in 48 - hour limit by 2003 • by Karen Miles Truck drivers are set to be limited to a strict 48-hour week in three years...

A French haulier has been jailed for 18 months at Chelmsford Crown Court following a fatal accident involving one of his...

TDC has bought North-West warehousing and distribution firm Safeguard Storage for Mini. Safeguard runs four sites with a...

foreign drivers faced fines for carrying stowaways into Dover. The accompanying picture showed some British trucks: we wish to...

to operate following a fresh bid for a licence after its initial application was refused (CM6-12 April). Eastern IC Geoffrey...

food at motorway service areas has reached "an all-time low". He was particularly upset by rubbery eggs, limp chips and coffee...

E by Melanie Hammond First Point International (Europe) is almost certain to be wound up in three weeks' time. Several staff...

The owner of Trans-Consult, a company which supplies hauliers with transport managers, has replied to allegations that he was...

Peter Cook Transport is appealing against fines for stowaways found in one of its trucks last week just weeks after it sat on a...

• Creditors owed thousands of pounds by a South Wales freight forwarder are refusing to accept an agreement under which they...

by Karen Miles A Euro MP is calling on hauliers to help him defeat European plans to introduce tolls across European Union...

• The European Union has struck deals with Hungary and Bulgaria which will give EU hauliers access to the Eastern European...

• Commercial Motor news reporter Melanie Hammond has won Reed Business Information's Newcomer of the Year award. Also...

The waiting is over—but the news that the working time directive is, after all, to indude transport workers will not go down...

in black market fuel • by Charles Young A pallet yard which dealt in black-market diesel has shut down after its illicit...

• Drivers fined for bringing illegal immigrants into Britain who claim their trucks were "clean" before boarding the ferry will...

• The growth of the UK commercial vehicle market continues, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor...

for an essential user duty rebate • by Miles Brignall The national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, John Bridge,...

its introduction, because while the Chancellor didn't hit the industry as hard as he has done at previous Budgets, we are still...

• Skip truck operators in Leicester have been hit by a series of thefts believed to be carried out by a professional gang of...

• Hauliers who fire their staff over health and safety disputes face fines of up to 00,000, warns a transport lawyer. Ipswich...

Continental Tyres has signed a five-year, fixed-price mileage contract with P&O Transeuropean covering its spirit distribution...

Express parcels firm Nightspeed Services, part of the Amtrak Group, is to deliver internal mail and point-of-sale material for...

Wincanton Logistics is to extend its supply chain service for Woolworths to meet the demands of the retailer's new "Big W"...

Logistics firm Ocean Group has won global contracts with SmithKline Beecham (Spain), Friskies (Spain), Procter & Gamble...

• Impounding is coming—perhaps as early as next January. This radical change in law will confiscate the trucks of hard-core...

Car buyers are saving thousands of pounds while commercial vehicle buyers have to wade through a maze of offers and bargains to...

• Merceron is not the only French tanker manufacturer to have entered the UK market in recent months. Maisonneuve, established...

• It looks like an Isuzu—as far as the cab is concerned it is an Isuzu—but it's sold in the US as a GMC T6500 middleweight and...

• Attendance figures for the CV show at the NEC exceeded all expectations, according to the SMMT. The target of about 17,000...

• by Toby Clark Seddon Atkinson's EuroMover municipal chassis has had several important revisions to allow easier maintenance....

• Hill Hire has placed a Ym order for 100 of Montracon's latest sliding-bogie skeletal trailers. The lightweight design weighs...

• by Sharon Glancy Central Tyres, the Pirelli-owned tyre distributor, has closed Its 130 truck tyre branches and replaced them...

• Improved road safety, better fuel economy and financial savings are among the benefits claimed for a new vehicle monitoring...

Operators who fail to produce requested financial information until the day of a public inquiry, or after, are likely to face...

to a journey by an office manager who was no longer with the company, and others related to a relief driver who had only been...

ii ... When drivers have worries it is even more — , important that they stick to the drivers' hours rules, as many accidents...

A company whose managing director got his CPC while serving a prison sentence, and who has the backing of the Prince's Trust,...

When are drivers going to be treated like real human beings? if any readers have had the misfortune of travelling from Bootle...

The ABC allows professional buyers and sellers of advertising space in national and regional newspapers and consumer magazines...

As the Hawk prepares for his forthcoming visit to Commercial Motor's Truckfest 2000 at the East of England Showground,...

That's typical of young people today, blowing their own trumpet and banging their own drum. Actually this lot do have an...

Don't panic! Don't panic! They'll soon have you out of there mate. Luckily, this is only a dress rehearsal. The crew at...

it comes obsolescence. If the latest model is the best for the job, what gets left behind? Just a few years ago 32 ohp was...

VOLVO FL10 320 • GEORGE JONES drives a Mercedes 2538 for Leanings. "A big bloke like me needs a wide bunk like this but it...

proved to be ideal for A-road work, though you could drop it into top on the flat without complaint. We didn't find the brakes...

a second deck. Because there is no legal height limit for veNcles on domestic operations in the UK, double-deckers are often up...

[L I TER IVII ention the r8th-century highwayman Dick Turpin and most people will think of swashbuckling adventure. But for Mt...

upgrade the central reservation barriers on Britain's dual carriageways and motorways. Six years on and the Highways Agency...

a period of growth left Mainline with a solid reputation among the heavy engineering companies in the West Midlands. "In those...

fooling around when thousands of people took to the streets of Birmingham earlier this month in protest at BMW's decision to...