• The DOT is expected to announce this week that the French authorities now accept the use of belly tanks, providing they...

by Kathy Watson • Ipswich haulier Peter Baker was convicted of smuggling cannabis last week following an undercover...

• The French Department of Transport says the first prison sentences for drivers hours offences will be introduced by August....

• About 2,000 White Arrow Express drivers are to vote unofficially on whether they would strike to persuade their employer to...

• A senior source within British Rail says some of Railfreight Distribution's management wants the Government to subsidise...

• Fewston Transport, whose truck killed .six people in Sowerby Bridge last September, has been fined .C5,000 with £100 costs...

by Karen Miles • Police have arrested seven people in connection with stolen commercial vehicles in two separate operations...

• Polio: arc \valuing hauliers to be on the look-out for a hijacker who attempted to smash his way into a £200,000 truckload...

by Karen Miles • Operators shortlisted to work in the new milk market regime are about to find out which of them have...

• The Road Haulage Association is urging the Government to accelerate plans forcing motorway service areas to grant access to...

• A Crown Court judge has reserved until the end of next week his long awaited interpretation of the European Court's ruling...

• Private parcels carriers have entered the fight for a share of the letters market following Trade Secretary Michael...

• Three of the four new region. al directors at the Road Haulage Association have now been appointed. Eastern district...

by Kathy Watson • Solicitors acting for owner-driver Kay Phillips have issued a writ against Scantruck of Purfleet, Essex...

• BOC Distribution Services was last week praised for its "good profit performance" and its promising prospects for the six...

• Heavy haulage specialist Hallett Silbermann has sold its Yorkshire depot and formed a trading partnership with buyer...

• Dealing of shares in Nightfreight began this week following last week's flotation of the Liverpool .based carrier. Around...

• NFC's BRS began a three-year £1.7m exhaust distribution contract with Staffordshire-based manufacturer Tuberex this week....

A year late, the Channel Tunnel finally opened For business last Thursday. But will drivers use the service once the novelty of...

1 Follow directions to the freight toll booths. 2 At the toll booth pay with Le Shuttle's Rapid Service Pass, fuel or credit...

• Clementson (below), the first of 14 drivers on the maiden shuttle, is keen to use the tunnel. He likes the idea of getting...

Eccentric and misguided or going soft on its high-profile Green commitment? That's the extreme interpretations of the Body Shop...

by John Kendall • A compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered ERF EC 17tonne rigid has joined the 11strong Body Shop distribution...

• British Gas launched a multimillion pound incentive scheme for fleet users in the North-West last week, marking a major...

• British Gas presented a range of vehicles from a vee-six Ford Granada to an Iveco Ford Cargo with a dual-fuel engine which...

by Brian Weatherley Foden will launch a new heavy truck cab in August designated the 5000 Series. Operators say that the...

III Volvo has produced an airbag system for truck cabs, Lennart Svenson, safety engineer at the Umea cab plant says that...

enable trailer builders to weld it directly to the chassis rails with no need for extra bracing or cross-member attachments...

• A bid for a two-vehicle international licence by Hornchurch, Essex-based Spraggon Transport Services, has been turned down...

• Three owner-drivers have lost their appeals against the revocation of licences by Eastern LA Compton Boyd, coupled with a...

MI Pickering lorry driver Sean Wright has been fined £1,120, and ordered to pay £35 costs, by the town's magistrates, after...

• Bridlington-based RB&D Smith has lost its appeal against the revocation of the company's licence after all three directors...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has decided not to take any action against the licence held by T&S Construction, of Glasgow, but...

• North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu has decided not to take any disciplinary action against Isle of Man-based ICD...

• Seventeen prohibition notices over the past five years, including 12 immediate, led to Sunderland-based Anthony Maw...

• Teesside Transport Commercial Services, trading as David Fox Transport, has to pay lorry driver Arthur Fox 48 compensation...

am' operating centre his vehicle at his when not in use has led to a fiveday licence suspension for Swansea-based Jeffrey...

Danny Bryan has firm ideas on how he plans to steer truck drivers to a better future at the wheel of the truck section of...

NAME: Daniel Joseph Bryan. AGE: 48, DATE OF BIRTH: 30 August 1945, born and raised in Birmingham with 11 brother and...

oy Clementson drove the first truck off a Channel ferry and into the Single European Market when trade barriers fell on 1...

you vehicle experts: which 4x4 7.5-tonner has a 3.3-litre vee-eight 550hp engine, measures 30ft long by 131t tall and 10ft...

ot long ago CM devoted a feature to truck blindspots and the danger they represent to other road users, particularly cyclists....

la he truth can now be told. Mr PV Connell, group transport manager at Alstons (Long Melford) in Ipswich and driver JR Sangster...

U t seems as if my call for more entries to the Of/Structure-Flex "Win-a-new-set of-curtains worth £1,000" competition (CM...

T write in response to your leditoes recent comment on the image of our industry particularly your leader on Yorkie bars in the...

• Car-O-Liner has improved the format of its data sheets on body alignment and repair work professionals. Contact (0788)...

• Guidance on alarms and immobilisers and advice on beating thieves is contained in a new Home Office leaflet, A Lad on your...

• Tax changes for selfemployed people which begin this month are outlined in the latest edition of the Allied Dunbar Tax...

• The North Norfolk Classic, Vintage Car and Transport Rally, will take place at Felbrigg Hall near Cromer on 5/6 August...

• Vauxhall has extended its GM card rebate scheme to cover purchases at Esso and the travel company, Going Places. For every...

II Safety awareness in road transport operations is the subject of a seminar by the Institute of Transport Administration on 21...

• An automatic vehicle loc a tion system has been =m launched by the Crosland Company off the back of the AA's new Cityplan...

• Haacon has expanded its trailer equipment range with the 1023A high speed landing gear which it claims is maintenance free...

• Commercial vehicle contract-hire company Leaseway has invested £20,000 in a new computerised fleet management system,...

• A quick shine is promised from Turtle Wax's new Foam 'n Shine. Contact 061 766 1590.

• Vanputer Systems has launched an on-board computer to help van sales operators improve their performance. It produces...

• A further 13 systems have been added to the insurance industry's list of approved devices for the Insurance Industry...

• The new Vertilift 21 spec lift kit and new slide backs all feature in the 1994 Gems Clearway product catalogue. Contact...

• Rockwell has reduced the height of its NavCore MicroTracker global positioning system by approximately 30% to aid hand-held...

• Small commercial site operators are being targeted with the UK launch of the new Titan electronic control system for fuel...

IN The following areas could be troublespots: E M25, Surrey: Junction 10-11—major widening work with lane closures in both...

UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak; 48p at all other times): West Country:...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

Where there's muck... there's N Yorks firm JS Mosley. The family firm started as a farming byproduct to get rid of animal...

and see Combined road/rail transport has the go-ahead to use 44-tonners on six axles. Coincidentally the Channel Tunnel took...

Hefty penalties await limited liability companies which do not file their accounts with Companies House in the time limit...

Live animal transport in Europe is threatened on all sides—by European law, animal welfare groups, and the sheer cost to the...

It's clean and green and gaining favour among city bus buyers. But is Compressed Natural Gas really the fuel of the future for...

• The prospect of CNG becoming a really viable alternative to diesel as a fuel for LGVs received a boost this week as Lane...

‘ any UK hauliers who undertake international work are working For nothing: in some cases they run at a loss. Presumably...