In the 5-11July issue of Commercial Motor we suggested that Burscoughbased David Crompton threatened a Deputy Traffic...

Research conducted by the University of Wales College has shown that 400 wet-road accidents could be avoided every year if...

A series of enforcement measures have been introduced to stamp out a new footand-mouth outbreak in North Yorkshire. Vehicles...

A third of the 3,400 annual deaths on the UK roads may involve vehicles being driven for commercial reasons says road safety...

Drivers are lodging insurance claims against Scottish Borders Council after the bodywork on their vehicles was damaged by...

Motorists on the A9 in Perthshire are to be targeted In a police crackdown on speeding and bad driving.

An emergency fund to keep nearly 6,000 miles of roads in North Yorkshire open in the depths of winter could be £1m short if...

• by Guy Sheppard Car giant Ford is set to bring up to 180 car transporting jobs back in-house in a move which is set to...

• The former director of a disgraced transport firm has won his appeal against a seven-year ban from holding an 0-licence after...

Hard-pressed steel hauliers are bracing themselves for slump in European steel production if the US government lecides to...

• by Guy Sheppard More than 120 Conoco oll tanker drivers will decide this weekend whether to take strike action after the...

• by Dominic Perry Wincanton Logistics has narrowly avoided industrial action at two of its depots after it improved pay offers...

trial in the springtime • The IRTEC "licensed" CV technician scheme operated through the Society of Operations Engineers is...

The scheme is expected to save up to 4.5-million lorry miles a year. It has received £2.1m from the Strategic Rail Authority,...

• The directors of Crewe-based Combined Road Services (CRS) have decided to go into the property business rather than carry on...

We like to hear the stole: readers think we shout be following. CM is happi to preserve the anony mity of readers who pro vide...

r Dominic Perry itunnel is planning to fight government in the High 't if it presses ahead with is to extend the £2,000-a...

When you consider that the average cost of a single road accident is estimated at f947,37o, what would you pay to prevent one?...

• by Dominic Perry A truck driver who mowed down a motorist while sending a text message to his girlfriend has failed in his...

urging the Home Office to get tough on mobile phone use. The magistrates want to see offenders hit with a £60 fine and three...

• Drivers falling asleep at the wheel could become a thing of the past thanks to an 'artificial passenger' system developed by...

legal action for falling to comply with a rule designed to harmonise HGV tolls. It has given Belgium, Germany, Spain, Greece,...

y Dominic Perry ier operators threatened I ruin by the "Aggregates Tax" to come in on 1 April next r( CM 25 Jan - 1 Feb) are...

The Vehicle Inspectorate has opened a lagship testing station in Manchester— its first new site for 10 years—but has no )lans...

• by Colin Barnett and Steve Banner A new range of aggressively priced trucks is set to hit UK streets in October. North...

point out that in our wallchart on Vehicle Excise Duty published last week (CM19-25 July) the ordinary 12-month rates given 1...

appear on the streets. Five examples have joined the Forre: Furnishing fleet, running out of East Kilbride. The 75E1ls are...

• Continental Tyres Group's new CV tyre dealer network is now fully established, according to managing director Brian Smith....

is to be broken up and sold off next year. The respected German business magazine Manager had claimed that the five divisions...

The VeMIS 3 vehicle information system can now be combined with Triscan's fuel management system: drivers can use their VeMIS...

preparing h impending pollution legislation, according to tank manufacturers ar hirers Terence Barker Tanks. The fir is...

• Two established Volvo truck operators have added 49 new FM12 tractor units to their fleets. Drinks logistics company...

it in style. That seems to be the philosophy of East Yorkshire arable farmer Roger Makin—he has just taken delivery of a 4x2...

the revocation of his HGV licence and a five-year licence ban for hours' offences and for falsifying tachograph records. Bolton...

holding an 0-licence by Scottish TC Michael Betts. The IC was not satisfied Gracie met financial and professional competence...

While taking no action against the licence held by RJ Clark & Sons, of Dalrymple, Scottish TC Michael Betts gave them a...

N International Trucking, has been suspended until he appears at a public inquiry. Perrett-Jones failed to attend a Cambridge...

based liwikway Wholesalers being suspended for a fortnight. The firm had been called before West Midland TC David Dixon at a...

North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe has sent out a clear message to operators—break promises given at a...

A Birmingham trucker who was caught driving a 41-tonne antic with a forged driving licence has been disqualified from driving...

Witney-based ABS Manufacturing was given a conditional discharge for 12 months after admitting permitting drivers' hours...

