by Karen Miles • Small hauliers and union officials fear for employment prospects and subcontracting deals as this week NFC...

▪ Steno Sealink is to start a freight-only route between Holyhead and Dublin from November. A high-speed super-ferry will first...

• Laser-guided speed traps that can outsmart radar detectors and book thousands of speeding drivers a day will soon be used by...

by Lee Kimber • Drivers are ignoring the best way to stay awake on long journeys, says a report published this week by the...

ALL THE EGGS IN ONE BASKET A ccording to popular legend "big fleas have smaller fleas upon their backs to bite them. And...

• Political wrangling in Brussels is holding back an EC draft directive that could cut working hours to a maximum of 50 a...

by Lee Kimber • Owner-drivers and small operators are expected to gain most from Volvo's decision to cut its list prices by 15%...

• The highest parcel rates have fallen by more than 50% in the past six months but prices still vary by a factor of 10, says...

• We have been asked to point out that the inquest into the death of Norman Lewis Tanker's driver Robert Hirst (CM 3-9 August)...

by Lee Kimber • The continuing recession in the South-East claimed more drivers' jobs last week: Rye-based haulier John Jempson...

* Hauliers who pay Italian tolls by invoke are entitled to a 10% reduction if they use the motorways between 22:00-06:00hrs....

be pattern for M-ways • The 50mph speed limit being tested on the M25 could be the first of many restrictions to hit busy...

• Insurers are offering a £7,500 reward for the name of a conman who stole a trailer loaded with £75,000 worth of electrical...

by Derren Hayes • The haulage industry is leading the way in random drug testing in the workplace, says a drug testing...

by Elizabeth Daly • Fewer bombs have meant more business for Northern Ireland's hauliers, many of whom have marked the first...

• Hauliers face years of disruption because thousands of bridges may have to be taken out of the British road network for...

• British hauliers are considering surcharging loads to Morocco after Spanish fishermen intensified blockades of Algeciras and...

• A Cornish truckstop is turning away diesel card customers because they upset the female cashiers by cursing and swearing...

by Colin Sowrnan • Foden is reintroducing a Caterpillar engine option starting with its 3000-Series multi• wheelers and...

• Commercial Motor's Euro-2 Group test (page 39) puts to rest the myth that low emissions engines cost you. Our three-day test,...

The Scots hauliers' hankering for big, powerful trucks was reflected in the Scottish IRTE show where bigger cabs and more...

• James Gauld, trading as Action Skip Hire. of Laurencekirk, has had his licence revoked by Scottish Traffic Commissioner...

• Greylands Waste has had its 20-vehicle licence revoked and the company and directors Michael O'Driscoll and Martin McCarthy...

• The licence held by David and Christina Gray, trading as James Y Burns, of Kelso, has been reduced through maintenance...

111 A bid by Laser Transport International to increase the authorisation on its licence based at Hythe, in Kent, from 30...

• The four-vehicle and fourtrailer licence held by Susan Mobberley, trading as Mobberley Haulage, of Cannock, has been revoked...

• A Worcestershire haulier who did not to inform the Licensing Authority that he had been sent to prison after being convicted...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Knottingley, West Yorkshireiased K Roberts & Sons being cut so that it...

• Pulling the fuse on his tachograph to hide the fact that he had taken insufficient daily rest has cost Oldham owner-driver...

T have just received a copy lof Commercial Motor (10-16 Aug) from a fellow driver in England. While I appreciate you reporting...

hy is it that every time someone tries to cut some of the red tape round the 0-licensing system we seem to take two steps...

t hardly seems like 30 years ago that the Hawk was invited to Langley to see the first Ford Transit roll off the production...

Ford has brought back from GEC one of the first 1965 Transits and the Hawk couldn't wait to take a drive down memory lane....

Price cuts • RAC Commercial Assistance has cut the cost of LGV roadside call-out by nearly 20% down from £80 to165. Truck...