vice-president early next year; deputy directorgeneral Richard Turner will become chief executive.

Food company Onigate has changed its name to Unit!: the Q is to emphasise Quality.

fuelcard to escape escalating prices from the bulk fuel suppliers has been asked for a refundable deposit of E28.700. Eric...

vehicle fee", which will be levied on all trucks over 3.5 tonnes from 1 January. They say it will increase freight rates by 35% .

the Austrian government is illegally discriminating against foreign hauliers by imposing heavy tolls on vehicles using the full...

• by Mites Brignall Legislation that would allow Traffic Commissioners to revoke Operator's Licences held by hauliers mounting...

RNA rebate blunder • by John O'Donnell A leacing loobyst has warned the Road Haulage Assooation that backing down on the...

A French truck driver has been committed to trial at Leicester Crown Court charged with causing the death by dangerous driving...

-; by Miles Brignall Truck operators who flout the law and are then involved in a fatal accident are more likely to be sent to...

• A haulage boss and one of his employees have been jailed for a total of 11 years after stealing £1.2m worth of goods from...

It's bluff and counter-bluff. Having threatened blockading hauliers with having their 0-licences removed it now appears that...

w by Brian Warner Pressure is mounting on London Mayor Ken Livingstone to rethink his proposals on congestion charges in the...

• A decision on whether Bootle-based haulier Kevin Malone is to be disqualified from holding an Operator's Licence may hinge on...

• A Devon-based haulage firm has been left to cope without 29 of its drivers after their HGV licences were suspended by...

s Drivers at a large West Midlands haulage firm are refusing to drive on the Continent after being attacked by refugees...

• by Guy Sheppard Britain's biggest rail-freight operator predicts that overnight parcels delivery companies will increasingly...

• Drivers are being warned to pull over for refreshments after Christopher Elkins of Northampton was fined £300 with 142 costs...

The Exeter-based haulage company set up by the sons of Maddern Transport bosses Maurice and Barry Heaver has failed to obtain...

• A West Midlands haulier is searching for new premises in a fight to save his business after arsonists gutted his fleet of...

• by Brian Weatherley Amid the hype of the Frankfurt Truck Show last week Daf unveiled its new CF 65,75 and 95 Series models....

The first front-wheel-drive Transit has arrived, 35 years after the original Transit hit British roads. Ford invited Commercial...

EST, is scheduled to go on sale in the second half of next year. Chief programme engineer John Schutters predicts fuel savings...

According to Paul Morel, Ford is going to be placing a far greater emphasis on providing contracting and leasing agreements on...

• Mitsubishi has tailored its 4x4 Shogun Pinin compact passenger car for the CV market. speed manual box. The new model offers...

Abbey Road Tanks has taken eight 6x2 Actros 2540s on board in a four-year contract hire deal with dealer H&L Garages. The 394hp...

merchants Hurst Brothers to transport 25% more pallets. TY 41-tonner, powered by a 12.6litre Oaf XF 430 engine, is 3m longer...

and rolling-bogie skeletals to its hire fleet. The new additions will go into serve over the next couple at months

18-tonne tipper into action in Northampton with a Harsh underfloor and F60 tipping gear. It has a payload of 11.5 tonnes.

P&C Hamtton of Girran, Scotland, says putting widesingle 385/65 Dunlop SP351tyre on tractor steer axles has improved fuel...

bid for a twovehicle licence by James McDonald and Michael McGreal, of Red Ball Express, Warrington, while its finances are...

a warning over maintenance by North Western DTC Brian Horner. The OTC said he will increase McGuire's licence from four to six...

Though taking no action against the licence held by Stonehaven-based Ian Campbell Haulage, Scottish Deputy IC Richard McFarlane...

licence held by Bathgate-based M8 Freight Services being cut from five vehicles to three by Scottish DTC Richard McFarlane at...

and both the company and director Maria Treacy were disqualified from holding an 0-licence indefinitely by Eastern IC Geoffrey...

Haulier John Robinson, based in Caernarfon. lost his two-vehi cle licence when he failed to appear at a Prestatyn disciplinary...

A Manchester international haulier had his licence suspended for 36 hours after he gave formal undertakings to a Traffic...

'. -A 2 ' A Derbyshire owner-driver who used his mother's name on tachograph charts to hide excessive hours has been ordered...

Cutting the licence of Carmarthen timber haulier Desmond Douche from three vehicles to two, Welsh Traffic Commissioner David...

Maintenance problems, and a failure to inform the Traffic Commissioner that a company had changed hands, have resulted in the...

Regarding the recent nationwide fuel price protest, the most salient item from the contributions in your publication of 21-27...

You wrote an article on our plight (fined for carrying stowaways, CM 20-26 July). Well now we have another chapter on this...

While on a weekend break in the Lake District I picked up a brochure detailing the closure of the A556 link road. This...

I really do think that we have lost the plot with regard to the fuel protests. I, like many other hauliers, have spent the...

The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) is a non-political pressure group for haulage drivers and therefore takes no side in the...

The Hawk has always maintained that fellow drivers of Reliant Robins must be well balanced individuals. Well now 43-year-old...

The next time you're burning rubber on the tarmac, spare a thought for those tyres, for soon they could be putting a roof over...

The Hawk and his hound Foden, enjoyed a most excellent day out when they journeyed down to Dorset to attend the Purbeck Classic...

If there were prizes given for getting a bad press, traffic wardens would win hands down. So, just for a change, here's a...

Fair competition is the essence of free enterprise. We've heard it stated often enough by politicians and others who tell us...

ENVIRONMENT Noise emissions The EU has adopted the Noise Emission In The Environment By Equipment For Use Outdoors Directive...

the CM office when this test came up—who would pass up the chance to take the UK's most powerful standard truck round our...

• IAN AMCOR The Screen Machine, the only mobile cinema in the UK in the guise of a Renault Premium 340, was on Its way back to...

father Bill for 18 years when, 1994, the company, Darlington-ba Winans Transport, was forced into liqui tion. Winans decided to...

last century is a finite commodity. Fortunately, the world has an alternative in the form of natural gas and, as luck would...

Shell operates the world's only commercial-scale Gil plant, at Bintule in Sarawak, Malaysia, and is in talks with Petramina,...

a bulk trailer. But in a sector as competitive as agricultural haulage productivity is paramount, and the manufacturers are...

44 tonnes because this is one sector of the transport industry which will be able to make full use of the extra payload....

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