They're not about to change their minds just because it's Christmas, but should we really consign 1993 to "that great dust heap...

• General haulier Cardiff International went into liquidation last week with the loss of 30 jobs and debts mounting to between...

• Creditors owed £1.5 million after the collapse of international haulier JG Osborne were told last week that there is little...

• Tank-freight's 300 chemical and edible goods drivers have accepted the company's offer of a 2% increase on basic pay...

• The cost of MoT testing light goods vehicles will rise in the New Year following the re-introduction of diesel smoke checks...

• International hauliers will be able to insure against lost business from next year in the event of their trucks getting held...

• Operators are being warned that they could face huge costs to fit in-cab equipment as a result of the Government's electronic...

• The North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner post will be vacant next week when Anthony Richardson retires from it after...

by Grant Prior • Frustrated Scottish hauliers are planning bridge blockades and a coordinated LGV go-slow, with drivers...

cutting at Red Star • Up to 80 subcontracted hauliers working for the British Rail parcels subsidiary Red Star face an...

• More than 1,300 truck drivers are fighting to keep a Bristol snack bar open in the face of an eviction threat. Snack bar...

by John Kendall • Iveco will source some components for its European models from India and may also build vehicles for Europe...

by Brian Weatherley. ▪ Mercedes-Benz will bolster its heavy truck line-up next year with a face-lifted cab, a lifting mid-axle...

• Hino is shipping its all-new Super Dolphin Profia range of tractive units and rigids to Europe. The first tipper chassis...

by Brian Weatherley • Mansfield Brewery has taken delivery of an Iveco Fold Super Cargo dropframe 17-tonner and two New Cargo...

• Dorset bodybuilder Vaile & Company has teamed up with Danish reefer manufacturer Norfrig A/S to produce refrigerated...

• Bus builder Optare has been bought by the management and employees of the company. Optare was part of the United Bus Group...

by Toby Clark • Fiat has revealed its new Fiorino: not a completely new vehicle, but a stretched version of the Uno-based...

was in a bit of a mess. The previous owner had been storing it in a barn: it had been imported originally from Kileene in Texas...

by Juliet Parish • Many British truck drivers stuck in the daily motorway jam must long to be behind the wheel of a giant...

• Fernwood Transport succeeded in getting its 0licence renewed without restrichon after insisting that it had paid the price...

• Preston-based Demo and one of the company's drivers have been cleared of overloading a 7.5-tonne truck by Appleby, Cumbria...

• Telford heavy haulier Wrekin Transport Services, and one of the company's drivers, were given absolute discharges after West...

• Trailers that are being pulled have to be in good condition, even if they do not belong to the haulier concerned_ North...

• Livestock driver Charles Hardy and farmer David Evans were ordered to pay fines and costs of £500 after admitting mixing...

by Bill Brock • Changes in UK operating weights for drawbar outfits are just around the corner even though formal introduction...

Ledstone Luck, Leeds has added a new high-capacity blower/suction tanker to its hire fleet of municipal tankers. The Kaiser...

• Parcels carrier Southern Express has commissioned a new fixed multi-deck semi-trailer built specially to carry low-weight...

• German vehicle component manufacturer Titgemeyer has introduced a range of extruded aluminium sections for truck dropside...

• Antrim-based Interland, part of Norfolk Line, has added 30 Schmitz Cargobull reefer trailers with Thermo King's slimline SMX...

R otherham-based EIP has built the first of a batch of 13.6m curtain-sided swap bodies for road/rail specialist Hay Pollock for...

by Amanda Bradbury • Milk haulage worth - '£120m is on course to be " offered to operators next year! But its potential growth...

• Currently, dairy farmers have to sell their milk through the Milk Marketing Board. Around 85% of milk haulage in England and...

T have followed Truck 1 Racing for nearly five years and regularly attend the events at Brands Hatch. I am now a final year...

I am planning to use a tractor unit converted to a haulage truck with a dolly trailer to move laden semitrailers to my...

One of our company's vehicles was stopped by the police and sent to a weighbridge where the Trading Standards people weighed...

rice again the Hawk has got together with his friends in and about the industry to provide an enormous goodie bag of Christmas...

1 Claire & Cu get Military 11,. filial and Will to advertising i10). 5 Tom guts back or drives vehicle (5). 8 Wartime hut...

ow then. Enough of that lounging about, letting your brains turn to brandy butter while you get lured into watching yet another...

s tuff the Turkey, send the family out for a long walk, pour yourself a well-earned drink and settle back into your favourite...

rigid was: "Will it return lOmpg with a 10 tonne payload?" Ifs an adage that has a solid ring to it but it needs updating. Most...

gearbox's synchro' baulking devices had strong resistance, the short stick movement felt friendly. Under normal road-going...

I n those days our editor was G Mackenzie Junner; The Commercial Motor was published by Temple Press from Bowling Green Lane,...

10:02hrs on day one, Monday. We were put through to a laid-back man who laboriously took down all our details only to reveal...

r d last bell at King Alfred's—King Fred's to its pupils—had rung for the ay and boys were making their way to the School House...

A llmakes claims to have the UK's largest stock of replacement parts for Land Rovers. Back in 1977, Peter Hands, the man in...

beast with screeching tracks; the earth trembling as it passes by, trampling any obstacle in its path. One can only guess at...

T ired of those poseurs in their pristine Range Rovers and Shoguns, whose only off-road driving is the occasional crunch of...

a unique climate. In the summer, temperatures are in the high twenties and for six months the sun never sets. At two o'clock in...

TH White in Cheltenham. The raiders detached the blue and white tractive unit from its trailer during the overnight break-in at...

'0 ur small country has a large population and is unable to produce enough food to feed itself. Therefore we have to import...

Junction 23 Truckstop D espite the bleak midwinter conditions, the Junction 23 Truckstop was easy to find, being only 200...

SHOP TALK ADF nails loose linings The Factoring Services Group is lobbying the Lord Chancellors Office and the DTI about the...

• The Monopolies and Mergers Commission has ruled that a complex monopoly exists in the servicing and callibration of exhaust...

• Paint savings of up to 30% have been achieved by Northern Eleetcare using HVLP equipment. The largest savings come when...

• Somers Handling is to launch a range of mobile column lifts for lighter vehicles. Its traditional twin column design with...

workshops on-line • CLEPA. the European association of parts manufacturers, has made a submission regarding the extension of...

• Transfleet is to equip all its depot's workshops with computers to allow fitters instant access to a vehicle's service...

• The Leyland Daf engine reconditioning plant in St.Helens has been sold to British Polar Engines of Glasgow. About 10 engines...

• The Factoring Services Group (FSG) is pressing for a change in the law to remove the monopoly on what it sees as "slow...

• Leyland Daf is set to resume offering hauliers a full manufacturer-backed contract maintenance scheme. When the reciever was...

• Ford is reducing the cost of replacement wings, bonnets and front panels on Fiesta and Escourt vans and P100 pickups...

• Leyland Daf has added 'computer specialist Kerridge to its preferred supplier list. Dealer Morgan Elliott has just installed...

• At least 40 companies are waiting to join the Garage Equipment Association (GEA) when it becomes a limited company on 1...

W hen you are looking for a new truck the cost of engine parts may not be in the front of your mind, but this attitude could...

units; ut it also produces a 17-tonner which has its own band of devoted followers. Scania has dropped its eight-litre engine...

out; warning lights, exhaust brake, tacho date and so on. Turn the heated mirrors on as you start the checks and they should be...

ith the increased level of technology on today's trucks, the one battle workshops cannot afford to lose is for the access to...