by Karen Miles • Hauliers already spending more money to buy trucks to meet Euro-2 emissions standards will have to fork out...

by Derren Hayes • UK hauliers travelling to France are being warned that they could become victims of French farmers anger over...

by Ian Wylie • The Vehicle Inspectorate and Suffolk police are interviewing drivers employed by P&O Ferrymasters following the...

• Labour's long-awaited transport strategy document was officially launched last week, with just three of its 38 pages devoted...

I s the public getting short shrift from the Prosecution Services when it comes to taking operators to court? It is according...

T he Crown Prosecution Service is failing the public by refusing to bring road traffic cases to court unless it has an 80%...

by Derren Hayes • A Cambridgeshire livestock operator is blaming animal rights activists for a fire-bomb attack that caused...

• Vauxhall will start selling Renault Trafics under its own name early next year. in a deal which will lead to a joint-venture...

by David Harris • Roadfreight in Europe will grow even more in the next 15 years despite efforts to promote alternatives, a...

is to re-finance its enormous debts is continuing as departing chairman Sir Alastair Morton fends off attempts by the banks to...

• A number of West Country truck dealers are being reorganised following allegations of inflexible pricing by Seddon Atkinson...

by Jane Sayer • A truck driver has been left traumatised after being knifed 21 times, allegedly by two Iraqi illegal...

N Insurance rates for hauliers seeking to protect themselves against terrorism are set to soar following a decision by a...

by Michael Jewell • Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, who is fighting the Government's decision to close the North Western Traffic...

new strike threat face two-year delay • Measures to combat bridge bashing could take two years in to come into force fully,...

from rigid GVW rise by Karen Mile • Plans to increase the gross weight limit of two-axle rigid vehicles could lead to more...

by Bryan Jarvis • Scania wants the major fuel producers to invest in new refineries to make green dery as readily available...

1 • A Bristol scrap metal dealer, whose vehicles were described as being "a bit long in the tooth", escaped with a warning...

• Leggett Freightways has been warned that its licence is at risk if it receives any more prohibition notices for significant...

• The directors of a company that crashed owing almost 22m have had their bid for a new licence put back until January. KDC...

alp licence revoked haulier had his for the second time when he appeared before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles has clinched a .£31m export order for its new Trident lowfloor double-deck bus. A fleet of 185...

• Whelan Environmental, which processes and transports industrial chemicals, has taken the first of a new design of triaxled...

• The new Freedom 20 Combi battery charger and inverter from Merlin Equipment converts 12 or 24V DC battery power to 230V AC...

• The Conlog 300 remote-controlled alarm immobiliser has recently received Thatcham Category I recognition. The patented secure...

• Nuneaton-based Samco Silicone Products is promoting its ability to produce high or low-volume silicone rubberbased components...

sponsors of Euro '96 include American soft drinks and sports shoes manufacturers you wonder why they bother limiting the...

C onintereial Motor's recent editorial (CM 23-29 lMay) criticising Labour's transport policy document for not doing more for...

T he Driving Action Movement would like to comment on the "Sound Off" by Stewart Brown (CM 30 May-3 June). We totally agree...

S leeping giants have a habit of waking up just when you least expect them to. Take Iveco Ford. Despite its enviable position...

W hat I say goes! Special resolutions, ordinary resolutions, extraordinary resolutions who cares. I am a majority shareholder...

the way that recovery operators 6 rom time to time criticism arises of abuse the use of warning lights. I find this very...

late delivery could land the company in a sticky situation. It collects jam jar lids from a manufacturer and delivers them to...

Pembrokeshire, through the sleeping village of Hermon, the last thing you expect to find as you round the corner into...

to voluntarily pull out of a contract which regularly supplies work for 200 of your trailers. But that is exactly what John...

it not been for th snail's pace recruitment practice of the police, Hugh Owen woul never have become a haulier. It . more...

c.p.p. 1995. "It's going very well," says Davies. We are 25% up on turnover since then—we could all do with more profit but we...

some into its grab and dumps it unceremoniously in the back of a waiting tipper. A few more scoops and the tipper turns, drives...