• Truck driving test candidates will have to give 10 working days' notice if they want to receive a kill refund of the £62.50...

by Miles Brignall • Southamptonbased international haulier Kingswood Transport has suspended trading, leaving 33 drivers with...

• Hundreds of in-house and contract drivers could lose their jobs as Safeways' parent Argyll carries out a massive review of...

• Eurotunnel faces almost insurmountable odds if it is to meet the freight-carrying forecasts it used to renegotiate the £700m...

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers who want to operate 44-tonne vehicles should begin to lobby their MEPs now if legislation allowing...

here are times when we wish we had paid more attention at school. Especially to basic physics. Now what was it Sir Isaac Newton...

by Martyn Ziegler • A gang handling stolen trucks has been jailed for up to six years, after the ring was smashed by Humberside...

• The United Road Transport Union is to campaign for the compulsory introduction of headboards on flatbed trailers following a...

• Parcels delivery firm Group 4 Nightspeed is replacing subcontractors with owner-drivers in a bid to cut costs and improve...

• Springer spaniels are being used to sniff out illegal immigrants hidden in trucks and trailers. Drivers face up to seven...

• Diesel engines will continue to be the first choice in British trucks well into the next century, according to a top...

motorways and develop greener lorries for the rest of the road network have been dismissed as nonsense by the haulage...

campaign to ban bull bars on vehicles following a 28°o increase in the number of children who were hit and killed by road...

• Brewery drivers are waiting to find out if their jobs are safe following Scottish & Newcastle's agreement with Foster's...

by Karen Miles • Lorry drivers languishing in Moroccan jails on disputed drugs convictions are hoping for a review of their...

• The number of foreign lorries inspected at the roadside is decreasing, according to roads minister Steven Norris. Norris...

A Gloucester-based owner-driver has been fined £420 at the German/Danish border for failing to display a "vignette" or motorway...

• January's 10% rises in Severn Bridge tolls pushed more trucks on to minor roads in Gloucestershire, bringing the threat of...

• Hauliers are being asked to help people with learning difficulties by advertising the British Dyslexia Association's helpline...

by Miles Brignall • The High Court is to decide if the law on drivers hours and rest breaks needs to go back to the European...

• Nearly one in 10 lorries stopped by Trading Standards Officers in Gloucestershire last year was overloaded, according to...

• A Leeds Industrial Tribunal has decided that Linfox (UK) was right to dismiss tanker driver Christopher Norton for breaches...

• Middleton. Manchesterbased W Harrison & Sons (Carriers) is backing a driver's High Court appeal against a magistrates...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has adjourned consideration of disciplinary action against Kingswinfordbased AE Hawkins...

• The authorisation on the licence held by Michael Leah Skip Hire of Penzance was cut to five vehicles at an Exeter...

• Michael Shirley, trading as MJS Transport, has won authority to base two vehicles and three trailers at Leek Road, Wetley...

• Laser International Transport of Hythe is appealing against South Eastern LA Michael Turner's ban on reefers at its operating...

Don't know who to turn to? Commercial Motor can help! The latest version of CM's Legal Directory is now available to readers,...

• Staffordshire haulier DSH Freight Services, and its transport manager Shaun Hughes, have been convicted of permitting and...

• Wigan Magis trates ordered Transtrack (War rington) to pay £ 3.765 in fines, costs and back duty after deciding that a Volvo...

• UK operators had the first chance to see Cummins' Euro-2 B, C, and N-series engines at the IRTE Show in Telford last week....

• Bridgend heavy haulier GC Keedwell's 120-tonne rated Scania 144 10x4 tractive unit had its first public viewing at the...

0 am sure that readers will agree that Commercial Motor is normally perfect in every respect and bears testament to the hard...

hile everyone would agree that good traffic policing is necessary for the wellbeing of all road users, it is rare when a...

H as Prince Edward at last got a "proper" job testing new trucks after years of mixing with luvvies in the theatre world and,...

9 eff Barker from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, had been driving tankers for four years when, second in a convoy of four...

a he whiter-than-white detergent Persil received a bad press last year after consumer tests showed it was capable of eating...

I n your 27 April-3 May issue you ran an article including a photograph of a tipper owned by CCC of Liverpool, with the caption...

T read with amazement the I report in your issue 11-17 May that the Illegal Operations Working Group (10WG) recommends a...

On the rails • Thyssen Haniel Logistic (TI-IL) has merged its national distribution and European groupage division with German...

• Wickes Building Supplies has opened a 9,300mE "command centre" for its home delivery operation at Brackmills Industrial Park,...

• The Swiss-based Danzas Group has completed a freight terminal in Purfleet, Essex, which also serves as a UK and regional head...

• Combidrive of Llandeilo, Dyfed is now UK and Irish distributor for the Germanmade Suco centrifugal clutches for reefer units....

• The Lex Arlington Enfield Truck Centre has been renamed Lex Commercials; it is one of the biggest truck centres in London....

Talking transport • Transport Minister John Watts will be among the speakers at the FrancoBritish Transport Forum on 13 June...

• A test drive at Silverstone and a tour of the WilliamsRenault Formula One Team technical centre are offered to the winner of...

• The next Automotive Trade Show, run by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, will be held on 27-30 April 1997 at...

• The two day Transport Telematics conference is being held at Margam Park, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales on 5-6 July. It...

Doubling up • P&O European Ferries has doubled the sailing on its Felixstowe-Rotterdam route by dedicating two more ferries to...

Multipart centre • An open learning centre designed to provide support for small businesses has opened at Multipart...

Berth °lace • P&O European Ferries has opened an extra berth at the Port of Calais, France. Built at a cost of £20m, it was...

• Freightback claims its subscription-based return load service allows drivers to negotiate their own rates with clients...

• Anyone asking for a motor insurance quote from Sun Alliance will be given a free tax disc holder which is said to be...

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

In A technical helpline and bulletin service has been set up for members of the Independent Garage Association-and it received...

• A leaflet warning of the dangers of leaving plastic cards in unattended vehicles has been produced by Card Watch, the banking...

• Bartholomew is introducing its new GB map on CD-ROM at the GIS'95 Show at the NEC in Birmingham on 24 May. The software is...

• Castro' has introduced a 5W/40 synthetic oil for heavy diesel engines that is claimed to cut fuel consumption by 4% and oil...

• Navigationally challenged drivers can plot their mute in advance with Philip's Routefinder, a £199 calculator-sized device...

MING EDE • Back in the mid-eighties the Swedes were happily running huge loggers at 57 tonnes, so the power of Volvo's...

tipper operator Jonas Crowther where director Graham Crowther is keeping busy, knocking a football about. And why not? His...

7osei, T : urn any corner in West Yorkshire and you're likely to find yourself in a haulage yard. This region appears to have...

To lease or buy that new depot? There's no easy answer but if you rent, beware onerous leasing terms and if you buy, watch out...

6 espite angry dockside protests against the long-distance transport of live animals, the RSPCA continues to identify...