Vehicle Inspectorate staff at Dover spotted that this German registered car transporter was almost 1m over length—both decks...

Maidstone driver Carl Barrell is appearing at Canterbury Crown Court after he was arrested with more than 500kg of cannabis...

Midlands transport police are running a month-long campaign to warn drivers of the dangers of using mobile phones and not...

P&O Stena Line has received ''phenomenal' interest in its plan to import cut-price new cars from the Continent.

Norwich-based curtain manufacturer Structure-flex has bought Hi-Tec Lifting, also in Norwich, which makes lifting slings with...

South East Commercials. based in Barking. Essex, is the latest dealership to join the Seddon Atkinson network; it will offer...

TDC's UK & Ireland Contract Logistics Division has won a five-year warehousing contract to service Nestle's ambient food...

• In the same week that the Road Haulage Association starts interviewing for a new director-general it is distancing itself...

• by Colin Barnett and Brian Weatherley German truck manufacturer MAN has ended months of speculation by buying ERF from parent...

• The employment practices of Willi Betz and many other European Union hauliers are to be scrutinised next month when officials...

• British hauliers suffered more disruption this week as French drivers blocked major freight routes in their second protest in...

• by Guy Sheppard Retail giant Argos is warning of "frightening" inconsistencies in tachograph chart analysis after comparing...

man who ran an illegal tachograph repair workshop. Anthony Callaghan was caught during a two-and-a-half-year operation by...

new £60,000 Scania skip loader was stolen from a VI test centre, minutes after it had been tested. The 17-tonne white and...

• A meeting of the reefer trade group Transfrigoroute has been told: "Be prepared for e-commerce—your biggest ever business...

• We've revised our editorial management team with the promotion of deputy editor Robin Meczes to the newly created position of...

Could a haulier take the UK government to court over loss of business as a result of its lax enforcement policies? And if one...

• by Miles Brignall East Anglian hauliers have challenged their colleagues around the UK to match their lobbying of MPs over...

Bristol-based operator OH Wintle & Sons is selling off 75% of its fleet because the haulage side of its business no longer...

ik Express Dairies is to axe scores of distribution jobs in a bid to reduce over-capacity in the dairy industry....

• An employment tribunal hearing the case of a driver claiming unfair dismissal from Sheddick Transport has been stopped after...

• A haulier who claimed the excess load he had been charged with equated to little more than his own weight has been fined...

• by Colin Barnett Successful as it has been, the Alphas cab line-up of either day or low-roof sleeper has limited its scope in...

• cm has driven Fodens powered by each of the new engines. Our first an longest outing was in a version powered by the...

• Caterpillar's C12 has been on sale in the US since 1996, with 50,000 now in service worldwide. It might be better known in...

I if you need every last bit of that 10hp/tonne to run your Foden at 44 tonnes, then the Cummins ISM 440 is the one for you....

• by Bryan Jarvis Carlisle-based Eddie Stobart has spent more than £20m on 1.000 new BoaHoy Tautliners and is ordering at least...

• Furniture manufacturer Alstons has ordered eight double deck trailers from Cartwrights following a 12month trial. The City...

• Waste management specialist Grundon is acquiring 10 new ERFs including three with drysteer systems for inner - city use. The...

tandem-axle curtainsiders to triaxles running at 41 tonnes. It is also taking delivery of 21 new triaxle curtainsiders,...

Montracon trailers and 16 Scania tractors. The trailers, which double the size of the fleet, have satellite tracking systems...

Widnes-based tanker operator Suttons is sending the last of an 87-unit order to work in Europe and the Far East. The latest...

Hull is branching out. The company wants to move into the side door, insulated and refrigerated door market. while maintaining...

trailer—for moving fork-lifts. Hauled by a Scania tag-axle 6x2. the unit has a double-cranked beavertail with full hydraulic...

DaimlerChrysler chairman Bob Eaton is retiring after seven years. Eaton forged the alliance between Chrysler and DaimlerBenz in...

Loughborough-based Lorraine Wardle, trading as LW Transport, lost her appeal against licence revocation when she failed to...

Front axle and gross overloads led to Waltham Abbey-based Sign Corp International paying £685 in fines and costs. Lichfield...

Canterbury-based Emerald Recycling was granted a new national licence for two vehicles, not the three applied for, when the...

Greenock haulier Stephen Brown's licence has been revoked and he was disqualified for two months by Scottish TC Michael Betts...

Scottish TO Michael Betts has revoked Edinburgh haulier Laurence C Hunter's licence and disqualified him for six months,...

The Transport Tribunal has upheld the revocation of the licence held by Bury St Edmunds-based Bryan J Nunn Haulage, and the...

The revocation of the licence held by Willand, Devon-based Gary Litten after he failed to =.470- 6 .41 supply the Western...

Permitting a driver to take insufficient weekly rest cost Slough-based Fullers Logistics £750 in fines and costs. The company...

Two vehicles have been cut from the licence held by Hartlepool-based John Cowan through maintenance problems. Cowan, who held a...

Complaints about the Poole depot of Wyvern Cargo, in Cranbrook Road, brought the company to a public inquiry before Western...

and our correspondent The Hawk takes a sideways look at road haulage. If you have suitable tales, charitable works, or quirky...

In case you haven't ringed the date in your diary, ti Swansea Festival of Transport will take place on Sunday June in the...

No matter how many warning signs are put up. buses al trucks still manage to bash or get stuck under low railw; bridges....

Bodgit and Scram? Sounds like the sort of highly skilled craftsmen The Hawk usually employs. This 1952 Ford Thames pick-up...

strange that, in the UK at least, the turbo option was only available on the 4x4 Double Cab—we felt that the normally...

The Super Cab is proving to be the least popular Ranger model, accounting for 244 out of a 1,458 total. The Double Cab is...

The problem with most pickups is getting a full load far enough forward to avoid overloading the rear axle. I laving lived with...

The Ranger soon unravels the notion that the back of a pickup is continually trying to overtake the front (as an American...

The spec level of the Ranger is very high and egalitarian, with all models getting almost identical kit (Double Cab owners have...

It's difficult to find serious fault with the Ford Ranger Super Cab. It's comfy, great to drive and pretty good on fuel...

Most goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross weight and trailers over 1,020kg unladen weight must have sideguards and rear...

Motor? Does someone in the Industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room...

On 20 January I bought a second-hand P-reg MAN 22.403 tractive unit from Euro Wise Truck of Aylesham, Kent which was advertised...

Your recent product round-up feature on vehicle couplings {CA+113-19 January) contained a comment about dual-height fifth...

It is always nice to be quoted in your magazine, but I feel what has been printed in CM20-26 January, "Two legs good, three...

Travelling round the M25 towards the M3 exit last Su night (30 January) I was thii to myself that at least on a Sunday night...

,Ve driven trucks for more years than I'd want to admit but my son has bought himsi used van and he is making m in a week than...

cult trading phase. And there have been cutbacks, job losses and management changes. One of the biggest shocks, though, came...

T he fashion industry is nothing if not fickle. Much of what appears on the racks in Next, M&S or Monsoon in May depends on the...

• The Labour Government introduced the Working Time Directive in October 1998. Most workers are covered by this law and it is...

• A maximum 48-hour average working week over a reference period of 17 weeks; • Employers to take reasonable steps to ensure...

are too tired to function properly. Fatigue causes lack of concentration, euphoria and a misguided confidence in your own...

it is still critical as we move into the new millennium. Brake re-fining for trucks and buses is perhaps not the most...