w by Miles Brignall Hull-based food haulier Akester has gone into voluntary administration with debts of £1.5m, but plans to...

• The Government is considering stopping the fuel duty escalator. In the face of mounting hostility to the amount of fuel tax,...

Cambridgeshire-based John Walmsley has been cleared of causing death by dangerous driving after his lorry veered off the M20 in...

body came to be in the Wisley RHS Gardens on 1June: the site is next to a parking area on the A3. The 21-year-old, who was 4ft...

Amoco's world champion driver of rigid road tankers. More than 200 of the company's 10,000-plus drivers from 11 countries...

Sadler Tankers has opened a "satellite" base at Immingham to service import and export links through the north-east...

• Scottish hauliers are unlikely to be able to use the "wheelloss phenomenon" in future to explain away wheel-loss incidents,...

II by Michael Jewell The alleged belief of the Wincanton managers responsible for a contract with Avonmore Dairies that no...

Can it be true? Just as the protesters seemed to have given up the fight, a glimmer of hope has now appeared with the news that...

• by David Craik Surrey-based haulier Cranleigh Freight Services has been told by the Vehicle Inspectorate that it cannot...

• The Government is moving to tighten up new laws on absenteeism in a move that will please haulage employers. This week an...

• Parcelforce Worldwide is stepping up its assault on the home delivery market with a new service in Europe which allows...

• The Highways Agency and Doncaster council chiefs are at loggerheads over a stalemate which is barring vehicles ether than...

A truck driver resigned from his job with a London-based haulier because he was constantly subjected to racial taunts. Klaus...

• Road haulage has been slow to get to grips with the information superhighway—only 43% of firms use a web site, e-mail or...

• A new law protecting workers who "blow the whistle" on corruption, wrongdoing and danger at work has been welcomed by the...

• Hundreds of haulers face fines of up to 25,000 at the end of the year because they lack the necessary expertise to handle...

en by Bryan Jarvis German manufacturer Krone has developed a new Safe Liner trailer based on a novel space-frame chassis and...

• by Bryan Jarvis This year's TankCon exhibition at Castle Donington abounded with rumours linking Heil Trailers of...

in New agricultural tractor transporters are entering service with second-hand and rental suppliers FG Rowlands. The...

— The Government is increasing funding to Powershift, which hands out grants for converting new fleet vehicles to alternative...

Si Castle Cement is converting 85 of its ERP tractors to three axles and plating them at 41 tonnes— this will Out its VED bill...

The new Daily completes Iveco's CV line-up and pits it against the panel vans from the likes of VW, Mercedes, and importantly,...

A more testing route along the coast of Portugal confirmed what we previously thought: the new Daily is a great improvement...

When it comes to truck fuel economy and performance, operators find no figures quite so convincing as those based on their own...

fuel consumption benefits? This was another question Exel Logistics hoped to answer at the trials, with the help of two MAN...

The Scottish Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts has revoked Cockbumspath-based RV Drysdale's licence, agreeing with its...

Hereford-based JWS Oakley, a company formed to salvage what was left following the liquidation of JWS Transport, is to be...

Bray (Construction) to report defects has resulted in one vehicle being suspended from the company's three-vehicle licence for...

ils drivers of an overloading offence; they ordered that the defence costs should be paid out of public funds. The company and...

A West Yorkshire company was granted a licence in February after it admitted operating illegally. Now it has been allowed to...

John Prescott believes in a new concept of motorway madness, doing his best to madden all motorists, punishing drivers and,...

Reading recently that the most out of touch and ill-informed minister in Parliament was being sent to look after Scottish...

Mega Markets plan to make £75,000 by printing and selling teeshirts is a very clever one. How many hauliers would like to make...

In a recent Sound Off Richard Bretton, the Casualty Reduction Officer of Bedfordshire Police, highlighted the dangers of using...

Six Iveco Fords recently made their showbiz tion of the series Heartbeat. The glamorous linedebut. Yorkshire Television, which...

In case you were wondering, all you heathens out there, this isn't a bloke in a frock armed with a feather duster. No, shame on...

To the Hawk this week fell the onerous task of sitting down, reading a book and watching a video. I know, It's a tough job, but...

The Hawk is sending out an urgent SOS on behalf of hoteier Angela Chapman from Emsworth, Hants. Angela was due to leave with...

I Price as tested: £61,802 (ex-VAT); basic chassis-cab (with standard sleeper), £56,520. Engine: 7,8 litres, 347hp (259kW)....

and met , who drives a Scania 124 400 for Gregory Distribution out of Redhill, Surrey. He liked the styling and the colour of...

tanker. David Taylor asks regular user P&O why this is the best of the best. f versatility were the name of the game, RHM Tank...

Sales of skeletal trailers have become increasingly dominated by slidingbogie models in the past decade. And with the growth in...

1 Channel for granted. But for those carrying hazardous loath rt's not that straightforward, a: Paul Newman reports... G...

Can your carrier capeP Conditions of carriage and advance notice for hazardous goods vary slightly between companies. Belfast...

I 'legal immigration is big business and trucks heading for the Channel ports are among the most obvious ways for asylum...

Laser Transport is drawing up a code of practice for its drivers to avoid the risk of stowaways. Tips include: • Vary your...

Nearly 200 people perished in the Hera of Free Enterprisedisaster; another 85 died in the Estonia at Hagan looks at...

Measures introduced in recent years mean: * All passengers must be counted before departure: • Their names and gender must be...

ERF is starring in its own "Western" down-under. And in spite of unhelpful exchange rates, its Sandhach-built, Western-Star...

espite being dubbed "The Pommie Lorry" by truck journalists, the ERF-built Commander is very much an Aussie product, right down...

ave jonassen, Western Star's boss down under reckons: "It's fun doing business in Australia. It's a huge country, with only...

W hen Western Star bought ERF in 1996 it finally got the one thing it needed to reinforce its attack on the Aussie market—a...

C ommercial Motor recently spent some time with Wayjem Transport, Commander operator of Winchelsea, Victoria, close to...

he B-Double is very much an "Aussie" lorry. The easiest way to describe it is as a tractor pulling two semi-trailers, the...