September has failed to ignite a boom in sales, according to Glass's Guide. The arrival of Vplates has not matched the usual...

LDV has won an £1lm order for 750 vans from TLS Vehicle Rental.

illegal immigrants were found hidden on FIG Vs at the Channel ports in August. compared with about 3,500 in the whole of 1998.

an essential fuel user rebate will be available at the IRTE Scottish Truck. Bus & Van Show in Glasgow on 3-4 September.

The Tauern Tunnel between Flachau and St Michael in the Alps, which closed for three months following a fire in May, has now...

jobs following a move from its Wetherby site to a warehouse in Wakefield.

service and warns parcels firms that they could lose out as a result.

Resurfacing work between Junctions 3-5 on the M20 near Maidstone. Kent has finished a month ahead of schedule.

a by Melanie Hammond The Department of Trade and Industry is renewing its action against a company which claims to offer truck...

Peter Hobbs and John Mills, the British drivers sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in a Bulgarian jail for heroin smuggling,...

is Coventrybased engineer Vernon Phillips (pictured) who sought the services of the company in 1997. Phillips, who had already...

• by Karen Miles One of the UK's largest grain merchants has been caught breaking a code of practice designed to prevent...

• The Conservatives plan to focus on high levels of road and fuel taxes at the party's forthcoming annual conference....

• Dartford ferry firm Dartline is trying to clarify the trading position of Dutch unaccompanied freight firm Seatrans because...

AJ Long Transport, is facing a prison sentence after admitting to smuggling more than 25,000 litres of untaxed green diesel...

Do you listen to rumours? According to weekend reports in the newspapers Chancellor Gordon Brown is preparing to climb down...

• by Melanie Hammond Speed cameras and traffic calming measures are actually causing accidents and were partly responsible for...

• A mass protest in Dover is just one of the initiatives being planned by the Transport & General Workers Union as part of the...

• MAN has made additions to its after-sales service, set up a UK-based call centre for Euroservice and is now stocking Cummins...

II A Midlands transport firm has been refused permission to expand despite threatening to close and make some of its 200...

1July next year and connects Denmark and Sweden, will be £55 for trucks between 9-12m; £64 for trucks between 12m-16.5m and £75...

rest periods following reports that substances are being squirted into cabs to make drivers fall asleep and allow illegal...

kept from the end of this year in order to claim fuel rebates. The French are understood to be trying to reduce the tax...

100% from 1 January 2000. Receipts valid beyond 9 January will be reimbursed.

on the Autosole motorway between Bologna Casalecchio and Florence, on the Brenner between Affi and Bolzano and on the Milan...

oil derivatives to Yugoslavia from and across Hungary will be impounded and drivers will be heavily fined.

taxes and tolls for international operators. Contact the RHA's international department for a copy on 01932 841515.

• by Karen Miles New laws to make it easier to prosecute hauliers responsible for fatal accidents could be on their way . A...

The Government Is resisting calls for an independent inquiry into its decision to hand Federal Express further freight...

• A satellite navigation fault similar to the millennium bug failed to hamper British hauliers travelling abroad, but motorists...

• A Forest of Deanbased plant hire company is trying to track down a steel haulier from Essex which may have unwittingly been...

1 The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against the AA (Automobile Association) after a national...

Caterpillar Fuel Systems reckons it has the technology to replace Bosch as the world leader in diesel fuel injection. Toby...

degrees of freedom, In other words, it can control two elements of the injection process fuel quantity and timing. HEUI-A added...

• Caterpillar's HEUI system is not like a typical "common rail" system, in which fuel is pressurised by a common pump and fed...

lines at DaimlerChrysler's Werth plant in Germany. So far this year the plant has built 26.000 units with targets of 42.000 by...

to a long life is a combination of ERF cab and Cummins M11, Eaton and Mentor driveline. The company expects each of its six new...

The new Ford Ranger is topping the sales charts in the first two months of UK sales. Ford says the pickup sold 156 units in...

