• The Crown Prosecution Service is not prosecuting the company whose 38-tonner lost a wheel which killed a motorist on a...

by Mike Jewell and Miles Brignall • Licensing Authority Michael Turner has renewed Dutch-owned international haulier...

by Lee Kimber • British hauliers are doing a third more work for the same money they were getting in 1979, according to...

• The Government's ridiculed cones hotline is to be scrapped after removing just five batches of unnecessary cones since the...

T here's always room For improvement but the transport industry is more efficient now than it was in 1979. Hauliers are doing a...

by Martin Hemminway • The cleaning of chemical tankers came under scrutiny last week at an inquest into the death of a Norman...

• Multipart Distribution, the former parts division of Leyland Daf has been bought by truck retail and contract hire firm Lex...

• Fewer than one in 20 lorries are creating excessive exhaust pollution, according to figures published by the Department of...

• Parcelforce and the Union of Communication Workers have agreed a pay package aimed at making the state-owned parcels...

• Cash incentives to attract freight on to rail are under Government review—raising expectations that by next year rail...

by Guy Sheppard III Derbyshire-based freight clearing agency Amber has ceased trading owing hauliers tens of thousands of...

• Hauliers should avoid an isolated stretch of dual carriageway in Scotland following a number of night time raids on parked...

• Roadsweeper operators are planning a campaign to change the law after last year's Budget imposed big vehicle excise duty...

forced to drive dangerous vehicles by management has lost his Fight for compensation. John Westwood told an industrial tribunal...

I f a truck is built to the highest standards, doesn't that mean lower maintenance costs? And if ifs designed to last longer,...

By Karen Miles • Less freight on the roads would mean a healthier life for hauliers, says the biggest drivers' union. The...

• Stalkers Transport is facing charges after a dangerous chemical allegedly leaked from one of its vehicles near the Watford...

• Sussex chief constable Paul Whitehouse has been ordered by the High Court to scrap restrictions on police cover for live...

• Transport secretary Sir George Young (above), has ruled out introducing road charges in congested urban areas following a...

by Bob Morrison • The British Army's latest medium utility heavy duty truck, the Pinzgauer 716M, has entered service in...

• Ukraine truck manufacturer Kraz has signed a deal with Cummins for the supply of Euro-1 C-series engines. The...

• Dennis Eagle is to cease manufacturing tanker bodies at its Leeds plant in favour of fitting those made by nearby Whale...

• In our article on the joint Commercial Motor/Jake Brake user trial (CM 13-19 July) comparing two of Blake's Chilled...

by Toby Clark • The latest Euro-2 vehicle to hit the streets is the 355hp version of Volvo's FLIO, badged FLIO 360. This and...

• We had a brief drive at MIRA in an FL10 360 4x2 sleeper-cabbed artic loaded to 38 tonnes. This particular model was fitted...

Mercedes-Benz's Unimog division will enter the 6x6 market next January with the introduction of the U24501, with selectable...

Reece has been renewed until November. South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh required draft accounts before any further renewal; Paul...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has warned that even though vehicles under 3.5 tonnes do not require an 0 licence, defects...

• Consideration of a licence renewal bid by James McCaul, trading as J&J Skip Hire. of Felbridge, West Sussex has been...

• South Eastern & Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael Turner has reserved his decision over the alleged use of an unauthorised...

• David Thomas (SkettNr) was warned about possible licence revocation and disqualification when it appeared at disciplinary...

Don't know who to turn to? Commercial Motor can help! The latest version of CM's Legal Directory is now available to readers,...

one to a collection of military memorablia in Norfolk, the other to a steam engine auction in Essex with 1,000 lots for sale....

D team enthusiasts with an eye for a bargain could have done themselves a favour by visiting a recent auction in Essex of the...

now behind us, I wonder if those involved have given any consideration to the long-term effect such strikes have on potential...

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

The Magnum may hog the limelight but, until next year at least, the Major soldiers on. After all these years the 340ti is still...

British firms have been encouraged and found it mutually beneficial to link with Continental firms. Andover Trailers seems to...

Keeping insurance premiums to a minimum can mean the difference between profit and loss for many hauliers. We examine ways of...

• Theft victims have always longed for a crystal ball to reveal the whereabouts of their property and get the villains...

• Road rage isn't confined to drivers these days; it can strike truck owners when they receive repair estimates or hikes in...

Leading industry training providers gathered at the DSA last month to hammer out a scheme for regulating LGV training schools....

The DSA is inviting views from interested parties on the way forward for a register of LGV/PCV instructors. • Should the...

Conservative UK operators have doggedly held on to their constantmesh gearboxes. But Eaton, traditionally a champion of this...

RAPHY by MAURICE ROWE 6 1 n 1982 I came back into transport, working as an owner-driver, after an absence of a few years,...