• Newport steel transporter Carlin€ has bought a further 32 Sconias including two bonneted T - cab 4x2s. • P&O's Buffalo...

by Karen Miles • Hopes of bypassing Europe's 48-hour week legislation were dashed last week when Brussels made it clear that...

• Transport and shipping group Jacobs Holdings will launch a parcels and freight distribution subsidiary in January with a...

• North Yorkshire police are asking Eddie Stobart truck spotters to help catch two masked criminals who attacked a Stobart...

by David Craik • Beef hauliers have given a cautious welcome to this week's agreement by European Union Agriculture Ministers...

• A man who was imprisoned in 1994 for masterminding a bogus car driving licence scam is now offering truck driving...

• Fears that dozens of Kent hauliers would go out of busir with the withdrawal of freight ferry services from the Por...

by Guy Sheppard • Birds Eye Walls (BEW) plans to replace the 27 hauliers which distribute its ice cream across most of the UK...

• The secretary-general of a new trade association for the salvage industry has promised to support the Government's plan to...

HOURS NOT TO REASON WHY... here's an old line that running your own business is easy—you can do any 12 hours a day you like....

by Karen Miles • The largest rail-freight grant application of all time is due to be placed next month in a move which could...

• Foreign drivers in the UK are far worse than their British counterparts for hours and overloading offences, according to...

• A shop fittings firm was fined 4150 by West Bromwich magistrates after one of its lorries was found to have insufficient...

• Winconton Logistics' Transport business has been renamed Industrial and Commercial because "transport sends the wrong...

• The Tibbett & Britten warehouse manager who programmed robots to help him to steal 300 tonnes of Mars Bars has been jailed...

firms could join hauliers and start sourcing "grey' imports from abroad, according to rental company TLS. Managing director...

• Police are searching for a lorry which could have caused a massive explosion at a Cambridgeshire petrol station, killing...

• Wincanton Logistic has spent 22m on 22 new rigids for its contract with Texaco Equity distributor Team Flitwick, •...

by Karen Miles • The Government has been forced to accept what it terms road-damaging 44-tonne lorries on five axles on...

• Driver shortages have led Securicor Omega Logistics to introduce air-conditioned cabs to attract more drivers to the...

• Safeway says it is to make by far the biggest commitment to rail distribution by a supermarket with the launch of a daily...

• Hauliers, including at least one Road Haulage Association director, say they are now more determined than ever to go abroad...

by David Craik • A number of small Scottish hauliers could he forced out of business by bridge-strengthening needed to meet...

• Police discovered a £300,000 haul of cannabis after going to investigate two men transferring boxes from a truck to a car...

• Cumbrian Police is to step up its pleas to BP to improve security at its Truckstop in Penrith after another valuable load...

• An RAC patrolman was killed last week when he was hit by a truck while working on the northbound hard shoulder of the M6....

by Iep van der Meer • A need for greater flexibility when handling return loads has led Dutch family haulage company Reijenga...

• Leeds-based GRP group is offering its Glacier 35 and 75 refrigerated box body systems with a promised delivery time of...

• Fresenius Medical Care's hospital and home care delivery fleet has been upgraded with 14 new Scania 220hp P94DB 17tanners,...

• lveco Ford has introduced a factory-built crewcab Cargo. The new four-door cab, styled to blend with the Cargo's familiar...

• With the Vehicle Inspectorate conducting more spot-checks, braking specialist Don has suggested practical hints and tips...

• Sheffield-based Tuffnells Parcels Express has ordered a further 100 Maple Freightlock shutter slam-locks for new Leyland...

• Following the recent launch of the range of Supra diesel overcab transport refrigeration systems, Carrier Transicold has...

• Hendrickson Europe now offers Disc-Lock Safety Wheel Nuts as an optional extra for all its axles. The company, which...

• The Automotive Distribution Federation's new code of practice for brake relining services received a "hearty welcome' at a...

• Whether you need to recharge vehicle batteries rapidly, keep them topped up, have power available 24 hours a day or charge...

• A new low-cost, heavyduty version of Backeye from Brigade Electronics, the Commax Backeye, is suitable for all applications...

• Fercell Engineering has introduced a range of automatic spray gun cleaning machines. They are said to save time and money...

• The two air-brake coils which join tractor to trailer are often prone to becoming tangled, stretched and untidy. But a new...

• AlliedSignal Aftermarket Europe's Jurid commercial vehicle braking and axle parts business now has a lined brake-shoe kit...

• A Staffordshire owner-driver, who collected four prohibition notices in his first 10 months' of operation escaped with a...

• Twelve drivers employed by William Hall, trading as WF Hall & Sons, of Fishguard, have been ordered to pay fines and costs...

• A Merseyside company has been granted an additional vehicle but North Western Deputy Traffic • Commissioner Patrick...

• Twelve drivers and their employer, Delta Distribution, of Burscough, were cleared of alleged drivers' hours and tachograph...

• A West Yorkshire waste disposal firm which said it had been let down by its maintenance c o ntractors had the...

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very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent. the Hawk. steps off his perch to take a humorous look at the...

RIF RIF MAIN PHOTOGRAPHY by TONY HOLK • Scanias have always cost that bit extra and the more powerful models were, for a...

review Tyre choice is about to become even more complica for hard-pressed truck operators. Controlling tyre cl is no longer...

1E1E11 NI, Poor servicing, maintenance and repair of trailers could be costing you thousands of pounds in unnecessary downtime...

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Nancy Clarke, transport manager of general and agricultural haulier BJ Clarke of Overton-onDee in Wrexham. Monday 7.30am....

The recession is already being felt in the used truck market, with demand for vehicles falling as the manufacturing sector...

on used trud Mercedes-Benz will roll out its long-awaited approved used trucks scheme during the first quarter of next year....

Iveco Ford has quietly dropped plans to set up its own used truck centre at Ampthill, Beds. Unhappiness about the location...

Talk of recession has yet to cause a major collapse in new truck sales but the uncertainty over VED and 40/41 tonnes is...