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The Health and Safety Executive has slammed proposals by the Coroner's Review Team to remove the legal requirement to hold an...
• by Dominic Perry The UK's beleaguered international hauliers had two pieces of good news this week as the British and French...
• UK operators are continuing to lose out on international work, with foreign trucks accounting for a massive 73% of the goods...
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1 The Transport Select Committee has criticised the government's 10-year Transport Plan as flawed and failing to tackle...
3lasgow-based freight fording firm Able Transport has e into receivership along associated firms Able tsport (Midlands) and...
• GY Guy GloPPard Hundreds of Lynx Express drivers and warehouse staff called off a one-day strike on Monday (2 December)...
the Tesco contract out of its Chepstow regional distribution centre in support of an improved pay offer. Pay negotiations have...
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by Mike Jewell A Stockport man who is suing North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell and a member of the Traffic Area...
kW Six vehicle recovery operators from Staffordshire have lost the latest round in their battle to recoup some 1500,000 in...
• Staff working for PLO Trans European face an uncertain Christmas after it emerged that negotiations to sell the company are...
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Guy Sluggard 'iceiforce and Royal Mail are reduce the size of their corned fleets by up to a 25% over i next year after...
• Police are appearing for information after thieves stole two trailers containing more than £25,000 of sauces and pickles from...
Good news in haulage is a rarity. But the industry, especially international operators, must welcome the government's tougher...
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4 by Chris Tindall The Chancellor's pre-Budget statement has given hope to hauliers facing crippling liability insurance...
II The Freight Transport Assodation has welcomed Transport Secretary Alistair Darling's plans to appoint a 'Traffic Tsar' to...
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• Landfill tax to rise by 13/tonne annually from 2005, heading towards a target of 935/tonne. • A reduction in duty on...
• Three members of a gang of truck thieves which made off with more than £1m worth of vehicles and goods have had their...
A German driver had a lucky escape en his truck was set alight by youths as he Pt in his cab. The incident took place at...
We like to hear the stories readers think we should be following. CMis happy to preserve the anonymity of readers who provide...
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114GuyShopard Tipper operators say they have suffered a marked downturn in work as a direct result of the new environmental tax...
m The Scottish parliament has rejected calls to upgrade the A9 from Perth to Inverness to dual carriageway (0128 Nov-4 Dec)....
• A recruitment firm has challenged a report claiming that agency drivers are increasing hauliers' risk profiles by up to...
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!es - tern Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown will ave a new role from March next year when he ikes over from Michael Betts as...
Philip Brown is a solicitor and a member of the Law Society, The Magistrates Association and the Justices' Clerks' Society. His...
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If you wish to dispute the result of an annual test or a roadside inspection you should first raise the matter with your local...
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Despite the recent comings (and goings) of various trailer makers, Boalloy continues to hold an impressive share of the UK...
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Gibb, but he quips: they want it they can have the whole bloody lot!" The reality is that since buying Boalloy 10 years ago...
• Boalloy has no shortage of rivals in the UK trailer market, although with the demise of Utility there's now one less. Boalloy...
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• by Brian Weatherley Turkish truck manufacturer BMC is to extend its UK product line-up with a Cummins-powered 12-tonner. The...
• The first examples of ERF's new ECM middleweight rigid range have started to arrive in the UK following its debut at the NEC...
a special dolly restraint system have been built by Cartwright for Gregory Distribution to transport cartons of milk and fruit...
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A Scottish waste disposal firm whose MD falsified wage slips to hide tachograph abuse by its drivers has lost its appeal...
b ' DRIVERS' HOURS L. COURT CASES AND TRIBUNALS SPEEDING CHARGES VEHICLE MAINTENANCE ll'AIITHER'S PAUSE Panther Distribution...
Encouraging drivers to beak the law — in particular to falsify tachograph records in a bid to conceal offences—will not be...
Two Merseyside operators have lost their appeal to the Transport Tribunal against the deletion of their operatkig centres from...
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A Manchester haulier has escaped with a conditional discharge after its tachograph consultant admitted that it had failed to...
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Perhaps if the question in your Market Capacity article had been "are there too many goods vehicles!}" it would have identified...
Vehicle Inspectorate Effectiveness Report CM14 - 20 Novi. You repeat the fallacy at the heart of the VI policy, that "as...
How can anyone complain about the VI employing German staff to fill job vacancies (CM21-27 November), provided they are not...
I read with interest the letter t Mike Ashton of Topsham Drivi Training on 40mph limits ( CM 13 Nov). As far as the letter of...
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1w woulo Phil Maguire feel if a Jck pulled into the kerb and him round the head with its arside mirror "sufficiently to ove it"...
Road Rescue and Recovery sociation has been in the efront of preventing vehicle ners having recovery vices thrust upon them by...
Within the text reference is made to a spokeswoman for the Department of Transport saying: "The focus will be on removing...
I am delighted to see that at last someone has noticed the everincreasing time taken to clear major incidents from...
I write regarding the letter headed "Long road to vary licence" (CM24-30 Oct). I believe hauliers bring a lot of the problems...
guidelines released"( CM17 - 23 Oct). Regarding the comments on load restraint, I wonder where some of these operators have...
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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago 6 December 1927...
over the Internet by aceinquisitor and Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman at would take too long to explain how and why, but...
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the FFliz, Volvo replaced its ageing FL with the FM. Pundits are still arguing about whether the FM arrived two years too late,...
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A new law requires all operators to have formal procedures in place to deal with disciplinary procedures and employee...
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rkers said that they did not trust their boss. Sadly, many employees in the haulage industry feel the same way. Pat Hagan...
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Companies need to have proper systems in place to deal with problem managers, says RHA regional director Mike Farmer. Key...
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collectable items, wise hauliers are taking steps to hold on to their C+E licence holders. The FTA has teamed up with fleet...
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The EU aims to curb livestock transport by capping journey times. Do these measures herald the end of international livestock...
The report of the Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare says livestock transport should be avoided where...
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for the privilege. As well as combatin congestion, distance charging could help U hauliers compete in Europe on more equal term...
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Europe needs a single technology standard so that drivers can use a single type of in-vehicle reader. The two standards...
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of becoming side-tracked as attention focuses on The bulk of road journeys are between locations in major conurbations that...