by Rob Willock • Illegal operator Canin is still turning up for international loads at Davies Turner a month after Commercial...

The '-lchelin cel ebrates his 100th birthday this year and is throwing away his roly-poly past in favour of a new svelte...

• Charges have finally been brought against a senior manager of Skipton-based Fewston Transport after one of its tippers...

• Drivers at Consolidated Land Services of Scunthorpe have voted for strike action following a ballot of more than 100 drivers....

• The United Road Transport Union has become the first union in history to resign from the TUC, promising its members that it...

by Sally Nash and Miles I3rignall • The race to snap up collapsed transport firm GB Express has been won by P&O Ferrymasters...

YOU SCRATCH MY BACK... ymbiosis: "An interaction between two different organisms, living in close physical association,...

by Rob Willock • Mersey Docks St Harbour subsidiary Coastal Container Line is putting its Liverpool subcontractors' rates up by...

• More than 3% of trucks on Scottish roads are unlicensed, says the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Now it is teaming up...

• A quick-thinking lorry driver saved his £52,000 trac tive unit from going up in flames when his trailer-load of paper caught...

• City analysts say they would not be surprised if Tankfreight was the next business to be sold by NFC following reports that...

• Hauliers travelling to and from Holyhead ferry port are being promised quicker journey times across Anglesey now that the...

by Brian Weatherley • Iveco Ford has dropped its plans to set up two national used truck retail centres in favour of 10...

• Some 20% of transport companies responding to Lloyds Bank's latest Business in Britain survey have experienced cashflow...

• Hauliers may soon have to pay 50p for every journey into Aberdeen city centre. Peter CArckhead, city council director of...

• German police have removed and destroyed the registration plates of a truck and trailer belonging to a Kent-based...

• A van driver who raced ahead of a truck to a motorway bridge and threw a brick at its cab has been jailed for twoand-a-half...

by Sally Nash • The Government has revealed that seven local authorities will be involved in a pilot scheme designed to impose...

• A van driver and his mate who used a laser pen to try and blind a traffic examiner as she drove to the site of a weight check...

• A multiple pile-up on the M6 near Wednesbury on Wednesday 7 January left two truck drivers dead. The incident began at...

• Hauliers could have a toll-free Skye Bridge if the European Commission undertakes an inquiry into the beleaguered project,...

• CV hire company Goode Durrant has closed seven of the 10 depots it took over from Transport Development Group last year....

by Rob Wiflock • Truck manufacturers may need to revise their cab designs after the Institute of Consumer Ergonomics presents...

• The world's "first unbreakable vehicle mirror" has arrived, claims mirror manufacturer Spafax. The Basingstoke company is so...

TIP, in a move away from traditional tilt trailers and to prepare for 44tonne operation. The trailer chassis are built with a...

to 189 new trailers after 18 months of durability trials involving six manufacturers. Safeway found that Bandvulc products...

by Bryan Jarvis • American reefer manufacturer Utility Trailers has joined forces with York Trailers to form a new company,...

• The first of a batch of new 17-tonne Skipmaster RT17 skiploaders on Volvo FL618 4x2 chassis have joined Duffields of East...

• Leicester Heavy Haulage has specified this ERF EC14.52DT for operation at up to 200 tonnes GVW. Power comes from a Cummins...

• Fiat is launching a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel variant of its Ducato panel van at next month's RAI truck show in Amsterdam. It...

• Avonmouth-based Filtration has introduced the Donaldson Duraclean Diesel Exhaust Filter system which is said to capture 99%...

If you increase an engine's power output you need a tougher, heavier, gearbox to handle it. Or do you? ZF is working on a new...

Truck manufacturers started 1997 with cautious optimism. One year on, the longed-for sales take-off is still around the corner....

• 3.5-tonne sector: The top four L Ford 71,723 (43.0%) 2. LDV 10,259 (20.3%) 3. Mercedes 9,437 (18.7%) 4. Iveco 4,110 (8.1%)...

• Accrington haulier Ian Smith, trading as Meerkats Int Low Loaders, whose licence was revoked when he failed to attend a...

• The Transport Tribunal has upheld the revocation of the licence held by Glasgow-based Ace Freight and the disqualification of...

• Operators 34, who hold a licence in the name of a lim ited company are required to notify any change in directorship to the...

IN The defence costs of Ripon based Charles Payne, trading as Payne Farm Dairies, and one of his drivers are to be paid out of...

1 • Wetherby mag istrates have given a Lancashire ownerdriver an absolute discharge after he admitted using a vehicle in a...

• The Government is to consider a two-tier penalty law on drink-driving, but the Department of Transport has slammed the...

Govt on NV shortages • More than 4,000 operators are to be asked to tell the Government how WV driver shortages are affecting...

by Nicky Clarke • The Government could face a judicial review of its decision to ban diabetics from driving trucks over 3.5...

• A transport workers temporary agency has been set up in Leyland, Lancs by recruitment firm Campbell Automotive. Hire People...

• Albion Distribution is exclusive UK distributors of the Ebro range of butterfly valves. Castiron valves from 3/4 to 12in, and...

• Transco BG has fitted a further 98 of its fleet vehicles with CompAir Holman's on-board compressor and generator package,...

• Icom UK has a new family of radio products aimed specifically at the commercial market. Both hand-helds and fixed radios are...

• Engine hose compression and thermal dimensional changes can result in hose clamps losing their tension, allowing coolant to...

CM'S Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

M y young son was killed by a milk tanker in April. The driver of the lorry said the child was below his angle of vision as he...

I write regarding the article entitled "Certified Changes" ((.M 11-17 Dec 1997). I felt that the last paragraph on page 33 was...

I was interested to read your roadtest of the Mercedes Actros 'Hi-Tech Haulage Machine' (CM 18-31 Dec 1997), having recently...

H ow heartening to read such an accurate and well-reasoned report of the Volvo VN770 (CM 1-7 Jan). As you say, other trade...

I thought you might like to bring to the attention of your readers a possible saving on their leasing payments. Now that the...

Charity takes to the streets ack in November Ray Dodd, boss of Dadtrs Transport, made it possible for the cancer charity HEAL...

0 anta's job was made a little easier this Christmas when Parcelforce Worldwide was approached by the charity Samaritan's Pu...

m ot so much male bonding as Mudie-Bonding. Seen here toasting their success with a tankard of foaming ale are Richard Bond of...

m hen a lorry turned up at the Port of Holyhead during the recent blockade, Welsh farmers could hardly miss the legend: "100%...

For most hauliers 600hp in a 40-tonne artic is a wee bit OTT. But if your business involves regular runs over the Alps, the...

Stafford Fa Robinson What turned a general haulage operation with a tendency to struggle into a successful distribution...

Is 'surfing the net' for kids and sad computer freaks or can haulage companies large and small find a use for it? Most outfits...

Aspiring actor Scot Scott has given up treading the boards for a hopefully more permanent run as boss of his own driver hire...

! accidents is at the back of every haulier's mind. But with\ajittle advarite planning you caAnsure that immobilised trucks are...

HGV drivers are in jail for smuggling booze while others have lost jobs delivering for British brewers hit by a tidal wave of...

More freight must go by rail to combat traffic congestion and maintain delivery schedules, says Red Star Parcels managing...