Hauliers could find town congestion cut if a pilot scheme allowing local authorities to charge utility companies "rent" for...

• by Dominic Perry Eye plc, the freight forwarding firm set up by the owners of failed haulier John Adams Si. Sons which...

Drivers breaching strict measures to prevent the spread of foot and mouth in North Yorkshire are being warned that they face...

it is taking matters into its Own hands following the government's continuing refusal to provide details of the trucks used to...

firm locked in a battle with Customs & Excise after the seizure of its truck containing 500kg of tobacco, has asked its local...

• The Road Haulage Association is waiting for People's Fuel Lobby leader Andrew Spence to explain to them exactly why he wants...

The Freight Transport Association is forecasting a shortfall of 80,000 drivers after the introduction of the Working Time...

Police traffic officers are reported to be contacting the headquarters of the Association of British Drivers on a "regular...

and Safety Executive after a man was crushed to death at the company's yard in Gloucestershire. The accident happened at the...

• Fines levied on firms for carrying Mega, stowaways have now passed the £12m mark, prompting the Freight Transport Association...

• by Miles BrIgnall Oil tanker drivers at Conoco are set to disrupt fuel deliveries to hundreds of Jet garages across the...

Facing a bill of nearly £50,000 for something you say isn't your fault and that you couldn't have known about. That appears to...

• A coroner has slammed the drivers of three trucks who failed to stop when a woman died in an horrific crash on the A5 in...

• by David Craik A new European directive on fleet insurance will have costly administrative ramifications for hauliers,...

with High Street retailer, Kookai. DTS will provide warehousing, re-labelling and transport from its Brimsdown, North London...

• Services to a major rail route were badly disrupted last week after an artic became wedged under a railway bridge. Trains...

The level of goods vehicle traffic in the UK fell by 2% in the second quarter of 2001, says the Department of Transport,...

West Midlands lorry park after thieves stole a truck from it and left a trail of devastation. Residents from Forrester Street...

Criminal gangs are targeting unsuspecting UK hauliers to transport stolen equipment out of the country, according to a plant...

• by Brian Weather* Three years ago, at the Frankfurt Show, CM revealed that the Turkish truck maker BMC was planning to...

el Two skiploaders, specially designed to lift skips out of tight spaces at an angle, have gone into service with SITA in...

first 6x4 tractors entering service. Tyseley Waste Disposal, part of the Onyx group, has added a pair of Cummins 440-powered,...

The hearing of a series of offences against lorry driver Anthony McIntosh, including forgery, tachograph falsification, and...

A North Yorkshire firm has peen hauled before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe after three of its...

A lorry driver from Cardiff has been awarded over £19,000 by an Employment Tribunal after it ruled his Irish employer's...

Allegations of persistent speeding led to 14 drivers working for a North Wales firm being hauled before Welsh Traffic...

A Humberside lorry driver, said to have the worst record the North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney had ever seen for...

A mobile fitter, who admitted forging vehicle inspection records as a favour, has been given an eightmonth conditional...

out a survey which proves that, while trucks can be the cause of some road accidents, they are not the only dangerous objects...

NORTH! By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharm Oswaldtwistle. "Are ye sure it's bloody well dead?" was Chairman and...

summer 011998, the range came with two new engines. The FM7 was specified with a larger 7.3-litre unit, increased from 6.7...

to be reliable."Nick Brown MI Demolition specialist Brown &Mason has its head office in Southwark, London, which is where CM...

100% happy with them."Stephen Masterman Plumbing merchant Plumb Centre has 12 feeder depots that supply the company's 200...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate's Safety Branch has informed us that they have been notified of four safety-related recall items for...

as well on fuel as our FM12. 99 mick Garry Mick Gorry started in transport with a Bedford KM in 1969. Today JM Gorry & Son,...

We were surprised to learn that Volvo had actually marketed the FMio tractive unit in the UK, as we hadn't noticed any on the...

Ask most hauliers what they know about marketing and many will admit it could all be written on the back of a postage stamp....

be served by immaculate fleets and well-turned-out staff. As Steve Banner reports, fleet operators who want to be taken...

[ART A conversation with Mark Davenport revolves—literally—around the subject of lifecycles. Discussing the business of which...

the scope of legislation that controls waste, noise and emissions into the atmosphere and water courses. Operators must also...

0 To be a good neighbour, Increase your involvement with the local community and be aware of your potential unpopularity. Anne...

• The most effective way to identify potential problems in the operation of a depot is to undertake an environmental audit. It...

a new survey, a closer look at the figures reveals that a select few are managing to make their profits grow. Javid Cra finds...

Plimsoll Publishing analyse 1,0000k companies in the road haulage industry. It Nun that 20.5% (129 companies) would see...

in the same sentence. For those proEuropeans striving to bring economic and political unity to a club made up of different...

2001. CIF lAugust 2001. Add reference to a recent Directive 2001/1concerning vehicle emissions and advise of the publication of...

Well that's not the way it would appear. The average haulier gets a smaller return on his investment than he would if he put...