by Rob Willock • Nlost British drivers waste your money, then demand more, according to a partner in a freight forwarding...

• Brewer Carlsberg-Tetley has quashed speculation about the fate of its distribution operation by ruling out a move to a...

• t o k marketing director at MAN Truck and Bus UK, is moving to Mercedes-Benz (UK) as general manager, marketing. MB has...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers convicted for their involvement in traffic accidents may be able to seek a fresh trial if they...

• Road tax dodgers are being targeted in a nationwide clampdown by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. After 31 January...

• Edinburgh was named the city most likely to introduce road pricing first at the launch of The Centre for the Management of...

CHOKING TO DEATH H ere's a simple exercise for all truck operators: clasp your hands around your windpipe, and slowly...

by David Craik • A Kent-based haulier is accusing German police of racial victimisation after her Turkish husband driver was...

• Truckline, Brittany Ferries' freight service, is aiming to beat French strikers and help UK hauliers avoid any blockades...

• Up to 50 jobs will be lost at trailer manufacturer Montracon when it closes its "out-dated factory" at Garstang at the end...

• Out-of-pocket hauliers hoping for money from the liquidator of Portsmouth-based Freight Transfer look set to face...

• Dublin's new traffic supremo Owen Keegan plans to highlight areas where truck parking will be allowed in the city, rather...

• The Government is to set a national target for reducing road casualties by the year 2010, but it is unlikely to include a...

at Felixstowe • Driver complaints about delays at Felixstowe are continuing, despite last month's installation of new...

by David Craik MI Driver jobs at a Walsall sand and gravel quarry are at risk due to "unreasonable" worries from new local...

by Sally Nash • Cumbrian haulier Vivian Shandwick Lightfoot & Partners has appeared before Wigton magistrates charged with a...

• TDG Beck & Pollitzer has won a five-year contract to distribute batteries for M. Power using a dedicated fleet of three...

• Road safety campaigners are to ask PM Tony Blair to order a killer stretch of the A66 in North Yorkshire to be converted to...

• Canadian truck maker Western Star says that more than 60% of its production in the last financial year was made by ERF....

Latest forecasts from the Department of Transport paint an alarming picture of road congestion in the new millennium—but most...

by Sally Nash • Supermarket giants Safeway and Sainsbury ' s are both claim ing to be the first to start long term rail -...

• A campaign of civil disobedience is being planned by residents of Tetbury. Glos to force through a local lorry ban. The...

• Ford will launch its own range of alternative-fuel commercial vehicles in 1999. but the company has yet to decide which...

• Bulk transport operator Hoyer has bought a pair of Weightlifter triaxle skeletal trailers with unusual axle spacing to suit...

by Brian Weatherle% • As forecast by CM, ERF is to market the 12.7-litre Detroit Diesel 60 Series engine in its EC heavy...

by Dan Gilkes • Iveco Ford is making it easier to drive EuroStar and EuroTech tractors with the UK introduction of...

They're becoming increasingly difficult to find, but behind the concept vehicles and styling exercises CM's Toby Clark and...

• A Trafford disciplinary inquiry has cut the number of vehicles and trailers on the licence of a Liverpool company which...

• Fines totalling £9,000 imposed on Alan Price & Sons (Bargoed) for six overload'ng offences have been reduced to £6,000 on...

• Ronald Livingstone, trading as Dunfermline Carriers, escaped with a warning when he appeared before Scottish DTC Richard...

• An investigation is to be launched into claims that the wife of a bankrupt County Durham haulier has started up in business...

• Stoke-on-Trent based DSH Freight Services was allowed to continue in business after West Midland Traffic Commissioner John...

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Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

T m writing in response to your story last week "Turks save on wages", and in particular on the matter of waiting money. I am...

W e live in an unfair world. This morning as I drove up from Southampton on the M3 I became aware of a Renault Magnum tractive...

T he current trend of placing stickers on the back of a truck or van and inviting the public to comment on the ability of the...

I have just spent a very pleasant hour looking at the special Trailer of the Year supplement given away with CM (2-8 October)....

haulage very seriously. However, once a week, our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look...

0 never cease to be touched by the generosity of people in this industry. Transport refrigeration specialist Hubbard is...

M hen Malcolm Whiteley says pass the remote, he doesn't have channel-hopping in mind. Malcolm, an ownerdriver franchisee from...

nifty little machine, what? This Mercedes/Swatch Smart car looks just the job for AD getting round those tricky parking...

D OAF 95XF 480 It's taken Daf a long time to turn the 95 Series into the truck it ought to be, but for owner-drivers looking...

There are off-the-shelf systems, tailored systems and a host of specific user packages to help monitor and improve your control...

Aerodynamic cladding may save fuel but it adds weight and pushes up costs. On road tankers wind-cheating is a real possibility....

Lose your business and you could lose everything, including the right to your personal pension payments. But there are ways to...

The Law Commissioners have made recommendations on corporate manslaughter and the Home Secretary is considering a change in the...

H ere we go again! Rumblings from the French unions indicate a that another strike is on the way: the smart money says that the...

C ontinuous licensing has been with us for some time now; it has led to a number of changes in the licensing system. For...

servedly. The Crown Court will "refer" the case (which effectively means a new trial) if the appeal is against conviction. The...

Operators can appeal against a Traffic Commissioner's refusal of an application for a new licence, a variation, or disciplinary...

T he biggest hurdle facing any new applicant for on 0-licence is that of proving he is of "appropriate financial standing"....

Ban problem I was driving an artic home on the M25 when the traffic came to a standstill. I was only 200 yards from the...

I operate several recovery vehicles which have a crane, spectacle-lift or a beavertail platform body with winch. Some are taxed...

BASED: Atherton, Manchester. FOUNDED: 1965. CONTACT: David Bardsley. FLEET: Four heavy and two light recovery vehicles....

caution when towing trailers behind panel vans to avoid falling foul of tachograph regulations. The train weight of the...