by Miles Brignall • The Government is asking the haulage industry's advice on how to give vehicle excise duty (VED) concessions...

• Eurotunnel has admitted that it may re-design its wagons for freight vehicles because of the Channel Tunnel fire. The...

by Miles Brignall • A London owner-driver who has been in a Greek prison since before Christmas could be there for eight...

• Police are investigating an attack by animal rights terrorists which left seven trucks damaged over the weekend. The...

T hey're at it again. The ink is hardly dry on "Lorry Weights—a Consultation Document" and the Department of Transport is...

• Hertfordshire hauliers are calling on the police to take action following a spate of thefts of trucks and plant. Over the...

by Karen Miles • Many road transport operators operate racist employment policies, says the Transport and General Workers...

• A Falkirk haulier has been forced to go to court in a bid to retrieve 212,500 it is owed by Grangemouth-based Currie Line...

• The former transport manager of Fewston Transport will face a manslaughter charge next week—the first case of its kind to be...

• The Corporation of London's anti-terrorist road blocks around parts of the City's Square Mile have been extended on a...

• A father who believes carelessness may have played a part in the death of his son in a lorry accident two years ago, has...

by Derrell Hayes • Iiauliers running vehicles without road tax could soon be caught by speed camera-style detectors under a...

by Derren Hayes • More than 3,000 lorry drivers have signed a petition to try and stop a local council closing down a popular...

• Parcelforce admitted this week that many of the 700 "new jobs" at its planned £100 million hub at Coventry Airport may be...

by Miles Brignall • The maintenance standard of trucks is falling and one of the major reasons is that drivers are failing to...

• Drivers are being allowed to break the speed limit because the police cannot afford to prosecute the huge number being caught...

III UK operators hauling trailers less than a year old in Italy and Germany are being advised to carry certificates of...

• Fleet operators are predicting increased turnover, expansion into new markets, bigger fleet sizes and healthy levels of...

by Derren Hayes • Freed lorry driver Mickey Chinnick spoke this week for the first time about his fouryear ordeal in a Turkish...

two of a number of Allen Munro Transport drivers to be prosecuted for offences involving the falsification of tachograph...

4% • A bid for a new licence by a company has because its principal director 's connected with a company currently in the...

• Complaints from local residents led to a Cheshire skip hire operator appearing at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry....

by Toby Clark • The front underrun protection system, known by the French abbreviation DPEA, is designed to reduce injury to...

• Given the cost of launching a new heavy truck, it's hardly surprising that most manufacturers usually only do it every 10...

• Auxiliary electrical power system specialist Antares has developed an on-board AC power system using standard 12 and 24V...

• Newly available from Walsall-based Albert Jagger is Videoman—a truck rear-view video system for use when reversing....

The company says that its replacement blade ranges now cover 96% of vehicles on UK roads and the additional vehicles listed in...

• Sealey's Projump booster cables are fitted with an electronic protection device which clips any spikes and surges from the...

• According to GB Tachopak, imminent legislation will require many more heavy goods vehicles to be fitted with an in-cab...

Fuel prices am intrigued by your weekly reports on fuel prices. As a small business operating eight diesel-engined vehicles,...

jaybe your readers ...V1 would be interested to know that a 1.1-tonne overload on a 32.52-tonne attic cost me a £500 fine plus...

has used numbers, not names, to identify itsits . models. Following its takeover of Leyland, the replacement for the Roadtrain...

T he last quarter of 1996 saw the appointment of administrative receivers over the assets of two large and prominent road...

What has happened to the All Party Committee report on Road Transport Enforcement? The Select Committee took months hearing...

Most hauliers carrying out international work will have dealt with forwarding agents, but how many readers have come across "Le...

in the interim A nyone wishing to operate an LGV for hire or reward or in connection with his business with minimum delay must...

W hen enforcement agencies check weigh your vehicles they should do so according to the proper codes of practice for...

- I have contracted my maintenance out to a main dealer—so I have no problems." It is a common, but mistaken, belief of many...

A ny vehicle used under an Operator's Licence must be specified on that licence. A vehicle is specified by lodging a Form GV79...

Cash is the life-blood of any business. If that life-blood is restricted the profitability will be impaired. Many businesses...

S cania director Frank Andrew thinks it's time somebody did something about used trucks. "In this industry it's been neglected...

p aitelforce recently announced it made a 5% saving on its energy bill, which is reckoned to be worth £200,000 a year. The...

/ f the Conservative Party loses the forthcoming general election it may be remembered in transport terms largely for beginning...

have in common? The answer is that Glenfield, Leicester-based haulage and distribution specialist Widdowson Group transports...

letv 0 fficially, it still falls short of an epidemic yet many workforces in road transport have been devastated by the...

nd it's not just for social reasons. "Snow and ice are not good for road surfacing,'' says Tarmac. "Cold spells we can live...

W hen I buy a new car I don't expect to check my wheelnuts every morning before I set off to work. Neither do I anticipate the...