• Eurotunnel says its Le Shuttle Channel Tunnel service will take a quarter of freight traffic from Dover to Calais during...

by Amanda Bradbury • Around 15 hauliers owed at least 1200,000 after the country's third largest seed trader went into...

• A former rental firm has issued a writ against RDB Freight Lines to settle a year-long dispute over £38,000 it claims to be...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate will be prosecuting some of the operators who were found to be breaking the law during a...

• Heavy haulier John Golding may have to lay off drivers and sell some vehicles because a customer has switched to Continental...

by Karen Miles • Police are appealing for help after launching an inquiry into two Leeds freight forwarders whose staff appear...

• Transport Minister Roger Freeman has launched initiatives to shift freight off roads when private firms are allowed to run...

& McEwan to bid for a £4m transport contract it was forced to put on the market under the statutory tendering rules. Failures...

by Karen Miles • Soaring truck registration figures for September could be good news for hauliers looking for competitive deals...

to boycott tag tolls • 1 hullers are boycotting an electronic toll collection scheme which they say will cost regular users of...

• The prospect of the pedestrianisation of Aberdeen's main thoroughfare and shopping street has infuriated hauliers who say the...

by Brian Weatherley • At last week's Coach & Bus '93 Volvo demonstrated its low-emission Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bus, and...

• MAN is supplying Russian gas exploration company Gazprom with 200 6x6 chassis. The MeiIlerbodied 36.330DFK tippers will be...

• Heavy truck operators are still wary of automatic transmissions. Last month Leyland Daf surveyed fleet operators of...

• Mansfield plant hire company Raymond (Access) has taken Andover Trailers' first extendible Superlow low-loader trailer which...

by Juliet Parish • Linkman Tankers faces the threat of industrial action at Purfleet after a conciliation body failed to...

• Commercial vehicle manufacturer and aircraft refurbisher Marshalls of Cambridge will be taken to an industrial tribunal...

• Uncertainty hung over the future of Central Trailer Rentco this week as parent 'company Tiphook acknowledged financial...

• Receivers of one of the biggest truck, van and car hire companies in the south-east have revealed that the company owes...

• The owner of collapsed courier Silverlink Transport looks set to trade again after a stormy creditors meeting last week...

at the new C,elcon Blocks plant in Kent. The transport firm has spent £200,000 on three Leyland Dais and expects the fleet to...

by Grant Prior • Job uncertainty faces 30 drivers this Christmas as cut backs by chemicals giant Du Pont swing into action....

El lauliers who use fuel cards for private vehicle use are to be exempt some National Insurance Contributions. The move is...

• Derbyshire heavy haulier Heanor Haulage and one of the company's drivers, Paul Marriots, have been cleared of offences...

• Appeals by Goole-based Northern Straw Co and one of its drivers against fines imposed after bales of straw had fallen from a...

• I lumberside haulier Alan Carter has to pay £250 towards the legal expenses of a driver after failing to turn up at a hearing...

Class I LGV licence held by Ashbourne, Derbyshire lorry driver David Hugrnan, North Western IC Martin Albu warned that speeding...

• Cheshire ownerdriver John Warburton succeeded in having a fine of .£625 for a 4.5% werload on a 38 tonne artic reduced to...

• A bid by England Environmental of Vale of Glamorgan for a licence for nine vehicles and five trailers, (CM 915 Sept) faced...

• Thompson Carmichael has supplied Welsh Water with a weight-saving aluminium tanker and built what it believes is the first...

• Parceline has taken another 15 Boalloy-bodied Leyland Daf 45130 Roadrunner 7.5-tonners and refurbished 11 existing ones. The...

• Cavewood Transport has added a left-hand drive Volvo F12 drawbar outfit to its continental fleet for regular runs to...

• United Carriers has recently invested £4.5m in 138 Leyland Daf and Mercedes rigid, artic and drawbar outfits. The vehicles...

• European Intermocial Products has completed £250,000 worth of 7.15m, insulated and top-loading standard bulk containers for...

by over 60% in preparation for the expected recovery in the tipper market. The new factory is opposite the tipper specialist's...

• Free from C8zU constraints, exotic show models included a 3.8m-wide 'seat van' on a stretched 7m lveco 120E15 EuroCargo and...

• A slimmer and fitter line-up of bus and coach manufacturers came to Coach and Bus 93 with an innovative array of models to...

"We're shattered here. We're supposed to be in the Common market but we're having to compete with the Dutch with our hands tied...

D houghts of catering for the numerous parties the Hawk throws every Christmas has had these venerable feathers fair twitching...

M hile the majority of drivers are decent, law abidin g citizens there are one or two rotten apples in any barrel. At a...

M onderwoman is back.Yes, Anneka Rice has returned to our screens in a new series of the programme that puts the world to...

W hen new opportunities knock at the door of a family haulage business, they are often treated with suspicion, occasionally...

who goes about things in an unconventional, if somewhat conspicuous, way — whether or not they actually do those things very...

DOES I' International haulier William Lucy runs the first right-handdrive vehicle in the UK factory-fitted with a Telma...

T he Telma Retarder has three or four circuits which adapt the braking load to driving conditions. It is operated by automatic...

in electronic engine management systems for trucks. Where they lead, others are bound to follow. • Electronically controlled...

T he EUI has two essential features. One is a corn-driven plunger which generates the pressure in the fuel; the other is a...

• I would like to second Mr Parry's comments about drivers' unions (CM 7-13 October). I have been an HGV driver for more years...

• My eyebrows were raised when! read what was said about Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in the article 'Born again...

• May I, through your publication, try to warn potential so-called self employed owner-drivers to think very carefully before...

• Robert Anthony Matthews, known to everyone as Bob, was tragically taken from us on Monday 20 September. He will be forever in...

4 T he truck driver needs to he the most vigilant of all drivers since the truck is potentially the most lethal of all road...