the House of Commons on the importance of road haulage during the autumn session. OPEN MAL Milk delivery firms and other...

• by Dominic Perry Major UK and Continental haulier Nippress Continental, which operates 800 trailers, has called in the...

is A British truck driver who was fined £500,000 for transporting drugs in a sealed trailer has deared his name on appeal to a...

• by Mlles Brignall The government is putting up 2100,000 to advise hauliers how to become more efficient. The money is...

• Poultry company Sun Valley has admitted that 18,000 chickens died from the heat while being transported to one of its...

• A West Midlands waste management firm claims that it was almost forced out of business by the collapse of Independent...

E Vehicle examiners from all over Europe have confirmed what many international drivers have known for years: the way HGV...

• As Commercial Motor went to press the ministers of oil producing countries were expected to announce that they would not...

• by Dominic Perry The Gwent Police Authority (CPA) is facing allegations of double standards after it reappointed troubled...

• Worried about the Working Time Directive? Commercial Motor, Motor Transport, Truck and Truck & Driver are putting together a...

in A survey carried out by the Road Haulage and Distribution Training Council (RHDTC) has revealed that the industry is not...

• Logistics giant Tibbett & Britten is shedding 32 jobs from its European Technology Logistics division following the loss of a...

• Cumbrian haulage giant Eddie Stobart is investing £9m in new trucks, despite losing several contracts over the past year....

• by Mike Jewell Police were called to a public Inquiry when a Lancashire operator physically threatened a traffic examiner and...

• Former People's Fuel Lobby leader David Handley says hauliers have run out of excuses for not fighting against fuel prices...

You could forgive hauliers for paying scant attention to the government's offer of a free "health check" on their efficiency...

II by Pete Swingler The distribution arm of a major UK company which delivers to supermarkets nationwide has been fined...

11Y STORY Southampton-based Meachers Transport has been awarded a contract by toy producer (hop Leisure Group covering the...

• Well-known Cheshire haulier James lrlam 81, Sons was caught up in an armed raid on a warehouse in Scotland when one of the...

• UK motorway service areas (MSAs) have been branded as overpriced and overcrowded in a pan-European survey by the AA. The...

• by Guy Sheppard Congestion charging for vehicles entering Birmingham and Wolverhampton is inevitable and will be set at up...

I A new treatment being tribled for the breathing disorder leeo apnoea could help cut the umber of road accidents. Sleep...

by Toby Clark Vehicle manufacturers are going to find it increasingly difficult to keep up with customers demands for onboard...

• Goodyear has developed a tyre made partly from corn. Its BioTRED technology uses a compound derived from corn starch to...

• Christmas will soon be with us, and the Newark-on Trent Avant' operation intends to be ready with the help of its new Renault...

NI Al Schmitz Cargebull in County Durham has won a contract from Transamerica to convert unwanted tilt trailers into boxes. The...

With less than two months to go before the UK's vehicle registration system changes, here's everything you wanted to know about...

When trailer manufacturers hold a press conference they usually talk about their current successes. But at last week's Utility...

• Utility is the largest manufacturer of refrigerated trailers in the world and the third largest trailer manufacturer in the...

• When is a Foden not a Foden9 it's a good question—and one that the Sandbach-based manufacturer has had to grapple with over...

Climb Inside a new Alpha and you could be forgiven for a touch of déjà vu. That's hardly surprising as the Alpha has the same...

• by Toby Clark ERF's fleet management service has grown from its relationship with Cummins, whose electronically controlled...

• Cummins has been offering Road Relay as an option with its engines since the introduction of the electronically controlled...

• ERF's Fleet Management Centre produces a monthly fleet summary report based on the information downloaded from Road Relay....

Newton Stewart haulier William Jolly has lost his appeal to the Transport Tribunal against the revocation of his licence and...

licence held by Eric Hale, trading as Cheshire Site Preparations, from five vehicles to one for 28 days. Hale had been using an...

A Port Talbot skip hire operator has been given a formal warning after being called to public inquiry following an...

• You can now check out all kinds of legal information on road transport.net—the web site operated by Commercial Motor, Motor...

A leading Derbyshire haulier has had its Operator's Licence revoked after failing to produce audited accounts as required by...

A Carlisle company which fagged out fts vehicles to Holland has been accused of running a Dutch registered vehicle on domestic...

A tachograph technician working for a main Scania dealer has been cleared of fitting tachograph interrupter switches to...

• Having trouble with due maintenance dates? Commercial Motors 2001 Maintenance Manner & Record Chart makes keeping track of...

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (NO2) Regulations 2001 CIF 1February 2001. Amend Regulation 43 of the 1999...

• Underrun protection: The European Commission has published proposals for the fitting of underrun bumpers to new vehicles...

to boost equal opportunities at the legendary Ironworks, Sir Jos Spagthorpe, Chairman and Life President of the Spagthorpe...

week when they took a delegation of their overseas colleagues on a sight-seeing tour. Being based in Bristol, what better place...

and, more recently, on the Midlum range. But ever since they replaced the Manager G2I0 in 1996, the unsung heroes of the D ver...

finding temporary drivers to operate their trucks. Adam Hill looks at the problems the holiday season can bring. S ometimes you...

Despite being only 12 years old, international operator MS turns over 115m a year and is on target to boost that figure ,E6m...

often have a limited choice when they buy souvenir t-shirts. The Big Blue Rig, a mobile screen printing factory, offers...

Recently the industry has been agog at a series of high-profile cases involving some of the best known names in haulage, who...

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