by Karen Miles • The likelihood of overloaded lorries being caught by surprise checks has increased dramatically. Early trials...

• An LGV driver training body with a membership of more than 800 qualified instructors is at the centre of a fraud squad...

by Derren Hayes • The spiralling costs of fuel over the past few months has left many operators fearing for their futures....

• The Road Haulage Association aims to improve the calibre of new hauliers by pushing Traffic Commissioners to impose tougher...

T he Vehicle Inspectorate is claiming "astonishing accuracy" for its mobile weigher test (see page 4). So all those operators...

by Lee Kimber • TNT's loss-making contract haulier TNT Transport Systems (TSL) is to cut drivers' pay in a bid to stem losses....

• Avon police are investigating claims that a Balfour Beatty construction manager demanded backhanders from tipper drivers...

• Tony Eyers, the disgraced former managing director of Fewston Transport—the company whose lorry ran out of control killing...

• A Taunton owner-driver is calling for witnesses to help clear him of criminal and civil charges over an accident he says he...

by Stuart Ellis • The owners of a runaway trailer which hit a truck and killed its driver have escaped punishment after the...

• International hauliers face an increasingly restricted choice for their Channel crossings following the news that P&O...

• A Bradford haulier plans to continue his legal battle after losing an appeal against a fine imposed for a faulty fifth-wheel...

in Scotland for the retail group Superdrug; 8,000 products will be distributed to the firm's 60 Scottish stores. • Merlin...

by Derren Hayes • Hundreds of the UK's HGV driving instructors could boycott the Driving Standards Agency's voluntary register...

Central Trailer Rental Group (CTR) is back in the black after shaving 22.5m off depreciation and costs in the quarter ending on...

by Lee 'Umber • Bedfordshire haulier Graham Smith is suing Mid-Bedfordshire District Council for £3,000 after the council gave...

0 Haula g e isn't worth g ettin g ahead in because mana g ers' salaries are 2.4% below avera g e, accordin g to salary fi g...

• Customs has been criticised for its heavy-handedness in dealing with lorry drivers in an independent report published last...

• The Government looks set to cut the road spending budget by 20%, more than £200m, as pressure mounts on the Chancellor to...

• Tail-lifts are due to become safer but more expensive next year when new EC regulations come into force. From 1 January 1997...

• l'eugeot and Citroen have announced prices for their new Partner/Berlingo high-cube vans—the two models are...

• I,ex Transfleet has supplied Japanese Airlines subsidiary ICI, with two more specially adapted lveco Cargo vehicles for its...

by John Kendall • A supercharged Volvo FL6 6x4 tipper is expected to make its debut at TipCon next spring. Series production...

by Bryan Jarvis • Wilberfoss-hased JAWGE Engineering has developed a unique self-steering bogie arrangement which is suitable...

While Daf shareholders consider US truck maker Paccar's offer to buy the company, CM'S US correspondent Steve Sturgess examines...

• Wire Watcher 2 is a British-designed and made device which warns operators of tippers, materials handlers and cranes of the...

• Roadlink International's latest brake catalogue lists more than 400 parts which are available from stock. The catalogue is...

• A part - time inventor has come up with a lock which fits to a van's rear twin doors. The Bril locking bar is made from...

• Battery Guard is system-designed to monitor on-vehicle battery voltage while the ignition is switched off so that a power...

• Bosch has introduced its first CV-specific parts catalogue aimed at independent motor factors. The 83-page publication covers...

by Lee-Kimber • A widely published Customs & Excise drugs hotline number that allows drivers to report suspicious behaviour is...

• Kent truck drivers are the target of a Transport and General Workers Union drive to win 100% union membership in every...

MI Drivers facing prosecution over their in-cab TV sets should contact the Drivers Action Movement to help it win clarification...

• A driver training scheme aimed at 18-year-olds is set to prepare them for a life in the cab with a Category-C vocational...

II A charge of using a dangerous vehicle, brought against Carnforth-basecl Alan Thompson Haulage, was dropped before Penrith...

• Appeals have been lodged against the revocation of the licence held by Lewis Land Services, of Stornoway, and the indefinite...

• Paperwork forms a very important part of road safety, said West Midland TC John Mervyn Pugh, when he cut the licence held by...

• Opposition from a neighbouring resident resulted in Claro Construction's licence being increased from - five to six vehicles,...

• Once an operating centre has been reviewed under the environmental provisions in the continuous licensing provisions, a...

by Michael Jewell ▪ Penrith magis trates have decided that charges alleging the falsification of tachograph records are so...

• Two owner drivers were cleared of overloading charges after Appleby, Cumbria, magistrates accepted that an electronic...

sm U A Wolverhampton tipper operator, who said he was "too busy working" to attend a new operator's seminar following the...

EVENTS NEWS • Logistics on the Move series of free seminars on computer software in the transport industry: 22 October: The...

seen it all but the Government planning to pay truck operators to sit in parking lots with their fridges running rather than...

pages of Commercial Motor we see stories of hauliers deciding to close up shop because rates are too low. This may seem...

call for an end to sleeper cabs (CM 10-16 October), but does he really think that there is an alternative? It's had enough...

article I on the landfill tax by Derren Hayes (CM 1 0-1 6 October). It is not surprising that after only a week in operation...

1 October 1896 that the Daimler Company, of Cannstatt, Germany, delivered its first petrol-fuelled goods vehicle. Whether that...

truck range it seems—new cab/old engine, old cab/new engine, new cab/new engine, long-distance cab first, right-hand-drive...