• Tolls could make motorways more dangerous, according to a survey by the Association of British Drivers. It says the death...

by Miles Brignall and Mike Jewell • Hauliers in trouble with Licensing Authorities will be more likely to have their licences...

• Ireland has abandoned plans to take an extra £1,825 a year in tax from every Irish haulier. The 25-a day-tax was discussed...

by David Harris • Neil Kinnock is bidding for more European money to be made available to hauliers switching to a combination...

IN Truck drivers are snore likely than most people to suffer from the human form of the "mad cow" illness, CreutzfeldJacob...

not everyone deserves it. News that LAs are to lose the power to prematurely terminate an erring haulier's 0-licence may strike...

by Karen Miles * International operators can look forward to anoth er two years of fierce Cross Channel discounts as...

• Hauliers are spending record amounts on training staff but the smallest companies are still lagging behind in providing their...

• Gloucestershire police are examining drivers' eyesight in a week-long series of roadside checks. Any driver unable to read a...

• A lorry driver who just missed colliding with a 60mph train on a level crossing has escaped a jail sentence because of his...

Petrol deliveries to more than 1,200 UK petrol stations are set to be reor ganised as the Frost Group studies 45 distribution...

• Police have renewed their appeal for information on two hijackers who kidnapped and assaulted a lorry driver earlier this...

by Elizabeth Daly II Thieves are stealing loads by conning truck drivers into dropping their goods in the wrong place. Drivers...

respond to the government's review of the 0-licensing system and traffic area offices. The Traffic Area Network Review was...

By early September the permitted level of alcohol in a driver's bloodsteam will fall from 0.7g/lit to 0.5g/lit. This is below...

by Guy Sheppard • Transport secretary Sir George Young is under pressure to make sharp cuts in next year's road building...

• Hauliers sacking women who have worked for them For less than two years must comply with Full disciplinary procedures after...

• Scottish hauliers continue to find trading conditions tougher than those experienced by their competitors south of the...

• Most owner-drivers would switch to A-roads if motorway tolls were introduced because they wouldn't be able to pass on the...

4$I , A freight forwarding and haulage company has gone into liquidation owing 2.2.5m just nine months after it began trading....

by Lee Kimber IN Small haulage companies are losing in the battle to improve profit margins as big companies reap the benefits...

Sales of commercial vehicles fell by almost 10% during July, the first monthly fall since December 1993. But despite this,...

• Two major hauliers recorded rising profits this week after reshaping their businesses in the face of increasing competition...

• Eight new Gray & Adamsbodied Volvo FL618 reefers for Exel Logistics's contract with Whitbread Foods are the first vehicles to...

by John Kendall • MAN will launch the F2000 eight-legger chassis next January to replace the old F90 8x4s in the UK. There will...

• Volvo has revealed Its Euro-2 engine variants of the six-litre engine used in the FL6 range, as speculation mounts that the...

• The Skoda Engineering Group of Pilsen has acquired a 52% stake in Czech truck builder Liaz. The truck maker posted heavy...

by Bryan Jarvis • Foden's launch of a new 4x4 gritter/snow plough chassis in flaming June may seem bizarre but council...

• The turo-vehicle licence held by Leslie Dean, trading as Deans Skip Hire, of Telford, was revoked when he failed to appear at...

II Continuing maintenance problems, and a number of convictions, have led to one vehicle being removed from the licence of Fife...

• The two vehicle licence held by Carmarthen-based Richard Safadi, trading as Richards Transport Services, has been suspended...

• Both Anthony and David Bayliss, trading as Bayliss Transport, and Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council, have lost appeals...

• A Crown Court Judge has ruled that drivers are not required to carry the tachograph chart for the last day of the last week...

• An appeal by William Rogers, who trades as Rogers Transport, of Stratfielcl Saye, near Reading, against the imposition of a...

T_Tere we go again, another lowner-driver crying all the way to the bank ("It ain't fair, the big companies don't treat us...

T have been reading recent lcopies of CM with interest. Everything you need to work in the haulage industry has never cost so...

Toll tickets • Hauliers can now buy the European motorway toll certificates or vignettes by cash or credit from P&O European...

Cool collection • Speakers on everyaspect of the cold distribution chain will deliver seminars at the Controlled Temperature...

Screw compressors IN CompAir Broom Wade has introduced a range of oilinjected rotary screw compressors with easy-to-use...

North • M1fM62 Lofthouse Interchange. Severe delays while new sliproads are constructed will last until late October. MI....

The M25 Motorway (Junctions 10-15)(Voriable Speed Limits) Regulations 1995: introduces the experimental variable speed limits...

UK • Driver licensing: new measures including staged testing, a limit on car licence holders of 3.5 tonnes gross, theory part...

Last week CM'S ferry guide included a comprehensive directory of ferry and tunnel operators. This week four of CM's finest...

comes complete with Ford's corporate grinning grille. To demonstrate why the Transit is so pleased with itself, Ford lent us a...

findings of a report by a firm of independent consultants. The McKinsey report basically suggested moving BRS into one large...

_ the 19 g2 buyout, over 10,200 employees and others with qualifying connections with ._._ NEC acquired over £61 1 4 worth of...

of all accidents involving lorries are the fault of the owner or driver. A recent fatal accident on the Al reported on local...