by Karen Miles • The future of UK roadside enforcement by the police is being questioned as the UK's most stringent HGV...

• Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has become the most powerful figure in European road transport politics. Kinnock...

• A Government consultation document out this week proposes to remove LGV drivers' right to continue driving to out-of-date...

by Miles Brignall • Operators of old and smokey CVs face prosecution as vehicle examiners prepare to go on a nationwide...

Rs ecognise this quote anyone? "This is not a course of action I take willingly but a course of action I have to take." It...

• Continuous 0-licensing could be introduced as early as next spring. It became clear last week that the necessary bill is set...

by Amanda Bradbury • Two HGV operators who helped police catch wouldbe thieves breaking into a £22,000 Volvo FL7 tipper have...

• NFC has received a writ—reportedly claiming 21.3m—from former chief executive Peter Sherlock. He is claiming compensation for...

• The haulage industry's fight to achieve lower tolls on the Severn Bridge is gaining momentum. This week local authorities...

by Karen Miles • More than 100 Exel Logistics drivers will find themselves working for a new employer next year as Woolworths...

III Stockport haulier Anthony Cleary has been cleared of smuggling cocaine worth Lim concealed in a semi-trailer. Cleary of...

• The Scottish Office proposal to introduce a second Forth road bridge has divided users and the local regional council....

driver who nodded off at the wheel and was jailed for dangerous driving has been freed from a 15-month prison sentence after he...

bridge's tolls to collect revenue for improving public transport. It says this could do away with the need for a second bridge....

by Elizabeth Daly • Third-party operator Calor Transport has threatened to sack 52 staff in mid December if they do not sign...

• Noel Loukes, a partner in Sheffield-based eight-vehicle haulier Loukes Brothers Haulage, has been convicted of procuring a...

Hammon d • Hammond Transport Group has started work on a £7m/three - year overnight contract with Toyota GB. Six regional...

by Amanda Bradbury • Mileage-intensive operators of older, heavier vehicles will be hardest-hit if proposals by the Royal...

1 • Maryportbased V Thompson (Haulage) has been granted a licence with a much reduced authorisation than was asked for after...

• Commercial Motor is preparing a new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert witnesses, haulage...

• Shropshire operator John Idris Evans is appealing to Shrewsbury Crown Court against his conviction for using a vehicle with...

at all suitable for LGIls • Tameside Borough Council has blocked a bid by Audenshaw, Manchester skip hire operator Ian...

• Northumbria Water Group waste disposal contractor Enviricare has appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Eastern...

by Colin Sowman • Michelin has launched its XZEI and XDE1 range regional and stop/start tyres for 17.5in wheels used on trucks...

by Colin Sowman • Crane Fruehauf has revised the way it makes curtainsiders and platform trailers, and its customer ordering...

• Commercial Motor is ringing the changes to bring you the most up-to-date mixture if vehicle news every week. In the past...

by Bryan Jarvis • A new design of tanker that can quickly reduce the volume of sludge carried by up to 20% of its mass looks...

• Inmarsat has produced a computer program which calculates the cost of satellite communication against the terrestrial...

by Bryan Jarvis • Fourteen superbly built and immaculately turned out finalists in Commercial Motor's Trailer of the Year...

• Top earning truck drivers are on nearly three times the wages of some of their lowlier-paid colleagues, according to a straw...

• Pavilion Services plans to introduce five-minute head and shoulder massages at its nine service areas next year. It has...

• Plans are under way to tempt more truck drivers into the Strensham motorway service station on the M5—the Worcestershire MSA...

• Hidden surveillance cameras will be set up at level crossings throughout the UK next year, following trials in the NorthEast...

come on the market. This red and white liveried six-wheel tractor unit was first registered in 1975 and is thought to have been...

T was interested to read in 1Commercial. Motor about the suggested use of side reflectors on LGVs and their trailers to prevent...

LIGH T • When Mercedes-Benz introduced its 1733S/IS at the end of 1989 it was quite a different vehicle from the 1633 which...

retained butterfly valves located close to each of the exhaust manifolds. Mercedes had produced its own 16-speed gearbox with...

in the wealth created by their ability to deliver the goods on time. This simple principle can be applied to employees from...

M aintaining the roads on the Isle of Man might appear to be a doddlethe island is only 12 by 35 miles and there's not a single...

I n his time Inspector Morse must have supped a few pints of Morrells famous ales as he glumly went about his business of...

4 w ith the budget only a few weeks away I want to set out an alternative view to the Government's general attitude toward...