The FTA has added two extra 'driver management' seminars dealing with digital tachographs and the Working Time Directive to its...

• by Chris Tindall The Freight Transport Association has branded planned amendments to the EU Drivers Hours Regulations as...

II Stoke-on-Trent-based tanker firm Shirley's Transport has become the fifth winner of the euroShell Lifetime Achievement award...

II Restrictions on rail freight through he Channel Tunnel due to disruption 'rem asylum seekers have forced )0,000 more trucks...

Customs & Excise has been forced to rethink its ntroversial policy of seizing cross-Channel trucks ose drivers they suspect of...

• The European Commission is poised to announce a date for the introduction of digital 'smart card' tachographs. The...

Regardless of the possible merits of the proposed changes to EU drivers hours (and you'll have to look hard to find any)...

• by Guy Sheppard International hauliers could face massive disruption from environmental campaigners next month when the Mont...

• Plans for g5-a-day congestion charges in London could be stalled this week when Westminster City Council finds out if it has...

• The Home Office has rebuffed calls for a proper consultation process over the new maximum 24,000 stowaway fines, but a...

truck driver used PIN numbers and other security Informahe found in offices to break Into secure compounds at stows Dock and...

bralth Transtore, one of the three firms owned by Diamond Acceptances that went into receivership last month, has been sold in...

can now take advanle of an Initiative designed to ke it easier for them to fit omissions-reduction technology. Previously...

as part of its attempt to slash the number of accidents on rural roads. An NFU spokesman says accidents are 11 times more...

I by Oily Sheppard imber hauliers are facing weeping changes In the way )ads are carried following asearch to find out if one...

A Bedford-based haulier has escaped with a conditional discharge after magistrates heard how he drove a vehicle with a...

• The total amount of freight carried internally by British registered trucks fell slightly last year, according to the...

• The award winners from the Commercial Motor llveltfest 2002 were as folows: • RI-IA Best Kept Owner-Driver Vehicle: SC...

I by Mike Jewell orth Western Traffic Commisoner Beverly Bell has refused return eight Scanias to K9 )gistics (UK) at a recent...

• The good news is that light CV registrations rose again last month, but there's had news for the truck market as a whole:...

II Derbyshire haulier AK Transport has expanded its tanker operations with the acquisition of liquid and powder tanker firm Sam...

N There's nothing like starting at the top, so we began our drive with the new 480, installed In an FTC 85.480, a 8x2...

• Brake manufacturer haldex is offering operators the ability to access live data about their trailer braking system via a...

• by Kevin Swallow South Yorkshire-based family business AE Wilson and Sons will deliver roof tiles on a local contract with a...

in An incident management website designed to cut vehicle downtime and repair costs debuted at the CV Show in Birmingham. Delta...

• The UK agent TRS Breeze made its first app( arm in the UK at the recent Show with its TRS portkoeling hydropower re'...

• Weightlifter Bodies showed its latest bulk tipping trailer at the CV Show: this 63yd 3 design has 30mni smooth-sided plankkig...

=11 sing a vehicle when he had iterfered with the speed 'niter and when the tachomph was not properly fitted )st Co Tyrone...

.' A Tyneside operator of a 4 1 recovery vehicle which was .', impounded after it was used to carry parts of dismantled...

A West Midlands haulier has had one of its vehicles suspended for a week after receiving four prohibitions for maintenance...

Be nfleet based Geoffrey Cook has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 1700 for an axle overload and permitting an...

Telford-based Plavelly Trucking has had its licence revoked and has been disqualified from holding an 0-licence indefinitely...

A team of stoutrted chaps from MAN Including marketing actor Alistair Williamson, sales director Des ,ns, northern regional...

