The MLA is to launch a new HGV-specific photocard driving licence application form. The Agency hopes it will reduce the number...

al by Jennifer Ball Hauliers and trade associations have reacted with disappointment to the news that trucks will have to pay...

The government's lorry road-user charge (LRUC), due to be introduced in 2006, is likely to apply to heaviest trucks first, and...

• by Sally Nash Eddie Stobart drivers are warning they could be 2800 worse off a month if the company forces through big...

• by Chris Tindall A former Haulier of the Year winner ignored its drivers' complaints that they were not being paid according...

by Chris Tindall An owner-operator claims he Is facing a 130,000 bill after a Customs and Excise officer allegedly damaged his...

• This weekend's Truckfest saw two women campaigning for the release of their husbands from foreign jails, and the launch of a...

• Police are appealing for witnesses after a truck driver was hijacked and his load of chicken breasts stolen. The incident...

This week, we learnt how much it will cost to use the long-anticipated Midland Expressway. At pi for driving a truck along the...

CM EXCLUSIVE • This week's publication of the second progress report of the lorry road-user charge (LRUC) announces the...

says Eurotunnel. In its first quarter of this year, it says It increased its share of business from major hauliers, and carried...

• by Michael Jewe ll Two drivers employed by Hexham-based William Martin Oliver & Partners were given community service orders...

M The international Road Transport Union (IRUi is calling for the introduction of low-sulphur diesel throughout the EU. EU...

Improvements to the A34/M. Junction 13 costing almos £40m have been unveiled by tie Highways Agency. Work will include a new...

if Accidents at and illness caused by work cost employers a massive .f.,3bn in 1991, says a new report published by the Trades...

4 . Keep Britain Tidy has launched a hard-hitting campaign urging the public to snitch on fly-tippers via a telephone hotline....

• by Ricky Taylor The suspension of rail-freight grants by the Strategic Rail Authority will be lifted by the end of the year,...

• The Transport & General Workers Union and the Road Haulage Association in Scotland are meeting to discuss the latest...

The Working Time Directive may not be as bad as everyone fears—or at least that's the message from solicitor Stephen...

w Excluding self-employed drivers from the Will until 2008 is a factor concerning many haulers, who fear their rates will be...

P Warehouse workers, office staff and mechanics will be covered by another piece of working time legislation—the horizontal...

• by Colin Barnett Volvo's nine-litre engine has clearly created a lot of interest in mid-range diesels. In an FM9...

far as press fleets go. The truck was an FLE 220 18-tonne skip-loader, finished in a rather unlikely bronze metallic paint job....

• ZF has commenced production of its latest transmission system, an automated unit specifically designed for heavy-duty...

Ivaco has updated its after-sales service programme with a host of new developments. The most significant is the opening of a...

Iveco has sold a pair of Daily City mini-artics to Sonicbore to transport its sonic waterwell drilling rigs. Based on the...

A Denbigh haulier, whose tractor was impounded _J because he was purportedly using someone else's Operator's Licence after his...

Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm Maxwell's Demolition being cut to three vehicles...

Failures to attend court to answer drivers' hours charges boosted the fine given to a Croydon owner-driver to a total of...

A North Wales firm which had a high number of prohibitions in the three years it has held a licence has escaped with just a...

A Liverpool man, whose vehicle was impounded by the Vehicle Inspectorate, has been ordered to pay .€.1,350 for a catalogue of...

a century unless they really are delivering the goods and, to be fair, today's Iveco Daily City Truck is a completely different...

• Double-deckers are shedding their image as expensive bespoke systems. Flexible designs to suit general haulage operations...

0 Double-decks on curtainsiders have conventionally been fixed, or a butterfly or swivel system in which the deck tilts along a...

There are two types of demountable body system: the straight-lift, and the contact or guide-rail demountable system. In a...

that urgent single pallet deliveries cost a fortune, and small consignments would only be taken as and when vehicles were going...

SET UP: 2001. MEMBERS 52. CENTRAL it Melton Mowbray. ..-vpmruT Cheque exchange, with each depot putting in invoices to a...

MEMBERS 93. CENTRAL HUB: Lichfield. PAYMENT METHOD' Central billing, with net inputters to the system paying in each month....

SETUP: 1992. MEMBERS: 49. CENTRAL HUB: Birmingham PAYMENT METHOD: Depots charge each other delivery fees on a contra-payment...

• ANDY BOYLE, owner of Ledbury-based ABE TRANSPORT, has been a Palletline member since 1994. He says: "I was convinced that...

CENTRAL HUB: Leicester. PAYMENT METHOD: Central billing. PALLETS HANDLED PER NIGHT: 3.000 SERVICES: Next day, economy (3...

MEMBERS: 50. CENTRAL HUB: Lichfield. PAYMENT METHOD: Central billing. PALLETS HANDLED PER NIGHT: 3,000. SERVICES: European...

SETI 1996. MEM 86. CENTRAL Ellistown, Leicestershire. Cheque exchange, administered via Pall-Extra, a separate company....

looked at Glasswells' requirement for a twin bedded cab he was puzzled. Glasswells' Daf dealer, Chassis-Cab, wanted the...

ingly setting up web sites to let their customers know what services they can offer and what equipment is available to carry...

ratio government should her. Ear be it from me to blindly support the government but, in this case, l'eally think they are...