Whatever your feelings about the Royals and whether UK plc should be saddled with a second consecutive four-day weekend, we’re...

By Joanna Bourke PARCEL GIANT Yodel is to close approximately half of its depots across the country as well as axing a number...

David Bagshaw , senior analyst at Transport Intelligence, says: “There was always going to be property consolidation because...

● January 2010 – DHL sells its domestic parcel operation DHL Domestic to HDNL ● May 2010 – Combined businesses rebrand as Yodel...

By Joanna Bourke A HALL & ROCHE Logistics director has defended buying some of the assets of its related haulage business, WF...

STOBART GROUP IS to restructure its business in a move that will see it buy out the remaining 50% of the Biomass joint venture...

By Chris Druce THE INDUSTRY can still do more to ight for a fair deal on fuel, according to Bathgate haulier Pollock...

TURNERS (SOHAM) has taken delivery of its 300th DAF CF FTP tractor unit. The vehicle, which will be used on bulk tanker...

A HAULIER that lost almost a third of its fleet after an arson attack has been served with a petition to wind it up by Revenue...

By Chris Tindall ELITE TRANSPORT Services says that it is on course to hit £50m turnover, despite December’s snow battering the...

at the road transport industry on telly, radio, papers and even t’interweb Following a CV Show hiatus, Commercial Motor ’s...

By Roger Brown DERBYSHIRE HAULIER Smiths Logistics has lost its appeal bid for an O-licence, despite being able to show the...

Bunnies saved in haulier’s yard YOU CAN TELL it’s Easter; the Northern Echo has managed to get rabbits, resurrection and a...

ABBEY ROAD TANKS has rebranded itself as Abbey Logistics Group. The Liverpool operator says the change relects its entry since...

Glyn Davies sold the company he built from scratch for £50m – 13 years later he repeated the trick. CM meets an industry...

“The reality of life is that if Russell Davies had stayed as Russell Davies then I would still be there; I loved it,” says...

When Harvey MacIntyre struck out on his own to start MacIntyre Transport in 2000, he first bought a handful of lorries from...

Can British hauliers ever compete with foreign businesses? CM reports on an industry struggling to make its mark on the...

Of the 1.4 million foreign-registered vehicles making the cross-Channel journey in 2010, 250,000 were Polishregistered,...

Why are knights of the road paying higher PCNs? IT WAS INTERESTING to read another person’s feelings that Mayor of London...

AS WE ARE all too painfully aware, fuel is one of our biggest costs. It is also a diminishing resource. As we are led by the...

The latest comments on Roadtransport.com Fishguard haulier WF Hall & Son sinks into liquidation ( CM 21 April) “Yet another...

Bilston Skip Hire was fined £40k for burning waste materials over a 12-month period By Roger Brown BIlSTON SKIP HIRE Services...

WESTERN AND WEST MIDLANDS TRAFFIC AREAS Co-op DC will transfer to ND A 500,000ft 2 multitemperature DC in Andover, Hampshire,...

LEEDS-BASED Clipper Logistics Group has been given the green light to base 20 vehicles and eight trailers at a new operating...

FAGAN AND Whalley wants to base 10 vehicles as well as 20 trailers at the Autorite Industries site in Willenhall.

FOWLER WELCH-Coolchain is looking for the go-ahead to base 25 vehicles and the same number of trailers at a facility in Old...

SMITHS HAULAGE (Bletchington) wants to base ive vehicles at Dewars Quarry in Ardley, Bicester, Oxon.

● Container specialist Maritime Transport will attend a public inquiry on 20 May and lodge a variation application. The TC will...

The government has launched a consultation on new rules for becoming an operator – but what do they mean for the industry?...

The DfT published the proposals as a consultation document on Access to the Occupation of Road Transport Operator with a...

Supermarkets are picky customers, so Huntapac Produce has high compliance standards for its vegetable distribution operation...

● Ensure that drivers receive both CPC and NVQ training and are assessed at time of recruitment. ● Offer drivers a weekly...

will be, detested by the French” – Duke of Wellington. Wednesday 6.30am – We’re about to arrive at Renault Trucks Essex,...

The truck featured here was part of a unique Renault Trucks Commercials UK demonstrator programme, which ran during the first...

And in no particular order... Edward Stobart (1954-2011) While it was Eddie Stobart who started the company (buying his frst...

Whether you think it a necessary evil, or the bane of every trucker’s life, the double yellow line owes its roots to a farmer...

In contrast to the Leyland story (see p41), formed from the merger of two engineering firms, Foden’s history started off as a...

Without John Loudon McAdam, our roads would still be dirt tracks. Well, perhaps not, but the Scottish engineer is the man...

Transport secretaries come and go but few are remembered. That cannot be said of Barbara Castle, the flame-haired dynamo from...

In 1896, engineers James Sumner and Henry Spurrier joined forces to create the Lancashire Steam Motor Company. Within a decade,...

Beeching trained as a physicist and engineer and became chairman of British Railways. He became infamous in Britain in the...

of their reliability and admits to having a love affair with them Words and images: Simon Everitt Th e kite - marked lorries...

The blue Foden Alpha 4000 was built for the Foden marketing department to display at the 2002 CV Show. It then went to Paccar’s...

CM visits DAF’s Leyland production facility in Lancashire and discovers a friendly and efficient work environment Words /...

blazers Business is looking up for Britain’s trailer industry, with new orders and staff to match Words: Steve Banner...

John Watts, head of commercial vehicles at CAP, considers the effects of the London LEZ MANY TRUCK operators are oblivious of...

Multi-truck franchisee Pelican Engineering, based in Wakefield, exhibited two new ranges of products on its stand at the CV...

FORD DEMONSTRATED the longevity of its vans at the CV Show by exhibiting an eight-yearold Ford Connect with more than 220,000...

JOHN RYAN, THE head of network development at MAN Truck & Bus UK, has died. His career with MAN Truck & Bus UK stretches back...

CITROËN HAS improved its Select Approved Used Vehicle warranty for vans by offering 12 months breakdown for roadside and home...

PINEWOOD COMPUTER Systems has launched an iPad application for dealers. The app is designed to help sales teams become more...

Midlands-based Scania dealer Keltruck has completed its merger with Silurian to become the world’s largest privately owned...