• by Sally Nash Brian Yeardley Continental, the haulier held up by the Government as evidence that UK operators have low costs...

a More than 30 drivers have been made redundant as a result of NWF Group's decision to close Wigan-based RN Bolton. NWF. which...

iv Hauliers are up in arms over suggestions by a Scottish pressure group that they should pay more tax, not less. Transform...

The House of Commons' Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has accepted that different fuel prices north and south of the border...

Fresh Service, based in Dartford and Tilbury, has no connection with Fresh Service (Scotland) which was featured in last week's...

Aegon NV has acquired Transamerica Corporation, but the Transamerica brand and logo will stay in use.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has bought a "significant" shareholding in Kensington Freight Services as part of an expansion...

Three farm workers suffered breathing difficulties and firemen used protective suits and breathing apparatus after 1,000 litres...

A Yorkshire truck driver was trapped in his parked cab for 14 hours after his back seized up. Brian Gainsford from Rotherham...

o Cut-price food stores such as not taken very seriously', he Aldi and Lid are said to be ignoring safety laws by using...

• by Melanie Hammond Doubts have been raised as to whether Gus McDonald, the new Transport Minister, will attend the third...

it Animal rights activists are thought to be behind a huge firebomb attack on a Unigate Dairies depot in Oxford which left 17...

• Creditors of the failed Brough, Humberside-based haulier Matthews European have expressed their anger at finding themselves...

• by Melanie Hammond A high-profile campaign designed to strengthen public support for hauliers and pressurise the Government...

• by Andrew Lewis Hauliers who store information on their customers or employees face prosecution from March 2000 unless they...

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." If Oscar Wilde's...

• by Guy Sheppard Foreign haulcrs are poised to rapidly expand their cabotage services in the UK because of their lower cost...

• The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has accused the French government of "anti-truck psychosis" for banning lorry...

III Forty jobs are to be created and another 15 trucks pat on the roads fallowing the building of a Lim warehouse and servicing...

• A Brighton-based driver who won an industrial tribunal against her former employer has now won a county court judgment in...

• A 30-year-old agency driver is being detained at a Bristol hospital under the Mental Health Act after he went on the rampage...

An Ireland-based haulier forgot wet peat was heavier than dry and overloaded one of its lorries, West Bromwich magistrates...

II by Brendan Nolan The practice of flashing headlights to signal to other drivers came under fire in Dublin last week. Eight...

• G Reeves of Norwich is laying claim to a British record after transporting four giant oil tanks to the new Norfolk and...

N Suffolk police have named an HGV driver they want to interview in connection with the death of Karl Morris who died from head...

Drivers who fail to remove the keys from their tachograph heads when driving in Belgium face prosecution.

The French authorities are still threatening to fine UK drivers who do not have their tachograph clocks set to French time...

The Republic of Belarus has introduced an "ecological charge" for vehicles passing through protected natural territories....

ban from 08.00hrs Saturday to 22.00hrs Sunday (dangerous goods from 08.00hrs Friday). These restrictions will be in force until...

high; and 20m car transporters up to 4.5m high are now allowed to drive in Portugal without special permits,

The IRU needs nominations for its Grand Prix d'Honneur which is awarded every two years to a driver who has performed an...

• A truck driver died because another driver failed to see him and his vehicle until it was too late, an inquest heard last...

• A Midlands lorry driver has been cleared of causing death by dangerous driving after his vehicle ploughed into a van on the...

Last week Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said in a radio interview that he felt like a fox at a hunt. In the same week his...

w by Peter Lawton An owner-driver is invoicing a Renault dealer for more than £14,000 because he says the truck he bought is...

• New models called laser and Crusader are joining the Ford Transit range. The Laser is based on the long-wheelbase Transit...

• The jobs of thousands of LDV workers in Birmingham are safe, says the company, despite the financial crisis affecting its...

in the UK after runaway sales in France. The Kangoo will arrive in October as a combination vehicle with two rows of seats; a...

DaimlerChrysler has boosted worldwide CV sales for the first hail of 1999 to more than 246,300 units.

MAN achieved a 12% growth in CV sales in its financial year ending on June 30, with turnover up by 9% to DM9,640m (13,297m).

3.5 million CVs in the US because of a problem with anti-lock brake systems. The firm boosted its second-quarter profits to...

Waste collection bodybuilder MacLift has produced a free pocket guide to its range, and to help operators choose the right...

Berlingos for its engineers. Merloni says it chose the van to replace Ford Transits on the fleet because of its loadbay size...

all-disc artic on a bulk waste delivery contract. The Mercedes Actros hauls a DeeWalley steel ejector trailer with...

