• Members of reefer haulier association Transfrigoroute, will be able to dip into a network of international lawyers from March...

by Amanda Bradbury and Juliet Parish • The bubble finally burst this week on supermarket distribution, as Tesco and J Sainsbury...

• Licensing Authorities are to have their powers restricted with regard to drivers involved in disciplinary cases, starting in...

by Juliet Parish • AAH Holdings will make 26 drivers redundant and close its Yeadon depot next month when it loses another...

The board believes profits before tax and exceptional items for the year ending March 1994 will be below current market...

• A Government decision to privatise the Vehicle Inspectorate's commercial vehicle testing arm is expected within weeks,...

A manager of Beattockbased haulier North East Transport & Plant Hire (Broughty Ferry) is to be prosecuted on charges of...

by Amanda Bradbury • A slanging match between NFC's current and past chairmen over treatment of the company's employees was...

• Regular users of the Severn River crossing should be sent itemised accounts to check they are not being overcharged for using...

• The enforcement of vehicle standards regulations is under review to determine whether it could be reduced or enforcement...

"green" sheen From diesel vehicles was published last week by a group of scientists studying urban air quality. The group was...

• London tipper operators will win an additional 50,000 truck movements over five years when construction of the CrossRail...

by Juliet Parish • Leeds brewer Joshua Tetley & Son is asking its 42 drivers and 100 warehouse staff to consider taking...

• BOC Distribution Services is on the verge of adding Onward Transport to its distribution network of 900 trucks and 34...

jobs will be at risk in the UK transport industry, the Post Office told a powerful parliamentary select committee this week....

by Eugene SiIke • From this spring, West Highland hauliers are poised to win up to 50,000 tonnes of additional timber haulage...

• Partco is set to become the third commercial vehicle firm to go for a stock market flotation this year. The truck and car...

• Taylors of Martley is targeting high profile rivals in the food and drinks distribution market including NFC and Eddie...

• Transport of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste paper within a 150-mile radius of Maidstone is up for grabs as a Kent...

• Transport Development Group announced last week that it is to sell Beck & Pollitzer Engineering to its management. In an...

Like some anti-bureaucratic Dalek the Government is busy shouting "De-regulatel...Deregulate!" The words are currently echoing...

by Brian Weatherley • Commercial Motor's 38 tonne roadtest programme has been brought bang up to date with the arrival of two...

• Following the recent launch of its FH range, Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) is offering front air suspension on a heavy drawbar...

urban beer drops by Steve Banner • Dennis Eagle is targeting big breweries running urban artics with a lightweight tractor...

rail station at the Channel Tunnel free of snow and ice in winter. The German-built 4.1-tonner is powered by a Volkswagen 1.9...

• Unipower's C series bonneted civilian heavy hauler looks set to make its debut later this year. The Watford-based company...

6x6 rigid for a civilian customer at its Irvine plant in Scotland. Full details are not yet available, but it is likely that...

by Nicky Clarke • Law-abiding operators will welcome transport minister Steven Norris' announcement two weeks ago that...

put to the Government, including 44 tonnes on six axles for all vehicles. The decision to confine 44 tonnes to vehicles...

Ord, Ross-shire was revoked by Scottish Deputy LA Allan Worthington, when Cornbes failed to appear at an Inverness public...

• Harrison International Freight Services, of Rufforth, near York has been cleared by magistrates of using a vehicle without an...

• ASJ Freight Forwarding has been ordered to pay £4,987 compensation to a driver dismissed after a bridgebashing incident. A...

• A man who used his son-in-law's licence was given an absolute discharge, after admitting using a vehicle without an...

• Widnes-based JF Bibby (Trucksales) has been granted a licence to operate six vehicles. The company wants to continue part of...

• North Eastern Deputy LA Brian Horner has refused to grant a licence to MC Garages (Barnsley), trading as Majestic Transport,...

• Citroen's C25 Relay van range has gone up in price by an average of 1.45%. The cheapest model is now the C25E 1000, at £9,275...

by Toby Clark • Suzuki has added another model to the UK's growing list of 4x4 commercial vehicles. Despite a comprehensive...

• Suzuki has relaunched its SuperCarry microvan. The van has been updated and priced to undercut the Daihatsu Hijet and is now...

Portuguese 4x4 in the UK writes Steve Banner. Currency considerations have prompted the move, says Managing Director Ian...

pristine, clean shaven, suspiciously-youthful driver. You might be forgiven for thinking the vehicle is driven by a dummy (or a...

5 rom Scania in Sweden comes the sad news of the death of Bo Bjorkman at the age of 60: he headed Scania's PR activities for...

EE ews from tanker manufacturer Vallely Engineering which has supplied four vacuum combination tankers to Cox Cabins (aka Cox...

Aft y old friend Arthur Ingram, author of many notable Aft y old friend Arthur Ingram, author of many notable books about road...

ho is the lucky winner of CM's "Win-a-Strato" competition? Within the next fortnight, some lucky reader will get a phone call...

I t was interesting to hear the alternative proposals to the M25 widening scheme offered by the Home Counties rebel Tory MPs...

I have just read with disgust your piece titled Crackdown on Cowboys (CM 13-20 January 1994). In my opinion the sentence...

Parts on wheels • Sherwood Group is launching a 29-hour Iveco Ford parts service in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South...

Zuest on the move • International freight forwarder Zuest and Bachmeier has moved its head office from Coulsdon to the...

Bodies on show • The bodybuilders' exhibition, International Commercial Vehicle Bodywork Show, opens on 15 March with a visit...

• Details of the newly titled Truck Driver of the Year and the Van Driver of the Year competitions will be announced on 4...

Tacho pocketbook • A fifth edition of TachDbook has been published by W&I Foster in the wake of the EC Court's recent...

Truck choice • Places are available on VBG's Artics vs Drawbar seminar near Runcorn. It will look at how legislation and...

New to St Malo • A new ferry route from Poole to the Breton port of St Main will operate from midMay to October. Brittany...

Language class • Any hauliers who have broken the language barrier in the drive to increase their business in Europe have a...

First aid • The Glass Medic screen plaster is designed to stick on a chipped or cracked windscreen area to help contain damage...

Bridge break • The M6 will be reduced to two lanes in each direction between junctions 21 (Martinscroft) and 21a (Croft...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak;...

Scania doesn't produce rubbish, but it would like to move some of yours. Its latest 6x2 midlift/steer axle P93 chassis is...

among hauliers, so why start talking about Euro-2 when it's over two years away? Be warnedEuro-2 could have a significant...

the truck manufacturers. But are the fuel companies pulling their weight? Bernd Gottschalk, who heads up Mercedes-Benz's truck...

of over-expansion and failure to control costs. Now fitter, leaner and wiser, it attributes its renewed success to a strict...

selling commercial vehicles, according to a report by CAP Nationwide Motor Research It says several factors point to a total...

fallen by a third over the past ten years. Hundreds more may disappear over the next decade if manufacturers opt to cut costs...

T he bad news is that it has rained quite a bit since the last report on CMs Mercedes-Benz long term test van. The good news...

4 have worked in the garage and the I recovery industry for over 25 years and have seen the industry change dramatically into...