• The VI computer system to improve links between the VI and Traffic Area Offices will cost 211m, Transport Minister Steven...

• A functional test for speed limiters could follow the European Commission's commitment to re-examine current limiter law....

by Karen Miles • Three thousand haulage staff have lost their jobs or been put on short-time because of the ongoing BSE crisis...

by Derren Hayes • A Dewsbury man has been refused a job by US parcels company United Parcel Services because he has a beard....

re we alone in finding it ironic that when it comes to banning the meat from (allegedly) mad cows the European Commission can...

by Jane Sayer • Seventy drivers, five of them already disqualified, were arrested during a two-day police operation, codenamed...

by Derren Hayes • The Department of Transport is to sue two Cambridgeshire truckstop proprietors after a long-running battle...

• Stoke-on-Trent-based RG Bassett and Sons has taken over Beresford Transport in a move which gives Bassett its first...

• A scathing attack on Government cuts in transport spending has been delivered by the British Road Federation after the...

by Miles Brig nail • The Government's plan to use road charges to cut congestion is collapsing because half the companies...

• More than 50 people have so far contacted the Good Lorry Code freephone number to praise and criticise truck drivers in the...

• The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) is to introduce a number of measures to deter candidate impersonation when the new written...

• An application to lift the suspension of the 0-licence held by liverpool-based JC Transport, imposed in June 1993, has been...

by Karen Miles • Truck operators will be at the forefront of the switch from conventional fuels to more environmentally...

• Van manuf ac turer LDV, formerly part of Leyland Daf, is expected to announce pre-tax profits in excess of .C20m for last...

A waste disposal operator is considering serving a proposed site in Warwickshire by rail instead of road to satisfy local...

by Derren Hayes • The Government has released the list of waste products that are to be charged at £7 and £2/tonne under the...

• Continuing losses by Axial, the car transportation division of Tibbett & Britten, halved the group's 1995 pre-tax profits....

• Car transporter Sheertruck has proved there is still money to be made in the car storage and haulage sector by boosting its...

by Nicky Clarke • The furore in the industry over the loss of grandfather rights for drivers facing new eyesight legislation is...

• Derek Greenhill, who trades as UK Express Systems, was given a severe warning about his maintenance standards when he...

• Using vehicles without excise licences and test certificates has led to the suspension of one of the three vehicles operated...

• Derek Chidgey, trading as AB Metals, of Taunton, has had his three-vehicle licence revoked for failing to keep them at the...

4. More than 90 drivers' hours and tachograph charges against Liverpool-based Knowlsey Transport & Forwarding were withdrawn by...

• Tachograph charts intended to be used as evidence of drivers hours offences by Norfolk-based Adex Freight have been lost, a...

• The 0-licence held by Michael Greasley, trading as Midas Distribution, of Newbold Verdon, Leicester has been revoked by...

by John Kendall III Mercedes-Benz' US sub sidiary Freightliner launched its Century Class truck range at the recent Mid-America...

• Sheffield-based European logistics and rental company Stardes is adding 18 new York Blue Max stepped 102m semi-trailers with...

by Steve Sturgess • Cummins has introduced its next-generation fuel system already on the recently revamped QSK19. CM...

• Volvo GM Heavy Truck in the US is now fitting Cummins Road Relay to all Volvo trucks powered by Volvo's 1.112 engine, as...

by Brian Weatherley • Why do so many UK truck operators think the best place to buy a specialist trailer is on the other side...

and loader crane division called SkyKing Equipment. Last year King sold around 100 vehicle-mounted units based upon the Italian...

I n response to your article Safety to go public?" regarding the Department of Transport suggestion to maker hauliers' safety...

I get the impression that your reporters leant over backwards to try to be objective in their story on opposition to the...

• 16-18 April: Environmental Technology Exhibition, Birmingham. Contact: 0181 910 7852. • 16/30 April: Two half-day seminars...

Top driver • The Truck and Van Driver of the Year competition is calling for entrants, sponsors and exhibitors. The event,...

• A Microsoft Windows version of TrucieStops, the vehicle routeing and scheduling computer system, has been developed by...

Midlands and East Anglia • A11 Norfolk: Construction of the new Wymondhain Bypass continues, with lane and speed restrictions...

L. Hold your game card so that )osition 1 is at the top right hand :orner. Place your card on top of the grid rinted here, so...

le Accumulator Game is played in the ame way as the instant game, except hat whenever the commercial Motor ymbol appears in any...

M ith a strong family background of pigeon fancying, the Hawk is as keen as anyone on the proper treatment and welfare of our...

perators who want to rise above the competition at this year's Truckfest need look no further than the Flying Pictures stand....

for the sensible reason that it's earned a reputation for building lightweight, productive vehicles, like the Strato 6x4 tipper...

seven months ago and drives an ERF El 0 eight-wheeler for GSD Transport Services. As we headed out of the quarry along the A505...

quay which provides an ideal place to contemplate the ocean rolling in toward Tenby on the lovely South Pembrokeshire coast. As...

Oxford, Alan Dobie t it was probably a mate suggesting they go for a midweek pint. In fact the call was from the Marine...

used for slur rying, suck up the sludge and take it to Sa!tern car park. There the vacuum tanks despatch the oil into skips...

S ince the final destination of the recovered oil is Texaco's refinery at Angle, it made sense to set up a cleaning operation...

many years. However, the inordinate time these systems take to start and warm up have kept them out of automotive use. But all...

about fighting again and appears to be in no mood to contemplate defeat. But this time McGuigan is aiming his fire, not at the...

Danzas is in the premier league of European logistics and it's planning to double its activities in the UK. Should hauliers be...

in UK UK presence: 1981 Stratford in E London, Based: Purfleet since Jan 95, Fleet:120 owned, 20 subcontractor-owned Other...

When the going is good, profit-related pay schemes can put extra money in your drivers' pockets at the Government's expense....

g he Government has released T updated versions of previously confidential "congestion" or "stress" maps forecasting traffic...