• Reducing fuel tax on cii j: should be at the top of the Government's agenda after the summer recess, says BOC Distribution...

by Sally Nash • The United Road Transport Union is gearing up for a High Court battle with the TUC to fight the threat of a...

• EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock is finally intervening in the French compensation dispute and has called a meeting of...

by Rob WIHock • Small to medium-sized haulage firms will be targeted for acquisition by US industrial giants General Electric...

• Leyland Daf Trucks has dismissed claims that it is tempting hauliers to interfere with speed limiters by marking their fuses...

A t last, a British Government has announced we are to have an integrated transport policy. Well hallelujah. For as long as...

by Ian Wylie • Hauliers and distribution groups have expressed frustration at the latest Government transport review, claiming...

Scania has defended the price disparity between trucks bought in the UK and on the Continent, claiming there are some surprises...

• A haulier who was a victim of truck theft when his tracking system failed is to receive an updated unit free of charge....

• The movement of goods to and from our country and within it is vital to the economy. 4 , We need to harness the available...

EXCLUSIVE by Sally Nash • High-street retailer Superdrug is switching from road to rail for the first time in order to move...

• The Lady Truckers Club (LTC) faces closure unless its members get more involved, according to the dispirited founder member....

• Cable manufacturer Delta Energy Cables has awarded its northern region distribution contract to TDG Beck & Pollitzer. TDG...

by Sally Nash • Fears about Channel Tunnel safety have resurfaced following an emergency evacuation of freight trains last week...

• A runaway wheel from a 17-tonne lorry bounced across the carriageway into the path of an elderly driver on the A14 in Barrow,...

• UPS UK moved quickly last week to reassure customers that it is "business as usual' following the end of the 15-day strike in...

A recent report on traffic safety makes rather sad reading for the haulage industry. Things aren't getting much worse, but they...

New overall length regulations for drawbar outfits could mean operators reworking body dimensions downwards although the...

by Steve Banner • Troubled Dorset bodybuilder Vaile & Co has opted for a creditors' voluntary liquidation on the advice of...

• Frigoscandia is operating four Schmitz Cargobull reefers with a novel load-handling system, which allows 26 pallets to be...

for loading and unloading through the rear. The Brake Bros vehicle on an Iveco chassis, has a chilled (+4°C) compartment at the...

• Safeway, Sainsbury's and ONT. will be operating compressed natural gas-powered trucks next year. This is thanks to the Energy...

• The licence held by Karl Lawrenson, trading as Lawrenson's European Transport, of Altrincham, Cheshire, was revoked by North...

• Fines totalling £2,850 imposed on EOM Construction and one of its drivers for overloading offences have been cut on appeal to...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences, speeding and interference with speed limiters have led to a four-week suspension of...

fot • Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on a licence held by Victor Lewis being cut from six to three...

• A haulier in North Humberside in admini strative receivership has been allowed to continue operating. However, North...

Commercial Motor can help! CM's 16 - page A4 Legal Directory, priced £10 linc p&p) is a valuable reference source built up by...

• "Pransport refrigeration specialist Ilubbard has just launched a range of low-profile transport refrigeration on its. The XL...

• The !Problem of vehicle brake lights being rendered all but useless by the brightness of high-intensity rear fog lamps could...

• Hella has introduced OE specification regulators and rectifiers covering products to suit European, Japanese and US...

• 2-4 September: AutoFocus 97: Beyond Globalisation, The Automotive Industry in the New Millennium, International Convention...

Moving data • 3M researchers have pro. duced a computer program capable of qualifying the value of truck-mounted advertising,...

• Parcelforce has extended the deadline for entries to its Top Small Business of 1997 by a further two weeks. Any...

Sainsbury site • Merlin Distribution's operations for J Sainsbury has moved to: do J Sainsbury, Rye Park, Off Pindar Road,...

Cool learning • Cambridge Refrigeration Technology is offering two days of training in the latest refrigeration technology on...

• The Institute of Waste Management is offering a two-day conference, Environmental Management Planning & Land Regeneration, at...

Mercedes-Benz • Mercedez-Benz Finance has appointed Paul Coates as fleet sales manager-specialist products.

• Volvo has announced that Barrie Cload is to he the new vice-president of Volvo truck finance, responsible for backing up...

manager at Lincoln Electric UK. He will be based at the firm's Sheffield headquarters.

• Paul Proud is the new general manager for Aldridge-based UK Automotive Products.

• Andrea Tempest has been promoted to the position of London general manager of City Link and A to Z Couriers, Rentokil...

• John Holland and Ken Morley have joined the board of the Peterboroughbased Ray Smith Group.

ust following up on the article "Lawyers slam courts . ' (CM 14-20 August), I thought you and your readers might be interested...

W e refer to the article "Enforcers Promised Cab Search Powers" (CM 713 August). It suggested that legislation governing...

I f ever proof were needed that the good times are returning to this industry, then I am the living embodiment of that proof....

W hy do service stations offer truck drivers such a woefully inadequate range of services? They should be looking after HGV...

0 f ever you have been close to nodding off at the wheel, then Silentnight Beds have conic up with a wheeze to wake you up....

0 ust when you have come to the conclusion that your fellow men are nothing but a bunch of low-lifers who would sell their...

0 n these days of the "Me" society it gladdens the Hawk's heart to hear of ventures such as the Save the Children Fund's, A...

la here are some sights guaranteed to make the Hawk go weak at the knees and this beautifully restored half ton 4 * Morris R...

In opposition, Gordon Brown called for a crackdown on the tax avoidance industry. His first Budget took the first steps in this...

prices would be the one sure thing in transport throughout the decade—we didn't realise that successive governments would...

privatisation scheme which, they claim, is causing administrative chaos. Since April, control of motorway and truck road...

• Police escorts are a further cause of frustration for heavy transport specialists—but the problem could soon be eased....

and people—or perhaps people and pigs." Since beginning as an owner-driver in 1970, Warcup, with his wife Diane and now son...

little nuclear explosion going on." Those aren't Citirs words. They belong to Steven Norris, the new director general of the...

STORM F or the six years he worked as a driver on the Continent, Brian Bradley cherished a dream to return home to Northern...

A total of 439 vehicles were hijacked this year during the eight days from 5-13 July. Trucks were targeted by rioters and used...

t this year's AVRO exhibition, a p olice constable told of a fatal ccident in Bedfordshire involving a Transit-based recovery...