• A campaign to stop drivers hogging the middle and outside lanes of motorways has been requested by Conservative MP John...

by Karen Miles • The police are discussing a withdrawal from haulage enforcement, including most roadside checks and all...

• Truck impounding has been recommended in a report for the European Commission in a bid to deter illegal operators. The...

by Lee Kimber • Every LGV driver with an incab television could be prosecuted for not having a TV licence, even if he has one...

• A call for "bull bars" on trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles to be outlawed was laid in the House of Commons last week with...

• Nearly a tenth of one of the largest own-account fleets in the UK will go out to a third-party operator from next month....

• Labour's shadow minister for transport Joan Walley is to campaign for improved pay and conditions for drivers. Although...

• Preston, Lancs-based haulier WH Bowker International and former Maurice Wood Transport driver Stephen Baker face criminal...

by Julian Birch • Customs & Excise is set to change the way it taxes compressed natural gas (CNG) in a move which could boost...

• Wincanton Distribution's Mitcham, south London site which employs 150 staff including 50 drivers is threatened with closure....

II Shucked hauliers who have been passed over for lucrative contracts by the Milk Marketing Board's successor are battling to...

• A haulier who masterminded a major cannabis smuggling operation into East Anglia has been jailed for four and a haif years...

Tanker firms which carry chemicals from the company's Wilton, Teeside plant will lose the work when production stops there in...

considering replacing their haulage arrangements with a shared distribution contract, worth at least £4.5m a year, to be...

• A further indication that operators in the construction industry are slowly hauling out of recession emerged this week....

• A tacho disc manufacturer has been forced to withdraw thousands of tacho envelopes from stock after the firm found that glue...

• The operator of a waste disposal truck which disrupted Inter-City train services across the West Midlands for five hours...

by Lee Kimber • UK livestock hauliers could lose up to E7m worth of business if a French call for a European ban on British...

Ferrers, last week ruled out a separation of statistics of numbers of stolen trucks from general vehicle theft. But he...

• Leicester-based parcels firm Translink is recruiting a network of operators for a new service for single parcels of up to...

• Transporting nuclear weapons by road is under fresh scrutiny as local authorities press the Government to reveal routeing...

III Ryder has consolidated its leading position in commercial vehicle rental with an film purchase of Transport Development...

" Too many drivers seem to assume that the middle lane is for cruising and hog it rather than reverting to the inside lane...

by Danny Coughlan • A 420-horsepower tractor is no longer reserved for heavy haulage: it's now regarded as almost mainstream,...

• Seven Australian-developed squared-off THOMAS tankers have gone into service with Linkman Tankers and P&O Roadtanks in the...

check' on their vehicles for about £45 before they are sent on extended Continental trips. The job takes about 1.5 hours and...

• Safelok's anti-theft device has been accepted by the Vehicle Inspectorate for use as an air brake immobiliser. It can also be...

• MAN aims to take 16% of the UK truck market, a target that could be reached by 2000, according to UK managing director Dr...

• Three roaltrains 31 metres long are regularly being run across Russia by Dutch operator Rynart Trading. Director Rinus Rynart...

Mandatory anti-lock brake systems, currently for heavies only, are moving down the scale. by Brian Weatherley • Recent...

• Mandatory ABS requirements for goods vehicles over 12 tonnes will come into effect on new type approvals from October 1996...

• Lancashire owner-driver Graham Brake, trading as GB Haulage, of Hoscar, Lathom, near Ormskirk, has had his licence revoked by...

• Wrexham owner-driver lain Sutherland was hauled before the North Western Licensing Authority for repairing his vehicle in the...

• Neighbouring residents have failed to block Malachi Leiper gaining a licence at the site of an old fish farm hatchery at Ford...

• Lon - y drivers Stephen Mannion, of Ryecroft Road, Stretford, and William Smith, of Lynwood Grove, Harwood, Bolton, have...

• Charges alleging that Tibbett & Britten permitted the use of a vehicle with an insecure load, which were due to be heard by...

• Newport, Gwent-based C H Fell received a serious warning from South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Alan Boourlet at a...

• South Wales Deputy LA Alan Boourlet revoked the licence held by Peter Harris, trading as Peter Harris Traction, after hearing...

• A series of environmental conditions were imposed when Scottish LA Michael Betts granted Alexander Young, trading as Sandy's...

• The licence held by Llandaff Window Company (Plastics) was revoked when the company failed to appear at a Cardiff...

• The two-vehicle licence held by Brian Pybus, trading as Longbridge Iron and Steel, was renewed for the full five years at a...

by Bryan Jarvis • Naylors Transport of Leyland, Lancashire has taken the first of Trail. master's latest Superlight 26-pallet...

