by Martial Tardy • Motorway charges in Europe could more than double under European Commission proposals to increase the cost...

• Thousands of lorry drivers and transport managers are being questioned by police as part of the hunt for the truck driver...

by Miles Brignall • Hauliers are faced with a number of major changes to legislation and operating regulations in the new...

• Roadside emissions checks will continue this year because the number of vehicles failing is unacceptable, says road safety...

T he idea of having to pay more to use major British trunk roads is like the joke about a consultant. What's a consultant? A...

by Karen Miles • Disappointed intermodal operators are this year facing a much smaller increase in railfreight grants than they...

• Hauliers may be paying National Insurance needlessly on the expenses they pay to drivers for subsistence and overnight...

• Trailers drawn by tractors and drawbar prime movers registered after April 1989 will soon have to be fitted with selfsealing...

• Lancashire-based Munro Transport is set to issue a formal statement within the next few days on drivers' hours allegations...

by Derren Hayes • The British Road Federation has warned of increasing congestion and road chaos in the wake of a £130m cut in...

• The day of the greasy spoon cafe in motorway service areas may be over following a decision by service area group Welcome...

• Transport Development Group has moved out of the parcels delivery business following the sale of its half stake in Tuffnells...

• East Anglian car, van and truck rental company Willhire has been brought from merchant bank Brown Shipley by its management...

Big plans for b • ig vans M405 to close gap • by Brian Weatherley • LDV aims to increase its sales in the UK high-cube parcel...

• Citroen C15 Champ and Relay light commercials now have a choice of warranty packages available: either two years/unlimited...

• The two-vehicle licence held by Dudley ownerdriver Derrick Landell has been revoked by West Midland Deputy Licensing...

• Maintenance problems at Caernarfon-based tipper operators Leith and Gareth Wynne Jones, trading as Wynne's Transport, led to...

a • The six-vehicle licence held by Sheffieldbased Clemhaven has been revoked following convictions for vehicle excise duty...

by Bryan Jarvis • Supermarket chain Budgens is evaluating the prototype of a new double-deck Multi-Pak concept from Tidd...

dictates that nature must bend to man's will—hence the introduction of salmon farming to allow production all year round. And...

a damsel in distress. But when Diana Dooner, the Ipswich-based campaigner for truckers, called in saying she had organised a...

Trucks rolling off Seddon Atkinson's Oldham assembly line have a reputation for durability and high-payload earning potential....

ed at 1,1541bft (1,564Nm). Given that some operators spec 500hp for 32-tonne 8x4s this rating might seem rather tame. However,...

OPERATORS' VERDICTS Brian Urban, company director for G&A Thursby, based at the side of Morecambe Bay at Carnforth, Lancs, has...

RENAULT TRAFIC 11100 PRIMA SWB Price as tested: £9,160. Includes £165 for glazed bulkhead. Engine: 2.2-litre petrol 97hp...

by Colin Sowman T he latest incarnation of the long-serving Renault Trafic comes with the Laguna-derived dashboard, corporate...

A s every truck that has been launched in the past few years could be in production until around 2010, it doesn't take a genius...

• Alan Wisely For companies specialising in raifreight, last month's strikes in France, led by public sector workers,...

S mall firms with viable business prospects which have tried and failed to obtain a conventional loan, either because of lack...

Spanish, but you can't go far without detecting civilizations that existed even before the Aztecs. Mexicans share a strong...

6 o another budget has been and gone. Chancellor Kenneth Clarke—the hauliers' Friend— didn't, as expected, raise VED rates and...