£60bn investment programme, outlining the planned growth of the rail network over the next decade. The FTA is disappointed...

five years after he was caught attempting to smuggle nearly seven million cigarettes through Dover. When Miroslaw Sobek's van...

RAC Commercial Assistance has wort a three-year contract to provide breakdown cover to RHA members. The contract had previously...

240,000 were stolen from Corley Services in the West Midlands last week while the vehicle's Austrian driver was resting.

Stena Line has launched a new ferry on the Hoek van HollandHarwich route. The Stena liollandica, which started operating last...

Two Volvos have been stolen from AJP Crane Hire of Southend. One is an F16, rag JUI 9050; the other is a blue and white Ftl,...

• by CMreporters Norbert Dentressangle (ND) UK could lose one of its Operator's Licences after a Vehicle Inspectorate...

• Training and enforcement have emerged as the Cinderellas of industry as the government finally reveals the breakdown of the...

II by Sally Nash A Christian Salvesen driver has won a case for unfair dismissal against the company after he was subjected to...

The Freight Transport Association is stepping up its case for compensation for livestock hauliers affected by the...

• The haulier blamed for causing the first foot and mouth outbreak in Northern Ireland in 40 years is in hiding, but he has...

by Guy Sheppard Chancellor Gordon Brown has infuriated an East Yorkshire owner-driver by claiming in his Budget speech that...

Five million pounds might sound like a lot of money, but it depends how far it has to stretch. In this case the f5m is intended...

• Bristol brick haulier IFR Dunkerley has closed down for good rather than carry on working for a former customer doing the...

Hauliers' need for help has clearly got through—but is the Budget a genuine rescue package, or merely a sop? Guy Sheppard...

was never likely to do anything that would raise the spectre of more fuel blockades. But opinion is divided as to whether his...

• by Guy Sheppard One in four drivers stopped in a police crackdown on foreign-registered trucks wore found to have exceeded...

EA truck driver was kidnapped and driven around blindfolded in a van while Dm-worth of electrical goods were being stolen from...

• A golden opportunity to ease driver shortages is being missed because hauliers are failing to make the job attractive to...

II by Colin Barnett Feather Diesel, the UK's leading independent diesel support specialist, is preparing for a busy future...

One of the main services offered by Feather's new operation Is the re-engineering of Scania 113s to run on LPG and ONG (0,8-15...

• Once again, the SMMT's monthly commercial vehicle registration figures show the van sector leading the market's growth....

III by Robin Meczes ERF has finally announced details of the 7.5-tonne model for its range alluded to by MAN when it took the...

• Multilift has introduced a versatile container handling system. The CSL 330 Side Loader (pictured, right) can handle single...

year' s biggest CT show More than 450 exhibitors will make next week's CV Show the biggest in Europe this year. The show, at...

the fore, while lveco will show its rival Tector-engined Cargo, as well as the latest Daily range, ranging from 2.66.5 tonnes....

The component manufacturers always have some surprises up their sleeves, but we know Haldex will be showing a new electronic...

Materials handling gear is ever more important. Innovations will include products for the home delivery market, including...

Plenty of new systems will be demonstrated by Mandata, Global Telematics, ICS Black Box, Telematix and others. Volvo will...

The past couple of CV Shows have been marked by an explosion of new designs from the UK's body and trailer manufacturers, and...

The CV Show will be held at the NEC, Birmingham an TuesdayThursday 20-22 March, from 09:00-18:00hrs (16:30hrs on the final...

been committed for trial at Bolton Crown Court by the Leigh magistrates, accused of using rebated domestic fuel in 12 artics....

were ordered to pay £1,255 in fines and costs after admitting speed limiter offences before Wrexham magistrates. Driver Paul...

Fraserburgh was revoked when he failed to appear at an Aberdeen disciplinary inquiry. Eddie had been called before Scottish BIC...

has been suspended pending a public inquiry. The company had been called to an Eastbourne disciplinary inquiry but failed to...

Wallasey-based Clifford Butler has been granted a new licence for two vehicles and two trailers subject to producing...

Taking out a vehicle known to have serious defects has led to Stan Price Haulage's twovehicle/two-trailer 0-licence being...

firm without any understanding of the tachograph regulations has had his 0-licence cut from five vehicles to three. Wirral...

Fo r: have led to a one-week Operator's licence suspen sion for BDF Edinburgh. The Livingston-based firm, which operates 11...

• You can now check out all kinds of legal Information on road transport.net—the web site operated by Commercial Motor,...

• A restricted licence holder has retained its licence after giving ari undertaking to employ a transport manager with a...

Disciplinary proceedings involving Widnes international haulier Eugene Marsh have been adjourned pending an investigation into...

the Guy Sheppard article and Commercial Motor's comment in 1-7 March issue relating to the number of foreign trucks entering...

epidemic has not been contained as had been hoped has led me to wonder just how on earth this current disaster will ever be...

The Budget is hardly going to make any of us rich. The reduction in road tax was a start, but with still the highest fuel...

Just for a change, I'd like to compliment the Highways Agency for the way they handled much needed repairs to the M23 overnight...

• I have just read the letter from "Roger" (CM1-7March) and was left with a bad taste in my mouth. rrn an Asian driver...

NEWS from the By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharrn Oswaldtwistle. Commercial Motor is proud to present an...

available in the UK from mid1995. They arrived in good time for the latest EU regulations calling for a further reduction in...

lain Mitchell Mitchell's of Grangemouth was founded in 1956; lain Mitchell took over as managing director from his father in...

reliability" Hugh Jones GroContinental dates back to the 1930s when the father of the present chairman, Ray Grocott, began...

rock solid" Martin Oliver Family firms seem to have an affinity with MANs. Stuart Oliver, operations manager of Hexham-based...

premium" Elliot Lennick The number of new vehicles supplied through operating leases and contract hire has prompted...

Commercial Vehicle Auctions, based in Doncaster. He holds sales on two Wednesdays every month with a throughput of 160-200...

used vehicles in its own right. Last year MAN sold 2,200 vehicles through its Select programme; this year the total is expected...

MAN's reputation for making solid, reliable vehicles has grown in strength over the past few years and operators like the fact...

itoe wrote of the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, he could equally have been talking about truck drivers. There's no...

Tear!, s of managers, drivers and admin staff can drive against each other, and it works wonders at breaking down them-and-us...

goods that pay the hills. As Steve Banner reports, it is vital that drivers put safety first when working with them. 0 n the...

LEGISLATION The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendments) Regulations 2900. CIF1August (part) and (October (remainder)...

Lorry-only lanes are one of the ideas for cutting congestion, and therefore pollution, on motorways. Most hauliers are in...

North and North East Lincolnshire—are a significant part of Britain's industrial backbone. From steel production to buckets...

particular, and you might expect local haulage to be dominated by containerised cargo brought across the North Sea and...

miles from the coast; a fact that is not lost on Pal Line UK, the British arm of Paltrans (which in turn is part of one of the...

Thompson Martin Group, in the village of Crowle, near Scunthorpe, we are presented with the sight of five brand spanking new...

T hings seem buoyant at the Immingham, North-East Lincolnshire depot of DFDS Logistics— the 130 trucks based there are kept...

try in a variety of ways. Some inherit a family business; others start as drivers or warehousemen and work their way up. Ken...

equal treatment with our European competitors on VED and fuel duty. Now, once again, we find ourselves on the back foot, In...