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by Grant Prior • More than 1,000 delivery drivers at British Bakeries are threatening to strike over plans to slash their wages...
• The Government's bid to reduce the administrative burdens on industry are being published this week as The Deregulation and...
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• The founder of a business which collapsed owing at least £30,000 to drivers it promised to set up as hauliers is vowing to...
by Juliet Parish • United Transport UK has offered six of its former drivers an out-of-court settlement to stop them...
• Hargreaves Quarries of Thirsk, North Yorks is looking for owner-driver tipper operators to work out of its roadstone coating...
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by Juliet Parish • Hauliers face being banned from 100km 2 (40 square miles) of Nottinghamshire and the prospect of extra...
• Strathclyde Police say road users' lives could be at risk if 1,000 Scots LGV drivers go ahead with a go-slow threat to drive...
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In trance on M25 NI A Murfitts Transport driver received a 12-month prison sentence last week for killing a policeman on the...
III An .E8m road improvement package has been agreed to serve the privately operated Daventry International Rail Freight...
by Juliet Parish • About 200 drivers at A One Transport are set to vote on whether to take industrial action, after...
IIII Thirteen drivers will lose their jobs next month when Lynx closes its Welshpool depot in a cost-cutting exercise. The...
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• Drivers will have the choice of four restaurants, a cinema and budget hotel accommodation when a new motorway service area...
by Juliet Parish • Robson's Distribution Services is retreating from the highly competitive Scottish haulage market, making 43...
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by Bryan Jarvis and Toby Clark • Despite Swiss affluence, its CV market over 15 tonnes fell by 8.6% to 2,000 units last year....
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• New cable contracts for civil engineers Fitzpatrick with US cable communications giant Nynex has resulted in orders for 87...
by Alan Bunting Railfreight Distribution's novel Detroit Diesel-powered Foden tractor, tested by CM in 1991, is being used as a...
• Munro Group Transport has taken delivery of the first Ivecocabbed Seddon Atkinson Strato tractive units in the UK. Three...
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EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • Mercedes-Benz's long-awaited new heavy truck cab may still be two years away from an official...
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• The international licence held by Ball of Madley was renewed D, 1 without restriction after the West Midland Deputy Traffic...
• Sandhu Bakery warning from West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Gerrard Sullivan after four immediate and two delayed...
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• Ilkley-based haulier Dickinson Transport has lost its licence through failures to produce and retain income tax and National...
• Heavy haulier Ellis Greaves Transport (Coventry) and one of its drivers have been cleared of an overloading offence with a...
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by Brian Weatherley • After three years of recession the market for trucks and artics above 3.5 tonnes has begun to grow...
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Hardly a week goes by without a local council wanting to ban "juggernauts" from its turf. This week it's the turn of...
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axle trailer that contained £114,000 worth of radios that was stolen from M & S Motor's yard in Atherton, Greater Manchester....
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T refer to the article titled 1Cool on Cabotage (CM 2-8 December 1993). Jam absolutely amazed that your report indicates that...
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p SA Peugeot Citroen and Fiat have joined forces at the Geneva Show to announce two SEVEL modelsnot just the replacement for...
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ATTRACTION T he Mercedes-Benz 1834 tractor/draw bar range was launched on to a pre Euro-1 European market early in 1992 as...
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Robert Ford, now in his 60th year, hails from Derbyshire where he drives a 350hp Cummins powered ERF for Long sons. He's been...
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o AG E N I I I i 8 I The Strato and EuroTech may share the same cab design—but can they be sold successfully by the same...
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reception by Trading Standards Officers, traffic examiners monitored drivers' hours and vehicle documentation, vehicle...
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S ustained success during a recession is rare; sustained growth in a new company must be rarer. But John Dennis Coachbuilders...
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shop worker voting for Sunday A ny lorry driver, warehouse or shop worker voting for Sunday Trading, even in the restricted...