by Miles Brignall • Dangerous lorries are being let off lightly because Vehicle Inspectorate "efficiency" measures put a target...

• A Staffordshire-based haulier has shut down after 50 years in the industry blaming increasingly tight rates. Nearly 30...

• The Drivers Action Movement and the British Diabetic Association presented a 1,500-signature petition to 10 Downing Street...

ON YOUR MARKS, in vignette scheme I GET SET... by Miles Brignall • Britain should join the Eurovignette scheme that charges...

P roilibit! News that the Vehicle Inspectorate allotting its examiners 23 minutes to examine c truck at a roadside check comes...

Hauliers in the north of England will be applying to Edinburgh for Operator's Licences in future, says the Department of...

by Karen Miles • A demonstration in the East of England that was supposed to attract 1,000 lorries failed badly last weekend,...

• A Welsh transport group with a £5m turnover is in search of a buyer after being placed into administrative receivership....

Computer technology could be the way to make Britain's lorries safer, the parliamentary Transport Select Committee heard last...

• Motor insurers are expected to Oct against the thousands of UK trucks travelling on the Continent without insurance This...

• New regulations governing the transport of radioactive material by road have been introduced by the Department of Transport....

by Miles Brignall • Trucks without Operator's Licence discs will not necessarily be confiscated under new impounding...

* Austria: It is proposec impose eurovignette-styli charges on all trucks OVE tonnes using motorways major roads within the n...

by Ross McCarthy 111 A lorry driver who was involved in an horrific accident on the M5 near Birmingham when two motorists were...

• Truck rental group Hill Hire has recorded a 46% increase in turnover and profits up by a half to £3.5m for the year ended...

• The Operator's Licence of Erith-based haulier Solartech 2000 has been revoked and its sole director, Erich Skupin, has been...

• Plans to improve the professional qualifications of truck drivers and managers are being prepared by the Road Haulage and...

• Parcels delivery firm Business Post has posted pretax profits up 42% to £13m on a 28% increased turnover to £65.5m,...

by Karen Miles • Union efforts to cut truck drivers' hours are intensifying as Brussels prepares to impose a 48hour week on...

• Transport Developmer Group has won a new £750,000-a-year contrc with Henderson, part of Hepworth. The open yea contract, won...

by Bryan Jarvis • Scania has developed an electronically controlled "brake-by-wire" system for its latest 4-Series long-haul...

by Brian Weatherley. • Volvo is offering up to 10% more torque from the Euro-2 versions of its all-electronic 12-litre...

T he economic resurgence of the former Eastern Bloc countries has encouraged a number of Western manufacturers to import...

EXCLUSIVE by John Kendall • Essex-based Phoenix Truck and Trailer Equipment has developed a revolutionary...

1 by Derren Hayes • South East tip per operator A&J Bull has had its 0-licence cut by two vehicles for two months after...

• Operating restrictions were placed on P&O Distribution in Avonmouth after residents complained about the noise and dust from...

Scottish TC Michael Betts to reconsider the revocation of the licence held by Kirkcaldy-based Thomas Muir (Haulage). The...

trailers held by Exescot was revoked when the company failed to appear at a Bristol disciplinary inquiry. The Exeter-based...

le South Wales TC John Mervyn Pugh took no action against the licence held by Bridgend-based Mark Davies after transport...

Scottish TC Michael Betts about his future maintenance standards and the need to notify the Commissioner of any convictions...

• Mounthooly Transport of Jedburgh has lost its licence after being convicted of falsifying tachograph records. The company and...

I A Blackwood company had its licence suspended for four days, and the authorisation reduced, when it appeared at its fourth...

• A South Wales operator who "tried to be a bit too clever" is to make a fresh application for a licence. At a previous...

avid Higginbottom. general secretary of the United Road Transport Union, swapped the traditional workers flat cap for a mortar...

0 omewhat Mated& I am Pleased to ot)i.r Hawkly congratulations to Dennis fry scooping two awards for a veteran fire appliance....

be as versatile as any motorised unit with wheels and not all end their days still recognisable m a public sertice vehicle....

O perators who want to introduce their youngest offspring to trucks and all things trucking need look no further than "Look at...

I was a little surprised to see your advice when faced with Industrial Tribunal action (Employment Bulletin CM 20-26 June) as...

While agreeing with all the points that you made, we feel we must point out one other very important factor when tightening...

S o the DOT decided that MP Gwyneth Dunwoody could not address staff at the Traffic Area Office in Manchester about the office...

• 6-7 July: Truckfest South West, Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Contact: 01775 768661. • 7 July:...

STRONG • 4 TUFF Iveco Ford has gone for the tough, off-road muckaway end of the tipper market with the steel-sprung version of...

Disc brakes can sound almost too good to be true but then the cracks start to appear. Maintenance is expensive but the market...

When an auto production line is threatened with closure for the want of a spare part, it needs rescuing by an expert in panic...

The Forest of Dean on the north side of the River Severn in Gloucestershire is a closeknit community that has, over the years,...

non-white faces. Why is this? Do black people seek careers in the haulage industry or are there more disturbing reasons why so...

We explain the EU proposals for driver lice 'sing. • European Policy The directive has come out of the European Commission's...

Travelling East can be a nightmare of border delays, bad weather and unpredictable expenses. But a little knowledge, coupled...

Hauliers must learn to embrace intermodal systems, says Graham Manchester, boss of int, specialist, Eiger Transport Systems....