by Guy Sheppard • UK truck drivers are among the lowest paid in the European Union, according to a Commercial Motor survey of...

• Tom Llewellyn of Econofreight Transport and member of the Road Haulage Association's national council was ed an OBE in this...

• About 140 drivers and 30 mechanics employed by Total Oil have voted 55% in favour of accepting an enhanced pension package...

and trailers worth £250,000 will be released from a Turkish compound following a hearing scheduled to take place today...

to change the design of motorway crash barriers despite last month's crash on the M5 motorway in which three people died when...

• LGV driving test fees will rise by up to 2% in April to £62 for a weekday test and to £80 for a weekend or evening test. The...

• The family of a British truck driver imprisoned in France for drug smuggling is facing eviction from its home in west Wales....

by Amanda Bradbury • Multi-agency LGV checks in Hereford & Worcester and Shropshire will treble from the New Year as West...

• No action is to be taken against JG Osborne by the North East Traffic Area following the Rotherham haulier's collapse last...

• Van hire specialist TLS Range has boosted its fleet by 1,100 vehicles with the £7.5 million buy-out of Auto Rentals...

• Creditors owed over £320,000 after the collapse of Warwickshire-based Express Freight Services have been told there is little...

by Karen Miles • Hundreds of Parcelforce staff are facing redundancy as the company moves to put itself back in the black....

APEXSETTORECRUIT • Acclaim Parcels Express (APEX) plans to expand its 70-strong agent network by appointing a haulier near...

year. A Freight Transport Association survey shows more than half its respondents expect to move more goods than last year.

the River Colne in Herts with vehicle washings from its London Colney depot in March last year.

Congleton town centre in Cheshire from February between 10:00 and 16:00hrs. High Street, Bridge Street and Duke Street will be...

Murdoch McKillop, corporate recovery partners at Arthur Andersen, have called for compulsory company-Funded schemes to finance...

Award for its FH range of heavy trucks. Judges from 13 countries awarded the accolade to the Swedish manufacturer for a record...

la Paints' direct deliveries from a central warehouse in Stowmarket: B&P will also handle most of the company's distribution of...

Modexpress Belgium, based in Ternat, to carry hanging and car tonned garments into Belgium.

EXCLUSIVE by Brian Weatherley • Seddon Atkinson plans to unveil a range of Strato multi-wheelers at the TipCon Show in April....

by Noel %Hier • Shildon, County Durham based Omnicoach has re-powered its ultra-low-floor Omni minibus using a 3.5-litre Mazda...

• Volvo has established Volvo Trucks Poland to handle truck sales and servicing in the former Eastern Bloc country. Volvo hopes...

• Croydon-based recovery specialist MV recovery has added an unusual recovery vehicle to its fleet. The MAN-based vehicle began...

A year ago Commercial Motor urged the Department of Transport to consider using higher concrete "containment fences" in place...

• Three over loaded tippers have cost Manchester-based W Maher & Sons and three of its drivers £3,480 in fines and costs...

a verbal warning about maintenance standards, when West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Gerrard Sullivan (above) renewed...

Michael Betts renewing the licence held by Dave Edgar & Sons Plant Hire, of Dundee, for one year only. In addition. he was only...

licence revoked when he failed to attend a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry. West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Gerrard...

• A series of prohibition notices has resulted in the licence held by Margaret McKnight, trading as Jack McKnight & Son, of...

• FW Thorpe has been held to have acted unfairly in sum marily dismissing a driver following a series of minor accidents. A...

• Six convictions have led to the licence of Anglo French haulier Pan European Distribution, of Hayes. Middlesex, being renewed...

• Drivers hours offences have cost a driver employed by Galawise Transport at lean in Staffordshire E550, when he appeared...

EXCLUSIVE by Danny Coughlan • Iveco Ford's rush to replace its entire line-up in just 36 months has masked the arrival of at...

D taying alert on long journeys is a problem many lorry drivers will have experienced. Now a chewing gum has been introduced...

a he Hawk is pleased to learn that TNT's Christmas appeal collected 20,000 tins of soul), meat and desserts to provide the...

2 ast year's final tally showed there were well over 61 million vehicles of all types in Japan and after a midday drive from...

ristol haulier Lane Group became television stars in a BBC programme Crazy Ways for Crazy Days with Torn Peters, which looked...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

• South Humberside-based Fleet Weighing Services has been appointed distributor for Maywood On-Board weighers. Contact Fleet...

• Canadian manufacturer Diesel Controls has appointed Agriemach in Uckfield, East Sussex, to sell its range of diesel exhaust...

• Birmingham-based HMS Personnel Services plans to launch a staffing service specifically for the transport industry next...

• Exhibition space is already almost sold out for the first International CV Bodywork Show at the National Agricultural Centre,...

• The latest developments in technologies for the handling, storage and distribution of goods and materials will be on show at...

• Meeting the needs of the retailer will be the theme of the next Transfrigoroute meeting on 27 January at the Volvo Truck...

• Six seminars will be run this year by the ETA on national vocational qualifications. The dates are: Nottingham18 January;...

• Part of Transfleet's pool of vehicles will be up for grabs at two auctions at NCA premises at Huthwaite, Mansfield,...

• The Eurocargo trade fair will take place in Dusseldorf, Germany, on February 23-23. It will focus on new logistics solutions...

• A free booklet outlining how waste can - iers can avoid the pitfalls of breaking the Environmental Protection Act is...

• A map which shows drivers where the nearest rest places are off each junction on the 1111 and M40 is available free from...

• A handbook for professional recovery operators called We the Professionals Rook Three by Bill Jackson is now available for...

• An economic charts scanner device has been produced by Rollforward to improve analysis productivity with tachograph charts....

• An enhanced graphics version of Routemaster called Route Plot has just been launched by Analytical Systems. It allows the...

• AdGuard has launched a full width flexible rear deflector panel for rainwater and debris which can be used to advertise a...

MI A fleet inspection and Tyre management system called the Tp - ewatch which claims to to do job in one third of the time is...

• A new Truckmaster 202/602 program has been produced by Ram which gives easy to read printouts recording temperatures for...

Find a successor to one of the best-known vehicles in the world—the Land Rover. This was the brief handed to Royal College of...

That was the year that was Another tough year has been and gone; hauliers must be hoping that the green shoots of recovery...

What does 1994 hold in store for the transport industry? Paul Newman asked a panel of operators to gaze into their crystal...

Demand is increasing for trucks to be recycled down to the last nut and bolt. How are the truck manufacturers responding to...

BR Commercial Motor tested its first Fiat Ducato at the beginning of 1983. Eleven years and one facelift later this may be our...

F ,4 very day another business appears to be going into liquidation, receivership or bankruptcy, often as a result of...

4 ou don't have to be mad to work here but it helps" is an over-used slogan, but it should hang in the cab of every commercial...

R egarding your story on drivers hours (CM23 Dec-5 Jan), I have been involved with transport for over 30 years and lam still...

T write regarding a letter in 1 Dear Sir (16-22 Dec). The article was more interesting and controverisal since it appeared to...

your comment in last 1 week's issue was interesting. While you point out that 58 operators fell by the wayside in the previous...

for each adult to work 40 hours or more a week' / ndustry in the developed world becomes I less and less dependent upon...