• Wincanton has added a pair of Spanish-built Indox 21,000litre tankers to its farm milk collection fleet. The 32-tonne GCW...

• Landfill and environmental group Shanks and McEwan has taken delivery of what it believes is the largest combined...

• Lawrence David has converted 25 boxvan trailers to curtainsiders for Tesco. Its all-bolted flexibly mounted build system has...

• Thompson Carmichael's latest non-tipping cement tanker includes a number of weight saving features giving it a 34m capacity...

by Juliet Parish • A union official is calling on truck drivers to contact her if mortgage lenders are slamming the door on...

Lymm in Cheshire last month plans to introduce budget accommodation by early next year. The stop near J20 on the M6 will also...

in a film—as the double for an actress playing one of the lead roles. Film producers tracked down 30-year-old Ramskill, who...

JJC, was taken during the night of Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 July from a Gretna Green industrial estate. The tipper's body is...

a tractor and trailer stolen from the company's Wantage yard between 20.30 on 26 June and 03.45hrs the following day. The...

Motor, Iveco Ford, Road Haulage Association Trucktheft Action Pack. The pack tells you everything you need to know to help...

High checks • The port of Calais has installed a cab-high check-in for trucks with eight computerised booths enabling drivers...

Dip Transport • Birkbeck College, University of London. has just published details outs Certificate and Diploma in Transport...

• lveco Ford has joined forces with Bain Clarkson to put together a package of insurance policies called Maxi Cover which...

Quality queries • Parade Group company Nicholls and Nicholls Management Training has produced a workbook aimed at helping...

• ICI has produced a 12-page colour brochure describing the benefits of using Methoklone GR, a stablised grade of methylene...

• The Department of Transport has published an updated version of the Development of the Trunk Road Network map. The new map,...

M's the word • You can now order a personalised "M" reg plate for use from 1 August: choose from 52 special numerics or any...

• Shell has put two new antifreeze products on the market, Shell Safe anti-freeze and Shell Safe Premium

• 24-volt vehicles can be immobilised with a new system, called Guardsman 2000 Trucker, which disables two circuits of the...

• A computerised London street atlas has been produced by NextBase on CD-ROM, allowing users to search for streets or places...

• A hi-tech duster for the cab-proud operator is available. The Easiduster from Powerful Products is said to lift dust from...

• Wipac is manufacturing a new range of wiper blades for commercial vehicles: there are two 24in sizes, as well as 26in and...

• New on the market is the freestanding, telescopic RM Wheel Brace Support, for trucks and trailers from 7-38 tonnes. It's made...

London and S-East M4 J3 (A312 Hayes bypass): contraflow, two lanes each way. Westbound entry slip road closed no services...

M4 S Glam J32-33: resurfacing and contraflow. M4 W Glam J41-42: contraflow and 40mph limit.

M6 J20 to 21A: contraflow still near Thelwall Viaduct, three lanes each way. M62 G Manchester J1417: Worsley-Whitefield...

M8 Strathclyde J16-18: inside lane closed westbound.

A2 County Derry: Clooney Road single lane each way. A25 County Armagh: Unlough Road Newry bypass construction. A2 County Down:...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak;...

I cannot allow your interview with Larry Kirwan of Ireland's state transport operation CIE—and his comment "They [private...

0 elf-styled mystic Sofia Richmond (aka Sister Marie Gabriel) is worried at the outcome of a comet colliding with Jupiter as...

I you've got to specialise in delivering fresh produce it might as well be spinach. Who can frown on such a noble enterprise?...

oil up, roll up for the South Staffordshire Town & Country Fayre at Weston Park where more than 200 ERF vehicles are expected...

41 Rolf Harris putting us into a mood to appreciate art this is a good time to mention that Lanarkshire manufacturer Atlas...

SURVIVAL Things haven't been easy for Leyland Daf since receivership. But the latest Dutch-built 85-Series eight-legger is a...

Following our policy of asking professional drivers for their opinions on our test vehicles, we visited the ARC quarry at...

Is the transport industry guilty of racism? Certainly you don't see many black truck drivers at truckstops. The Commission for...

The Race Relations Act 1976 has two main purposes: to promote equal opportunities and to eliminate racial discrimination....

Tax rises and a cut in mortgage relief have hit removal firms hard. Diversification is the key to survival as frustrated home...

Satellite distribution depots are springing up in countries bordering the European Union. There are fears that with their lower...

cif = coming into force Si No 298 Quick Frozen Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulation 1994—cif 1 September 1994. Implements EC...

UK • Trade Licences—new regulations to amend the scheme are being drafted with a view to implementation in the Autumn. •...

Woodview Cafe CM'S roving gourmet finds no-frills value for money at the Al's Woodview Cafe where even on a summer's day...