by Karen Miles • More than a third of the 60 staff at the Manchester traffic area office will have resigned by mid-October,...

• Greenwich Borough Council is to review its six month han on HGVs using Romney Rood on 6 November. The ban will depend on...

• A national strike at Parcelforce has been averted following an agreement between the union and management to review the...

• More than 200 jobs with magazine distribution specialist Mortimer Group have been saved following Exel Logistics' plan to buy...

by Lee Kimber • A British haulier en route for Portugal has been turned back by French customs because his cargo of Marks &...

CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY short while ago we noted that no company, let alone any haulier, had ever been found guilty of corporate...

by Jane Sayer • The cost of vocational driver training will more than double to around £ 1,500 if candidates have to pass the...

• The Labour Party could reform drivers' hours regulations if a motion at next week's annual conference in Blackpool is...

• Dozens of new drivers' jobs are set to be created with the opening of a new distribution centre in Essex. Businessman Peter...

• The cost of launching and advertising two new models is being blamed for a slight fall in first-half profits at Birmingham...

• Using a factoring company to collect debts increases hauliers ability to expand, says a major factoring specialist....

by Ian Wylie • The wife of an ownerdriver who is awaiting trial on drugs charges has accused customs red tape of driving her...

• A Road Haulage Association health and safety package due to be launched in November has been given the thumbs-up by the...

Last week the latest in a string of British lorry drivers accused of carrying drugs was released without charge. Miles Brignall...

• Ferry giant P&O predicts that cross-Channel ferry fares will rise and capacity will be cut by up to a third over the next...

• United Carriers Group has turned a £1.4m loss into a £750,000 pre-tax profit thanks mainly to a stronger performance by its...

by Karen Miles • The Transport and General Workers Union is about to announce next year's wage claim in a declaration likely to...

• Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has pushed up the fuel bill for its LGV fleet by £1,500 a year per vehicle by using cleaner...

by John Davies • Jacksons Transport of Ossett and its former managing director Alan Jackson have been convicted of manslaughter...

profits and revamps fleet • Distribution group Tibbett & Britten is investing £5m on the first part of a fleet modernisation...

• Ford dealership Dagenham Motors has blamed reduced incentives from the Ford Motor Company for a 6% fall in its first half...

• Nearly 200 former transport workers of Rockwood Holdings look set for a legal clash with the firm's receivers. Coopers &...

• A Cumbrian owner-driver who was jailed for four months for the falsification of tachograph charts has lost his appeal against...

1 U A Bishop Auckland haulier took a voluntary cut of 10 vehicles in his licence authorisation when he appeared at a Leeds...

• Though taking no action against the licence held by Joseph McAllister, trading as DS Services, of Lundin Links, Fife,...

• Rochdale magistrates fined NT Gallagher & Sons 1.300 with .E30 costs after the company admitted a gross overload of 22.6% on...

• Digbeth-based Neil Thomas, trading as Centro Waste, escaped with a serious warning at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry after...

• Fridge Freight (Fyvie) of Inver - uric escaped with a warning before Scottish TC Michael Betts at an Aberdeen public inquiry...

• Andover livestock haulier BJ Langdow-n & Sons was given an absolute discharge by the Selby, North Yorkshire magistrates...

• A Wigan owner-driver who failed to attend a Manchester disciplinary inquiry has had his licence revoked by North Western...

• A Scottish haulier told a public inquiry that a defective vehicle that had his 0-licence on the windscreen was not being...

by John Kendall • Access to farm sites is the bane of many an agricultural haulier. Artics present just about every problem...

The 1996 IAA Show in Hanover was as impressive as ever: Mercedes' Actros was the obvious star of the show, while other...

Xs Haulage Factffle page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial Motor? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a...

y ou report that a Yorkshire-based owner driver was fined by magistrates in Kent for the offence of using a vehicle in a...

T read with great interest the article on wheel loss (CM 12-18 September). I have seen many wheels fretting and moving but the...

T see that the European 1Commission is planning to introduce computer tachos within two years (CM 19-25 Sept). Is it too much...

I am really angry about Brian I am really angry about Brian Weatherley's introduction to his comment headed "Shame on you!" (CM...

view by the hawk Commercial Motor takes road haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk,...

0 orkshire Intermodal opalor Cobra Railfreight kept busy di ng Ow summer ferrying Italian-built sk .1 beams from its prier&...

O f you saw a road sign parity obscured by overgrown vegetation and complained to the council, what would you expect them to...

squith Motor Carriage claims this is the world's most luxurious van, if not the most aerodynamically efficient. Called "The...

ont end left less width Series cab than either the ERR Ehe Volvo Fl..10 but it was wider than the Euro Tech and Scania's P93....

are included in various areas of legislation such as the Health & Safety and Food .Safety regulations. 'Code of practice The...

TrneIy trade W hen you think of drivers hanciballing goods you tend to think in terms of sacks of potatoes, bags of flour,...

You may be entitled to appeal against the uniform business rate if your depot's size has been wrongly assessed. Now is the time...

Innocent drivers accused of drug smuggling face harsh treatment from European courts, says Stephen Jakobi, campaigning lawyer...

• Since 1 September this year, all businesses disposing of waste oil have had to comply with new Government regulations...

+ The Department of the Environment has decided that thick-wash operators will NOT after all require a waste management...

your office, pile it up in the middle of the yard and set fire to it Sounds a great way of celebrating Guy Fawkes Night—but it...

• An operator who generates excessive fumes, noise or smell from his premises could attract the unwelcome attention of his...

to 31 August 1996 more than 4,000 Volvos—some 10% of the parcunderwent a free environmental check in a Volvo distributor or...

HEAD In these days of lightweight environmentally sensitive trucks the air-cooled lveco Ford eight-legger is a bit of a...

engineered and quietly competent. There may be more exciting vehicles in its class, but we couldn't find anyone with a bad word...

The term "gaffer's motor" might have been invented for Renault's nofrills, hard working G range. • The G290, built in the UK...

the equivalent ERF or Foden, which makes them good value for arduous site work, but they're not easy to find. • Following a...

Volvo F16. It's one of the flagship tractors that owner-drivers lust after and while the cab's looking a little dated, demand...