catch the cowboy hauliers EXCLUSIVE • by Chris Tindall Cowboy hauliers will soon have no hiding place as the enforcement...

CM exclusively joined an ANPR team for a day to see how the new technology works in practice. Radio-controlled colour and...

of the M25 was closed as it flooded with four feet of water causing 20-mile tailbacks. LI11.1 The Highways Agency has launched...

• Confusion surrounded the publication of legislation on the horizontal Working Time Directive—which comes into force next...

II Nearly 50 Christian Salvesen drivers are to vote on strike action after being told their meal allowance will be scrapped and...

• The Road Haulage Association is lobbying Customs to have smuggling laws changed following a successful appeal at a VAT...

• Sussex-based Nature's Way Logistics and sister company Heyland Haulage have had their Operator's Licences revoked after they...

Exel's Tradeteam division is axing 50 jobs and another beer distribution depot as part of its rationalisation programme. The...

• by Dominic Perry The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a new study aimed at discovering the distance covered by...

• Police are hunting for thieves who stole two trucks belonging to Owens Road Services containing 11m of copper last weekend....

Two men appeared before Cleethorpes Magistrates last week charged with the manslaughter of truck driver Derek Bailey, who was...

• The Transport & General Workers Union (T&G) this week announced that two of the most important negotiating jobs in road...

If you're a cowboy operator, watch out —Big Brother really is watching you now. Or at least that's what it will seem like now...

lw Cornish hauliers have been advised to step up site security following a series of diesel thefts in the county, Devon and...

• The Better Regulation Task Force (BRTF), a government advisory body, is assessing the democratic accountability of TCs and...

• The government will fail to deliver the majority of its 10year Transport Plan targets set for this decade, according to the...

• by David Harris The British long-distance lorry driver is an endangered species because foreign drivers are much cheaper,...

demonstrated last month when a would-be stowaway fell to his death from the top of a trailer in Casablanca. The man was trying...

Sevenoaks-based Orient Transport Services is running full-load and groupage into Baghdad and Basra, mainly carrying freight for...

lessons learned in the Iraq war was that it needed to track supplies more accurately during any future military campaigns....

• by Lairence Ford A Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard how an HGV driver for Cumbrian haulier William Armstrong died after an...

E A bid by the Austrian government to ration the amount of international haulage traffic on its roads has been quashed by the...

• Police are appealing for witnesses to a head-on collision between a car and a truck in South Yorkshire which killed an...

• The Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) has repeated its call for a i10/hr minimum wage for all truck drivers when the...

I by Mice Jewell Part-time transport manager Michael Waddington has lost his appeal against the decision of North Eastern...

• Transport companies have no legal right to ask employees to see their driving licences unless it is in their employment...

U Customs officers at Immingham have made two seizures of contraband cigarettes—worth over Lim— within seven days. The first...

Maintaining the roadworthiness of your trucks—and having comprehensive records to prove it—is at the very heart of the...

Building trailers for the UK haulage indus is a perilous occupation these days with tight margins, diminishing volumes and...

With VW's new contender already unveiled, it's now the turn of the 'other' Germans to enter the ring. The van makers from...

the Vito in the hills adjoining the Rhine valley west of Frankfurt. Although there was limited opportunity to sample high-speed...

ITO ------ height of anic luxury Fridges fuel • by Brian Weatherley Daf has returned to the 'special edition tractor' fray...

Fixed roof spoiler and collars. • Side skirts 14x2 tractors). • Thatcham Ill standard Immobiliser and alarm. •...

• Thermo King has launched an extension to its MD range of fridge units, aimed at trucks between Sm and 7.5m In length. The...

• Growth in commercial vehicle sales shows no sign of abating with June registrations up a record 24.9%, the fifth month of...

• The 'who-owns-what" truck industry merry-go-round has creaked into life again. The Financial Times has reported on claims...

• by Brian Weatherley European Tow Show, the first allindustry show for recovery operators, opens its doors at Donington Park...

• Premier Hazard, manufacturer of warning systems for emergency, municipal and recovery vehicles, is showing the second...

A former transport manager was blamed for drivers' hours offences and failure to use designated operating centres when an...

APPLICATION REFUSED A bid for a three-vehicle licence by Preston-based Anthony Gregson, trading as North West Distribution, was...

West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourkt has adjourned a licence bid from the Dudley-based Jewkes family until he...

A Worcestershire agricultural contractor with a 100% Initial failure rate at annual test since 1999 has escaped with a formal...

A Manchester company wit have iii to wait for a J month to discover if action wit be taken against it following an incident...

Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, L2,...

Anyone who has seen the latest Toyota Corolla advert will undoubtedly have laughed at what is a cheeky take on a swinger's...

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law.. .what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: 10 July 1928 Sir...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £82,950 (ex-VAT).' ENGINE: 10.8 litres, 414hp (309kw). OR: 44 tonnes. PAYLOAD: 28.96 tonnes. AVERAGE SPEED:...

III JONATHON PERRIS drives a Volvo FH12 34f1for Robert Wiseman out of Stockport. "I like the look of this cab. it is higher...

Buying oil is getting more complicated with another round of oil specification changes, prompted by the introduction of Euro-3...

Oils for heavy-duty diesel engines are classified under various E-grades ranging from El to E5. The grades are determined by...

II Chevron Texaco's Dave Spence says the key issues will be how much sulphated ash and phosphorous will be generated by Euro-4...

oil to use can be time-consuming. Multigrade oils are designed to make life easier, but what are the risks? "An engine working...

whether they are aimed at reducing fuel or oil consumption or wear, largely because claims are difficult to prove, and because...

I wanted to do it on my own," says Phil Rees, managing director of PD Rees & Son. In 1987, he bought a secondhand Foden...

yard. "I can see five or six of our trucks standing idle alongside subcontractors' vehicles," he says. And my trucks are...

European Commission as the Working Time Directive. it is totally impossible for an abnormal loads carrier to comply with and...