by Jane Sayer • The impounding of illegal vehicles came a step closer this week with the announcement by re-appointed Roads...

• Hauliers have been hit hard in Northern Ireland's latest bout of street violence with around 100 trucks and vans damaged by...

by David Harris • A Cheshire driver who was sacked after a satellite tracking system showed he was making regular 21-mile...

• Traffic wardens may soon have the power to stop trucks for emissions testing. The House of Lords is considering the necessary...

hen Brake, the campaign for safer lorries, was launched in February Commercial Motor took a distinctly cautious view. With so...

by Nicky Clark • Readers who responded to a Commercial Motor questionnaire are overwhelmingly in favour of Brake, the safety...

• Euro MPs plan to table an emergency resolution highlighting the problem of truck drivers and other EU nationals jailed...

• Up to 20% of truck drivers are guilty of tachograph offences, judging by the results of a nationwide clampdown on heavy goods...

by Martin Gurdon • CV retailers are missing out on the boom in new truck sales as fleet buyers bypass them and buy direct from...

• Jackson Transport (Ossett) and its sole director, Alan Jackson, have been charged with manslaughter after a 21year-old...

• Dartford-based MJD is looking for up to 15 owner-drivers to help it cope with extra work following its purchase of fellow...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers could be asked to accept urban truck bans in a bid to reduce the number of cyclists killed by...

• The number of trucks using the Channel Tunnel shuttle trains rose by 15.5% in June, to 32,650. That figure is likely to rise...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences have cost Cumbrian live stock hauliers William Armstrong (Longtown) and 17 of its...

• Graham and Kim Ascroft, trading as Ascroft Produce, of Holmes Tarleton, Preston have applied for a new international licence...

The licence held by North London waste disposal contractor Anthony Lloyd, trading as Alloyd, has been revoked. Lloyd, of...

II A livestock haulier has been allowed to renew its three-vehicle/ one-trailer national licence despite using a lay-by as an...

• Eastern LA Brigadier Compton Boyd has allowed R&J Heavy Haulage and Richards Freight to share an operating centre with two...

by John Kendall • Seddon Atkinson has released more details of its flagship Stratocruiser tractive unit, which uses the Iveco...

• Fcotek has produced an air management package specifically for Mercedes' new Sprinter, to accompany a variety of bodies. It...

by Noel Millier • Optare is to build a new range of integral ultra-low-floor single-deck buses at its Leeds plant. The new...

• The Royal Mail has begun a six-month trial of a Volkswagen Golf Ecomatic van in London and Wolverhampton. Fuel consumption...

by Bryan Jarvis • Commercial Motor and Jacobs Europe have launched a user trial to determine the benefits of specifying a Jake...

• Forget those stories about how other motorists fear truck drivers. They love them, says the RAC, because they're calm,...

• Gulf War technology is set to give drivers perfect night-time vision within two years and for less than £1,000 per truck,...

• Working drivers are three times more likely to get a bad back than other workers, says the National Back Pain Association...

T hrough your columns I would like to express my, and my passengers, sincere thanks to a garage in West Yorkshire—Northern...

M hile young Joanne is just starting out, Stockport reader Harry Warburton has been involved with haulage for 65 years and...

younger every year? Hard to say when you reach the Hawk's venerable perch on the tree of life, but there is no doubt that South...

46T1 hy on earth test a Scania now?" It's a good question. After all, pictures of the long-awaited Series 4 tractor have...

For an extra .E1,000, it gives you more ratios for fine-tuning on the hills. Behind the GRS900 is a 430mm-diameter...

p eop I n a field next to Turners' depot in the village of Much Hoole, near Preston, a giant bonfire is taking shape. Old...

L ast month a tanker lorry exploded on a Bristol industrial estate, killing the driver and injuring others. An investigation is...

from time to time. A higher ceiling, new upholstery or more storage space can all be added by a Norfolk firm specialising in...

H a uliers could benefit from a new £240 million programme, including £165m f new money aimed at small and medium-sized...

( ver the years the police have been accused of laying siege to the lorry driver. An abundance of complicated regulations...