by Miles Brignall • Drivers delivering bulk cement for construction materials firm Blue Circle have signed a five-year wage...

The new £26m bridge across Poole hor is to be designed and built by a consortium of architects. Work on the half-mile bridge...

• Thousands of compensation claims are being registered with the French Government by British hauliers caught up in November's...

by Miles Brignall • Troubled Fife haulier Thomas Muir (Haulage) has failed in its attempt to resume trading by appealing to the...

• A City lawyer has been appointed as Western Traffic Commissioner to succeed Air Vice-Marshall Ronald Ashford who retired last...

THE FUTURE IS DECIDED ow would you like to see into the future? If not forever then what about for the next five years?...

• The haulage industry is to be consulted by the European Union on the impact of the imposition of a maximum 48hour working...

by Karen Miles • Cumbrian police and Tesco are this week investigating an accident at one of the supermarket's stores in which...

• An anonymous benefactor has paid the fine of a British driver imprisoned in Turkey on drugs charges. Mickey Chinnick should...

• The woman who helped to develop the framework for nationally recognised training standards in the transport industry has won...

0 The Health & Safely Executive has issued two exemption certificates to new regulations on hazardous bags for clinical waste...

• Le Freight services through the Eurotunnel are still at least two months from resuming and the company is no closer to say....

by Karen Miles • Road hauliers look set to compete with a near-monopoly in the rail freight sector following British Rail's...

• A British driver imprisoned in Morocco for smuggling drugs has refused to rule out resuming a hunger strike to protest his...

by Karen Miles • Drivers and hauliers have been stopped from illegally claiming millions of pounds in state benefits since the...

• Cavewood Transport and United Carriers have failed to land the multi-millionpound Ministry of Defence tri-service freight...

• A police investigation is underway into allegations concerning a Vehicle Inspectorate senior vehicle examiner and...

• Owner-drivers running their vehicles without insurance will be more easily detected if plans to crack down on uninsured...

by Derren Hayes • Hauliers travelling to and from Hull docks could be forced to make long detours if bridges on two major roads...

• Drivers' lob prospects in the transport and distribution industry over the next three months are 7% better than they were at...

• Gateshead tipper operator H Nichol & Son is to cut its fleet by two thirds after crippling fuel price rises slashed its...

• Dawson Holdings, the newspaper and magazine distribution and information group, has almost tripled its annual pre-tax profits...

CM is one of the consultees chosen by the Department of Transport to reply to its proposals for increased lorry weights. Here's...

• Six drivers and former drivers employed by Allen Munro Transport accused of falsifying tachograph charts had mixed fortunes...

Lt r • A Swansea firm whose licence was revoked because of the condition of a vehicle which had been involved in a fatal...

• Altrincham antique haulier Jason Young was banned from driving for two years and fined £560 with £60 costs after admitting...

• Morecambe skip-hire operator Brian Catlow escaped with a warning when he appeared before North Western Deputy TC Patrick...

• The hearing of charges arising out of a fatal accident brought against Perth lorry driver Frazer Banks and Road Services...

• Paul Butterworth, trading as Eurocool, of Wem, Shropshire, was granted an international licence for two vehicles and two...

• A company has had environmental restrictions imposed on its licence despite the fact that the source of noise at night could...

• A Liverpool waste clearance company has lost its licence and its proprietor has been disqualified from holding or obtaining...

• An Irish driver who was fined £500 for overloading after being told he would be kept in custody if he continued to deny the...

by Bryan Jarvis • Mitsubishi and Volvo have begun discussions on co-operative truck ventures across Europe and Asia, but...

• Nine specialist Fruehauf gas trailers ordered by BOC Gazy in Poland are probably the heaviest examples to carry the lightest...

• Seven 41.6m 3 tipping powder tankers in the S Longson fleet have been retrofitted by Adams Ricardo with CycloBlower helical...

• Group 4 Nightspeed is to replace its trunking fleet this spring, beginning with an order for 26 32-tonne artics and 13...

• Darlington council has invested £250,000 in two Scaniaand Volvo-based 8)(4 Norba Leach compactor vehicles. Both are 320hp...

• Huddersfield-based foyer UK has invested in 15 new Dennison lightweight triaxle tank trailers for its Red (beer and...

• Wessex Dairies has added a trio of 23-tonne MAN 23.272 FNI, 6x2 rigids and two MAN 10.153F 10-tanners to its 100strong milk...

Sheffield Cleansing is more than just a transport operation—it runs a multi-million-pound incinerator, a giant landfill site...

Nothing calms nervous truck buyers more than money being spent on their favourite manufacturer. Investment equals survival, and...

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

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

I regularly read your fine magazine and I must add my comments to the letter from Tim Beasby (CM 24-30 October), to put the...

FI urther to your article about agricultural tractors and trailers running for hire and reward (CM 5-11 December). The...

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

wners of new Daimler-Benz cars may in future be able to smoke their vehicles when they come to the end of their useful lives....

ans of the "Off Roaders" in the BBC comedy The Fast Show wit welcome the publication of Off-Road Recovery Techniques by Nick...

0 ruck dealer Greenhous Leyland Daf has been working with the Road Haulage Association to take the message into schools that...

HUNK The British pickup buyer may put function ahead of fashion, but Mitsubishi is hedging its bets: the new 12000 pickup...

The new self-assessment tax form is now available from the Inland Revenue, but how do you fill it in and when? Have no fear—our...

Hauliers claiming compensation from loads lost or damaged during the French drivers' strike have a good chance of getting some...

The dispute at Ford, Dagenham about the racial composition of the truck driving workforce has resulted in an inter union row...

CA Dutch-owned international operator Breda specialises in transporting hanging garments to North Africa from its Folkestone...

The port of Felixstowe dominates UK container traffic, but despite a £45m investment in new equipment, surges in demand...

road/rail service starting in the Spring along with a veiled promise to extend the present limited 44-tonne legislation. Good...

Jim Duckworth. editor of Road Transport Law and head of Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey. helps solve your legal problems...

I was driving an empty Mercedes Sprinter van on a dualcarriageway section of the A64 in Yorkshire at 70mph and overtook a...

We have used a modified Leyland tractor unit as a recovery vehicle but, as it is only used a few times a year, we are reviewing...

Wheels falling off lorries is just not acceptable in this day and age, says TNT Truckcare director of engineering, Alan...