• Truck driver Richard Duclos appeared at Bradford Magistrates Court on 22 June accus€ supplying drugs with a street value of...

by Miles Brignall TIVOLI • Twelve drivers have lost their jobs and more than 30 ownerdrivers face possible ruin this week...

IN Selective cuts in police work to allow officers to concentrate on catching criminals are the main proposals in the...

urophile, or Eurosceptic? That's the choice facing Conservative MPs as they prepare to choose a new leader. Meanwhile, as the...

by Ian Wylie II Two removals lorry drivers were robbed at gunpoint in France last Thursday, prompting haulage organisations to...

• Government confirmation that it will only allow uniformed police to stop trucks has been welcomed by the Freight Transport...

• The industry's safety reputation has taken another knock after a year-long campaign by West Mercia police found 90% of trucks...

ing new initiatives Morris: Big plans. , promis' ing new initiatives Morris: Big plans. to improve working conditions of lorry...

by Ian Wylie • Livestock hauliers have given new European regulations on animal transport a qualified welcome, but the major...

• A Nottinghamshire haulier is inviting owner-drivers to apply for a slice of £9m worth of business in the same week it made 10...

• Hauliers using the port of Dover could face higher costs following an announcement by Transport Secretary Brian Mawhinney...

by Miles Brignall • Hauliers working for supermarkets and other companies requiring computer links with their subcontractors...

* The Dutch road transport association TLN is attacking the German government for planning to triple motorway tolls for trucks...

• ERF, one of a handful of UK truck manufacturers still flying the flag in national and international markets, has posted big...

III A Yorkshire man is on bail after a blaze at a operator's base left it with a 1200,000 bill for 10 damaged vehicles. The...

by Colin Sowinan • Daf has launched its 55-Series for the 11-15 tonne sector in lefthand drive only. But "if the UK market...

T ankCon, the Road Haulage Association's biennial tanker show, moved to the Donington Park, Leics, exhibition centre this year....

11 Glenrothes-based Stewart Eider &Partners, trading as Viewfield Pallets & Engineering, has been given a final warning about...

• Stockton on Tees-based CL Prosser & Co was warned about maintenance when it appeared at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. A full...

• Typetarget has been granted authority to move the operating centre of its two-vehicle licence in Sandwich, but at an...

• AS Audhali Farm Gate Fresh Poultry, of Hatton, Warks has withdrawn an application for an additional three trailers and will...

• A Birmingham Industrial Tribunal has rejected an unfair dismissal claim by driver Roger Farnham. He was sacked after he had...

• Carlisle magistrates reluctantly adjourned a case against Cumbrian haulier William Armstrong (Longtown) and 19 of its drivers...

• A Manchester Industrial Tribunal has decided that Walkers Smiths Snack Foods was unfair to dismiss driver William Jones...

North London haulier Range Transport and driver James O'Dee were called before Redbridge Magistrates on charges of using a...

• West Midland TA, Licensing Auth ority John Mervyn Pugh has increased the authorisation on Mel Williams Co's licence—but only...

• Consideration of disciplinary action against the licence held by Derwent Valley Lime Co of Consett was adjourned by North...

by Bryan Jarvis • Express parcels specialist Parceline has invested £5m in vehicles and equipment for its expansion into the...

• The first semi-active dampers to appear on commercial vehicles could be used for cab suspension, says Koni bus and truck...

• One engine was not good enough for Carlisle-based Andidrain: its Scania drain jetter has two. As well as the standard...

L aws must be observed however absurd they are. And few are as absurd as speed limits. Originally introduced supposedly to...

Macho abuse has become I much more advanced but it's hard to believe operators do not knowing what's going on. Any operator...

T he Transport and General Workers' Union is joining forces with brewers' representatives to call for a 50% cut in the tax on...

3 ontrolling that unruly lot in the House of Commons can't be easy, especially when the Prime Minister decides he wants nothing...

rivers encountering this splendid sign in a North Yorkshire village may take a moment or two to adjust to its slightly archaic

a he Hawk may not be one of them (hear hear—Ed), but some people are simply born for greatness. Such a man is Nick Cox, who has...

Second for Sally • Sally Freight has added a second ship to the DartfordVlissingen route with room for 52 accompanied trucks....

Body display MI The 1996 SIVIMT Commercial Vehicle and Bodywork Show will take place on 27-29 February in Hall 4 of the NEC....

Chunnel digest • Useful addresses and practical information on cross-Channel transport are contained in The 1995 CrossChannel...

Eye safety • Wall-mounted eyewash stations can help employer:, meet the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981,...

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

Times to suit • Kendal College can organise courses for the Certificate in Competence for Road Haulage Operators with...

Midlands • During the British Grand Prix on 14-16 July Northamptonshire police will refuse abnormal loads on the: U A43...

SG • Scania is once again an independent company, separated from the Saab car and aircraft manufacturer that it joined up with...

the IRISH North or South, Ireland's used truck dealers are faced with the same perennial problem as their British...

Irish hauliers have elected another youthful leader after a two-year stint by their first woman president. Because Ireland...

new Transport Minister Emmet Stagg at the IRHA conference in Killarney over Easter. Stagg, the first Minister of State for...

available to members round the clock' 4 T he recent article about Drivers' Action Movement (CM 1-7 June) seemed to imply that...