitoring equipment will replace tachographs, as...

• AWD has announced an expansion of its national dealer network with the establishment of 27 new authorised service operators...

• Central Weighing, the Kidderminster-based vehicle weighing specialist, has been awarded further contracts to install both...

• Despite eagerness on bot sides, talks planned to heal d rift between Passenger Tram port Executive bosses and th Bus & Coach...

• Two new "Silent" trucks, an unusual mid-engined tractive unit, an air-injection system to reduce exhaust emissions and a...

Now there's 3. simple route to take. Now you don't have to wade rough a sea of Marine Underwriting minology and techniques to...

• Just nine months after its management buyout, Lowfield Distribution has been sold to two industry giants — Tibbett and...

• Heritage Hampers, part o the Cleveland-based Heritage Food Group, has signed a £1 million, three-year contract with Royal...

• Disappointing annual resti for the Government's Crown Suppliers will not deter the management buyout team, keen to buy the...

• Ferrymasters will take delivery of 50 new tractor units, 70 curtainsiders and 60 tilts next month as part of a fleet...

• Parcels carrier Nightfreight has taken its first step into Europe with an agreement with Anglo-Dutch operator Twente...

• Body Shop international has awarded its dedicated distribution contract to Peter Lane Transport Group. The contract, based...

I Red Star has launched a iajor review of its parcels oprations and is now on the hunt )t around 200 hauliers to do allection...

• Exel Logistics Consumer and Industrial has won the distribution contract for Lancia Genuine Parts to 500 dealers nationwide....

• South Wales haulier Cardiff International has taken delivery of 10 12.6m straight-frame tilt trailers to service a new...

• Walsall-based S Jones Transport Services Group has started up its own agency to combat the problem of finding top-calibre...

• The new Iveco Ford TurboDaily, due to be launched in the UK at the Scottish Show in November, will be joined by a 4x4 version...

• AWD has received its biggest order so far for the TL 17-18, launched in April this year. Marriott In-Flight Catering Services...

• Walsall-based S Jones has just completed a £48,000 contract to convert a Cumminspowered ERF E14 eightwheeler to accommodate a...

• Imports of commercial vehicles look set to decline as more European and Japanese designs are manufactured or assembled in...

• Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulste; has invested £500,000 in 24 Mercedes-Benz 1617 drop frame rigids fitted with DonBur Deckstepper...

• A new Eager Beaver minibus operation and a new Mainline double-decker base are to start in Sheffield next month, as South...

• Dublin-based Private Association of Motor Bus Operators has told its members not to sign contracts for school bus services...

• Cheltenham and District Bus Company is providing coach parking on a commercial basis, following the closure of the town's...

Group after MIT assets • Lothian Region Transport has reported a profit for the year to 31 March of 21.91 million, on a of 233...

call off strike • Trent Motor Traction drivers called off a second one-day strike on Friday to allow further talks to take...

new series • Mercedes-Benz bus and coach exhibits at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month will include a number of the new...

I Harrogate-based West irkshire Road Car company s been cleared of antimpetitive practices, after a -month investigation by the...

• Shalder Coaches, Shetland, has taken delivery of a twelfth Volvo in its 23-strong fleet of Bedfords and Volvos. The latest...

• Bus Eireann and Ulsterbus began a daily express coach service between Dublin and Belfast on Monday, the first such service...

• When Joan Rudciock said she intended to do battle with London's fly-tippers, one senior policeman warned her to drop her...

• The unauthorised use of a vehicle when not the holder of an Operator's Li:ence cost Cyril Harrison, of Derby, £900 in fines...

• Using two vehicles to move scrap timber from a yard two days after her inerim licence was revoked cost Vorcestershire haulier...

• G A Transport had "cloaked" the real reason for the dismissal of lorry driver D A Jones, said a Manchester Industrial...

• Fertymasters acted reasonably in sacking a driver who it believed had made false claims for wages on the basis of...

• Taff Ely Borough Council was slammed for a "lamentable lack of communication" by South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority...

• No action was taken against Blackburn Borough Transport when it appeared before North West ern Traffic Commissioner Mar tin...

I This November the Eurolean Transport Maintenance ;mind holds its seventh rumal conference in London or the first time. The...

SIR • I read your otherwise admirable "Any Questions" feature with considerable interest, both as the director of this...

IN Yorkshire tanker haulier Liquids, Powders & Gas is boosting its core business by offering training, tank cleaning and repair...

HONE THE 114C • The unlikely combination of a German prisoner of war and a half-share in a pig led to the formation of one of...

BY THE HAWK • The Daily Telegraph may have let slip its true feelings about the haulage industry in a report on the Transport...

• Tanker operators attending the RHA's Tankcon show last month got a double dose of tanker safety with the showing of the...

I By the time the fire brigade had arred on that cold, foggy December morn4, the surface of the M25 motorway was ght, so...

highest risk cargo, and follows with 1.2, 1.3 as the risk decreases, with 1.5, which may follow later as an after-thought...

packages, and Ford must have had this in mind when fitting the latest 1.8litre diesel engine into its new Fiesta. Designed by...

YOU'RE READY FOR A HIGHER PROFILE. SO ARE WE. Leyland DAF are already well-established as leading suppliers of trucks and...