• Cafe and truckstop owners Jenny and Peter Hawes will find out this week if they have won the right to continue operating on...

by Miles Brignall • Two major Government statements on the future of British haulage are to be made this week. The...

• The Government is poised to hack down on plans to scrap grandfather rights under the new European eyesight laws after...

by Karen Miles • A LK lorry driver who has been trapped for nearly two weeks on the Greek-Turkish border in a dispute over...

A t last it seems we've all got what we wanted: enforcement of HGVs under the political spotlight. What could and should be the...

• Eurotunnel lost .C925m for 1995, its first full year of trading. The losses, including 068m interest, increased the...

The Transport Select Committee, comprising MPs of all parties, has considerable influence on the legislation that governs road...

by Karen Miles • The family of a man killed by a truck with a tired driver is pressing the Crown Prosecution Service to...

• A welsh coal producer says it has ditched railfreight because it is too expensive. Hauliers in the area are now picking up...

by Amanda Bradbury • As the pump price war cools hauliers should be prepared for higher fuel bills as diesel pump prices...

• Fifty drivers delivering fuel for Kuwait Petroleum will be working for Exel Logistics from 1 July, when its Tankfreight...

• A leaked document outlining the Labour Party's plans for transport into the next century suggests it is becoming friendlier...

Colin Robinson, the former joint managing director and finance 'director of Archbold Freightage, is to drop his claim against...

• Drivers are warned to he on their guard in Spain after a Yorkshire-based haulier was stopped and fined £50 for what the...

• Drivers delivering consignments for Parcelforce were set traps to test their trustworthiness in an attempt to reduce the...

• Yorkshire Water was transporting water on the roads again this week, just months after closing its water tankering relief...

• A Walsall driver whose truck with faulty brakes ran down a hill out of control eventually toppling on to a car killing a...

by David Harris • One of the longest running 0-licence battles in Scotland entered another phase when Turriff Transport...

• Hauliers objecting to the 40% price rise proposed for the Humber Bridge crossing will have the chance to vent their anger...

• Trailer rental specialist TIP Europe has stepped up its attack on the UK short-term truck and van hire market by snapping...

• Cumbria-based livestock haulier T Bell & Sons appeared at Carlisle Magistrates Court last week charged with nearly 100...

• Fiat will launch a three-door hatchback van in June, based on the Fiat Plinio 55 car. The Punto van will offer a 450kg...

• \\\ is about to launch the Polo-based Caddy high-cube van. The Caddy has the same bodyshell as the new Seat Inca, and will...

by Brian Weatherley • Krone is stepping up its attack on the intermodal trailer market with a lightweight triaxle tilt for...

Leyland Daf has launched the 55 Series in the UK, replacing the 50 and 60 Series and giving a foretaste of the 45 Series which...

1 • A Fleetwood scrap metal merchant has been disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for six months. Stephen...

No stay • The Transport Tribunal has refused to grant Skipton tipper operators W&G Taylor a stay pending consideration of the...

• Three of the I iauliers stopped in roadside checks by DOT vehicle examiners on the A120 at Elmstead Market, Essex have...

• A driver who falsified a tacho graph record because he was worried about the security of his load of whisky has been fined...

• Ormskirk-based Bickerstaffe Containers, a company formed by the directors of Bickerstaffe Packaging which is now in...

by Karen Miles • Drivers working in the haulage industry are being left out of a Government initiative that aims to promote...

• More than 50 people were evacuated from a Carlisle truckstop and two lanes of the M6 were closed when a restaurant went up...

• More than a thousand British owner-drivers have been left without an organisation to represent them after the recent...

• An uwneL-LInver paid a high price for using illegal red diesel when he was jailed for six months at Bradford Crown Court...

ack in 1976 Dee Evans found this Ford Jeep in pieces and being used to house chickens. The 1942 workhorse first saw service...

M ith Truckfest just over a week away. excitement mounts in ars hallowed corridors. The thrills, the spills, the frills (that's...

!aiming to be the first man in Ireland to run the slinky new Scania 144L is Sean Delaney of Riverstown, Cork. Sean showed off...

w e refer to your article on page 8 of CM 28 March-3 April. It states that the Institute of Explosives Engineers has...

• 29 April: National Truck Council dealer conference, Chateau Impney Hotel, Droitwich. Contact: 01788 538302. • 30 April:...

• Training organisation AMT International has been appointed the official training provider of the United Kingdom Warehousing...

• A small fridge designed for truck cabs will be launched at the Peterborough Truckfest on 5-6 May. The Pelstar Microfridge...

In the highly competitive high-cube small van market you've got to excel in all areas. Ford seems to have got the research...

y no can almost detect the irony in the words of LDV boss Allan Amey, when he says: "We've never pretended we could go forward...

Take one hard-working Foden, a pair of energetic farming brothers, add them to quarry-rich Derbyshire and you have the recipe...

J f animal feed suppliers who deliver to farms in eight-wheelers aren't considering using semi-trailers with positive or forced...

all-bolted approach to curtainsider construction favoured by his company makes for ease of repair. But it was a nearcrippling...

races Despite gloom over the knock-on effects of Britain's beef crisis, Irish operators meeting in conference recently took...

Jimmy Quinn is halfway through his two-year stint as IRHA president. If he can take a share of the credit for some of the...

Irish Transport Minister, Emm hopes his Road Transport B law by the end of the announced some of its pro. last year's...

The long awaited overhaul of the LGV test has been delayed six months in a surprise announcement by the Driving Standards...

I CONSERVATIVES It is difficult to detail a large number of new policies, as the Government has had 17 years to carry out its...

j ohn Lucy, director of Liverpool international operator William Lucy is in favour of a statutory right to interest on late...

4 orry bashing has been a popular L British sport For too long. The media, including the motoring press, have done their share...

Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs is not only unprofessional, it can be highly dangerous. Make sure your drivers...

or face prosecution The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985 (RIDDOR) require that...

Who is an employee? Most cases pose no problem in deciding. You look around your operation and you see that you have drivers on...

Industrial Tribunals What is an Industrial Tribunal? Technically speaking it is not a court but an administrative tribunal....