• Faber Prest Distribution has bought the specialist steel haulier R&M Shorttfor £2.9m. The merged fleet contains 100...

by Karen Miles • Diesel prices are set to rise by 4p/litre (15p a gallon) next month as hauliers take the brunt of tougher...

• The French Ministry of Transport has spoken out against British hauliers who are involved in an "increasing number of cases...

by Miles Brignall • A haulier has gone to the High Court for a writ to free his two trucks and drivers from the ferry Al...

pen University Course in Fiscal Comprehension and Advanced Metaphysics; Exercise 1. Take a stone the size of a cricket ball....

• The Government is withholding details of an independent report which is believed to say congestion will not be eased by...

by Mary Williams • Operators who break the law should be given tougher sentences by magistrates, says road safety minister...

111 Parcelforce announced its latest round of job cuts last week-200 managerial and administrative posts were declared...

• Magistrates last week accepted a driver's mitigation for failing to comply with a height restriction on the Blackwall...

Placketts' Enfield depot is proving to be the most sought-after depot of all the parcel delivery firm's 12 sites, according to...

Tibbett & Britten is preparing to launch itself into distributing up to a billion extra cans of cola a year after securing the...

• Belgian roads will be thrown into chaos when hauliers protest against the European motorway tax disc on 7 November, says...

• Five drivers employed by Newell & Wright Transport have been fined £3,000 at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading guilty...

by Miles Brignall • Owner-drivers working for Silentnight Beds fear for their futures if negotiations with the company over...

• The trial has begun of two brothers who ran Sheffield-based Loukes Haulage, and one of their drivers, following the death...

• White Arrow Express has signed a three-year contract to deliver parcels for Oxford-based t<': House Books mail order...

by Juliet Morrison • NF'C's parcels arm Lynx is advertising for its first owner-drivers to help penetrate the non-account...

• The Health and Safety Executive is prosecuting a road surfacing company after a selfemployed driver was crushed to death by...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Keith Waterworth will consider whether to take disciplinary action against Fewston...

by Patric Cunnane • Hauliers in the Irish Republic will get a cheaper doorway into Europe next year with a number of new...

• Robert Montague, the chief executive of troubled trailer rental group Tiphook who earns £1.3m a year, has been served with...

• A shortage of temporary drivers in the Black Country and the South-East has forced two agencies to advertise vacancies...

• The Vehicle Builders and Repairers' Association (VBRA) has negotiated a Factoring scheme for its members to help them...

Road safety minister Steven Norris is supporting long - held views of the Licensing Authorities and Vehicle Inspectorate by...

• Harold and Harry Welsby, trading as Welsby Bros, of Manchester, surrendered their national licence shortly before being due...

• Maintenance problems and a conviction for failing to tax a -- 11) vehicle have led to the licence held by Eifion Davies &...

• Maintenance problems have led to the international licence held by E Jackson (Chatburn) being renewed with a warning by...

• A front axle overload and using a vehicle without an 0-licence, has cost Lanarkshire farmer Richard Allison £90 in fines...

• Carnforth, Lanes livestock haulier Alan Thompson Haulage escaped with a warning at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry into...

• Tamworth owner-driver Kenneth Eaglesfield has got a new international licence at a Birmingham pub1k inquiry, despite being...

AA £1,308 in fines, costs and back duty by Appleby magistrates. The Darlington-based company pleaded guilty to using a...

by Colin Sowman • Lucas has developed a full hydraulic braking system for trucks in the six to 12-tonne range. It will be...

• Securicor TrakBak will demonstrate its stolen vehicle tracking system at the Birmingham Motor Show this week. An...

• LDV has signed a multimillion-pound deal with Polish diesel engine manufacturer Andoria to supply CKD (completely knocked...

• ERF is launching an allmakes fixed-price repair service for all Eaton gearboxes except SAMT, and it has reduced its...

• Berkshire based Next Control Systems has launched a refrigerated delivery control system known as Truckmaster. Using...

by Toby Clark • CM has driven two vehicles from Indian manufacturer Tata, on sale in the UK from this week. The Loadbeta...

Renault's latest concept vehicle spotlights innovations including an aluminium chassis, hydraulic discs and a radical gearbox....

ast year British truckers helped charity Operation Christmas Child deliver 125,000 gaily painted shoeboxes filled with presents...

ritish coach operators could learn a a trick or two from this Tipperary tour operator which has assembled a fleet of low cost,...

M e will never know whether the Di-vastating revelations of Major James Hewitt had anything to do with it, but the Lifeguards...

5 he bride got married in white and so did her truck when Railfreight Distribution driver Debbie Whelan got hitched to lorry...

have taken over rooms at the Road Chef motorway service station on the A 1 and are intending to live there during their college...

y our article on "safety" barriers (6-12 October) echoes my sentiments of the past 30 years. The first motorways had no such...

• Central Trailer Rentco (CTR) has opened a vehicle testing lane at its Glasgow trailer rental centre. More testing lanes are...

• Hellinann International has announced that its Irish partner Campbell Freight has opened a western Ireland office near...

• The British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association is holding an anti-theft award to judge which manufacturers have...

• Truckline, Brittany Ferries' freight division will Truckgne Brittany Ferries Freight Division move its Spanish...

• Dibo Cleaning Systems is selling a mobile foaming unit which operates independently of power washers. It claims the foam...

• Ml: Traffic on the westbound North Circular Road can directly access the M1 northbound with the opening of a .,C7.2m link....

The 360hp version of Scania's 1 1-litre P1 1 3MK eight-legger seems to have disproved the theory that a high-powered truck...

For a second opinion of our latest eight-wheel test truck CM took the highrower Scania along to Peter Bennie Ltd's Boughton...

Price as tested: £10,257 (ex-VAT). Engine: 2.0-litre 114hp (85kW) petrol. GVVV: 2,200kg. Payload: 805kg. Fuel consumption...

The latest in a series of new taxes came into force this month with insurance premiums facing a 2.5% surcharge. How can...

the Mill . The end of the signal workers' strike coincided with the launch of a new rail service, Enterprise, which is...

cif = coming into force Vehicles Excise and Registration Act 1994 — cif 1 September 1994. Consolidates the much amended...

UK • EC Driver's Hours Exemptions — a European Commission decision has authorised the UK to grant a limited exemption from...

The annual pay rise could be a thing of the past as employers attempt to control costs by introducing variable pay schemes...

wou ld appear to be the ambition of both the Government and the Opposition to reduce the volume of goods moved by road and...