A Liverpool company that lost its operator's licence in December 2000 has succeeded in winning a fresh one. Aintree-based...

Repeated speed-limiter offences cost Shrewsbury haulier Garry Slater a total of 85,075 in fines and costs when he appeared...

11 Speedy tyre changing is vital for meeting delivery schedules, which is why AL Automotive is marketing the latest Gaithers...

▪ Unipart group member Serck Intertruck has a new work shop consumables catalogue that spans maintenance hardware, health and...

• Ashford International has updated its range of internal and external paints for commercial vehicles, including vans. New...

• Hillaldam Coburn of New Malden, Surrey has a new design of overhead slide gear suitable for supporting heavy-duty curtains...

• A revised version of Federal Mogul's AE and Payen service engineering bulletins (SFEs) has bean published giving details on...

• Brigade's new Backalarm reversing safety system uses the latest broadband sound technology (bbs-tekTv) to address problems...

Pwl lheli-based CI( Tools is rketing a new waterproof iedition padlock from Abus as eterrent against opportunist ayes. Made...

• Ferodo is forecasting that 90% of all trucks and trailers will have shifted from drums to discs by 2006. The company's fast...

Milton Keynes-based ikita UK has added two w lower-priced 150mm bital sanders to its cat)gue. The B06040 random bital sander...

III Laser Tools has a new treatment for leaky oil seals on vehicles of over three years old, that it claims will stop seals...

• Trailer load theft in 2000 cost around 230 million and nearly 30,000 illegal immigrants were detained while entering the UK,...

i refer to your recent article concerning the proposal that trailers should be registered (CM 12-18 July). Surely all trailers...

As a serving traffic cop on the KV Unit of Lancashire Constabulary I read with great interest the article headed "Register...

To set the record straight, Mr KM was a director of a company which, in spite of the use of the Pall-Ex name in its title, was...

Sadly we smaller operators have to rely on the big boys to fight our expensive battle against the London Lorry Ban. The LBTS...

by now much travelled golf day cup has been mysteriously returned to our offices in balmy or, if you ever walk down the high...

a cottage by a few metres, after its driver suffered an allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Gerry Biandford, of...

Eric Strongitharm Oswaldtwistle. The owners of Spagthorpe Motor Company have clearly over-reacted to the possibility of...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £61,077 (ex-VAT)* ENGINE: 11.95 litres, 422hp (315kW). GVW: itt000kg. PAYLOAD: 25,600kg. FUEL CONSUMPTION:...

DRIVERS' VIEWS • We met STEWART SIRWRICHT at the Crick BP Truck Stop In the Scania 113 drawbar rig he drives for Westerman...

transport. You'd be forgiven for thinking the work peaks and troughs during the year, but thanks to modern farming and storage...

lected from local farms as well as from farms in Suffolk, Kent, Essex, Hereford and Lincolnshire. Many of the potatoes...

some deliveries will be made in tippers that were used to move carcasses at the height of the foot-and-mouth crisis. ShepparP...

le and Securicor Omega Logistics recently confirmed that it was setting up a scheme to work more closely with owner-drivers....

staff a better picture of how their company is performing. In theory, this should be a step forward for employees. But, as Mike...

• The government, which was hell-bent on wooing the small business vote during the General Election, held out long and hard...

much wider piece of legislation that includes a range of matters from the co-ordination of social security systems to noise,...

to attack the skin and leave a trail of dermatological disorders in their wake. The way to avoid them is to know the risk and...

• HGV workshops wanting to take the subject more seriously can begin by exploring the Health and Safety Executive's web site...

While you're thinking about that, run a check on your compressor and airline system—your money might just he disappearing into...

The climate change levy is meant to encourage industry to review their old compressed air systems. But how do you start clawing...

air distribution systems. Motivair is a multi-site supplier offering a range of equipment for workshops and factories. Its...

• After almost 40 years of being based in the centre of Liverpool, ERF distributor Penis and Kearon is planning to relocate its...

• A Mercedes-Benz 2548 tractor unit with a Mega Space cab, 1998 on an S plate, went for £25,500 at a huge general sale of 379...

1 Liverpool-based Mercedes-Benz Lealership Road Range has opened service and parts outlet near iolywell, just outside Flint in...

1 Thirty-five dealers are being ecruited to sell Daewoo Avia D.ine trucks in the UK. Grossing at ,0, 7.5 and 9.o tonnes with...

Price matters, but I isn't the be-all and end-all so far as many buyers of used trucks are concerned. "If the truck is exactly...