Dais offer of a drive in a Kenworth 1700 and a Peterbilt 587 was too good to miss. So, who builds better trucks... them or us? By Brian......

Who dares, wins Would you walk away from your highly

respected, family-owned engineering business and instead use a greenhouse to hatch plans of creating a dream? That's what Edwin Richard Foden did......

Mixed emotions Why spend £90,000 on a new six-wheel cement

mixer when for around 25% of that, you can recycle a better specced vehicle with proven ability? MC Cullimore fleet engineer Brian Jenkins explains......

How to make your own hybrid Unconvinced by the...

hybrids on offer, DHL Supply Chain sourced its own alternative Words: David Wilcox Although there are several diesel-electric hybrids readily......

El ressed to impress Daf's new CF and LF have

been given an impressive face-lift but it comes at a price DAF TRUCKS' 21-year-old CF cab has been subjected to another face-lift and will take the......

Survival of the fittest

Flexibility, co-operation and a sense of humour have helped a south Wales operator weather the economic uncertainties of the past few decades......

No ordinary

For the best part of 50 years, brothers James and Alexander Smith provided one of the most efficient road transport services in the UK. CM looks......

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0 E AP than Few family-run, medium-sized haulage contractors have enjoyed the national reputation built up by Devon-based Brian Harris Words:......

Abuse of power?

There would be an uproar if fuel suppliers created a new litre, equal to 986cc instead of 1,000cc, but still called it a litre. So why do we accept......

And so to Bed

After becoming a household name in British truck building, Bedford ceased production in 1986. Twenty-five years on, CM looks back at its history......