CM has uncovered an Essex dealer who sold trucks with cranes in a dangerous condition, covered by worthless certificates,...

Brian Palmer has denied to CMthat he has ever swapped good parts for bad after a truck has passed its annual test. In general,...

What's happened to Commercial Motor? Why the new look? The new, easier-to-read design? The new sections? The answer's simple....

• by Karen Miles Truck bosses will have to take closer account of their drivers' rights following the publication last week of...

• Operator licensing files on hauliers in North Wales are set to be moved to the Birmingham Traffic Area Office, only three...

• Defiant hauliers are prepared to take direct action against rising fuel prices if this month's mass lobby on Parliament fails...

• Britain's ever-increasing army of car drivers sees the haulage industry as the third biggest threat to the environment,...

IN by David Cralk A second local Road Haulage Association chairman in the space of one week has been forced to shut the doors...

The Scottish Office has given regional councils in Scotland until 12 March to discuss whether up to six regional transport...

• Eleven men, including the owners of two haulage firms, have gone on trial accused of organising a £16m drug smuggling...

• A conference in Falkirk on 19 March will focus on the transport issues that Scottish operators will face in a devolved...

• by David Craik Thirty South Wales tipper operators fear for their futures following Lafarge' Redland Aggregates' decision to...

II A Dublin court has decided that too much noise was being made when trucks were being loaded with products for McDonald's...

Fi The Freight Transport Association warns of hold-ups caused by Polish farmers on the country's borders with Germany and...

• A delivery driver who stole almost £10,000 worth of goods from his employers has been jailed for a year. Darren Whitehouse...

• A health study into the birth defects of babies born to parents near landfill sites will not include those born to waste...

• by Karen Miles The Government's new Food Standards Agency will have the power to intervene if hauliers are jeopardising food...

• The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Association has launched a pilot scheme which could soon enable hauliers to relicense their...

A Chester scrap merchant is claiming to be the first operator to claim the Government's £500 vehicle excise duty discount for...

on ston times Wabco's electronic brake actuation system (EBS) is fitted to Newport Pagnellbased Roy Lawrence's new Wisbech...

• by Colin Banat Volvo's Truck and Bus assembly plant at Irvine in Ayrshire will close within 15 months with the loss of 450...

• Worcester-based firefighting vehicle manufacturer Carmichael International has been sold to the venture capital combine...

• Volkswagen is aiming to enter a new market with the LT46 PSU (Police Special Unit), a long-wheelbase van with seating for 10...

• by Bryan Jarvis Sawston, Cambridgeshirebased office equipment supplier Spicers has improved its vehicle tumround time and...

II Three new lveco SuperCargo 6x2 rigid drays, all fitted with Don-Burs latest buckleless curtainsider bodywork, are enabling...

air Gray & Adams has supplied 40 multi-temperature reefer panel vans to Waitrose for use on same-day business and home...

Conoco has bought 23 ERF EC11 6x2 tractive units to operate at 41 tonnes CCW. The tractors and their 41,300-1Itre tank trailers...

Fines totalling £1,800 imposed on Dukes Transport (Craigavon) by Andover magistrates for tachograph offences have been cut by...

A Derbyshire haulage company has appeared at its second disciplinary inquiry in two &re years because of continuing...

Using a high-pressure water jetting vehicle without the authority of an 0 licence has cost Leeds-based Lanes for Drains 1600 in...

The 1857 is the most powerful variant of the Actros, and at 563hp it's the most powerful truck available in the UK. Even on the...

Recently, at a couple of motorway sites on the west side of London, the yellowjacketed "parking attendants" have informed me...

As an owner-operator with just one truck and trailer, trying to survive and make a liv ng in this cut-throat business of ours,...

the way the AA is behaving regarding advertising (CM 28 Jan-3 Feb), I would like to point out that we at least had the courtesy...

the Vehicle Inspectorate is asking hauliers to shop others if they are suspected of using cheap, illegal drivers. CM's story...

Ever been flashed at? I'm talking, of course, about speed cameras. If you have been caught out by one of these you will be...

The Hawk has always thought of the Swedes as a race of fun-loving liberals who gave the world Volvo, ABBA, cheap furniture and...

While travelling between Ashbourne and Kniveton in the Derbyshire Dales, drivers may have been rather puzzled to see signs...

The last time he had to cough up for a set of new tyres for his Reliant Robin the Hawk's blood pressure shot off the Richter...

• A recent warning to operators from one of the Traffic Commissioners highlighted just one of the little-realised intricacies...

ENVIRONMENT Green line The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has a free helpline* to assist small and...

VAUXHALL ASTRAVAN 2.0111 1 PRICE AS TESTED: £11,635 (ex-VAT), includes 111,445 for basic vehicle; £190 for electric front...

hard-hearted to begrudge a poor Romanian truck driver the chance to boost his income by working in the relatively prosperous...

It Owner-driver Nigel Harness has pursued a single-minded campaign to highlight the problem of domestic operators illegally...

C alculating the cost of trucking goods across Europe is complicated enough at present but from 1 July 2000, transport planners...

Eurovignettes are a single permit for lorries over 12 tonnes to travel on much of the Continental motorway network. They were...

The introduction of 40 and 41-tonne trucks on Britain's roads this year has led to many local authorities imposing weight...

The Highways Agency, which is responsible for motorways and trunk roads in England, has surveyed all its 4,000 structures on...

Hauliers who get involved in their local communities stand to gain more than a pat on. the back and a mention in the local...

• Until I was 21,1 was driving 3.5-tonne vans but can now drive a 7.5-tonne truck. This means I have to keep a tachograph...

• i am In business as a plant engineer and have a 16-tonne platform lorry which I would like to equip with a compressor and...

Roy Harbour, who hauls abnormal loads to the Continent, says time is up for the inequalities in costs that exist between UK and...