Cherrystone Investments subsidiary is in administration after losing £120,000 in three months. Dominic Perry reports. THE...

STOCKTON HAULAGE and warehousing firm Stiller Group, formerly known as G Stiller Transport, has boosted its pre-tax profits by...

THE ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION has praised a debate held in the Scottish parliament on the future of the Scottish road haulage...

ATRU CI< DEALER in Staffordshire has expressed disbelief that the DVLA issued a new log book for a truck stolen from its site...

LGV drivers in Aspatria, Cumberland say they are worried about parking in if town after trucks were bar from a council car park.

Italian truck driver Dino Sorgato has been jailed f■ two years by Hull Crown Court for attempting to smuggle three million...

About 70 items of jackinc equipment have been st from Majorlifts Compac garage equipment store Wickwar, Glos. Contact: 01454...

Scottsh Transport lavish Scott has annour the extension of the SafE scheme to vehicles und 3.5 tonnes.

A survey from the RHA I shown that overall costs not risen in the past yea

Winners of the Tachodis competition (CM 7 September) are: JB Hur Longniddry: Mike Scarfl Paul Roe, Peterborougf Dawson, Warsop;...

Drivers at a Teesside transport company are worried about their future following the launch of a joint venture. Dominic Perry...

A NORTH-EAST recycling firm has acquired two new lveco Trakkers following successful field trials in Italy....

DUTCH TRANSPORT lawyer Han Vallendutik has highlighted the vagaries of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW ) system in a report on...

ROADWAYS CONTAINER Logjstics turnover and profits fell last year: a year when its parent, P&O Nedlloyd. was acquired by Danish...

Mr X says its time to wake up tc challenges posed by global war, — but not by banning trucks. All the evidence suggests that...

The real story behind BBC's Real Stories programme is that it was a fair piece of mainstream journalism which highlighted the...

Does UK industry really need a 10th pallet network? The director of Global Pallet Networks certainly thinks so. Dylan Gray...

CASH-STRAPPED operators should seek funding opportunities for training, according to family firm JW Morrison which has just won...

for urgent action to dual the notorious A9 from Perth to Inverness Hauliers in the region claim frustrated car drivers are...

debts of nearly1400.0(1 avoided a court hearing by al to disqualification undertaki The Department of Ent Trade and Investment...

TANKER HAULIER Treasure Transport's balance sheet is looking healthy; following its move to a larger base its shareholder funds...

The HSE has withdrawn some of its advice following a series of accidents. David Harris reports. THE HEALTH & SAFETY Executive...

help operators work more efficiently. In the seventh of eight Freight Best Practice case studies we f ind out how NYK...

Last week's BBC programme on foreign trucks has prompted a reaction from both the Dfl and the T&G. Chris Tindall and Sally...

KENT COUNTY Council leader Paul Carter has called for foreign truck drivers to pay a £10 charge as they enter the UK at the...

THE TRANSPORT & General Workers Union has hit out at the media for portraying foreign drivers as unsafe, saying that it is the...

fv1ILK AN D GENERAL haulage contractor Si Bargh boosted its pre-tax profits by 25%, from £1.6m to -Cm. in the year ending 30...

INDUSTRY ANALYST Publishing has named sum UK's most successful roadl companies based on financ formance, productivity anc...

WELLINGBOROUGH machinery and plant haulier Rob Masters is expanding its fleet with the order of t hree new top-spec Volvos....

Sea and air freight have boosted Davies Turner's profits and helped offset poor performance in its road transport division....

CONTRACT HREfirrnTranslinc has provided four new Volvo 6x6 snowploughsigritters to Lincolnshire County Council. The vehicles...

EXPRESS DELIVERY company TNT says it is to sell off its freight management division to focus on its core activities. Following...

DON'T FORGET to claim your free Commercial Motor/Renault Health DVD. The free DVD, produced as part of the CM Health Challenge....

LE10ES'FERSH IR E-BASLD transport and warehousing firm Widdowson Group says a new logistics contract shows that its...

Maybe it's due to the expense, maybe it's just the hassle, but the uptake of digital tachograph driver cards has been low — and...

Digital tachograph driver and company cards cost 238 each and are valid for five years, Both cards can be obtained by applying...

A number of prominent transport and logistics companies have made announcements over the past month, but it is Wincanton and...

CM EXCLUSIVE Ex-haulier Stephen Cooke has turned his back on retirement to run a new firm — Macfarlane Transport Holdings....

SAFETY MEANS different things to different people. as three separate articles in a recent issue show (CMS October).To a...

AS AN employment law specialist of some 10 years' experience, whose practice has a particular focus on the road transport...

WE RECENTLY had a truck stolen, and last week I discovered it for sale on eBav. I contacted the police who very quickly traced...

but according to market experts the numberof haulage companies that have been forced to close this year is not a sign of an...

After £6,000 of fines for hours offences, the TC may take action agair the firm's 0 - licence and the boss's repute. Mike...

A RECYCLING FIRM that illegally traded on another company's licence and then continued to operate after interim authority was...

A FINANCE 110USE has lost its hid to recover an impounded vehicle that had been used as security fora loan.At the time it...

THREE DRIVERS convicted of falsifying tachograph records while working for Holyheadbased Gareth Jones Transport in 2003 have...

A SCOTTISH OPERATOR has been ordered to pay a driver £2,331 by an Edinburgh Employment Tribunal due to unlawful deductions from...

B ritain already has one of the best road safety records in the world. But with more than 3,000 people killed on our roads each...

The Road Safety Bill also includes plans to: • Boost uptake of the Drink-Drive Rehabilitation Scheme • Possibly introduce a...

Where a company incurs expenditure on behalf of a director this gives rise to a benefit in kind if the amounts are not...

One of our customers, a bakery, has gone out of business leaving unpaid bills. We have four of its vehicles on our premises. Do...

BRI GHTLY Tipper Light 2006 shaped up as a contest between East and West. Would the forward control Asians beat the bonneted...

When things get quiet it makes sense to look elsewhere — but say you run specialist vehicles in a cyclical business? Oliver...

Construction is a cyclical industry and it is currently in the upward part of its cycle. According to the National Federation...

LOCAL While its head office is local to CM, The Thompson Group has national coverage and continues to expand through...

CHIP: THE HEALTHY OPTION? Rernapping a ruck engine's ECU can boost power, torque and, say its proponents, fuel consumption....

Martin Brunt of Frome, Somerset-based AJ Brunt was driving chipped Volvo FH12 when CM called. The original '420' D12 engine was...

\pproved lveco Trucks dealer Bristol Street Commercials has begun a lew era with its high-tech Avonmouth facility, reports...

After a successful first event, Charlie Wright's ProTruck Auctions looks set to rub shoulders with the big boys. Kevin Swallow...