Loretta Campbell, the 22year-old Chelmsford-based truck driver involved in the M25 crash which killed three men last week, will...

by Kathy Watson • The French Government is set to perform a U-turn on its recent promise to allow belly tanks. This would...

• Four LGV drivers were stranded underground for nearly four hours after the Channel Tunnel train carrying the men ground to a...

• Truck thieves are becoming increasingly skilled at targeting high value loads, according to national statistics released by...

by Juliet Parish • A recovery operators association plans to go to the courts in a bid to halt all UK police forces...

• BASF Coatings & Inks says it is taking legal advice following what it claims is a decision by the Lane Group to terminate its...

• Heron Distribution lost two major contracts last week which are believed to be worth up to Lima year. The profitable...

Labour peers are preparing to ambush Government plans to scrap the exemption permit system for the London lorry ban. The...

by Karen Miles • In a move designed to tighten control over British livestock hauliers when abroad, animal welfare authorities...

• Leicestershire police are trying out a speed trap designed to embarrass speeding drivers into slowing down by flashing their...

• Ormskirk, Lancs-based 12-vehicle operator, Kammac 1988 has lost an appeal against an industrial tribunal decision that it...

• The agreements of the 60 carriers contracted to carry out Red Star's national collection and delivery work have been...

• Operators using cross-country trunk and A-roads can expect to encounter more road narrowing, chicanes and central islands in...

by Eugene SiIke III Pressure for legislation to tackle vehicle crime is mounting with claims of widespread support for a bill...

• The Health & Safety Executive is investigating a series of accidents at Manchester Airport's oar parks: one resulted in...

• Police investigating alleged fraud which netted up to £750,000 from unwitting hauliers have made five arrests and are...

• Shropshire County Council is poised to crack down on livestock hauliers who flout an 18. month-old law by transporting sheep...

at the time of Leyland Daf's receivership from a joint Leyland Daf/Renoult vehicle development project have received an out of...

by Juliet Parish • NFC has shelved plans to sell Lynx—at least until its lossmaking parcels subsidiary breaks even and earns...

• Suffolk police are appealing over the CB airways to truck drivers who may have been in the Mildenhall area at the time a...

• After clinching its second contract to go through the Channel Tunnel, Railfreight Distribution plans to capture a third of...

• Quick action by the owners of a haulage company in Preston, Lancs foiled a vehicle theft and led to two men being called in...

• A Stoke-on-Trent haulier is offering a £500 reward For information following a spate of break-ins whIch culminated in a...

Here we go again, and again. The French don't like belly tanks and whack large fines on any haulier that has the temerity to...

by Bill Brock • Last weekend's Avro-Ex, held at the Hinckley Island Hotel in Warwickshire for the second year in succession,...

by Brian Weatherley • Keith Howard is used to chasing the leader in the British refrigerated trailer market. Having previously...

by Noel MiIlier • Volvo has entered the booming ultra-low-floor city bus market with the BIOL. This rear-engined 12m city bus...

• Seddon Atkinson will launch new refuse vehicles at the INVNI Show in Torquay (see preview, page 26). The Pacer is an improved...

• Renault UK aims to boost sales of its light vans with a package of specification improvements marketed as Enterprise 2. The...

• Using a vehicle without a test certificate and permitting a driver to fail to produce a tacho chart cost Pontypool haulier...

• Collier Industrial Waste has been ordered to pay driver Derek Delaney £1,192 in compensation for unfair dismissal. A...

• Scottish LA Michael Betts renewed the licence of Milne Trucking, for 20 vehicles and 25 trailers, without taking any...

withdraw his bid to renew his licence by South Wales DLA Gerrard Sullivan, after failing the CPC examination for the fourth time

• JAB Transport of Rainford, Merseyside ran into opposition from local residents after being forced out of its operating centre...

• Offences involving two Special Types vehicles cost Carrington, Manchester-based J Wright (Heavy Haulage) £1,065 in fines and...

• Allegations of running trucks on international operation when a company only held interim authority for national operation,...

• Swansea fruit and vegetable merchant F Ley & Sons fell foul of the law, and was fined .0,080, because the company was...

