by Sally Nash • The new Labour Government is combining responsibility for transport, the environment and the regions in a new...

• International hauliers took British lorries off French roads on Monday to escape the disruption caused by the latest French...

• Irish Ferries' parent Irish Continental Group has joined forces with other parties in a bid to save troubled shipping company...

by Sally Nash • The Transport & General Workers Union is balloting 120 P&O tanker drivers for strike action over the company's...

• Troubled Scottish haulier Ecosse European Shipping has been forced into provisional liquidation owing hauliers around...

NEW LABOUR NEW BROOM? I t's too late to worry about it now. We've done it. The question is, will New Labour be any better at...

by Andy Young • Ten drivers employed by P&O Ferrymasters have been ordered to pay .C4,875 in fines and court costs for...

• A haulier who carried the largest quantity of heroin ever seized by UK Customs has been found innocent of any crime. The...

• Securicor has merged its Omega Express and Pony Express businesses, but says redundancies will be no more than "single...

• Hauliers owed 242,000 by Norfolk freight forwarder Transport Advantage Service, which went into voluntary liquidation last...

• JS Cook & Son has hit out at the level of apathy in the road transport industry after lack of support scuppered its plan to...

by Sally Nash • The haulage industry has one week to decide on the future of the Operator's Licence disc—whether to improve it...

• The haulage industry appeared to get off to a poor start with the Labour government after one of the party's leading figures...

a haulage yard foreman 25,486 compensation after he claimed unfair dismissal. Dave Saxon said JF Haulage of Altrincham,...

• Food distribution firm Rick:thy & Lee Transport has won a contract worth £1.2m a year with Leeds-based dairy company MD Foods...

by Karen Miles and David Craik • Costly quayside delays at Felixstowe are causing hauliers to pull out of the port. A number...

• Sixteen people have been arrested following an eight-day police undercover operation in North Yorkshire designed to catch...

• Hauliers have given a massive thumbs down to the concept of a single European market and the introduction of a minimum wage....

• wage deals at Ryder Logistics and United Carriers have been settled although talks on pay at Tibbett & Britten's Transcare...

• The Lll■ facing a major road maintenance crisis, says the British Road Federation. The 1996 National Road Maintenance...

Two court cases involving fatal accidents have highlighted the danger of using mobile phones in vehicles. Should hauliers ban...

Of course Truckfest was fun. For anyone remotely interested in road haulage and the tools of the trade, nothing else comes...

After years of faithful service at Harrogate, the RHA's annual TipCon tipper show is moving to Manchester in 1998. But will...

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

T have studied at great 'length the debate on 40-44 tonners and I am a bit mystified. They said at 24 tonnes we should go to 30...

I wish to comment on chief driving examiner Robin Cummins letter (CM 3-9 April) in reply to my letter (CM 13-19 March). WV...

T hose of your readers concerned with our heritage must have been alarmed to read "CV museum's days are numbered" (CM 24-30...

I am writing in the hope that Commercial Motor may be able to help with some information concerning haulage companies. I hove...

by John Kendall • Renault launched its Kerax tipper range at TipCon last week (see show report, pages 24-29) to replace its...

a threeyear/60,000-mile warranty with three years' membership of the Isuzu Assistance package. • Eight nine-seater Iveco Ford...

Crew-cab Brava • Vauxhall has made a number of revisions to its Corsa and Combo vans. Both 1997 models now feature: • Chassis...

• Vauxhall has introduced a crew-cab variant of its 4x2 Brava Pickup for £12,130 (exVAT). The Brava range now has a 2.5-litre...

MAN has been "considering" offering a 6x4 tipper in the UK for years. It's finally taken the plunge with its 26.264. Having...

III Drivers' hours and tachograph offences, and running a vehicle at the wrong rate of tax, have cost Islay Crab Exports and...

• West Midland Traffic Commis sioner John Mervyn ['ugh will decide early next month what action to take against a Wednesfield...

• The High Court has overturned Bristol Crown Court's decision to refuse costs to Wilfred Holden (Blackburn) after the company...

Lorry driver Andrew Pearce has been convicted of drink-driving and his LGV driving licence has been revoked following a dispute...

• A former taxi operator who has collected three prohibitions since coming into haulage in the middle of last year has escaped...

Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

Boosted by the acquisition of Peterborough Heavy Haulage, the CEL Group has more than trebled its fleet in five years. Add to...

and price. It now has an updated engine, new brakes and interior changes. Are these enough to keep up with some stiff...

haulage very setiously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

O n an effort to add a human touch to its modest fleet of 1,000 milk tankers, Milk Marque has given its vehicles individual...

0 t's funny what some folks are persuaded to buy when they pop into their local for a quiet pint. Dogs, watches, video...

hen o Brinks security van overturned in Miami, scattering $3.7m (22.2m) in cash into the street, citizens rushed to collect the...

Jun DUI,Kwortl, editor of Road Transport Law and head of Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal...

I was stopped by a police officer on a motorway who said the load of straw bales I was carrying was insecure. He said the...

Now that the uncertainty of the election is out of the way many hauliers will be considering ways to expand their business. But...

W ilson Mawhinney has driven in fog a thousand times. Like other professional road users, he knows it's a hazard which demands...

David Higginbottonn is general-secretary of the United Road Transport Union. He has recently been re-elected unopposed for a...