• Trailer leasing firm has been awarded £3.1m by the Court of Appeal following a dispute with Darwen Leasing over the sale of...

by Michael Jewell • Alan Jackson, former managing director of Jacksons Transport (Ossett), has begun a 12-month jail sentence...

• A lorry driver who was killed in a road accident had no WV licence and was defrauding the Benefits Agency, an inquest has...

on hunger strike in a desperate attempt to persuade the Moroccans to release him from jail, Bryant, 42, is already suffering...

• The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) wants hauliers and the Government to give drivers better advice about heavily laden...

owner-driver is starving himself in a Moroccan jail. While the taste of food may still be in your mouth consider the case of...

by Steve Banner • All trucks over three metres high will have to be fitted with in-cab height warning signs in a bid to reduce...

• Railtrack has issued a new number for drivers and hauliers to contact when planning routes and seeking details of low...

• A Southampton driver who claims he was sacked by Stoford Transport for organising a meeting with the Transport & General...

by Karen Miles • The company which has given loudest support to a privatised letters market admits that the chances of private...

• Walon's UK operation has been bought by its management from its French parent company Chargeurs for £34m. The Somerset-based...

• Transport group NFC is understood to be hoping to sell its parcels delivery arm Lynx having decided it no longer falls within...

• Strike-threatening tanker drivers at United Transport (UK) have won a swift victory over their employer after the company...

by Karen Miles • British hauliers are free to seek compensation from five ferry companies following a European Commission...

• Swift Service—the industrial division of Salvesen Logistics—has a £3m threeyear contract with National Packaging, the UK's...

• The road on the French side of the Frejus Tunnel is being upgraded to motorway standard as part of a scheme to speed up the...

• An owner-driver operating for express freight carrier Europa has been blacklisted from working for the company after it was...

force up wages' by Derren Hayes • Hauliers in Yorkshire are overloading their vehicles to danger levels, according to a...

of investment in training could push drivers' wages up over the coming year, says the Road Haulage Association. The RHA's...

• The Road Haulage Association's northern division wants to hear from hauliers experiencing long delays at distribution...

• Truck drivers have blocked the Polish-Ukrainian border post in protest at delays of more than three days to get into the...

Almost every brake manufacturer is investigating electronic controls for braking systems. But the future of electronic braking...

• The second AEF international automotive show is due to take place at the Istanbul World Trade Centre in Turkey between 14 and...

• Continued growth in TK Packaging's cardboard manufacturing and supply business has led it to add three more delivery vehicles...

by John Kendall • Lucas Varity and Mercedes-Benz have won the Prince Michael Technology award for the jointly developed Brake...

• Basildon-based Integrated Security Group has introduced a voice enquiry service for its Tracer vehicle location and...

• Cambridgeshire vegetable grower Albert Bartlett and Sons has taken delivery of two Lawrence David refrigerated curtainsider...

• BOCM PauIs is planning to replace a fleet of eight-wheeler rigids used for animal feed distribution in the West Country with...

• Cheshire-based James lrlam & Sons's order for 30 Leyland Daf 85-400 tractors expands its fleet to some 180 vehicles. •...

by Bryan Jarvis • Tesco has placed one of the largest single orders in the UK for 258 multitetnperature reefer trailers from...

• Having retained its own refuse collection and disposal contract, Warrington Borough Council has re-equipped its fleet with II...

International Motors to expand following new Isuzu deal • International Motors has won a renewable contract to continue...

• Skoda will launch its Van Plus some time next year It is based on the Felicia estate car with the back seats taken out and a...

Truck operators don't need a crystal ball to see whether fuel tax is going up in this month's Budget—it's already been decided....

After hearing evidence for three months, the all-party Transport Select Committee's Report into The Adequacy and Enforcement...

• Shorter drivers' hours; Allowing speeding prosecutions to be based on tachograph evidence; Halting the closure of the Cardiff...

• A man who broke into the VI's Birmingham District Office at Garretts Green has been committed for trial at Birmingham Crown...

• A Wrcastershire international haulier, his company and 16 drivers are contesting allegations that they breached the hours and...

• A company which wanted to double its fleet to pay for its new depot and improved maintenance facilities will have to wait...

• Four men cFlarged with conspiracy to defraud the creditors of two Norih-East freight forwarders have been remanded on...

• A haulier has been found guilty of damaging a car after an argument with its driver. Gregory Allport of Caunsall Road,...

• A company's licence application was refused when the previ ous North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu advised it that...

• 13-16 November: Minibus and Accessible Transport Exhibition, Conference and Seminars; Norbeck Castle Hotel, Blackpool....

• UK Vehicle Rental, part of Transport Development Group (TDG) has opened a new depot in Bournemouth offering refrigerated...

• WTS Health and Safety Consultancy has produced a Workshop Safety Procedures Manual. It provides analysis of health and...

Closing in • Wilmslow-based vehicle tracking systems maker Eagle Eye has developed a new tracking device that uses satellite...

Palletline • Douglas Manson has been appointed the new chief executive of pallet load distributor Palletline.. Contact: 0121...

I was very pleased to see the article (CM 24-30 Oct) celebrating the excellent work done by Clive Tanner which led to two...

I found it reassuring that the deputy chief executive of the Vehicle Inspectorate accepts the long-established tenet of...

y ou probably won't print this as I expect Commercial Motor errs on the side of this Tory excuse for a Government. It is wrong...

T hank you for publishing 1 an article about the work of our trust and the funding crisis which we are struggling to overcome...

I t beggars belief that the Government can treat the recommendations of the Transport Select Committee with such contempt (CM...

I must respond to Tim Beasby's letter (CM I 24-30 Oct) in which he implies that the European Commission is against a 44tonne...

ritish soldiers of 6 Battalion, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME), recently hosted a multi-national vehicle...

Seddon Atkinson is nose to nose with Dennis for pole position in the refuse collection sector. We put Seddon's Pacer through...

Active-roll suspension technology could allow a truck to corner like a sportscar—at a price. Handling can also be improved...

likely to cost them their job. But how many have a few beers at a truckstop the night before and are unwittingly over the limit...

Dr John Mundy is an expert in blood/alcohol analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory in London: "Calculations are always...

I n any haulage business blood is thicker than money, but if the balance between family and commercial issues tips the wrong...

ow fuel stocks, Middle East ension and green demands room Europe have led to ramatic fuel rises. Duty is et to rise again in...

and getting stronger by the day. In little more than two months, sterling has climbed more than 7% in value against the German...

Large operators say it may be year before they con move to ecus—or the euro as it will be after the single European currency is...

4 en years ago Margaret Thatcher T opened the last stretch of the M25. The resultant steep rise in traffic density should...