• P&O has as well as exports of livestock; Brittany Ferries will only accept livestock for fattening in Brittany, Normandy and...

by Amanda Bradbury • Impounding is back on the Government's agenda. Speaking at the Road Haulage Association's annual...

seen as a response to the persistent calls from Senior Licensing Authority Ronald Ashford. The European Commission's advisory...

• A court has heard that drivers working at Eddie Stobart's depot in Woolfox, Leicestershire were given work which they could...

• NFC will have a new chairman by Christmas, probably before a chief executive is appointed. In the second top management...

T ronsport minister Steven Norris has told the RHA International Conference (see story opposite): "Impounding may be the only...

by Juliet Morrison • Parcels company United Carriers is considering recruiting owner-drivers. It is asking its employed drivers...

Transport's carpet distribution business, boosting its 138-strong fleet by 34 trucks. Carpet Express will take over Dukes'...

• Hauliers in western Scotland have welcomed news that ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne is set to avoid privatisation. The...

• A haulier convicted of receiving stolen trucks was jailed for 18 months at Doncaster Crown Court last week William Hyde of...

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have been forced to change their company name because Richard Branson threatened to sue. Julia Howard and Annette Maltby-Baker...

• Francis Newell and Paul Wright, partners in Sheffieldbased Newell & Wright, have been cleared of causing drivers to falsify...

• The introduction of a new motorway permit in five EC states will discriminate against UK operators, warns the Freight...

• Panic Link plans to sell five franchises to expand its 130 outlet operation. The East Midlands-based firm, which exhibited...

• Thousands of Royal Mail and Parcelforce drivers are in line for cut-price Post Office shares as the Government completes its...

by Amanda Bradbury • Three TDG trading divisions are to merge in January and there will be job losses, but not at senior...

pay up by 3.8% • The United Road Transport Union is holding a fund-raising event to pay the legal fees of a non-member who is...

to August, down on the previous all-time low figure of 2.8%. But merit pay and automatic pay increments pushed up actual rises...

• Truckwatch, the scheme in which hauliers are faxed details of stolen vehicles, was launched in Cambridgeshire on 30...

• Fenland haulier D&R Hankins has lost a third of its fleet in an arson attack on its yard in Manea near Littleport, Cambs....

by Juliet Morrison • Livestock hauliers will be able to counter restrictions imposed on them by the major cross-Channel ferry...

* A former journalist and children's comic writer is the Road Haulage Association's new representative in Scotland. Wylie...

• A haulier who also manages a commercial vehicle repair business has had his licence authorisation reduced for poor...

• The prospect of longer ferry turnaround times receded this week after the Department of Transport confirmed that it will not...

• Indian manufacturer Tata will launch its pickup model and a new van at this month's International Motor Show. The Loadbeta...

• Passenger Lift Services has moved into the commercial field with a tail-lift designed for light panel vans. Based on the PLS...

• Peugeot has launched the 106 Van, a dieselengined hatchback that will replace the 205 Van. The only version available in the...

• Nissan has increased prices of its Vanefte, D21 Pickup and Cabstar by around 2%. Urvan and Sunny Van prices remain...

• Citroen has launched a range of accessories for the Relay panel van, and has extended the choice available for the C15 Champ...

• DW Briggs Demolition & Earthmoving has been ordered to pay £2,580 compensation for unfair dismissal to driver Thomas Lord,...

• Prohibition notices and a failure to tax his vehicle led to the licence held by Accringtonbased David McNeill being cut by a...

trailers held by NJ Chalmers Transport Services, of Shilton, near Coventry, was renewed for the full five years following a...

international licence for 10 vehicles and 15 trailers after South Wales DLA Alan Bourlet was satisfied that all its vehicles...

• Halesowen-based Evans & Munden was told to do "a bit of tightening up" in order not to collect prohibition notices in the...

• Neighbouring residents have failed to block a bid by Worthing based Taylor Plant & Haulage to double its licence...

• Manchesterbased Decco, and agency driver Jason Wood, have been cleared of overloading a 3.5-tonne vehicle. Appearing before...

Although the managing director of Euro Freight Services promised to make redundancy payments to two drivers when the company...

• Newport, Gwent-based Malson was given "a very serious warning" about maintenance when South irVals Deputy LA Alan Bourlet cut...

• The Transport Tribunal has con firmed the revocation of the licence held by Sprigcourt, trading as Perkins Plant, of...

• Eminox has collaborated with catalytic convertor manufacturer Johnson Matthey to develop a combined catalyst and filter trap...