• by Colin Barnett The latest uncertainty over Dennis Eagle's future has ended with its sale to a NatWest subsidiary The £31m...

Neway Anchoriok International Europe plans a big expansion of its product range by the end of 1999, to include trailer axles...

• ERF has won a bid to supply Wincanton Logistics with a specially designed light 6x2 sleeper cab unit. Weighing up to 5% or...

• Whale Tankers is supplying a fleet of units to North West Water based on Seddon Atkinson chassis. The Solihull-based company...

II Volkswagen is running a new commercial vehicle apprenticeship scheme through its network of Van Centres. The scheme will...

• by Bryan JarViS Specifying drawbar equipment remains a bit of a black art in some parts of the transport industry, according...

by J&G Riddell, of Afton, when it appeared before Scottish TC Michael Betts at an Aberdeen disciplinary inquiry because of its...

Eurocontinental Services has lost its bid for a new international licence for six vehicles and eight trailers at a Bristol...

All was revoked by Eastern TC Geoffrey Sumner after he decided transport manager Sean Johnston had lost his repute because of...

Broome, trading as C Broome Haulage, has been adjourned for three months pending a further maintenance investigation.

against the North Western IC's refusal to grant a licence for one vehicle based at his semidetached home. The Transport...

A haulier who fitted tachograph interrupter switches to four of his trucks and instructed his drivers to use them has been...

A Manchester fruit and vegetable merchant's licence has been suspended for a week because of maintenance problems. John...

n out tachoraiih A Lancashire haulage company which was fined 1500 despite denying any knowledge that one of its drivers had...

days to produce a cheque book to the Traffic Area Office to prove that he had sent his licence renewal fee in time and that it...

Guildford-based Malcolm Stonehouse has lost his appeal against the rejection of a bid to operate a vehicle from his home...

Mote? Does someone In the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room...

lam writing in response to the letter "Poor response" (CM29 July-4 August). Now the chips are really down and our industry has...

The long, lazy days of summer bring many joys; the sound of leather on willow, warm beer, croquet on the lawn. These are just...

Sometimes it happens you do get lucky in this life, and the broad grin from owner-driver Rob Mackie (centre) from Richmond,...

Irish policemen Tony Fennelly must have thought his luck was in when he found the woman he had stopped for speeding was none...

There's so much happening in the business world that it's a good idea for hauliers to step back now and again, and take a cool...

Individuals who know or believe an organisation holds information about them have a statutory right to request details. An...

The Inland Revenue has new rates of interest for underpaid and overpaid corporation tax, and early payments of corporation tax...

as part of its Tax Law Rewrite Project. The draft rewrites provisions dealing with what is chargeable as employment income and...

The Inland Revenue has published a supplement to the Employer's Guide to PAYE and NICs (CWG2 (1999))* with new guidance...

edition of booklet IRI25* which sets out the tax position of employees who use their own cars for work. The revised booklet: •...

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has published a booklet* on holiday entitlements. Its...

• Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (Prescribed Persons) Order 1999* gives details of the people and organisations to whom a...

The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) has published Age Diversity in Employment — A Code of Practice* which sets...

(Variation of Qualifying Period) Order 1999* has come into force. It reduces the qualifying period for unfair dismissal from...

a series of reports, the first three of which are: • Enforcement*, a broad review incorporating case studies of health and...

The FSA has set up a central register website* which provides access to its register of firms authorised under Financial...

guidance* to .help reduce accidents attributed to human error. The guide encourages organisations to consider human factors: •...

W e all know that nowadays transport is seen as part of the "supply chain". It's a comforting image, in which all the links...

Dealing with the food enforcers F ood safety regulation is in the hands of environmental health officers, working regionally...

I n the past few years statutory regulations have come into force to tighten food safety standards throughout the supply chain....

H auliers are right in the firing line in many areas of food law. As with breaches of the Food Safety Act itself, the only...

F ood contamination bothers people outside the UK as well. UK beef farmers know this to their cost. So does Coca Cola, after...

FM7 250 4x2 RIGID D Suspension has also come a long way: the FM7 comes with four-bag rear air suspension as standard, fitted...

Meeks of Luton he makes an effort to communicate with his customers. "I find a lot of my part in running Meeks is educating...

Unscrupulous hauliers have always risked being caught out by the powers that be. But new legislation giving employees rights to...

their misuse and falsification is on the rise. Are there a lot of crooks out there or do drivers genuinely not understand the...

themselves on the high standards of efficiency and professionalism they have achieved in recent years. But the recovery...