500 Nem Ford Dailys in its biggest purchase. The vans will be rented out on a daily and long-term basis to the private and...

LIAls on its roads after the Barbados Water Authority ordered 10 Convoy Crew Cab Dropsides. There are now more than 50 Convoys...

In the Vehicle News Extra on chipping (CM19-25 August, page 141 we said it was advisable to fit heavier SR1900 gearboxes when...

m by Peter Lawton Suppliers, operators, fitters and distributors are risking unlimited tines by using asbestos brake pad...

• Food distribution specialist A to Z had driver safety in its mind when it asked Solomon Commercials to add side steps to four...

is James Ham and Sons of Chelford is taking 71 new tractors from MAN in a major fleet replacement programme. Each Evolution...

Fuel consumption could be Gut by nearly 8 billion litres a year if modern asphalt was used on all UK roads, according to the...

• This 41-tonne 95XF FIG 430 Oaf is starting an unusual paper round with Williams Transport of Huntingdon. The firm is using it...

A Co Durham haulage firm, appearing at its fifth pubic inquiry related to vehicle maintenance since August 1994, has lost its...

has been suspended for a week by Scottish IC Michael Betts. Rattray was called before the IC because of concern over his...

for two vehicles and three trailers held by Ian Finlayson, trading as Highland Loghaul. of Culbokie, and has disqualified him...

the month the hearing of the case against Darlington lorry driver John Smith. accused of two offences of using a forged...

by A Nichols (Cow Mills). of Chipping Sodbury, being cut by one vehicle by Western IC Christopher Heaps at a Bristol public...

two vehicles and two trailers by Ashford-based SS Game was withdrawn shortly before it was due to be considered at a...

William Lambert. managing director of Waivevat. trading as Advanced Scaffolding Services (ASS) claimed there were many...

produce tachograph cnarts has cost an owner-driver Alan Blease £810 in fines and costs. Blease, who is based in Swinton,...

Three vehicles with brake defects have been suspended from the licence held by Ebbw Vale-based CD Transport by Welsh Deputy...

his tachograph so that he could compete with a larger rival he suspected of breaking the law, has been fined £2,000 by...

The Hawk is well aware that you don't need many brain cells to be a car thief, but thought perhaps that a minimum of one might...

year. On top of this statistic from the Health Safety Executive (HSE), another 1,000 or more major injury accidents occur...

or procedures do not meet safety requirements (that is, closing them down until matters are put right). Failure to comply with...

New DTI websites The Department of Trade and Industry has two new websites: • www.dti.gov.uk/worldtrade/ offers information on...

able these days, many hauliers looking for a premier league artic for 41ton n e work must be tempted to go for the...

▪ BRIAN HAULING, a self-employed driving instructor from NOV Training Services at Devizes, had stopped at BP's Swindon...

for cases of loose or lost wheels. Traffic commissioners and courts are distinctly less sympathetic to tales of the unexpected...

warn Hazchem hauliers must appoint a safet end of the year. Failure to do so risks an two years in prison. But pressure on...

According to the University of Huddersfield's Transport and Logistics Research Unit, recruitment problems could be tackled by:...

Transport unions at Brighton will be insisting on fewer hours for the same pay as the Working Time Directive is introduced....

boy. He was born there and still lives there. He started work as a press operator at Bellings in the early 1970s and became a...

secretary who has an MBA. He started his working life as a lorry driver in 1972 and in 1983 he spent a year taking a business...

transport branch of general union SIPTU which is by far the largest union in the Irish Republic. He is one of the few trades...

Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems in this regular column. Write to Commercial Motor, Room...

was driving a 7.5-tonne truck on the M1 when I noticed a white car in my mirror with its headlights and a pair of small blue...

• I do express delivery work with a 3.5 tonne van to East European countries. Do any hours restrictions apply to me while...

• I am somewhat confused as to the types of vehicle loan drive with an HGV category G4E driving licence. My licence describes...

tachograph in Europe as scheduled within two years. If properly developed it offers enormous benefits by improving the safety...