by Karen Miles frock thefts are spiralling out :ontrol. Commercial Motor has iducted the first survey into scale of the...

'olice are appealing for help in stigating a possible natione insurance fiddle. Two letasking operators for accident lir money...

le the crimewave; and hauliers want to see a single nationwide police unit specialising in truck thefts (see Comment page 14)....

by Nicky Clarke • Maximum fines imposed for road traffic offences could fall following a review of the the Criminal Justice Act...

• An owner-driver who is campaigning for hauliers' rights is threatening to lead a blockade if support for his campaign is...

• Iveco was rocked last week by the issuing of arrest warrants against two of its former bosses as Italy's corruption scandal...

• Brian Yeardley Continental has taken delivery of the first four Leyland Daf 95.430 lowheight tractors into the UK. The...

• MAN has announced further changes to its model line-up, following last month's detail improvements to the M90 and F90...

• An "intelligent" electronic motor has been developed by Zeta Controls of Oxford and Lotus Engineering to respond to engine...

only on the208 D and 210. t the UK the Ti range dates k as far as 1977. It is expected )e replaced some time in 1994 the new...

For the AE Magnum range the uprating of the six-cylinder engine also filled the yawning gap between the original 275kW (369hp)...

• Late last year CM tested MAN's promising new five cylinder 32.322 VF eight wheeler (CM 10-16 Dec 1992), a working vehicle...

• Pickfords hidustnal is planning to close its north of England hub at Birtley, Gateshead, although union claims that the...

• Six haulage companies failed last month bringing the total up to 21 so far this year according to statistics compiled by...

by Eugene Silke • A 112m expansion at Panic Link creating up to 100 drivers' jobs is being blocked by British Coal, according...

• The EC has proved its determination to defend parcels carriers by launching an investigation into alleged illegal practices...

zl • 0 Peterborough Heavy Haulage one of its drivers, and Redland Agg regates have been cleared of overloading charges arising...

• Kirkby-based Brimargin International Transport's owner, Brian Hunt, had the ength of his licence cut when the fraffic...

cher have been convicted of overloading a 38tonne artic—though magistrates accepted there was nothing the men could have done...

• Driver Malcohn Shuttleworth was unfairly made redundant by Firth Distrib ution—but a Manchester Industrial Tribunal has...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences led to North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu considering taking action against...

to the recovery of a Volvo FI.10 eight-legger stolen in Norwich on 30 March. It was driven out of RMC Mortars' Sandhill Quarry...

F orget "Total Quality Management". Never mind "Quality Circles". Don't bother with "Zero Defect Manufacturing". Managers at...

was at home last December nursing a minor bout of flu when 100 miles away his world was disappearing down the tubes through no...

would probably be"Necessity is the mother of invention". Necessity; in the case of Swift Transport Services, meant achieving a...

develops 229kW (311 hp) at 1,900rpm and 1,330Nrn (9801bft) of torque at 1,200rpm. Drive passes through an asbestos-free single...

T he UK road haulage industry employs an estimated 430,000 drivers, of whom some 120,000 (2890) are trade union members. The...

of UK trucks travel back from the Continent empty. The abolition of frontier checks and the removal of all restrictions on...

Europe than it exports. There are already small signs that opportunities to maximise vehicle use in Europe are expanding in...

M ake a delivery to flower haulier CA Barnes in the Cambridgeshire village of Haddenham and your paperwork is likely to be...

S ince last August heavy truck operators have had to cope with 961un/h (60mph) speed limiters. And from 1994 EC speed limiter...

Leyland Daf fight for its life?' ( Wh y do we have to stand by and watch while another great British company is allowed to...