by Derrell Hayes • The European Commission is to introduce legislation within two years requiring hauliers to replace five...

• Nearly 5 % of truck drivers stopped as part of the latest national multi-agency check, Operation Cargo, were found to be...

by Derren Hayes • A number of P&O Ferrymasters drivers are to be prosecuted for hours and records offences following an early...

• Jacksons Transport of Ossett and its former managing director Alan Jackson were this week awaiting a Bradford jury's decision...

I n the rubbish strewn office that is forever nerve centre of Joe Soap Haulage, CM's notfavourite haulier is busy cleaning his...

by Karen Miles • More 44-tonne trucks could be working on British roads before the general election, if a Government...

by Lee Kimber • The Highways Agency is rebuilding two Leicestershire laybys to make them too small for mobile cafes. The...

by Karen Miles • The pensions ombudsman is to investigate a second complaint against the management of the NFC pension fund....

by Karen Miles • Employers who force their drivers to break the law could face media ridicule thanks to a campaign about to be...

• Truck dealers have come out in support of calls for an increase in the current 38-tonne weight limit on commercial...

• Police have rejected calls to tighten up speed camera operations which may be snaring innocent drivers on the M25. The...

by John Kendall • The first production Isuzu N-Series rolled off the Leyland Trucks line last week, four months after the range...

by Charles Young • Emission technology specialist Engelhard is claiming a 9% cut in fuel consumption and an 85% reduction in...

by John Kendall • Volvo unveils its Perkinspowered 7.5-tonner at the Hanover Show today, ending the year-long speculation over...

II Enfield-based OEM Group has introduced a slimline range of Hubodometers, designed to be interchangeable with all axle end...

• Lifting and tipping specialist Hyva UK has introduced a range of off-the-shelf lightweight oil tanks for vehicle hydraulic...

• Vision Alert Automotive has introduced, Blaze Bar, a compact lightbar intended to fill the gap between a standard beacon and...

• Scheduled for launch this autumn is Don 7450, a new range of brake pads representing nearly 10 years research and...

• West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourlet warns that too many deaths are being caused by trucks running into...

• The managing director of a Barnsley haulage company was told that if its vehicle maintenance went awry in the future,...

• A truck driver accused of killing a woman after allegedly smashing an artic into her car walked free from court after a jury...

• Five \ chides have been suspended from a Batley haulier's licence until the end of the year following the imposition of 61...

when 10 vehicles were suspended, 14 imniediate and 15 delayed prohibitioiis had been imposed on the company's vehicles, There...

by Miles Brignall • British drivers are working on average 50% longer than their European colleagues and only 1 in 50 will...

• The Transport and General Workers Union has warned that drivers employment terms and contracts will have to be modified as...

• A Surrey owner-driver plans to carry on working despite winning more than 11.2m on the National Lottery. Farnham-based...

Forking out I take goods into the fruit & vegetables section of the new Spittlefields Market in Leytonstone, east London....

T agree l(X)0 with M Powell 1 of Kent (CM Letters 5-11 September). I am a driver by occupation and can he asked to make...

Wanted: sign writers o you run a sign writing company that still paints commercial vehicles in the traditional manner? If so,...

5 rum the west country comes news that Somerset Rescue has put into service a Scammell S24 6x6 heavy rescue and recovery unit,...

Leyland Motors in its centenary year comes Leyland Lorries—A Celebration, by Arthur Ingram and published by Nynehead Books....

F 4 ,' cry industry in recession has talked 'bout "downsizing" the workforce, and . he tipping industry has been hit harder...

44 substantial pack of inverted leaf springs for the rear bogie, with massive underslung stabilisers—anti-roll bars, if you...

one of your highest expenditures so it pays to consider ways to reduce it and achieve better value. Few operators really study...

I n the present business environment of highly competitive pricing, in which most operators find it impossible to pass on cost...

in the past two years. Not only is the Irish Republic's growth rate so good that it makes the rest of Europe seem sickly, but...

the Government's planned closure of the Cardiff and Manchester Traffic Area Offices in March 1997. Eighty jobs are on the line...

in 1994, is to encourage recycling of waste materials from household rubbish through to construction projects. Cynics believe...

listed inactive wastes. These include rocks and soils, ash, furnace slags, ceramics and concrete materials. A rate of £7 per...

4 uropean Union bureaucrats come in E for a lot of criticism. A lot of it may be . ji.istified, but some of the directives...