Unfortunately, when any major truck manufacturer is in financial difficulties there's always far more heat than light when it...

Scottish police are warning operators of vehicles fitted with truck loaders to strap the cranes down following an accident...

was left reeling this by the announcement that Leyland Daf, the UK's market leader, is on the brink of receivership leaving...

Mansfield-based reefer operator HDL Distribution has ceased trading. Directors of its parent company, National Plant and...

Allied Industrial Services after committing a total of 100 tachograph offences were unfairly dismissed, an Industrial Tribunal...

drivers denied vocational driving licences since April 1991 because they suffered childhood epileptic fits have won the right...

Transport's bias in favour of the roads must end if damage to the countryside is to be reduced, a leading environmental group...

Association, is calling on drivers who spot expired tax discs on working trucks to report them to him. NODA wants the Traffic...

year but growth in the overall truck parc remained flat, despite a 5% year-onyear rise in December.

has said that new infrastructure may have to be financed by "direct payment for road use". But RHA international representative...

• Truck racing champion Steve Parrish will appear in court this month for possessing an obscene number plate. Police told him...

Road Bridge is among the options for improving transport links around the Firth of Forth set out in a new Scottish Office...

driving tests brought in almost £3.6m for the Department of Transport last year —a fall of over £1m on 1990-91.

could face inflated repair charges and delays at motorway service areas following a change in an obscure Department of...

are to ballot on whether to accept the Road Haulage Association's decision to reject a pay increase until at least June. The...

year contract for BP Bitumen to provide distribution throughout the south from the Isle of Grain terminal.

and maintenance managers to come forward if they spot any unexplained damage to the nearside rear of a trailer or vehicle. The...

rapid privatisation of Royal Mail emerged this week although the Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine stressed there have...

fined £300 after admitting fraudulently altering a tachograph and making false entries on record sheets.

company can amount to 37% of profits, shows a Health & Safety Executive study of an unnamed medium-sized milk distributor.

to Manchester to relieve the effects of pit closures, the Government has been told by the Yorkshire and Humberside Partnership,...

and increasing height clearance on some lines to accommodate piggyback freight, transport minister Roger Freeman said in...

UK range of low-fifth-wheel MW tractors with right-hand drive and extra engine and cab options. The five-model line-up...

First to arrive this spring will be fixed and self-steering axles designed for 19.5in low-profile tyres. Before the end of the...

troubled US subsidiary will be back in profit by the middle of next year, says company chairman Elios Pascual. Renault's slim...

manufacturer R&G Wilcox has developed a semitrailer chassis for what director Ray Wilcox terms "the small, quality trailer...

six-wheel tipper/mixer chassis with a bogie spread of 1.35m, a wheelbase of 3.85m and a Euro-1 engine for operation at the...

the first operators in Europe to take delivery of Renault's Maxter 8x4 chassis. The company has bought two Maxter G340ti 8x4s,...

distributor in Scotland. The Eurohitch range of fifth wheels, landing legs, king pins and ancillary equipment will be available...

Wrightbodied Dennis Darts and is the first Welsh operator to order Wright's Handybus bodywork. The singledeckers will replace...

delivered its first factory-built Magnum 6x2 tagaxle tractive unit to the UK. The 6x2 model was announced last summer....

haulage firm SAY Transport called in the receiver last week, following a string of bad debts. Ten drivers have been left...

plans to cut its costs by moving a two-site Boots contract into a single depot. Six of the 23 driver and warehouse staff at...

to open a 8,400m2 warehouse at Linwood, Strathclyde at the end of March to serve a five-year contract with United Glass. The...

depots will close next month as the company moves into the final phase of a rationalisation plan designed to save £16m a...

opportunities for bulk milk carriers following this week's announcement of a new co-operative between farmers in England and...

increase its number of schools to seven this year with new sites at Bristol and Birmingham.

the balance as he waits for the recovery of his Scania Centurion which was stolen with a £46,000 load of smoked salmon from...

Workers Won is expected to submit a 5% pay claim for Tankfreight's 2,000 non-petroleum drivers with a £2 increase on overnight...

The Bonus II package will be available on all diesel-powered Fiesta, Courier, and Escort 40 Popular vans. It includes a stereo...

Daf/Renault van joint venture is in doubt because of Daf's financial problems. The project was set up to develop replacements...

It is available as a chassis-cab or dropside pickup with a new cab—and the Cabstar is still the only purpose-built...

reported to be teaming up to produce light CVs, in the face of falling domestic sales. The two companies will share parts and...

One way to improve road transport in Europe would be to use bigger and heavier lorries, but this would test the politicians'...

El 8,599 (inc-VAT) (Commercial £13,495 (ex-VAT). Engine: 3.1 litres turbocharged, 84kW (113hp). GVW: 2,600kg. Payload: 700kg...

of Didsbury, pleaded guilty before the Manchester City magistrates to five daily driving limit offences, two of insufficient...

West Midlands haulier S&G Transport after a row over the payment of expenses was not "constructively dismissed"—he was...

contracted to a freight forwarder which determined the drivers' work. The problem with drivers hours had now been sorted out....

Mervyn Pugh. The application was opposed by Gwent County Council, Newport Borough Council, the headmistress of the local...

Barrow Magistrates' dismissal of charges of using a vehicle without a test certificate and at the wrong rate of duty relating...

discharge for using a vehicle with dangerous parts after Towcester magistrates accepted the company was not to blame for a...

by Ian Osborne-Shaw, trading as Sussex Tipper Services, has been withdrawn. Steyning Magistrates recently ordered Osborne-Shaw...

a claim for unfair dismissal against Swift Transport Services because his advisor submitted it two days late.

traditional white collar areas such as the banks and building societies has led to an upsurge in demand for LGV training as the...

specialist, has appointed Mansysco, of Trowbridge, Wilts to distribute its VeMIS on-board computer. Contact (0225) 755207....

a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

of Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems in this monthly column. Council objections After I...

into Taunton Cider's mill in the Somerset village of Norton Fitzwarren, load up with pallets and kegs of the famous drink, and...

Foden's narrow-cabbed 8x4 3325 has a bright future at the new 32tonne limit—and on A-roads it also . set a class record for...

the mainsail of boat haulier Bugler Transport — luxury cruisers are as much in demand as ever. No sector of the industry can...

has increased-614,000 since 1987 including many hauliers—so has the amount of business fraud. According to Thomas Helsby,...

as an expensive piece of kit although there are important safety aspects. But now EC legislation will force a change of...

increased significantly. Perhaps it's due to the tension in the Gulf—or perhaps ifs the oil industry trying to protect its...

cheaper' 4 m any hauliers claim that road transport is over-taxed and that this taxation should be reduced, it is wrong to say...