Insurance group Lloyds is offering insurance discounts for International hauliers signing up to the Eurowatch security service....

Thieves made off with 130,000 of travel cots from Smart Transport's yard at Cilmery, mid-Wales on Saturday 17 May. Police have...

release of truck driver; Stewart Guy, who is awaiting trial for drug smuggling in France. Guy maintains his innocence.

A truck driver from Felixstowe-based James Xemball died in a crash on the A414 after losing control of his vehicle on a bend...

Ashford Council has cracked down on truck parking at the Orbital and Ashford business parks. Trucks parked between tipm and lam...

A tanker driver has escaped unharmed when his vehicle exploded after the solvent factory he was delivering to in West Yorkshire...

Logistics firm TUC is shedding around nine drivers from its chemical division at Barrow, Cumbria. The redundancies follow...

• by Chris Tindall A haulage boss has condemned Customs & Excise for failing to return property— including 116,000 In cash—six...

• The government has launched a £l.Tm training scheme to help truck drivers improve their skills behind the wheel. The...

IIII A furious row brewing at Bibby Distribution's Bicester depot is rumbling on with the news that URTU drivers have voted...

• The Freight Transport Association is urging the government to establish an organisation solely accountable for the...

IN Volvo has thrown its weight behind the call for heavier trucks in order to boost productivity and lower vehicle emissions....

M by Dominic Perry Christian Salvesen has rounded off a miserable 12 months by reporting a pretax profit of £20.1m—a whopping...

• UK hauliers' share of HGV traffic going to and from the Continent has slumped to nearly heti the level it was seven years...

• A union leader has condemned a jail sentence passed on a truck driver who attacked a bus driver in a road rage attack as...

It's been said with some justification that Her Majesty's Customs & Excise wields tremendous power. Indeed, far more than your...

• With the election of Val Smith, the Road Haulage Association has appointed its first female national chair and the first...

Ira by Guy Sheppard A damning report into the way a police vehicle recovery contract was awarded and then managed is published...

• Drivers who park their trucks overn/ght in Southampton Dock's carpark will now be charged £10 for the privilege. The...

• Cumbria police are questioning a truck driver after his vehicle roiled 275m down the centre of Carlisle High Street before...

Jigsaw has appointed Nigel Nixon (below) as national operations manager. Nixon has previously worked for Frigoscandia and TNT...

Spatial Logistics has secured a deal to provide a mailing service for the Triumph Motorcycle Club including the distribution of...

Zurich Risk Services has appointed Br Will Murray as senior risk consultant for its Motor Fleet Risk Practice. He joins from...

Amtrak Express Parcels has clinched a deal with Laura Ashley to provide Its courier services. It will be responsible for the...

TNT Network Logistics has secured a 14m, three-year contract with Terns UK for the warehousing and distribution of...

Exei has won a five-year, 115m contract with flour manufacturer Rank Hollis. It will now consolidate its warehousing and...

dice hunt for Little's killer • by Jennifer Ball Surrey police are chasing a new lead in the hunt for the killer of truck...

• A Turkish truck driver is to appear at Warwick Crown Court following a fatal crash in Warwickshire. He is charged with the...

• Customs discovered 14.5m of cannabis hidden in pallets in an unaccompanied trailer which arrived at Immingham last week. The...

• by Guy Sheppard London's transport managers want to test a more advanced road tolling system followng the successful launch...

Police are hunting offenders who damaged three speed cameras on the 4605 in Northamptonshire—the fifth incident Involving...

• Truck drivers may no longer have to pay to renew their 110 licence every five years after the age of 45 under new DVLA...

• Police in Italy have arrested 38 people in large-scale operations to clamp down on lorry hijackings by organised gangs. The...

you could find business picking up— but don't hold your breath. Brian Weatherley digs deep into the latest overview of the road...

to B This week's review of the bodywork scene leaves the world of top-weight trailers for a look at one of the leading...

• by Bob Tuck It was rather apt tnat Daf chose to launch the AS-Ironic automated gear-change on the CF range of fleet tractors...

W While profitability Is still eluding Seddon Atkinson, Ivaco has reconfirmed its commitment to Its UK specialist division by...

Five generations on, the VW Transporter is still bettering the family pedigree. The T5 may not look so different from the...

cut from 13 vehicles and 14 trailers to 10 vehicles and 13 trailers for four weeks by Scottish TC Joan Aitken.

has been cut by one-third, due to maintenance problems by North Eastern DTC Mark HInchilffe.

one of his drivers, have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £725 for defective tyres and inefficient brakes

AXLE/VEHICLE no avail; 0-licence is lost Julo+lee Mount and its two directors have lost their appeal against the revocation...

Failure to comply with environmental conditions and the use of unauthorised operating centres has resulted in the licence held...

A North Wales operator who claimed that a offence for unauthorised use was actually committed by his brother has lost his...

The only circumstances In which a vehicle detained under the impounding legislation may be returned are: r: That at the time...

A Lancashire coal merchant has escaped with a formal warning after one of its drivers drove off after being flagged down by the...

times with its pseudo-scientific lechno babble', usually featuring words like triglycerides or...

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: 5 June 1928 The...

F , P oden Trucks has worked hard to sustain its image as a strong, dependable and durable player in the tipper market. As one...

of British firms who design, engineer and market extremely cost-effective transport systems in typically bespoke fashion."...

D ennison Trailers' aluminium aggregate tipper has a 7.3m body with air-operated tailgate, mounted over a sliding/ rolling...

E uroejectors' HD1 is a beefy, 80.3m 3 (105yd 3 ) push-out trailer built of Domex and Hardox steel for the demanding bulk waste...

C Layton Commercials' insulated and steam-coiled 31,500-litre tanker was built to exacting standards for a Shell bitumen...

A s Steelbro's UK distributor, Containerlift Sales entered the latest New Zealand-made mk6 self-loading trailer. With twin...

ogel's EuroCooler is a fully synthetic reefer box with self supporting structure and moveable bulkhead. The panels are...

T his category attracted a veritable 'Who's Who" of top trailer builders and operators alike. Cartwright's dolly trailer is...

A s these finalists illustrate, safety is very much in the manufacturers' and operators' minds. Described previously (Fleet...

0 ur newest category— Designer of the Year—is intended to reward the originator of what the judges believe is the most...

D on-Bur Palletmaster curt ainsiders have a long pedigree but the Evolution's three, equallength, lifting decks within a 3.05m...

0 ur team of judges—all experienced fleet engineers, service managers and technical advisors—are to be congratulated on their...

Pharmaceuticals are produced by the private sector but, unlike many other British industries, this business has the full clout...

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III Britain's mighty pharmaceutical sector exported £10.8bn of products last year, which produced a trade surplus of 12.8bn....

• Pharmaceutical loads often have no street value, although they may be worth big money to the manufacturers. Yet hauliers in...

Our test subject may have been accidentprone, but that doesn't detract from the long list of its strengths, says Colin...

Having missed the 1991 product launch at the home of the Ware in Luton, the departure of our long-termer coincided with the...

On 9 June, the government is due to make a momentous announcement: does it intend Britain to join the euro or not? Will the...

you will have experienced substantial increases in your liability insurance premiums. You may have seen significant increases...