Tory transport spokesman Lord Attlee wants hauliers to e-mail him suggestions for amendments to the Transport Bill at attleek!)...

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Traffic Is to be restricted to a single file across High Bridge in Knaresborough for up to four weeks after the parapet was...

A German truck driver, and the Dutch haulage firm he was working for, have been fined £30,000 after 15 illegal immigrants were...

Bordesley, Birmingham-based haulage firm Cambabest was fined £250 for failing to have a tachograph calibrated after Solihull...

• by Charles Young The Road Haulage Association will push for higher fuel duty on the Continent in the latest twist to its...

that its campaigning strategy has gone off the rails. National chairman John Bridge accepted he is in a dif ficult position but...

• Road Haulage Association national chairman John Bridge is seeking an urgent meeting with fellow members of the Fuel Forum....

E Drivers in Spain and Sicily have lifted blockades, suspending their protests at rising fuel prices, but demonstrations are...

• by Keith ihrthall The European Commission has launched dramatic proposals to harmonise fuel excise duty across Europe. It...

• Up to 60% of motorists would happily support further blockades of the oil refineries by hauliers, according to new survey....

by Guy Sheppard Leaning trade associations are teaming up to make a joint submission to Chancellor Gordon Brown about the need...

in Hauliers booed the CBI director for Scotland, lain McMillan, after he accused them of displaying the sort of militancy...

Chasing rainbows Just over 30 days until the 6o-day deadline, and still deadlock. The government still refuses to acknowledge...

II Dublin dockers have rejected a settlement package in a dispute that has closed a major container terminal for more than five...

• by Huy Sheppard Eurotunnel is stepping up security at its terminal near Calais as latest Home Office figures show that fines...

• AU Bull, one of the country's largest independent waste hauliers, is being investigated by the Health & Safety Executive...

MI A racehorse went berserk while being driven along the M25 in a horse transporter, smashing his way into the cab arid pushing...

It A Birmingham haulage firm and 22 of its drivers were fined a total of 1,3,200 by Solihull magistrates last week on a total...

with debts of more than £1m are back on the road under new ownership. Seven vehicles which used to belong to Newark-based...

that the heavy truck market had a "spectacular" September, with sales figures up by almost 28% compared with the same month...

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• Kevin Swallow Ask the best way to drive a truck economically, and many drivers will say: "Keep it in the green, son." But the...

si Klaus Diemert has been with Mercedes Benz for 20 years and has been a HGV driving instructor for the past three. He takes...

Why Peter Lawton The UK's biggest motor manufacturer has cut the prices of its cars—but its generosity does not extend to...

I ERF's new ECX range is now beginning to appear on the roads. The first example, a 6x2 tractor with a 380hp Cummins engine and...

• Dozens of drivers fear their livelihood could be affected by redundancies at a Yorkshirebased supplier of gearboxes. The...

• Our American friends have finally managed to defy even our flexible belief. Ford's latest offering to the °luxury personal...

Woods Road Transport, based in Rainham, has failed in its application for a licence because of its illegal use of vehicles....

Joe O'Connell Plant Hire, based in Leigh. Lancashire, has been given a formal warning about maintenance. North Western TC...

Manchester-based Jim Ennis Construction was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £85 costs after...

The licence held by Anthony Hubbard, trading as OH International Transport, of Coventry, was revoked when he failed to appear...

West Midland IC David Dixon has revoked the licence held by Wolverhampton-based Gurdev Singh at a disciplinary inquiry in...

Convictions including using vehicles without current tachograph calibration certificates cost Jedburgh haulier Thomas Spence...

The first of the Transfreight Services drivers to face prosecution for the falsification of tachograph records has been fined...

In holding that Barry-based PM Rees & Sons had dismissed one of its drivers unfairly, a Cardiff Employment Tribunal indicated...

A Welsh Maier, every one of whose drivers, including his own son, were caught falsifying tachograph charts, is waiting to see...

The decision of the Fuel Forum to call for massive tax cuts across the board for all and sundry is naivety at best and crass...

Well the industry has put itself on the political map now. The Westminster four, Blair, Brown, Straw and that other MP that...

So the haulage industry is in crisis. Working conditions for lorry drivers are still in the dark ages, with 15-hour days. a...

Come December I can predict there will he a few tears shed in The Hawk's household. And it won't just be at the thought of the...

Does your haulage business have to work over ChristmasP The Hawk Is looking to hear from operators who are required to keep...

On a recent trip to the sun-drenched Greek island of Rhodes, one of The Hawk's correspondents stayed in the ancient coastal...

Well that's telling us! We've known for years, but at last here is the confirmation, the incontrovertible proof: Oil companies...

This 1979 Bedford TX Pick-up is what is known in the jargon of the constabulary as "ex-job". For 10 years ago the Pick-up was...

against its alter egos, the Fiat Scudo and Peugeot Expert, and the other medium-size vans also fighting for market share? The...

We all want our trucks to look smart and clean. But how do you choose and use products which keep you the right side of...

the wake of weekend "Fuel Cruises" that took advantage of cheaper fuel in France and a series of slow moving demonstrations...

French ginnwoment gets tough as hauliers, farmers, taxi drivers and aMbekince drivers picket refineries, ports and road Inks...

have been trade unionists mounting a legitimate trade union dispute. But they were condemned as anarchists at the recent TUC...

band of disgruntled hauliers and farmers pleaded with colleagues across the country to back their protest against rising fuel...

including a tax rate of...nothing. The first fuel tax was not imposed until 3o April igog. It was set at 3d (1.25p) per...

the world's supply of fossil fuel from known fields could be exhausted within 40 years. If that happens no amount of...

he dtstinctive twang of an electric • guitar; the roar of the crowd as another anthem marts from the speakers. The cheers, the...

,. '"` We peer across the vast, empty floor of the sta. dlum. Out there, way across tte space, things are pretty quiet. But...

• We operate skip lorries in a city which has many low railway and canal bridges. Sometimes they come into contact with a...

• This company had to appear at a public Inquiry because a vehicle examiner reported the number of prohibitions our tippers had...

he feels that direct action is not the way to win concessions on fuel duty... • If you want to sound off about a road...