consultation document to decide which of should be the responsibility of the Mayor. * Volkswaaer has confirmed it plans to...

Up to 17 small hauliers working out of British Steel's plant at Shotton face bleak futures after BS gave its distribution...

Wolfe is fighting for survival after a Wiltshire freight forwarder went under without paying it for several Continental loads....

director and a driver from a Liverpool haulage firm have been arrested and charged with smuggling more than 25,000 litres of...

vowed to continue operating despite being refused an 0-licence is now facing criminal charges. Takeley-based Paul Ellis, of...

the premises of County Durham operator Kate-Em Hire on 11 June. Kate-Em director Clare Davison says it was simply a mix up,...

for the Mirror Group at Watford and Hebburn are facing redundancy from Sunday 5 July when TNT Newsfast and Eddie Stobart take...

or aspiring hauliers to contact the Falkirk police if they believe they have been stung by a rogue company in the town which is...

is reassessing its tactics after receiving police warnings over last week's protest—and the offer of a meeting with the...

Ryelands Transport Services in Hereford, which transported soft drinks and fertiliser, will put its 20 lorries and assorted...

the brink of collapse. What's your next move? For over half of the nation's hauliers this may not be just a silly role-playing...

50 tanker drivers at the Shell Haven refinery in Essex face an uncertain future after the oil giant admitted it may shut the...

casualties rose by 2% last year compared with 1996, according to new figures from the Department of Transport, but the number...

drivers to falsify their tachograph records to allow them to work over their permitted hours, Ipswich Crown Court heard last...

Council says its road pricing trial is a success, with many motorists supporting a move to tolls. About 60 car owners took...

arrested in France last December has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined £1.5m for smuggling more than 500kg of...

Liverpool haulier whose life was turned upside down after one of his drivers was caught with a consignment of drugs in his...

the beef ban by the autumn have been given a muted welcome by British hauliers. Although the expected lifting of the ban will...

Service) unfairly dismissed 24 drivers and yardmen by refusing to employ them after taking over a contract for the carriage of...

why fuel duty on diesel should be higher than that on petrol have been shown by a retired driver to be ignorant of the facts....

haulage companies is becoming increasingly bleak, says a report from a financial analyst. A depressing 56% of hauliers face...

up in business after being given Clm of his father's £6.6m lottery win two years ago, has been cleared of involvement in a drug...

Wellies, Pacamacs and sou'westers took on World-Cup ticket status in Torbay last week as a rain-sodden !WM show became a mud...

der Meer • Dutch trailer manufacturer D-tec plans to sell its Ultra lightweight trailer as the main product in a UK sales and...

for electric vehicles has opened in Sutton, South London. Three charging bays are now on-line in the town's Gibson Road car...

claims it can save hauliers 5% on their fuel bills, thereby negating the impact of this year's fuel duty increase. Launching...

delivery of a specially made Mercedes-Benz drawbar rig for its pan-European removals and fine art groupage operation. The...

conditional discharge for 12 months after admitting a number of drivers' hours offences before the City's magistrates. He was...

wound up earlier this year for the non-payment of VAT, and who ran two vehicles without tax for six months, had his licence...

rented a site after being told there would be no planning problems has had its application for a licence adjourned until the...

and tachograph offences against Worcestershire haulier Stephen Walker, trading as S Walker Transport, and nine of his drivers,...

a string of environmental conditions on the licence held by First Call Delivery Services following representations from the...

by Penrynbased Syd Knowles being cut to 20 vehicles with a final warning when the company appeared at a Truro disciplinary...

his bid for a new one-vehicle licence at a Cardiff public inquiry before South Wales DTC Alan Jenkins.

who lent one of his community authorisations to an unlicensed haulier has been ordered to pay £700 in fines and costs. The...

for the fourth time using a vehicle without an Operator's Licence has been fined the maximum £2,500 by Bolton Magistrates....

maintenance records and committed drivers' hours offences had his licence revoked at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. John...

Glendenning, of Green Lane, Shotton, was ordered him to pay ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £100 costs. £2,830 after...

investigating the murder of a prostitute want to identify a white lorry seen in the red-light district on the night she...

Road rage can be sparked by the music in your stereo, according to the RAC. "In general, if the music is above 60 beats per...

• New truck drivers could soon have to take a classroom test to establish their likely safety record—before being allowed in...

• "Just get me to the church on time. ..in a Leyland Daf 95.480 XF Space Cab" may not be every bride's dream on her wedding...

something about Chris Curzon saying British trailers are the best in the world. That's a generalisation, and it's debatable....

pull over, I can reveal. During a recent trip to the Lake District I met an off-duty traffic policeman, who divulged a couple...

The Government, the police and the public crack the whip at the heels of these pathetic animals (hauliers) and put them through...

Dixon headed Towing Troubles (CM 4-10 June), we have encountered similar problems towing a trailer behind a 4x4. We have motor...

sleeping partner in my son's owner-driver business. We decided to cease trading as it was no longer making economic sense. But...

of the haulage industry ("Owner-drivers slammed", CM 4-10 June), but if we had an organisation which did something about our...

drivers threaten action" (CM 4-10 June), the drivers represented at Watford wish to disassociate themselves from your article....

the recent fuel-duty demos by Trans Action, particularly the "stop press" story that 14 drivers who took part in the London...

ne Sunday morning in May, while the rest of the street was still sleeping, the Hawk and Foden the dog stole away in their...

of the state of the load-restraint strap market. Colin Barnett has found some good news and some bad news. The good news is...

chip as paper-based systems look increasingly antiquated. Oliver Dixon charts progress—and assesses customer expectations....

British mixer operators are to travel down it. Steve Banner speaks to some of the converts. A6.5m3 mixer barrel is about as...

FACTFILE: CARRY GENTLY BASED: Aldershot. ESTABLISHED: 1984. CONTACT: David Hurst, managing director; Michael Kennedy, director;...

Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1997. CIF 1 October 1997. Require cab notices where the overall...

A Section 4201 the Road Traffic Act 1988 states that it is a defence to prove a vehicle was "proceeding to a weighbridge, which...

spokesman with Transport 2000, the pressure group for green transport, offers some unpalatable evidence on why the cost of...