the Al to be signposted as the road is upgraded to motorway standard—work has just begun on the first 21km (13-mile) stretch to...

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers will contribute the lion's share to Government coffers when motorway charges are introduced over the...

• Allegations that LGV learners were allowed to drive unsupervised at the South Minims operation of LGV driving school...

• West Midlands police plan to increase checks on trucks carrying hazardous loads, after their first inspection with Health &...

by Amanda Bradbury • HGV test fees are likely to tumble as the Vehicle Inspectorate's testing division's costs are tightened up...

• Complaints over lack of ministerial continuity are being voiced following the Cabinet reshuffle which brought the industry...

• The prospects fur Royal Mail and Parcelforce privatisation appear to be diminishing following the loss of a key Department of...

• The Transport and General Workers Union plans to force the Road Haulage Association back to the negotiating table with its...

• A stolen Ford Transit curtainsider with a hazardous load which could kill if mishandled has been found "neatly parked up" in...

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers have slammed DOT plans to raise the 0-licensing threshold to 6.0 tonnes GVW along with continuous...

• Fly-tippers are likely to face stiffer fines and prison sentences following a drive to educate magistrates and a switch to...

• The European Commission will produce legislation this year to reduce the limits for exhaust emissions for light commercial...

• Dennis Eagle has become the first European truck maker to fit the latest Perkins Peregrine midrange truck diesel engine. The...

• Scania will launch a sixwheeler rigid chassis at the Institute of Waste Management Show in Torbay later this month. The P93...

• It will cost oil companies between 01 and 1.05 pence per litre to reduce the sulphur content of diesel fuel to 0.5% as...

• Robert Bosch, the German component and automotive systems maker, is developing an electronic package designed to prevent...

by Bill Brock 111 Iveco Ford plans to bring its heavy off/on road EuroTrakker six and eight-wheel tipper chassis into the UK by...

by Karen Miles I Protests over proposed wage freezes in the North-East could result in joint action from drivers attempting to...

• Renault is due to be privatised later this year under French government plans to raise cash in a bid to stimulate its...

• Car transporters are planning to take on more drivers to cope with the predicted seasonal increase in business. And...

Logistics Group is planning a series of acquisitions to make it a major operation in temperature-controlled haulage. The...

by Amanda Bradbury II The Government is planning to out tender £40m worth of transport contracts over the next three years in...

• Cheshire haulier Gary Murphy is being held in custody pending sentence after being convicted of stealing a ,E2,000...

• Doncaster lorry driver William Gibbins was fined £1,000 for a weekly rest offence under the controversial "Unit Fine"...

• Environmental representations from a neighbour failed to prevent Penrith, Cumbriabased Graham Lund increasing the...

• A warrant for the arrest of Worksop owner driver William 13auld has been issued by Leigh, Lancashire magistrates. Bauld...

• Darlington haulier John T Dickinson was given an absolute dis "C charge by Pontefract magistrates after admitting using a...

"Roll up, roll up, roll up! It's the big Department of Transport sell-off. Everything must go!" The late Harold MacMillan...

• Vauxhall has axed the Astramax van, its Escort challenger, and will launch two new Corsa-based vans next year. Astramax...

• Renault is considering a hatchback Clio van for the UK. The Clio is already available as a van in lefthand-drive. Renault has...

• Sales of Suzuki's Supercarry will continue despite the end of microvan production at the IBC plant in Luton, UK source of the...

Motors in the US for the UK Isuzu franchise. General Motors owns a share in the Japanese manufacturer which launched the...

• Land Rover has launched a commercial version of the highly successful Discovery4x4. Based on the three-door bodyshell, with...

• Volkswagen has updated its LT range. The new models. dubbed HiTorq, come with substantially revised six-cylinder petrol,...

Classic show on the A5 • The 1993 Classis Commercial Motor Show will take place on Sunday 13 June at the BP Truckstop on the...

Logistics diploma • A European "Diploma in Logistics Management" is now available for senior professional logisticians. The...

Early chance to go to L • More than 600,000 new Lregistration numbers are up for grabs from 1 June. The Driver and Vehicle...

French connections • Companies wishing to contact the French business community in the UK can refer to an updated publication...

Electronic navigator • Columbus is a new handheld electronic routefinder which uses the AA's road network database to help...

WE IP TIGERS 5 he Isle of Wight Zoo, with its professed fondness for tigers, must have checked the delivery note in some...

M hy not holiday in Sweden this summer where you are invited to pop in to Scattia's visitors centre, the Marcus Wallenberg Hall...

: chef Aid of Cambridge 1 ' wants to hear from anyone who can loan a vehicle from 7.5-38 tonnes for a mercy mission to Croatia...

A D merica is said to be the land of opportunity and Illinois motorists remembered this dictum when speeding down a motorway...

artford Burrow Counsel wants no trttk with motorized veihcles on Dartford Heath and is going out of its way to get the messuge...

hence this stand at the recent Mid America show where desperate hauliers sought to persuade show visitors to switch camps and...

six-wheeler from its Leighton Buzzard yard over the Easter weekend. It is believed that the thieves put a chain around the yard...

eedle's eve T he Republic of Lithuania is struggling, with mixed success, to shed its Soviet past and integrate into Europe....

without lasing any carrying capacity? Easy, say the manufacturers: start using multi-deckers. A trailer with an extra moving...

S ince Marshall's decision to diversify its engineering menu from most things military to CVs and equipment the Cambridge-based...

R TS Trailer Systems is a business element of Cheltenham-based NIL Douglas Equipment. For this review it produced one of its...

T . i ike the rest of the industry,112year-old Tidd Trailers has experienced some verytough trading conditions in recent...

T t - ansDek, formerly European Trailers. spent most of last year developing sysems of multi-decking for semi-trailers with up...

W ilson Double-Deck grew out of the family-owned FG Wilson group which had been producing container trailers to export its...

look again at how they rank the stealing of a driver's livelihood against other types of theft. Joe reported one of his...

Do you feel helpless if you think the Inland Revenue has not made every effor your behalf? The Tax Adjudicator, soon to be...

Hauliers can play their part in beating crime by ensuring security begins in the depot M odern security methods are a far cry...

training can be misdirected: it has to be targeted' g 1 t is my strong belief that people are the most valuable asset within...