Spagthorpe Motor Co Chairman and President for Life, Sir Jos Spagthorpe, has crumbled in the face of a barrage of complaints...

a 30e cement tanker to chauffeur his us Lynda around in the lap of luxHe spotted the 21-year old ex-Blue e veteran in a scrap...

in August when he drives his Albion truck back to Glasgow where it was born more than 70 years ago, as part of a series of...

has covered ii5,000km, aat time he has had little trouble with it, it has done what he wanted: "I bought for the resale," he...

Scania is renowned as a driver's aurite, and as West puts it: "It's a lovely fe." The engine is flexible—"there's no spots in...

With West's concern for residual values it's no surprise that his Scania has had "a main dealer ser vice record from day one"....

When it came time to buy a new mixer two id a half years ago, Tim Waters could have me for a number of options. For a start...

had a brief drive through the crowded nets of Oxford, and were glad to find that Daf is exceptionally easy to drive: the 9.2n...

Waters has a service contract with M&M Commercials of Milton Park, Abingdon. The Daf gets a safety inspection every four weeks...

• When the press release about Mike Fry taking a semi-automatic gearbox in a six-wheeled EuroTrakker mixer came across the CM...

• Roger Stevens, a colleague of Tim Waat Hanson Premix in Oxford, has a ra special vehicle: one of just seven "tricl. 8/4...

September 1998, ing £58,000 for the converted chas; That's Lro,000 more than a compara 6/4, but Stevens is adamant that it v...

yens loves the torquey performance of the t, which he prefers to the Cummins in the Foden he had before: "This is far super."...

ur next run took us round Piccadilly Circus jermyn St where the transmission really line into its own. Just press the...

Stevens has nothing but praise for his regular workshop, Roger Cherry & Son of Abingdon, which handles the tridem's sixweekly...

Fry has a full contract maintenance packag for five years with Dagenham Motors ii Barking at £225 per month. "I wasn't going...

avelle's Actros 3235K has now covered more ian 58,000km and generally he remains leased with the German marque. It still looks...

• With our original Atego six-wheeler of action we hopped a ride with Art Stratton's near-identical 2628B V mixer. With...

,fter a short run with a full load up to a ,orth London hospital, Lavelle sat back as we took the Actros back to base. We've...

Back at Wembley, as the tyre fitter repaired th; slow puncture, Lavelle gave us his view Merc's breakdown support. In general...

once again headed for-home in the Atego, and we were quickly reminded that the little Merc six-wheeler is an eminently...

Like Lavelle, Stratton took out an R&M package with his Atego, also through Mercedes Edgware Road. Like Lavelle he also...

get a perspective on the two Mercedes mix ers from the people who buy them we spoke t( London Concrete's production manager,...

• Not all concrete comes out of a mixer drum. Heathrow-based Master Concrete specialises in the operation of 'volumetric batch...

customers sharing the same trucks, there's one big logistics firm that you'll want to watch you Salvesen. The Northants-based...

warranty plus service and maintenance, why bother with a workshop? Then there's the problem of ding mechanics. According to the...

, 4.:3 City & Guilds is one of three awarding bodies for qualifications involving HGV technicians. National Vocational...

Despite the labour shortages fitters cannot expect to earn a king's ransom. That said, the money is better than being a driver...

[RING BY SATELLITE TRACKING! Ever wondered what happens to your vehicles the minute they drive out of the depot the gate? Try...

try something new, even if it involves departing from his core business of plant hire and haulage. Five years ago he set up a...

Cumbrian hauliers may be eligible for a range of assistance. Business Link can offer firms the contact points for specialist...

Cumbria was hit hardest of all. Cockermouth-based Eric Nicholson Transport certainly felt the impact. "Foot and mouth was...

to other ad users but to their own rators' Licence if they lose a eel. Since its launch in 1998. ousands of Wheel Nutlocks ave...

divisions including instruction and an aggregates busi:ss with three quarries. Armstrong akes building materials and wooden...

and those based in beautiful surroundings are probably rarer still. This explains why Fiona Gibson feels she has landed on her...

relationship with his broker and lower insurance premiums. But how many operators help themselves? If you want to have a better...