in his cab minutes after pulling off the road into a lay-by in Folkestone. Police were called after he was seen slumped over...

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond has pledged to bring the Skye Bridge into public ownership and scrap the tolls if...

delays earlier this week after French port workers protesting at the ending of duty free stopped ferries from docking in Calais...

Hays Distribution is set to create 400 jobs after winning a three-year contract to run regional consolidation centres for DIY...

A buyer for Leeds-based A One Transport, which went into voluntary receivership last month ( CM 18-24 Feb), will be announced...

and environmental costs in taxes, according to a report commissioned by the railfreight group EWS Railways.

The Highways Agency has been forced to erect a new set of direction signposts at Junction 9 of the M42 after an existing road...

supplement in the Volvo FM series, Looking at how the new Swedish tractor can save operators money out on the road—and in the...

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION • by Charles Young Creditors of disgraced haulier Road Movement Services (RMS), which is in the process...

The European Parliament is set to refuse to exempt truck drivers from the EV's forthcoming 48-hour working week. Despite...

• Operators reeling from the effects of the Budget have been phoning the trade associations in their thousands looking for...

• by David Craik Haulage protest group Trans Action is calling on operators to send trucks and drivers to a rally in London...

Shadow Transport Secretary Gillian Shephard has warned that 50.000 jobs could be lost in Britain's haulage industry due to the...

• Lang queues of trucks formed at border service stations as Irish truckers filled up with diesel south of the border following...

by Charles Young Brian Palmer, the Essex dealer exposed by CM for selling dangerous trucks, has been ordered to pay out more...

• by Midmel Jewell The Wolverhampton depot of Carline Transport has been ordered to pay more than 122,000 in fines and costs...

NI Renault VI plans to double its FiGV production to 100,000 units a year by 2005, says chairman and chief executive Patrick...

The fuel tax battle is moving into a new phase. The struggle to win over the hearts and minds of the nation's opinion formers...

• by Miles Brignall Axial, the car transporting arm of Tibbett & Britten, is expected to shed subcontractors and might make...

• Nearly half the 35 HGVs checked by West Mercia police earlier this month were found to be leaking diesel. Sergeant Jim...

• Lynx Express, which acquired Red Star earlier this year, is the first and only parcels group to send packages on the new...

• Local councils in the UK are looking at the feasibility of running their own Weighbridge Testing Units now that the...

by Karen Miles UK hauliers angry about the damage inflicted on the industry by eastern European hauliers should stop...

III The readers of Diesel Driver, a quarterly magazine published by fuel management company CH Jones, are being asked to vote...

• Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has promised to stop cigarette smuggling following an admission that it is costing...

Speaking at the Westminster fuel duty lobby, Owen Paterson MP told hauliers that they need to make their MPs' lives "miserable"...

• by Cohn Barnett The most significant change to the Spanish-built Iveco EuroTrakker range of construction vehicles is the...

• by Corm Barnett Next week's Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC looks likely to be the biggest yet, with 13 chassis...

IM for the top • by Bryan Jarvis Seddon Atkinson's EuroMover is due at next week's Commercial Vehicle show before series...

The third North Wales tipper Operator to appear before Hintshire magistrates accused of falsifying tachograph records has been...

North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe decided not to take any action against Rochdalebased Cook Street...

Producing a false tachograph chart to a traffic examiner cost Dublin-based lorry driver Gerald Mooney £155 in fines and costs...

A Derby haulier and one of its drivers were each fined £500 by West Bromwich magistrates on seven charges of tachograph record...

Derby Crown Court has upheld a fine of £1,501] imposed on Benny Lynch Transport for using a vehicle when its speed limiter was...

I applaud the efforts of your magazine to highlight the problems in our industry as you have always done. Governments will...

It always cheers the Hawk up to hear there are people like Alan and Diane Watt. After a visit to Poland in 1995, they began to...

The Shap Story from the Transport Archive Series is a revised edition of the 1994 booklet first published to coincide with the...

and now: no cheap jokes at the LDV Pilot's expense. Sure, it can trace its lineage directly back to the 1960 Austin J4— but the...

Cab comfort The basic-spec Isringhausen driver's seat is firm and comfortable, although access past the intruding wheelardi is...

one time he thought he might go into retail, specialising in menswear. It was perfectly logical: "Well, I'm a man, and I wear...

I PRICE AS TESTED: £17,345, includes £15,900 for the basic vehicle; £850 for the air conditioning and full bulkhead; £320 for...

rippled by the highest levels of vehicle taxes in the European Union, some UK international hauliers are planning to register...

• Diesel duty (pence per litre) UK, 50; Italy, 26; France, 24; Austria, 20; Luxembourg, 17. • VED (38-tonner) UK, £3,210;...

stillages full of car components into a curtainsided semi-trailer. Those components have got to get to the factory on time...

tachograph, and the accompanying drivers' hours reg ulations, will play an increasingly important role in your road transport...

it only gets used to prop a door open in the traffic office" Nick Rendell tachograph, due in 200T, might seem to spell the...

Employers must: • Issue each driver with sufficient suitable tachograph charts for every journey, with spares; NI Ensure...

in 1928, Harold Swift won the contract to shift sand from the town to the site of the new camp. And so began a company which is...

1:11 11111 makes money L ong before the new FMs came on stream last year, Volvo had begun examining ways to extend oil change...

control units (ECUs) controlling various functions such as engine management and anti-lock braking. They all worked largely in...

diagnosis made. Two password levels are available: a "mechanic" level with limited access and an "owner" level with full...

Knowledge Y ou know the scene: "We haven't got that part, it's a new model..." or "Sid's the only one that's done a course on...

years since the launch of the FH—we've gathered a lot of operator experience in that time, and done a lot of research and...