LAST FRIDAY’S (4 November) multiple vehicle pile-up and ire on the M5 in Somerset claimed the lives of two HGV drivers among...

By Christopher Walton TIPPER CONTRACTORS working for Aggregate Industries have accused the irm of “ruining Christmas again” ,...

A STOBART Group driver has been killed following an accident in which the lorry he was driving fell from a bridge onto the...

By Christopher Walton SOME 120 Wincanton employees at its shared user sites in Daventry and Greenford have entered a formal...

DHL is to close three DCs following the opening of Morrisons’ £90m Bridgwater, Somerset, RDC. A fourth site, operated by...

THE ORGANISERS OF the FairFuelUK (FFUK) campaign have called on operators and the public to ask their local MP to attend next...

THE ROAD Transport Operator Regulations 2011 come into force on 4 December and, as a result, the industry’s opinion on proposed...

By Kevin Swallow CARTWRIGHT GROUP says its longer semitrailers (LSTs) will use the “command rearsteer” technology because it is...

A PETITION to make haulage companies acknowledge the dangers caused by drivers suffering from obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)...

SMALLAND medium-sized hauliers struggling to keep abreast of their O-licence commitments could beneit from new software that...

“It is with great regret that we announce the death of Alan Cartwright, our chairman, brother, father and uncle,” says a...

By Chris Tindall HAULIERS WITH conditions attached to their operating centres have been urged to consider using lorry parks or...

THE BUSINESS and assets of Assured Logistics Solutions (ALS) have been sold in a £240,000 prepack deal, allowing creditors to...

ATS EUROMASTER has signed up for next year’s CV Show, saying that the event represents a “major opportunity” to talk to leets...

By Chris Tindall A DRIVER for Meachers Global Logistics has been crushed to death by a trailer while making a delivery to...

BURNLEY-BASED EFS Group has snapped up its second same-day delivery chilled haulier in two years, buying Lancs-based...

THANK YOU Richard Stanier for this gem of a photograph. He took the picture in Moscow and tells us, unbelievably, that the...

The third quarter saw highs and lows for operators. October’s Trucking Britain Out Of Recession survey has the details THE...

Perhaps aided by the Indian summer in Q3, optimism improved in October. A total of 68% of respondents said they were either...

Detective Sergeant Sue Coutts runs the national road freight crime intelligence unit, TruckPol, helping bring organised crime...

As the data reveals , more than half of all theft from vehicles is accounted for by stolen fuel, a trend rapidly on the...

Services, it’s a white van, registration number 1234, they’ve gone, but just to let you know’ . ” She adds: “We’ve got...

AS A SUBSCRIBER to CM and a Class 1 HGV driver since 1977, I feel I have a right to comment on the Driver CPC. Comments raised...

I AM SURE that many will have been intrigued by the decision to increase trailer length by 2.05m, after a consultative process...

The latest comments on Roadtransport.com Foreign haulier caught with largest ever stowaway find “Why only £5K? If this had...

Having its O-licence revoked for not telling the TC about a director’s previous convictions, haulier loses appeal By Roger...

FAGAN & Whalley hopes to get permission to base 30 vehicles and 60 trailers at the Shearings site in Exhall, Coventry.

MARK MEDLYN Transport has been given the go-ahead to base two vehicles at the Wheal Briton Travel facility in Blackwater,...

WINCANTON WANTS to base four vehicles and trailers at a new operating centre in West Chaldon, Dorchester.

CPL DISTRIBUTION wants to locate one vehicle at the Vines Taxis facility in St Georges Square, Droitwich.

AB AGRI HAS been granted authorisation for seven vehicles and eight trailers at a new operating centre in Uffculme, Cullompton,...

● A PI on 17 November will look at a new application from Creative Event Support, based in Kenilworth. ● On 24 November, a PI...

● Disciplinary action against N&P Haulage, based in Plymouth, will be looked at on 17 November at a PI. The repute of the...

The UK faces the prospect of heavy fines from Brussels unless it now includes owner-drivers within the Working Time Directive...

Trucks could be fitted with alcolocks to prevent inebriated drivers beginning a journey, following a vote by the European...

Denmark takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU council from Poland and has a strong domestic environmental...

Earlier this year the EC’s Transport White Paper set targets for transferring long-distance freight from road to rail. On...

The parliament’s Employment Committee is pressing for action on muscular skeletal disorders in its mid-term review of the EC’s...

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Building missing links and removing bottlenecks are key aims of an EC plan to spend £28bn upgrading Europe’s transport...

Many high-profile thefts of trucks and cargo are possible because a gang member works inside the targeted transport company. At...

job, and the Transit is the ideal motor for a felon in any decade” congratulating ourselves on how easy the theft had been (we...

onnie CM has had an exclusive drive of the first hybrid truck in the Eddie Stobart fleet. Having enjoyed a brief spell in the...

The Russian truck market goes international The Russian truck market is possibly the most dynamic and luid in the world, with...

CM looks at some of the gadgets that can help to protect your truck and its load from theft Words: Steve Banner E very night...

An economic downturn and high diesel prices are two factors that push criminals towards targeting goods vehicles Words: Chrys...

Late-year trucks aren’t the only things thin in the ground, threeto four - year-old trailers are beginning to be a rare...

Two months after Cardiff-based Dragon Rescue closed its doors, the rolling stock is sold by Malcolm Harrison Auctions Words:...