• Rod Heather, former managing director of Foden has joined Reno; It ',/' as cornmercial sales director. Renault announced 13...

by Amanda Bradbury • BR moved swiftly this week to distance itself from French railways operator SNCF which is intending to sue...

• The joint receiver of Scottish independent haulier Kildonan Transport says the company is likely to show at least a Lim...

by Nicky Clarke • Thousands of vehicles will begin paying higher tax rates this year as the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency...

MI Local authorities should encourage the relocation of distribution and operating centres so they use the most suitable...

• Trade Secretary Michael HeseRine is set to change the law on company receiverships following a controversial court decision...

• The cross-party transport select committee has recommended that the testing carried out by the Vehicle Inspectorate should...

• The Department of Transport is understood to have made a U-turn on the way in which continuous licensing is now to be...

• A switch to pipeline deliveries and a reduction in the number of fuel tankers delivering to Manchester Airport could become a...

by Steve McQueen • Chelmsford Police were called in by receivers at Robson Rhodes last week after it emerged that a fleet of...

• More than 40 small hauliers are unlikely to get debts of up to £9,000 each paid back following the collapse of freight...

by Juliet Parish • Fuel wholesaler Burmah Petroleum Fuels plans to cut its transport costs by up to 10% by dropping most of its...

by Juliet Parish • Transport Development Group is turning to UK and Continental acquisitions after raising "a bundle of cash"...

• Thirty drivers employed by Portsmouth fresh produce haulier Mainland Market Deliveries are facing tachograph charges at the...

• The Lovers Lane Transport appeal that led to the European Court's ruling on the interpretation of the four and a half hour...

• Hays signalled its intention to go for distribution growth on the Continent last week when it posted half-year results with...

• A police check of 30 vehicles on the M6 at Perry Barr last week has resulted in half the vehicles-14—being issued with...

by Brian Weatherley • While the Department of Transport has been busy debating what constitutes a "railhead journey" many of...

STRATEGY: "A plan for gaining an advantage." Hands up everyone who thinks the Government has one for road transport? We only...

by Toby Clark • Standard driver's airbags and door-reinforcing bars are among changes to the specifications and prices of...

Fewer bodybuilders have been exhibiting at the Birmingham Motor Show in recent years, and while their presence has grown at the...

• St Ives, Cornwall-based Nicholas Eastwood was warned about vehicle maintenance by Western DLA John Robins at a Penzance...

• A warehouseman who loaded pallets in the reverse order cost Bakers Transport of Sheffield and one of its drivers £688.12 in...

• Granting Fort Williambased Stewart McCallum International a licence for two vehicles and two trailers, Scottish LA Michael...

• The Transport Tribunal has quashed a decision by South Wales DLA Gerrard Sullivan to disqualify the directors of...

• LA Michael Betts took no action against the licence of Maidens-based John Marshall & Sons at an Ayr disciplinary inquiry, but...

• No action has been taken against the licence held by Cumbrian hauliers Joan and Peter Newton following vehicle excise duty...

• Preston Crown Court has quashed a £1,000 fine imposed on NL Whittaker by Lancaster magistrates for failing to have a two-year...

• An overloaded refuse vehicle has cost Al lerdale District Council in Workington and one of its drivers £640 in fines and...

r i• Three Norbert 0 Dentressangle drivers have been ordered to pay 11,065 fines and costs by Rochdale magistrates, for...

• A Glasgow industrial tribunal has ruled that a driver employed by Paisley based WE! Malcolm was nor dismissed; his...

by Juliet Parish • They turned up at a Derbyshire hotel in their tractive units from all over the country: owner-drivers and...

IN Pavilion has been collecting truck drivers' views on its customer care-line since last October: now it has begun acting on...

R egarding the article ."Marston's closes its garage" in Commercial Motor 24 February on page 5, you state that Walsallbased...

I refer to your item regarding Prizeflow in CM 3-9 March_ While your report is correct, in that the authorisation on our...

Tread with interest the larticle published in the issue of 24 February on Balfour Beatty regarding its operations on the second...

