• by Miles BrIgnall Hauliers could find themselves having to give agency drivers holiday and sickness pay and other benefits if...

Private escorts for abnormal leads could become the norm if recommendations from the Association of Chief Police Officers (...

• North Wales-based international and livestock haulier LE Jones is facing possible disciplinary action after a VI...

• by Mks Gorden Livestock hauliers are outraged by new footand-mouth regulations which they describe as a "step backwards" and...

IM by Miles Brignall Several drivers at troubled transport firm City .ogistics have been made redundant ahead of a possible...

The CBI isn't exactly renowned for using blunt language. However, its description of the European Commission's daft...

N The first company to have a :ruck impounded by the Vehicle nspectorate has failed in a bid :o get the vehicle back. South...

• by Guy Sheppard A forthcoming decision by the European Court of Justice is expected to make flagging out on the Continent...

• A Scottish haulier who ran four failed transport firms has been banned from holding or obtaining an Operator's Licence in any...

• The Automobile Association has attacked the design of many of the UK's roads and has named the top 10 most dangerous roads...

• by Mike JeweN Eddie Stobart subcontractor Edmund Brewer has won a temporary stay of execution after its disciplinary inquiry...

iu More than 600 DFDS drivers are being offered an inflation-busting 5 Wo pay deal to boost recruitment and counter the effects...

• A small haulage firm threatening court action over a debt owed by a bigger operator has spoken of its frustration at being...

by Mike Gordon be Freight Transport Association has called on the Chancellor to :within his freeze on diesel duty. In its...

• The Scottish Executive has hit back after its road building programme was branded "grotesque and destructive" by campaigners...

• Fuel fraudsters are costing the government up to 1980m a year, says the National Audit Office, and fuel smugglers are risking...

• Drivers of high vehicles in Dublin Port could be left with no way out of the city once the new port access tunnel opens....

IN Police in Suffolk are warning hauliers to double check security following a £400,000 truck theft at Ipswich docks. The...

• by Toby Clark General Trailers is investing ,g1m in a major refurbishment of its trailer-building plant at Dereham in...

CM Trailer of the Year competition—the ninth— has attracted no less than 42 high-class entries from UK manufacturers and other...

Fahrzeugwerk's Safe Liner; Stas NV's Sidewalker; Utility International's XT curtainsider. • Tippers: Dennison Trailers'...

A new 18-tonne Midlum rigid will take centre stage on the Renault Trucks stand at this year's CV show. The top-weight Midlum...

• The Ray Smith Group has developed electrically powered twist-locks for demountable bodies, allowing the driver to remain in...

• by Colin Barnett Believe it or not, the story of the Sevel van building partnership is now 21 years old. The first series,...

• It's Inside the vans that the most dramatic changes have taken place. New seats Include lumbar and height adjustment with a...

• Deciding what's new on the engine front could get confusing! Some engines are new, some were released in the current model...

specialises in custom building MPV, van and mobile-workshop interiors„ and offers a wide range of acces sories. Least well...

Cheshire firm wnich appeared at ts third public ,nquiry was given until July to show that it can operate its vehicles...

rho international licence held 3s1 Margaret Duncan, trading es Duncan's Transport, of %Ilea, has been revoked by icottish...

led to mmingham-based Blakey "ransport being fined £500 with £95 costs. The company tdmitted the offence before he Chester...

been cut to six vehicles, be firm had been called 'afore West Midland IC David lixon at a Birmingham lisciplinary inquiry...

ribunal against the evocation of its licence and :s disqualification from aiding or obtaining an 0cence for an indefinite...

Traffic Commissioner David Dixon has refused to grant an Operator's Licence to a West Midlands-based firm because he felt that...

and speed limiter offences. When Paul Abbey appeared before the Rochdale magistrates he pleaded guilty to three offences of...

A South Yorkshire-based company as had its licence suspended for five days after blaming the upheaval of a move of premises for...

Oswaldtwistle. Gossip and rumour flutter through the small Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle this week like a brightly coloured...

by the RAC. Bedfordshire County Council put dummy wreaths beside roads to trick drivers into thinking they were accident...

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T he membership of an employment tribunal is normally a legally qualified chairman and two "lay representatives" from each side...

e Employment Tribunals are required to consider making a "declaration of rights''. This involves a conclusion (such as the...

E mployment law is going through its regular overhaul. The latest Employment Bill, for example, includes changes to the law on...

In claims for unfair dismissal, if the employee wishes it the employment tribunal is required to consider whether to make an...

W Employment Tribunals were originally designed to be an accessible, informal and inexpensive way to resolve work-related...

delightful to drive, with unimpeachable reliability and excellent fuel consumption. So why isn't it more popular? f a truck's...

best looking trucks..." Paul Bailey Bailey Brothers are potato merchants and prepackers. The firm was established at Bloxwich...

cab is specified so is the big V8 engine." Chris Wright Chris Wright is MD of Commercial Vehicle Auctions. CVA holds sales at...

MAKIN "I just fell in love with the Actros when it first came out with the Megaspace cab and flat floor..." Roger Makin Boger...

"We always go big when it comes to cabs and engines..." Brian Waldron • Waldrons is a family business that has operated out...

Mercedes-Benz was the first in the field with thi: level of electronic sophistication. With a design life of a million...

PALLETLINE Fen years ago 19 truck operators joined forces to :reate an unheard of concept—a nationwide pallet network. Today,...

• RHA national chairman Bob Russett was one of the original founder members of Palletline with Premier Transport (since bought...

• Shepton-Mallet-based Framptons runs 60 trucks and joined Pallethne eight years ago. It sends about 160 pallets a night to the...

• All network members are shareholders in the company. There are approximately 420,000 shares in issue with no single...

assessment should be at the top of every operator's agenda. ks Steve Banner reports, not only does it not cost a fortune, it...

0 The first thing risk manager Alan Clifford did before he drew up a risk management strategy for UCI Logistics was something...

Vr A full-time risk manager will command a salary of at least £30,000 a year plus benefits, and only a large distribution...

on every tonne of sand, gravel or crushed rock moved in the UK. That will ramp ip quarry operator overheads Nhich could be had...

and waste contractor Edgar F Shepherd bought an 84m 3 Doll Combi-Floor moving floor 13.6m triaxle semi-trailer. Winner of the...

how ni can manage your agency to get the best from them... To sound off about a road 'transport issue write to Patric Cunnane...