• Securicor Distribution has bought Hays Express Services for £16.7m. • Trucks are likely to be exempi from plans to ban...

by Sally Nash II A damning Government report on wheel loss, which shows there could be as many as 2,000 incidents a year, has...

• An owner-driver was jailed for 15 years last week for smuggling £1.8m-worth of Ecstasy into the country. Raymond Miles was...

• Exel Logistics is closing one of its two depots in Belfast with the possible loss of up to 30 drivers' jobs. The warehousing...

• An HGV driving test examiner has been fined £300 with £55 costs after pleading guilty to two hours law offences. Alan...

by Karen Miles • Plans by British Steel to switch the output from three South Wales plants from road to rail will not be...

WHEEL LOSS COSTS LIVES ompare and contrast the following sentences, both of which relate to the latest DOT analysis of surveys...

by David Craik • Hauliers are putting lives at risk by defying the recent imposition of a 7.5-tonne weight limit on a bridge in...

• Hauliers running through two Welsh villages are under pressure to take a seven-mile diversion following moves by Plaid...

• NFT Distribution has won Iwo new contracts to move chilled foods. The first, worth £500,000, involves distribution for The...

by David Craik • A Middlesex haulier has re-ignited the controversy over the runaway Scania which hit the national headlines in...

• Up to half the UK's recovery trucks could be running illegally, if a survey by Be ordshire police is representative. Led by...

• ARC and Aggregate Industries say that tipper drivers will not be affected by their decisions to give up rights to several...

• The future of Dawson International's in-house truck fleet looks uncertain this week, following a decision by the textiles...

by Sally Nash • Former United Carriers employee Gary Fawcett has won a claim for unfair dismissal—but an industrial tribunal...

Leeds lorry driver Clive Barwell, of Clyde Chase, Wortley, appeared at Leeds magistrates court last week charged with 17...

by Ann Marie Foley • Irish road hauliers are recruiting British drivers in a bid to cope with a shortage blamed on long waiting...

days to go before the release of the Transport White Paper, which is designed to unclog UK roads, the Government has...

• TA Anders & Co of Salford was fined £300 with £65 costs by West Bromwich magistrates after pleading guilty to having a...

• International livestock hauliers waiting to resume their trade face a further delay over the starting date of a new livestock...

• TNT is returning to its transport roots following last week's partial split from its Dutch telecommunications parent. TNT's...

• Nisson has confirmed the prices of its new Pickup range (CM 2-8 July). The entry-level single-cab 4x2 costs £10,725 (ex-VAT)...

by Bill Brock • Delivering cars in the six-figure price range calls for equally exotic transporters—like this drawbar outfit...

by Toby Clark • A Volvo senior management team has met with Volkswagen boss Ferdinand Piech, fuelling rumours that the German...

by Toby Clark • Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its strategy for the future of alternative fuels, from low-sulphur diesel to...

by Steve Banner • Supermarket giant Asda has placed another order for refrigerated semi-trailers with Paneltex, and its...

by Bryan Janis • ERF's first 550hp Catengined tractor is aimed squarely at the owner-driver, which doubtless explains why it...

• One of the biggest attractions at the show was a long-nose Peterbilt 379 conventional with a Caterpillar 3412 engine. That's...

• The big news from the major Stateside truck manufacturers is waiting in the wings, with new Peterbilt and Mack models...

• The three-vehicle licence held by David Foster, trading as Long Eaton Express Transport, of Swadlincote, was suspended when...

• Convictions and a number of missing tachograph charts have led to Aberdeen-based Bucksburn, Davidson & Wilson being given a...

• A fine imposed on a tipper operator for overloading an axle has been quashed because the vehicle's gross and train weights...

• A company has been given the go-ahead for a vehicle operating centre on greenbelt land because planning development control...

• Oldham-based Rachelfield and one of the company's drivers have lost their appeals against convictions for overloading...

rill • Paisley haulier Thomas Miller ip le git i Junior was disqualified from holding or obtaining an Operator's Licence for...

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J am writing with reference to your article headed "Try for a conversion" (CM 25 June-1 July). I found it most informative, but...

T he worrying subject of increasing lorry theft is being grappled with by the Crime Prevention Agency within the Home Office...

I t was good to read Tim Blakemore's description (CM 25 June-1 July) of our EC11.380 4x2 Fuel Duel vehicle as an "impressive...

W e were very disappointed to read the article "Owner-drivers slammed" (CM 4-10 June) and think that CM'S readers should know...

Y our article entitled Storm Warning (CM 2-8 July) gives, we believe, the impression that P&O European Ferries only carries...

I T t is rare for me to write to supporters other than to thank them for a donation. This is partly because people do not like...

haulage very seriously. However, once a week our quirky correspondent, TIT Hmk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

O f you consider yourself to be top-notch management material, now's the time to show the industry what you are made of. Simply...

ere at Commercial Motor we aim to please. So H when 14-year-old Lewis Bowman from Otley in Yorkshire wrote extolling the...

o rs not what you're thinking; yet another public servant with a hand in the cookie jar. The Rt Hon Glenda Jackson MP Minister...

Big tippers can't always get into tight corners—which is where smaller 26-tonne rigids come into their own. They're more...

a contract offered by a company the size of Birds Eye Wall's took some courage. But any fears of foolhardiness on the part of...

the dire predictions if duly-free is abolished within the European Union. W hen ferry workers brought the French Channel ports...

As the alarming fall in HGV applicants continues, one Midlands-based retailer has been forced to import drivers from the West...

answer to many of the road transport industry's problems, says David Higginboftom, leader of the United Road Transport...