• A multi-agency check between J13 and 115 on the M6 last week resulted in 14 drivers being sent to Mid Staffordshire...

by Miles Brignall • Drivers are demanding UK-wide pay rises of between 6% to 30% to make up for low settlements over the past...

• UK hauliers' hopes of getting 44 tonnes for general haulage died last week when the European Parliament threw out a...

• The Cones Hotline has been derided on peak-time television as "one of the worst cases of the Government wasting taxpayer's...

S ir Ernest Gowers, that tireless campaigner for plain words, hit the nail on the head when he declared: "Officials are the...

by Juliet Morrison • Hauliers fear last-minute annual truck test bookings will go if Vehicle Inspectorate plans go ahead to...

by Mike Jewell • A judge has threatened to imprison a driver and a Herefordshirebased haulier who admitted falsifying tacho...

• More than 40 tippermen are moving closer to persuading council planners to lift a depot restriction which forces many of them...

Drivers who rook redundancy from a manufacturing firm have walked into jobs with the haulier which took over the manufacturer's...

• An acute shortage of drivers in the West Midlands is forcing many hauliers to "bus" drivers into the region from as far away...

UK wins breather by Karen Miles • UK roads are among the worst in the EU, according to a survey of European company...

for a five-year exemption from the ADR rules on domestic whisky transport. The ADR packaged goods regulations threatened to...

• French authorities have been forced by appeal judges to return an impounded Irish-registered truck three months after it was...

Norbert Dentressangle has bought Manchester-based Professional Tanker Services (PTS). The 30-truck operation is the French...

by Karen Miles 0 Up to 260 drivers and 1,300 other staff at the ntermodal container operitor Freightliner will have :o wait...

III An LGV route map has been withdrawn by embarrassed officials after a production error resulted in the recommended routes...

by Jane Sayer • Most transport companies want investment incentives to be among the top priorities given by the Chancellor in...

• NFC parcels subsidiary Lynx is lowering prices on its European delivery service in a new deal with its partners in the Euro...

A 16-tonne rigid was found running on kerosene and nine truck drivers have been caught fraudulently claiming the dole in a...

• Italian authorities are cracking down on British reefer operators who fail to show the necessary documentation to drive...

by Karen Miles • Wincanton is set to benefit when its parent Unigate begins to use it to move 700 tnillion extra litres of milk...

driver was hijacked, handcuffed and hooded before being bundled into the back of a van by a gang who stole his 2300,000 load of...

EXCLUSIVE by John Kendall • Mercedes' replacement for the current LN2 range, which runs from 7.5 to 15 tonnes GVW, will be...

• The British Army's School of Mechanical Transport has added 140 Leyland Daf rigid and artic vehicles to its driver training...

II Burton Group Distribution of Leeds has taken delivery of 40 Scania P931VIL R220 4x2 drawbar outfits, 16 drawbar trailers and...

by Cohn Sowman • In contrast to the annual DRI Truck Report, Cardiff Business School is predicting that truck sales will remain...

• The Ordnance Survey has launched two more versions of its Oscar digital map. RouteManager and Network-Manager are designed to...

• Wide single trailer tyres cause 26% more road damage than twins, says ROR Rockwell's chief development engineer, Martin...

• Griffith Elder has launched the Ton-Tel in-motion axle weigher. The standard model will weigh up to 15 tonnes; higher...

• Leyland Daf is offering a new range of colours on its middleweight rigid range. At the lighter end, 45, 50 and 60 Series...

• Aerodyne Equipment of Perryvale, Middx has developed a streamlining package for the Leyland Daf 65, 75 and 85-Series day cab....

• An automatic light sensing system that switches sidelights on briefly when another vehicle approaches in the dark has been...

by Brian Areatherley. • As operators have continued to demand more power for their money, .Volvo's 6.7-litre diesel has found...

• The licence held by Jason Boocock of Batley in West Yorkshire, has been revoked on grounds of finance, convictions and poor...

• A bid for a new international licence by a man said to have run a number of haulage businesses using different names, has...

• Commercial Motor's new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert witnesses, haulage consultants...

Two dri , vers, who were paid substantial redundancy payments when their employer sold his haulage business, have lost claims...

• Ian Webb, who trades as U Webb & Sons of Bolton, has been refused an 0-licence allowing him to operate more trucks. He can...

• South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has adjourned consideration of an application by a former director of...

A wrong or mistaken declaration of VAT can result in fines. But if you are not at fault you can appeal. T he types of...

a Scania 143 470, reg G597 UOD, from the Lee Mill Industrial Estate, just outside Plymouth, It was coupled to a La mberet...

T am writing in response to Ian article I recently read on dangerous trucks in a car magazine. As an operator who tries to...

their own value in the used truck market are long gone. While it used to be fine forthe majority of franchised dealers to...

a „ you or I this might look like a bog standard Ford Escort of a certain age, the sort of "motor" Arthur Daley might try to...

0 am tempted to award this picture of the BP Under Seventeens Car Club an accolade for the most people ever gathered in one...

i0 t first sight this sign, erected by Sevenoaks Council at a Kent beauty spot, appears to be over egging the pudding. But a...

tie of the most delicate loads ever to cross a City was moved through Paris under police escort last week. Frozen in liquid...

5 he Simmonite Sisters were back in action in the four-day Network Q RAG Rally. The be-logo'd Stephanie and Rachael Simmonite...

despatched to other young sports fans living near the Koidu Mission in Sierra Leone.The children from three schools in Rugeley...

need 500hp for operation in the UK. They'd be right but this hasn't stopped every major manufacturer from developing models to...

19.502, in June 1991, the Renault AE's American Mack vee-eight had squeezed out an extra 3hp over the MAN'S vee-10. But in...

was light and braking was well controlled by the Bosch ABS system. Instruments and controls were practically positioned except...

forward with two MPs agreeing to ask questions in support of CM's campaign, now that the House of Commons has reopened...

Supporters of CM'S campaign continue to contact us with messages of support. Here is a recent selection. James Roper, managing...

Toyota dealers now have less money tied up in stock since the car manufacturer together with Redhill operator Hammonds...

The cell floor was a carpet of unwashed dies, packed tightly together in an aborate lattice-work pattern. Thirty-five en were...

T HIRTY of the 32 UK trainees who successfully completed their studies as part of the Euroqualification pilot study in the road...

C OPIES of the following RHDTC publications are now available: * Road Haulage & Distribution Vocational Standards (levels 1...

Continuing the series of profiles of directors of the RHDTC I N 1967, following careers in the police, army and colonial...

I AN Hetherington joined the RHDTC in November as its new Business Development Manager. His task is to generate income to...

T I 1E RI IDTC has made significant advances in three main areas over the past year, according to the Council's Chairman,...

candidates for road haulage and distribution N/SVQs at levels 1 and 2: RSA Examinations Board * Bristol Myers Squibb...

HE Joint Industry Council for Lift Truck Operating Standards & Vocational Qualifications has published standards for lift truck...

T HE RHDTC, as the sector's Lead Body is,with support funding from the Employment Department, currently developing a modern...

N ationally some 430 NVQs have staff are helping the traffic clerks and now been awarded to individuothers to put together the...

The RHDTC officially launched supervisory and management standards in London at the end of November. T HE Road Haulage &...

H ERE are some further questions _ and answers — concerning vocational qualifications. • What is an assessor? An assessor is...

I N its role as the industry's Lead Body with responsibility for identifying, upholding and maintaining national standards...

A CHIEVING qualifications such as the Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) and certification under the Road Traffic...

6 ow can our Government allow Norbert Dentressangle, to march in and stampede over what is already a very shaky British...