by Rob Willock and David Craik • The Road Haulage Association and the Transport & General Workers Union shared a platform for...

The Institute of Logistics' new head office in Corby was opened last week by its patron, the Princess Royal, pictured with...

• Greater Manchester police say the scene of a fatal accident last Thursday involving a 38tonne truck "looked like a bomb had...

by Sally Nash • Drivers at United Carriers have "lost their jobs needlessly" over the last few months, according to the...

• Scania says the Iwo recent runaway scares involving its vehicles are unrelated. This follows an investigation into the claim...

• Two 100-year-old small haulage operations have closed with the loss of almost 30 drivers' jobs after they lost British Steel...

• EU legislation designed to harmonise CPC syllabuses could require that CPC examiners have no interest in the candidates'...

• The dominance of the world's largest shipping lines will come under intense scrutiny in Brussels next week in a move which...

by Karen Miles • As part of the Government's strategic defence review a single transport and storage agency will be created to...

LYING DOWN WITH THE LAMB C onsiclering that it's 10 years since the Road Haulage Association and T&G shared a platform, last...

• Lex Transfleet has picked up more work from office equipment firm Spicers as the existing haulage contractor, Exel Logistics,...

by Karen Miles • Lorry drivers could see toll booths for the first time on a new bypass if residents of a Cumbrian town get...

• A lorry driver may have "dozed off', causing his artic to swerve across the central reservation of the M6 near Walsall,...

• Two men who pretended they were qualified HGV drivers so they could get work had their prison sentences cut at the Appeal...

by Karen Miles and Sally Nash • The trading status of Derbyshire freight forwarder Midland European Freight Services was...

• Stonways Brothers of Marple has been fined £600 by West Bromwich magistrates for using a truck without an Operator's Licence...

• Eurohaul boss John Heads will not face trial for threatening to kill United Road Transport Union general-secretary David...

• Remote Scottish hauliers will face longer journeys to refuel over the next five years as up to 100 rural filling stations are...

• A Kent lorry driver has been warned he is in danger of being jailed for stealing Marks & Spencer clothes he was supposed to...

Long dismissed as a mystery "phenomenon", CV wheel loss nevertheless causes up to 10 deaths a year. It has finally been moved...

*The EU plans to introduce pan-European roadside truck checks from 1 July 1999. *Tramoor+ vaikm , ore set to rise throughout...

The design of the synchromesh gearbox has not fundamentally changed in more than 60 years, and most recent developments have...

by Toby Clark • MAN has shown the revised F2000 and M2000 trucks it will launch at the Hanover Show in September; they are due...

M2000 tractive unit, the 18.284, mated to Tridec's innovative low-slung Citycleck trailer. The engine proved very willing at 26...

• Shell has opened its first Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) pump on a retail forecourt as the first stage of a £1 Urn plan to...

by Charles Young • A haulage firm from Bath. which lost more than 38 wheel studs from an ERF tipper over three years, thinks...

• Securicor's Omega Logistics has come up with a novel solution for transporting resin. Three of the eight standard...

• Sales of commercial vehicles are up 12.9% for the first half of 1998, compared with the same period in 1997, according to the...

Lightweight Twaron panels push up the price of Gray & Adams' semitrailers but, combined with some other clever features, they...

• The RAC has concluded that British drivers are heading for a nervous breakdown, after a survey revealed that 80% feel tense...

• A lorry driver found to have 14 illegal immigrants in his trailer walked free after the case against him collapsed. The...

• A lorry driver drove more than 16 hours without a rest in a bid to hurry home after an argument with his wife over the length...

• Barrow-in-Furness-based Brady Distribution has introduced drivers' league tables in a bid to encourage best practice and fuel...

• West Midlands police are warning truck drivers to be on their guard for children climbing onto flatbeds in the wake of an...

• Haulier William Plank of Denny, near Falkirk, was given an absolute discharge for a brake offence after Penrith magistrates...

• North Western IC Keith aterworth has cut the authorisation on the licence held by Liverpool-based WST from nine vehicles and...

• A Liverpool haulier's £500 fine for using a temporary tachograph head has been cut to £200 on appeal to Bolton Crown Court....

• A delivery van driver with a conviction for stealing money from his employer has been granted an 0-licence in partnership...

• Pontypridd-based All Grades (Metals), trading as AC Iron And Steel, is waiting to see if the new South Wales Traffic...

• A driver employed by IDS Transport of Honeybourne, Worcestershire, pulled the fuse to stop his tachograph recording after an...

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I was pleased to read in last week's CM that the DOT's report on wheel detachment from commercial vehicles has finally been...

T he story "Court ruling will push up VED bill" (CM 2-8 July) is a splendid example of DVLA chief executive Dr Ford's...

very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at the...

o f it's in the paper then it must be true. When he tried to convince his family otherwise, American truck driver Cod,,r...

lij his abnormal load from Holland was spotted at Fleet services on the M3. Relatively rare in Britain, the Volvo FL12 grosses...

Ei I you ore going to be stopped by the police, make sure it's not on a US highway. In Frederick, Maryland, 58-year-old Ester...

E AS Y RIDE R We may have driven more economical tractors around CM'S Scottish test route, but none of them gave us a more...

Family firms tend to be small and keep to their established area, but N Riley (Haulage) has successfully doubled in size and...

ON TEST Ford Escort 55 TurboDiesel Price as tested: £10,135 (ex-VAT). Includes £9,125 for the basic vehicle; £390 for...

dirve returns As the end of the EU ban on British beef comes into sight, some British hauliers will be quite appy to start...

RECENT AND IMMINENT LEGISLATION The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1997. CIF 1 October 1997....

with having to attend a myriad of commercial vehicle shows and argues for nr‘i=. big international event to be held at the...