• Commonsense must be the best distributed commodity in road haulage: everyone in the business claims to have it in abundance....

by Juliet Parish • A Derbyshire owner-driver believes he is the victim of a hate campaign after winning a hotly contested...

• A One Transport of Gildersome, near Leeds, has offered its 100 drivers a 2% pay increase after five months of negotiating...

by Karen Miles • Operators of well-maintained vehicles are set to benefit from "good conduct passes" which will free them from...

• An increase in maximum vehicle weights is "essential" if Europe's roads are to accommodate the growth of freight and the...

• Road haulage's domination of the UK freight sector seems unchallenged, despite protestations from the Transport Secretary...

• RTITB Services chairman and chief executive John Armstrong died last week after a heart attack. Armstrong was previously...

• A driver who claimed he was a victim of a pre-Christmas hijacking, in which £100,000 of whisky was stolen, has been arrested...

by Steve McQueen • Vehicles carrying food products, hazardous chemicals, skips and waste are being targeted in a series of...

• Sixty owner-drivers at ARC South Wales ended their twoweek-long strike last week, after management withdrew a revised rates...

• Merseyside Police has issued a warning to waste operators that fly-tippers will be dealt with severely under a multi-agency...

• Home Office minister Michael Jack has ruled out setting up a national police task force to combat truck theft, despite the...

• Kassbohrer, Germany's largest semi-trailer manufacturer, is to stop building most of its product range from April, following...

• Scania's general manager Leif Ostling has warned the Belgian importers association: "Imposing varying regulations will only...

• Swap-body specialist Archer Engineering of Leeds has won orders for 100 shutter-ended steel drawbar bodies from Scandinavian...

• The conflict between the European 4m height limit and the need to accommodate a 3m Euro container has led to the development...

EXCLUSIVE • Detroit Diesel has emerged as a likely partner for Daf, with the two companies sharing the cost of new engine...

• Routers vehicle-based on-line database is designed to give owner-drivers access to a wide range of information, including...

Trend bucked • Against the trend of a 1% decrease over the year, VW's Transporter had a 14% share of its market in 1992, while...

Cargo fleet • Liverpool-based Littlewoods Home Delivery has taken delivery of 20 Iveco Ford Cargo 75E14S chassis in a £600,000...

More Deltas Trent Buses has acquired 29 Daf SB220-based Optare Delta single-deckers, worth around £3m. They will be based at...

• Owner-drivers look set to benefit from the recent managment buyout of a Midlands transport firm. Longton Storage and...

• Robin Gisby, former managing director of Charterail, aims to win back some of the business of the failed road/rail operation...

No rise • Van Hee Transport has imposed a pay freeze on its 45 drivers and 25 warehouse staff at Felling, Tyne & Wear, but it...

• Employees who have the use of company vans and those issued with mobile phones could be in line for tax rebates. Anyone who...

• Workers at the Leyland Daf van plant in Birmingham have rejected a 21,month pay offer by a two-to-one majority. Union...

• A programme of job cuts throughout the worldwide Ocean Group will leave UK distribution specialist McGregor Cory...

• P&O European Ferries plans to launch a twice-weekly freight service between Portsmouth and Bilbao—but the venture is already...

• Hauliers vhho go to the wall are less likely to fall into the grasp of crooked insolvency practitioners, thanks to tougher...

• The Adam Smith Institute wants transport and warehouseworkers to come forward with ideas for economic improvement. The...

• Cracks in the chassis and cross members of semitrailers brought Oakham-based CS Ellis (Group) before Eastern Traffic...

• Transport businesses have to be aware these days of keeping in harmony with the environment otherwise they are going to...

• Worthing-based tipper operator FL Gamble & Sons was given a sharp warning when it appeared at disciplinary proceedings before...

%II 'At • A series of prohibition notices has led to the authorisation on the licence held by JW Gaskell, of Ormskirk, being...

• A suggestion that drivers of vehicles regularly stopped in roadside checks should have 10 mething to show when no problems...

Year's renewal • The three-vehicle twotrailer international licence held by Derek and William Butcher, trading as Cross Keys...

by Bryan Jarvis • According to Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine, not enough UK firms are taking advantage of the...

EXCLUSIVE • Tidd Trailers has teamed up with the Post Office's Parcelforce division to develop a 4.2m highcube semi-trailer...

Do new truck prices really set residuals in stone? Key Truck and Trailer Sales' Malcolm Taylor looks at the myths and realities...

• CM guarantees publicity for any operator unfortunate to become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or...

Truck thefts and hijacking, often linked with violent attacks on drivers, are becoming frighteningly common as professional...

Bosses for Bosnia osses trade union, the Engineers' and Managers Association, is sending 250 tonnes of aid to Bosnia funded by...

Hauliers who stand to lose their own business if a major customer collapses may benefit from credit insurance. • 1991 and 1992...

Seddon Atkinson's venerable Perkins powered 2-11 17tonner may have been eclipsed by more modern models, but it's kept on...

jim Maple's obsession with commercial vehicle security has driven him to write a book on the subject. He says he could ake your...

• iJfJeIifle Jj When Sweden's national railway company wanted to test natural gas in its road fleet, New was happy to oblige....

• I am writing about the Channel 4 programme Truckers, screened on 29 December. The programme centred on Howard Law, nickname...

I am not surprised that the person whose letter you published headed "Jam penalised for working hard" (CM14-20 January) did not...

Fr ( om time to time I am asked what it is like to be a woman in an industry that's typically a male domain. It is certainly...