• Coventry City Council is using a 32-tonne artic tipper with a long-reach Pa!finger hydraulic crane to collect glass....

• Blatchford Transport Equipment has launched a skeletal-trailer-mounted crane. Anticipating increased demand from container...

• Iveco Ford has launched a four-tonne version of the TurboDaily van and chassis-cab. The new model has a 4.2-tonne GVW; it...

• Dennis Eagle has supplied KLM with six chassis and tractors for aircraft refuelling at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Two...

• Continental has launched a range of 17.51n tyres for light trucks. Aimed specifically at the 7.5-tonne market, the tyres...

M hen the Hawk was a fledgling, sitting in the back seat of a car on a family outing, the only thing that worried me was the...

zi ome traffic signs just seem to mean business more than others. Take this no-stopping sign on the aptly named "Three Guns"...

0 o farewell then, RollsRoyce Cor niche, which closes its order book this month after 23 years. In all that time only about...

3 obbledeegook is back in fashion. The single yellow line will no longer mean a "working day" ban, but any restriction of less...

0 t's official: according to a recent survey, size doesn't matter. The survey, by Lombard Motor Finance, asked car dealers who...

Cargo recovery vehicle stolen from Bedford Road, Petersfield, Hampshire. It is painted in the white and lime green livery of...

truck to thieves in 20 months, despite fitting the vehicle with nearly £650 worth of immobilising equipment. The Mercedes -...

stolen within 20 minutes of being left in broad daylight at London's Spitalfields Market. It is owned by Barbers Transportation...

Tread with more than a little i frustration the article on Bardon Roadstone asking its owner-drivers to fit mechanical sheeting...

Despite stories of a shortage of sub-contractors, the major players still have the whip hand when it comes to setting rates....

1RTE conference • The Institute of Road Transport Engineers is celebrating its 50th anniversary with Tecon International '94—a...

• The Freight Transport Association is holding its national conference on 1-2 March at the Belfry, Wishaw, Warks. There is room...

• Some 400 exhibitors are expected to attend the Rotterdam Freight Show on 9-12 May in 20,000m 2 of the Ahoy exhibition hall....

• The Chartered Institute of Freight's Faculty of Freight meets in London on 1 November to discuss Partnerships collaboration...

Stoked up • Contract hire and rental specialist Transfieet Services has opened a depot at Stokeon-Trent to serve the West...

• Hempsall Truck and Van Centres has opened an MAN and VW light commercial centre in Scunthorpe. It will offer service,...

Integration wins • Up to 95°c of companies using logistics software cite integration with other systems as essential; 92% want...

Brought to book • The Freight Transport Association has published details of its 1995 training programme. It includes courses...

Smooth gOinE • International valuer Edward Rushton Son & Kenyon has set up a vehicle part stock release service which it...

• Anthony Best Dynamics has developed a cost-effective method for assessing the loads imposed on roads by HGVs. It excites one...

• IT Systems Publishing has set up a daily fax reporting service on companies going into liquidation or being wound up....

• Vision Alert Automotive is selling beacons and lightbars exceeding ECE and EMC regulations. It claims the lights are some of...

• Lift trucks with manual and battery powered, fully adjustable fork lifts up to 1,500mm are available from Welconstruct....

• In the late sixties two little known Swedish truck builders changed the UK haulier's perception of maximum-weight trucks....

Surrey roads contractor R&S Etherington has expanded its lorry loader fleet to enable it to handle overnight work on the M25...

Barrier containment fences dividing motorways are not designed to stop trucks crossing the central reservation into oncoming...

Recent legislation intended to crackdown on national insurance payment dodgers has left some loopholes. If you want to reward...

The European Union's single market is supposed to remove trade barriers, harmonise legal systems and generally facilitate trade...

bulletin PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE 1LG EU plans standard dimension limits C ommercial Motor (30 June-6 July) reported...

Regulations 1994. Takes into account recent EC legislation on tachograph regulations. The amendments cover recording equipment...

I t is now almost 10 years since an EU Regulation brought into force the Driver's Hours Rules on tachographs and driver's...

perators would have been horrified to have seen reports of very large fines being imposed on operators for breaches of the...

keep contracts 'reasonable' A claim that a consignment has been damaged during transit may be lodged long after the date of...

R ecovery vehicles have a wide range of exemptions in respect of excise duty, 0licensing, testing and plating, and driver's...

and examiners should gear up for the future' 4 as the time arrived to change the deciding who is competent to drive. The...