by Mike Jewell and Miles Brignall • Drivers caught falsifying tachograph charts to cover up excessive hours offences can expect...

• One of Langdon Industries' directors is to be charged with conspiring to make false tachograph records as part of a...

• The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders blamed the first commercial vehicle sales downturn in almost three years on...

four-year jail sentence after being found guilty in France of attempting to smuggle cannabis. However, the trial in Bayonne...

words. "We screw ourselves. We're the world's worst for sticking together." And the man who said it—an owner-driver--is right....

• An Internet information service for hauliers and drivers will be available from September. Eurotruck will include route...

by Karen Miles • Carriers working for Red Star are to become franchised operators taking on ex-British Rail staff, say the new...

• Owners of specialist vehicles travelling on the roads fewer than six miles a week have been told they must tax the vehicles...

• The Government's road building record came under fire this week as the British Roads Federation said initiatives to introduce...

cleared by PCA • The policeman who headed the investigation into the Sowerby Bridge disaster has been cleared by the Police...

• Bull bars are not dangerous and vehicles fitted with them are no more likely to be involved in a serious accident than other...

by Steve McQueen • Vehicle maintenance and refuse collection contracts at three local authorities have been won back from...

• Eurotunnel has increased freight volumes by almost 62% in the past three months and renewed its claims to have overtaken P&O...

of food sold at motorway services stations following his latest tour of inspection along the M4 and M5. He says he was forced...

usage could force smaller operators out of business, according to a new report. The survey, by the Gordon Simmons Research...

– Southampton-based JF Alford Transport, its managing director and its transport manager, denied aiding and abetting drivers to...

by Miles Brignall Hauliers charged with carrying unsecured loads could avoid endorsements on their driving licence by...

• Irish hauliers say they will be priced out of Europe if a 1r.£5-a-day tax is imposed on LGVs to pay for better roads. Jimmy...

• East Anglian hauliers have reacted angrily to a new weight restriction on lorries travelling through Thetford in Norfolk....

• United Transport has a two year £5m contract to distribute oil products for Shell UK Downstream Oil. The Shellliveried fleet...

by Lee lumber • Late payment is the single biggest problem facing Britain's independent businesses and hauliers are no...

• Five men under investigation for an alleged fraud which cost hauliers £750000 have been re-bailed by West Yorkshire police...

• The head of Tibbett & Britten's troubled car transporter arm Axial has lost control of its UK operations in a major...

by David Harris • You've got a vehicle worth £80,000 and the load's worth a lot more. So what do you with the ignition keys?...

• Sleepy WV drivers could be waking up to a minty surprise by the end of the decade courtesy of a sleep-detecting cab computer...

• Who says hauliers aren't fit ? Limitless reserves of detertnination and courage drove DFDS Transport staff to beat an...

• Everything you didn't know about trucking but were afraid to ask can kept in your glovebox with the new Truck Driver's...

by Bryan Jarvis British truck racing's Team IRU/TIR Atkins, four times winner of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship is...

• Ford will offer a turbocharged version of the Escort 1.8 diesel van from October. Developed from the turbodiesel version of...

• Sainsbury's is running in-service emission tests on 47 vehicles in its Charlton, east London depot which have been switched...

• To celebrate 30 years of the Transit, Ford has introduced 500 Hallmark special editions based on the current short wheelbase...

T his year's Ambex ambulance and ancillary equipment show held at Harrogate's exhibition centre, ended with exhibitors in...

• Metrocab's Metrocare is in service with the North Yorkshire, Mid Glamorgan, and Royal Berkshire ambulance services. Derived...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by William and Anne Brown, trading as Captain Cargo, of Motherwell, being...

• Warwickshire haulier Walter Munro was prevented from passing the house of a neighbouring resident between 08:00hrs and...

• Gwent haulier Francis Marks's bid for substantive licence authority to use an operating centre at Caerphilly, which he...

• West Midlandsbased CJ Holland Contractors has been ordered to pay a lorry driver £174 in lieu of notice, following his...

• Allegations that a driver employed by Sam Smith Transport, of Dungannon, had falsified tachograph charts and broken the...

Don't know who to turn to? Commercial Motor can help! The latest version of CM's Legal Directory is now available to readers,...

Divisions combined • Part of the Securicor Group, Scottish Express International, has been combined with its English...

Lift inspections • Longdon Truck Equipment offers free inspections of Zepro lift installations to make sure they are correctly...

Diesel expo • The Association of Diesel Specialists' 1995 International Convention and Exhibition will be at the Mirage Hotel...

Weight and height • The Freight Transport Association has published a guide to goods vehicle weights and dimensions in the UK....

Fuel recorder • A new software package that its designers claim could save hauliers between 5 and 10% of their fuel bills is...

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

London • A4 The Strand-regular delays outside Charing Cross Station until the end of October, particularly bad for westbound...

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multinational to show a I softer side to its go-out-and-grab-business nature. But Ryder is doing so with its sponsorship of the...

the Royals are as enthusiastic about all forms of transport as Prince Michael of Kent. So it was not entirely surprising to see...

has decided to call it a day after half a century. Colin, 66, is now turning his attention to his longheld ambition to own a...

orry drivers may be stressed by congestion but it the Transport and General Workers Union that has managed to make my blood...

ROUT Make no mistake—Iveco's Turbo Daily is a van that thinks it's a truck. It's meaty and it's massive. So how will this...

Just like haulage, the financial world has its cowboys who can cost the unsuspecting dearly. To combat these sharks the top...

In February 1982, the nationalised UK transport group consisting largely of road hauliers under the National Freight Company...

preceded the flotation in 1989, and established four main trading divisions. The McKinsey report of 1991 marked the end of the...

its multi-drop catering service, so is trading up to 12 tonners. Transport manager, Ted Ramble, explains why. through look a...

Overloads can cost operators heavy fines but all too frequently the consignor is to blame. Given the Government appears...

or many years truck dealers believed they were not legally required to use tachographs when using trade plates and in the...