Transport secretary Alistair Darling has outlined plans for local councils to keep revenue from congestion charging beyond 2010...

The United Road Transport Union (URT11) has launched a mobile office which will travel across the UK providing driver's with...

tank trailer from Dairy Crest's Stroud depot. The alloy tanker was taken by a red tractor. Contact: Gloucestershire Police on...

the importance of looking after vehicle keys. Between 2001 and 2002,12% of stolen vehicles were accessed using keys.

The FTA has produced a compliance guide an the Horizontal Working Time Directive, which comes into force on 1 August. Contact:...

the Pall-Ex network. The firm declined to comment on the reason for its resignation.

In page 26 of our 17-23 July Issue we referred to the disqualification of Harold Henry Jones for maintenance offences and...

• by Dominic Perry Shocking new figures reveal that huge numbers of foreign hauliers are beating our justice system because the...

• Representatives from the tr rental and leasing industry arc meet with two senior traffic c missioners in a bid to Greer up c...

• A&R Logistics, the controversial Stoke haulage firm that was exposed by CM as an unlicensed operator last week (CM17-23...

buying trucks next August unless confusion surrounding the introduction of smart-card tachographs is cleared up. The warning...

• Marks & Spencer stores throughout the country could suffer severe disruption from a pay dispute involving 60 drivers. The...

• by Mike Jewell i BACK The first haulage firm to appear its penalty under the new stowaway fines regime has been heard in...

• West Country haulier William C Hockin, who had his Operator's Licence revoked for a second time after losing his appeal...

• by Chris Tindall A truck driver who took on a group of hijackers and was subjected to a terrifying ordeal says he is lucky...

on finer points of LRUC Act raotv:;• rti Customs and Excise is to canvas the views of 900 hauliers from the UK and 100 from...

for the Working Time Directive (see page la)? As the group human resources manager for ACC says: "To try to do something...

• A Midlands haulier says he is losing over 12,000 a week in earnings following the impounding of his vehicle by police, after...

Felixstowe Docks has fitted sensors to cranes to stop trucks being lifted into the air after a series of incidents at the port...

by Emma Penny Livestock hauliers could face running with much smaller loads and having to increase charges by 40% under new...

• The body of the wife of murdered millionaire haulage boss Amarjit Chohan has been found floating off the Dorset coast. Nancy...

• Recovery operators working on contract still risk facing Corporate manslaughter charges if there is a fatal accident. Simon...

• A Spanish truck driver has been jailed for two years after attempting to smuggle almost five million cigarettes into the UK....

• by Guy Sheppard Nearly 1,000 Co-op drivers are being offered a 35% increase in average hourly rates in preparation for the...

• The Department for Transport is funding a new organisation which aims to take freight off the roads in the UK and put it onto...

The aim of the awards is to raise the profile of women and highlight the diversity of available careers in what has...

The European Union is poised to tighten up on the practice of member states temporarily banning trucks from certain roads on...

• A reliable transport infrastructure must be in place if the UK is to remain competitive and generate growth, says a new...

• The race for number two position in the Transport and General Workers' Union (MG) has begun with two candidates at the...

• by Jennifer Ball Tim Andrews, the truck driver held hi a Greek prison after 14 Illegal immigrants were found on board his...

• Loss adjustors are offering a £30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of thieves who stole £300,000 worth of...

• Anti-theft firm Eurowatch has launched GlabalMonitor, a new service that electronically informs freight companies if their...

say devastated parents Pushed to get a job done within hours rules? Driving on despite being sleepy? Don't even consider it,...

• by John Kendall and Cohn Barnett Just when you though brakes were as sophisticated as they could be, two major manufacturers...

• The first fruits of a project to create a CO 2 -neutral synthetic diesel fuel are now powering road vehicles in Germany....

• Arvin Mentor, the US-based commercial vehicle parts supplier, has launched a bid to acquire industry rival Dana Corporation....

• ex took three Multidrive vehicles to an off-road site at Catterick Army base, with the formidable looking articulated...

After one of the longest launches in trucking history, with the first picture appearing here last September, the...

• When Commercial Motor recently needed a tractor for a special project— to be revealed shortly—M-8 came to our aid with an...

Using an unauthorised operating centre and running more vehicles than permitted has led to a month-long licence suspension for...

Goole - based Lowfield Haulage has been given a warning about breaches of the drivers' hours and tachograph rules. North...

cause danger of injury against Witney-based Chris Hayter (Transport) and its driver John Green have been dropped by VOSA....

at the roadside led to New Bharat Trucking of Southall, being fined E100, with 1300 costs, by the !Hord Magistrates. The...

about taking care to ensure that the organisation of its work allows its drivers to conform to the drivers' hours and...

do to the police because he felt that it was dangerous has lost her licence and been disqualified from holding one...

Maintenance problems have resulted in the licence held by Okehampton-based Mayflower Transport being cut by a quar ter and...

The Scottish Deputy IC Richard McFarlane has refused to return an impounded milk tanker used without authority by Fairfield...

I refer to the article in Commercial Motor ( CM19-25 June) entitled "To Dump or not to Dump?". Can I start by correcting the...

The comprehensive article "UK long-haul drivers endangered species" in Commercial Motor (CM10-16 July), bears out what my...

I am proposing the creation of an organisation along the lines of Fair Trials Abroad to deal with the transport industry. To...

75 years ago: 24 July 1928 London County Council said that it would spend £3,900 on five electrically-driven exhaust fans which...

' PRICE AS TESTED: £11,575 (ex-VAT), includes £10,250 for the basic vehicle.* ENGINE: 1.8 litres, 88hp (66kW). GVW: 2,240kg....

mobile phones while driving comes into force on i December the drivers of commercial vehicles will be targeted with higher...

Fleet operators need to gear up now for new legislation that will make the use of hand-held phones illegal while driving. Paul...

Road transport's image makes attracting and retaining staff more difficult than in most industries. Guy Sheppard examines some...

MI! hile they can solve many operational problems, especially in the short term, agency drivers continue to suffer a bad press....

panies in the road transport sector, from the smallest to the largest, can benefit from a training programme that enhances...

• It's not essential to understand the system in order to make it work for you. There are specialists that facilitate these...

For a list of centres providing support services concerning ADR, CPC, NVQ/SVQ, YDS or HGV online training, check out the IIHDTC...

has always been a bit of a minefield—not least because the rules keep changing. Well, here we go again. And if you don't think...