• Media exposure regularly embarrasses even government organisations enough to cause them to reconsider their actions, and it...

• Free shares in the Road Transport Industry Training Board's successor, RTITB Services, are to be offered to all hauliers who...

• UK truck sales for the first three months of the year stand at 7,892 — a fall of 11.5% on the same period last year. For all...

• A Derbyshire driver has forced the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency to flout its own controversial rules on who it deems...

• Nearly 200 hauliers boycotted the Mersey Tunnels last Monday to protest against a 122% hike in tolls. Increases of up to...

• Continental lorries are causing road deaths because of fatal blind spots, say Kent Police. The force is urging the Department...

transport law will be on the Commercial Motor stand at this year's Truckfest to help solve your legal problems. Jonathan...

against Dewsbury Magistrates' decision that EC tacho and drivers hours laws do not apply to a dock road in Dover. Onion...

director of commercial strategy in January, is taking over responsibility for sales, marketing and aftersales from Nick...

3% pay deal with his drivers and plans to open depots in Warrington, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow and London, adding 70 vehicles...

• Police are warning this week that hauliers selling trucks, or any other recipient of building society cheques, should not...

• Roads and Traffic Minister Christopher Chope was punched in the face several times last week while speaking to voters in his...

• Creditors of failed forwarder Eastcoast Trucking were told last week that they stand little chance of being paid. At a...

• Most truck dealers will vote Tory in today's election, but far fewer believe John Major will win the election, according to a...

• Leyland Daf has confirmed that it will be offering the Low Deck version of its 95 Series tractive unit in the UK before the...

• The new Volkswagen Transporter chassis-cab is being offered with a Tipmaster tipper conversion. The 2,9m 'Hi-spec' tipper...

• News from the US suggests that the next generation of the 16.4-litre Mack vee-eight engine used in the Renault AE will get...

• I hinlop has introduced a van tyre, the LT7, with '1 3 ' (150km/h) speed rating. It comes in 14 and 15in sizes to suit most...

• Mercedes-Benz will be presenting a new generation of lighter Unimog all-wheel-drive vehicles at the Hanover Show in May. The...

IXCLUSIVE • Scania has bolstered its attack on the UK eight-wheeler market with a new, highpowered P113-360 chassis which...

• Huddersfield-based Hoyer UK has ordered nine of LAG's latest PetroLAG triaxled spirit tankers to work on a distribution...

• The Automobile Association is investing £17m in upgrading its livened fleet of motorist support vehicles. A £2.6m share of...

Claims that the recession in the transport industry is bottoming out received a boost this week with signs that hauliers are...

• Following redundancies in its distribution network, Tesco plans to expand its in-house operation by opening a major site in...

. Out-of-work seafarers intent on setting up a freight-only service on the Folkestone-Boulogne route will know this week...

• "1'NT Aerospace has won a multi-million-pound contract to feed parts to the Land Rover production line at Solihull, West...

• An Irish manufacturer is to set to sell £20m worth of trailers this year by exporting almost half its production into the...

• Driving while not holding an LGV licence, overloading and hours and tachograph offences have cost driver Brian Doyle £.680....

Chippenhambased Anthony House, who trades as Taylor Transport, has failed to appear before Rochdale magistrates to answer...

/Foleshill, Coventry-based Fleetmarket and its principal director Michael William Luke have been ordered to pay fines, costs...

• A Vehicle Inspectorate recommendation that overloads of less than 10% should not be prosecuted is only a guideline, and each...

• Belfast-based Dragon Shipping succeeded in getting its South Wales licence renewed for the full five years, when it appeared...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses,...

• Secondhand dealer Alan Wilson is committed to having at least one new product at Expo Coach '92 at Castle Donington this...

stors under the name Spotlaunch. It plans to introduce closer integration between the Belfast and Falkirk operations which...

• Detroit Diesel has entered a marketing agreement to supply engines for Kassbohrer coaches operating in Europe. Kassbohrer's...

/ A seven-car transporter drawbar outfit developed by Pickering's Transport Services of Thurmaston, Leicestershire is claimed...

• Dutch manufacturer Multilift Benelux has developed a combined waste collection/transportation vehicle that allows the body...

/ German trailer manufacturer Krone has developed a selfsupporting modular ISO-type container system for whole or split-load...

/ Having recently launched a new range of ATP Class A lightly insulated bodywork into the UK, Klege-Europ has now developed a...

policies of the major parties but in the hurly burly of election coverage we omitted to examine the offerings from the Monster...

hat, you may ask, is going on here? — and no it isn't a last minute attempt to wring a vote from a floating voter. The...

oiling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has shelled out £20,000 for a 1930s Lagonda sports car, which is likely to gather a fair...

ansas city suffered a giant traffic jam when drivers stopped to grab 2,000 porn magazines that had fallen off a lorry —...

• "Of course drivers never, ever, know their trucks are untaxed or have loose wheel bolts and leaking fuel tanks. Oh no, that's...

• A Mercedes 1626/32 tractive unit has been stolen from a lorry park in Barton-on-Humber, costing its owners Si Barrick about...

driver for 45 years. He worked for Millers Transport for 15 years until it was taken over by Loadwell Transport, Felixstowe,...

Hope for epilepsy sufferers Epilepsy seems to be one of the most common causes of licence revocation since the DVLA took over....

Chancellor Norman Lamont's recent Budget may not have held much interest for the transport industry, but it did create two...

CONSORTIUMS n the final run-up to the Single European Market many operators are forging links on the Continent, but six UK...

is enough competition from other motorway service area operators without having to worry about non-motorway rivals. "On average...

• I have read your editorial coverage of wheel shedding with considerable interest as I had slight involvement in the problem...

• In Commercial Motor 19-25 March Brian Weatherley ran the rule over the general election campaigns. As usual his article was...

• It is essential to our administration of driver licensing policy that we take full account of the views of our customers and...

• I refer to your news story concerning front underrun protection (CM 12 Dec-2 Jan). If the "£100 driver" (car drivers) would...

• We are a College of Further Education based in Morley, Leeds. It has been our experience that the best people to teach others...

n our view the CMR conditions do not hold water. Offshore Transport Services will no longer take on any urgent deliveries...