by Rob Willock • Hauliers will no longer be able to rely on a legal loophole in transport law to escape drivers' hours charges,...

• Skelmersdale-based haulage company Abt cm, which was placed in administration last December, has been saved along with 105...

EXCLUSIVE IN TNT is using its experience in parcels delivery to launch a chilled distribution service for independent retailers...

• Prohibition rates at liGV spot-checks in the North-West have been rising for the past five years, making this the UK black...

to sue after crash BETTER! by Stuart Ellis • A tipper driver is suing his former employer after he reported that the brakes on...

good record on vehicle maintenance, think again. Here's what Vehicle Inspectorate boss Ron Oliver has to say in his...

by Jane Sayer • Phoenix Cargo of Leverington, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, has gone into voluntary liquidation owing money to...

• Rental rivals Central Transport Rental (formerly Tiphook) and TIP Europe are joining forces to create Europe's largest...

• The European Commission is suing Austria over the HGV tolls it has imposed on the Brenner motorway. EU Transport Commissioner...

• Threatened drivers' jobs at Isle of Arran-based haulier Arran Haulage have been saved after Caledonian MacBrayne ferrymen...

by Karen Miles • The Government is making changes to the rail freight grants in order to entice more hauliers and customers...

• The Retail Motor Industry Federation has welcomed the Government's assurance that an announcement will be made "shortly" on...

• Ayrshire hauliers could be set for a jobs bonanza now a Scottish Coal extension to an open-cast mine in Glenbuck has been...

• Imprisoned owner-driver James Dormer is to face trial on 10 October in the Court of Athens accused of stealing £45,000 worth...

by Hob Willock • International operators are suffering from a lack of export business due to the strength of sterling. But...

• Yorkshire Environmental's medical waste operation White Rose is reviewing its transport operations following its £250,000...

• Parcel firm Red Star is for the first time turning to owner-drivers to service its established collection and delivery...

• Gefco UK, the logistics and freight services group, has been awarded a national distribution contract to deliver white goods...

by Karen Miles • The transport sector has one of the highest disqualification rates for directors running "phoenix" companies...

• The Okehampton bypass, which opened in 1989, has failed to stop lorry traffic through the town centre, according to a study...

• An M25 survival guide goes on sale next week, giving drivers a guide to "escape" routes off the notorious ring road....

Is Edinburgh skip operator Stephen Dalton has bought a combined hookloader/skiploader from Hyva (UK) which is thought to be the...

• H&H Distribution has switched allegiance from Volvo to MAN tractors as it believes they offer better reliability and...

• Belgian tyre manufacturer Bandag will be making a major push into the UK tyre market next month, launching two ranges of...

• Torridge Transport has added this ERF double-drive sixwheeler to its fleet of 28 Seddon Atkinsons to collect timber from West...

• Volvo has sold its 11.4% stake in Renault, raising around £.450m and finally ending the merger plans which stalled in 1993....

by Steve Banner • A new data collection system designed to tell fleet managers where their vehicles have been, the routes they...

S co tti s h In the run-up to the Edinburgh Festival huge crowds of excited people are a common site on the city's streets....

His truck is dubbed Lethal Weapon because "it's a great going vehicle". Keith Perkins has been a driver for Aitchinson of...

• Consideration of disciplinary action against a West Midlands haulage company was adjourned after its managing director...

of the licence held by Graham Batty, trading as Roofstrip, of Doncaster. Batty appeared at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry before...

• A South kit Yorkshire compa ny that has been running vehicles without an Operator's Licence and in a dangerous condition,...

being crushed between a set of steel gates and a truck, an inquest has heard. Ephraim Aldridge of Hadley, Telford was killed...

not prevent vehicles from visiting a site so it is often better if a licence is granted. This view was expressed by West...

• A Suffolk driver who claimed he had broken the 4.5-hour driving rule and falsified a tachograph record to make a good...

brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products, training, company moves, personnel changes, truck thefts....

Do you want to comment on any of the stories in Commercial ? Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back—or a public...

H ow can hauliers hope to make a living when unworkable situations and conditions are set and hauliers are not notified? We...

J ohn Dickinson-Simpson (CM 24-30 July) is right to highlight the continuing problem of wheel loss. Surely manufacturers can...

I would like to make a point about HGV and PSV drivers: they are not psychic. The A616 tragedy (CM 31 Jul6 Aug) was due to the...

R ecently in Commercial Motor Ireland the then Minister with the responsibility for road freight transport, Alan Dukes, was...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

tephen Spielberg has turned his attention to the historic 0-Day landings in his latest film, Saving Private Ryan. This .460m...

Ei ou may wonder why it lakes three huge truths to transport one motorcycle around Europe. In the Hawk's day they would have...

bird fancier him self, the Hawk was rather alarmed recently when he learnt what was happening to some of his feathered...

n a recent trip I spotted this chap outside a garage in Antwerp, Belgium. It seems he was trying to attract passing trade but...

DUELLING TOP GUN It's three years since Volvo's Euro-1 FH12.420 shattered the 38-tonne fuel economy record around CM's...

Small direct injection diesels have taken a while to catch on, but ever stiffer emissions legislation is beginning to force the...

most dangerous jobs in road transport yet safety still remains a low priority for many of the businesses involved. verhead...

over shoulder and commenting on his driving technique. But there a positive aspects to the exercise and safety is top of the...

HGVs rather than Vs, what hope is there that the rest of us will even begin to understand the new categories of licences...

Just how valuable are your valued customers, and your not so valued ones? You may be surprised. Grab a calculator and follow...

Jim Duckworth, editor of Road Transport Law and head of Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems...

We have a held an international Operator's Licence for some years with a transport manager named on the licence. He really...

Will Murray of the University of Huddersfield Transport Department argues that vehicle acciden can be reduced by companies...