• Broken down trucks on board Channel tunne , shuttle trains and those stuck at the Folkestone terminal will be recovered by...

AUTUMN BUDGET by CM news team • Hauliers' fuel bills will soar by thousands of pounds after the Chancellor announced a massive...

MI The ()waters of the Stockport garage where two Vehicle Inspectorate inspectors were shot dead were last week remanded in...

won the British Society of Magazine Editors 'Business to Business Magazine Editor of the Year' award this week. Forty-year-old...

Albu said the latest allegation of moving operating centre without consent cast doubt on Murphy's repute. But the TC said that...

inviting compensation claims from drivers whose WV licences it revoked after wrongly interpreting the law governing eyesight...

from his second public inquiry in three months despite operating without permission for a year and a half. Nantwich,...

• Hauliers may be able to escape controversial Transfer of Undertakings regulations (TUPE) by restructuring the businesses they...

• The new legislation designed to reduce bridge bashing faces a six - month delay. Changes to C&U regulations governing...

by Amanda Bradbury • Flytippers and those treating waste without a licence will face 300% higher fines and a prison term for...

Super Cube stepframed semi-trailers with 367 of Van Hool`s latest straight framed Mega trailers. These are being leased...

are set to unanimously slam the Government's proposals for 2 14-tonners. The authorities claim that the planned system is too...

be made exempt from the waste management licensing system under a genera( deregulation bill to be published in January. The...

freezing danger • Drivers are reminded to protect their vehicles from freezing up during the current cold snap. The Freight...

• 'Transport ministers of the European Union (formerly the EC) are to continue negotiations for an EU-Swiss road transport...

• Tankfreight has caved in to pressure from its 300 nonpetroleum drivers and dropped plans to give them a E225 lump sum instead...

• Trainload Freight has won a major victory against road haulage: the BR subsidiary was awarded a new 700,000 tonnes a year...

by Juliet Parish • Hauliers are this week slamming a Severn River Crossing concession to allow regular users of the bridge to...

• Seven trucks have received immediate prohibition notices in a hazardous waste check on the M6 in the West Midlands. Twenty...

Range plans to buy a depot in west London to boost its contract hire and short-term light commercial vehicle rental business....

• Four drivers with Yorkbased livestock haulier F Machin have been suspended for one week; three were given warnings for...

by Karen Miles III Truck drivers could have to negotiate narrower lanes on motorways if research underway into the safety and...

• The final chapter in the selloff of Leyland Daf closes this week as component manufacturer Albion Axle and Leyland Component...

• The Scottish Office says it has thrown out plans to give hauliers a right of appeal to an independent body if local...

by John Kendall • Iveco Ford will launch the EuroTrakker heavy 8x4 on/off-road chassis early in the new year. Two engines and...

and 14-tonne versions of its M90 rigid chassis. According to MAN Truck & Bus UK, the latest 12.192F and 14,192F are...

The 12000 is to meet the Euro-2 emission standard with a 160hp four and a 220hp straight-six. A longer factory-built rest cab...

• Neath owner-driver Owen Eagan was warned about his future maintenance standards at a Cardiff public inquiry Eagan told South...

• Dutch haulier Edcrest has come "within a whisker" of having its Sittingbournebased licence revoked, following a series of...

zi • A £2,100 overloading fine on Derbyshire haulier H Crabtree has been quashed on appeal to Bradford Crown Court. Dismissing...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences cost Pm - fieet-based B J Myers (Haulage) and one of the company's drivers almost...

• Greenwichbased Wilton Contracts (London) has obtained a licence at the second attempt. Last October South Eastern &...

• Watkinson Lifting and Transportation, of Keighley, and driver Gary Holmes are to appeal after being convicted of two...

by Toby Clark • County Tractors has released its 4x4 conversion of the independent-suspension Ford Transit. The new model,...

• CM has driven another new 4x4 variant—the automatic transmission version of Land Rover's Discovery Tdi. The ZF box removes...

• Volkswagen has launched a special edition Transporter 800 van. The Transporter 800 Special gets power steering, a tailgate...

hope that when the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) gets around to apologising to all the 231 drivers whose licences it...

Light VCV sales • ADT is to open an auction house at Victoria Park on the outskirts of Nottingham next January It will hold...

Iveco Ford switch • West Yorkshire-based Northern Commercials has become a heavy truck dealer for Iveco Ford at Mirfield....

Earlier date • The 1994 Automotive Aftermarket Conference will now be held on Thursday 2 June, instead of Thursday 16 June as...

Career advice • A guide to career paths available in the transport industry is being compiled by the Chartered Institute of...

Phone bill discount • AA Personal Communications markets a range of seven mobile phones including its own emergency phone. Buy...

Take cover • The Freight Transport Association's insurance arm has widened the cover it offers for its members with insurance...

More mirrors • Ashtree Glass has extended its range of clampon wing mirrors to fit Ford Cargo, Leyland Oaf, Volvo,...

Ml closure U M1 Herts:The northbound carriageway of the M1 will be closed between J9-11 (Harpenden to Luton) between 20:00hrs...

2 ast month's traditional uncorking of copious bottles of new Beaujolais was given a new twist when Scania and the Royal...

VIP Exhibitions to launch an all-singing, alldancing roadshow tour of the UK. Now this is what you might call a flash unit....

the Hawk cannot resist the temptation to do something to brighten up your lives. If I know that I've enriched just one reader's...

t seems that Volvo has gone into the publishing game and produced a guide to ski slopes, Ski Guide 1994.It covers Europe, North...

UK hauliers have been decidedly cool on cabotage: there are currently more permits than there are applicants to use them. The...

One of my vehicles was stopped in a roadside check and a brake hose was found to have broken open. I have received a summons...

Price as tested: £6,134 ex-VAT (C5,900 plus optional radio at£126 and load liner at 108). Engine: 1.0-litre petrol, 33kW...

Under new proposals from the Department of Trade and Industry, companies facing liquidation may be able to seek a 28-day,...

While continental truck makers spend money on new models like it's going out of fashion ERF's EC shows you don't need big bucks...

We talked to a number of operators who have recently bought the Cummins-engined EC 10 and Perkins-powered EC12 and asked their...

th e A haulier's nightmare: police are waiting at the depot gates, have "reason to believe offences have been committed", and...

investigations recently reported in CM illustrate the difficulties hauliers face if they come to the notice of the police. •...

the largest independent fruit and vegetable wholesaler in Lancashire. Distribution has come to play an increasingly important...

operating centre is a secure garage compound shared with the local bus company but Mason's vehicles are rarely in the country...

( T he world is full of people who are critical of proposals and decisions made by others. But few of those who complain are...