• The first photocard driving licences are now being issued from selected Post Offices for £11; ask for form D750E. • A...

by Charles Young • The haulage industry is accusing the Government of hypocrisy for deciding to impound trucks caught carrying...

• JS Willson of Thurrock runs sealed trailers. Transport manager Brian Chelsea says: "I think it's disgusting. Does that mean...

• North Yorkshire police have dropped drivers' hours charges against HatTogate-based haulier Manton Transport following a Leeds...

• A strong pound, combined with the economic slowdown, led to a 6.2% rise in business failures to 38 1 634 during 1998,...

• A tanker driver had a miraculous escape last week after his vehicle careered out of control at Carlisle's busiest roundabout...

by Nicky Clarke • The haulage industry is on the brink of recession, according to an exclusive Commercial Motor survey....

• Two men from a Liverpool haulage firm will appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 26 January to answer charges of smuggling more...

by Karen Miles • Union representatives are seeking reassurance from Lynx Express following this week's takeover by rival...

• The Road Haulage Association is confident that it will be ready to offer hauliers advice on "flagging out" some time in...

D isappointment, dismay, anger. Those are just a few of the emotions that law-abiding hauliers may well experience on hearing...

by Charles Young • A Kent couple who fear they have been conned out of the £500 they put down on a loan to buy their first...

• John Lewis has awarded TDG Logistics a contract for its seasonal case-pick warehousing. TDG is managing the storage of 750...

• The owner of a West Midlands haulage firm has been fined £2,000 with £65 costs by West Bromwich magistrates for VED and speed...

• Safety Kleen UK, the parts-cleaning supplier and hazardous waste specialist, has signed a five-year contract - hire deal with...

• Supermarket chain Safeway has created 50 new jobs for drivers at two of its distribution centres in the Midlands. And, in a...

by Bryan Jarvis • Iveco will be introducing an all new Oldham-built low-step refuse collection vehicle at next week's Brussels...

• Brugge-based Aluvon will be at next week's Brussels show with the latest Eurocool insulated version of its Eurodoor truck...

• Weweler has developed an air suspension attachment that protects the bellows during hucke pack and ferry handling. The...

• Carmichael International has delivered the first of a batch of Cobra 2 6x6 Crash Fire Rescue trucks to Newcastle Airport, and...

II Portsmouth-based Mainland Market Deliveries has ordered 22 ERF ECI4 6x2 tractors, worth around £2m, over five years. MMD...

by Brian Weatherley • Is the whole industry about to go down the pan? Tony Davies, UK boss of the Dutch tipping gear and...

II Breaches of the drivers' hours rules while driving abroad had led to the licence held by Stranraer-based Peter Wolstenholme...

• Llanharan haulier Victor Lewis had his licence revoked when he appeared at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry for the third time...

• Residents have succeeded in blocking a Bolton haulier's bid to set up an alternative operating centre. Chris Cheetham,...

• Guisborough magistrates gave Penwortham, Preston-based Sean Lenehan a 12-month conditional discharge after he admitted that...

• A bid by a South Wales haulier for a licence for his new company, Simon Ledbeater Transport 2000, was turned down after...

• A North Wales company succeeded in its bid to increase the authorisation on its licence but the licence was curtailed to one...

• 14 January: One-day Brake conference, Managing Road Safety, at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers HQ, London Cost: £175...

Norscot grows • Norscot Truck and Van, the main dealer for LDV vans and Leyland Daf trucks in Scotland, has opened...

Home study • Friendberry has launched a home study course for DGSA training which is accompanied by a CD voice track....

Vetted directory • Sinclair's Vetted Directory, published by Exor Management Services, amid help businesses tender for...

RLA Group • Richard Lawson Autologistics Group has appointed David Cardle to group commercial and business development director.

The Midlands • ml/A50 Leicestershire, J24/24a: Works suspended; traffic management on hard shoulder and contraflow remains on...

A ll too many sick and disabled people never get to see outside the four walls of their OWN homes. The ACROSS Trust is a...

[rmi o it's not the Three Amigos or the Three Caballeros, although they do look like they might be about to burst into song....

B y now I expect roost people's Christmas trees are looking very sad, left by the dustbin, all brown and devoid of needles. But...

henever you hear of a new autorelated crime—car-jacking, drive-by shooting, and so on—you can bet your bottom dollar that it...

Sometimes it's necessary to carry a load which is wider or longer than the loadbed of a truck. This is permissible, but do you...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has published a guide* to advise smaller companies on the...

Publishing, which produces regular monthly business bulletins offering need-to-know information on many areas, including: 0...

The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Rate of Interest) (No 2) Order 1998* has come into force to replace the Late Payment of...

Travel plans The Department of the Environment. Transport and the Regions (DETR) has commissioned research into the Green...

Congestion busting The DETR has announced a programine of research to combat congestion, in particular into demonstrating...

Foden's traditional niche is the owner-driver sector where its custom-truck approach is much appreciated. But the latest Alpha...

We were impressed by our first encounter with the Alpha 3000, but how would professional drivers take to it? We headed for BP's...

taut age T he first impression in the office of H Nickolls & Son is a large collection of truck photographs. Some are...

Even before the Euro-3 exhaust emission standard is finalised, diesel engineers are already turning their attentions to Euro-4....

40 and 41-tonners secret until the Budget, hauliers are having to guess how to take advantage of the extra weight. Many are...

to an L-reg ERF EC1438ST tractive unit by Drinkwater Chassis Engineering. Managing director George McLaughlan says:"It's only a...

road transport engineers get plenty of practice at devising innovative solutions to operational problems. Steve McQueen reports...

Once the seasonal peak is over, a gas tank can be removed and replaced with a milk tank inside two days. With two tanks to the...

rr is May, as committees across the country hold crisis meetings to finalise plans for local millennium celebrations, one group...

SENTINEL WAS THE TRADEMARK of Glasgow-based shipbuilder and engineer Messrs Alley & MacLellan. Sentinel wagons were first made...

MAYBE MALCOLM ROGERS ENJOYS the leisurely pace of a Sentinel because it's so for removE from his daily work designing and...

HOVIS, NOW RANK HOVIS, bought its first four-tonne Baden steamers in 1904; it moved to Sentinels in 1921 when it started...

ON / t is more than two years since the Channel Tunnel fire damaged 29 trucks and, due to the bad publicity, threatened to...

The sequence of events on 18 November 1996 21:42hrs: The train, loaded with 29 HGVs, left the French side. Two security guards...

timesensitive as haulage gets—and in more than 20 years Cranleigh Freight Services has never kept a plane waiting... R uinously...

0p erators working in mountainous errain know that high-horsepower engines can pay dividends by reducing journey times while...

• They share a border, but when it comes to road haulage, Argentina and Chile could hardly be more different, In Argentina...

I understand that the Home Office is proposing to assign the escorting of some or all of the UK's abnormal size loads to the...