by Nicky Clarke • More transport operations look set to go to the wall this year as hauliers across the country give up the...

• TDG Williams is to manage a new CI m warehouse for paper converter Hawarden Sheeters near Chester in North Wales. • Drivers'...

• A Cumbrian haulier who ran a number of failed companies and was banned from acting as a company director for 10 years has...

by Rob Wiflock • A P&O Ferrymasters' temporary worker was crushed to death under tonnes of steel girders at the company's...

SAME OLD SAME OLD T here now follows an important announcement from the festive greetings department. Due to the current...

• Professional drivers are one of the angriest and least satisfied group of workers in the UK. They made 4% of all calls to the...

by Sally Nash III The United Road Transport Union has been told it will be ejected from the TUC in February unless it...

• EU Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock and the British Government are being urged to step in and help hauliers who are losing...

• A Surrey truck driver caught smuggling cannabis resin worth £500,000 has been jailed for seven years. Driver Michael Simms of...

• From next summer every driving licences issued by DVLA will include a picture of the owner. New drivers, and anyone applying...

by Miles Brignall • The Freight Transport Association has published a guide to best practice for operators delivering into city...

• William Jackson Bakery has replaced half its 100strong delivery fleet with lveco Ford Cargo box vans financed by leasing firm...

• Hundreds of heavy trucks were turned away from the Forth Road Bridge before Christmas after a steel bolt helping to secure...

bought fellow paper carrier Broads Transport of Plymouth as part of its aim to become a nationwide company. The deal,...

• Renault has added 148 trailer brake parts to its parts range so an operator can now take both truck and trailer to his...

• MAN's replacement for the F2000 long-haul tractor range—due in 1999— has been spotted during on-road trials in southern...

by Bryan Jarvis • Stevens of Lakoren. Belgium, is developing an all-composite flat semi-trailer weighing just 3,800kg and...

for the j o b... Progress in design has led to a difference in the way trucks should be driven. Iveco has taken a detailed...

• Commercial Motor put one of the 470hp EuroStars around the Poplar 2000 route with Campbell as a passenger. Driving norrnally...

• A Kent lorry driver, who admitted falsi fying a tachograph record and taking insufficient weekly rest, told Macclesfield...

• A driver was said to have tied a rope round an axle after an air bag burst on a vehicle belonging to Welshpool haulier James...

Haulage has been suspended for a period of three weeks by Scottish IC Michael Betts. The company had been called before the...

• The defence costs of Derby shire heavy haulier Heanor Haulage are to he paid out of public funds after the company was...

• North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe is considering disqualifying Bootle, Merseyside-based Gary Johnson...

• A driver who lost control of his truck on a corner ploughing into a car and killing its three occupants has been jailed for...

AERODYNAMICS AIR CONDITIONING Luton vans are an excellent way of maximising available space. The only drawback is that the...

• The new Voltec step down DC-DC converter from Merlin Equipment converts a 24V DC power supply on board larger vehicles to...

• Europa Refrigeration has designed a multi-temperature system for road transport. Claimed to be the first underslung unit of...

• Fleet managers, auto electn cians and operators can now surf the Internet to explore Antares' new web site. The company...

• Vehicle lighting specialist Hello has launched a new Mini Light Bar. The amber warning light is E-approved and available in...

• Dunlop Precision Rubber has developed an elastomeric fuel filler hose which combines low permeability with much greater...

CM's Haulage Tactile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

haulage very seriously. However. once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

O f you consider yourself accident prone when you get behind the wheel, I assure you that you have nothing on dairy farm milker...

Christmas morning he found there was an extra special present waiting for him under the tree. Thanks to Alan Mayne, managing...

F ed up with video games and virtual pets? Worried that your kids will grow up not knowing an axle from an artichoke? Then...

GCW Class 8-80,000Ib (UK equivalent 36.36 tonnes) Fuel consumption: 9.93mpg (28.514/100km). What's got sow' into Volvo? First...

Tradition Jacobs Vehicle Systems, the well established US manufacturer of retarder systems, is in the vanguard of engine...

When Lyn Flegg was unexpectedly left single-handed to run a transport company which was in debt she turned to her staff. With...

E30,000. Scenario: Your haulage business has recently received £30,000 following the sale of an asset, say an HGV. What do you...

COF MISERY Smuggling illegal immigrants equals big bucks. Worldwide the trade is worth nearly £5.5bn and increasingly UK...

Is HAULAG What is the worst job you've ever done? Steve Banner asked a number of hauliers to dredge up from their memory banks...

in the WOODS Falling prices for timber are putting more pressure on hauliers in this specialist sector. And the strain to...

Jim Duckworth, editor of Road Transport law and head of Transport law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems...

in Europe against ill thought-out proposals' T he issue of European legislation impinging on British industry is all too...