by Mike Jewell • The Government's plan to introduce impounding of unlicenced trucks was given fresh impetus last week after a...

• A Leicestershire haulier has been told he could face prison for fitting switches to his vehicles to disconnect the...

• Transport Minister Glenda Jackson has revealed that 247.2m in tolls was paid on the Severn Brdde in 1996. • Tradetearn has...

by Nicky Clarke and David Craik • Welsh farmers plan to continue blockading ports following recent action which has cost Irish...

• Hauliers and unions are predicting that acute driver shortages will push up wages in the next pay round. James Irlam & Sons...

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS... uestions, questions.. .always questions. For example, how come the French authorities can stall...

P&O's ferry freight rates could add an extra £70,000 to annual bills, warn international hauliers, although many are sceptical...

• Lawyers acting for hundreds of hauliers demanding compensation from last year's French blockades say the French have moved...

• More than 150 drivers at Consolidated Land Services of Scunthorpe are to be balloted next week for industrial action after...

• Police are warning hauliers about a gang of armed and violent hijackers who stripped a lorry of its load of wines and spirits...

by Sally Nash • Regional bulk hauliers could be hit by the potential closure of many of RJB Mining's pits, the coal producer...

• Norbert Dentressangle is lining up a series of joint ventures in Eastern Europe which are designed to boost its groupage...

• All transport operators will have to comply with the national minimum wage law which is likely to be introduced next year....

• The Transport and General Workers Union in Scotland has pledged to bring private prosecutions against transport bosses in...

• Carmarthenshire County Council is calling for HGVs to be banned from motorways and dual carriageways during daylight hours in...

by David Craik • Hauliers are warned to be on the look-out for fake speeding camera tickets demanding payments of £130 after...

• TDG's food, drink and retail logistics division TDG Harr is has a warehousing contract to stock Superdrug's Christmas...

• The head of the Austrian hauliers' trade association has warned that an electronic system designed to make high polluting...

by David Craik • A Scottish haulier is warning colleagues who work on forestry roads to make sure they are suitable for their...

• A haulier is offering a £5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of thieves who stole two trailers and their...

An automatic slack adjuster is hardly the sexiest thing on a truck. But that hasn't stopped Haldex from developing it into a...

• Volkswagen's truckbuilding operation in Brazil has produced a concept vehicle featuring the latest all-electronic version of...

• Seddon Atkinson has sold 39 refuse collection vehicles to Hong Kong's Regional and Urban Service Departments. The Faun/Partek...

• Volvo has celebrated the 50,000th vehicle to be built at its plant in Irvine, Ayrshire. The chassis was an FL10-360 tractive...

by Toby Clark • ERF is withdrawing from next year's IRTE Show and will not be exhibiting at any of the major exhibitions in...

wide-single use with a target weight of 23kg—almost 2k9 lighter than current models. The wheels will be made at Alcoa's new...

• Volkswagen is offering free servicing for two years or 60,000 miles (whichever comes first) on all new LT vans and...

• Stirling council is replacing its entire winter maintenance Heet with 18 Whale Drop-In gritter rigs. The 6m 3 demountable...

• A Gloucestershire man has failed in his bid to use his terraced council house as the operating centre for a 6.6-tonne van....

• A front-axle overload on a vehicle carrying pallets of bricks led to Birminghambased Lyndon Transport being fined £750 when...

• Lorry driver John Leake's claim AA that he was unfairly dismissed by (;ammond Transport after his conduct cost the firm a...

• A driver who failed to produce the tachograph chart for his current day's duly has been found guilty of obstructing a traffic...

• Maintenance problems have led to seven vehicles and seven trailers being suspended for two weeks from the licences held by...

• A truck driver who faces two charges of causing death by dangerous driving following a crash in January has had his plea...

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I commend Jeremy Taylor for "his" idea of setting up a driver training centre for his company, CDS Employment, in the hope of...

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S o Road Haulage Association boss Steven Norris wants hauliers to pay more for 0-licences to help pay for more enforcement (CM...

W hen I pay for or charge for, services or goods on the Continent in fellow EU states—provided the person I deal with can show...

very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at the...

D he words "heart" and "warming" sprang to mind when I heard this tale. One rush hour morning in Tooting, south London, not so...

3 ingi Classics has conic up trumps again with its new collection which includes a series entitled Building Britain. Among...

ED aving experienced rather frosty relations with its drivers during a bitter dispute in the US recently, UPS—the international...

RETURN MATCH It's a pity that Steyr's foray into the UK market didn't last longer; the 17-tonner we tested back in 1989 left a...

The words "contract hire" have long been bandied around as an answer to a fleet manager's prayers, particularly for own-account...

Drivers and operators have been subjected to the latest multiagency purge in the form of Operation Mermaid. Many in the...

N orth Western Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth recently granted a licence to a Derbyshire haulier and his wife, both of...

You can't run a road haulage operation without an authorised operating centre and the Traffic Commissioners have sweeping...

M any operators contract out their vehicle inspection and maintenance; not least because it gives them a sense of security:...

When it's too cold in Scotland for the grass to grow, animal feed manufacturer and distributor Davidson Brothers (Shotts)...

Transport companies often lease equipment believing they are getting a good deal and hanging on to capital. But the reverse...

Truck manufacturers and operators have been through the Euro-1 and Euro-2 engine barriers with less pain than was once thought....

R ecent proposals by Euro MP Mark Watts that LGV and PCV drivers should re-test at five or 10-year intervals, in order to...