by Lee Kimber and Miles Brignall • Controversial tanker firm Allen Munro Transport has been sold to new management for .t3m....

• From 1 January 1998 drivers will be prohibited from moving some chassis-cabs to and from body builders on car licences....

ike Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, our old friend Joe Soap Haulier lies tossing and turning in bed. In his nightmare world,...

by Sally Nash • A new voluntary code of practice designed to stop hauliers carrying animal feed and cattle waste in the same...

• The introduction of 44 tonners is urgently required, if only to prevent Britain from choking to death, says Freight...

• Hauliers' jobs will not be affected by the merger of Morrison Quarries and Tilcon quarry operations in the north of...

• Operators are being warned to be on their guard against non-accredited companies offering "worthless" ISO 9000...

by Karen Miles • Hauliers owed £17m by the crisis-struck Bell Lines will learn this week how much of their money they will...

• Twelve road schemes, including the Salisbury bypass and the Birmingham Relief Road, could be axed as part of a wideranging...

• Haulage giants Securicor and Group 4 Nightspeed have both posted improved results. Securicor's distribution division...

• The sale of British Rail's international freight company, Rai'freight Distribution (RFD), could be in jeopardy. The...

• Wincanton Logistics is refusing to recognise the Transport and General Workers Union at its Corby site, despite finally...

by Miles Brignall • The Government has relaunched its leaflet campaign aimed at reducing the number of wheels which fall off...

• Fewer than half of all large firms pay their bills on time, and companies in the Midlands are the slowest payers, according...

• Peter Hobbs and John Mills, the London drivers serving seven-and.a-half years in Bulgaria for smuggling 20.5kg of heroin,...

• Timber hauliers working in Kielder, Northumberland could be hit by plans to reopen rail services to the Borders—a move...

by Karen Miles • The level of law-breaking among truck operators was again underlined last week when police forces across...

• Bradford owner-driver Martin Crow is considering a bid for compensation from the French Government after he was released...

• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents insists that hauliers should not be exempt from any ban on using mobile...

by Toby Clark • Trailer leasing firm Transamerica is to pioneer the UK operation of discbraked trailers by comparing braking...

• Autofab of Brighouse, West Yorks has designed a lightweight two-car carrier on an Isuzu NPR 6.2.tonner which can be driven...

by Oliver Dixon • Using fuels other than diesel to power a commercial vehicle is hardly a new idea: gas-powered buses are not...

• An operator can be charged if, when using a vehicle, he fails to produce tachograph charts for an authorised officer, the...

• Two girders which fell from a pickup truck being driven by self-employed driver Anthony Kingsley of Slough have cost him...

• Sutton Cold field-based GB Express (Mid lands) is to appeal against a £1,000 fine imposed by Abingdon magistrates for an...

3. Yorkshire-based tipper operator Gravelrise has

been ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £32,88383 by Selby magistrates after hauling colliery waste on...

T o The Ministry of Transport and 1. Mr Kinnock: Why don't you forget these silly little gadgets hanging off motorway bridges...

T he transport training industry has now come to the conclusion that the Driver Stations Agency has completely lost its...

Eyes gown for a full house arcelforce picked up a bit of posh recently when it was chosen by Princess Di to distribute a...

to report to contact the police—you might find they can help you with your driver training. Twenty drivers at parcels...

range to the Renault Major was certainly one way of extending the life of an ageing model. But in the few years that followed...

The taller Turboliner cab was added in August and air suspension became standard on this model from November of the same year....

C ommercial leases are rarely properly read. Attention naturally focuses on the rent and rent-review clauses, but a haulier...

L ooking ahead to next week's Budget I confess to being worried about landfill tax. If the Government were to increase it the...