If the scale of the impact of digital tachographs on the road transport sector needed any further illustration, look no further...

East Anglia's Turners (Soham) has started the year with the purchase of respected bulk powder distributor CRW. Chris Tindall...

Reed Business Information, has taken over the assets of TruckNet UK, the UK's leading road transport website for drivers....

YEARSLEY GROUP admits the closure of the Birds Eye depot in Hull could lead to redundancies among its drivers — but says it...

SCANIA'S EURO-5 engines will appear this year, but operators hoping for a two-pedal Opticruise transmission will have to wait....

TEESIDE'S BULMERS I ..ogisties plans further growth after expanding its fleet last year: the bulk and container operator is...

Our report on Astra Vehicle Technologies' replacement Euro-4/5 SCR exhaust systems suggested they were only available for...

In our 11 January edition it was reported that Joseph Hathaway of Newry, a driver employed by Dumfries Freight, appeared before...

A truck driver was killed on Friday 12 January after being trapped between his 51-tonne artic and the wall of a house in...

Three Iranian Kurdish immigrants were arrested at GPS Sprayers' site in Station Yard, Thame, Oxon on Friday 5 January after...

Ian Fleming of Dundeebased CJ Land has been elected to serve another year as chairman of the Freight Transport Association's...

The Traffic Commissioner will decide whether to revoke the licence of a six-month-old East Anglian haulage company. Chris...

STRICTER ENFORCEMENT of the working time regulations could be on the cards to guard against operators abusing the system....

ASSOCIATION of Removers (BAR) and the Showmen's Guild have branded London's low-emission zone (LEZ) as unfair — they warn it...

TRANSPORT FOR LONDON is recruiting three senior managers for its freight team. These permanent positions, which include the...

The public wants a 24/7 economy — but what does that mean for those who have to deliver it? LGV driver L Radley knows... "I...

Can the Traffic Commissioners trust 0-licence applicants to be truthful? It seems not — so maybe it's time to tighten up if we...

HEAPS SAYS the McKinney & Son case and others have led him to believe the 0-licence application procedures must be reviewed. He...

The European Court of Justice is to decide whether to allow firms to flag out to countries where costs are lower. David Harris...

THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Online Health Challenge came to an end last week — more than 400 people completed the 12-week programme to...

RAIL FREIGHT specialist EWS Network is predicting a sharp rise in the number of intermodal containers transported by rail. The...

LEADING FRENCH BULK chemical operator Groupe Samat has consolidated its presence in the UK market with a "large, major, and...

CHESTER-BASED Edwin C Farrall Transport is celebrating its golden anniversary by buying two Volvo FH12 6x2 Globetrotter& The...

Safety fears have been raised by the latest EU country to assess longer, heavier trucks. Dylan Gray reports. INITIAL RESULTS...

LOUGHBOROUGH University (LU) has been granted £200,000 to help improve drivers' health. The cash, awarded by the Bupa...

A DRIVER is seeking compensation for unfair dismissal after denying that excessive speeding made his truck overturn. John...

Plans to introduce a height limit on LGVs in Ireland have met opposition from two road haulage associations. Chris Tindall...

THE AVERAGE hourly pay for category C+E drivers has risen by 9.4% since the Road Transport Directive took effect — but...

SCAT\ A. SHAREHOLDER Volkswagen has rejected MAN's hostile takeover bid for the Swedish truck giant, saying it wants the...

A dedicated logistics institute will open this summer to support local operators and provide undergraduate courses. Chris...

PEUGEOT IS THE first member of the Sevel partnership to release UK prices and GVW ratings for the latest mini-SeveI lk range of...

NORTHERN IRELAND charity Action Cancer has become the first UK operator to run a Euro-5 Volvo. The FH 400 4x2 Globetrotter XL...

ADR EXPRESS IS appealing for information about a trailer stolen from its yard in Droitwich, Wares at the end ofJune 2006, The...

TESCO IS RUNNING more than 75% of its 2,000 trucks on a50% biodiesel blend marketed as Greenergy B50. Tesco is one of the...

With another pallet network about to join an already crowded sector, Dylan Gray looks at government research that shows what...

Who sold the most CVs last year, and how will the market perform in 2007? Louise Cole runs her eye over the end-of-year sales...

tough year —"and that's not being pessimistic, it's being realistic". Bruce Allison at Renault says: "In recent years the UK...

TNT Logistics rebranded as Ceva Logistics in December. Chris Tindall asks managing director Neil Crossthwaite what the future...

Filmed on location in Iowa, USA it includes coverage of 100's of truckers 'showing' their highly polished and cleaned rigs in...

US truckers can trace their origins back to the days of the wild west and drive some of the biggest rigs in the world. The crew...

Dramatic coverage of the 1500 mile long Akan' featuring trucks, drivers, forestry machinery, spectacular scenery and wildlife...

