by Miles Brignall • The Department of Transport should abolish domestic tachograph regulations in favour of EC rules and should...

• A director of Middlesex-based petrol distributor British Benzol plans to fight all the way to the High Court after the...

by Lee Kimber • Concern is growing for the rights of British truck driver Stan Al!sop this week as he approaches his third...

• A Surrey truck-driver who imported 1,500kg of cannabis worth up to £5m had his prison sentence cut from 12 years to 10 by the...

A dd up all the recommendations in thi Party Transport Select Committee r on road transport enforcement and have you got? The...

• The Birmingham-based owners of a runaway artic which crashed into a cottage and killed a Derbyshire man have been fined...

• Recession in the bulk tipping industry led to the closure of Ely-based bulk tipper Grovemere Distribution this week with the...

by Karen Miles • The cross-Channel price war enjoyed by international hauliers could be coming to an end following the...

by Roger Simpkiss • Chobham-based haulier Alan Greenwood & Co (Transport) is to appeal against a £30,000 fine and £10,404 costs...

• The Institute of Y Management's annual ference and exhibiti staying in Torbay fc next two years. In June the announced it...

• Annual test fees for Class VII light goods vehicles will rise to £30.68 on 1 August as part of an across-the-board increase...

by Derren Hayes • Operators of hazardous goods tankers will have to pay thousands of pounds extra for new vehicles if European...

by Lee Kirnber • Insurance companies are looking at ways to reward operators who make the effort to park up in secure compounds...

• Parcels delivery firm Amtrak found itself coping with a marketing nightmare last week when a customer's publicity stunt...

• Steady demand for rental vans pushed up profits for equipment hire group Goode Durrant last year despite pressure on rates,...

by Derren Hayes • A delay in Department of Transport guidelines governing hazardous goods driver training schools could lead to...

• British officials in the former Soviet Union republic of Kazakhstan want to hear from hauliers who have been forced to pay...

by Bryan Jarvis • Ipswich-based furniture manufacturer Alstons has boosted its carrying capacity with a batch of new drawbar...

• US engine maker Caterpillar is stepping up its assault on the European truck market with a new generation of seven, 10, 12...

• Dr Bernd Gottschalk has resigned as head of MercedesBenz commercial vehicle division following differences of opinion...

by Alan George • Satellite technology developed by the Pentagon for military use is being deployed in the battle against...

• Scania will launch its bonneted variant of the 4-Series truck range at the Hanover show in September (CM 1117 July). Based...

• Southampton-based Transportatruck has a new design of front and rear-loading forklift truck carrier in its fleet. It is...

by Charles Young • SAF has unveiled its new axle and suspension system which combines low maintenance with high durability and...

by Brian Weatherly • Bankers aren't known for being optimists. Back in 1993, when John Gilchrist was negotiating to buy the...

A bid by Bilston-based Hudhaul Transport (1987) to have a timing condition on its licence eased was adjourned after...

• A North Yorkshire haulier who smashed a traffic examiner's jaw has been disqualified indefinitely from holding an Operator's...

• A Dudley owner-driver whose licence was revoked last December was granted a h licence after saying he thought he had lea his...

• Stoke-on-Trentbased DSH Freight Services escaped with a warning when it appeared at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry for the...

De your article highlighted "Livestock demo 1‘threat' (CM 1216 June). We are a livestock haulage company which in the past has...

front needs to be taken on opposing the issue of giving existing Class 2/3 drivers Class I (C+E) licences from January 1997....

• It was hoped that the EuroTech, the first of the current generation of Iveco's truck models, would put right all the...

ig 1 t stands to reason," says Joe Soap Haulier. "With Bloggs & Co CV Servicing down the road charging £ 25 an hour, of course...

chucked red wine over the bosses of parcels carrier ANC, she was displaying the extremes of tension that can exist between...

S 4..Inie people have ambitions to drive a truck; others have a driving ambition to run their own operation. Then there are the...

I nter national operators running a legal, decent and honest business within the European Union rarely encounter a customs...

T here are a number of ways to sell a family haulage business, including through the trade, brokers, venture capitalists or...

6 hy on earth do we need further regulation on working time? Our drivers are already well regulated under the provisions of...