• The European Commission has allocated UK hauliers an extra 20,000 eco-points needed for transit to or through Austria. This...

by David Harris and Martial Tardy • The European Commission plans to increase the financial assets required to become an...

• International hauliers are having to travel further to get T1R carnets checked, following the appointment of a Swiss security...

by Karen Miles • Waste disposal, quarry and mine operators will be free of lorry routeing controls within weeks as the...

e welcome the news that aspiring inter national hauliers are going to have to meet tougher entry requirements and will conse...

by Miles Brignall • European hauliers must be allowed to operate 44tonne vehicles on five axles and they should be given...

• Glasgow-based international haulier Roy Graham International had its community authorisations suspended for a week by...

• Parcelforce has failed to install a new national agreement after workers threw out a union-brokered agreement designed to...

• A 45-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the hijack and kidnapping of a Suffolk truck driver last month. The...

• A truck driver found dead in a French canal had taken a combination of sleeping tablets and beer, a Bradford inquest heard...

• The Department of Transport should re-examine the regulations on drivers hours and rest periods to see if they take account...

by Ian Wylie • Commercial vehicle sales are heading for another trough, warn truck dealers. Although sales of new CVs...

• Belgian oil company Fina has transferred its tanker drivers and depot staff to United Transport (UK) following a dispute over...

• Drivers and operators found guilty of causing fatal accidents could be charged with corporate manslaughter under a Labour...

by Lee Kimber • Falling haulage rates lopped Elm off Exel Logistic's £45.2m operating profit last year although turnover rose...

• JA Robertson & Co (Fruiterers) hopes to create at least four jobs for seasonal drivers after buying the assets of collapsed...

• Hauliers have lost lucrative loads following a decision by Barrington-based Rugby Cement to switch a 60,000-tonne annual coal...

• Strathclyde police are appealing for witnesses to a lorry hijack in which thieves left the driver gagged and bound for over...

by Bryan Jarvis • Dartford-based Unwins Distribution Services, the transport arm of Britain's biggest independent off-licence...

by Colin Sovvman • Albion Automotive, the independent axle and engineering interest bought from Leyland Daf's receiver, has...

• Volvo has produced its 1,000th truck in Poland since production from knock-down kits began in November 1993. • August...

• National Band Three (NB3) has developed a fixed-price voice and data transmission system using a Psion Workabout hand-held...

• Ross & Bonnyman has launched a lightweight tail-lift with a 500kg capacity. Replacing the torsion bars used in the closing...

• Renault will display a wide range of new technology at the Paris Show, including a unit pump injection system on a Mack E7;...

Conventional wisdom says that a Mercedes-Benz clutch is slightly better quality than a spurious part but not worth the extra...

by Bill Godwin • The second Moscow International Motor Show, attended by Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, illustrated the...

by Toby Clark • Last week Daf used the Trucks In Action event at its Eindhoven headquarters to announce its half-yearly results...

by Derren Hayes III Almost half the truck drivers in a CM survey admit that they have fallen asleep at the wheel—and almost all...

• Two Iveco Ford Cargo trucks have created a new record for the quickest north-south crossing of Europe by a commercial...

• Scientists are baffled by a quirk in the number of accidents involving HGV drivers. In theory their accident rate should...

• Bromley, Kent-based Ashvale Transport has lost its appeal against the decision of the South Eastern & Metropolitan LA...

• Northern Irish haulier R Barkley & Sons, of Ballymoney and one of the firm's drivers, were fined a total of £180 after being...

• A renewal for one year only was granted by North Eastern LA Keith _ Waterworth to Billingham, Cleveland-based Keith Taylor,...

Christopher Coleman, who trades as C M Haulage of Talywin, Gwent has been given until November to settle unpaid fines and to...

• Chertsey tipper operators Terence Francis and Terence Anthony Strutt, trading as TFS Tipping, have lost their appeal against...

T feel I must write to you to I defend that much maligned object "the dealer". After the purchase of our Volvo FL12 420 we...

a he name Eddie Stobart has become increasingly associated with a load of balls since the Carlisle haulier began sponsorship of...

F or the first time in many years a British vehicle manufacturer has successfully wrested control back from a foreign owner. In...

a wo young the engine enthusiasts found themselves doing the job for real as they were returning from an exhibition in their...

Special repairs • Aldridge-based transport services group S Jones has set up a truck engineering division to deal with...

US Tour • The registration deadline for American Trucking Associations' 1995 Study Tour for Foreign Trucking Executives is...

Inch goes • Central Motor Auctions has announced it has parted company with its chief executive, George Inch, by "mutual...

Cool listing IN The Cold Storage and Distribution Federation has published its 1995/96 directory for the food storage and...

Approval update • The Association of British Insurers has issued its latest lists of approved security devices and installers....

Eaton in Paris • Truck components manufacturer Eaton will be exhibiting the synchromesh S-Series gearbox and several other...

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

RO-RO to Sweden • World Shipping Agencies is marketing Latvian Shipping Company's new RO-RO service between Immingham and...

• A30 Staines: Expect delays on Stanwell Moor Road, London Road and the Staines bypass due to roadworks on the approaches to...

MAN's F2000 grew out of the old F90 which had long established itself as a high-quality truck. CM's test of the new model shows...

We tried the MAN out on Scania, Merc and Volvo drivers. They liked the pulling power particularly and the space and comforts of...

Northeni Ireland references have been removed from his livery. I fish hauliers— north and south of the border— are becoming...

W ith vehicles rolling on and VV off ferries on the LiverpooVBetfast and Liverpool/Dublin routes, Merseyside police see a...

Bodiam, East Sussex haulier John Burgess has a tipping drawbar rig based on a Volvo F57. It has one extraordinary feature—it...

operafors.pay,for - ne* safety features.andwill haulierslyear the increased F irst the lights went out. Then there was a...

6 he legislative programme to introduce speed limiters on to British lorries will be completed at the end of the year. Into...