by Kathy Watson • One of the principals of Kent truck theft prevention company Freightwatch UK has been found guilty of theft,...

• Livestock hauliers fear the cost of transporting cattle could double if the EC accepts proposals on the use of...

by Kathy Watson • Kent County Council is to catch overloaded trucks using weight-triggered roadside cameras. In a pilot scheme...

hauliers to drive to weighbridges—but if the suspect truck has to travel more than five miles to be weighed and is then found...

MI A truck driver has been praised by police for driving a burning truckload of straw away from a busy street. Neil Marlow ran...

either be installed on motorways or at the exits to one of the county's ports. Once the system has identified an overweight...

• Administrators have been called in to Roadexpress, the Coventry-based courier which handles much of the road deliveries for...

• Roads minister Robert Key has ruled out introducing legislation forcing operators to fit close-proximity mirrors on older...

the next year courtesy of the Department of Transport. Manufacturers working to a 1 October deadline for the Euro-1 emission...

44 tonnes would allow wider use of such vehicles were dashed this week. Draft regulations will be published in a week's time.

remaining restrictions on the hire of goods vehicles without drivers. Next Monday (6 September) it will hear representations...

as part of the Metropolitan Police's "Operation Sallow" investigation were remanded on bail last week to appear at Tower Bridge...

during an FIGV spotcheck at Scotch Corner on the Al in Yorkshire last week. Alleged offences ranged from excessive smoke...

directly to cross-Channel truck drivers at Dover on Tuesday this week, handing out leaflets asking them to look out for his son...

UK during the past 12 months jumped 4% on the previous vean according to Department of Transport figures.

• The privatisation of British Rail and the Post Office are not being put on the back burner, says the Government, denying...

• Profits nearly halved at German truck builder MAN during the past financial year. But the firm says its British arm reported...

• Four directors of rental giant Tiphook awarded themselves salaries of over £495,000 during the past financial year while the...

• Transfleet Services is spending £12 million on 300 new ERF, DAF and MAN models to satisfy booming rental demand up to...

• Britain was the only country in Europe that showed an upturn in demand for Scania trucks during the first half of this year....

• One in three motorists believe truckers are the best motorway drivers. An Autoglass survey shows middle-lane hoggers and...

• Congestion caused by LGVs has prompted council transport officials in St Ives, Cornwall to consider revamping the town's...

by Grant Prior • The Government is considering hitting LGV drivers with swingeing new A-road speeding fines. The Department of...

are hauling themselves out of recession emerges from an exclusive Commercial Motor survey this week: 44% of the respondents say...

extra 10mile daily trip as council chiefs this week impose a permanent truck ban on a Suffolk A-road. Hauliers are up in arms...

lighter, slepkertabictej the electrMill); controlled OH _ engine - At almost eclipses the revamped 16-litre lump's European...

• ERF launches its EC rigid range at the Scottish IRTE Show this week, alongside a revised ES cab. The two, three and four-axle...

by John Kendall • The new Volvo PH range makes its world debut at the Scottish IRTE Show in Glasgow this week (see pages 8-11)....

• Dial A Skip (London)'s man aging director Henry King does not have the capacity or integrity to operate an eight-vehicle...

• A Darlington operator has been cleared of overloading a semitrailer to a dangerous extent, following a two-day legal battle...

• The service manager of a Doncaster Mercedes-Benz dealer who was sacked after he did not tell a customer that his truck was...

• The duration of licences held by a Welsh operator with two companies has been cut as he did not regularly inspect or keep...

• An operating centre cannot be held to be suitable if a licence applicant has no right of occupying it, the West Midland...

• Leigh Environmental will appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a rubbish dump near Bramshall, Staffs...

• A former director of Gateshead-based haulier Brown Wharrier Transport is planning to buy back part of the seven-truck...

• Mechanical faults delayed the introduction of a new £1 lm ferry to the Ardrossan to Isle of Arran service in Scotland last...

• Work in the construction sector is continuing to pick up with an 11% increase in the industry's order books for the second...

by Grant Prior • Sixty additional drivers will be taken on by William Morrison Supermarkets if the company wins a planning...

by Juliet Parish • Rapide (UK) Freight Services is on the verge of buying an unprofitable rival textile haulier three times its...

• Parceline loses a £100,000-ayear contract to rivals Securicor and Parcelforce this week after a five-month trial with shock...

• A parcels network has been launched with the aim of taking on the major players in the nextday market by using a network of...

by Nicky Clarke • The EC has named January next year for the completion of the “Cabotage Directive". This will give the legal...

full blown cabotage by 1 July 1998. Cabotage is the freedom for hauliers from one member state to pick up and deliver goods in...

on the road • Vauxhall's Astramax replacement will go on sale on 21 October. The Combo is a high-cube design that mates an...

commercial vehicles: the Fourtrak Fieldman and the Italian-built Hijet microvan and pickup. The diminutive Hijet's perky...

• Ive.co in Germany has launched a number of specially bodied 3.5 to 6.0-tonne Daily models aimed at courier and parcels...

• Citroen has introduced a complete 6x2 car transporter/ recovery vehicle based on its C25 Relay chassis-cab unit. The D1400...

"Big Brother is Watching you." Anybody who's ever read George Orwell's 1984, a chilling, if arguably inaccurate, vision of the...

by Brian Weatherley • It's an indication of the calibre, and the buying-power, of visitors to the IRTE's Scottish show that so...

Price as tested: £21,430 ex-VAT (Ford Transit 190 100PS chassis-cowl £15,405, body shell £4,965, twin rear doors £565, single...

A D mong the final five finalists for the Scania Transport Trust Awards is this fine 1924 Super Sentinel steamer, restored to...

ould this be the intermodal transport of the future? Vanguard Vehicle Services was called in to lift a 50-tonne barge out of...

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

Dublin service was a few years back when the ship, unable to dock in Liverpool because of gales, spent three days drifting up...

"I\ .1 " ot all P&O's customers appreciate the rights of truck drivers to be pampered .... as they cross the Channel. "I...

Price as tested: £200,000. Includes £66,150 for basic chassis and Huwer tank body. Engine: 9.8 litres, 249kW (338hp). Tested...

Austria is one of six members of the alternative common market, the European Free Trade Association—but this summer's row about...

4 . warning to prospective owner drivers. Yes, I was one of those unfortunate people who let their heads rule their hearts and...