miter tests by Nicky Clarke II The testing of speed limiters has finally been introduced into the annual HGV test, along with...

• Hazardous goods carriers should expect further motorway checks in the North-West following a roadside check last weekin which...

• Hopes that railfreight costs may fall, encouraging a freight switch from road, were dashed this week. The first private...

• Commercial vehicle manufacturer Marshall SPV of Cambridge is laying off 90 workers following disappointing sales. Candidates...

by Amanda Bradbury • Bill Sangster, a director of insolvent Kent-based Iveco Ford dealer Stormont Engineering, is leading a...

• United Transport UK is believed to have asked for more time to reply to a High Court writ issued by six drivers who claim...

by Grant Prior • More than 180 drivers at the Lane Group have been awarded a 1.7% pay increase only months after the firm...

• The Department of Transport plans to push through a controversial anti-bridge bashing proposal, forcing operators of vehicles...

• Scania Trucks and Buses' plans to supply its dealer network direct from a new purpose-built parts distribution centre at...

• Mercedes-Benz has launched some new models for its Ti van range. They include variants of the 208D panel van and chassiscab...

• Econocruis , . as won orders from Volvo and Scania to supply speed limiters to their European distribution centres. The...

Dride of place at the fire industry's FIRE 93 show at .1C Glasgow's SEC this week was taken by the Dennis Rapier, with a new...

• Overseas Courier Service (London) has fitted its fleet of 64 light vans with on-board Black Box monitoring equipment to...

by Juliet Parish • Drivers at Prestons of Potto may take industrial action unless the company offers a conventional pay rise,...

• Acquisition hungry Hays is on the look out for "quality businesses in the UK" after its distribution division's profits rose...

• Southampton-based remover White & Company has bought Grampian International Removers and Chariot Freight from the receiver...

• South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Michael Turner has deferred consideration of disciplinary action...

• Clitheroe haulier AJA Smith Transport was given an absolute discharge after Bradford magistrates accepted the company could...

• The licence held by Greenwich-based International Haulage has been revoked by the South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic...

• A series of prohibition notices and convictions has led to a 25% cut in the licence authorisation of Morley-based Keadle...

• A Glasgow Industrial Tribunal has ordered ITD Deliveries to pay £2,950 compensation for unfair dismissal to driver Thomas...

by Amanda Bradbury and Karen Miles • The complexion of the country's biggest transport operator is set to change next week...

The official road signs favour Clacketts Lane while the contractor's notice plumps for a2cket Lane A scan of maps in CM'S...

may look like an absurd. contraption now but at the time it was a serious piece of Ministry of Defence-inspired kit. (CM16 - 22...

loss adjustor Ellis & Buckle's stolen vehicle investigators. If you think the twin - axle unit could be yours, get in touch...

y ou will prob ably have experienced, or heard of, the following: Company X, a freight forwarder, (probably under-capitalised...

T he VW Transporter has passed through our hands in practically every loadcarrying guise; 800kg van, LWB high-roof, chassis cab...

A l' A PR I C E • When a haulier goes out to buy a commercial vehicle, whether new or secondhand, he will be looking for the...

AP to Eh ( 0 1) ' engine was intro . WiP duced in IVIarch 1988, at the same time as superficial changes to the exterior of the...

T he Department of Transport's campaign against overloading is to include a National Overloading Seminar addressed by Roads and...

A , the sound of the 12:30 factory dinner bell a black swan and a flotilla of ducks glide to the lake's edge to be fed crusts...

A fter the miners, health service and council workers, it is now the turn of the police. It was inevitable that a government...

P olice vehicle maintenance and building cleaning are the first of eight support services being driven along the road to...

( by is that we British spend so much time knocking our own country and our own abilities? We love to criticise ourselves and...