• "Be sure your sins will find you out." So says the good book, and judging by two stories in this week's headline news pages...

by Juliet Parish • New North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth plans to improve the "rocky relationship" which he...

by Amanda Bradbury • A. row is brewing between hauliers and the Department of Transport over plans for a catchall legal...

• More than 30 Derbyshire hauliers operating in the Carsington area are under threat from a devastating lorry ban. Next week...

• Ipswich campaigner Diana Dooner is calling on all hauliers and drivers who use the Port of Felixstowe to contact her with...

• Doubts were cast over the possibility of a management buy-out at the Leyland Daf truck plant last week, but the van buyout...

• UK hauliers could be allowed to run at 44-tonne artics within a year. This follows the decision by the European Commission to...

• Strathaven-based haulage firm Yuill and Dodds has been given a temporary reprieve from a week-long ban on its 35 trucks,...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers must wait until the summer for a court case to help decide how easily UK police can prosecute drivers...

• A runaway chemical tanker which crashed in Matlock last week when its brakes failed has boosted the town council's campaign...

• The German haulage association BDF has demonstrated against the failure by the Council of Transport Ministers to agree...

• Hundreds of drivers were diverted or delayed at Teesport last Monday (22 March) when 10 ferries were blockaded for six hours...

• Iveco Ford has launched its EuroTech range in the UK, some five months after the planned October launch. Spearheading the...

• Daf is dropping its 6.2-litre engine currently used in the Daf 1900 and 60 Series (Freighter) and the latest 65 Series...

by John Kendall • The first right-hand-drive Volvo FL10 Geartronic tractive units built at Volvo's Irvine plant in Scotland...

by Juliet Parish • Food giant Nestle is on the hunt for hauliers to transport around 350 million litres of milk direct from...

• Tippermen in Sussex will be needed to transport around 80 loads a day when a major project constructing an underwater sewage...

• Most of the 120 drivers at CoOperative Wholesale Services are expected to accept a 2% pay deal. Unions are recommending...

Port throughput • Reduced chemical and construction freight pulled down total tonnages carried through Associated British Ports...

Cool drugs • All pharmaceutical product imports to the United Arab Emirates must now be carried in temperature-controlled...

T&N profits • International automotive components and engineering firm T&N has announced a 56% rise in pre-tax profits for last...

Volvo aftermarket • Volvo is combining its bus and truck aftermarket operations in a fortnight's time. Norman Mdlwraith,...

• The RAC is to provide a national breakdown and recovery service to the Ministry of Defence. Some 70,000 vehicles in the MoD...

• The Transport and General Workers Union is set to take Rank Hovis to an industrial tribunal for cutting shop stewards' jobs,...

Drivers say no • Tesco depot drivers have rejected a 2.6% pay offer, said to be worth £6.16 a week to artic drivers. The...

by Amanda Bradbury and Nick Ryan • Furious heavy hauliers are bracing themselves for tough cuts following a £1,750 vehicle...

6 6 • Chester Crown Court was told that Uttoxeter lorry driver John Mellor pestered a woman motorist on the M6, making obscene...

• Police in Carmarthen pulled an Irish ownerdriver off the A48 and locked him up overnight when they found that he had exceeded...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu has warned operators against using the annual test as a way of finding out the...

• A series of convictions and failure to notify the Traffic Area about them brought Stockport haulier Greens Transport before...

• Prohibition notices imposed because of poor vehicle condition and failures to tax vehicles properly led to associated...

Fewer skips • Maintenance problem led to the four-vehicle licence held by Al Skip Services, of Port Seton, East Lothian, being...

• Whale Tankers has developed a dirty water recycling option for its jetvac and jetting vehicles which is said to allow more...

Training boss • Former Vehicle Builders & Repairers Association director-general Bob McCartney has been appointed chief...

Zinc paper • Papers are being invited for the 4th International Zinc Coated Sheet conference to be held in Paris in June 1994....

Ozone friendly • ICI is now manufacturing and marketing its range of refrigerants, including its ozone-benign 134a, 32, and...

Eastern promise • Reynolds Boughton has supplied three fire appliances, a 436kW (585hp) Barracuda RIV and two apron patrol...

• Manchester-based Didsbury Engineering has devised a truckmounted davit-type lifting system that will help employers comply...

• Quick but firm retention of roll cages in semi-trailers has been achieved by the use of swing down restraining bars fitted...

• Liphook-based Litterpress has added a 7.0m3 model to its range of light-vehicle-mounted domestic waste compactors. Using a...

• Frigoscandia has added another 24 reefer trailers to its 200strong fleet. The 13.6m units are capable of carrying 26...

• David MacKrill Engineering has supplied the first two recycling tipper body systems on Dennis Elite narrow-track chassis for...

• The use of an internally mounted Edbro DD18 tipping gear and hemi-cone rear end has enabled Metalair to build its largest...

• Changes in food regulations for transporting fresh produce prompted Delivery Direct to invest in an unusual multi-purpose...

• TransDek, part of Lincoln Industries, has developed a moving and elevating loading platform for box vans or trailers used on...

• Express Dairy is using four new Don-Bur Numo Spacemaster refrigerated trailers with side and rear loading facilities.to...

• Two of the.latest side-mount versions of Ray Smith's RS1OU hydraulic tail-lift have entered service with Associated Dairies'...

by Amanda Bradbury • Hire-and-reward operators with one or two vehicles have been hit harder by the Budget than any other...

The name game A re LGV operatives truckers or lorry drivers? The Hawk was chatting to a haulier the other day who expressed...

A livestock lorry check in the West Midlands had led to 34 prosecutions and more than £22,000 of fines since 1989. CM joined...

• CM guarantees publicity for any operator unfortunate to become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or...

ERF is the only British truck manufacturer to survive as an independent company. Maybe that helps account for the loyalty of...

ALAN WISELY, FLEET ENGINEERING MANAGER AT RAILFREIGHT DISTRIBUTION has the daunting task of gearing up for the company's switch...

Plenty of hauliers have to deal with hazardous loads, but nothing is more hazardous than nuclear weapons and waste. Both these...

Hauliers can save money on phone and fax bills by taking advantage of frequent user discount schemes offered by both BT and...

It's all very well taking money from people to train them for their WV licence, but has anyone told them how difficult it is to...

Ifeel I must respond to the letter in Dear Sir (25 Feb-3 Mar) from Jeff Cadwallader, who complains about what he sees as...

If Mr Lamont really thinks that was a "Budget for Business"he must be living in cloud cuckoo land. What we need is a cut in VED...

(W earing seat belts in all our commercial vehicles has been a mandatory requirement in our UK and Continental operations for...