I f the thoughts projected by the senior Licensing Authority (CM 24 Feb-2 Mar) came to fruition, the truck industry might be...

In a third court, a prosecution for overloading an axle by 900kg, while the vehicle was some 600kg inside its allowable gross...

riving a truck and becoming an MP: these are the only two things you still have to be 21 to do legally in this country,...

ow, Luciano Pavarotti and Edwina Currie—is there room for two such huge egos on the same page? Our Pay was caught giving the...

at Body Shop's Littlehampton headquarters is not quite what it appears. The cosmetic retailer was expecting a visit from...

oad haulage adapts to change better than any other sec - tor of British industry and CM has been recording those changes every...

• ImS is to continue its programme of one day courses on SF air suspensions and axles aimed at fleet operators. The course...

• A one day conference on diesel engine practice will take place on 22 April at Wil, in Switzerland. Speakers from Bosch, BP,...

• The National Association of Road Transport Modellers is holding an open truck rally at the Transpennine Rally on 6/7 August....

• The North American Trucking Symposium is to be held on 10-12 April at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch,...

• Basildon-based VCS Road Services has introduced a twice-weekly trailer consolidation service to Hungary and Poland. And it is...

• A report which identifies how vehicle component and materials suppliers can benefit from political, trading and manufacturing...

• The AA is warning drivers to expect delays in the following locations: London and the South East: M25 in Bucks at J15J16...

a Mercedes 16I7K skiploader which was stolen from Bicester Road, Aylesbury, on Monday 7 March between 00:00 and 06.30hrs. The...

recovery of a yellow MAN tipper belonging to MG Cosgrove Civil Engineering. The vehicle was taken from a Tarmac compound on the...

a Coventry haulier: making off with two vehicles and a trailer belonging to the company in one night. A fourth vehicle hired...

theft is coming soon from Commercial Motor, the Road Haulage Association and Iveco Ford Truck. The Trucktheft Action Pack—...

stolen from Banbridge Coachworks, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland sometime during February. The company did not...

Freight Transport Association have started a truckwatch scheme to cover the Eastern Counties. Hauliers pay a one-off fee of...

T hose manufacturers who don't offer a full-width cab are busy ta ing existing standard-roof single bunk sleeper cabs and...

current SK cab is getting a little long in the tooth. This is just as well as Merc's long-awaited replacement heavy truck cab...

E RF's EC Sovereign cab is a high-spec sleeper that can stand alongside most of the continentals in its class. But to compete...

W ith the EuroTech Iveco has attempted to address all the criticisms of poor interior finish and cab comfort levelled at the...

F or the second year running an MAN emerged from our handful of standard sleeper-cabbed artics as being the easiest on a...

M ercedes was a late-comer to high-roof cabs, launching the Eurocab late last year as standard on the 1850 and 2550 and as an...

of plaudits and awards over the past year; testers have seen the luxury of the top-spec cabs and assumed that they represent a...

Price as tested: £8,680 (ex-VAT). plus 2144 for load liner. Engine: 1,681cc, 40kW (54hp) diesel. GVW: 1,650kg. Payload:...

parcels surveyyhen 10 unwitting operators delivered next-day packages from Glasgow to Penzance. But how did they do it? We went...

possible 50) and second on speed (23hr 27min) in our survey (CM 23 December-5 January). The secret of success? "All we do is...

last September amid all the hype and publicity corporate PR could muster. Talk of a £600m development budget filled the...

Si = statutory instrument cif = coming into force SI No 116 The Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order...

EC Legislative Initiatives • The Vehicle Inspectorate options for the future-Consultation on the privatisation of HGV Test...

The Hollis The welcome could have been brighter and the sausages might have been warmed up but at least Cannock's A5 Truckstop...

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT OPERATOR No 3: Moving abnormal indivisible loads under the Special Types Order...

SCAN 'IA Attendants, police and highway notice and projection marking ATTENDANT. In addition to the driver, an attendant must...

The permitted gross and axle weights of vehicles used under the Order depend on which one of three vehicle categories is chosen...

A vehicle made before 1 October 1989 and authorised under the Order (in any category) is exempt from the following C and U...