n a Financial Times league of he UK's 500 largest companies lays came in 49th place with xel at 98 and Tibbett & Britten it...

Ihieves have used blow torches to burn off locks and steal three trailers in the Welshpool area in the past fortnight.

About £12m is needed to improve three dozen west Wales road bridges, Carmarthenshire council has been told by experts.

The Institute of Logistics and Transport is offering its 23,000 members and potential recruits a new web site service. Visitors...

Stormont Trucks, the Nem Ford truck dealership subsidiary, has been sold to a management buy-out team. The new company is...

Exel is to operate Sainsbury's new regional distribution centre at Emerson's Green in Bristol. The supermarket is moving...

The Highways Agency has commissioned a Compendium of Best Practice for Traffic Control and Information Systems. It follows the...

• by Jez Abbott The issue damaging every haulage business in the UK is dominating the general election campaign with parties...

Same week PM Tony Blair announced the election date, but the group insists that the move was not a political stunt. Weekend...

ni Wincanton is locked into more pay talks with its drivers at depots around the country with some of them already threatening...

• by Mike Jewell Scottish-based Hayton Coulthard, owned by the family of Grand Prix driver David Coulthard, is facing...

i by Miles Brignall beet operators can now insure iemselves against the patenally enormous legal bills that an arise if one of...

bosses jailed II Two men who masterminded the journey in which 58 Chinese stowaways suffocated inside an airtight semi have...

trucks caught running without Operating Licences in July: it is now negotiating with the firms who will store confiscated...

justice have been thrown a lifeline by the Foreign Office (F0). Until now the FO has only intervened on humanitarian grounds...

• by Guy GliuMuird Up to 100 drivers' jobs are to be created delivering car parts to BMW's plant in Oxford after it launches...

• A Northern Ireland agency is set to pursue the assets of criminals involved in smuggling illegal fuel from the Republic. The...

• Before long more than half the trucks moving goods into and out of the UK will be foreign-registered. According to the...

It's crunch time. With the general election just three weeks away the contenders are all falling over themselves to tell us...

by Mike Jewell s CM went to press one of yriI Knowles' former drivers, erek Terry, was due to appear efore Cardiff magistrates...

I Palletline plans to expand its etwork to at least 50 member ompanies by the end of this ear to cope with demand for .s...

• by Dominic Perry The row over Gwent Police's management of its vehicle recovery contract was re-ignited this week after...

• Crewe-based haulier Caratrans is converting a third of its fleet to gas power but says it cannot go further in the absence of...

by Colin Barnett ith its Volkswagen Transporter-based "oduct now firmly established on the UK arket, Razorback Vehicle...

I The truck market continues D suffer compared with last ear; overall sales are down by round 15% for the year to date,...

m BP Lubricants has launched a product and service programme designed to help operators improve their efficiency and...

issue mentioned that the Vehicle Inspectorate had trialled a Danish brake tester as supplied by Vilest Systems. This was...

for local operations in the Glasgow area. The 4x2 rigids replace FL6s; they will average 50,000 miles a year on four years of...

its Karios range of direct-drive refrigeration units. The Xarios 200 and 150 are designed for light CVs; they feature...

Renault Premiums. Managing director Bill Webb says: "I was very wary of looking at Renaults as I still had clear memories of...

Alpha 8x4 fitted with a Heil Europe Big Bite rear-end loader to work two 10hr shifts a day. The specification includes onboard...

his 3peal against the revocation his licence by North Western ;Beverley Bell. The Transport lbunal is to put its decision writing.

airrtenance problems and a umber of convictions led to ie licence held by Gilmour rothers, of Lesmahagow, Ong suspended for a...

have led 3 a licence revocation for sales of Conwy. Welsh IC avid Dixon disqualified the artners, Doreen Davies and !orris...

for using a trailer with elective brakes cut to £500. olton Crown Court decided hat the fine imposed by the own's magistrates...

licence at an astbourne public inquiry, on ondition that the company mintains a drivers' nil defect eporting system.

failed businesses has been given until the end of the year to prove it can operate satisfactorily. North Western Traffic...

Bed manufacturer Sweet Dreams (Nelson)'s appearance at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry turned into a nightmare when its licence...

and speeding has had his Ha driving licence suspended for four weeks. Dennis Vaughan Williams of Dreflan, Rhosgadfan,...

application for its new site, made some four months before the lease expired on its former premises, was not dealt with in...

Running three vehicles with defective speed limiters has cost a North Yorkshire firm more than £4,000 in fines and costs....

Motor? Does someone In the dus'b, deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial rotor, Room H203,...

Following hot on the heels of the news that the starting gun has been fired in the great race to Westminster, the Spagthorpe...

many construction fleets, but after a 13-year run it was time for a replacement. The FM12 and FM7 8x4s were both launched...

quarry vehicles" John Hourigan At 67 haulage contractor John Hourigan says it's time to think of retirement, but he's...

is generally bel (fr. It has more " Michael O'Donovan Michael O'Donovan is managing director of the skip hire and waste...

a good image" Robert Collard Robert Collard got into transport almost by accident. Nine years ago, while working as a...

"I'd he happy to huy as many as I can get" Paul Hughes Paul Hughes is the used truck sales manager for the privately owned...

"Those operators I know that are operating them seem highly delighted with their performance" Chris Wright Chris Wright is...

Up until now if you've been looking for a b - u.11€ proof eight-wheeler for heavy-duty muckaway work, you've probably been...

you will be amazed by the number of cards from haulage companies trying to find HGV drivers. Ring any operator you care to...

Backioading is simply good business practice, say most hauliers. But to make it work, you need good business sense. Here's what...

Backloads are not a luxury they often make the difference between failure and success. Ensuring your vehicles run loaded...

with all cities, there is hive of activity behind the scene; These two locations are no exceptioi the six hauliers Tim Maughan...

S ureway Transport started when Rob Lloyd's mother, who worked for a printer, found getting loads shifted for lastminute jobs...

it's refreshing to meet an operator who takes a rather relaxed approach to his work. Kelvin Parker, partner in Chilcompton,...

E uropean groupage operator Westfield International has carved out a lucrative niche as a small operator in a sector dominated...

A ndy Holder left school at 16 and learned to drive through the RTITB young driver's scheme. He steadily worked his way up...

LEGISLATION :Community Drivers' Hours ot and Mouth DisoncP) mPerarY Exception) (P402) (ulations 2001. CIF 5 April 11, Extend...

environment, plains what hauliers will get if you vote for his party in the general election... If you want to sound off about...