By Patric Cunnarte LONG-AWAITED cabotage rules will come into force early next year, following a vote in the European...

AN 0-LICENCE granted to a convicted drug dealer in the Republic of Ireland has been discussed in the Irish Parliament. The...

TRUCKFEST TAKES place at the East of England Showground in Peterborough this Bank Holiday weekend and Roadtransport. com will...

By Mike Jewett STEPHEN O'SULLIVAN. the man behind an 0-licensing scam in which 0-licences and 0-licence discs were rented out,...

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Type Approval Status has been achieved by CV bodybuilder the Bevan Group five years ahead of the mandatory...

By Joanna Bourke ALMOST NINE OUT of 10 truck drivers fined in 2008 for harbouring stowaways in their lorries were...

ALTHOUGH TRUCKPOL funding arrangements for 2009-10 have still to be finalised, TruckPol and the West Midlands Police are set to...

Budget day has been and gone, and many forum users were glad the government had listened to the concerns %yelped by the...

A COURIER firm has expressed frustration at not receiving a penny from failed Peterborough firm RA Transport Services after the...

AMBITIOUS MARKET share targets and two new trailers have quelled talk of redundancies at Schmitz Cargobull (UK). News from the...

I snnallr fall in freight OPERATING PROFIT at the Port of Dover rose last year, although the number of trucks and trailers...

Ford's latest challenger in the competitive car-derived van sector has been rolled out on to UK roads, but does the new Fiesta...

CAR TRANSPORTER firm Autologic is blaming "hardline" union representatives for attempting to derail its plans to reshape the...

• TRUCK & DRIVER MAGAZINE is giving away a unique • Mercedes-Benz Actros for one year as part of its 25th • birthday...

Lucy Radley has discovered a whole new world on the nearside of her truck and wants to share... It's a sad life being a wagon...

By David Harris THE RECESSION HAS been blamed for a fall in the number of vehicles using the M6 Toll Road by an average of more...

Devising a fair and transparent scheme to incentivise drivers to save fuel has never been easy. CM reports on how MAN is...

on-board equipment, operators can not only monitor a driver's negative habits, such as harsh braking and acceleration, engine...

would be a g no-no under EU rules IN A RECENT issue of CM, there was an article called 'Hot savings, cool runnings' (CM 12...

Not in the UK. I LOGGED on to www.road transport.com and saw a story about SETPOS wanting UK truckstop areas to register...

The London Construction Consolidation Centre moved from its Bermondsey warehouse two years ago. We met operations director Bob...

Container volumes have slumped dramatically due to the knock-on effects of the recession so what consequences will this have...

The container terminal in the port of Southampton is operated by DP World Southampton, and is owned by DP World and Associated...

which bought container hauliers CEL and Hanbury Davies in 2008, says the firm "expects some casualties" as the market "adjusts...

The wife of disgraced haulier Stuart Oliver remains disqualified after the Tribunal finds her to be - untruthful". THE...

AN 0-LICENCE bid has been rejected because of links to the disgraced Oliver operations and suspected paperwork forgery. The...

A GLASGOW company with a "dire" maintenance history has had its 0-licence cut from seven to four vehicles for eight weeks....

Oldbury-based Vernon Saunders, trading as Saunders Haulage Contractor, has been issued with a formal warning over vehicle...

Driving for more than 4.5 hours without taking the required breaks have cost Corwen lorry driver Garry Jones £477 in fines and...

Shrewsbury Magistrates ordered Edward Edwards, a partner in Corwen-based AJ Edwards, to pay fines and costs totalling £657...

The extension of fixed penalties and new powers for VOSA have received a mixed reception from CM's Operators' Panel. Are...

Owner Paul Arthurton Transport Norfolk Arthurton has been a partial supporter of the graduated fixed penalty scheme since it...

least a year for the new regulations to 'bed in', and for the industry to have a good idea of how well it's working, reckons...

Worcs 1 he tougher stance against foreign drivers who flout the law is a major plus point as far as Purshall is concerned. If...

Nick Matthews has voiced his doubts in the past about VOSA 's suitability as a penalty-collection agency under the new scheme....

this is a great idea." says Pargeter, who has been a vociferous supporter of the regulations since they were first proposed. He...

the graduated fixed penalties are simply bringing the UK into line with many of its EU neighbours, which have been issuing...

By far the panel's most outspoken opponent of the scheme, Burke remains strongly opposed to drivers being forced to bear the...

you know its reputation has come full circle. The Relay is also a brand that has embraced the one-stop-shop ideaprice: 4, 245...

visibility and clear, well laid-out controls, Cross-cab access, however, is limited by the dash-mounted gear lever. The very...

complete with the latest Ilexapod modular cab. It remains a viable option at 3.5 tonnes thanks to its body/payload potential...

or being the sole automated transmission taking part in this tipper contest. With 146hp, the two aspects combine to deliver a...

SPRINTER After being bounced about by the two Japanese cab-avers, we were locking for a more sophisticated ride from the...

With a torquey three-litre lump beneath its tilt cab, the Canter 3015 was one of the most powerful tippers in our gaggle of...

'little Japanese truck' with all the pros and the cons of a small cab-over. To get in it, put your foot on the step, then...

Cabstar, and Lt comes with much the same issues: tight seating position around the steering column, low driving position and...

With the Crafter having a similar cab and interior layout to the Sprinter, you can take it as read that whatever we like about...

TIPPER LITE 2009 And the winner is... Commercial Motor woulo like to thank our own Sandra Greaves for providing refreshments...

The systems that can save time and money Historicatly, truck-makers have taken a somewhat vehicte-centr` pp mach to...

Vehicle utilisation is a key factor in reducing costs, so truck-makers have developed fleet management applications similar to...

Data on vehicle and driver performance is captured directly from the vehicle management computer or by an interface with the...

American company Eaton has a unique SCR system in development, which can function without the need for an additional fluid such...

PEUGEOT BOXER 3.0HDI Price: £23,450 Engine: Three-litre, 157hp Payload: 1,475kg Mileage: 9,668 Expenses: None Faults: None...

Price: €14,050 Engine: 1.9-litre turbo-dleset, 103hp Payload: /941 , (0 Mileage: 17,500 Expenses: Wing mirrors £48 Faults:...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE Auctions (CVA), based in Doncaster, generated £2m in sales during its three-day sale to celebrate 20 years...

Prices are levelling off at ProTruck Auctions after a strong January, and export demand from the African market is steadily...

MORE THAN 200 people attended an open day at the site of the new Renault Trucks Coventry dealership for 10 jobs that were up...

GARY BROWN [pictured] is the new dealer principal at Ridgeway Group's Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles division Pentagon. He...

Webwatch turns its attention to the used offering from trailer manufacturer Schmitz Cargobult Wows: Jame!, Clark Company:...