• "We are not going to take action that will harm the road freight industry and therefore by definition, British in dustry,"...

Lu MORE POWER AND j BETTER ECONOMY There's some interesting small print on the facing page a list of improvements we've made...

• Allegations that the prosecution of "cowboy" operators is being severely hampered by budgetary limits imposed by the Vehicle...

• The provision of Section 8 grants to private investors in rail distribution may soon be extended in a bid to relieve motorway...

• Truck sales are still up on last year's figures, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The number of...

• French truckers plan to take their transport minister to court over the penalty points system which sparked July's motorway...

• A proposal to increase the annual vehicle test fee by £2.30 to £34.70 has gone out to consultation again. The Department of...

• The fate of the troubled road/rail company Charterail should be decided within days — determining whether the 2,000 tonnes a...

• Management at Sadler Tankers met union representatives yesterday (Wednesday 9 September) to discuss a drivers' pay dispute...

• Daf-Germany has developed a dual-height fifth wheel to cater for the growing number of highvolume jumbo trailers working...

• Cummins' Celect electronic fuel management system has been developed to provide its 10 and 14-litre engines with variable...

• Leyland Dal is pegging the price of its 6x4 rigids which are being built to meet the 26 tonne GVW limit. Short-wheelbase FAT...

• From 1 January 1993 UK operators will be granted an increase in weight limits for three, four and some five-axled vehicles....

• A buyer is being sought for Lewis Transport. The Peterborough-based haulier is about to start the busiest part of its year...

• Anti-truck protests have pushed a south Wales coal producer into investing £12m in transporting 500,000 tonnes of coal a year...

• German hauliers are following the example of shipping companies and registering trucks abroad so they can run on "number...

• Bogus job agencies are cashing in on the recession by demanding registration fees from out-of-work drivers. The Metropolitan...

• A Manchester Industrial Tribunal has decided that four drivers were unfairly dismissed by Accrington-based Greenies Rosewood...

• Vehicles delivering gas cookers, boilers and meters are not exempt from the EC tachograph regulations, the European Court has...

• The licence of Derby ownerdriver Raymond Godsmark has been renewed, subject to the production of a maintenance contract with...

• Brian Allison, who ran the failed Puma Transport, has been granted a licence in his own name by North Western Licensing...

dents have failed to block a bid by Doncaster haulier Steven Porter to change his operating centre. Porter, trading as S&N...

• Robert Wright's low-floor citybus will cost 10% less than continental competitors in the line-up for the London Transport...

• The £32m fight for control of Henlys, owner of coach and bus maker Plaxton and motor retail outlets, ended last week when T...

• Bus and coach operators are buying smoke monitors to avoid being caught out in the annual roadworthiness test now they face...

• A three-axled Renault Master with bodywork from French builder Durisotti was one of several Renault vehicles on Volvo's stand...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles, which is about to be floated by its parent Trinity Holdings, says that the planned injection of...

• Glass Glover Distribution has bought a dozen Scania P113340 tractive units and 14 GRP Massey triaxle multi-compartment reefer...

• Ray Smith Demountables used the Freightconnection exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham to launch a side-on transfer intermodal...

• Just a few days ago it seemed that the road transport industry had got rid of yet another competitor from the rail freight...

they become bashful when one sensitive topic arises. Prices. And when you start asking questions about comparisons between...

of Seddon Atkinson's TC 26.28L six-wheeler (CM 9-15 July) with the eight-wheeled version of that chassis, although in a very...

T he EC directive (91/542/EEC), better known as Euro-1, has completed consultation and is shortly to be drawn up in UK law as...

Beyond the diesel engine, manufacturers are continuing to research into alternative fuels, either in-house or through...

• At the launch of the new generation Ford Transit last autumn, attention was focused on the developments for the...

I/ Fears that the Government's Citizens' Charter pledge to deregulate motorway service areas (MSAs) would lead to falling...

John Taylorson, Freight Parks disaster," says Sheriff. "Another thing that worried us was the possibility that 'greasy...

/ Last November, the Department of Social Security interviewed 300 drivers at roadside checks in Scotland, collecting evidence...

an excuse for rate cutting on existing work' i 0 ver the past 10 years return loads have become more of a lottery than a...