• Drivers carrying less than 100kg or 250 litres of flammable pas in cylinders are exempt from new legislation which requires...

EXCLUSIVE by Karen Miles II Tachograph offence investigation and patrolling have been formally targeted for the first time as...

curb police involvement in traffic enforcement comes as Fewston Transport, the firm at the centre of the Sowerby Bridge...

• The High Court has ruled that drivers must record all periods of work—including overtime—on tachograph charts. The court...

are turning out poorly trained drivers, according to an exclusive Commercial Motor survey. Our poll of 100 hauliers found that...

II North Eastern deputy LA Mark Hinchliffe has revoked the nine-vehicle licence held by Marjorie and William Moore, trading as...

hundreds of messages every clay. Some are tangible, others subliminal. But whether we receive them consciously or...

Commercial vehicle congestion on the motorways looks set to increase with an expected Government announcement that coaches are...

by Bryan Jarvis III Few would argue that the addition of some form of extra 'endurance' braking to a truck's standard braking...

by Miles Brignall. • Finnish company ProtecMatic has introduced its latest fully automatic sheeting device which can cover a...

• The days of selling trucks will soon be over, according to David Thomas, Mercedes-Benz director, commercial vehicles. "We are...

• Paneltex, the Hull-based specialist insulated panel and truck body manufacturer has acquired Wilsdon & Co of Solihull from...

• Renault has sold the entire tooling for the old 50 Series to RDS Automotive of Leamington Spa, which will use it to set up a...

market. Although UK sales were not substantially increased (the LGV market sets the pace at the moment), a lot of new and...

• Scottish DLA Allan Worthington took no action but he issued a final warning about maintenance standards and convictions...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has refused to grant an 0-licence to David and Daniel Moscrop, trading as Eye Valley Transport, of...

• A Manchester industrial tribunal has decided that David Green, the former managing director of Rosewood Transport and...

• Surrey-based haulier Frederick R Miller has lost its appeal against South Eastern & Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael...

• A Welsh lorry driver who made a series of six-mile trips delivering stone from a quarry fell foul of the drivers' hours rules...

• Some missing mileage on its tachograph charts cost Pine Products £395 in fines and costs. The company, of Siddow Common,...

• A bid for a new kka. based Simon James licence by Barry was adjourned for clarification of the legal status of the land to...

What kind of year was 1994? A year of patchy progress with truck makers, tipper operators and driver agencies detecting signs...

ATTRACTION Truck drivers are the most dangerous drivers on the road, involved in more accidents than any other group of...

• Accidents involving LGVs happen and when they do the consequences are often serious. The reasons given differ but all are...

Unlike their Stateside counterparts, European pickups tend to be small and practical. The Fiat Fiorino is smaller than...

2 ddie Stobart has gone into the souvenir business in a big way. The latest issue of &abort Exp ress, the Carlisle haulier's...

O uperstar Paul McCartney was unhurt after an accident in which his Mercedes was hit by a lorry which skidded an wet leaves in...

arcels carrier UPS has been the beneficiary of extra business by lingerie manufacturer Gossard, which has found its cup runneth...

2 eeds truck racer Conrad Thompson has won the British National Class of the British Truck Racing Championships for the second...

0 t's elementary, my dear Watson, for mechanics at K Watson Commercials, which has won ERF's workshop team of the year for the...

3 ustomers of Fife haulier Robert &mailers must have thought the firm had won the lottery when they read in a recent feature...

• New requirements for the Chartered Institute of Transport's transport and logistics qualifications are to be announced at a...

• A booklet from PHH Vehicle Management Services details the key issues in fleet management. PHI-I research reveals that after...

• Euro East Transportation of Dartford, Kent is opening a fast freight service to and from Hungary taking advantage of the...

• The National Tyre Distributors Association has introduced a conciliation and arbitration service for its members. Customer...

• Automotive products manufacturer Deb is giving away a golfing umbrella with each pack of Jizer degreaser (25 litre),...

• SAF and Perrot have jointly produced a new disc brake for drawbar trailers and semi-trailers. The product is known as PAN-22...

• The PAL KE Palitir range of air hoists from IngersollRand are the first products of their type to meet all the requirements...

• Hemel Hempstead-based BPT Automation has produced a range of electrohydraulic gates suitable for industrial premises. The...

• AE Auto Parts has issued a timing belt trouble tracer chart to help diagnose problems. It shows common timing belt failures...

simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak; 48p at all other times): West Country:...

yez-ir in 7..] - rhe ye2ir t Li . J o j nie iiiick fl in with \ive'r.,1 EJ'ettJey, I t's nice to be wise after the event. The...

The big news in the industry may be weights going up but one manufacturer predicts only 25-30% of operators could usefully use...

hauliers are finding themselves doing business abroad. Sometimes this involves delivering to other countries; in other cases it...

We operate six and eight-wheelers in a country area and have for years carried agricultural goods, such as fertiliser, grain...

One of our eight wheelers was stopped by police and weighed on a normal weighbridge. I am not sure how they did the weighing...

t'urther to your report in the 1-7 December issue of 014 we are, of course, as disappointed as all concerned that the...

O the past years I have IL/watched with interest the tirade of anti-lorry letters in the press. Love them or hate them, the...

A s an LGV driver, I read with interest your article on Driving Without Aware ness (CM 1-7 Dec). In the early 1970s I became...

g carry goods for reward. If I am to stay I in business serving a customer-driven demand, my job is to carry those goods as...