for the company has been found and a deal should be signed this week. The company called in administrators in November with...

by Miles Brignall • UK hauliers could soon be operating 44tonne trucks to and from ports, as well as on piggyback road/rail...

• New European legislation on drivers' working time is unlikely because national governments would not accept it. Insiders...

Q uestion: What do the Camping and Caravan Club, Porsche Cars and the Guide Association have in common? Answer: They're all...

by Karen Miles • A haulage director has been accused by Customs and Excise of being involved in a £65m smuggling operation....

• A court found a lorry driver not guilty of smuggling after hearing that he knew nothing about the £1.5m worth of cannabis...

• An agricultural haulier that has a major contract with Anglian Water is being investigated by the Vehicle Inspectorate for...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is considering setting up an intelligence unit to gather information on rogue operators. A...

• The Chancellor's threat to beat vehicle excise duty evaders by clamping their vehicles will extend to LGVs, the Driver...

by Karen Miles • Essex owner-driver Steve Bryant has ended his four-week hunger strike after securing changes in his jail...

ft Protesting Austrian farmers added another 14-hour delay to the journey of Transglobal driver Bernard Copland who had already...

• A tipper operator who won 22.5m on the national lottery two months ago is being forced to lay off drivers due to lack of...

• Danzas has won a six-figure contract to co-ordinate the transport and distribution of Electrolux components from Germany to...

by Ann Price • An Italian lorry driver, who pleaded guilty to smuggling 18 illegal immigrants into the UK, has been told he...

• A £2.2m escape route for over-height lorries is being built at one of London's biggest traffic blackspots, The Blackwell...

• Haulier's fears over the proposed merger between ferry companies P&O and Stena will be fully explored, following The...

• The road haulage industry should introduce a single method for collating accident data to help firms reduce accident...

by Karen Miles • Union leaders are forecasting a "wages explosion" from drivers following the Government's decision to scrap...

7 Trailer vehicle excise duty rates will rise between 2.6% and 3.6%, despite Chancellor Kenneth Clarke's widely publicised...

• Hauliers will have to pay higher premiums on breakdown insurance policies bought from used truck dealers after Chancellor...

by John Kendall • The Government's decision to cut the duty on gas fuels by 25% in the Budget has been described as a...

• Citroen is offering a new twoyear unlimited mileage warranty on its entire range of commercial vehicles from 1 December...

• Racal BRT has won a contract to install a traffic management system for the M4 and M48 in South Wales. The digital...

• Iveco Ford Truck is moving away from the traditional parts supply chain with the introduction of the "virtual warehouse"....

front-end tipping gear From its Bradford site to its Bolton-based sister company, Webster Drives, Webster already makes PTOs...

by Bill Godwin • Korean manufacturer Daewoo is developing a new generation of heavy trucks. The range consists of 4x2, 6x4...

II Tatra has started production at its Czech Republic factory of US $220m worth of T815 eightwheel-drive military vehicles for...

• Wincanton Logistics' retail division has 14 new Scania P94 reefer rigids for secondary distribution work on a CRS Stores...

• I Tayling Island roofing contractors Gable (UK) Holdings, which was said to use its one vehicle as a "big wheelbarrow", was...

• A former bankrupt has succeeded in obtaining an Operator's Licence after agreeing at a Bristol public inquiry to keep...

• A Lancashire haulage company has succeeded in having a fine quashed for an overloading offence. Bristol Crown Court...

e A Wiltshire owner-driver, who had been convicted of falsifying tachograph records, breaching drivers' hours and unauthorised...

by Bryan Jarvis • Machinery delivery specialist Charles Russell Transport is the first UK operator to take one of Fassi's...

I am the wife of an owner-driver. I've just listened to the budget and I suppose we are meant to sit here and feel grateful...

T would like to bring to your 1 attention the following problems we are experiencing with our trucks in France. We currently...

I have recently visited Morocco for the first time as an owner-driver hauling hanging garments back to the UK. I was...

R eporting the sorry plight of truck driver Steven Bryant, jailed for nine years in Morocco for carrying cannabis in a load of...

EE °thing delights the Hawk more than to see his favourite vehicle, the Reliant Robin, being put to good use. This example...

0 ust months after his resignation from the post of minister of transport, it appears that Steve Norris has suddenly turned...

0 f you want to prevent your neighbours or visitors to the local takeaway parking outside your house, why not install your own...

13IkIZGA Volvo has returned to the 7.5-tonne market after a break of eight years following the demise of the unsuccessful FL4....

Taking on casual workers no longer means that you can avoid paying benefits such as Statutory Sick Pay if in reality they...

Forced into new alliances by the Channel Tunnel, ferry companies are considering mergers that could force their rates up and...

Is the new breed of high-horsepower, roadgoing super farm tractors competing unfairly with hauliers in agricultural regions?...

• The Freight Transport Association is distributing a code of practice to ensure the safety of delivery drivers on farms in...

Heavy haulier Hallett Silberman celebrates its halfcentury this year, proud of its 75-truck multi-faceted operation, testimony...

• ISO 9002, which has superseded the B55750 quality standard, is a set of guidelines for establishing a quality management...

Hauliers who have won the Investors in People badge report cost savings, accident reductions and productivity increases. Should...

• When the Government began planning its new system of vocational qualifications in 1986, one of the main aims was to offer...

After years of running a domestic operation you get the urge to spread your wings and run trucks abroad. But making the...

You will need to research: • Markets best suited to your business. Delivering to countries close to the UK will probably...

T he Transport & General Workers' Union welcomes the news that the UK must implement the European Working Time Directive. We...