Canute Haulage Group has been named the UK's 42nd fastestgrowing company in the Sunday Times Fast Track100 listing Founded in...

• by Sally Nash The Home Office sent shock waves through the industry last week when it announced plans to double the maximum...

II Norbert Dentressangle's fight to keep Its Eastern area 0-licence resumed at a Public Inquiry last week, with a new Traffic...

• by Sally Nash Distance-based road charging, due to come into force in 2006, could be used in a similar way to VED to reward...

New msurance rep make hiring vehicles more complex • A European Union directive could significantly add to the administrative...

We've spent a long time wondering why the Home Office has decided to double the maximum fine for operators and truck drivers...

up to two months when booking trucks in for their annual tests because of staff shortages within the Vehicle Inspectorate. One...

as economic damage by restricting road freight movements through the Alps, according to the International Road Transport Union...

• Haulage giant DFDS Transport has extended its coverage of Germany and Eastern Europe with the acquisition of a 33%...

• Thames Valley police are trying to trace a truck driver who may have vital information about an accident on the 514 last...

• Truckstop management firm Nightowl plans to enhance faciliI as for truck drivers by opening up 12 new service areas over the...

• by Mike Jewell A firm that had eight Scania tractors seized by the Vehicle Inspectorate is unlikely to get them back, a...

Brewing giant Carlsberg-Tetley is to pioneer a driver assessment programme designed to cut insurance costs by singling out...

• Scotland's slice of the Road Haulage Modernisation Fund will be spent on retrofitting particulate traps and training...

• Road transport is better for the environment than road/rail combinations, according to a new study. The report, Brussels—A...

• Two of the UK's busiest road tunnels, which carry more than 50,000 vehicles a day between them, have come bottom in a safety...

Police have seized three trucks and a container worth nearly £250,000 as part of Operation Coppergold, the multi-force...

with fatigue warnin WI by Sally Plash The Freight Transport Association has joined forces with Avon and Somerset police to...

• A Barry-based Hazchem operator has become the first tanker firm in Wales to gain the Investors in People standard. BAT...

• Fuel launderers face a crackdown under new government measures designed to tackle cross-border fuel fraud. Among the...

The Actros may be too fancy to be a fleet favourite, but the new Axor is focused on the hearts and wallets of fleet operators....

II by Brian Weatherley Scania has taken a further step towards what it describes as a "shrink-wrapped" ready-to-roll truck...

taken quite a lot of people by surprise—not least its organisers. According to Lye Promotions' Colin Ward: "It's amazing how...

• Making its Truckfest debut is what's billed as "The World's Biggest Peterbilt". The monster Peterbilt 359 bonneted truck...

As usual our sister magazine Truck & Driver will have a major presence at Truckfest. On its stand will be a unique Renault...

time at Truckfest Isuzu is giving visitors the opportunity to win a truck! This is for real, no strings attached—they don't...

A County Durham haulier which was prosecuted last year for using a dangerous vehicle fallowing a fatal accident has lost Its...

against the revocation of its licence by the North Eastern IC Tom Macartney. the Transport Tribunal directed that the...

A Salisbury hay and straw merchant has persuaded the Transport Tribunal to order a rehearing of its application to move to a...

A Hertfordshire firm has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 n fines and costs following confusion over tachograph use. Wilkes...

Beverley Bell after It failed to give a new trailer its 'first-use inspection. Chesterfield-based Atlas Contract Transport...

that he cannot qualify because his stammer prevents him from shouting "stop". Whittock, who, like Pop Idol's Gareth Gates, has...

Eric Strongftharrn Oswaldtwistle. As the driver crisis deepens Sir Jos Spagthorpe. chairman and president for life of...

n he i8-tonne sector is an increas ingly competitive market for manufacturers, and in these days of driver shortages,...

Lorna Thorman wouldn't want to do anything else. She loves driving and gets emotionally attached to her vehicles. Her 5oth...

the wrong side of the road, caused a crash that killed a coach driver. He was fined £500 for driving without due care and...

Using common-rail technology, the 2.5DTi produces up . to 115PS power and 290Nm torque — enough to shift the heaviest loads...

Ever wondered what happens to your vehicles the minute they drive out of the depot the gate? Try answering the following...

too much alcohol—but identifying a driver under the influence of drugs is much harder. So with the increasingly relaxed...

to develop a defini tive roadside testing system to find out if drivers are taking drugs which could impair their ability to...

The future looked bleak for coal hauliers when Scotland's last deep mine closed in March. Now the dust has settled, what are...

L aw abiding hauliers who pay their bills regularly could be forgiven for assuming that they have a positive credit rating....

charging for lorries will be with us in four years. This has created one of those rare situations in which environmental groups...