i l l c u t costs by Nicky Clarke and John Kendall • Hauliers can expect to get "more truck for their money" as a result of the...

• The Department of Transport plans to allow 44-tormers to travel the length of the country to and from railheads. In the...

• Surprise rate cuts of about 10% have been imposed on steel hauliers working for United Engineering Steels. The reduction...

by Karen Miles • The EC has again shown its willingness to move to the defence of hauliers as it extends its investigation of...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is investigating an accident which left six dead. A Foden tipper hit a BT van in Sowerby Bridge,...

• Hauliers are urged to apply for the Department of Transport's new security listing to ensure smoother air freight transfers....

• About 750 guests attended one of the biggest dealer open days at Scantruck's family event at Purfleet last weekend. The event...

• Rapide (UK) Freight Services has closed one of three sites it took over from rival West Yorkshire textiles haulier Chris...

• Government ministers in Scotland and Northern Ireland are to hold talks on the possibility of a ferry service to link...

British Standard quality assurance mark BS5750 fails to lay down criteria for quality.

• Foden has appointed Parsons Truck Centre in Hartlepool as a main dealer. Parsons' north-east territory was previously covered...

• Railfreight Distribution says its freight terminal due to open at Mossend near Glasgow next March will allow goods out of...

• Bids open this week for fleet maintenance contracts worth a total of £2m a year with the National Rivers Authority. Those...

by Terry Howlett • Three men charged with dishonestly handling stolen trucks worth more than 4450,000 were last week remanded...

• Hauliers and truck drivers are being urged to sign a petition in support of what could be a farmer's last-ditch attempt to...

• I 'K hauliers travelling through France could face the perennial problem of blocked roads, warns the British Embassy in...

by Bill Brock • The move from Edinburgh to the SEC at Glasgow is just one indication of how much the IRTE's exhibition in...

• Newport haulier Richard Draper has admitted that his sloppy administration of his business was to blame for maintenance...

• Two drinkdriving convictions against one of Worksopbased Craven & Son's partners resulted in the company being warned that it...

• Blackpool skip hire operator Raymond Baguley has been warned that further convictions involving controlled waste will put his...

• Heavy opposition from local residents and two local authorities has led to Port Talbot-based Joint Motorways Hauliers...

• KRM Transport succeeded in its bid for a new international licence for 10 vehicles and 10 trailers, based at Clove Top, near...

• A series of environmental conditions were imposed when Scottish TC Michael Betts granted a licence for eight vehicles and 10...

trades as Derbyshire Farm Eggs, of Long Eaton, being given a formal warning. Johnson appeared at a Derby disciplinary inquiry...

• A Sheffield Industrial Tribunal has dismissed a claim by truck driver Robert Emerton for a redundancy payment from his...

• Massive environmental opposition in South Wales to a licence bid by England Environmental has led to its adjournment until...

by Karen Miles • A boom time for the Scottish haulage industry is predicted as the Government begins a review of the shipping...

• Opencast mining company RJ Budge plans to subcontract haulage work on two separate contracts before next spring if it wins...

• Railfreight Distribution's new international container service looks set to be the first British rail freight company to be...

• Tankfreight is offering around 300 non-petroleum drivers a £225 lump sum for the rest of the year, instead of a percentage...

• Drivers in Wigan and Chorley, Lancs could be in line for a work bonanza if plans for a new quarry get the go-ahead....

by Juliet Parish IIII ARC has started to climb down on demands that its 800 contracted owner-drivers sign controversial new...

• Up to 10 tipper drivers could be recruited next month by Tarmac Roadstone in Colchester if the company wins its battle for...

• Worthing-based Taylor Plant & Haulage has won a £550,000 contract to transfer up to 80 loads of mulch from an underwater...

• ZF's hydrodynamic retarder (CM 24-30 Sept 1992) can now be retrofitted on all Iveco EuroTech and MANF90 tractors sold in the...

won't surface until mid 1997: automation of the cab assembly lines at the Worth plant in Germany should be completed by early...

ELIO tractive units have been ordered with its Geartronic automated gearbox, since its launch earlier this year. The company...

Leyland Daf 17 tonner mistakenly referred to a Granning axle which was in fact supplied and fitted by Drinkwater Chassis...

for 152 85 Series tractive units. The order, worth £7.5 million, has come from Midlands-based Transfleet Services.

• Following SMMT-monitored trials at the Ministry of Defence's Hum n test establishment Jacobs Europe has confirmed that its...

• Anglian Developments has extended its Majestic range of sleek, seamless monocoque GRP body systems with an insulated/...

• City Glass Works, now part of Pilkington Distribution Services, has added two of the latest Seddon-Atkinson Strato 17-tonners...

• Hyva UK is extending the range of rigid tippers covered by its UTS 32 underfloor tipping system with a version for Leyland...

The experts all agree. By 2000 there will only be four truck manufacturers left standing in Europe. Which four is far from...

a his column regularly reports on life-saving convoys organised by the road transport fraternity to highprofile disaster areas...

escribing itself as "Britain's last independent truck maker", ERF is 60 this month. The first truck from the Cheshire firm...

a he Hawk built up a fair old thirst reading through Pulling Pints, a history of brewery transport by former Whitbread...

r.:31 ettering Scania dealer Derek Jones knows how to make a big splash with customers. Take them for a day's waters-ports. Not...

Legal talk-in • Legal and financial problems faced by hauliers will be discussed by an expert panel of solicitors and...

Seller/buyer link • Hauliers and drivers wishing to sell their old trucks and vans can now use a computerised system from...

Ireland to France • Pandoro has announced a new service from Rosslare in Southern Ireland to Cherbourg in France starting in...

• A guide to vehicles available for hire is now available from Ryder. The chart details the whole range from 1.5 to 38 tonnes...

Earth to space • Drivers can keep in constant touch with base via a new satellite communication system from Trimble...

• The M1 will be closed betweenJunctions 9 and 11 on the following nights to allow bridge beams to be lifted into place: :...

Management Services' depot in Flixborough, and director Kieran 0' Kelly fears they already been smuggled out of the country. "I...

ECAS rear air suspension; £1,450 for air management kit; £1,045 fifth-wheel kit; £145 electrically adjustable mirrors; £200...

B efore you can solve a problem you have to identify it: that where diagnostics comes in. It is relatively easy to locate a...

'n the Dorset green belt around Poole and Bournemouth has just ended in defeat for John Coakes. The haulier, based at Corfe...

The Department of the Environment is in the process of issuing new guidelines to planning authorities which will attempt to...

The latest EC livestock regs were doubtless drawn up with the best of motives, but they present problems for hauliers and...

Passing a business from one generation to the next is well established in the haulage industry. Keeping it in the family has...

I was disappointed to see that Part 1 of the Commercial .11otor Ferry Guide '93 published in your 26 Aug-1 Sept edition made no...

Tf I told you this was a recent 'photo you should be puzzled. York axles are now Hendrickson, couplers Aveling Barford. Tidy...

I note that in this week's CM, a third of all mad users say WV drivers are the best drivers on the road (2-8 September). In...

g wh ere will the UK road haulage industry be by 2000? With the help of the present Government the outlook is bleak. Road...