resurface a one-mile stretch of the Al between Grange and teeming Bar in North Yorkshire. This will include the repair of three...

Bridge face lengthy delays for the next eight weeks due to roadworks. The A8000 between the Echiline and Ferrymuir roundabouts...

injured after a truck crossed the central reservation and ploughed into oncoming traffic on the M6 in Cheshire. The accident...

sailing schedule from midNovember. Extra morning and overnight crossings will be introduced on the Portsmouth to St. Male...

day last Saturday (12 October) at Brett's Transport, Cambridge on roping, sheeting and reversing. The group will hold other...

Si by Sally Nash The Home Office has made an out-of-court settlement with a group of international hauliers fighting the...

• BT Cullum &Son, based in Tiptree, Essex, is adamant that all hauliers should be treated equally The company which received a...

Next week all copies of Commercial Motor sold from the news stand will have the added value of a FREE glovebox road atlas. The...

I Scotland's deputy transport iinister has delivered the learest indication yet that the cottish Executive will back any empt...

• A group of eight regional hauliers have joined together to form a new haulage firm which they hope will rival the industry's...

II Contractors working on the Selby bypass had to perform a tricky operation this week—manoeuvring six 25-tonne beams into...

Transport secretary Alistair Darling has announced the go-ahead for a £145m package aimed at improving junctions on UK roads....

by Guy Sheppard Port authorities are reacting coolly to a new device designed to make overloading a far easier offence to...

• A strike at Exel's automotive division has been averted after more than 600 dryers accepted a revised pay offer. The deal is...

• British hauliers should brace themselves for another invasion of cut-price foreign operators once the European Union expands,...

A track driver whose chemiil-taden truck careered out of mtrol into a block of flats has nu been sacked by his firm. The...

Were it not for our eagle-eyed chief sub-editor we probably wouldn't have noticed that this is the 5,000th edition of...

I The first independent testing biodiesel has been cornted and the results show a all improvement in fuel econy coupled to...

• The future of an award winning truckstop cafe hangs In the balance after the council estimated repairs to the nearby truck...

• by Miles Brignall Hauliers looking to reduce their vehicle accident rates should pay their drivers better wages, according to...

• An owner-driver who disposed of commercial waste ille gaily on the Millennium Coastal Park in Wales has been finer £600 with...

• A new report on the government's 10-year transport plan predicts less congestion and increased HGV mileage by 2010 but the...

• Controversial new guidelines on vehicle load safety are being published this week (17 October), changing best practice for...

discrimination claim • by Guy Sheppard The Freight Transport Assoc ation is to investigate claims that vehicle inspectors are...

It Bristol-based firm Lane Group is increasing its agenc: driver and training arms, and plans to change the way i approaches...

• Customs have swooped an a truck driver attempting to smuggle £3m worth of cocaine into the UK. The Portugese driver was...

II West Thurrock-based tanker firm Suckling Transport has launched a year-long safety campaign which will address a new issue...

Issue I: 16 March 1905 T he first issue of The Commercial Motor was prefaced by editor E Shrapnell Smith: With early fail....

.) Issue L000: 6 May 1924 C onunercial Motor s r,000th issue carried a review headed headed: "Glancing lack a Thousand Weeks,...

• When DaimlerChrysler UK launched Axor at this year's NEC Show its truck marketing men must have heaved a sigh of relief. Now...

Speccirig the optional Bridgestone Greatec low-aspect wide single drive axle tyres on the Actros is likely to be of limited use...

• There's no question that the biggest changes are inside the Actros cab which has undergone a complete makeover—gaining a new...

• Choosing an Actros engine is simple—V6 or V8. Both Euro-3 engines have gained various tweaks to their turbochargers and...

a by Robin hleczes A County Court judge has ruled that a firm must pay for an LPG conversion on one of its vehicles—even...

on Britain's roads-11 first of 40 examples has be handed over to Turners (Soham ). Most will be 6x2s v midlift axles. An ECT...

new If. president Jim Cardillo drol the first new XF off the assembly line to mark the event. All 4x2 tractors and rigids and...

Transolver Services has sii a five-year repair and maintenance contract wit] municipal specialists Bagrt Morris to cover its...

Cash & Carry feature Southfields' latest weightsaving Compts body panels On a 2011 body, honeycomb panels are said save up to...

Surrey-based Bill Kear Pla Agricultural Contractors Ii taken delivery of a new LPI plant body from Andover Trailers mounted on...

vs Commercial vehicle sales appear to be in freefall, with registrations down almost 36% in September compared with September...

and Anne Wood, trading as A&M Wood (Haulage), was revoked when they failed to appear before the Welsh DTC Roger Seymour at a...

Express Parcels and Hawkins Logistics & Warehousing, both of Hereford. have been revoked and the companies and their directors...

cost Leighton Buzzard-based WJ Doherty & Son £335 in fines and costs. Aylesbury Magistrates heard that after the vehicle...

Consideration of disciplinary action against Newton Stewart-based Calgow Transport. and five of its drivers, has been adjourned...

A Hertfordshire-based chemical firm has been fined more than £1,000 for allowing two of its drivers to exceed their hours and...

A Carlisle truck driver with a four-year history of crashes, careless driving and convictions for tachograph offences has been...

A man disqualified from being a company director three years ago has lost his Operator's Licence and has been banned from...

A disciplinary inquiry against a I Stranraer haulage firm has been adjourned following allegations from a dryer that he was...

Our new column in celebration of the universal law... what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago 18 October 1927 Speaking...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £16,100 (ex-VAT)*. ENGINE: 3.0 litres, GM: 3,500kg. PAYLOAD: igokg. AVERAGE SPEED (LADEN): 67.1km/h....

'Smart-card' tachographs represent a major step forward in the development of driver and vehicle management. Many hauliers...

• Stoneridge Electronics (formerly TVI Europe) and Siemens VDC are among the firms which will be producing the new digital...

For general information about the introduction of digital tachographs tight Transport Association members can contact Robin...

its first birthday in its new incarnation. Miles Brignall finds out what's new at Gist. A nyone who spends any time on the UK's...

1 1 400 g 1P% LEGISLATION The Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (Commencement No.4) Order 2002, CIF 17 September 2002. Amends and...

• 4th Motor Insurance Directive: Directive 2000/26/EC, comes into effect from 20 January 2003. By this time all flee) vehicles...

the middle of winter. Australian ter that is. Commercial Motor is vis iting John Pierce Transport, aka JLP, in Girraween, a...

new dealer Scottish-born David Brown Is dealer principal at Sydney Truck Sales at Am deli Park, JLP's local Iveco distributor....

members of the technical desk (perish the thought!) but rest assured that there is a purpose to this year-long indulgence......

in by Cohn Barnett Our long-term Vauxhall Vivaro has now pass the 10,000-mile marker (halfway to its first si vice) and is...

driver is it tax-free? How about the Christmas party? To find out, read on... p AYE is the system in which employers collect...

again. Centuries ago, mounted soldiers and riders on Britain's highways were prone to sudden and i . ous attacks by enemy...

manufacturing in both mainland Europe and the UK, The incompatibility reporteo cannot be levelled at the foundation brake...