• Amec has admitted failing to comply with a parking condition on its Castle Donington, Leics depot when it appeared at a...

Britain is one of only three European countries which refuses to legislate on the problem of late payment. Are hauliers going...

"The Government is interested in improving the situation but is leaving it all down to the individual." Late payment does not...

"It takes so long to recover debt that the small haulier has usually gone out of business by then." Coombs works for potato...

to fellow hauliers to be on guard if they are offered cheap Goodyear tyres. He had six stolen from his ERF EC14 tipper between...

from a High Wycombe car park on the night of 31 May. The tractor, registration ECM 861Y, has a grey cab with red chassis and...

lorry park in Dartford between 16:00hrs and 07:00 on 3-4 June. It belongs to piant hire company Beechmast of Shoreham near...

the theft of their Scania 6x2 tractor from a layby near their home. Thieves left behind a new refrigerated trailer loaded with...

the Volvo FL10 tractor with which they were stolen in Norfolk at the end of May. Thieves lifted the depot gates off their...

Motor, Iveco Ford, Road Haulage Association Trucktheft Action Pack. The pack tells you everything you need to know to help...

A 5 4 0 , 0 0 0 McLaren Fl roadster, perhaps. And what could you buy the mechanic who has everything? He's bound to appreciate...

0 he Hawk sends his best wishes to driver Donald Terry, who has just retired after 4-5 years of driving for Humberside haulier...

garage in South East London is guaranteed to set feminists fizzing. Even assuming that bus companies had no need to employ...

0 am indebted to West Country driving instructor Steve Robertson for picturing this worrying sign, spotted on one of the Exeter...

A merican George Swanson couldn't bear to be A merican George Swanson couldn't bear to be parted from his beloved 1984...

Iveco in Ireland • The first lveco dealers are being appointed by Truck IVECO Dealers International, part of the Harris...

Fleet cert • A course leading to a new qualification for fleet managers has been launched by the Institute of the Motor...

Cargo shift • Cargo Development Company, the import agent for Vauxhall cars, has moved to a new 25-acre site at Hartlepool...

Emissions guide • Ford Power Products has published a comprehensive review of current and forecast vehicle emission...

Transport manager • The winner of the 1994 Transport & Distribution Manager of the Year award will receive £5,000 in cash and...

A96 advice • Drivers on the A96 Aberdeen-Inverness road are offered safety advice in a leaflet from the Scottish Office. Over...

Rearguard defence • A heavy-duty lock removes the need for padlocks on trucks' rear doors. The stainless-steel lock is...

simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak; 48p at all other times): West Country:...

T write regarding Michael 1Salt's "Sound Off" (CM 26 May-1 June). Michael's grasp of the situation is superb. Looking at my...

T can understand the view lthrough the cab windscreen that demands more and more road building to solve traffic jams ("jam...

A s 1 work in the trailer business I congratulate Commercial Motor on its initiative in listing stolen vehicles and trailers in...

C ould youplease advise me on licence groups? I own and drive a 7.5 tonne truck which is registered as PLG (camper van). I...

y our recent Sound Off heading was in connection with an operator who purchased a Sc,ania used vehicle (CM5-11 May), only to...

Waste management may lack glamour but for the truck and equipment makers it's big business. This year's IWM show is longer and...

There are high-cubes and then there are high cubes...Fiat's new Fiorino is a revamp of a long-lived design. Its the biggest...

Hauliers whose vehicles are involved in fatal accidents could face charges of corporate manslaughter if tough new proposals...

1. Abolition of Unlawful Act Manslaughter (where the defendant is killed during the course of an unlawful act—it is not usua6 ,...

Southampton's Williams Shipping Group is celebrating its centenary this year. Despite its name it depends largely on road...

With new Government money pledged to training the time is right for the industry to put its employees back in the classroom....

are caused by careless maintenance. Whatever the cause, the emergency services are left to pick up the pieces—and to work out...

6 n his introduction to the Government I White Paper, Competitiveness: Helping Business to Win, John Major boldly declares his...