by Karen Miles • British Steel is clamping down on cowboy hauliers with spot checks on sub-contractors running into its...

• Proposals to privatise the Port of Dovii have been shelved, after Calais Chamber of Commerce emerged as the only Dotenti al...

• An owner-driver has issued a High Court writ against an insurance company for 050,000 after he was forced to stop driving...

by Toby Clark • Haulage costs have outstripped inflation during the past year with the cost of fuel jumping 8%, says an...

• An Internet service for truck operators, set up in September, is attracting more than 1,000 users a day. Eurotruck makes its...

B ritish Steel's decision to vet the hauliers passing through the gates of its Teesside and Scunthorpe plants puts an...

by Karen Miles • British and Italian lawyers are fighting for the release of a Kent lorry driver who was jailed after £...

• A South Yorkshire man's five-year prison sentence for dismantling stolen trucks was "well merited", says the Criminal Appeal...

• Two driver training schemes have been launched this week to try and combat the shortage of experienced drivers. High-street...

• Eurotunnel's board of directors will meet tomorrow (10 Nov) to decide how to deal with the latest financial setback to hit...

his claim that he was sacked after refusing to drive an unsafe truck. Michael Okey, 37, claimed constructive dismissal from his...

by Kevin Wright • A group campaigning to get dangerous trucks off the roads has won a High Court victory in its battle to force...

• Trade associations have reacted angrily to suggestions that the Government might suspend new roadbuilding projects in the...

plans to combat bridge bashing are seriously flawed, warns the Freight Transport Association. The FTA agrees with the...

• The Driving Standards Agency has set up an industry working party e ir Atr, to draw up a scheme for the voluntary...

by James Brewster • The widow of a lorry driver killed with five others in the Sowerby Bridge disaster faces another wait...

• Hauliers who contribute to fatal accidents by forcing their drivers to spend too many hours behind the wheel could face...

by Derren Hayes • Roads Minister Steven Norris has ruled out urban road pricing in the near future, describing it as "political...

• The Transport Select Committee's key discussion of effective enforcement of road transport law has been postponed because the...

• Changes to the overall length of drawbar outfits proposed by the European Commission in October will NOT affect body lengths,...

by Bryan Jarvis W hile Japan's automo tive engineering moguls wrestle with the problems of satisfying environmental needs, its...

by John Kendall • Pro-Trux, the manufacturing division of the Slough Towbar Centre, has developed the Peugeot Boxer-based...

• Workers at engine manufacturer Cummins' Darlington and Shotts plants are bracing themselves for job losses as Cummins...

• Ford is attempting to address complaints by van users that they are not getting as good a parts service as truck operators by...

• Leyland Daf used truck dealers are offering a power upgrade to buyers of 95.310 tractors. For around 2500 dealers can...

Niche marketing in Japan has it successes as Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have found out. by Bryan Jarvis • If you want to be...

• The falsification of a tachograph chart to conceal the fact that he had taken insufficient daily rest cost Cheshire lorry...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has warned Much Wenlock owner-driver Peter Griffiths that if his vehicles collect any more...

• A Leeds industrial tribunal has rejected a claim by driver Andrew Chapman that Dukes Transport (Craigavon) made an unlawful...

• A bid for a new two-vehicle licence by Coventry-based Peter Scott was refused when he failed to attend a Birmingham public...

• The licence held by Reinar Kalmaru, trading as RK Haulage, of Newcastle Emlyn, Dyfed, has been suspended until his two...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence of Baillie Bros (Contractor), of Garmouth, Morayshire being cut from 76 vehicles...

• The licence held by Helen Linhart, trading as Trans-Haul International, of Newbold Verdon, Leicester, has been revoked...

• A Doncaster haulier who stole six loads of aggregate has retained his licence at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. He appeared...

• The licence held by Willenhall-based Slf Transport & Repairs has been cut from five vehicles and three trailers to three...

• South Eastern & Metropolitan Deputy LA John Stevenson has rejected a bid by WS Hunts Transport to vary the number of vehicles...

• "How's my driving?" might not be a question that many truck drivers feel they want or need to ask passing motorists, but that...

by Miles Brignall • Truck drivers working in vehicles fitted with antilock braking systems (ABS) may be risking their lives...

• The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) has cancelled its conference in Sheffield because of lack of support. Although DAM has...

4st A guide outlining the hazards faced by the growing numbers of international drivers and operators is now available. The A5...

I T have been involved directly indirectly in the haulage industry for more than 25 years and have seen the crippling effect of...

feel compelled to comment on your test of the Bedford MT17-21 ("Down In The Dirt", CM 2-8 November 1995). What a pity you have...

I n your story "RAC wants drivers to report smokers" (CM 2-8 Nov) you say that the RAC want car drivers to report smoking...

Packing it in • Printing and packaging research association PIRA International is holding a one-day seminar highlighting some...

5 hey don't call him "Killer Kevin" for nothing. In fact they might add, as did a team mate, that Bath RFC's first-team prop...

W ho is Britain's most hated type of motorist? The swarthy devil who roars by you at the saeed of sound in a soupec-up...

3 ver wondered what to do with that empty space above the cab roof behind he air spoiler? Or where to keep that useful folding...

3 utbacks in the armed forces are beginning to bite. Our boys, denied enough fuel to do the job properly, are forced to pull...

the Foden Society recently indulged itself by holding its AGM at the Foden Works in Sand bach. More than 100 members turned up...

Following our group test of Euro-2 tractors we wanted to find out how the latest emissions standard would affect performance...

buy-backs really know what they are letting themselves in for as the used market cools down1 T he words "buy-back" are...

How much longer must innocent truck drivers languish in foreign jails while drug barons laugh all the way to the bank? I t's...

Last month Exel Logistics and Bass created Tradeteam, a joint venture which distributes £90m-worth of drinks a year. Unions and...

set up GA Transport. Six years later-it's still expanding: now his dad works for him. A t 14, Grant Arnold knew the route from...

The diesel engine appears to be public enemy number one, but could catalytic converters and particulate traps change all that?...

TNT is the first multi-national UK transport firm to sign a works council agreement. Personnel director David Hanley explains...