WINGANTON WINS Wincanton Logistics has won a £99m contract to supply Scottish & Newcastle outlets for the next seven years....

by Karen Miles The Government wants to force international drivers coming into UK ports to check the roofs of their trailers...

El The president of visa and relocation company First Point International (FPI) has been arrested in Florida and charged with...

Scottish haulier Les Brodie Transport is being relaunched after collapsing with debts running into hundreds of thousands of...

• by Tim Bugle A test case Drought against a haulier who had "partially" flagged out his trucks to Ireland failed to...

• The trial of a tachograph technician accused of fitting interrupter switches has been adjourned until a date to be fixed at...

distribution network as part of a wide-ranging drive to cut costs. The move follows a similar shake-up in Rover car plants...

• by Charles Young Hauliers with an excellent maintenance record could soon be rewarded by being left to carry out their own...

The trial of Blackburn international haulier Stuart Taylor, his transport manager and two of his drivers on smuggling charges...

Is it time to climb? It may make sense to force drivers to check their vehicles thoroughly for illegal immigrants before...

• by Guy Sheppard An owner-driver is being taken to court in a row over a new £5-an-hour parking charge for trucks outside a...

• Spending on trunk road bu [ding ls to more than double to ,2324m in the next financial year, increasing the number of schemes...

The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has slammed the French region of Savoy for imposing at short notice a driving ban...

SHANKS DEAL Edwards Logistics has won the Armitage Shanks' distribution contract. Edwards Logistics already has a long-standing...

by Charles Young An agricultural contractor known as "Cesspool Sid" has won his battle to carry out haulage work using rebated...

• Warwickshire police are appealing for help to identify the driver of a truck innocently caught up 41 a fatal car accident in...

• Shadow Transport Secretary Bernard Jenkin is to take on a wider transport brief following last week's shadow cabinet shake-up...

Docer The number it West Empean trudcs Is Meg by 50% a year. With the number of East European trucks working in the UK rising...

Show report by Brian Weatherley, Robin Mmes. Cohn Barnett, Peter Lawton and Bryan Jarvis. Photography by Peter Cramer. Star of...

The seven-vehicle . licence held by Amanda Cushing of Sculthorpe, Norfolk, was revoked by Eastern Traffic Commissioner...

Robert Gray and Partners, trading as UR Gray, are to appeal for the second time against a decision of Scottish Deputy Traffic...

she Burden, trading as nshine Fisheries. of !ymouth. had his licence coked at a Bournemouth ;ciplinary inquiry. He was so...

A Lancashire owner-driver has to pay £1,900 in fines and costs for falsifying tachograph records. John Martland, of...

West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon told Hartlebury. Worcester-based Richard Francis that he was "a lucky man in not...

for lony Christine rews of Chn South-East don. has lc appeal against havirq licence revoked and beir qualified for repeated...

1.1■11■1 I was surprised to see that the Fleet Focus feature on axles (CM20-26 Jan) omitted Granning Lynx from its list of...

I don't wish to rain on your parade but I was surprised to see you falling for the usual cynical New Labour tactics in your...

I read with interest the article written by Guy Sheppard on the findings by Roy McCrudden, fleet services manager of Argos,...

Through your magazine I should like to thank the following people for their kindness and generosity: Mike and all at Adams...

The good news, according to your news story, is that we're finally going to get 44-tonners ( CM27 Jan-2 Feb 2000). But the bad...

It's all very well for doctors to tell us that tired drivers are dangerous (CM 3-9 Feb) but now does that help us in the real...

A new Foden Alpha 18-tonne 4x2 has been enlisted to make regular collections of humanitarian aid for a leading children's...

Dundee, Dundee, Dundee... so good they named it thrice! To celebrate the millennium, Dundee-based haulier PS Ridgway has joined...

I suppose t was only a matter of time. Science fantasy has now become reality. DaimlerChrysler has brought in industrial...

It is many moons now since The Hawk was last in the saddle. Back then, his preferred -loot was likely to be found .vending its...

TESTERS' CHOICE HUME ASTRA 2.0 Di 1811 A l in all 1999 was a relatively lean year for CM roadtests in this smallest category....

T he trend to fit panel vans with increasingly powerful engines shows no signs of abating; witness the arrival of an updated...

market was rather static until a couple of years ago, when we saw some evolutionary changes from the Japanese manufacturers...

TESTERS' CHOICE MAN 32.364 YR 8x4 N ever mind comparing apples with apples—this year's round-up of rigids Is a veritable fruit...

TESTERS' CHOICE VOLVO UN 4101 T he Chancellor's halfhearted move towards higher gross weights was still enough to transform...

marketing logans like "liquid engineering" to objective classifications, operators are bombarded with formation. Sharon Clancy...

• I have driven HGVs for many years and know most of the hours and tachograph laws. But I have been told that It Is now legal...

from the 1970s which are used for show purposes only and taxed at the PLG rate. One of them was built with a tachograph. Does...

licence every three years due to a medical condition I had many years ago. I had a very bad case of flu and during it had a fit...

firm and drive a 17-tonner. I start on a Sunday and work from 13:00-23:00hrs. From Monday to Thursday I work from 10:00-07:30h...

• Until a few weeks ago I was employed by a demolition company and before I left the eight-wheeler I drove was stopped a couple...

30 years ago saw the North Yorkshire-based firm shed much of its fleet and concentrate on removals. meets an operator who got...

Transport is a capital intensive industry. A company with most of its money tied up in trucks, trailers and property could be...

effortsto convince the government and the public of the contribution made by road haulage. • If you want to sound off about a...