Driver David Howe, 37, from Northfield, Birmingham has been charged with the falsification of documents and the theft of six...

Premier Warehousing and Distribution, Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan and Martin Moloney, a former shareholder in Al. are now listed...

Deputy prime minister John Prescott has admitted that money raised from fuel duty was never intended to be spent on transport...

A £10,000 reward is up for grabs for anyone with information about the theft of £2m worth of Dunhill International cigarettes...

in a deal which will increase its turnover to more than £44m. It follows a three year partnership between the two firms in the...

ai by Pete Swingler and Melanie Hammond A truck driver is claiming he will go to jail rather than pay an £8,000 fine imposed...

• A lawyer has warned against turning a blind eye to stowaways inside trucks even though hauliers who turn them in are still...

Union leaders are to demand pay increases of around 45% for truck drivers from next year. The Transport & General Workers'...

• The number of foreign trucks operating on British roads has doubled in the last five years, according to the latest figures...

III by Liam O'Brien The RHA intends to throw its weight behind a Hauliers and Farmers Alliance picket of the Labour Party at...

k UK hauliers could be hit by even higher running costs and more road tolls if recommendations contained in a controversial new...

• by Mike Jewell One of the Transfreight Services drivers who was disqualified from holding an HGV driving licence for 12...

A Men under 30 are most at risk from falling asleep at the wheel, a new two-year study into driver fatigue has revealed. The...

Truck dealers say the standard of vehicle maintenance they offer is far higher than in garages servicing cars. The claim by...

• Online services will be the way forward for buying discounted diesel and could appear in the UK by the end of 2001, according...

• Scottish hauliers are continuing to lose more work to farmers and agricultural contractors who are using a legal loophole to...

'Go'. Do NOT collect £200. This scenario, recognised with resignation by Monopoly players worldwide, may now become much more...

II Truckers suspected of taking drugs are to be forced to take a series of bizarre roadside tests. The emergency tests are...

• A planned series of 24-hour strikes by 150 Christian Salvesen drivers was called off after a compromise deal over pay was...

• Two road workers were killed last week when a truck collided with the back of their vehicle on the Al. The Scania artic,...

to logistics firm Christian Salvesen by General Motors. The four-year contract represents Salvesen's largest single industrial...

Exel has won a five-year contract with Spanish automotive components supplier Fagor EderIan to manage the collection and...

awarded a 130m contract to supply rail haulage services for Ralltrack's infrastructure investment programme.

The British Railways Board has awarded TDG a two-year contract worth more than 1450,000 for the preparation of 60,000 documents...

from The National Trust, Scotland. it will handle the distribution and warehousing for the Trust's retail operation from its...

textiles logistics division of Tibbett & Britten Group, has formed an alliance with Turkish transport company, Ektrans....

• by Melanie Hammond Hauliers blighted by long delays at Southampton docks have withdrawn threats of industrial action...

• Northern Ireland's Customs Service has had a number of successes in targeting illegal diesel producers. Three men were...

U Trailer costs are set to rise after a European order which will force manufacturers to install automatic lowering technology...

• by Peter Lawton Exel is operating the next generation of road tanker with two new prototypes from Clayton Commercials. The...

• A Heil Big Bite waste collector has joined Leeds City Council's skip department. Mounted on a Seddon Atkinson Strata 8x4...

NI A dealership is offering a free Fiat Punto 1.2 to anyone who buys a Ducato Maxi. Victoria Park Motors, of Hadfield Road,...

• King Trailers' new five-axle low-loader delivered two sewer tunnelling sections to the Republic of Ireland in its first...

It follows changes in the law regarding corporate manslaughter and is aimed at giving peace of mind to operators. The...

Japanese tyre maker Bridgestone, owner of the Firestone brand, is recalling millions of potentially defective 4x4 tyres. The...

• by Kevin Swallow If Ford were to enter Formula 1 as a team in its own right it might as well model the car on its new...

Cooked meat specialist Southover Foods is buying two new Sprinter chassis-cabs with RVL insulated box bodies. The units provide...

19.5in, non-steering axle in the Intradisc Plus range is already available. The range goes into full production in January of...

