Readers who didn't receive their free road maps (CM 2430 Oct) should send 44 stamped addressed envelopes to CM Maps, c/o Jeremy...

A driver had to be winched to safety by an RAF helicopter on Tuesday (5 Novi after his tanker became trapped in the River...

the Al between Barnsdale Bar and Darrington. A 10mph convoying system will probably be In place until mid-December.

The new Netherlands government has frozen plans for a road charging scheme based on time spent on the road and vehicle emissions.

Pall-Ex is donate a penny for every pallet passing through its system to Transaid Worldwide to fund driver and technician...

Renault Ult, Sainsbury's, TDG, TNT and Bibby Distribution are winners In the Fleet Safety Forum Awards for Excellence.

A Widdowson Group Scanla R124 6x2 tractor, reg Y265 )(RV, was stolen in Wednesbury. West Midlands on 9 August. C:: 0116 232 2686.

The Museum of British Road Transport In Coventry will launch a new website on 12 Nov. Contact: vnvw.mbrt.co.uk.

Mick March Is to become sales director at Renault Trucks UK; John MI nsbull Joins as national accounts manager.

by Chris Tindall Industry bodies have welcomed news that the European Council's final draft proposal on the Driver Training...

• John Butler, MD of Cambridgeshire haulier Ken Thomas, has told a Bristol Public Inquiry that his predecessor, John Thomas,...

Id INVESTIGATION by Dominic Ferry Ilet network Express Paliet stems (EPS) has collapsed lowing months of speculation. In the...

m French police believe that they have broken up six gangs that helped illegal immigrants board trucks and freight trains in...

N Escalating problems at the Southampton Container Terminal have led the Road Haulage Association to call a meeting in an...

III Truck and trailer test failure rates have gone up for the third year running, showing a continuing lack of attention to...

II Eddie Stobart Ltd has been ordered to pay a Carlisle woman more than 114,030 compensation after a 15-month battle to prove...

• by Dominic Perry Logistics firm Christian Salvesen is expected to close its chilled distribution centre in Evesham, putting...

• The Freight Transport Association is to investigate whether hauliers could win discounts from London congestion charges by...

It's a crushing indictment of how seriously operators take the annual test that the single biggest failure item for HGVs is...

• by Chris Tlndd Agency drivers are increasing the risk profiles of companies by an alarming 400% by being involved in...

• Police in Devon and Cornwall are warning drivers using the 838 through Plymouth to beware of items being thrown from bridges...

• by Miles Brignall International drivers who smoke can sleep a little easier in their cabs this week after Customs announced...

• Foreign registered vehicles carrying out internal haulage in the UK under the cabotage rules will have to leave the country...

Starting young... AAG Distribution Is running practical lessons for C,ambrkligsslirs school children to make them safer near...

26 26 September-3 December FTA Truck Driver 2002 seminars: Designed to help drivers get to grips with the latest legislation...

• Hauliers across Scotland will soon be able to access a range of real-time traffic information and predicted journey times via...

his own van as he tried to stop it being stolen has been jailed for life after being found guilty of his murder. Matthew...

The Transport and General Workers Union's call for an 8-io% pay rise for its members in the hire-and-reward sector has provoked...

from Scania We've seen the sleeper cab of the future. It's called eXc. Less than two months after Scania revealed its...

• Scanla's Mc concept truck is a R164 NA6x2NA 580 6x2 tag axle tractor with its chassis sharing the same 3.9m i steer-to-drive...

• Within minutes of pulling up at our overnight parking spot just outside Scania's main factory the eXc had attracted a host of...

mincludingthe kitchen sink I From the driver's seat forward, eXc is pure Topline including the bunk mounted off the front...

• CAlls the first 111( magazine to drive Scania's eXc and we did it during a four-hour round-trip made up of motorway and...

call a company that wants to "make customised trailers—but in big volumes"? How does it achieve a close-toio o% record of...

• UK bulk hauliers have regularly flirted with all-aluminium trailers in the quest for maximum payloads. However, the...

• by Brian Weatherley Seddon Atkinson plans to rekindle interest In the Sig A' marque as a 'mainstream' truck...

• Braking and suspension systems manufacturer Wabco Automotive UK has warned vehicle operators to be particularly careful with...

1E:2 A Birmingham company has lost half its fleet for a week for failing to notify the Traffic Area Office about the death of...

Swanseabased Stephen Norman being suspended for two weeks, by Welsh TC David Dixon at a Pontypridd disciplinary Inquiry.

The licence held by Port Talbotbased Afan Couriers was revoked when the company failed to appear before Welsh IC David Dixon on...

six vehicles and four trailers in Cumnock, despite representations from neighbouring residents. However, Scottish OTC Richard...

by South Shields-based FJ Reeves (Northern) being cut to nine vehicles and two trailers at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. North...

An east London lorry driver caught driving without insurance and while disqualified has been ordered to do 200 hours of...

of Bishop Auckland, has been revoked, Smith had been called before North Eastern DTC Elizabeth Perritt at a Leeds disciplinary...

A West Yorkshire company has had its licence curt from 10 vehicles to seven for six weeks following two timing letters and two...

DI A 'conscientious and enthusiastic" driver who committed a series of ivers' hours and tachograph 'fences, left his employer...

in his Sound Off article ( CM1218 Sept) when he says that trailer registration won't stop trailer theft, Unfortunately much of...

As someone very new to the industry (I'm currently doing my Class 2), and coming from a retail background, I'm surprised at how...

In your new weekly telematips page (CM310ct-6 Nov), Mark Clissett from Lex Transfleet hit: the nail on the head with his cat...

ead with interest your article iout drivers' wage increases l'A431 Oct-6 Nov). We have found it necessary give class C+E...

I write with regard to your article on Home Office plans to increase the penalties for overloading ( CM26 Sept-2 Oct). The...

After being a long-distance truck driver for over 35 years, I have now had to give up the job and life that I loved after being...

Should we raise the 40mph limit on single-carriageway roads CM24-30 OcOP I am very much against the raising of this limit, in...

please contact Backfire, Commercial Motor, U, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 51/S, or fax 020 8652 8069....

been busy setting up used truck divisions to handle their buy-backs and fleet tractors. The smaller, more versatile truck...

150-mile race across the Sahara in temperatures of 100°F, carrying all his own supplies? Andrew . Kay, for a start. He also...

Trucks and trailers have always been used as moving billboards by hauliers; now some operators are beginning to hire out this...

with fines of up to £1,000 for those who can keep their mouths shut. Adam Hill reports. I you have recently seen a swarm of...

the law governing overloading is in urgent need of a redraft_. • if you want to sound off about a road transport issue write...