following test claims by Rob Willock • Essex hauliers should be ready for a rigorous and wideranging enforcement regime...

• Within weeks trucks which meet the Euro-2 emissions levels could be offered a discount on Continental motorway vignettes....

• Wincanton Logistics' annual profits are up from 212.3m to 212.6m, despite difficulties in the transport division during the...

by Miles Brignall • The UK's leading railfreight provider is warning hauliers that it plans to triple the amount of freight...

• Heavy penalties will be imposed by Customs on hauliers carrying red diesel in any disconnected additional tank from 1 January...

uote of the week comes from Exel Logistics: "As a logistics company we are not wedded to roads." As a logistics company they...

by David Craik • Drivers at Tradeteam are being told not to drive the company's new trailers "too robustly" for fear of load...

• A driver who was working for Croydon-based European Express Services has been jailed f or 12 years for trying to smuggle more...

• More than 1,600 mechanics throughout the country could be stripped of their qualifications after a fraud investigation at...

Nicky Clarke • Lawyers acting for hundreds of hauliers demanding compensation following last year's French blockades are...

• The charity Operation Christmas Child is looking for vehicles to help deliver "shoebox" Christmas presents to orphans and...

• Trucks are less likely to be involved in road accidents than other road users "but when they are involved the impact on...

A Yorkshire truck driver has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a crash in North Derbyshire which...

• Tibbett & Britten has won two contracts worth up to £50m a year for logistics support for the Burton Group clothing...

• Truck driver Andrew Meynell spent 19 hours stuck in his cab when it became wedged in a narrow lane in a Devon village last...

• Scania GB is furious with 13T after its head office telephones went down for nearly a week, leaving the company reliant on...

by David Craik • Drivers at Esso's transport base in Purfleet, Essex, will have to work the hours they will miss through...

• ANC's Norwich depot has won a £100,000-plus distribution contract from September to December with Christmas cracker supplier...

by Andrew Sangster • The boss of a West Midlands haulage firm who tried to save his business by smuggling duty-free drinks from...

• The staff and vehicles of Fifebased malt distribution company KSK Freight are to be transferred to TDG McPherson, which...

• A year-Lon g experimen tal lorry ban throu g h Kin g 's Lynn, Norfolk will start next March, forcing trucks heading for the...

by Toby Clark • German food retailer Rewe has specified a remarkable reefer in which both the truck and the fridge unit are...

St Helens-based Supertrucks has recently supplied PG Glass of Johannesburg, South Africa with two glass-carrying truck body...

by John Dickson-Simpson • Continental is testing energysaving tyres with normal tread depths which should offer fuel savings...

by Bill Brock • After a two-year, two-millionmile development programme, Dunlop's Smart tyre is starting fleet field trials. It...

• Isovel Refrigeration is building a solar-powered temperature-controlled unit for one of Heathrow-based Alpha Flight Services'...

• Fudickar-Metall of Haan, Germany has developed a neat design of winged truck body, initially for rigids. The first example,...

• VarityPerkins has renewed its distribution agreement with US engine manufacturer Navistar, and will start bringing in...

by Bill Godwin • The Bavarian resort of Bad Fussing has started to use a 25seater bus powered by a dualfuel 1.8-litre BMW car...

by Steve Banner • French manufacturer Magyar is attacking the UK bitumen tanker market with a 30,000litre triaxle semi-trailer...

• Galloway Refrigerated Transport's licence has been suspended for four weeks following a series of speeding, hours and...

• Accrington haulier Gary Metz has had his fourvehicle/four-trailer licence revoked on financial grounds by North Western...

• North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth has warned that professional drivers who are caught drink-driving will...

• The Transport Tribunal has made it plain that a Traffic Commissioner's disciplinary powers cannot be delegated to a member of...

• A man whose holiday company collapsed amid claims that customers had paid for holidays they had not taken has been granted a...

by Sally Nash and David Craik • Truck drivers are risking their lives—and the lives of other road users—by failing to get...

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

A h yes, the Hawk fondly remembers when he was a A h yes, the Hawk fondly remembers when he was a fresh-faced lad. The young...

n their marks and ready to go are these four synchronised work mates, all employees of Scansped UK. The lads have proved they...

Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial C I!) r? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

C ould someone please .,./explain the NFC/Exel Logistics strategy to the lowly employees. When the country is in a growth...

I f Crawley is the "engine room of Sussex", who is going to drive it? There is much talk of full employment, and the effects of...

I am employed by a haulier who operates up to 15 goods vehicles including artics on a national contract for a worldwide...

CM has teamed up with Donald Armour from the Freight Transport Association's legal department to highlight laws in the...

QUELLE SURPRISE! CM doesn't often get the chance to test Renault trucks—the manufacturer seems rather coy about letting them...

Not all transport operations exist to make a profit. But that doesn't necessarily mean lower professional standards. The...

As Just-in-Time deliveries make clock-watching a way of life throughout the industry, anything that cuts unloading times must...

Judging by CM's monthly new truck price guide, there's never been a wider choice of models to choose from. So why are so many...

on the road? Do people really absorb messages that flash by in a matter of seconds? The answer must be yes—why else should...

it used to be that a vehicle could be any colour, as long as it was black. Today's reality is very different. What's more you...

haulage is to survive we will have to be prepared to pay more to use our motorway network. 'This involves every road user...