compete eith Consignia—the renamed lost Office—in the delivery of etters and parcels under £1. lays is also expected to bid for...

• by Guy Sheppard Criminal gangs in Northern Ireland who launder red diesel and then sell it on the black market are...

• Eastern Area Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms has been strongly defended by the authorities following allegations of...

• by Mike Nuttal and Sally Nash Hauliers involved in the transport of livestock could be forced to make costly improvements to...

• Fuel protesters are warning the government that they have not gone away and they remain determined to make fuel duty a major...

Agency drivers involved in the transport of milk in Devon say work is drying up as the effects of foot-and-mouth begin to...

• Concern was growing this week about the health risks to drivers exposed to pollutants produced from the fires that are being...

• Truoldest organiser Live Promotions insists that haulier Stan Robinson has changed his mind about attending the event—even...

pc: by Sally Nash The High Court has ruled that a Bradford truck driver should be extradited to France to serve a three-year...

• Truck drivers working nightshifts or missing sleep may have an increased risk of developing peptic ulcers. Scientists at the...

Freightliner was also ordered to pay a total of £3,603 costs after Birmingham Crown Court heard that the company had allowed...

• Hays Group chairman Ronnie Frost is wealthier than the Queen, according to the Sunday limes Rich List 2001. Road transport...

• Hauliers running credit checks on customers who are sole traders and partnerships will need to ask permission from October or...

With fuel prices in Britain still way above the European average there are tempting savings to be made in buying smuggled red...

Eby Guy Sheppard Operators fighting to overturn 2,000 fines for carrying illegal immigrants are reacting "fairly positively"...

A bureaucratic oversight which forces some hauliers to choose between breaking the law and turning away business is expected to...

• Hauliers set to attend the Road Haulage Association annual dinner have had their evening plans stoppered by anti-capitalist...

A haulier says that he waited five months for an insurer to pay up after his truck was written off In an accident—only to find...

• bySally Nash The Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is not up to scratch when it comes to preparing transport...

• Beanie's 12-litre Euro-2 and Euro-3 engines differ little in overall layout, but there are significant changes in the way...

• As you would expect, there was precious little between the two in their onroad behaviour: in fact, the main differences could...

by Colin Barnett 3M's sister magazine Farmers Neekly is backing a campaign o persuade the government to . ethink its policy on...

We would like to apologise for giving the wrong impression about Krone trailers in our report last week. While Krone does...

Continental is to establish a new commercial tyre sales and service network to replace the National Tyre Service Commercial...

• John Moore Tractor Parts has taken delivery of a triaxle power-steered GTL 70 hydroneck low-loader from King Trailers to move...

• Volvo has expanded its range of Euro-3 engines with a 460hp version. The 12-litre D120 features improvements to the cooling...

• Harlow-based Flexible Lamps' new lighting range includes a 24V LED combined side marker/indicator light. LED technology means...

• Premier Pits has developed a fold-away safety over for its prefabricated steel workshop pits. Aade from heavy-duty,...

Beissbarth Automotive has aunched what it believes is the vorld's first voice-controlled wtomatic wheel alignment iystem....

power steering racks for medium to heavy Mils to include models for lighter trucks. It has also published a Truck & Bus Power...

• Balchvin's latest range of spin-on lube oil fitters is said to out-perform its main competitors, The Vortex Dual Flow is...

If tail-end damage is costing you dean consider fitting one of Safety Stop's automatic brak ing systems. The basic version has...

• Sika has developed a new generation of elastic sealants an adhesives for the CV construction and repair industries. They cai...

• Hope's Scrutineer vehicle air brake and Wing test unit is now available with an integral brake response timer (OBI),...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is showing a keen interest in mobile brake testers and one system that has already been trialled is...

• MB Products highlighted a neat remote warning system to tip off the driver if anyone enters his vehicle, whether as a...

Tenterden, Kent-based Continental Vehicle Components is marketing an odourless, solvent-free vehicle floor resurfacing system...

• The automatic tyre inflater from Clipsal Airtec of Bowden South Australia is said to bE more driver-friendly than most Simply...

three-year disqualification The Transport Tribunal has upheld the revocation of the licence held by Italian-owned Alcaline,...

Problems following the death of the senior partner in Gerald D Harries & Sons, of Narberth, have led to the firm's licence...

laintenance problems have d to the licence held by WJ leal Transport, of Yeovil, being Lit from 15 to 10 vehicles. The ompany...

the falsification of tachograph records after Wrexham magistrates decided that their powers of punishment were insufficient,...

One of the four vehicles run by Widnes international haulier Eugene Marsh, trading as JK ----I Transport, has been suspended...

FLASH: Angry Spagthorpe Motor Company customers have lashed out at the company's latest recall programme, claiming it is "too...

premiums going through a roof? If lay preacher Peter David is to be lieved. then who knows. David failed to press police in...

time you use it please check very carefully. If unexpectedly you can see straight in and your car is visible, it could be that...

long time, but it's never made much of an impact The Florin°, based initially on the 127 and then the Uno, was certainly an...

he Traffic Area Network (TAN) is now being run as two separate businesses as part of a drive to deliver a more efficient...

many well established firms have closed down recently, iting the escalating cost of fuel as a major factor in their demise. But...

together to form what is now BSG date back to the r9th century. They grew out of the Cottis family farm at Rochford, near...

a vehicle diagnostic unit. It was expensive with a limited range of functions, but as electronics have advanced so has Oaf's...

The XD offers a comprehensive choice of measurements with two multimeters for checking voltages, resistances or currents at any...

0.* CAN is an information system that enables data to be transferred from one ECU to another. The central computer or vehicle...

usually slept in nearby lodgings and in the morning the cab took ages to thaw out. Nowadays most long-haul vehicles have...

4 , German firm Eberspacher was set up in the thirties to make air-to-air heat exchangers, followed by hot water heaters....

atrick McKee, managing director of McKee Transport, was recently jailed for four-and-a-half years at Maidstone Crown Court...

The maximum term of imprisonment for smuggling alcohol or tobacco is seven years—and hauliers face a range of other sanctions,...

I normally awake at 05:50hrs and arrive at work at 06:30hrs but today the phone rings at 05:30hrs. The one vehicle that was...

Normally a more relaxed day, and as it's raining we definitely slow down a bit because a lot of our work is building related...

Decide to try to hunt down a second-hand skip truck. After several miserable specimens and many miles I find a good serviceable...

Sort through all the overnight faxes and see out the skip lorries. Haulage today pretty well runs itself. We have collected...

Always a busy day for skip haulage. A colleague rings from Birmingham to report a Daf unit with starter motor failure. It's...

• Isuzu Truck plans to strengthen its UK dealer network. Managing director Nikki King wants to recruit in more sales and...

• Saturday auctions are having an impact, but although operators are attending, they're not purchasing trucks in huge numbers...

II Britain's used truck market is booming, according to George Alexander, commercial vehicles editor at Glass s Guide. "It's as...

ON THE RHODES TO ERE' Martin Rhodes is ERF's new director of vehicle asset management He joins from Renault VI, where he was...

Franchised truck dealers are still battling against the passible abolition of Block Exemption says Keith Sayfritz, a Daf dealer...