by Juliet Parish • An owner-driver who won a battle to keep his truck after quitting Tarmac believes he has found a loophole...

• Three key directors have resigned from ANC amid speculation that they make up one of at least two groups interested in buying...

by Amanda Bradbury by Nicky Clarke • Law-abiding operators are to be spared the burden of applying for an 0-licence every five...

• Cash raised by motorway charging may be spent on the roads, but there is no question of this principle—known as...

recruited from Exel slashes depot network • :\ n Exel-dominated bi)iird of directors is to run NFO's newly merged BRS-Exel...

by Amanda Bradbury • A single gang of truck thieves is responsible for most of the truck thefts in London, Essex and Kent. The...

up for sale this week. The Kentbased company has a £10m turnover and around 2,200 trucks, municipals and cars in the rental and...

left the firm to rejoin Network South East in the run-up to privatisation. Production director Richard Eccles takes his place.

Pembrokeshire have risen to £1.50. Extra cash is needed to pay for strengthening work for 44 tamers.

Hunmanby heave-ho • Trucks could be banned on a busy route between North Yorkshire and Humberside. Plans are being considered...

and France are being offered by Transmanche Intermoclal Logistics. The firm has been set up by CNC, Challenge International and...

by Bryan Jarvis • The row over firemen's pay and whether there are enough Green Goddesses to cover brigade commitments...

EXCLUSIVE by Steve Sturgess • As predicted by Commercial Motor, Caterpillar has launched its all-electronic overhead...

• Sixteen Leigh Environmental drivers have won a 1.5% pay rise following a four-month fight against a wage freeze at the...

• Tyneside truck rental specialist Barlow has spent more than £2 million on new vehicles for general haulage work as the area's...

• Southampton haulier Kingswood Transport plans to recruit up to 40 employed and dedicated sub-contractor drivers for work...

II A driver given no warning that he was to be made redundant because of his health has been awarded £3,250 cornpensanon for...

with drivers watching television and cooking meals. They also complained about some of the 'unhygienic habits' of a number of...

• A failure by Haltwistle hauliers Richard and Janice Philipson to attend a Leeds disciplinary inquiry was described as "a...

• An animal haulage driver from Oxon has been fined a total of £300 with £269 costs following a mutine check of livestock...

• Staffordshire haulier Peter Hailstones has been granted a new two-vehicle licence despite environmental representations from...

• At an Eastbourne public inquiry, Hancock Packaging of Balham succeeded in its bid for a new five-year licence. Managing...

• Disciplinary proceedings involving Ronald Latcham of Tonypandy (CM16-22 Sept) have again been adjourned because he is...

• A Leeds industrial tribunal decided it has no jurisdiction to consider a claim by driver George Lee that Linkman Tankers had...

• PLC Haulage of Leyland has won an increase in licence authorisation, from three vehicles and six trailers to eight vehicles...

There it is — a buff-coloured window envelope. Joe smells trouble. Inside is a letter from the local Traffic Commissioner:...

• iercedes-Benz has rejigged irs T1 van range, introducing variants at new weights and wheelbases and discontinuing most of the...

by Toby Clark • Commercial Motor has the first pictures of Fiat's new Ducat°, to be launched at the Turin Motor Show next...

• Initial Textile Services is to buy 64 Leyland Daf 400-based route delivery vans. Fitted with bodies by Cartwrights of...

• Volkswagen has changed the specification and reduced the price of its Golf Van. The 1994 model is powered by a naturally...

by Danny Coughlan • In 1989, Europe's truck industry rode upon a rising tide of sales and profit. Economic growth was strong,...

former Whitbread transport manager, Robert Coates, goes to three readers who knew that CAMRA is the organisation which fights...

While international reefer law is bogged down in red tape, retailers like Tesco set the toughest of standards H armonisation...

a camper van. It weighs about eight tonnes unladen. I intend to remove six of its 10 seats and replace them with two beds. What...

my HGV licence I received one of the new type licences. In the minibus section it was marked 'category 1 restriction'. This...

I operate a 38-tonne two-axle tractor with a tri-axle trailer and the road tax I pay is .E3,100 a year. I was stopped in a...

it's an interesting experience but it has its risks. How much of a risk depends on the manufacturer. Sometimes they hide a new...

market, Cardiff Transport has struggled to find work north of the border since the giant Ravenscraig steel mill shut in...

STEEL INDUSTRY down rates." He says a trip from Stirling to Cardiff carrying Caberboard, for instance, paid only £305; a...

That stark warning from Gary Dawson, commercial manager of Middlesbrough based AV Dawson, is based on experience. Dawsons moved...

I t has been called the British disease. Not football hooliganism, but the late payment of debt. In the UK, the average delay...

W ell done for standing up for drivers' unions (CM 23-29 Sept). What some employers don't seem to realise is that if drivers...

to be introduced by the Vehicle Inspectorate. These abbreviated vehicle checks, known as "Partial Clearance" tests, should...

pcUillbinU1.1 NEIL CUMMING: VI, BRISTOL The Vehicle Inspectorate booklet which sets out the categorisation of defects and...

to see physical evidence' c are I suppose—and I speak as a motorist — uneasily aware of the increasing range of electronic...