A GPS SALT spreading system, which uses 30% less salt when treating icy roads, has been launched by ECON, the Ripon, North...

Drivers' hours relaxation extended A TEMPORARY RELAXATION of drivers' hours rules has been extended until 23:59 on Monday 18...

an employment tribunal it attended last Monday over an unfair dismissal claim. Gerald Wilson, who had worked as an IT systems...

Former RHA staff launch road transport seminars By Laura Hailstone EX-ROAD Haulage Association (RHA) chief executive Roger...

H Beardsley unveils Elm expansion programme PALLETFORCE MEMBER H Beardsley has announced a Elm expansion strategy in order to...

Widdowson gets Elm cash boost in exchange for shares THE W1DDOWSON GROUP, based in Leicester, has secured a Lim capital...

Treasury lambasted for rejecting fuel user rebate lly Criritoprier Watton PETER CARROLL (pictured), the former owner of...

UK Pallets purchases Curtainclear double-decker for trunking work UK PALLETS HAS taken delivery of a second-generation...

most popular subject on the forums over the past week or so... Yes, the snow and ice have made driving diff icult at times,...

CM COVER STORY By Roger Brown VOSA'S EFFECTIVENESS is being hampered by some of its roadside check points being located in the...

Want to save 10% on CPC training? HAULIERS WHO SIGN up live or more drivers to any of this month's Big Train CPC courses will...

By Ian Tonkin ENGINEERING FIRM Jost is working on a unique adjustable fifth wheel design that, it claims, will help reduce air...

Hanson Cement adds a new Livery into the mix CEMENT SUPPLIER Hanson has unveiled a new whitc-and-hlue livery on five of its...

Concerns surface over ferry safety enforcement ability By Chris Tindall DOUBTS ARE BEING raised about how the government can...

Prime movers IN COMMERCIAL Motor's bumper Christmas issue (17 December 2009), we offered two lucky readers the chance to win a...

Suckling MD tries to put the wind up his readers WITH MORE THAN a touch of irony, Suckling Transport managing director Peter...

ON TOP OF THE problems of rising costs, unreliable banks and awful winter road conditions, there has come an increase in...

Where are the family names? POWER PLAYERS. WHAT A great series. The unveiling of the 2009 Power Players list has been...

THE STORY 'Almost half of HGVs stopped were "committing offences' (CM 17 December 2009) denigrates the transport industry quite...

CM catches up with Ceva Logistics' executive vice-president for UK and Ireland, Leigh Pomlett, six months into the job, to...

transport and logistics industry, having started his career at Excel Logistics. He was appointed as global president of Exel's...

You think we have had some snow recently? That is nothing compared with Finland. But the Finns don't let a few feet of the...

Not only do cheaper rivals irk the Finns, but EU regulations on driving time are also bugbears, "I don't see why I must stop 30...

Falsified statements and maintenance agreements result in revocation of a waste haulage company's 0-Licence. AN IRVINE waste...

In revoking the 0-licence, the TC gave notice she is considering disqualifying James Kane from holding an 0-licence. James Kane...

Drivers forced to pay fines of £4,610 DRIVERS EMPLOYED by a Liverpool haulier have been ordered to pay a total of £4,610 in...

In January 2009, the North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell suspended the 15 vehicles the drivers concerned had been...

Appeal won AMERSHAM-BASED the Racing Bug, which failed to realise its 0-licence renewal fee was due the same month it received...

Despite the fanfare, digital tachographs appear as prone to fiddling as their analogue predecessors. Will the new generation...

interfere with a tachograph by putting a foil-wrapped bacon butty on the dashboard. Digital tachographs are now fitted to more...

another difficult year, and that money is going to be scarce. However, on the old "day follows night" principle, a recovery...

being subsidiaries of two of the largest automotive groups in the world. Toyota and Volkswagen, respectively. Ask the...

It was a bit disappointing and slightly mystifying, maybe, but the underlying facts make us pretty sure that a run-in example...

were a greasy pair of size-11 clod-hoppers and an HGV licence are long gone. So what does today's HGV driver need in the way of...

At Travis Perkins, driver training is paramount The construction industry has had more than most to deal with when it comes to...

There's no getting away from it, the Driver CPC is here, and Mercedes-Benz is offering tailored courses. A newly Cat C-licensed...

Taking something from the training In summing up the cay, we found it informative, and yes, even enloyabie. Now there's a word...

and money. CM sets the stopwatch to see how quickly minor repairs can be fixed, with the help of Rescue Online's Recoilkit....

Kay explains: "Fleet Rescue handles 15,000 breakdowns a year; it is a fleet breakdown support business where the agent and...

With a new year upon us, will it bring fresh hope of a pick-up in the UK economy, or should hauliers be bracing themselves for...

Acquire new equipment in 2010 to stay ahead of the curve Perhaps the greatest irony in this sorry mess is that, for Ihe...

VANS THAT HAVE been on contract extension through rental and fleet vendors the main source of most late-year light CVs are...

five years ago and it specialises in the sort of double-deck trailers that are used by the pallet networks," Sanders says....