• The re-introduction of Iwo - way tolling, on the Severn Bridge was rejected at a meeting this week between local councils and...

by Karen Miles • Road hauliers look set to escape a major shake-up in the container carrying market. This week it emerged...

• France is aiming to use its influence in its presidency of the European Union to delay discussion and so kill off a proposal...

by Juliet Morrison • Livestock hauliers are determined to continue using Shoreham's cross-Channel ferry service despite...

IIF irst you say you do, and then you don't. Then you say you will and then you won't. You're undecided now so what're you...

by Mike Jewell • A judge has warned hauliers that immediate prison sentences are an appropriate punishment for being involved...

• (;RP Massey Group's reefer trailer and rigid vehicle manufacturing arm has been bought by its management for an undisclosed...

• The launch of a road tax certificate for trucks over 12 tonnes travelling on German, Belgium, Dutch, Danish or Luxembourg...

• One thousand extra entry permits are available to UK hauliers crossing Austria this year—ending a long-standing shortage....

• A Derbyshire haulier whose defective truck killed a local woman is to face a public inquiry in Bakewell today (12 January)....

by Karen Miles • International hauliers are switching to foreign-bought fuel to escape the Chancellor's New Year duty increase...

• The Department of Trans / serious port has admitted to delays" in the issuing of ADR certificates for drivers hauling...

• Drivers' 1995 pay rises are averaging 3-4% Following the second and third Joint Industrial Council regional agreements. In...

by Juliet Morrison • A veteran recovery operator has been forced out of business by a three-fold increase in his insurance...

The days of heavy discounting on new trucks could be numbered as truck manufacturers struggle to absorb recent increases in raw...

truckstop battle • Owners of a Cambridgeshire truckstop who fought a twoyear battle with the Department of Transport were back...

• Sixty drivers of the West Yorkshire-based Silver Birch Container Services returned from the Christmas break lost week to be...

• The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) is calling on its 1,000 members to boycott Shell products because of the way the firm is...

• Around 17 Northern Dairies truck drivers face redundancy when the Tarvin, Cheshire milk bottling plant closes this April....

by Karen Miles • A central system for processing Operator Licences will be considered this month when the review of the Traffic...

• Langdons has increased the value of its contract with Maryland Farms, distributing its bacon and pork products, by 2150,000...

• Container hauliers face continuing uncertainty in the New Year as the major shipping lines step up their resistance to moves...

• Chapel-en-le-Frith operator Combs Valley Tankers has added a German-made Spitzer tanker to its 19-strong tipping tank trailer...

EXCLUSIVE by Bryan Jarvis • A Mercedes M-cabbed 1834L drawbar unit in the Richard Lawson fleet has become the first UK car...

• Nissan is launching its Vanette Cargo at the Brussels Show this week. The Spanishbuilt van, based on the floorpan of the...

by Brian Weatherley • New truck margins may be tight and haulage rates may be appalling but if last year's commercial vehicle...

by John Kendal • Ford has released pictures of the revised Escort van range which is about to go on sale. Externally, the...

• The recent purchase of another two Volvo FH 380 4x2 tractive units underlines South Yorkshire haulier James Durran's...

• Stoke-on-Trent City Council has taken delivery of the first Scania Frontline crew-cabbed chassis, fitted with a Jack Allen...

pickup range. The Truckman S and C models both have built-in ladder rests, full-width front window and a toughened-glass rear...

• Keighley based Astorgreen has been fined 1660 with £35 costs by Bingley Magistrates for permitting driver Oliver Becqwort to...

• A Birmingham owner-driver who took over a vehicle on trial was convicted of using it without an 0-licencebut his fine has...

• Sale, Cheshire owner-driver Joseph Brennan was given an absolute discharge after Salford Magistrates accepted that he was...

• Using an artic with defective brakes has cost James Jolley Poultry Packers of Westhoughton, Lanes and one of its drivers...

• 6 • Stoke-on-Trent lorry driver Norman Coventry has been ordered to do 200 hours cornmunity service after admitting stealing...

• Commercial Motor's new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert witnesses, haulage consultants...

T he RAC has argued consistently for targeted roadside emissions enforcement but is totally opposed to local authorities...

New name • Hitachi Credit (UK) business finance division will trade as NOVA Business Finance from 9 January. Contact 081-561...

Classic Trucks • The first part of Channel 4's six-part series "Classic Truck" was shown on Tuesday 10 January at 20:00hrs....

Swiss run • Felixstowe-based Anchor Euro Transport has bought four 13.6m swapbodies for use on its Swiss service between...

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

Intermodal logistics • The Institute of Logistics has produced a user guideUnderstanding European Intertnodal Transport....

Motorway charges • Hauliers are reminded that from this month the Federal Government of Germany requires any truck driver...

Some operators need a 23-tonne payload; others demand 100m 3 of cube. But if you want to move a third of a tonne at high speed...

D ome people are just rotten losers, aren't they? A lorry driver thrown out of a Blackpool casino returned with his at-tic and...

I extent that it has added a new event to the balloon spectaculars it sponsors. Later this month, on 21-29 January, a team...

Richard has passed his CPC for Freight Transport at the age of 13, aided and abetted by his proud dad, also a CPC holder, and...

D urotunnel boss Sir Alistair Morton knows a bargain when he sees one. Even though he earns £309,000 a year—more than the Hawk...

ne of the Hawk's readers disturbed Santa attempting to deliver presents on Christmas Eve in a most untraditional fashion. This...

sophisticated advertising hoardings. Liquorice Allsorts the size of footballs adorn one sleek trailer: another features...

Ripponden and District Motors used to be in the bus business. Then passengers started using Ripponden's PSVs to send parcels...

small pig, Stiller Transport has moved its 93-vehicle operation to a greenfield site. But who's this opening it? Why, its none...

We collect French semi-trailers from a port and deliver them in the UK and take loaded or empty ones back to the Port. Some of...

Concluding our two-part review of overseas debt collection, we assess the problems likely to be encountered in Germany and...

4 I want to challenge the proposal to abolish the concessionary vehicle excise duty rate on recovery vehicles from 1 July this...