to press for the EU harmonisation of special loads' transport legislation and regulations. The first step will be to establish...

network, is offering employers free training for any new or partially trained driver Countrywise says the scheme is the first...

departures by 20% from 1,000 to 1,200 a week in each direction. The extra departures will run mainly through the busy periods...

after finding 400kg of cannabis in the back of the vehicle. The haul is the second largest made by police in the region.

are "politically, economically and environmentally irresponsible", according to the International Read Transport Union.

Express delivery firm Nightspeed Services claims it is the first parcels carrier to make it into the Sunday limes...

VEHICLE NEWS EXTRA Renault VI's new engines are radically different PAGE 8 = Fined haulier says Scania let it down over...

• Up to 1,000 hauliers who flagged out to the Netherlands could be operating illegally, the Road Haulage Association has...

• Hauliers face a summer of discontent with diesel prices increasing by at least another two or three pence per litre at the...

• by Melanie Hammond A Durham haulier has vowed to carry on fighting a 210,000 fine for being caught with illegal immigrants...

• Cumbria-based haulier John Irving has been forced to close its doors, blaming spiralling diesel prices. The company went...

• A Derbyshire haulier will be forced to close with the loss of 18 drivers' jobs unless it successfully appeals against a...

II by Guy Sheppard Haulage bosses whose vehicles cause fatal accidents are likely to face jail as Home Secretary Jack Straw...

• A law firm has quashed industry worries that many agency drivers are driving illegally following a High Court ruling earlier...

Early appeals against fines for illegal immigrants are proving unsuccessful. Last week Lakeland Commercials wrote to the Prime...

• New London mayor Ken Livingstone has promised to introduce congestion charging—but not until public transport in the capital...

II Irish police are seeking the owners of more than 20 stolen trailers recovered in raids last week. The investigation began...

The Premium 420dCi The main changes to the Premium come in the new dCi 11 engine, which shares bore and stroke dimensions with...

rie by Pete Swinger A major haulier is considering spending £500,000 on now Volvos instead of Scanias after claiming in court...

• Trafficmaster claims that its new fixed-cost fleet management system will result in reduced vehicle maintenance, servicing,...

5 Vauxhall has signalled its confidence in the UK motor industry by opening a new Engineering Centre in the Millbrook...

Livery specialist Supersine Duramark (SSDM) has established an Internet-based ordering service to speed up delivery of...

Sandbach-based haulier Hagan Limited has bought four Foden Alpha 380s, and reports that it is regularly getting 9.5mpg from the...

chairman of Scania's board of directors following VW's purchase eta substantial stake in Scania. Lothar Sander and Detlef...

Contract hire firm TLS has just bought 46 Seddon Atkinson Pacers for its new refuse truck spot-rental service. The vehicles are...

Eastern IC Tom Macartney's decision to suspend its licence for a week while it undertakes staff training. It appeared before...

The Transport Tribunal has ordered Western IC Christopher Heaps to reconsider his decision to disqualify Salisbury haulier...

Charges that Gerald Glanville, transport manager of Bootlebased Transfreight Services, let drivers use vehicles with defective...

rest has cast Clacton-based driver Nicholas Ashdown £525 in fines and costs. Chester magistrates said they took a serious view...

vehicle from St Ola, Orkney, was turned down by Scottish IC Michael Betts at a Kirkwall public inquiry. The IC ruled his...

Steven Morris, I0e based in Otley, West Yorkshire, lost his licence when he failed to appear at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry...

North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell told a Cheshire operator he could not hide behind his drivers after he blamed...

A Bridgend haulier has won an increased licence authority despite failing to carry out undertakings given at a public inquiry...

A Liverpool man caught running a vehicle dis playing someone else's 0licence identity disc and a tax disc from a car was...

North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna is awaiting the result of a criminal trial involving alleged...

We are all familiar with the term on your bike", immortalised in the eighties by a certain Tory politician who also iked to...

Remember the seventies? Clam rock and satin flares? it was also, of course, the heyday of the Hawk's favourite fabric, the...

I dunno: Just when drivers are coming round to the idea that rabbiting away nineteen to the dozen on the old mobile isn't an...

On a recent trip to America one of GM's correspondents was presented with this wonderful gift—a copy of a full colour,...

' PRICE AS TESTED: £22,833 (ex-VAT). Includes £21,760 for basic vehicle, £216 for central locking with key, £232 for Isri seat,...

• Tyres are the driver's lifeline. Without suitable tyres to provide good grip and directional stability, a vehicle may become...

p apworth VBB was established in 1947 by the Papworth Trust in Cambridgeshire to provide employment for local disabled people....

Carpet Express has beaten off the competition with the sheer size of its infrastructure, but as carpet sales wear thin the...

governing 0-licences, induding applications, refusals and revocations. But to start the ball rolling, we assess the...

has been self-employed for two years now and has been In the transport industry for 25 years. He holds a CPC and has just...

10 years' time and he'll probably say "not this". But is it easier to get in than get out? Mike Sherrington has been finding...

Guy Sheppar e ines the pros and cons of e ring cyberspace in search o return loads T his summer will see a blossoming of new...

found include: Roadrunner.uk.com—launched two years ago as a joint venture between Road Tech Computer Services (phone 01923...

y his own standards, it had not been a particularly busy day for Jim Taylor. But as he set off one afternoon on the drive from...

I PRICE AS TESTED: E14,175 (ex-VAT). Includes .212,090 .. for the basic vehicle; £335 for ABS; £810 for automatic transmission;...

auto more bearable, it was replaced for a few days by the latest addition to the range, the 1.7 DTI. Despite its 300cc...

To Cambridge for discussions with the Traffic Area Office staff on potential environmental inquiries. I publish my reasons for...