• The result of a strike uailot by workers at Color Gas is expected tomorrow (9 Sept). The TGWU is balloting 370 drivers, plant...

by Ian Wylie NI Milk hauliers who have been passed over by the Milk Marketing Board's successor have warned that new...

by Amanda Bradbury • Felixstowe-based haulier Goodway, which employs 150 drivers, has been fined 213,000 with 250 costs by...

• Unions are claiming that British Bakeries is closing both its Cambourne and Exeter bread distribution depots, putting 59...

• A lorry driver whose insecure load killed a pedestrian has been fined £400 and received three penalty points after pleading...

by Karen Miles • Exel Logistics is working to secure distribution of one billion tin cans a year for Carnaud Metalbox's food...

• The United Carriers Group is concentrating on improving profits at its parcels and freight network after posting reduced...

• Aftermarket supplier Partco believes its CV parts sales will grow further after posting a 46% surge in pre-tax profits to...

• New Quick Frozen Food Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1994, (S.I. 1994/298) were introduced last week. These require...

• A waste distribution contract which generates up to 210,000 tonnes of waste per year is up for grabs from Westminster City...

by David Harris • A truck driver is claiming that he was sacked for being a member of a truckers club which his boss says is a...

are to receive a £300 one-off loyalty payment. Jacobs and the unions reached agreement on compensation days before an overtime...

• Two reports just published on the links between motorways and economic prosperity have contradicted each other. The reports,...

• Truck operators are keeping bulk diesel prices down despite rising oil prices because they have successfully negotiated with...

congested are: MI: junctions 6-7, 8-11, 11-14, 16-17, 18-19, 29-30, 31-33 and 43-45; M2: junctions 2 - 3; M3: junctions 2-4 and...

by Elizabeth Daly • One in three LGV drivers are forced to break the law to keep their jobs, says a new survey. Among its...

• Liverpool City Council plans to operate a 75,000-tonne-ayear rubble transfer system from Tuebrook in the city, creating work...

• Swale Council in Kent is calling for weighbridges to be installed at ports in the county to catch overweight foreign vehicles...

• A driver accused of inventing "ghost" colleagues so that he could spend nearly twice the daily legal limit driving has been...

• A consortium of ear manufacturers and importers have shortlisted four hauliers for a distribution contract worth up to .£10m...

by Colin Sowman • Volvo has announced a range of Euro-2 7-litre engines and a new light version of the FL7 4x2 tractive unit....

• The price premium on air operated truck disc brakes will almost disappear over the next few years as manu facturing...

• A lifting fifth wheel is saving BOC Transhield more than an hour per delivery at Marks & Spencer's Durham branch. As the...

• Tata will launch a carderived pickup and van at the NEC motorshow in October. The Indian-built vehicles have a 2.0-litre 68hp...

• Loudon Borough of Merton has taken delivery of three 26tonne 6x4 Super Cargos fitted with shortened Norba refuse collection...

a vehicle without an 0 licence has cost Lanarkshire farmer Richard Allison £90 in fines and costs. Penrith magistrates were...

• Heysham, Lancs-based JM Gory & Sons, and one of the company's drivers, have lost appeals against conviction by Abingdon...

• A bid by Rana Textiles to move its operating centre for one 7.5-tonne vehicle to a residential road in Mosley, has been...

new two-vehicle licence after Hereford & Worcester County Council, which had opposed the application, failed to attend a...

• A 17% front axle overload cost Newcastle-upon-Tynebased CP Insulations, and its driver Sean O'Reilly, £630 in fines and costs...

• Consideration of disciplinary action against Killay, Swanseabased Arthur & Morgan, has been adjourned until 19 September by...

• Mosley, West Midlands-based Samuel Magwood's licence was suspended after he failed to appear at five aublic inquiries, but it...

• West Lancashire haulier Ian Booth was fined £1,800 for 18 offences of failing to park vehic es at his authorised operating...

• Cheshire haulier Peter Mores and his driver Simon Wilkinson were given a twoyear conditional discharge after being convicted...

I f Europe's biggest truck show had a theme this year, it was Euro-2. The next round of European emission regs doesn't come...

• Daly Transport Services has added 10 Montracon's 100m 3 garment trailers to its international haulage fleet. Another 10 will...

• Middlesex-based show-biz tour specialist Redburn Transfer has added one of York Trailer's latest high-cube Freightmaster-type...

Winsford has taken the first lndox tipping powder tank into the UK and has another on order. Pulled by an ERF EC12 4x2...

Tidd's smooth contoured Streamliner semi-trailer vans, adding 10 to its Maidstone distribution fleet. They use Tidd's marine...

• GEMS/Clearway's new Torino 40-tonne underlift recovery vehicle is on a five-stop tour of the UK. Based on a LHD Magirus 8x4...

3 et on your marks for the fourth South of England Scammell Road Run taking place in the sober setting of the Whitbread Hop...

as 72 miles to work, especially when they are 80 years old—almost old enough, in fact, to have been around during the Hawk's...

0 outh Wales haulier Gareth Williams has secured the numberplate of his dreams, "M4 TAF", which corresponds with a nickname...

lordly row has broken out between Westminster Council and one of its most prominent resident bodies over the siting of a lorry...

, enni Moore, AA trainee mechanic, has broken new ground by becoming the first female student to receive a medal for excellence...

favour of allowing 44-tonne lorries to operate on our roads. This despite the Government's declared intention to "positively...

Y our excellent description of what goes on around the scenes at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House (CM 1824 August), where the...

Names go Forward • Inter Forward Freight Services renames its Inter Forward GROUP specialist company Norfreight as Inter...

• Renault and Foden service dealer South Yorkshire Trucks gas moved from the centre of Sheffield to premises near J34 of the...

Faster in Brum • Commercial Fleet Services has been appointed a Leyland DAF parts and service dealer to give DAFAiti calls a...

Strike policy • The R1-1A's International Group is offering contingent strike insurance worth £250 per day up to £5,000 and...

• HPI is offering its First Registration and Mileage Monitor services by Viewdata as well as HPI Checks and plate transfer...

Longer and better • A report called Keep on Trucking—Forecasting the Next 10 Years for Europe's Commercial Vehicle Makers and...

Oporto show • Portuguese trucker's magazine Camiao is promoting Carga Intermodal, an exhibition of freight vehicles,...

Tyred of thieves? • The National Tyre Distributor's Association has launched a confidential hotline and computer system linked...

band wagon with kits for its range of trucks above 7.5 tonnes, launched at the IRTE Telford show. When fully kitted out,...

H aving got the vehicle and track organised for the aerodynamic test, we decided to push the comparison a little further and...

S pecialist foodstuffs carrier NFT has found a 15% improvement in fuel consumption after fitting aerodynamic aids to its...

Specifying a Euro-2 engine for your next truck could increase its purchase price by 0,000—but within two years every new...

B BC TV's Paramedic series gives a good glimpse into the working life of one of Britain's ambulance services but the recent...

It costs about £2,000 to fit on-board weighers which not only keeps a vehicle street legal but it also saves valuable time...

B ased near Merthyr Tydfil in mid Glamorgan, Alan Price has onboard weighers—PM Electronics or Maywood equipment—fitted to...

1 ver wondered just what happens when a raised tipper body encounters an 1 ver wondered just what happens when F , a raised...

In theory the Single European Market facilitates the free movement of goods between EU states. in practice international...

make the change until the law demands' 4 T he past few years have seen our industry bombarded with legislation from Brussels...