• The AA has ordered more than 200 specialist roadside assistance vehicles from LDV. The order, worth more than 26m at showroom...

by Miles Brignall • Drivers in dispute with the Dutch-owned haulier Edcrest over lost wages are threatening to reveal allegedly...

• Lincolnshire-based Spalding Haulage has been fined 16,500 with £2,000 costs for 38 tachograph offences. The company had...

• Senior enforcement staff at the Vehicle Inspectorate warn that trucks entering the UK are missing out on vital safety...

• Sharp cuts in the Government's road building budget come into force this week, ending a decade of continuous expansion....

• Toll booths are to be used on Birmingham's northern relief road, even though the Government has ruled them out on the...

• P&O's road transport fleet suffered last year as the recession continued to erode profit margins. Operating profit from P&O...

• Christian Solvesen Distribution has won the contract to distribute parts for Scania. Fifteen trucks trunk parts from Holland...

by Kathy Watson II Experts are arguing this week over the risk of explosion in the Channel Tunnel after Eurotunnel's...

• A haulier and a driver have been convicted of causing death by reckless driving following a wheel-loss incident. During a...

• The International Union of Lorry Drivers has appealed to Governments to help drivers who are forced to keep driving past...

by Kathy Watson • A disgruntled trainee driver is suing the Driving Standards Agency for failing to reimburse his costs after...

• The decision to shelve plans to expand parts of the M25 to 14 lanes has been met with dismay by the haulage industry. In an...

• Specialist distribution group Tibbett & Britten has announced an 11% increase in pre-tax profits to £26.9m for the year...

by Guy Sheppard • Truck manufacturers are set to fit immobilisers as standard fitting to combat the rise in vehicle thefts. A...

• A new survey of top peoples' pay has listed former Central Transport Rentals chief executive Robert Montague as among the...

by Miles Brignall • The Freight Transport Association has expressed surprise at the plan for continuous vehicle excise duty on...

• Tower Bridge is in danger of being worn out because heavy lorries are flouting its 17-tonne weight limit. City of London...

• Congieton-based bodybuilder Boalloy has acquired one of its long-standing chassis suppliers, M&G Tankers and Trailers....

• NU Rolls has put the first of Nooteboom's latest EURO 58 tri-axle extending bed lowloaders into full operation. In the...

• UK trials of Swedish lowsulphur `Greenergy' citygrade diesel have shown significant reductions in exhaust emissions with only...

FSO's Pick-Up has been given a longer warranty and is available in three models with a number of new features. The Caro-based...

41 Lowestoft-based Anglia Locksmiths has developed Truklok, a high-security lock designed for wide slatted roller shutter...

• Scania's wholly owned dealer Scantruck has sold the first two UK-spec 8x4s with optional straight front axles. Using a...

• A Terberg 8x8 chassis has gone into service with recovery operator Lamb and Mansfield. Boniface Engineering carried out the...

EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • Last autumn MAN launched the F2000 heavy truck range in Germany (CM 18-24 August 1994). At the...

• The authorisation on the licence held by West Thurrockbased Brocks Haulage has been cut from 41 vehicles and 10 trailers to...

• Ystrad Mynach, Mid Glamorgan-based Stephen Littlewood has been given a serious warning about his past record, but at a...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has issued a formal warning against John Cook, of Lochgilphead, Argyle about future maintenance...

• Wigan Magistrates have adjourned the hearing of a series of alleged offences against Newton le Willowsbased tipper operator...

• Allen Munro Transport has succeeded in a bid to increase its licence authorisation of 50 vehicles and 80 trailers to 70...

• A fitter from a commercial garage has been fined £140 for aiding and abetting the use of a vehicle with defective brakes,...

• The 0-licence held by Basingstoke-based Janaway Farms has been reinstated following a appeal to the Transport Tribunal which...

• A bid for a new licence by John Lovric, former sole director of the liquidated J Lovric Transport, has been refused by...

/71 s summer approaches many of you will be .M= cranking up the charabant and polishing its genuine vinyl seats in preparation...

D he transport industry's very own supergroup, The Heathrow Flyers, appear at Truckfest next month to promote a new single....

2 ver been stranded waiting for a vital truck part surrounded by bumperto-bumper traffic? Well West-Bromwich-based Scalia...

0 ome things in life are worth waiting for. Teenager Ray Burdett dreamed of owning a RollsRoyce one day. From the age of 15 he...

T read with interest the 1 article regarding the current state of the Vehicle Inspectorate (CM 23-29 March). The enforcement...

T was astounded to read Mr 1 Stobart's statement on rates cutting (CM16-22 March). He says: "If I've cut rates, it because they...

N ot so long ago purchases of diesel bought in bulk meant a saving of at least 15p per gallon over forecourt prices. Imagine my...

A well-sucked boiled sweet That's what the latest Escort van looks like—it's the sleekest, slipperiest car-derived van yet, and...

styling cues from the Mondeo and, in turn, the latest Transit. That ellipse appears again in the shape of the (analogue) clock,...

Tighter diesel emission standards prompted truck and bus builders to look at regenerative particulate traps as a way to reduce...

• Regenerating soot filters are the size and shape of conventional heavy truck exhaust silencers. They contain a particulate...

how their drivers can sit in a regional distribution centre, queue from dawn to dusk without a word of apology or, indeed, a...

For Mike Ward, transport general manager for Northampton-based CP Transport, winning a Turbo Daily 3.5-tonne van for 12 months...

Frankfurt truck show with the words: "We've just seen the future of road transport—and it's green." We were referring...

Most hauliers won't have read the Royal Commission Report on Environmental Pollution dealing with 'Transport and the...

.41 While the Iveco Ford response to the Royal Commission Report is designed to get operators thinking about general...

a disadvantage and be more of a cost-cutting exercise than an attempt to provide a better service, say trade unions. The...

ow the privatisation of escort vehicles for abnormal loads is to go through, would it be asking too much to rethink the use of...