by 79% in a year Is truck crime out of control, or are we simply hearing more about it? Jennifer Ball talks to victims who...

THE DVLA and electronics manufacturer Actia have both stressed that the 5 August 2005 deadline for the introduction of digital...

OIL TANKER DRIVERS are threatening to bring the country to a standstill after a campaign to improve their pay and conditions...

a £2-a-day toll after Edinburgh City Council was given the go-ahead to introduce congestion charging in the Scottish capital....

Sally Nash reports on a subcontractor who has won money from Rugby Cement after a refurbishment bathe: Rugby says it won't set...

EMPLOYEES OF troubled car transport specialist Richard Lawson Autologistics are due to find out who has bought the company...

THE BBC in Northern Ireland has named a man living on the Fermanagh-Cavan border as the 'Mr Big' in a multi-million-pound...

A BARNSLEY operator has hit Out at fuel card company Securicor Fuelserve after the price of his fuel soared to 95p/lit almost...

Barry Proctor sees that we don't help ourselves as we need to and that the transport industry needs to turn information into...

With MAN on the brink of vvinning a vast deal with the British Army Colin Barnett looks to the future. NO TRUCK order can have...

A Transport Tribunal has warned Oliver's stay of execution is far from a pardon. Jennifer Ball reports. THE TRANSPORT Tribunal...

OPERATORS ARE confident of a busy run-up to Christmas with 17% looking to take on more staff in the final quarter compared with...

POLICE ARE appealing for information following a road traffic accident on the M6 in which a driver was killed. The incident...

GERMANY'S ROAD transport association, BGL. has become the latest body to warn that the country's proposals to introduce a truck...

Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the...

A Dutch pilot scheme suggests longer road trains are the way to go if we really want to cut costs and congestion. Guy Sheppard...

HAULIERS WILL increasingly look to alliances to meet their delivery requirements with the approach of the Working Time...

THREE MEN who masqueraded as security guards to raid a series of trucks in the South-East have been jailed for a total of 10...

A T RL C'K driver who killed a motorcyclist when he did a LTturn on a foggy road has been jailed for 21 months after being...

ZF's gearing up to handle more power: Brian Weatheriey torques up a storm. DRIVERS OFHIGHpowertnicks won't have to change gear...

Exclusive! IVECO HAS launched a highpower three-litre engine which promises to raise the upper weight limit of the Daily range...

As our exclusive scoop pictures show, VAN's replacement for the L2000 7.5-tonner is on course for its planned launch this...

Andy Salter has been to Iveco's engine development centre to meet the men who are developing the power plants that will meet...

ROGER BROUGHTON'S contention (CM 30 September) that speed limits for HGVs on national roads should be raised to 50mph (I think...

HAVING SEEN THE DEBATE on speed limits in recent issues, I'm writing to tell you that I think raising it to 50mph will make...

WHILE THE DEBAYE over increasing the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles on some A-class roads rumbles on, with compelling...

Having effectively seen off Eaton in the European heavy truck trans mission arena you could forgive ZF for taking things easy....

Transport manager of large operator sees drivers' shortcomings after his employer's licence is cut and wins application for his...

A SCOTTISH operator lost two of its 20-vehicle fleet for two weeks after an examination of more than 1,000 tachograph charts...

A "FLOUNDERING" operator ordered to cease operations for two days while his drivers and litters were properly trained has...

A WELSH operator deemed incapable of running more than one vehicle has lost his appeal to the Transport Tribunal to allow him...

FOUR INFRINGEMENTS of the drivers' hours rules have cost an Essex driver £600 in lines and costs. When Mark Clark of Stanford...

Concluding his report on CM'S recent safety conference, Patric Cunnane explains how the industry is using tough love to reduce...

Readers still have time to take advantage of the exclusive deal we've struck with the ETA for cut-price training courses... T...

Until December last year I was a driver at an operator based in Cheshire. During the staff Christmas party three unwanted...

I have been working as a self-employed relief driver and for an agency when that work dries up. If I can find enough...

I saw an operator advertising for unused 0licences in CM some time ago. We have three 0-licences. Is it legal to lease them—...

Iveco dominates the UK 7.5-tonne sector, but Daf sales are soaring. So can the Eurocargo keep the Dutch in their place? S ince...

is it worth shopping round for spares? Yes! Taking a 75-tonne Mercedes Benz Atego as an example, we found mirrors priced from...

Shopping for a new windscreen is a prime example of where speciaists can earn their keep. For an owner-driver with the chance...

Good practice normally dictates a new release bearing with a new clutch, as the bearing is normally much the cheapest component...

As drivers increasingly rely on their trucks' foundation brakes, we pose the question, 'what use are auxiliary systems?' H ow...

our test group falls neatly into two categories: compression engine brakes and hydraulic retarders. The former work on the...

many manufacturers now fit a compression engine brake as standard, including Foden, MAN, Mercedes, Iveco (and unofficially,...

Telematics systems are great for tracking your vehicles and drivers — but there's so much more they could be doing for you. So...

Sandy Bruce, our latest contrib utor to Logistically speaking, kicks off with a rant on fuel prices and lack of drivers'...

Used vehicle sales are soaring thanks to a flurishing export market, a better registration system and a strong market for new...

Are you wondering what's hot and vvhafs not? George Alexander, chief editor of Glass's Guide commercial vehicle values, says...

S taff at Commercial Vehicle Auctions in Doncaster were all smiles as a hectic first auction in October made up for a belowpar...

After more than 30 successful years in the haulage industry Jim and Janice Milligan retired. Why? Legislation, legislation,...

selling off JMS Transport's fleet for more than £700,000, The impressive array of late-year tractors with big cabs and big...