• Forty three out of 64 LGVs stopped at an M62 roadblock on Sunday evening were ordered off the road for faults including...

by Lee Kimber • Two Northern hauliers have been raided by police and Vehicle Inspectorate (VI) officials in an investigation...

despite union demands for amnesties for employees who blow the whistle. URTU general sec retary David Higginbottom says...

• The transport industry has one week left to respond to proposals to restructure the Operator Licence fee under the system...

by Karen Miles • The jobs of 400 drivers at Axial, the car distribution operation that Tibbett & Britten had threatened to...

• Cowboy tipper operators are being targeted in Lancashire as police clamp down on unsafe vehicles. Police arc warning...

e need to "improve the quality of service and that includes removing some of the poor quality vehicles;the beichers', that are...

by Derren Hayes • An Essex haulier wants Renault to recall all its Magnum trucks after a driver altered a speed limiter the...

• The Spanish want a - Europewide policy on bail and legal aid after the acquittal of British truck driver Roy Clarke on drug...

• Railfreight customers could be paying higher prices if British Rail's three heavy-haulage freight companies agree to...

• Professional drivers have a better understanding of fuel measurement metrication than other road users, says a recent...

• Hauliers in London could be asked to pay road charges to ease congestion on deliveries under a L23bn plan to improve the...

by Rob Willock • Intermodal operators of 44 tanners could be travelling to and from ports next year. An extension to the...

• Pressure for campaigns against smoking trucks is expected to ease following a Department of Health report which shows that...

• A fall in commercial vehicle production is a clear sign that demand is levelling off for the first time since the end of...

• Nightfreight Distribution has a 2250,000 warehousing contract with Wirralbased flavouring manufacturer Quest, part of the...

by Guy Sheppard • A reduction in tolls of just 10% across the Severn bridge would be enough to tempt hauliers back on to the...

• Michael Meacher has been ousted as shadow transport secretary after only a year in the job and has been replaced by...

* Robsons Distribution is to axe 36 drivers jobs following the announcement it is to close its loss-making Durranhill, Carlisle...

II Operators called to public inquiry who fail to turn up face losing their licences and fines equivalent to the cost of the...

• A disgruntled driver socked for absenteeism by Portsmouth-based Vanguard Engineering returned to the yard the next day and...

by Karen Miles • More than one third of the goods vehicles receiving prohibitions from the Vehicle Inspectorate last year...

• Volkswagen's Caddy Van is built in Spain by VW-owned Seat— which sells it as the Inca—and is based on the Polo/Ibizo...

by Colin Sowman 10 Mercedes-Benz has launched its sub-Sprinter TO van, called the Vito. The front-wheel-drive van comes in a...

Cab design The new cab is a complete departure from the old 3-Series. It was styled jointly by Scania and Italian design house...

• Manchester lorry driver David McCartney initially admitted five offences of knowingly making false entries on tachograph...

• A bid for a new national licence by Timothy Dale, trading as T J Dale Transport Services, of Purfleet, has been adjourned...

• Birmingham haulier Michael Donahue has until November to pay fines imposed for a number of Construction and Use offences,...

• A bid by Hillingdon-based Collins Road Services to vary restrictive conditions on the renewal of the company's inter...

• Wrexham owner-driver Barry Roberts has had his licence revoked by North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu but has...

II The two-vehicle licence held by John Russell and Andrew Bush, trading as Bush and Griffiths Builders Merchants, of Mountain...

T read with interest your annual parcels survey published in Commercial Motor towards the end of each year. I have a vested...

0 re you one of 1 those people who never win anything? If you are, the Hawk can sympathise. The nearest I've got to winning the...

ddie Stobart has been strung up 1=1 at last. But ealous competitors shouldn't take too much comfort from this fact, as the...

