Anti-truck crime unit finds lack of guidelines create inconsistency among forces filing truck crime reports. Guy Sheppard...

A DRIVER HAS been forced to shell out £250 after his truck was clamped outside a supermarket in Thurrock. Essex, just months...

HEAVY GOODS operators have hit out at the AA's claim that abnormal loads are being moved during peak traffic periods, adding to...

THE UNITED ROAD Transport Union (URTU) is to request TUC support for its campaign to have compulsory HGV drivers' medicals paid...

Brian Weatherley reports on the end of an era for one of the longest established tanker manufacturers in the UK. DOVER...

Out of receivership West Yorkshire-based multi-deck trailer manufacturer Wilson TS has been bought out of receivership by the...

GOVERNMENT STATISTICS show that 35% of all trips made by company owned vans last year were in connection with the collection of...

POLICE ARE HUNTING for a hit-and-run truck driver who collided with a stationary van on the M25 and drove off leaving a workman...

Barry Proctor applauds the incredible standard of efficiency we've come to expect from our industry and raises his glass to...

DRIVERS AT Southampton Container Terminal (SCT) have complained to CM about huge delays and queues last week, only days after...

It's traditional that we British moan about the weather at every opportunity and lets face it, this summer has given us plenty...

David Harris reports on the runners and riders for the LRUC bonanza... CUSTOMS & EXCISE last week announced a shortlist of 10...

A FREIGHT TRANSPORT Association survey of its international members has shown that 75% of them prefer the Austrian system of...

Chief exec ahoy! Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the...

Delays of up to three-quarters of an hour on existing bridge lead business and haulage leaders to support proposal for new...

AN INQUIRY INTO the death of driver Richard Pantry on the A92 Lochgelly interchange in Fife last August has led to a call for...

20% over the past year,according to the latest CommercialMotorlMichelin Business Monitor survey. Michelin's survey of 173...

Safety has always been our top niority at Mercedes-Benz. ESP gives (ou added protection in difficult ;.onditions and we don't...

VVincanton negotiations reach ballot stage a year on. Andy Salter reports. MORE THAN 60 drivers at Wincanton's Maltby, South...

NORTHERN IRELAND'S Democratic Unionist Party has contacted European Environment Commissioner Margot WallstrOm, urging her to...

plant have won an improved deal on pay and conditions, averting a threatened strike (CM 19 August). Drivers were poised for...

The flood of East European drivers never happened. Guy Sheppard reports. EXPANSION OF the European Union has not led to a big...

THE STRIKE that has shut nine of Northern Ireland's 15 vehicle testing centres for the past three months is over. Suspending...

ANGRY TRUCK drivers hope to come face-to-face with motorway service area (MSA) operators in a hid to encourage better driver...

WEARSIDE-BASED R Wright InternationalTransport is following the likes of Van Hee Transport by branching out into driver...

RESIDENTS IN Willersey, Glos are claiming a minor victory after the council said that it would consider introducing a weight...

More UK operators are carrying out Continental haulage so are they beating their foreign nvals? Jennifer Ball reports. F or...

Road safety charity Brake celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Chief executive Mary Williams talks to Jennifer Ball about...

I FEEL I must respond in answer to Sean Saxon's letter (CM 12 August),I have been a transport manager and am still a CPC...

FOLLOWING YOUR article on 22 July and the subsequent letter from Sean Saxon (CM 12 August),I can no longer sit back and listen...

I WRITE in reply to the letter published regarding "agencies need regulation" (CM 12 August). I write to express full agreement...

A group of subcontractors face possible bankruptcy after a freight forwarder ceased trading, owing them mone / Dominic Perry...

Scottish TC issues eight-week suspension on eight vehicles following three immediate and three delayed prohibitions in one...

NORTH EASTERN Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney has returned an impounded vehicle to a traveller because he was satisfied that...

AN EASTRIGGS lorry driver who lost his claim for unfair dismissal against Wm Armstrong (Longtown) has been ordered to pay f200...

AN OVERLOADED vehicle has cost a Kent company more than £2.000 in fines and costs. Erith Waste Management Services, of Mount...

NORTH WESTERN Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett has described the repute of Workington-based Ian Wilson Haulage...

S ome major changes to employment law will come into effect in October, many of them through amendments to the Employment Act...

Exclusive! CM has clinched an exclusive deal with the FTA to give readers discounts for seminars on new legislation. Patric...

How should you react if you discover an employee is misusing drink or drugs — and how can your action backfire if you get it...

they're driven by novices — a role which suits the Mercedes Atego perfectly II ournalists tend to lead a cossetted life when...

is competitive, and its one where purchasers are looking for vehicles that are easy to drive, easy to maintain and easy on the...

AND IN HEALTH As drivers are the lifeblood of truck firms, it's in everyone's interests to make sure they get treated quickly...

Blue Arrow For the past couple of years, drivers with hire agency Blue Arrow have been eligible fo rj PM I after two years...

What should you be doing now for the Working Time Directive? Emma Penny reports. T he Working Time Directive is a source of...

The new UK regulations will: • Allow a four-month reference period for calculating the average 48-hour week, which can be...

CM went to Germany to see the new P and T-Series, complete with two new engines and a new day cab. Kevin Swallow and Andy...

like the R-Series; it handles and feels pretty close to it too. We reckon UK drivers will appreciate the extra space in the new...

St Leonards-based French's is linking its fortunes to recycling. Tim Maughan reports. A s is the case with many family...

Jason Hamer applauds professionalism and mourns a man who embodied it A s with most transport companies, our business is very...

The ETA has been doing its sums — and it seems a used 44-tonner could slash thousands off your running costs by avoiding...

CM is collating its many tests to help you make the right choice of used truck. This week the focus is on pickups. Vehicle:...

With some early problems now sorted out, Geoff Ashcroft reckons that a clean MAN TGA tractor could represent a sound buy on the...

Our man on the inside says the holiday season has stalled the turnover of less popular trucks. And theft could be filling some...