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• by Dominic Perry Creditors of a Coventry haulier which went into liquidation owing £697,000 are furious that its sister-firm...
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of compensation im by Miles Brignall and Dominic Perry The Road Haulage Association has labelled the government's offer of...
• The director of an Exeter-based haulage firm who lost an appeal against the revocation of its Operator's Licence plans to...
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by Miles Brignall iousands of haulage companies will have to offer sir employees access to the government's new akeholder...
The one thing guaranteed to draw attention to a faulty speed limiter is. ..excessive speed. The case brought against a TDG (UK)...
1 More light goods vehicles than ever before are o be targeted for checks by the Vehicle ispectorate. VI product strategy and...
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I by Mike Gerber mbitious plans to switch the ransport of almost threeuarters of a county's waste o rail are set to be knocked...
Logistics group Exel is to create a further 200 jobs in the West Midlands after winning the national distribution contract for...
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6-7 May Commercial i near Peterborough. Contact: 01775 768661. • Hauliers in Hartlepool are siphoning diesel from their...
• RHA Insurance Services has launched a new risk management and security advisory service to help hauliers who are confused...
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• A major new player has emerged in the UK truckmounted sweeper market with the launch of the Schmidt SK650. At the British...
• March was not a good month to be in the commercial vehicle business unless you were French or Ford, according to the latest...
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by Brian Weatherley 3.ckwall Lane, London SE10 ght seem like an unlikely site a major commercial vehicle mponent testing...
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I Iveco Ford acknowledges that this is the most important upgrade of its Cargo nd SuperCargo ranges since they were aunched in...
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by Robin Meczes It's obviously going to be a busy year for Daf in the UK with two new model ranges and a new managing director...
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The non-payment of fines, costs and back duty totalling £17,167 has led to the revocation of the licence held by Nantwich-based...
n A crane driver employed by Fergusons Transport of Speen Bridge has been ordered to pay £330 in fines and costs for allowing...
A West Wales farmer who sells topsoil has been granted a restricted 0licence despite admitting that he had used his vehicle...
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of the Socialist Truck Drivers (STD) campaign over lack of provision for parking of HGVs at the end of a day's work (CM 5-11...
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CF range it seems the right time to look back at part of the range that debuted back in 1992. The CF (in case you were...
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mile" Roy McCrudden II Argos fleet service manager Roy McCrudden looks after a mixed fleet of 350 tractors, 1,000 trailers, zoo...
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as a tool to do a particular job" John Ash Commercial Vehicle Contracts, based at Thame, is Daf's finance arm; it handles a...
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been very good" Ted Bolt Parcelnet is a new company formed from the merger of mail-order giants Freemans and Grattan. Fleet...
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Low-powered tractive units flu an important niche in the ma transport scene. Most new 75s are bought by large fleets for...
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his licence has beer checked and his references have been approved, so its on with the job. That's what one Northampton-based...
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Kammac, diversification into warehousing—and a host of other activities—started with a simple haulage contract for canmaker...
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npany calls on for week-long pa to Switzerland when it Ids extra cover. Another operation that predates older drivers is lest...
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away business is painful. The temptation to accept a load when there's no time to check the potential client's credit rating is...
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E FA t doesn't take long to come across the symptoms of the panic that is gripping the countryside. Lanes leading to farmland...