by Rob Willock • Hung-over drivers face the sack from Safeway under a new daily alcohol testing scheme at the company's...

• Flexible working time for drivers is at the top of a list of 10 transport priorities being submitted to the Government ahead...

by Rob Willock II Hauliers who have given up hope of French compensation will this week be heartened by news that the first...

• Suffolk-based container haulier Goodway has been named as the most "commercially aggressive company" in the road haulage...

uestion time: What's the maximum amount of alcohol permitted for a driver according to The Highway Code? If you don't know the...

by Karen Miles

hauliers which it says are at the centre of its controversial campaign to shame employers into recognising unions. Great...

• Derbyshire County Council (DCC) has moved quickly to bring in measures to combat bridge bashing following an accident on the...

• Hundreds of hauliers could see an increase in work when furniture retailer IVIFI replaces backstore warehouses with regional...

• Kent Fire Brigade has joined Eurotunnel and the Government in dismissing the potential dangers of allowing ammonium nitrate...

by Karen Miles • Cross-Channel ferry giants Stena and P&O European Ferries were fighting for their lives this week as they...

• Ford Motor Company says that new recruitment procedures for its Truck Fleet drivers, agreed at an Industrial Tribunal earlier...

by Karen Miles • Milk Marque's haulage contractors look set to lose out on trunking work if plans by the milk co-operative to...

• Operators look set to benefit from a code of practice which should help reduce the number of parking tickets slapped on lorry...

• Leeds-based Chameleon TV wants to hear from truck drivers willing to talk about their lives for a new TV series. Channel...

by John Bell • The driver of an artic which crashed through a level-crossing barrier and straddled the railway line with a...

• Irish hauliers have challenged a new road survey showing that almost 27% of Irish trucks examined by Gardai in June had at...

Hidden among the formalities of the latest Traffic Commissioners Annual Reports are a number of key issues that the haulage...

by Brian Weatherley • ERF is poised to make the 12.7-litre Detroit Diesel 60 Series engine an option in its EC heavy truck...

• Partek Cargotec has developed a smaller 8.0-tonne version of its DROPS (Demountable Rack Off-loading and Pick-up System)...

• Borders Regional Council has tested a prototype Whale Tankers drop-in gritter which has led to full production of the model....

by Ian Wylie • LCIt's produce 25% fewer particulate emissions for a 5% drop in fuel efficiency if switched from diesel to...

• A South Yorkshire company which ran vehicles without an Operator's Licence and in a dangerous condition has lost its bid for...

• Operators with standard national licences must have immediate access to £1,000 for each vehicle under 20 tonnes and £2,000...

• A £600 fine imposed for a drive-axle overload on Northern Irish haulier Dukes Transport (Craigavon) by Holyhead magistrates...

Training is the key I n reply to Paul Carey of CDS Employment Agency "Where are the drivers?" (CM 28 Aug-3 Sept). There is a...

he Hawk is always a sucker for a story with a happy ending. And it seems he may have played a modest part in bringing this one...

AD A short while back there was a radio advert for Volkswagen's Golf GTI—a well-proven hot hatchback that's had a number of...

You might want to keep quiet about the fact that you can spot the latest Transporter model by air intakes in the offside wing...

seem to need an inordinate amount of revs to overcome vibrations. This is almost certainly a downside of direct-injection. The...

D espite a lukewarm reception from business, the Government is pushing ahead with its proposals, announced in the Queen's...

anything like it. In just one week television cameras, the police and official-looking people in suits had descended on the...

R oad haulage does not get a big mention in the Government's integrated transport policy consultation document. If that means...

1967 when Ken Osgerby—who is a joint partner with his wife—inherited his father's share of a former transport business. The...

Crofty tin mine, near Redruth, Cornwall. His vehicles, and those of several local subcontractors, begin leaving the yard at 6am...

drivers for three hours; takes 30 minutes to load and then has a one-hour break. He then drives three hours to get home. Can...

drivers should write on their tachograph charts the start and finish of daily and weekly rests. I believe that apart from...

the film industry. The vehicles have fixed rails for hanging garments, drawers for clothes, and mirrors, seats and cupboard...

p aul Leyland was unemployed for two years so he decided to start a light haulage service, Purbeck Removals. He sold his car...