diesel in readiness for any future blockades of the oil refineries. Most have increased their stocks by 20%.

firm to enable him to flag out his 50 trucks to Holland. He expects to cut his tax bill by £500000 a year.

for the second time this week following nationwide fuel price protests on 15 September, It is calling for a 30% reduction in...

use rebated red diesel from midnight on 30 September Licence-holders can use the red diesel already in their vehicles' tanks...

driver impairment, says road safety campaign group Brake. Of 86 operators attending Brake's Fit to Drive conference, three had...

freight service on 9 October with the ferries Stena Searider and Rosebay. There will be one sailing a day in each direction,...

r by Melanie Hammond The Road Haulage Association has effectively dumped its campaign for an essential user rebate (EUR) on...

• The Conservative Party has told the Road Haulage Association that it will not commit itself to the introduction of an...

Eby Melanie Hammond European hauliers who were granted tax concessions to end their protests over soaring fuel costs, may find...

• The recently formed People's Fuel Lobby met with transport and agricultural ministers last week to demand a 28% cut in fuel...

In the same week that FTA director-general David Green went to Downing Street to demand reductions in diesel and road taxes,...

sign from the government that it will cut fuel duty for goods vehicles after the Chancellor announced that extra money would be...

a by Melanie Hammond Bulk fuel suppliers have fought back against claims that they have been ripping off their customers,...

What we need, says Chancellor Gordon Brown, is "a great national debate" on transport. No we don't. What we need, Gordon, is...

• Newly formed pressure group, the People's Fuel Lobbg says it prevented another series of fuel protests at this week's Labour...

PE by Guy Sheppard Drivers who sleep fewer than seven hours a day are more of a road risk than those who have drunk alcohol,...

• A proposed reopening of Cornwall's last tin mine has come too late for one of the main hauliers who used to work out of it....

• A truck park with a capacity to hold at least 1,000 trucks is needed to prevent repeated traffic chaos in Kent, according to...

• A bid for a PSV Operator's Licence by Malcolm Vehicle and Coach Hire has been refused on the grounds that it is a new guise...

• Sumo Overland Direct International Transport, a company originally formed by former Sumotrans director Thomas Carstairs, has...

was the belief that the public should benefit from the hauliers' action that swung the meeting. Anecdotal tales of gifts of...

Frankfurt Show saw the long awaited unveiling of the Vauxhall Vivaro and its near identical twin, the Renault Trafic. The...

the Paris Motor Show later this month with the UK market getting its first taste at the Birmingham Motor Show in October. The...

Using a vehicle with a defective speed limiter has cost Normans Wirral £1,625 in fines and costs. The Burton, South...

been cut from four vehicles to three for four weeks. The firm had been called before North Eastern TC Tom Macartney following...

held by Harold Thackray of Millhouse Green. near Sheffield, and is considering disqualifying Thackray and his transport...

Solihull international haulier Robert James against his indefinite disqualification from holding or obtaining a licence, West...

haulier William Kirkpatrick with a formal warning over his maintenance standards.

resulted in a week's suspension of the licence held by Comrie-based Ross Paton Timber Transport.

A South Yorkshire owner-driver has lost his licence for using an unauthorised operating centre and an unautho rised vehicle....

A driver who left his job with Selby-based livestock haulier Alec B Storey has lost a claim for unfair dismissal before a...

Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon has imposed a two-week suspension on the two-vehicle 0 licence and HGV licence held by...

The Transport Tribunal has overturned a decision to delete the Walton-on-Thames operating centre from the licence held by ET...

courtesy of CM • You can now check out the latest Vehicle Excise Duty rates on road transport.net—the web site operated by...

Well t finally happened—the British finally did it, stuck together that is. After much letter writing, lobbying of MPs, and...

Well, what a week for fuel protests. First, I have great admiration for all of those who took part and made the government...

I am a small haulier and a fuel protester involved in the Trafford Park protest I have backed the RHA for the past 18 months or...

Can anyone explain to me why diesel is cheaper to buy at the pumps than from my regular fuel supplier? I've read in Commercial...

With all the fuss over fuel protests dying down, at least for the time being, my feelings have moved from anger over the crazy...

As a member of the public, please could you let the truckers know we thank them, and fully support them for their action taken...

that Home Secretary Jack Straw is considering the immediate revocation of operators' licences for anyone involved Ira fuel...

This Mercedes-Benz Mobile Eye Unit is said to be the first mobile phaco-microsurgical eye unit in the world. It was shipped out...

The Hawk is always harking back to the past and with good reason. Things were cheaper then! May I present to the jury exhibit...

The Hawk was distressed to learn of the case of Rick Hudson, a KFOR driver who has been arrested in Kosovo. Hudson is a...

"Hello I'm in the Robin (Reliant)" is a phrase you are not likely to hear The Hawk utter as this old bird has long resisted...

Here in the UK we are well used to coping with American imports. However, our cousins across the pond are finding it somewhat...

Iveco Ford's Super Cargo is tough and reliable. Its relatively small engine certainly hasn't hurt its productivity—no wonder...

preferred New dealer" Steve Benson For the past 27 years World End Tiles of Battersea has been producing ceramic tiles in...

Andy Carr Business relocation specialist Romford Office and Commercial Removals (ROC) is a company on the move—Andy Can,...

independent auction house in the country that deals in trucks, trailers and plant. The company has been trading for more than...

Opposition" Steve Jenkins 9 East London main dealer Dagenham Motors holds franchises for the Iveco Truck and Ford CV ranges....

The Iveco Super Cargo is a light, strong, pricecompetitive 17/18tonner, but in the sales league it comes in behind Daf, Scania,...

Disc brakes may be the vogue but an awful lot of drum systems will be around for years to come—and the brake lining...

de-grease and shot-blasting process prior to a detailed examination. Defective shoes are rejected; the rest are resprayed in...

Drivers and operators rarely give body shutters a second thought, until one jams in the roof; that's when a relatively low-cost...

"Driving with the shutter part way up or in the roof is a prime cause of early failure," says Dormon. The doors are...

J D ohn Evans wasted no time getting started in the transport business. He was only 21 when he bought his first truck, a...

business advice to financial help, from a variety of sources. Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) feature prominently...

Hall is a family-run general haulier which has turned the challenge of its west coast location to advantage. The company was...

G 0 erry Jones had taken the morning off to sign the papers on the new house he was buying so that he could be nearer his work...

has weathered the many economic storms which have swept through the town. The family business, which started as a furniture...

of just nine vehicles, but what it lacks in volume it more than makes up for in tradition. "My greatgrandfather was one of the...

of a coal factor and bought a second-hand Bedford for 1350. A year later, he was running five lorries delivering automotive...

Set off for Hemel Hempstead at 6.30am. The day is one meeting after another with my colleagues on the Gillette logistics...

• Operators willing to take a Mercedes-Benz Actros on a threeyear contract-hire agreement can have the use of a diesel Mercedes...

• A leading independent dealer has called on manufacturers to cut the prices of new trucks in the UK. "I believe operators are...

I Despite the fuel crisis used truck buyers seem to be in the mood to spend, says Steve Smith of independent dealership Smith...

• Saturday auctions held for individual operators are a continuing success story for independent dealer Malcolm Harrison, says...

• More and more fleet operators are buying late-registered used trucks rather than waiting five or six months for new ones to...

The export market for second-hand trucks is opening up again after a long slump, says Richard Hall, vehicle remarketing manager...