by Juliet Parish • A nationwide haulage strike in Italy was called off on Tuesday this week after just two days' action. The...

• Metered smoke tests for dieselengined vehicles under 3.5 tonnes are likely to be reintroduced into the MoT test early next...

iauliers on thefts by Karen Miles • Hauliers are at the heart of truck thefts worth millions of pounds, say police, who last...

• The number of HGVs failing their annual test rose last year despite a fall in numbers of vehicles tested because of the...

• A new system of prohibitions is expected to be introduced from November in a move that will save hauliers thousands of pounds...

• Up to 20,000 workers in the milk industry are to be balloted for industrial action next month after twice rejecting an...

his appeal against a LINO maximum fine for breaking a lorry ban in the capital. The penalty was reduced to £175 after the court...

• Rory Lynch Transport of Shannon, County Clare, Ireland won best truck and best combination with the above F12 Volvo at the...

by Amanda Bradbury • Faster flowing road freight is a major aim behind the decision to widen the M25 to a 14-lane...

• Essex Trading Standards is cracking down on overloaded livestock vehicles following an investigation earlier this month into...

• Plans for a radical revamp of the Operator Licensing system in Northern Ireland have been put on hold A consultation paper...

to the M25 between junctions 11 (A317) and 15 (A4) have emerged (CM 410 March). For the first time, red circular mandatory...

• Iveco will launch a 3.5tonne version of the Daily van and chassis cab range in August. The vehicles will go on sale through...

• In our Foden 4500 roadtest iCM8-14 July) we suggested that the Scania 143.500 we tested last year (CM 6-12 Aug 1992) was not...

He replaces managing director Stephen Burton, who has led the company over the past five years to an annual turnover of 1:50m...

Dennis to push • Fire appliance manufacturer Carmichael International has launched an 8x8 Airport Crash Tender. The "Cougar"...

• P & 0 Ferrymasters has added ten Mega Tautliners to its trailer fleet to move automotive stock between the UK, Benelux and...

• North East Electricity Board has taken this MAN 8.150 7.5 tonne tipper on extended hire from Sheffield Auto Hire. The chassis...

• Low-height fifth wheel tractive units are now available direct from MAN, three of the first entering the Brian Yeardley...

• Renault Truck Industries and Reynolds Boughton are jointly developing a new 4x4 six-tonne GVW model based on the Renault...

by Amanda Bradbury • Up to 150 extra tipper movements a week have been given the go-ahead as a bulk terminal at Royal Portbury...

• Intermodal freight carrier Combined Transport Limited says its share issue to hauliers, which closes next week, will raise...

• With just days before the government starts its negotiations for the sell-off of British Rail's freight businesses, Transport...

• Commercial vehicle driver training places for 800 people have been thrown into doubt with the receivership of national agency...

A study commissioned by finance house Lloyds Bowmaker says operators need to spend more money on new technology and vehicles to...

• A sacked supermarket lorry driver is fuming after an industrial tribunal decided not to award him compensation, despite...

by Karen Miles • The prospect of wholesale privatisation of the Post Office appears to be receding rapidly as it emerges that...

• Waste specialist Onyx UK, through its new transport arm Onyx Haulage, has taken on 12 drivers after winning a contract to...

• Production of commercial vehicles plummeted by nearly 40% last month compared to 1992's June figures. Output levels slumped...

• A Derbyshire haulier has been sent to prison for 18 months after being convicted of aiding and abetting a driver to cause...

• Operating dangerously defective vehicles and trailers before an interim licence was granted has been described as an error of...

• Hull fish haulier Albert Baxter agreed to pay £3,000 compensation to lorry driver Barry Gould after a Hull Industrial...

• Failure to tax vehicles properly ting of the duration of the licence held by John Courtney (Birmingham) so that it expires...

• Objections by two local authorities to a hid to increase the vehicle authorisation on a haulier's licence has been ruled...

• Newton Stewart-based Robert Houston has been given a final warning about maintenance standards and convictions by Scottish TC...

"We need to end a road building culture which has been in place since 1919 and replace it with one more sensitive to...

ith the Government unable to decide what time of day it is, Parcelforce twiddles its thumbs waiting to find out whether its...

a The Hawk hears from one Martyn Barrett, a Volvo fanatic who is behind the setting up of the Volvo Truck Club which aims to...

there are others who appreciate that some old bangers still have plenty of life in them. Leyland Daf dealer Brian Currie of...

oil while looking at videos of "glamour" girls are in for a treat if they flog Unipart oil until the end of August when it is...

2 ouncil spies, Burberrys pulled well over collars, Fedoras jammed below eyes, are stalking Britain's motorway service areas in...

25 years forward in transport strategy II A national transport conference is to be held with the aim discussing and...

Tech tuition full or part-time • The University of London's Birkbeck College is starting tuition for part and full-time...

Tax deadlines • The new Allied Dunbar Tax Handbook will be published at the beginning of next month and will include a...

Fast fuel • Around 30 Sainsbury and Tesoo fuel forecourts have installed a new computerised credit card payment system will...

Pavillion cash points open • Motorway service area operator Pavillion Services is opening Barclays Bank cash point machines at...

with the theft of two Volvo FL10s. Thieves took the first vehicle, registration number C879 JFIR, from the company's depot on...

requested by East Sussex company Haulaway. The vehicle, registration number B361 EEG, chassis number 62014325141124, was stolen...

worth 260,000 from Scunthorpe-based Cargo Management Services. The criminals entered the company's yard on the Flixborough...

A fine row is brewing between local authorities and the Department of Transport as toll increase cause hauliers to boycott the...

• In 1981, when Ford was Ford and Iveco was just another Italian manufacturer, the first Cargo rolled out of the Langley plant....

T he advent of longer artic outfits three years ago focused operator attention on positively steered and self-steering trailer...

The Channel Tunnel and rail privatisation are making intermodal transport a viable proposition. That's why some major players...

A t first I considered David Williams' letter (CM15-21 July) to be too aggressive in haranguing the Department of Transport and...

I would like to clarify an item which appeared concerning the appointment of Marshall (CM8-14 July). Peterborough Engineering...

T am tired of listening to hauliers saying all their troubles would be over if VED was scrapped and replaced by extra fuel tax....

( hat is the definition of a bully? Someone who intimidates only the weak and powerless. The Department of Transport seems...

H as your licence been wrongly endorsed? If you have been convicted of an insecure load or dangerous brakes, tyres or...

Implements changes in the fees payable for the examination of vehicles and vehicle parts—effective 6 April 1993. • ROAD...

T ime is money. Hauliers know how necessary it is to deliver loads on time in an ever more competitive market, but their...

S ection 40 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 empowers highway authorities to install and maintain "structures and equipment on or...

M ost hauliers have at least some knowlege of the BS5750 "quality standard": another standard that is about to influence the...

T here are many cases when a haulier completes a delivery only for the customer to refuse payment because of alleged damage to...

F or some years the Department of Transport and the Vehicle Inspectorate have been concerned about the problem of vehicle...