with attempting to smuggle cannabis worth £8m into the UK. Leslie lambs, of Bloxwich. was arrested after 2,500kg of cannabis...

io by Guy Sheppard The first major challenge to the appeals procedure for hauliers caught bringing illegal immigrants into the...

risk unwittingly carrying stowaways across the Channel could come from the unlikely source of Home Secretary Jack Straw. He is...

• by Guy Sheppard One in ten fleet managers has subcontracted all or part of their operations to the Continent in a bid to...

• Christian Salvesen, the Northants-based logistics group, has issued a profits warning blaming the high price of diesel for...

• A firm acting on behalf of a former ANC franchise which collapsed following an expansion has been awarded almost £200,000....

• Hauliers wit be forced to ensure that even experienced drivers have 35 hours of retraining every five years, if a proposal...

by Melanie Hammond Hauliers are likely to axe hundreds of jobs following the announcement that Britain's biggest steel maker is...

• East Anglian members of the Hauliers and Farmers Alliance were due to meet with transport minister Lord Whitty yesterday...

• More than 500 would-bestowaways were detained in just one week near the perimeter of the French Eurotunnel site last...

• A former haulage boss has been banned from acting as a company director for five years after running up debts of more than...

by Miles Brignall Hauliers who plan to beat the Working Time Directive by sacking their drivers before offering them...

All reasonable checks made; all documents in order; no question of prior knowledge—and a £22,000 fine for bringing illegal...

• Pat Clinton, the former transport manager of collapsed Scottish haulier R&M Chillspeed, and director of new firm Cadmic:I...

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• by Mike Jewell A Turkish-owned company which was stripped of its Operator's Licence after employing Turkish non-EC-qualified...

• Drivers working on P&O Trans-European's fuel distribution contract with Shell have voted on a 5% pay increase over two years,...

back after Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms criticised its membership application procedures. Simms' comments came...

• A Gloucestershire county councillor has unveiled plans to stop all the county's lanes and sideroads being used as rat-runs....

• by Dominic Perry A long-standing Scottish fish haulier has gone out of business leaving 10 drivers facing redundancy and...

• Former leader of the People's Fuel Lobby David Handley has been arrested in a picket-line clash where farmers blockaded milk...

a by Pate Swingler A recent crackdown on commercial vehicle safety by police forces, Vehicle Inspectorate and Customs and...

a A German truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel was almost spiked to death in a crash that left his truck dangling off a...

How it works The first phase of Scania's UK alternative-fuel programme gives a new lease of life to one specific model, the...

Initially, Scania and its partners are only targeting fleets with 30 vehicles or more on single sites, and they'll need to be...

a by Peter Lawton Parcels giant DHL has banned the use of LPG in its converted Transit fleet after three engine fires. The...

• Renault VI's all-new 90hp common rail engine Is now available in the In for the 3.5-tonne Master range (CM2127 Sept 2000)....

• Volkswagen is refusing to confirm reports that it has progressed significantly in its bid to buy Daewoo's stake in LDV....

MI The designer of a wheel retention system is looking for backers for his patented system. Mick Predeth reckons his design...

• The new shape Fiat Punta Is now on sale in the UK. Fiat is boasting a range of improvements over the outgoing model including...

While warning Caerphilly Building Supplies about vehicle maintenance, Welsh TC David Dixon increased the company's 0-licence...

A haulier who encouraged his drivers to stretch the rules has lost his Operator's Licence after tech° charts revealed that 120...

ci A Merthyr Tydfil haulage firm has had its licence authorisation cut after its vehicles attracted nine prohibitions in five...

St Helens tipper operator Kealshore has appeared before North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell after four vehicles...

• You can now check out all kinds of legal information at www.roadtransport.net—the web site operated by Commercial Motor,...

Oswestry haulier David Ford, and one of his drivers, have been cleared of overloading offences after Magistrates found there...

A haulage firm which admitted its average first time pass rate at the annual test was just 10% has been issued with a formal...

On the Edge (CM25-31Jan) about hard shoulder breakdown work had particular significance to me as an HGV driver, as I have long...

face ban for a half-pint of bitter" (CM25-31 January). I was somewhat shocked to read that an alcohol limit of 0.2mg of alcohol...

I have been reading in your issue (CM25-31January) the concern about speeders losing the right to silence. My view is that...

Readers of your helpful articles on drugs and driving (CM25-31 Jan) may like to know that the Road Operators Safety Council...

Regarding the right to silence (CM25-31January) your story is a fair statement of the current position and, despite Messrs...

Oswaldtwistle. Acrimony is rife throughout the legendary "Iron Works", home of Spagthorpe Motor Company, following the shock...

The launch of the European Ambassador, P&,0 Irish Sea's new 123-truck-capacity ferry, was marked by a celebratory voyage...

by Peter Peter Lawton Commercial Motor didn't have much in the way of light vehicles to try out until June, when we got the...

E by Kevin Swallow Could it be that Slade's little ditty swung it for Ford? An endearing notion, maybe, but you've seen the...

IN by Peter Lawton The 4x4 off-road sector is a bit of a niche market, so it's not particularly surprising that we only tested...

TESTERS' CHOICE CHOICE RENAULT MIEN le by Conn Barnett The five contenders here range from the plain-vanilla. do-anything Daf...

TESTERS' CHOICE SCANIA P114 8x4 m by Kevin Swallow The obvious test for this category would be to ask Bob the Builder which of...

• by Toby Clark 2000 was not a big year for tractor testi ) ..rig in terms of quantity—only four new . nits passed through our...

I t's not easy to make hauliers desperate enough to take to the streets, particularly when such action cost s them money and...

A ny striking employee is almost certainly in breach of his contract of employment. The trade union which organises a strike...

J ust as hauliers have no immunity from liability to economic torts, they have no immunity from the criminal law. Simply...

no road transport operator can ignore. Sudden wheel loss can be fatal; spray suppression improves safety for truck drivers and...

The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)—previously the Institute of Road Transport Engineers—spearheaded the 1980s'...

fully rested before they get behind the wheel, but that is not always easy to do. The prosecution of two tired firefighters...

As it stands, the Working Time Directive will take effect for drivers in Britain in 2004. From that date they are likely to be...

Son, is not quite as cheery as Baker. The firm runs 21 trucks, including skip lorries, tippers and artics. It also operates a...

The European Union and the Working Time Directive. • The legislative process within the European Union can be painfully slow....

Iswa ow Although motorway service areas were p leared of charges of profiteering by he Office of Fair Trading, they stand...

zero, it represents such a small proportion of our overall running costs that it could never address our real problem of fuel...