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Industry hopes debt-stricken truckstop operator will be sold as a going concern after it calls in administrator weeks after...
AN INTERNATIONAL ownerdriver has been ruined by British immigration laws which punished him for handing over stowaways he found...
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EASTERN TRAFFIC Commissioner Geoffrey Simms has dealt with 31 Knowles Transport drivers who committed a catalogue of offences....
An 18-tonne tanker has overturned on ice, spilling 5,000 lit - es of fuel onto a road just off the A429 nea Cirencester. The...
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Barry Proctor sends his New Year wish list not to Santa, who has his own logistics problems, but to the government As we usher...
Guy Sheppard reports how a Cotswold tipper firm's friends came to its aid. THREE RESIDENTS who complained about noise and...
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A RECOVERY driver has been hailed a hero for rescuing seven sleeping truckers when a fire broke out at a motorway service area...
award after heroically leaping from his truck and stopping a vicious assault in the street. Robert Clements (above right) who...
HAULAGE LEADERS have agreed to a 7% pay increase for drivers in the first in a series of regional negotiations for the...
COUNCILLORS IN THE Scottish Highlands have blocked proposals to overturn a 25-year ban on building a service station on the A9....
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the transport industry this week. Imagine a...
Boss of firm that abused employee wins appeal. Jennifer Ball reports. A SHEFFIELD haulage boss who failed to stop a campaign...
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ONE IMMEDIATE result of the terrorist attack on the Win Towers in New York on 11 September 2001 was for civil defence measures...
road wins fundin g A £54m RELIEF road for Weymouth in Dorset is one of the largest road schemes in the government's £1.9bn...
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Truck driver faces jail after parent run over in incident over parking outside a school. Mike Jewell reports. A LANCASHIRE...
AS CMwent to press the German government was expected to terminate its contract with motorway toll operator Toll Collect. This...
THE FIRST phase of the ..1'40m plan to use the hard-shoulder as an extra traffic lane on the M42 will he completed by March...
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High Court tells Dublin waste disposal firm to clean up 5,000 tonnes of dumped waste. Brendan Nolan reports A DUBLIN waste...
MARTYN COOPER. a senior manager at Bowaters in the 1960s and 1970s and one of the driving forces behind the development of the...
THIEVES WHO helped themselves to early Christmas presents from a Hampshire trailer manufacturer might be tempted to return...
TWO BRITISH truckers have been gassed and robbed while sleeping in a service area in Spain. Wilf Kilvington and Ian Carter...
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A green group praising haulage? Guy Sheppard reports on a welcome change A GREEN PRESSURE group has given the haulage industry...
A 1 RUCK DRIVER has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after his vehicle collided with two cars...
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Sea are breaking the hours rules, according to the latest official checks. Additionally, more than a third of vehicles stopped...
boost to 600hp when it introduces its Euro-4 engine lineup in 2005. Changes to the engine, which include the introduction of a...
SOUTH WEST TRAINS has issued a High Court writ claiming more than 1500,000 from a selfemployed driver whose truck was hit by a...
MOFFETT AND KO1 market leaders in truck-n forklifts, are merging thei tions to form the pan-Et company Moffett-Kooi. Both...
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Drivers and unions are concerned that changes to the way inflation is measured will mean employers will no longer increase pay...
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TruckNetUK has brought together British HGV drivers like never before. Tim Maughan meets the man behind the website. T he...
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I READ WITH amusement the letter from Mr Rigby in the 27 November issue headed You must be joking'. It's Mr Rigby that must be!...
IN YOUR Health and Safety issue of 11 December, Dr John Powell of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) SE asserts that health...
JAM OFTEN baffled by some of the claims made by hauliers in your pages and wonder if you believe them yourselves. In CM 13...
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The time: 07:30hrs on Monday, 15 December. The place: Warwick Services, M40 northbound. The mission: To experience at first...
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All three trucks had remarkably easy jour How much this was due to freak traffic conditions is open to conjecture, but it d...
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The licences held by two operators sharing the same premises in Co Durham have been revoked after paraffin was found in the...
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AN OPERATOR which failed to The offences and fines turn up at the magistrates court to answer a string of serious charges,...
offence costs operator £8,351 A SURREY SCAFFOLDING company has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £835 for using a vehicle...
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A FINANCE COMPANY is awaiting a decision on whether one of its trucks will be returned after it was impounded while stopped,...
A DRIVER ARRESTED for failing to attend a magistrate's court on hours offences was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling...
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A pplicalions from hauliers planning to open a new depot are often treated with s uspicion by local authorities, wary of public...
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Appearances at public inquiries or magistrates' courts will go better if operators prepare properly says transport lawyer Ian...
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You hire a new driver, agree a wage and hand him the keys to a tuck, But what about a contact of employment? Patric Cunnane...
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CM'S Aussie correspondent Steve Brooks has gone walkabout to track down a 400 tonne Kenvvorth roadtrain. They don't come...
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Cummins 0SK19 engine is the next development beyond the old K19. Innovations include 'full-autho electronics and major upgrades...
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The VolKswagen Touareg is not a vehicle you need, so much as lust after. Sometimes your heart must rule your head. N ormally,...
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Guru and desert-dwelling mystic Oliver Dixon has agreed to divert a little of his meditation time (usually 15 minutes in a...
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Few newspapers have more clout than The Times. As part of CM'S PR campaign for the truck industry, editor in chief Brian...
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When a plane is blazing lives depend on rapid intervention vehicles. Emma Penny gets to grips with 18 litres and 700hp I...
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Giraudis distinctive logo litters the motorways of Europe, but what is the philosophy behind this Paris-based company, and how...
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When is a Mercedes Sprinter not a Mercedes Sprinter? When it's a Dodge Sprinter. But will a familiar badge persuade US buyers...
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IN THE CLOUDS Leeds-based Freelance Direct Logistics has set up a depot at Heathrow Airport. Tim Maughan sees a joint vision...
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A fter a very financially tight end to last month things have picked up very well. All the customers paid up and the trucks...
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A buyer's market beckons for used vans in the New Year. H ectic trading in lightweight second-hand vans during the...
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For this week's dealer-drop-in we made our first visit to the West Country. Scania's own outlet in Avonmouth handles a stream...
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At one time it seemed that no-one wanted used FH Volvos — but that's all changed, according to the experts at CAP Red Book. I...
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The last Manheim sale of the year saw brisk action and high prices across the board. T he year's final HGV sale at Manheim...