Chris Tindall examines the background to the sale of the UK's best Known haulier EDDIE STOBART. Britain's most famous haulage...

The purchase of Eddie Slohatt Group by WA Developments (International) is widely recognised as a good move for Edward Stobart,...

BRITISH HAULIERS are outraged by their treatment at the hands of French national rail firm SNCF which has pulled the plug on...

The Austrian truck toll sys could be delayed beyonc its 1 January start becauE so few trucks have the tol equipment installed.

Two men have appeared before Enf ield Magistrate; charged with kidnapping a truck driver in Middlese; on 7 October. They are...

Exel has won a E42m thre year deal to manage the MoD's commercial freight operations. The deal cove surface and air freight...

Bruno Dingemans is the n( head of The International Road Transport Union Academy. He has extensiv experience as an ADR...

Immigration officials have warned that asylum seeke are now targeting east cos ports as a new route into the UK. I ast Sunday...

John Vasey, the driver jaile in France for allegedly smuggling £2.5m of cannabis, will have his app hearing in Montpellier on...

FRENCH TRANSPORT giant Norbert Dentressangle has revealed ambitious expansion plans including the possibility of cherry-picking...

A MANCHESTER truck driver has been jailed for three months for a road rage attack in which he threatened to rip a motorist's...

BRITISH OPERATORS have long believed that lax enforcement allows drivers in some continental countries to bend the hours rules...

CHESHIRE-BASED James Irlam & Sons and the United Road Transport Union (URTU) appear to have settled their differences by...

CLEARING THE AIR That man Brian Weatherley has been musing on the gulf between the public's percept of truck pollution and the...

So Steady Eddie has sold out. While those of us in the industry who believed Eddie Stobart to be the very totem of the British...

INTER CITY TRUCKS has shut up shop after 35 years of international haulage to concentrate on its freight forwarding business....

DRIVERS WHO DELIVER to Marks & Spencer stores throughout the country are voting on a revised pay offer following months of...

MORE THAN 800 would-be truck drivers are to receive free training in a bid to help the driver shortage by attracting applicants...

Andy Salter see the Actros claim its rightful prize for comfort and reliability. THE MERCEDES ACTROS. relaunched by Mercedes...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE manufacturers appeared in buoyant mood at last week's RAI Show in Amsterdam, despite the poor underlying...

THE COMMERCIAL vehicle industry's most prestigious van award has gone to the revamped Volkswagen Transporter. The new...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR can L:onfirrn that the Mercedes range of V6 and VS engines will be discontinued by the end of the decade to...

IN THE NEWS Take a stroll with us through the untravelled byways of road transport; the diversions and detours, the quirky,...

Nightowl restaurants will no longer see in the dawn says Guy Sheppard. 'I'RUCKSTOP OPERATOR Nightowl is cutting the opening...

SUPERMARKET GIANT Asda is to come to face-to-face with angry truck drivers fed up with delays and poor facilities at its...

Customs officers seized a tanker, oil laundering equipment and 50.000 litres of fuel at Castleblaney, less than a mile south of...

THE HISTORIC Cambridgeshire body-builder ATT Papworth. whose distinguished record includes building bodies for Bedford's*Green...

OPERATORS WHOSE trucks are impounded by Customs officers investigating smuggling are often to blame because they fail to check...

Safeway is taking note of its drivers' fears over their gas fuelled Scanias. Chris Tindall reports. SAFE WAY DRIVERS say the...

CHARITY CONVOY 2000 is appealing to operators to donate warehouse space around the M25 to store emergency supplies for its next...

Attracting drivers into the industry is tricky, but a new initiative may do just that Jennifer Ball reports. W ith an ageing...

Women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in road transport, with only 11% of the road freight workforce being female...

CM reporter Jennifer Ball mites: As scmeone who has never driven anything bigger than my Ford Ka I was nervous about being...

Latest figures from the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA) show the number of annual trailer tests increased by 1.9%...

VOSAS Vehicle Inspectorate Effec6veness Repor t 2002/0.3 reveals that after a penod of increase both initial and final trailer...

Despite a slight decrease in their failure rates, service and parking brake performance remain the most common items cited in...

The annual test failure rate for trailers tends to increase with age. just as it does for HGVs. VOSA says that as there is...

When the IRTE became the SOE it ruffled some feathers. Chief exec Tracey Shelley has stroked them back Brian Weatherley...

I WRITE THIS LETTER in response to the parking article featuring the closure of the truck park at Loughton and the remarks made...

WHILE I AM very disappointed that the long relationship between Auto Recoveries and Green Flag has come loan end, your article...

YOUR ARTICLE ON an engine which appeared on a Cummins stand at the recent Defence Systems and Equipment International show in...

Van manufacturers say they need Block Exemptions for efficiency; consumer groups say they make vehicles and parts more...

An ownership dispute brea cs out over an impounded truck, but the - 1( stands firm and a Tribunal stands behind him. A...

A BLUNDER IN the way evidence was gathered has led to a driver escaping serious charges of falsifying tachograph records and...

AN OPERATOR which ignored an order to attend a Public Inquiry to investigate its maintenance regime has had its one-truck...

THE TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL has told two TrafficArea Offices to sharpen up their acts after they failed to notify 0-licence...

TACHOG RA PH records and taking insufficient daily rest cost driver John O'Loughlin £520 in fines and costs. O'Loughlin, of...

Eventually most hauliers will need the services of a lawyer, either for advice, or to defend their licence. But how do you get...

With the government and the opposition vying with each other to announce new initiatives, what are employers' pension...

Overlooking racism is not an option. So how do you ensure you're running an unprejudiced workplace? Miles Brignall reports....

CM is delighted to present a full test of the brand new International Truck of the Year. The European judges wen certainly...

Europe. UK subsidiary Fiege Merlin has two networks specialising in white good and parcels delivery. Transport manager Bob...

The most crucial part of the package is the new cab interior, and there are no disappointments in there. Quality and layout is...

A I( FAI 1:1 If you want a light delivery van with zero tail-pipe emissions, you currently have a choice of just onE CM spent...

Automotive waste is a given in any service garage or bodyshop but, says Bryan Jarvis, be sure to collect, store and dispose of...

The government's recent Landfill Directive introduced further restrictions on waste disposals. All flammable materials are...

Fuel cards offer several benefits over the traditional pay-and reclaim method. VVith so many to choose from Julian MilInes...

Resellers generally buy fuel from a company such as Petroplus for transfer into a network, for example Keyfuels, which has an...

I f awards were given out for time-served LCVs, the VolkswagenTransporter.with 53 years' service to call on, might just take...

Last week Colin Barnett witnessed the birth of a new concept in the field of specialist commercial vehicles... design with a...

Occupying a prime London position next door to the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Art is an unIlkely home for vehicle...

Half of all the sugar consumed in Britain is home-grown. Tim Maughan has been finding out how the bulker fleets handle the...

British Sugar's Bury St Edmunds factor (the firm's second largest) can process 12.000 tonnes of beet a day. Typically. 1.400...

Man Lee's efforts to prepare his customers for new legislation backfires... and he explains how he copes with the surprises his...

If you want to carry on selling insurance you need to be authorised U sed truck dealers who provide their own insurance-based...

As Direct UK Transport's clients in the fashion business have grown, its fleet of secondhand trucks has had to keep up with the...

Every week, CM drops in on a used truck dealer somewhere in the UK to run the rule over one of its wagons — and this one's a...