• DFDS Transport Group has acquired Dublin-based Blueflite Logistics, run by Jerry Kiersey (above, right). It has also bought a...

by Karen Miles • The tax status of thousands of ownerdrivers working exclusively for one company is under threat from the...

agreement with its owner-drivers in a bid to put their self-employed status beyond doubt. A spokesman says: "Obviously this is...

In The latest battle of the livestock war ended with both sides claiming victory after the High Court refused to ban 13...

• Tibbert and Britten is threatening to axe its £48m-a-year Ford car distribution business after financial results posted last...

• British MEP Caroline Jackson has persuaded the European Parliament to apply Euro-2 diesel exhaust standards to vans as well...

ow do they do that?" Fans of the popular BBC program might well ask that very question following the news that French hauliers...

• Norbert Dentressangle has admitted it fired a transport operator from its Aylesbury office because her boyfriend left the...

by Miles Brignall • Customers and subcontractors of parcels delivery specialist Force 10 are waiting to see what changes will...

• United Carriers shares came under pressure last week as it revealed pre-tax losses of £1.41m for the first half of 1995,...

• French hauliers are to push up the price of their domestic haulage by 10%, directly affecting British firms operating with...

• Steno Sealink is to arrange individual compensation claims with the 73 hauliers stranded on the Steno Challenger last week....

by Martial Tardy and David Harris • Hauliers with foreign debtors who go bust may soon have the chance to get some of their...

• The Road Haulage and Distribution Council's Young LGV Driver Scheme, stopped three years ago because of the recession, is to...

• The European Parliament plans to ban bull bars following increasing concerns from safety campaigners that they are...

• The UK will force ferry companies to make safety improvements to RO-RO ferries, even if the International Maritime...

by Jeff Weaver • International haulier Ralph Davies has been cleared of colluding with one of his drivers to fiddle tachograph...

• Essex police will become the fourth force in East Anglia to launch a Truckwatch theft programme when Roads Minister Steven...

by Charlotte Kirkbright • Truck drivers may be asked to voluntarily avoid rural roads in Oxfordshire because of the damage the...

4 Ryan Transport, the Cardiff and Midlands-based operator that hauls three-million tonnes a year, has been bought by a...

by Miles Brignall • Inter-modal freight movements to the Continent through the Channel Tunnel are in crisis because of...

• Supermarket giants Asda and Sainsbury have plans for new stores that are likely to create jobs in their in-house fleets as...

• Birmingham-based van maker LDV has won a three-year order worth £12m for 751 vehicles from the Ministry of Defence and has...

• Further evidence that rental trucks will be in short supply at Christmas comes this week from one of Britain's biggest...

by John Kendall • New exterior and interior design, revised suspension and a strengthened body feature on the new Ford Courier...

by John Kendall • All-independent suspension, semi-forward control and revised engines feature in the latest Toyota Hiace,...

• Further details of the newest Sevel van emerged at the Paris Show last week. The Fiat Scudo, Peugeot Expert and Citroen Jumpy...

• Midland Grau has launched Integra-EBX, a trailer anti-lock braking system with electronic valve actuation. The relay and load...

by John Kendall • Renault will unveil its replacement for the Manager and Major range, tagged H100, next year says Elias...

• As reported last week, VW displayed Transporters and Caravelles fitted with directinjection diesel engines at the Paris...

• Following the £91m investment made earlier this year in the Bourbonlancy engine factory in France, Iveco will spend another...

• 1MS best known as importer of SAF axles, air suspensions, landing legs and drawbar couplings, has added ICS Black Box...

• Lancashire operator Leo Wrigley was ordered to pay fines and back duty totalling £8,300 when he admitted a series of charges...

of Greengairs by Airdrie-based John Higgins, trading as JH Civil Engineering, Scottish LA Michael Betts refused to increase the...

• Bridgend-based John Raymond Transport was given a stern warning over the maintenance of its vehicles when it appeared at a...

• Two drivers employed by Philmar Transport, of Stalybridge, were ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs by the Trafford...

• Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by Harry Greene, trading as Rothesay Carriers, being...

Which tachograph charts can an enforcement officer demand at a roadside check? by Nigel Kirkwood • Under EU legislation a...

I n one of your past CV magazines you referred to Mr Eddie Stobart as a regular Methodist churchgoer. What then are his...

R eading the letters page of the 14-20 September edition of Commercial Motor I felt compelled to write agreeing with the letter...

memory, there could be no better way to greet the autumn than to spend a day in leafy West Sussex celebrating 100 years of the...

in private collections. The vehicle on the left is a 1934 Dennis Max 4x2 general service truck, of which 3,000 were built for...

Telecom '95 • The Telecom i '95 exhibition, covering the latest communications technology, will take place on 3-11 October in...

New guide • Portsmouth Commercial Port has issued a new guide for freight and passenger traffic. The 12-page leaflet entitled...

Standards course • The British Standards Institution has developed a low cost, training programme for small businesses to help...

Biggest park • The UK's largest lorry and trailer park is now open at Burford UK Properties' Heywood Distribution Park, Lancs....

Free programme • Fleet management software company CHS is offering a free accident system programme to all fleet operators....

• A406 North Circular Rd, Upper Edmonton: Major roadworks between the Lea Valley Viaduct and Fore Street will muse regular...

nationwide. According to a survey from the RAC and Road Haulage Association it could be costing the industry as much as £1.6bn...

GUARD • The Renault Midliner range of light and middleweight rigid chassis from 65 to 15 tonnes has been on the scene for...

Phaser 125 engine, Rated at i 1 8hp (8615kW), the sixlitre naturally aspirated diesel offered a healthy power-to-weight ratio...

iii alk to a haulier in Norfolk and before long you're liable to find yourself being lectured on the lack of decent roads in...

at Brandon. FOUNDED: 1980, Methwold Hyde, distributing air management kits, PROPRIETOR: Bob and Susan Wilkins. FLEET: FL6...

FOUNDED: 1972, Swaffham. PROPRIETOR: Mike Forder, director. FLEET: Eight tippers, buys new and used. Most recent purchase is...

Norfolk, PROPRIETOR: Richard Foulger, managing director. FLEET: 36 vehicles, including 33 tractors, three rigids; 31 are Volvos...

FOUNDED: 1926, Wells-next-the-sea. PROPRIETOR: Brian Barker, director. FLEET: Mixed Fleet of eight vehicles—four tippers, two...

PROPRIETOR: Roy Stockinger, managing director. FLEET: 12 Foden and Volvo tractive units with 25 trailers. Buys new and used....

T ruck manufacturers will tell you discounting is a bad thing, but they can't tell you how they intend to stop it. The recent...

• The M25 Motorway Junctions 10-15) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 1995: introduces the experimental variable speed limits...

• Driver licensing: new measures including staged testing, a limit on car licence holders of 3.5 tonnes gross, theory part of...

some particularly innovative designs and a number of important safety features Warley Truck Bodies' 80yd 3 Mega-Jecta waste...

increasing interest in the use of the Channel Tunnel rail link, we expected trailer manufacturers to jump at the chance to...

Andover Trailers' German-built Goldhofer low loader impressed the judges who thought it an immensely strong, high quality entry...

but it earned fewer points and missed the cut along with DonBur's Palletmaster. So too did Tidd Trailers' Quick Load...

judges faced a daunting task choosing the overall winner and Commercial Motor's Trailer of the Year 1995. Although a winner in...

favour of big companies' y et again the British haulier operating to Eastern Europe is facing problems and unfair competition...