has taken delivery of 17 Scanias following its recent £3.5m investment in an 8,000pallet cold-store extension to its...

Truck driver Phillip Knight is appearing at Canterbury Crown Court on smuggling charges after cannabis with a street value of...

the recovery of a stolen trailer. It is a white 1999 SDC on BPW axles with a blue chassis. number SDC8645B3A6A28469. Contact:...

Liverpool-based waste oils and associated wastes recycling company OSS Group is to make a cash offer for its Leedsbased...

stations across the world is to be ditched as part of an international rebranding programme.

a new executive board headed by John Bryant. former group MD, as CEO and chairman.

• Despite offering little to level the playing field between UK and foreign hauliers the government has finally promised some...

H The government begins its crack-down on international operators harbouring illegal immigrants next week, with ,22,000 fines...

f by Karen Miles Alarm is spreading through the West Midlands this week, as hauliers and drivers face the loss of up to a...

• Hundrees of trucks and tractors converged on the centr of Newcastle upon Tyne on Saturday, as farmers and hauliers united in...

• Edward Roderick, managing director of Christian Salvesen UK, has resigned as vice-chairman of the Road Haulage Association in...

• No back taxes will be levied on 2,000 Northern Irish trucks which flagged out to Dublin and were subsequently de-registered...

A start, but just a start Better than nothing, it's true, with a purely inflationary increase on fuel duty—yet this week's...

N by Charles Young A French truck dealer was accused of overcharging a British haulier by £30,000 for the recovery of his...

• The Shadow Road Haulage Forum Report was unveiled last week by Conservative Shadow Transport Minister Bernard Jenkin MP after...

• Shropshire hauliers are calling on their colleagues across the country to follow their example and get out into town centres...

The disabled man who stole an artic full of Ribena after his heroin dealer told him to has escaped a jail sentence; instead...

• by Melanie Hammond Competition from foreign hauliers on the back of steep UK fuel and vehicle taxes were the main issues...

turning detective in a bid to trace vandals who caused 225,000-worth of damage to vehicles. Bosses at Brandrick Trucks and...

driver who prevented a cloud of ammonia gas spreading across parts of the M5 in the West Midlands, Last Tuesday...

TIP Tanker, Rental & Contract Hire has supplied Tate & Lyle Sugars with four new Clayton single-compartment liquid bulk...

to deliver gas cylinders for Air Products, and has been named its European distribution contractor of the year.

Wincanton Logistics a fiveyear, £10m contract to manage its distribution centre at Mallusk near Belfast.

picked up the contract to deliver all new Tata models throughout the UK. The contract was held previously by Motor Vehicle...

Al Packaging as part of a six-year, full service contract-hire agreement.

more than £4m a year delivering cut flowers to homes throughout the UK. Clients now include Marks & Spencer, Waitress....

II A disqualified truck driver who was nearly three times over the drink-drive limit has been banned for three years. Carlisle...

• Seafrance is to introduce a new ship to its fleet, which will significantly raise its capacity on the Dover-Calais Channel...

Once upon a time the only problem for Volvo was whether it could get enough product. Now the truck is likely to be the least...

With 560 exhibitors eager to promote their wares, The Commercial Vehicle Show 2000, organised by the Society of Motor...

loss—the CV show Is packed with examples of innovative engineering to boost your productivity. • ANDOVER TRAILERS is...

Proving that where there's muck, there's brass. MAN has provided a pair of lightweight 360hp eight-wheelers to haul the residue...

II Ford has announced designations and some of the prices for the all-new Transit range of vans and chassis-cabs, which are...

is proving successful in its assault on the Scandinavian market. Forty examples have been sold in Denmark. Sweden and Norway,...

LDV has introduced a special edition of the Cub van, together with a new way to buy it. With features including a selection of...

95hp HDi common-rail engine. As well as improved emissions and performance, the HDi has service intervals extended from 10,000...

Shropshire machinery haulier Dave Parry and Son Transport has complemented its fleet of antics with this MercedesBenz Atego...

Mercedes-Benz launched the new generation of Unimogs at its Stuttgart base last week. The three-model range represents a change...

a John Evans & Sons (Llanelli) was allowed to surrender its licence when the company appeared before Welsh Traffic...

The Transport Tribunal has removed a condition from the licence held by St Austell-based Leonard Gale which prevented him from...

Neil Naylor, who trades as Haulwaste, of Macclesfield. is appealing to the Transport Tribunal against the revocation of his...

vehicles based at Stoke-onTrent granted to licensing Wholesale. The conditions limit the size of vehicles, hours of operation...

An objection from Essex Police has resulted in the refusal of a bid for a new international licence for seven vehicles and...

by Dundee-based Gordon Ewan. Scottish DTG Richard McFarlane has warned him about his future operations. Ewan had been called...

with a warning when the company appeared before Scottish TC Michael Betts. The company appeared at an Edinburgh disciplinary...

man whose truck displayed another operator's 0-licence disc and a tax disc that was issued to a car has been committed to crown...

Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have led to one of Newport-based Attewell Haulage's three operational vehicles being...

A driver employed by Blackpool-based RP Winder (Wholesale Meats) admitted falsifying tachograph charts when he appeared before...

The Road Haulage Association has now appointed its new Director-General, and is distancing itself from an article in the Mail...

After reading your article on flagging out ( CM9-15 March) I expect many operators will now be sweating profusely. Many of...

I read with interest your news item about "a new system called immersed tube tunnelling" to be used for a proposed...

Since 19891 have used BP Oil UK agency cards for both my businesses. We have happily paid a fairly high price for our fuel,...

With reference to Allen Smith's letter in which he mentioned the murder of a member of staff (CM 2-8 March): when I joined the...

John Bateup, of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, bought this Ford Escort 8cwt van for £618 in 1969 to set up in business servicing...

(tx • The last time the ironmongers mended his coal shovel, The Hawk was so pleased that he immediately rushed off a letter of...

Eagle - eyed CM readers might have been a tad confused when the hallowed Bible of Britain's haulage industry published the...

tougher market: the Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Transit were always strong contenders, and their latest incarnations will be...

no picnic, even if that county is a holiday paradise in summer. But one Cornis haulier has managed to thrive and double his...

then answer all the questions in our "Win a Midlum" competition form below, not forgetting the tie-breaker and all your...

to the millions of pounds worth of loads which go missing each year. But that could change with the formation of a national...

and Ocean has been heralded in the City as a match made in heaven. Indeed, the two companies comple ment each other perfectly....

Ocean Steam Ship Company, it pried its maritime trade as the Blue Funnel Line. During the two World Wars it lost 58 vessels to...

11in 1982, Mrs Thatcher's government sold off NFC to its employees. In the mid1980s NFC made Its first US acquisition and began...

the contrasting landscapes that make driving past Birmingham and bowl ing through North Yorkshire two very different...

The first thing to bear in mind is that no chief constable is bounc AOPO's guidelines; in theory, each constabulary could...

EU pressure, these workers are about to receive rights equal to full-timers on pay, holiday, pensions and benefits. H auliers...

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