The DfT has been asked to extend the RPC scheme to cover operators that have already bought Euro-5 trucks. Roanna Avison...

A GANGLAND ENFORCER who was involved with a series of massive truck and haulage depot fires across the North-East has been...

A DEALER IS warning that the lack of test dates at Vosa stations could kill off their businesses. CM has received a number of...

GiVEN VOLVO'S deserved reputation for safety, it is ironic that the mirrors on its heavy trucks have been repeatedly singled...

CM AND ITS stablemates will be out in force at this year's CV Show. Come and play on Roacitransport. corn, enter our £500...

At least 206 UK road haulage firms are prime targets for a takeover and another 269 could be sold off by their parent...

Following the introduction of the new hours regs, drivers are requesting guidance on how they fit in with the VVTD. Roanna...

OVERTURNED his unviction, driver Stephen MeFarane is campaigning to increase the :ompensation available to those vrongly hauled...

According to the Commercial Transportation Research Company, Class 8 sales for January-March 2007 were down 72% on the first...

First to appear, probably at the RAI Show in Amsterdam this October, will be a long-wheelbase version of the Caddy. A 500min...

BRITISH GAS parent Centrica has introduced a permit-to-drive scheme for all of its employees who drive company vehicles or...

LEEDS-BASED Lawcris Panel Products has invested £638,000 in 11 trucks ranging from 7.5 to 27 tonnes, expanding its fleet to 30....

The Chancellor's plan to offer operators a reduced pollution certificate (RPC) for upgrading to Euro-5 before the emissions...

Drivers at Tesco's Livingston depot are staging a strike ballot; the supermarket giant believes "industrial action will achieve...

A 44-TONNE ARTICULATED truck ended up in the Manchester Ship Canal last week after it rolled off the edge of Trafford Tankwash...

GERMAN PARCELS giant DHL has commissioned the world's heaviest electric delivery vehicle to date; it will go into service with...

Heavies are already banned from the southbound carriageway of the B430; now an action group wants to drive them off the road...

with Roadtransportcom Roadtransport com was launched on 1 February 2007 providing a single website designed to help keep you up...

THE PORT OF Liverpool has put up a robust defence against accusations by a haulier that queues and waiting times have made it...

from 2009-14 spending plan Freight will not be included in a rail network blueprint due out this summer, but the DfT insists...

Rikki Chequer, community manager of the popular drivers' website TruckNet UK, reviews the past weekwith smoking and training...

NEARLY 20 TRUCKS were drained of diesel in a fuel-syphoning raid on a Shropshire CV dealer last week. The gang broke into the...

The possible closure of Alconbury truckstop angers the PDA, which has set up a petition to preserve the and for secure parking....

WINCANTON wants customers to share distribution centres in a bid to cut congestion and emissions. The haulier has launched a...

extra mirrors to eliminate the blind spot below the front of cabs after a pensioner was run over by a truck in slow-moving...

OTTING11AM-BASEDlogis:s company C Butt is taking ;livery of 17 Euro-5 18-tonne l36L Mercedes-Benz Actroses. le new Mercs will...

A leaflet being issued to operators and LGV drivers is designed to improve the implementation of Operation Stack on the A14....

NEARLY TWO THIRDS of specialists in the transport and parking technology industry have come out against the imposition of...

APER-BASED packaging coinany Smurfit Kappa has bought a , air of Euro-5 Daf FAS CF85 hiree-axle drawbar prime movers. They are...

Birmingham Employment Tribunal allows diabetic driver to claim sick pay. Peter Swingler reports. 4. TRUCK DRIVER who...

IF ANYONE IN the UK remembers the name of Mahindra. it will be for its licence-built version of the classic Jeep CJ, sold to a...

A Freight Best Practice survey tells next-day parcel deliverers how to measure — and improve — their efficiency. Chris Tindall...

of recommendations: • Use key performance indicators (KPIs)to measure performance internally and externally; vehicle...

Which commercial vehicle drivers are the biggest speeding culprits, and where do the infringements take place? Dylan Gray looks...