Commercial vehicle conversion specialist Drinkwater Chassis Engineering has been renamed Drinkwater Engineering. The company...

loaders fitted to Renault Master pickups for one-person operation. The 013 1-1 units have a reach of 31m and are used for...

West Lothian Council is running three new LDV Convoys with Harsh hooklift demount systems, installed by Lothian Vehicle...

• by Colin Barnett The Renault-Vauxhall joint project to replace the Trafic/Arena models has been revealed, before the official...

• A drivers vote has helped to win an order for three new Mercedes-Benz Ategos from Thames Water company Subterra. The...

• by Kevin Swallow Isuzu is the latest truck manufacturer to put its faith in gas. Conversion firm Clean Exhaust Emissions...

Defensive-driving training has become much more popular in recent years, but it usually emphasises the hazards of onroad...

Boy to persuade your boss that clouting the three-foot post in the yard with the truck was anything other than driver error....

10 vehicles and two trailers held by Doncaster-based Harold Holland being suspended for 15 days. The company appeared before...

Stafford Crown Court for sentence by magistrates after he admitted defrauding the Benefits Agency of 115,450 over two years....

revoked when she failed to attend a disciplinary inquiry. Jones had been called before North Western IC Beverley Bell because...

HGV driving licence suspended for four days after being convicted of falsifying a tachograph record.

Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Stirling-based T H Ferguson & Co being cut from 37 vehicles to Slat an...

A tipper operator's licence was cut by six vehicles when the company appeared at its third public inquiry within 18 months over...

r51 A Welsh haulier is alleged to 700 overloading offences have committed more than after downplating his vehicles to save on...

The licences of the associated JPG Logistics, P George International and Jean Knowles trading as P George International, which...

convictions, including drivers' hours and tachograph offences, have led to the licence held by Cheddar-based Glen Evans being...

A Liverpool company has been warned that its 0-licence "Is hang ing by a thread" and it has until the end of November to...

How long has it got to take the RHA, FTA and hauliers to understand that talking to this government is a waste of time? The MPs...

I can only assume that the members of the Transport Select Committee were specially selected before their participation on this...

I feel the Institution of Road Transport Engineers is losing its direction on education and training. Once, one's IRTE...

These pages frequently rehearse the argument that the British haulage industry is politically persecuted and popularly...

Retired postman Paul Wood is on a busman's holiday par excellence. For after a career driving Post Office vans, Paul, from...

Now that's one thing The Hawk doesn't miss about the good old days; winding up the motor. John Milne doesn't mind, though,...

It's not usual to get an award for collecting rubbish, but then it's not usual to recover 750,000 tonnes of cardboard, enough...

Those of you who regularly use the AS may not know it but you are in fact driving along a route of considerable archaeological...

Here's one to jot in the diary: Sunday 29 October, a rally in aid of Children in Need will be held at Holditch Miners' Club at...

As with so many aspects of haulage, the 41/44-tonne decision is complex—there are just too many variables in the equation, from...

This is where the canny operator will start to get sceptical: any calculation of "productivity" requires assumptions that are...

RESULTS • As we have mentioned, the British weather did its best to spoil the precision of our results, but a clear trend came...

LEGISLATION The Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000. CIF 1 August 2000. Amend requirements and...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £10,650 (ex-VAT), including 1210 for metallic paint. ENGINE: 2.5-litre, 76hp normally aspirated diesel. CR:...

into warehousing, you've probably found out to your cost already that a warehouse, like a fleet of commercial vehicles, needs a...

• If a WMS system supported by bar coding sounds like a lot to take on board—it is. But in most cases, it is well worth it,...

So what do you do when one of your HGVs breaks down? As Steve Banner reports, manufacturers, dealers and independent...

E If you buy a part from a dealership, fit it in your own workshop, and it fails through no fault of your own, can you make a...

and they are eagerly snapping up the latest batch of transport and logistics graduates. But many traditional hauliers simply...

There are 36 places available annually on the University of Huddersfield's Transport and Logistics BSc degree course. The...

doesn't stop there. Kent-based Freightmaster is a prime example of one keen to explore new horizons from rail to warehousing....

customer owes less than f5,0oolo you might be able to recover your money through the small claims court. Wilf Altman explains...

taxation levels, we sympathise with all those who feel they are not playing on a level field. We are also most concerned that...