• Russell Davies Distribution, recently bought by Securicor, is to be re-named Securicor Omega Logish,_ . The 250vehicle...

by Miles Brignall • Drivers hours rules could be relaxed as new smart cards are brought in under revised tachograph laws,...

II A Belgian driver carrying 25 tons of gunpowder on the M42 in a lorry with defective brakes told police in halting English...

by Ian Wylie • The director of collapsed transport company Tivoli has angered owner-drivers and other creditors by setting up...

• Efforts to attract more freight to the rail system will be severely set back by the threatened train drivers strike,...

strike would be pretty grim, we're just starting to persuade road hauliers and other ustomers to use rail more—but...

by Lee Kimber • Gangsters put out a £200-per-truck contract on a recovery operator working for Kent police before six of his...

• The financial accounts of new entrants to the haulage industry can be freely scrutinised by others following a ruling by...

• Local authorities are to lose control over truck routes into quarries, mines and dumps as the current regulations are...

by Ian Wylie • A truck driver has been awarded undisclosed damages by a Sheffield industrial tribunal which ruled that he...

• The High Court has told TNT that it was wrong to sidestep parts of the London lorry ban to save money. Dismissing appeals...

• Truck dealers will be free to sell any make of commercial vehicle from 1 October following an EU agreement that exclusive...

• Britain's most expensive stretch of road could cost the taxpayer another ElOOm in compensation. The one-mile-long...

* A Norfolk haulier has been charged in connection with a large scale cigarette smuggling operation which is alleged to have...

II British Customs and Excise officials are hoping to arrange a fact-finding meeting with truck part manufacturers after French...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers may be offered more money to entice trucks off main roads after a senior DOT official admitted that...

up the volume of aggregate it carries on its own trains, By the year's end the energy generator will use Five more of its own...

• British hauliers to Morocco have welcomed early reports that the month-long blockade of Tangiers port has ended, but are...

• When Britain joined the Common Market in 1973 British exports to the Continent were worth .f4,5bn. By 1994 exports had...

best in the west I f ever there was a weekend of varied weather, this was it. Truckers and families from all over the country...

by John Kendall • Renault is to replace its 12-litre ACE engine with a similarly sized straight-six developed by its US...

• Warwick-based Dennis Eagle has sewn up a partnership with MAN to supply Elite-cabbed 6x2 refuse collection chassis on the...

• Foden take the lead in the power race when it offers the 14.6-litre Caterpillar 3406E in the New 4000 range. Caterpillar...

by Steve Banner • Marshall Thermo King's annual reefer van and truck display at its Cambridge base featured the first Dennis...

• Merseyside haulier Paula Fenney has been given a two-year conditional discharge after admitting a series of offences...

• Halifax-based Swalesmoor Mink Farm has been given a formal warning over maintenance at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. A full...

West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh adjourned consideration of disciplinary action against the licence held by Alan Cunliffe and...

• Transtrack (Warrington) was ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty of £3,401.25 after it failed to appear before the...

• A bid by David and Peter Dodkins, trading as Dodkins Transport, to base eight vehicles at Pitsford, Northants has been...

I n CM (8-14 June) I read that the French have made our Excise Committee decide against belly tanks and try to make them accept...

y our guide Used Truck Collection (CM 22-28 June) was most useful and I look forward to future parts. However, there is a point...

o West IVIercia police have found that nine out of ten trucks stopped are running illegally (CM 29 June-5 July). Fair enough,...

Needs a head • The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association claims nearly 30,000 trucks and vans now sport its logo,...

DAM day • The Drivers Action Movement is organising a one-day conference on road haulage at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield, on...

VAT video • A video to help newly registered traders with their VAT returns is available free from H14 Customs and Excise....

Crane courses • Gateshead-based Van Hee Training plans to open a training centre in Peterborough. It is negotiating to take...

Safe scrap • Nationwide Recycling Services is offering waste management for the automotive trade, promising to dispose of...

Freight ferry • Stena Sealink Line has added a freight-only ferry to its Newhaven-Dieppe route to boost capacity during the...

Out to glass • A windscreen repair kit incorporating a screw injector system has been introduced by Screen Care Repairs of...

• Al and A6a approaches to Paris: Expect delays and congestion until 25 August with the closure of both motorways near Paris...

Does FSO's ever-improving Caro pickup deserve to be tarnished with the same brush as earlier Eastern-Bloc commercials? Would...

111101.0G1' Just when you thought that diesel technology couldn't go much further, Navistar has found a way of replacing...

Europe has yet to agree on a replacement. Two high-tech systems are being considered. How do they work and which will be most...

T he prospects of regulated LGV driving schools will brighten when industry bodies meet in Nottingham this month to put flesh...

ZI A voluntary scheme of registration for LGV driving schools now seems likely, largely based on ideas devel - oped by the Road...

I 4 put down the phone with the last comments of the vehicle operator — "what a load of silly nonsense" — ringing in my...