:lose Asset Finance has a CV finance book approaching E1 10m, but it's not about to rest Dn its laurels. Andy Salter catches...

YOUR ANALYSIS headed 'A capital idea' (CM 5 April) serves to highlight once again the farcical situation surrounding the London...

IN YOUR FEATURE on recovery charges headed On the road to recovery' (CM 5 April), you said: "Like the emergency services,...

Satellite navigation systems might seem like the ideal solution for vehicles making journeys to lots of different sites. But is...

or becoming stuck in narrow streets, but increasingly sat-nay is being blamed. Here area few examples: • April 2007: A German...

The Tom Tom satellite-navigation will be familiar to many people. As a sat-nay device is supposed to, it plans the route and...

The five-vehicle licence is revoked and the operator disqualified for three years as a "warning" to others. Mike Jewell...

‘_ GARAGE'S LICENCE was revoked after it was ound guilty of fiddling the records of the truck it used or hauling customers'...

THE TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL has ruled that a Traffic Commissioner acted on insufficient evidence when he revoked a company's licence...

Strid conditions imposed on licence DESPITE BEING LINKED to two liquidated companies a Sheffield-based operation has been...

FAILING TO PRODUCE tachograph records on demand has cost Liverpool-based Maguire Trading £2,648 in fines and costs. The...

Should drivers face five years in jail for a fatal mistake caused by careless driving? As long as the judgment is fair the new...

big difference between careless driving and a simple mistake, John Bell points out, and it's to be hoped that the legal system...

Malcolm Millard Haulage veteran Malcolm Millard believes five years in jail is fair for causing death by careless driving. But...

• Five-year jail sentence is a fairer reflection of the loss of life than a £2,500 fine • The tougher penalty could make...

'UTURE LEGISLATION :corporate manslaughter: The government rishes to introduce a new offence to hold rganisations to account...

Look past the furore over Euro-5 and there will be plenty of innovations and concepts at this year's CV Show. CM reviews the...

Look for several launches among the vans and pickups, but manufacturers who want to stand out from the crowd will need to be...

Trailer launches might be in short supply, but there will be plenty going on among the trailer component suppliers. This year...

work here for the moment with improved drivelines. It has increased t e power of the 2.5 and 3.0-litre engines, while the Dyne...

systems designed to work with EGR and SCR systems. They include twin and single vertical stacks as well as under-slung systems....

HE USED TRADE has started ) infiltrate the CV Show through lanufacturers and auction ouses. Following on from last ear's...

The right tyre combination can represent a significant fuel and weight saving for CVs — but it's imperative to make sure they...

more than 20 axles is a specialised task which places very special demands on the driver, as Ivan Stjemqvist discovered... I n...

There was uncertainty in the air at the 2007 Mid America Trucking Show as it began to sink in that there are Jncharted waters...

route? Steve E reports. 0 perators thinking of purchasing a new truck today are in something of a quandary. Should they opt...

hits the road in a 7.5-tonner — with minimal fatalities. y ou may remember that a few months ago (CM21 December 2006) your...

While taking a 7.5-tonner for a spin is not the biggest challenge in the commercial vehicle world, it gives an insight into the...

R uncorn, Cheshire-based Axtec is that rare thinga British-owned firm designing CV gadgetry and manufacturing it in Britain....

Aztec fields a construction staff of nine. This sounds unusual for a CV component manufacturer, but there is a good reason: the...

Bridgewater, Somerset-based Langdons runs 190 trucks, ranging through 7.5 to 44 tonnes, and is a specialist reefer operator...

We set three staffers the challenge of buying a roadworthy panel van — for £600 or less. So what did they blow their cash...

My purchase was an M-reg Renault Master - 135D, the only full-sized van in the challenge and bought on eBay for 2510. The...

I was under the assumption that the classifieds would be bursting with potential vehicles but that wasn't the case. All my...

of the LDV and Renault brands. My initial thought was to opt for that mainstay of the British one-man band, the ex-BT Transit....

LEURO own to operators' luctance to adopt new technology is to blame for a shortage of used et vehicles, says a leading...