Four, not to be missed, features including the movement of cranes from Rotterdam to Canada, an industrial yew] through...

This 60 minute film shows how, with good planning and skillful driving, you can move almost anything and this film shows just...

promotional films dating from 1953 to 1973 and features various Bedford lorries and the uses they were put to. This is a real...

This programme looks at some of the larger JCB machines at work on sites. It takes in earthinoving for warehouse construction,...

This fantastic film features some of the larger earthmoving equipment working on major projects in Britain including T5 at...

Each of the exceptional loads shown required careful planning and equipment and includes the movement of a Boeing 747, bridge...

This superb film covers from chainsaw to sawmill in British Columbia. It covers the transportation of timber by truck, train...

Truckers are among the skills in short supply in Canada. This great new film was aimed at Dutch drivers wishing to move to...

Description Fully updated with the very latest road and postcode data, Travelmanager is still the UK's No 1 selling route...

US and DaimlerChrysler involved in a Chinese joint venture, 2007 is shaping up as an eventful year for the global light CV...

So much for DainilerChrysler.What of Ford? According to reports from Turkish news agency Sabah, Ford is to start marketing the...

W hether you're talking about digital or analogue tachographs, few companies can rival Tachodisc for technical expertise and...

tachodisc.co.uk, call 01925 28332801 send a postcard to Tachodisc at 19 Kingsland Grange, Wool ston, Warrington, Cheshire WA1...

The Transport Tribunal has rejected a Kent firm's appeal against a TC's refusal to grant it a licence. Mike Jewell reports....

25 prohibitions in five years A BREAKDOWN in its driver defect-reporting system has led to a Forfar operator having a vehicle...

waiting to see what action West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell will take against his licence following his...

A LANCASHIRE skip hire company that spent almost £500,000 on new workshop facilities and recruited an engineering manager from...

AN OPERATOR whose licence was curtailed by the Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown has had the decision overturned by the...

2007 will be a big year for the enforcement of disabled workers' rights. David Craik provides a guide to the Disability...

will begin work in October, integrating the roles of the Disability Rights Commission, the Equal Opportunities Commission and...

Operators who believe that a loophole in the law relieves them of the need for an 0-licence when employing agency drivers had...

Corporate manslaughter: The government wishes to introduce a new offence to hold organisations to account for gross failings by...

The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2006, CIF 1 February 2007. Increases the limits for awards at employment...

sleeper cabs and bells-and-whistles 11(!et flagships. But while you won't retain drivers with gaffer's motors, few fleet...

Double-deck trailers can significantly reduce vehicle movements — benefiting the environment as well as operators' profits....

"You could take a lot of lorries off the road if DDs were used more," says Pete Osbourne, MD of Innovate Logistics. In the last...

trailers built by Lawrence David. Like many shop chains it doesn't use them for store delivery; access is too tight and...

professional drivers' interactive website www.trucknetuk.com -expressed a number of concerns about double-deck trailers....

be unloaded quickly and efficiently. Ratcliff Tail Lifts supplies all the major trailer manufacturers including Cartwright and...

in this Pershore-based fleet, all built by Boalloy. Two of them are step-frames and six are straight-frames all are fixed-deck...

Oliver Moore of Leighton Buzzard, Beds-based BS Trailer Services who recently celebrated 10 years in the business -numbers...

With new type approval regulations on the horizon, lightweight trailers are coming out of the shadows. Sharon Clancy reports....

coupling and avoiding overloading of the trailer axles. Bradley has introduced a sensor that gives an audible signal when the...

Trailer manufacturer SDC Trailers has a new-generation management team which is determined to keep the company at the forefront...

of trailers manufactured at SDC since 2001 has resulted in parts and repair growing too. Repair now occupies eight bays and the...

Volvo took the wraps off its new FL and FE medium-duty range at the Hanover Show in September — and we've now had the chance...

for a run round Volvo Trucks' Warwick HQ, and despite one or two little niggles we came away extremely impressed. Butt irst,...

taken the opportunity to re-align its medium-duty line-up. The 4x2 rigid FL now covers the 12-18-tonne GVW sector; the 4x2 and...

O nce again Ford proved to be the daddy, topping the 2006 CV sales chart. With an advertising campaign promoting the Transit as...

The latest Transit feels traditional and uninspiring, but it's early days yet and perhaps those motorway runs mean its...

Cab, which is slightly larger than its contemporaries and also big on all-round ability. We'll miss it, but not too much —we've...

and over some hairy off-road terrar we've found plenty of pros and very few cons. It is built to such a high standard that we...

One franchised used tuck dealer is offering AdBlue at cost to its customers whenever their vehides make workshop visits. Steve...

Anyone selling niche products and late-year, low-mileage Euro-3 vehicles with analogue tachos should prosper in the new year....

Sometimes dealers have to take a risk, and that's what MercedesBenz dealership Sparshatts of Kent did before Christmas. says...