BULLEFIN 2 The Transport Tribunal has allowed the appeal of a PSV operator against his licence revocation and ban for three...

lorry ban rap • A haulier has been fined £300 with 200 costs in the first prosecution under the controversial London lorry...

• Demand for commercial vehicles continues to boom, with registrations up 16% this year, confounding most of the manufacturers'...

• Changes to the EEC rules laid down for hauliers or coach operators wishing to set up in business have been proposed by the...

• Ten Abbey Hill car transporter drivers had their HGV licences suspended last week after a tachograph check revealed they had...

• A major crackdown on foreign trucks will be launched after Easter by Transport Secretary Paul Channon. New port controls are...

• Police chiefs are fighting an EEC scheme to introduce smaller European-style registration number plates on all vehicles,...

• Transport minister Peter Bottomley was impressed by the way drawbar vehicles did not cut-in on corners when he visited a...

• Bedwas Bodyworks of Newport in Gwent has launched a lightweight, allaluminium, dropside body for 3.5-tonne chassis cabs,...

• A Seddon Atkinson 16tonner has been built to cater for the growing use of standard-sized containers in furniture removals....

• As predicted exclusively by Commercial Motor (CM 17-23 December), Cummins has taken its 14-litre Super E truck diesel above...

• Nottingham-based furniture manufacturer William Lawrence has fitted Ray Smith cantilever tail-lifts to the bodyframes of its...

• Iveco's former Magirus factory at Ulm in West Germany is being expanded with a second assembly line, and the company is...

• Competition on the Oxford to London M40 run hotted up on Monday as Thames Transit's Oxford Tube coaches began running every...

• A new Bus and Coach Council code of practice designed to ease coach congestion in Britain's top tourist spots was launched...

/ Following the sale of Ribble Motor Services to its management, the company's coaching fleet has gone to Merseyside...

• The sale of National Express to its management is due to be approved by the Department of Transport this week. There had...

construction has been developed by German specialist bus and coach builder Neoplan of Stuttgart. It is claimed to offer major...

• Storno of Camberley, the radio communictions company, has won an order from London Buses for the supply of a new...

• Craven Tasker, the Sheffield trailer manufacturer, has been bought by Ballyvesey Holdings, a Northern Ireland group with...

• Lowering the weight threshold for vehicles requiring HGV licences from 7.5 to 3.5 tonnes would spell disaster for truck...

• Federal Express Systemline is to run a £1.4 million-a-year dedicated contract distribution service in Scotland for high...

• Road and personal safety equipment manufacturer Johnstone Safety has awarded BRS Western a five-year contract to supply and...

• London-based Baker Contract Distribution has won a £1.2 million annual distribution contract with Raines Dairy Foods. BCD — a...

to be good Euros • The Road Haulage Association's single most important aim between now and 1992 is to "appreciate that we are...

• The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by the Transport and General Workers Union against a ruling that the union had...

• Objections from Kiridees Metropolitan District Council and local residents have prevented R J Tait & Son from increasing the...

• Three South Humberside haulage companies and two of their directors have been committed for trial at Lincoln Crown Court...

• A vehicle has been suspended for six months from the eight-vehicle licence held by Tovinco, which operates as Hanson Europa...

• Following chronic maintenance problems, the PSV operators licence held by Citibus of Manchester has only been renewed for 12...

• Maintenance problems have led Jack Mather's Easyway Bus PSV 0-licence to be reduced so that it now expires at the end of...

HANDBOOK • A new distributor has been appointed for Seddon Atkinson in the Northamptonshire and Coventry areas. Brookside...

BY THE HAWK • One of the last vehicles to leave Atkinson's factory at Oldham, before it became Seddon Atkinson in 1970, comes...

Almost a year after installing cellular phones in his fleet of 12 trucks, Stan Shaw complains about only one thing: the cost....

For the half-million users of mobile radios in the United Kingdom, next month's launch of a low-cost data terminal could mean...

Cellular radio is one of the most effective means of staying in touch with mobile personnel, but where there is a requirement...

T at gearlever is connected to an Eaton Twin Splitter transmission. And that's how the remarkable feat described in the...

• Between 400,000 and 500,000 British vans and lorries have a radio link with their head office or warehouse. Just over 1,000...

time — the "roger, over and out" type of system. Calls are generally short, for passing on information rather than having a...

reacted immediately, calling the police on a special phone link. Within seconds police cars were screaming toward the scene...

• The market for tracking vehicles electronically is still in its infancy; out of the concepts evolved, only a few have so far...

has the technology to operate navigation systems, and the company may introduce a product eventually — but it would probably...

SIR DRIVERS A CHANCE • I am appalled to read the letter from Gary Fox (CM 24 February-2 March) and JM Sugden (CM 18-24...

range. On the flat, second gear can be used effectively to pull away from rest. The five-speed ZF gearbox is smooth in...