by Amanda Bradbury • Planning rules which guarantee adequate LGV parking on motorway service areas (MSAs) are set to be...

• The Government will abolish the London Lorry Ban which restricts the free movement of LGVs in the capital at nights and...

by Amanda Bradbury • The MP of a woman killed when her car was hit by a truck with faulty brakes, no tax or 0licence is backing...

• West Mercia Police are warning drivers not to park up for the night on deserted laybys along the M54 in Staffs following a...

• Bodybuilder Melton Tankers is up for sale after going into receivership last week. It has a current order book worth £1.2m....

• A new company headed by former White Arrow Express boss Barry McGowan has bought Placketts Express Parcels. Impact Logistics...

• Small hauliers will have to become more professional and can expect to be permanently sub-contracted to large distribution...

by Juliet Parish • Buoyant truck manufacturers are banking on a rise of at least 14% in sales of trucks over 3.5 tonnes in...

• Irish operators could save hundreds of pounds if they shop around for fuel this week. Crude oil suppliers in Eire have...

by Mike Jewell • Two of the former management team at Eddie Stobart's Woolfox, Leicestershire depot last week admitted offences...

• Two groups of up to 90 hauliers and ownerdrivers around the country are considering teaming up to help force rates up from...

• Rugby Cement is looking for hauliers to transport pulverised fuel ash from the Ratcliffe on Soar power station, near...

• More than 2,000 South Humberside truck drivers are carrying police cards in their cabs containing the number of an anti-theft...

by Grant Prior • A Midlands haulier will wave goodbye to a £750,000 a year contract when British Steel shuts its tubing factory...

automotive Italian job • Eighteen hauliers went to the wall last December, according to figures compiled by accountant Touche...

• Food and drink will be free to truck drivers who use the 35minute Channel Tunnel crossing due to open to freight on 7 March....

by Brian Weatherley • A month after launching its EuroTrakker heavy duty 8x4 tipper chassis, Iveco Ford has launched a lighter...

by John Kendall • The big news in Delhi was the launch of a familiar vehicle to British eyes. The old Iveco Ford Cargo ceased...

• A loading ramp for delivery vans has been developed by Belgian manufacturer Duportail Gebrs of Semmerzake-Gavere. The...

• Excessive noise problems which are sometimes associated with vacuum tanker loading have been "engineered out" in its latest...

by Bryan Jarvis • W&J Riding of Longridge, Lancs has invested E108,000 in six 13.85m high-volume curtain-sided semi-trailers...

• South-East London removals firm Sargents has added a striking Scania P93M 220-based Marsden Vanplan pantechnicon to its...

by Bryan Jarvis • King Trailers, best known for its heavy-haulage trailers, is expanding into the general haulage market and...

,zu • The 20-vehicle licence held by M&J Skip Hire of Southall, Middx has been revoked and the company and its director...

• Haulage con tractor Julie Sinclair, trading as Rochdale Road Runner, was ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty of nearly...

• A gross and axle overload cost Manchester based tipper operator R&M Developments £1,330 in fines and costs when it appeared...

• West Midlands haulage contrac tor Hudhaul Transport has been ordered to pay £3,365 compensation for unfair dismissal to a...

area at Newhaven port overnight on 15/16 December. The vehicle was white with a red factory stripe, registration number F990...

Wear offering congratulations on the bumper Christmas issue, including the Hawk's seasonal goodie competition. However, Jim...

I n March last year my nephew was killed tragically in an accident with a fully laden 38-tonne truck. The exact cause of the...

• Foden's reputation for building robust trucks with high payloads has always placed it among the top three or four truck...

W orld volume-produced trucks are currently based on ladder-form chassis frames, with steel longitudinal& Foden in the UK, like...

American road hauliers relied on petrol or, as they termed it, gas. By the end of the century gas engines may well be back in...

due to a loophole in the law, a person who held a car licence could drive a 7.5truck while towing a trailer of any weight. Is...

I have heard that from March 1994 a person will not be able to take a C+E driving test on an artic unless he has first passed a...

before it was granted I was stopped by police while driving my 30tonne tipper. The vehicle was empty at the time but I have...

One of my Gregistered tippers was stopped in a roadside check and a traffic examiner found that it did not have a Ministry...

would expect to find drivers with varying degrees of availability, ability, experience and acceptability. Not surprisingly,...

bar in a converted ambulance across the road, but the success of their Swindon Truckstop since its establishment in 1987 has...