• The Road Haulage Association will "exercise its right of objection wherever possible" to 0-licence bids by hauliers it...

• Two rigid tippers, owned by a firm based in the Cardiff area, have been seized by Customs officers for using red diesel...

• Eurotunnel plans to use lorry-carrying wagons in the Channel Tunnel which have been condemned as unsafe by the tunnel's own...

• Owner-operators who cannot meet their hire purchase or lease repayments may be falling prey to illegal vehicle transfer...

Eurotunnel says it will not release price details until nearer 1993, and it will not give any details on unaccompanied...

/ Hauliers using CB radios without a licence will stand more chance of being caught over the next few months due to a national...

/ A plan to ease restrictions on the number of trucks transiting through Switzerland and Austria could be finalised this...

/ Truck sales are still falling. Latest figures from the SMMT show that for the year to date they are down by 38% from...

/ A Palestinian refugee clung to an axle of a British meat truck returning from France in a desperate attempt to sneak into the...

LGV drivers who break the 7.5-tonne weight limit on the historic Barnard Castle Bridge, with a video camera which records...

• Cheshire bulk haulier Stanley Fernyhough has been banned from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for five years following...

• National Freight Consortium president Sir Peter Thompson is calling on hauliers to donate 0.1% of their turnover to fund a...

• The result of a wages ballot of 11,000 Parcelforce employees will be "finely balanced", according to the Union of...

Every day you and your diesel battle the elements. But whether you're facing tough roads or tough terrain, now there's real...

• Renault Trucks is stepping up its attack on the second-hand lorry market by offering contract maintenance deals on selected...

• Foden could move into the ultra-lightweight eight-wheeler market next year with a new 8x4 fitted with its recently introduced...

on a Magnum • The first lifting mid-axle conversion of a Renault AE380 Magnum tractive unit has been carried out by JR...

• Iveco has brought out a flagship specification of its TurboStar tractive units, but for Continental markets only. The "High...

• Boniface Recovery Systems has launched a new style of body for loading cars with low spoilers. The Intertrans has a...

• The new Ford Transit goes on sale this week with improved interiors, revised suspension and uprated engines, including a 74...

• The new Vauxhall Astravan goes on sale this week, with new petrol engines, revised suspension and a body based on the latest...

• Ford is entering the UK high-cube van market this week with the launch of the Fiestabased Courier. As reported earlier this...

• TNT Contract Distribution is understood to have won a huge parts distribution contract with Nissan Motor GB, the UK...

a boost to its exports which have increased by more than 100% in the past three years. Talks start • Wincanton has begun wage...

• Family-run Graveson Waste Services of Carnforth, Lancs, has been acquired by Americanowned BFI Wastecare for an undisclosed...

• BRS has sold its half of AABRS, the vehicle recovery service operated jointly with the Automobile Association since 1987. BRS...

• Operators with a pride in their trucks are reminded that in addition to the regular awards in the 1991 CM/ICI Autocolor...

• A northern truck dealer is selling most of the stock of new Steyr artics left in Britain at knock-down prices. Premier...

• City Link has appointed two new franchisees and launched a lightweight parcels delivery service. Mectax Holdings is the new...

• NFC subsidiary Exel Logistics has bought a major Dutch distribution company, FoodExpress International, which has a turnover...

• Truck Services of Witney, Oxfordshire's biggest MANVolkswagen CV dealership, has been saved from closure by a last-minute...

• Assured Freight of Grays, Essex, and Turkish transport company Ulusoy of Istanbul have successfully developed the service...

• A novel Wilcox tipping semitrailer with Crane Fruehauf rolling bogie chassis is attracting considerable interest in the West...

• Following a two-year joint development programme with British Alc,an, Metalair's new road/rail pressurised powder box...

• St Helens-based Supertrucks has completed the first of four special glass carriers on Mercedes 1117 rigids for Aluhome...

• The Estepe close-coupled drawbar system, which achieves a 350mm truck/trailer gap, is being marketed in the UK by 1MS of...

conventional and centre axled drawbar outfits is now available through Hyva The type 810 has a key switch release and operates...

• To ease delivery problems where access is limited Crown Lift Trucks is now using a sixwheeled rigid fitted with Brimec...

been awarded certification to BS5750/1S0 9002/EN29000; this also covers its spares and service division Smith demounts 1111 The...

