• Thousands of DOT employees in Traffic Area Offices, Vehicle Registration Offices and the DVLA at Swansea are to sr! ke...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Department of Employment has backed a controversial union interpretation of a new employment law...

William Thomas was a driver for Bridgend-based Penllyne Haulage until he was forced to take sick leave with severe arthritis....

• More than 12 men charged with truck theft will appear at Tower Bridge Magistrates Court on 6 January next year. They were...

by Juliet Parish • British drivers in France are being targeted with increased roadside checks and fines as part of a blitz...

• Around 100 operators are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by two freight forwarders, police have discovered just days...

• A salary of more than £100,000 is being offered to oversee the Government's road building programme as chief executive of...

• Emergency repairs to trucks will soon be carried out by any recovery operator within motor way service areas access has...

decision which ruled that a haulier could carry demolition material in some circumstances without the waste transfer note...

This paves the way for the privatisation of LGV testing that was proposed by Transport Secretary John MacGregor in May....

• A director of Nationwide Haulage & Tuition Ltd has been found guilty of dishonest evasion of a liability and fined £500....

• The Scottish Joint Industrial Council, the last bastion of national collective bargaining in haulage, looks set to be...

• The future of the 200-vehicle fleet operated by Railfreight Distribution for collection, delivery and trunking for fellow...

by Amanda Bradbury • The two major road transport unions say the long-term decline in their membership and finances is...

• International hauliers are calling for the introduction of an independent arbitration service to settle insurance claim...

• Accident investigator, are asking for the driver of a two-axle blue tipper travelling east on Stainton Way, Marton,...

by Grant Prior • Livestock haulier Roger Mills of Live Sheep Traders was personally fined more than

• Hauliers with a national depot network and a fleet ranging from vans to 38-tonne trunkers still have a chance to clinch an...

• Reading-based removals firm Business Moves wants to buy a competitor specialising in office and computer haulage with a...

by Steve Sturgess • Navistar has launched a 7.3-litre vee-eight diesel which could be sold in Europe by Perkins. The T444Eis...

EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • MAN is offering a new 198kW (265hp) variant of its six-cylinder M90 chassis called the...

• The London Motor shciw saw the UK relaunch of FSO, with a new importer and revised products. FSO Cars Ltd, a...

• The price of Vauxhall's Brava range has risen by on average of 4%. The 4x2 petrol model now costs 27,825, the 4x2 diesel...

by Brian Weatherley • Iveco's Spanish division Iveco Pegaso is to develop a new family of large displacement high-power...

Out of the three heavy truck engines currently produced by the Italian truck maker; 9.5, 13.8 and 18-litres, only the big vee...

• Ford has announced changes to its commercial range for 1994. A heavier Transit is launched, but other model changes are...

• Bedwas has introduced a lower-weight, smaller-cube version of its Cubic parcels van based on the 3.1 tonne Transit 150...

Fancy a change? Browsers through the situations vacant pages of the broadsheets might have spotted this little gem: "Chief...

• A Manchester owner-driver who said he could not make a living legally has admitted to the falsification of tachograph...

• A bid for a new international licence by Paul Watkin, trading as Freightlines International of Barnsley, has been refused...

• Tonypandy-based Ronald Latcham has obtained a transport manager following his third appearance before South Wales Deputy IC...

• South Wales Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lyndon Davies has decided not to take any disciplinary action against owner-driver...

• Knaresboroughbased Michael Waterson Transport has succeeded at the second attempt for a new international licence. The...

1 • Prohibition notices led North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu to curtail by eight months the licence of T Milner...

by Brian Weatherley • Are magistrates the best people to hear a driver licence application appeal? In July Commercial Molor...

• MAN has appointed John Elton at Leicester as service centre for its range of commercials up to and including 38 tonners,...

• General haulier and truck repairer Freight Shuttle has moved out of its West Yorkshire site to one three times larger...

Hauliers will also be able to see the latest accessories and services offered by another 69 firms at Trailer 93 in the Hallen...

• Fullers Transport Training Services has won approval to train drivers of hazardous goods and packages. The Slough-based...

• Hauliers concerned that their staff do not know how to minimise the risk of back injury when loading goods can arrange a...

• An anti-theft lock which cuts off a truck's fuel supply is available for .£179 (ex-VAT) from Leeds-based supplier...

• Delays can be expected on the M4 in West Glamorgan between J41 and J42 (PentvlaBaglan). where major roadworks have led to a...

best van driver in the UK and has the cups to prove it, courtesy of National Breakdown and Volkswagen. Horsham-based Sneddon...

unning out of petrol on a country road at night is no joke at the best of times. But returning to your vehicle the next day to...

u ou struggle to find a parking space, succeeding only after several attempts. Seeing a PAY HERE sign you approach with some...

A cat which fell asleep on a bridge 50 years ago and fell into roadworks has been discovered fossilised in tarmac in Treorchy,...

Wn ere do all the stolen car radios go when most ew cars have been fitted with them for the past few years? Similar thoughts...

its Ford Transit 190 van was stolen between 17:30-07:00hrs on 28-29 September from the car park of the Rose & Crown pub in...

A spate of multi-million pound truck orders from rental companies suggests a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel of...

replaces the Astramax—it will have to win sales from Ford's ubiquitous Courier and Escort. Is the Corsa-based newcomer up to...

y ou might not guess from the gentle West Country tones, but John Golding is angry. Beneath the mild mannered exterior,...

Minefield In the first of a two-part guide, CM examines the rules you need to follow when taking on new employees. S ince the...

S ection 68 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 empowers a Vehicle Examiner to inspect a vehicle in a public place or at premises...

• Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods & Passenger Carrying Vehicl es ) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (SI 1603)....

hen the Appeal Court held that overloading and Construction & Use offences were "absolute" with no "due-diligence" defence, the...

A ny solicitor dealing with the aftermath of a road traffic accidents must despair at the Government's attitude towards speed...

E ven the most experienced international hauliers can be caught out by the CMR provisions. In general any claim under a CMR...

T was fascinated to read on 'Commercial Motor's Any Questions page, that one of your readers was planning to convert a Saxon...

/The reading of your comment in CM dated 14-20 October on heavy haulier John Golding being unable to compete with Dutch rivals...

4 y attitude to roads is pragmatic rather than dogmatic. I believe it is in the national interest—both of the business...