The purchase of Bristol-based Lane Group should enable Wincanton to offer "supply chain capability in all areas". Dominic Perry...

THE M62 COULD become a toll road if local transport authorities have their way. As part of the government's Comprehensive...

THE GOVERNMENT-funded Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded £2m to six 1.; K universities to launch a...

THE HIGHWAYS AGENCY (HA) will follow its trial truckovertaking ban on the M42 with a similar scheme on the A14 in East Anglia....

Trailer firm Cartwright Is to supply more than 200 curtainsided trailers to logistics firm TDG before the end of 2006....

The growth in imports is bad news for some sectors, but for container hauliers the cloud has a sterling silver lining. Bridget...

KENT HAULIER MJD & Sons is doing its bit for enforcement by lending vehicles to the Metropolitan Police training unit at...

DAF HAS teamed up with engineering giant Corus to produce a crash simulation model designed to improve road safety. The...

SCOTLAND-BASED LAGTA Group Training has bought six new MAN TGL 12-tonners in preparation for the new rules on truck driver...

"What on earth is going on in Vosa?" asks Brian Weatherley, casting a deeply sceptical eye over suggestions of privatisation...

An administrator's report into the collapse of a Scottish haulage firm has prompted a robust response. Chris Tindall reports....

Commercial Motor brings you alternative views from experts who are allied to road transport. This week Sergeant Mark Thompson...

Synergy between MAN and Scania is among the reasons behind VVV's move Dylan Gray reports. VOLKSWAGEN HAS snapped up a 15.06%...

A RECYCLING FIRM and truck giant Volvo are squaring up for a court showdown following an accident that left a truck driver with...

THE ROAD HAULAGE Association (RNA) has launched a service to help operators designed to beat criminals who are preying on the...

OPERATION INDICATE, the West Midlands-based police unit dedicated to fighting truck crime, has moved from its base in West...

The protest took place outside the European Commission HQ in Brussels on Tuesday (10 October) ; it involved union members from...

SKILLS FOR LOGISTICS (StL) has received a funding boost in the form of a £137,000 cheque for its Schools Programme, which is...

up East Anglian roads tforurcimksporpovsed Enforcement agencies teamed up in East Anglia to stop a law-breaking operator....

You think driving over here is tough? Be thankful you aren't working in the Middle East David Harris reports. THE DANGERS OF...

TOYOTA'S SLOW-SELL] NG Hiace panel van has been revamped for 2007 with engine revisions and a restyled exterior. Its 2.5-litre...

turnover by 7% in six months Despite tough trading conditions, Salvesen has won a string of new contracts — but margins are...

THE BREWERY LOGISTICS Group (BLG) claims Westminster City Council is deliberately targeting its members for parking violations...

MULDOON . FRANSPORT Systems of Dungannon in Northern Ireland is introducing its semi-trailer positive rear-steer system into...

As predicted, many operators snapped up Euro-3 trucks in September to delay adopting Euro-4; now expect a couple of quieter...

He is one of the UK's oldest operators and has a reputation for being one of the wisest. Bridget Carter meets Scottish veteran...

FOR FARTOO LONG speed has been attributed as the cause of motor accidents, particularly 'excessive' speed.This strikes at the...

ON I H E DEBATE over speed limiters for lighter vehicles, their introduction seems to be part of the ongoing process of EU...

I AM REGISTERED with the Driving Standards Agency on fleet and LGVs. In our canteen at the LGV driving school, there are a...

The vehicle, a recovery truck, was in a collision after leaving the road at 60mph. The driver had travelled about 450 miles in...

Can owner-drivers survive? You'd better believe it, say CM readers. Louise Cole finds out how they make more than a good...

in context, he is not disputing the value or the quality of small road transport businesses. But he is suggesting is that with...

PROFESSOR Alan MacKinnon of Heriot-Watt University does not expect the consolidation of the road transport industry to continue...

ONE OF THE THINGS that becomes clear when you toss a stone into the murky economic waters of road transport is that there is...

IC rules that a company's 'UK operation' was actually based in — and controlled solely from — Spain. Mike Jewell reports on the...

A PUBLIC INQUIRY has been adjourned for a second time after North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell decided a...

A LEASING FIRM that failed to ensure a customer had an 0-licence has been refused the return of an impounded vehicle....

AN OPERATOR HAS had its four-vehicle licence suspended until it attends an inquiry to explain how its vehicles are maintained,...

A company was called to a public inquiry alter being convicted of employing an unlicensed driver who was involved in a fatal...

Breaches of the drivers hours and tachograph rules have led to the revocation of the two-vehicle licence held by Lanark-based...

A company formed to carry on the business after two predecessors had gone into liquidation has been granted a new two-vehicle...

In our second article on devolved power, Adam Hill looks at the Welsh Assembly and examines how it affects road transport. U...

freight off the road EUROPE Marco Polo, Europe's programme to encourage intermodal transport, has had a successful start. For...

European Transport Policy for 2010: Time to Decide, proposed measures designed to return the market shares of various modes of...

for funding made in 2004 (2005 claims closed on 30 January 2006; successful projects will have contracts by the end of 2006):...

funding will be published in the first quarter of each year on the Marco Polo homepage (see panel, previous page) and in the...

[have put in an application for a site where five others have also applied. There is an existing operator who has been there 30...

It isn't completely new, but the latest Transit offers plenty of innovations that justify its recent election to International...

TRANS 1 A round trip of nearly 1,000 miles across Europe left the CM team with a new found respect for the award-winning Ford...

later, was in daylight, which helped to reduce tiredness. Apart from a quick plate of currywurst, a pitstop for a second tank...

possible you could be dramatically healthier and more energetic in January than you are now.just by changing one small thing a...

Enter your details when you sign up, follow the instructions as they are e-mailed to you and return to the site to keep track...

The massive IAA truck show overflowed with innovative ways of improving logistics, enhancing efficiency and minimising...

Many manufacturers have realised that to sell their products they must be able to offer customers ways to make operational...

Daimierehrysler's trailer axle division has come up with a prototype DCA Airmaster, which stores all the air for the suspension...

'Hitting the €2bn barrier' Schmitz built 36,000 new vehicles last year and 20,000 axles, boosting its turnover by 10% to El...

THE WATER The ferry industry has had mixed fortunes in the past year; CM goes to sea for its annual update on our linKs with...

Refurbished ships and new routes • Following DFDS Seaway's acquisition of Fjord Line's Fjord Norway, the company plans to...

Hire-and-reward transport has had its day, says Trevor Ellis. Tim Maughan looks at the firm's diversification programme and...

The CS Ellis (Group) used to involve itself in contract hire deals; these days, it chooses to buy its trucks. This, in part,...

Financial analysis specialist Plimsoll Publishing provides hard business details about a host of industrial sectors, including...

Over more than 40 years Malcolm Harrison has done everything in road transport from running tucks to selling them. Today the...

One of the most recent Saturday auctions was the disposal of Rueben Fielding's fleet on a hot sweltering Saturday in June, with...

The absence of financial incentives to go green means operators are turning to late-year, low-mileage Euro-3 vehicles. CM'S...