• Plaxton has already received g12m worth of orders for the two new coach bodies it unveiled last week to succeed the...

• Teesside Motor Services has bought the first two Vectas from Leeds-based manufacturer Optare, which launched the MANpowered...

• Avondale International will launch one of the first welfare midibus bodies on Renault's B Series chassis-cowl at the NEC this...

• North Western Deputy LA Kenneth Birchall has allowed Manchester haulier Michael Stirrup to keep his licence, despite a...

• GHunter Transport has been ordered to pay more than £8,000 compensation to a lorry driver it sacked after he took time off to...

• South Wales Deputy LA Gerrard Sullivan has warned AP Transport (Gwent) that he may close it down if its vehicles continued to...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

• Allenways Coaches of Birmingham has been given seven days to pay £4,100 worth of outstanding drivers' hours fines (CM27...

• Two drivers from Bulldog International of Andover were accused of falsifying tacho charts on the Continent when they appeared...

/ Northern Western LA Martin Albu has regm! served his de cision on a bid by J Irlam & Sons to increase its vehicle authority,...

• Haulier Stephen Summers, trading as Summers Transport, has been fined £200 for allowing another haulier to use one of his...

£230 in fines and costs after being convicted of using a vehicle without authorisation and failing to ensure a driver returned...

U ormer Transport Secretary Paul Channon could soon be joining the ranks of the NIMBYs — those public figures who believe...

ou've seen the movie now carry the cargo. Straight from The Swarm, the killer bees of South Texas are hitching rides northwards...

he latest recession-beater from Brighton Buses takes the tourist trade into a new niche market — visiting roadworks. The...

y seagull friends in Oban in the Scottish Highlands are amused by the stramach at the town's new fish pier. Lorries loading...

N orne the opening of the Single European Market, truckers will be mourning the loss of their duty free allowances on board...

fil he Jocks are never strapped for fuel economy ideas. These canny lads come from a 1941 cartoon on wartime petrol rationing,...

• Royal Mail Parcelforce has opened a 1,500m 2 distribution depot in Lincoln to replace the two others in the city. The...

IN The Railfreight Users Group will host a conference entitled Intermodai Freight Systems on 6 November at The Hendon Hall,...

▪ Tile Hill College, the Coventry-based truck and PCV engineering training centre, is spending £400,000 on improving its...

• A pocket-size map and Guide to European Cities is now available from Francis Chichester. It covers 29 Continental cities...

Only 24 hours from Seddon ▪ Seddon Atkinson has introduced a Linkline telephone number for its Sabre 24-hour service_ The new...

been talking gloom and despondency, Leeds-based Optare has confidently continued building and developing models to fill just...

You recently referred to drivers having problems producing licences to the authorities when they were away for renewal. I...

Can you tell me if the police have any right to inquire whether a bus operator had a vehicle in a particular road at a given...

As minibus operators we sometimes provide a box for elderly people to step on so that they can reach the bottom step of the...

JG OSBORNE • Short of going bust, business life over the past year could hardly have been tougher for Ron Osborne, a third...

MESSAGE FROV DISTRIBUTOF DDON ATKINSON kSSOCIATION Times have been tough recently, but whatever the economic climate, a good...

US TRUCK SHOW IN Some 500 exhibitors defied America's ailing economy and plummeting truck sales to support the recent...

• I was interested to read your article "Fighting back" (CM 15-21 Aug) and 11 have every sympathy with the three hauliers who...

• So the police are stopping more trucks than ever in an effort to stop illegal operators. Hooray! I'll drink to that (not when...

• I wish to make it clear that I am in no way connected to LP Roadways recently charged with 12 offences including theft and...

• I am trying to contact HGV and car drivers who have received whiplash injuries in road traffic accidents and now suffer from...

R oger McCarthy, managing director of Southway Commercials, has been appointed director/general manager of Scantruck West,...

▪ Topmark Vehicle Leasing, a subsidiary of Southern Water, has appointed John Edwards as sales and marketing director,...

• John Dillon has joined VV-System AG, the Swiss-based manufaturer of Vakuum Vulk cold cure tyre retread treatments. It has...

• Royal Mail Parcelforce has made Peters Walters area manager for the South-West and South Wales, one of six management areas...

• Hemmings Waste Management has appointed Nigel Coombs as managing director. He joins the company from Biffa Waste Services...