by his own debts The boss of a collapsed freight forwarding firm says he does not know how the massive debts occurred. Dominic...

SLOUGH-BASED operator Taylors of Heathrow is closing down after a petition to wind it up was registered by Customs and Excise,...

AFTER MUCH "Will they? Won't they?" deliberating, Commercial Motor can reveal that DaimlerChrysler (UK) will be bringing a...

A TRUCK DRIVER and a member of staff employed by Garforth, West Yorks-based Whitkirk Produce Co have received suspended prison...

A Polish driver had his truck containing 200 televisions stolen after he got out of his cab to ask for directions. The...

Police are hunting a trucker who drove off following a fatal motorway pile-up on the M6 northbound between Keele services and...

Eurofreight has launched an online service to make it easier for operators to book trucks onto its ferries. Potential users can...

A third of drivers admit to still using their handheld phones while driving, according to RAC Legal Services, even though this...

Channel 4 is looking for truck drivers to take part in a Cutting Edge programme on gridlock. It wants to hear from anyone with...

Former ETA boss Lawrence Christensen is going to wield a new broom for Sainsbury's distribution network. Guy Sheppard reports....

ROAD SAFETY campaign group Brake and parcels firm FedEx have joined forces in anew initiative that is designed to cut road...

THE LATEST dithering over the government's flagship corporate killing bill has been roundly criticised by road safety...

Barry Proctor wonders about the wisdom of allowing VOSA and the police such an open door to monitor all our dealings through...

NEW END-OF-LIFE legislation which came into force last November could lead to mountains of old trucks being dumped rather than...

" But anyone, it seems, can set up a damping business and charge to release vehides " Frustrating. Distressing Expensive....

A leading road transport technology specialist warns that HGV operators could pay a huge price for the Lorry Road User Charge....

answer Road Tech boss Derek Beevor warns that truck operators must be given satisfactory answers to the following key questions...

MIDLAND EXPRESSWAY (MEL) reports that more trucks are using the M6 Toll since charges were cut by 40% at the end of July. MD...

A SCOTTISH LOCAL authority is at loggerheads with the police about whether its new recycling vehicles can be driven by staff...

Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of the transport world — the diversions and detours, the quirky, the...

HAMPSHIRE POLICE have launched a nationwide hunt for a truck driver who failed to stop after being involved in a fatal...

RMC is axing 80 jobs in its cement division's Rugby and South Ferriby plants, including a number of drivers. The job cuts come...

Speeding penalties are set to increase with your speed. Jennifer Ball reports. THE GOVERNMENT has launched a consultation on...

Guy Sheppard reports on a new hazard. GROWING DEMAND for bigger cars is endangering the lives of the drivers who deliver them,...

Safety has always been our top priority at Mercedes-Benz. ESP gives you added protection in difficult conditions and we don't...

Jennifer Ball tells the fate of a driver who walked away from a fatal crash. AN UNINSURED TRUCK driver has been jailed for...

NOTTINGHAM-BASED operator Clearway Distribution has been sold for £3m to a group of its managers led by incoming chief...

RECOVERY OPERATORS can now chose lighter, easier-to-load bodies with two new options on the market. Worldwide Recovery...

The Freight Transport Association's latest Quarterly Transport Activity Survey (QTAS) reveals that domestic haulage growth is...

Daf Trucks holds the enviable position as well-established UK market leader. Andy Salter speaks to MD Stuart Hunt to discover...

YOUR YARDSTICK report's conclusion that driver vacancies dropped last quarter seems out of line with national statistics (CM 26...

1TOTALLY agree with your comments about foreign hauliers ( CM 5 August). cannot understand why operators travelling to the...

I HAVE to agree with Kevin Brooke in last week's issue (CM 26 August) regarding agency drivers. I did not see theoriginal...

Clampers on the Lakeside industrial estate near Thurrock have hit truckers' pockets hard. Chris Tindall investigates how the...

Meat supplier finds it has to pay more attention to transport despite it only being a support business — or it could lose its...

A HEAVY haulier has lost six vehicles from its licence after appearing at a second Public Inquiry within five years, with 10...

A GROSS overload on a low loader cost a London company and its driver £1,350 in fines and costs when they appeared before...

driver failed to produce chart AN AGENCY driver who was unable to produce tachograph charts at the roadside has cost a...

AN ABERDEEN driver who walked out on his job after being blamed for an insecure load has lost his claim that he was unfairly...

My boyfriend noticed that the other driver who uses his truck had left his tacho sheets in the cab. When he reported this to...

We run building materials into London and return empty on vehicles plated at 29 tonnes and 32 tonnes. When returning the gross...

I work as an operations support clerk Sunday to Thursday, a total of 431/2 hours. I also work for an agency a couple of days a...

Is an owner-driver who works for one company an employee or self employed? it used to be an issue for the taxman; now it's...

The cost of maintaining 'financial standing' is set to rise. But is it real istic to make operators keep more than £2,400 in...

Truck manufacturers are well aware that operators are a conservative bunch who generally prefer evolution to revolution; maybe...

y es, yes we know — we're barely out of August, but pretty soon the supermarkets will be putting up their Christmas decorations...

a top-spec lveco among the ranks of Hill Hire's fleet tractors. Presumably this is a reflection of the low standing the marque...

Where's the gearstick? And what do I do? These are probably the first questions any rookie driver climbing into the Stralis...

Climbing into this truck, we spotted the gearstick and assumed it was like any other 4/4, because that's what it looked like on...

An unpleasant encounter with a slap-over box left us more than a little cautious about driving the Axor, but we persevered and...

This contender featured Dal 's usual 4/4 gearbox with rangechange and splitter. The gears are pretty self-explanatory, but to...

CAVsthanks to Blockleys Brick for supplying our test loads. For more than a century, Blockleys has been turning out bricks at...

you need to go; see you later." That's about as much instruction as agency drivers get: they're given their load details,...

Rob Salter writes his last column for CM and mulls over his firm's achievements in the past year. 1 t's nice to be able to say...

CM tests more commercial vehicles than anyone else — and now we are using our extensive database to help you to find the right...

The traditional summer sales slump never really happened and business is booming in the used truck sector. Steve Banner reports...

Due to a shortage of 4x2 tractor units less than five years old, they're now fetching the same money as their 6x2 equivalents,...

"IT'S NOT ONLY big engines and big cabs that used tractorunit buyers are after," says Steve Smith of Widnes independent dealer...

ENQUIRIES FOR USED 18-tonners with 27ft curtainsider bodies have soared, says Paul Diamond, truck sales executive at Road...

Too many franchised dealers arc failing to put sufficient effort into selling used trucks, claims independent dealer Lee Smith....