by Miles Brignall • Hauliers will face bills of £3,000 per truck if the Department of Transport forces them to retrofit a...

• The widespread use of rail by hauliers has been brought sig. nificantly closer this week. "Piggyback" operationsallowing...

for top-selling truck marque last month; third was lveco Ford which is year-on-year sales leader, says the SMMT

was fined 250r: for aiding and abetting one of the company drivers to falsify a tachograph chart.

at eight depots a fixed rate of iL4 an hour from 1 January: night allowances are among details not yet finalised.

from k ra by St Austell, Cornwall-based English China Clays as the DOT gives the green light to a rai If rei8ht line from...

on the A 1 2 at Springfield, Essex which stopped 197 vehicles. The 124 alleged offences, including 29 for hours, eight for...

ban in Brassington, Derbyshire although signs enforcing it have been sawn down.

by Juliet Morrison • Motorway tolls could force many hauliers to switch to overnight deliveries within five years. The...

• The British Road Federation predicts Transport Secretary Brian Mawhinney will drop plans to widen motorways beyond four lanes...

A mong the comic characters created by the late Kenneth Williams was an antediluvian radio gardener whose catchphrase was:...

• The 8.4% increase in dery duly from 37p to just over 40p a litre means hauliers' total operating costs will increase on a...

hauliers (but see table right) and no change to current capital allowances of 40% tax relief for investors in major items...

to fall by a third of a billion pounds, to £1.7bn in 1997/98, which is to be offset by planned changes to the rules on capital...

relief on Venture Capital Investment Trusts Investors will be able to claim 20% up-front income tax relief on the purchase of...

brought into closer alignment to ,,unplify the VAT system and allow more companies to pay quarterly. This means that some...

• A "furious and flabbergasted" Freight Transport Association is demanding that proposed increases in Vehicle Excise Duty for...

by Ian Wylie • Hauliers could face massive increases in breakdown bills if the Government presses ahead with plans to charge...

one of his vehicles is demanding his money back from the system's manufacturer after the vehicle's theft last week. Paul...

• Hauliers will be able to reduce the chance of buying a stolen truck from next year by tapping into the first register to...

over by volunteer police as resistance increases within the service to put full-timers on multi-agency checks. The use of...

II The trial of livestock hauliers Ken Lane Transport and Europan, four drivers and a cattle dealing firm, alleged to have...

asked to help truck drivers who are tricked into drugs smuggling. Cleveland and Richmond MEP David Bowe has written to Howard...

• More than 1,500 drivers are threatening to boycott Shell products if the company forces the closure of Savelloys Cafe on the...

• The Ministry of Defence is talking to at least nine firms about contracting out the management of its 100,000-strong back-up...

• Two of the directors of Jon Parks Trailers, a Norfolk freight forwarder which went into liquidation owing nearing £150,000,...

by Juliet Morrison • A widow who believes her trucks have been persistently attacked by a disgruntled rival is to quit...

• Lane Group has a new contract with Oddbins to deliver 400,000 cases of wines and spirits a year to high-street stores. The...

• The police and truck manufacturers are warning hauliers that mechanical brakes on trailers must always be set when the...

• HGV1 drivers are workshy, preferring to draw dole rather than take jobs, according to a hard-pressed director of a haulage...

The Home Office fears highway anarchy as police budgets are squeezed and full-time officers are forced away from routine...

force in Britain. Its patch is also the main gateway for foreign freight entering the UK. CM spoke to Chief Inspector David...

EXCLUSIVE by Toby Clark • Scania has launched Opticruise, an electronically controlled automatic gearchange system. Like...

• Axle manufacturer SAF and brake manufacturer Perrot have developed a disc brake for trailer axles. It can be fitted to the...

• 11/1AN's own sleeper cab for the L2000 Series will go on sale from January through MAN truck centres alongside the sleeper...

• French alloy fuel tank manufacturer ACGB is looking for an exclusive UK importer. It already has similar marketing agreements...

DWT, of Tilbury, Essex, have had their licence revoked at a Cambridge public inquiry

authorisation on the licence held by Leslie Johnson of Par, Cornwall, from seven to 11 vehicles. But he cut the licence to...

cost Judge Transport (Epworth) and three of its drivers 11,025 in - fines and costs.

charts led to Leicestershire hauliers Alan and Lee Smith being fined 1600 each by Rotherham magistrates. They were each ordered...

appeal against a month's suspension of his licence for not using his authorised operating centre.

• South Eastern & Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael Turner has refused to increase the authorisation on Edmonton, north...

• North Eastern Deputy LA Brian Horner has increased Selby-based Fleetbush's international licence authorisation from eight...

1 • The 10-vehicle licence held by Bargoed-based Graham Price has been suspended for six days by South Wales LA John Mervyn...

• A bid for a new licence by father and son James and Darren Flitcroft, trading as IV Haulage, of Stockport, has been adjourned...

J J uring the past month IL/there has almost been a hate campaign in some regional newspapers which refer to the spate of...

5 nick fanatic Jackie Doughton swapped her wheelchair for a bigger set of wheels when she passed her "Class I" LGV test in...

to "fix-it" with a small request: "I have enclosed some photos of me and my dad's lorry after seeing many boys and girls dads...

here's a lot to be said for running a diesel car, U depending on which environmental argument you listen to. Less to be said...

M hat do you have to do to win a "Student of the Year" award? In the Hawk's day the form included staying up all night drinking...

tyres and you don't know how to get rid of them. What do you do? Start a bonfire? Take them to the council tip? Dump them in...

for intermodal traffic, moving to and from rail heads, we have been able to try out a truck that could become a much more...

A recent Which? report lambasted banks for over charging customers but where can hauliers get the best deal? We make a few...

Arguments over the ethics of transporting livestock from the UK into the Community look sure to run and run, certainly until...

L ike other haulage disciplines, there's strong competition from overseas livestock transporter manufacturers. One company...

11 ' Following the ferry bans livestock , hauliers are left with trailers standing idle. Some face ruin as a hard core of...

Ferry operators' first response to the campaign was to banish non-breeding stock to freight ferries, away from their passengers...

One of my 16-tonne boxvans was stopped by police and taken to a weighbridge. It was not a weighbridge that appeared to be in...

One of my drivers is being prosecuted for using a vehicle in a dangerous condition although there was nothing wrong with it....

because folk need a roof over their heads. But it still can't persuade local landowners to sell it a depot site to put up a...

6 Th e British are often referred to by our Continental cousins as mad. What better example of our madness than the fact that...