iu by Miles Brignall Hundreds of struggling hauliers face losing their Operator's Licences from October 2001 when higher...

delays on the French side of the Channel Tunnel for freight following a hank holiday weekend of disruption by striking...

Hipress Continental, part of the HR Holdings group, has bought Essex-based haulier George Askew Transport, The move will create...

The RHA will hold this year's Agricon meeting at the Brandon Hall Hotel, Coventry on Saturday 5 June.

The truck pictured in last week's story "Driver finds Kosovars" was not the one in which the immigrants were discovered, but...

Cornwall-based Richards & Osbourne last week is an ERF, not a Seddon Atkinson dealership. SA trucks, managed by Henry Dilloway,...

inadequate safety procedures and equipment, according to a report for the International Tourist Affiance. Hazards included...

Milk Marque is to halve the number of its milk haulage distributors from this November following a national strategy review:...

• Agency drivers are one-anda-half times more likely to be involved in an accident than permanent drivers, according to a new...

ei The board of United Carriers is recommending to shareholders that they accept a takeover bid by French logistics group...

• by Karen Miles Grain hauliers in the south of England operating up to 400 trucks between them are getting together in an...

security in European road tunnels have been made following the deaths of five people in a fire in the Tauern Tunnel between...

• Trans-Action's inaugural fuel cruise to France attracted 105 trucks last Saturday The vehicles met at Lydden Hill, Dover at...

• by Karen Miles Germany has the most effective vehicle regulation enforcement regime in the European Union, leaving the UK...

• Bolton-based K&S,f Harvey is offering hauliers around the country the chance to match its estimated savings of nearly...

Proof of the pudding... There's a time bomb ticking away under the industry—and it's due to go off in October 2001. The...

• A truck driver who took ha eyes off the road for 12 seconds to tune his radio smashed into the back of a JCB plant vehicle,...

• Hauliers are among the 48% of small businessmen who are unaware that under the 1998 Commercial Debts (Interest) Act they can...

1111 The level of law breaking among foreign truck operators was exposed again last week when more than half the vehicles...

a six-year full-service contract hire agreement with Ryder The fleet includes nine Scanias, three Mercedes and a Leyland Dat

Save Petroleum has signed a three-year distribution contract with PH Trans European's Roadtanks division. It covers the supply...

its pan-European intermodal work. The contract covers routes from Pessione (Italy) to France and the UK, and from Barcelona to...

deliveries throughout Northern Europe. The contract involves the collection of 200 consignments each day from Falmer's site in...

Transport to deliver to its Toystack chain of outlets. The firm already delivers to Hamley's Regent Street store.

ANC Middlesborough has a new contract with electric cabling manufacturer Josty Linxs. ANC claims to have won 38 contracts in...

three-year commercial tyre management contract worth Om. ATS will supply Safeway's 650 vehicles and 1,150 trailers on a...

In the beginning hauliers were adamant—they were no longer going to take it lying down. There were threats of blockades and...

• by Bryan Jarvis Wirral-based Cheanright Industrial Service has Invested more than a million pounds Jr four Daf eight-logger...

• Caterpillar launched a revised version of its 7.2-litre engine at the IRTE show last month, and the first examples are likely...

• Scotland's largest dairy is putting seven new tankers into service based on Oaf 75CF rear-steer chassis. Robert Wiseman...

m Tracker, best known for its stolen vehicle tracking system, has launched a fleet management monitoring system. Unlike the...

III The first drawbar based on a Mercedes-Benz 817 Atego will be used to transport bulky empty fish crates. Adcliffe Drawdeal...

Renault's Magnum flagship is set to meet Euro-3 with Goohp of Cummins' finest... • by Brian Weatherley As predicted by...

Unity rings cab changes • by Bryan Jarvis Leicester-based recovery group Unity Garages has invested 180,000 in two Mitsubish...

• by Cohn Barnett The latest chapter in the story Of the Ford/Mazda pickup building partnership is now complete, following the...

CM has been able to put a number of versions of the B2500 through their paces in a variety of demanding situations. As usual...

,41 Despite describing Richard Owen Haley as evasive, both during a public inquiry and when questioned by police and...

Flintshire magistrates have fined Spencer Industrial (North Wales), of Buckley. £500 with £55 costs for a second axle overload...

Sheffield-based T Roberts (Haulage Contractors) and one of the company's drivers were given absolute discharges by Dewsbury...

and a gross overload of 15,2% cost Goole driver Ronald Cummings £855 in fines and costs when he appeared before Flintsh ire...

Running untaxed vehicles has led to the revocation of the licence held by Shrewsburybased Sian Gore. West Midland IC David...

the revocation of its licence by North Eastern DTC Patrick Mulvenna. The company had been ordered to pay £16,339 in fines,...

Tipper Hire and one of its drivers £480 in fines and costs. Huyton magistrates heard that the driver had planned to check the...

A Dublin lorry driver spent the night in police cells in West Wales after police found problems with his tachograph records....

tracts was fined 1100, with £75 costs, after Milton Keynes magistrates accepted that the unauthorised use of a vehicle had been...

Hughes Waste Management has won an appeal against the refusal of its bid for a fresh Operator's Licence—the Transport Tribunal...

events and traffic blackspots to theft and fuel prices. If you have information for inclusion send it to Commercial Motor, Room...

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

It would seem that we must dig in for a long and sustainable campaign to win any compromise from this Labour Government We have...

The MSF Union's campaign ("48 hours is for managers too", CM 13-19 May) appears to be based on a misinterpretation of the...

I have only recently been employed within the industry, but feel I must agree 100% with the comments of MJ Pearson (CM13-19...

As a white, British international freight driver I wish to congratulate both David Graik and Commercial Motor for a really...

"Focus" in this week's issue (CM20-26 May) raises a very interesting question: where, indeed, are the black and brown faces in...

Having been on all the major hauliers' demonstrations in the past 14 months. I feel TransAction has done exceptionally well in...

I am writing with a few personal observations regarding the lorry drivers' dispute with the Government over the increase in...

With electronic circuitry becoming ever more powerful and ever cheaper, there is a tendency to use high technology regardless...

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

Quality control procedures can help you win new business—and they underpin your 0-licence obligations. Q uality standards such...

T hese are the matters which should be considered in any quality system to minimise or, one hopes, prevent overloading. Have a...

• It is an offence to use, cause or permit the use of a vehicle which is overloaded. If you are charged with "using" the...

I n a recent public inquiry in the North Eastern Traffic Area, an operator was called to a disciplinary inquiry. The calling-in...

H ow many times have you heard someone say: "I've been done for a tachograph offence"? Most operators know the tachograph must...

Do not assume drivers know the regulations merely because they have HGV authorisation. A driver should be tested on his...

' PRICE AS TESTED: £15,528 (ex-VAT). Includes £15,350 for the basic vehicle and .£178 for metallic paint. ENGINE: 2.5-litre...

industry was not immune. Northantsbased Baker Croup Distribution was hit hard by the beef ban, but with canny foresight the...

f enforcement. B how many of u really know wh JEDI is and how will affe hauliers out on th road? David Crai finds out why th...

moving freight on water—at the expense of road haulage. But can such a policy work? Tim Maughan spoke to people who operate...

There's so much happening in the business world that it's a good idea for hauliers to step back now and again and take a cool...

Tolley Publishing, which produces regular monthly business bulletins offering need-to-know information on many areas,...

profit margins In the transport industry can be squeezed no further. • if you want to sound off about a road transport issue...