0 fs all right for some, isn't it? British owners of classic Morgan sports cars have decided to take a little tootle round the...

team from parts specialist AE Auto Parts continued an employee initiative to raise money for cancer charities by climbing...

man who parked his truck in the middle of a site to prevent a wall being built has come unstuck. Colin Lindon of Fillongley,...

Diesel dates • The American-based Association of Diesel Specialists has announced convention dates for the next three...

Going Greek • DFDS Transport has launched a new driveraccompanied trailer service to and from Greece. The service will...

NVQ partnership • ReMIT, the training arm of the Retail Motor Industry Federation (RM1), has won approval to award NVQs on...

Road book • The AA has released the new edition of the Road Book of Britain. Costing £20, the book provides over 9,000 town...

Leak detector • Ultra Violet Products, the Cambridge-based ultra-violet technology specialist, has developed an engine leak...

Vice Presidency • Walter F Ware, previously of lDEX Corporation, has been appointed vicepresident and executive committee...

London • A406 North Circular Road, Upper Edmonton: Major roadworks between Lea Valley Viaduct and Fore Street until end of...

7.5 to 13 tonnes. In common with all other manufactures, M-B relies on its 7.5-tonners to hoist up the sales figures in the...

81 7 with a (curtain-sided body). Around our Welsh test route the 814 came out a clear winner, returning 16.531it/100km (1...

once inside we found the aground visibility quite good. Noise levels were subdued while instrumentation and controls were...

Others insist on filling in a gap with a logo or decal that bears little relation to the rest of the design. And why do so...

your trucks—really looked at one? What kind of message r did it send out to you? Would it tell a would-be customer what your...

CARGO Designing an eye-catching livery on a small truck or light van should, in principle, be y easier than tackling a 16.5m...

COMMENDED: WALKERS CRISPS LYNX RELOCOM It says a lot for the quality of pastwinner Lynx Express's livery that year after year...

Some liveries definitely last the test of time. And Deans Farm Eggs' Golden Lay livery (another past winner) was immediately...

COMMENDED: WALKERS SNACK FOODS WRII LOGISTICS Changing your corporate design is never easy. People get used to what you are...

You don't have to be big to be beautiful and Cropper certainly proved it. The Y Kendal-based company runs eight tractors and...

Armed with five category winners our judges settled down to deal with the thorny problem of choosing an overall winner as CM's...

The smallest fleet can make a big impression using selfadhesive graphics, allowing operators to advertise their services in the...

If intermodal experts' predictions come true, the Channel Tunnel could cause many UK hauliers to rethink the specification of...

6 he words "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse" might have been written for the...

heavy truck cab hack in 1961 it must have done something right because it was to be another 25 years before it was changed for...

T he . first MAN F90 we encountered was a 16.362 FLTS 4x2 tractive unit . ..... i observed the 38-tonne limit when running it...

the ultimate in personal transport, and that aspirational aura also applies to Daimler-Benz's Powerliner trucks. The German...

more than 1 28km/h (79.5mph). But even then Mercedes-Benz (UK) was fitting top speed limiters, mainly in consideration of the...

its best-selling 112 tractive unit which had served so well throughout the decade. The 3 Series trucks took on from where their...

7988 and said that the twin-steer was "fast, gutsy and acceptably economical". At the time we had not tested anything directly...

noise levels were higher than in the earlier model. The lower of the double bunks is made in two parts to allow easier access...

Enasa truck building interests in 1991, lveco added the company to its list of acquisitions. But few pundits could have guessed...

14-litre engine the Strato 365 6x2 looked set to build upon the E350's reputation for good fuel economy In the event it did not...

faster. 96km/h equated to 4800rpm, which was just out of the green economy band, but slowing down to 80km/h reduced the engine...

SERE S • When Volvo launched the FIO back in 1978 its chassis and driveline bore a marked resemblance to the venerated F88,...

quieter than the original TD101F In our test of the FL10-320 (CM 2 Nov 1988) it also proved to be gutsy and extremely flexible...