• It takes two to tango, so they say, and to do a lot more things besides. Certainly "Operation Dawndrop", the proposed, or...

• The Freight Transport Association is set to launch an experimental out-of-hours delivery scheme in London aimed at...

• All London traffic signs on major routes are to be replaced following a DTp finding that two thirds of drivers lose their way...

• Road Haulage Association chairman Roy Bowles warned that standards in the industry could suffer as a result of change in road...

• It is now virtually neck-andneck in the race to be Britain's leading truck supplier, with Iveco Ford (having registered 5,713...

• Tankfreight has taken the first step towards establishing a pan-European distribution network by linking up with German...

• Oil industry analysts are split over the prospect of big increases in fuel prices. Barclays de Zoete Wedd predicts hikes in...

• The Department of Transport has confirmed that farmers will be free to take on general haulage work using agricultural...

• Specifications for the Eurotunnel freight trains, which will carry trucks through the Channel Tunnel, now include power...

• Government cash for road building will not be cut back if private firms build and operate more highways in Britain, says...

• The Leyland Daf Commercial Motor Runnerthon vehicle left the starting blocks this week, with Robert Wiseman Dairies of...

• Council staff have won almost 75% of all council contracts compulsorily put out to tender, according to a trade union...

• Aberdeen-based freight and haulage firm Glen Dee Service Company is going Dutch by taking a substantial stake in a...

• Dairy Products Transport, the transport arm of Dairy Crest, has agreed the terms of a new working arrangement with Dutch...

• A three-year six-figure contract - hire deal has been won by Transfleet Services to transport pharmaceutical products to...

• Bing,ley-based trailer manufacturer and bodybuilder Wilson Truck Services has just completed an order worth over £500,000 for...

• Scarab this week delivered its first 237,500 Scarab Major roadsweeper to the Royal Borough of Windsor. The vehicle is built...

• Peterborough-based Ray Smith Demountables has supplied a demount system to brewers Whitbread with a 1,067mm-high (42in) deck...

• BP is introducing a new type of tanker into its fleet which is claimed to be considerably more stable than existing designs....

• Lower axle weights, and renewed interest from British heavy hauliers, has encouraged Leyland Daf to develop its own 200-tonne...

• Steyr has approved a second sleeper-cab conversion for its range of trucks. In February (CM 2-8 February) Steyr announced...

• Slough-based Markcontact has designed and manufactured a multi-purpose car transporter using a SEVEL-built frontwheel-drive...

• Scientists in New Zealand claim to have successfully operated an unmodified directinjection diesel engine on straight...

• Masons Paper's fleet of 22 Lorries has been taken over by Wincanton Vehicle Rentals, which will lease the vehicles back to...

• Christian Salvesen is continuing its expansion drive away from refrigerated distribution with an attack on the dry freight...

• Delanair, the vehicle airconditioning and heating firm which supplies ERF, Seddon Atkinson, Daf BV and Leyland Bus, has been...

• Two distribution contracts worth more than 22 million have been signed by Swift Transport Services and Ford New Holland....

• Ford more than doubled its pre-tax profits in 1988 to 2673 million — smashing the company's previous 1979 record of 2386...

• Busways Travel Services has been bought by its management and employees in a 14.35 million deal which incorporates a 49%...

• The Office of Fair Trading has been called in to intervene as mounting competition in Loughborough has led independent...

• After nearly a year of service trials with a Neoplan Metroliner bus, BVG of Berlin has ordered 23 of the advanced PSVs. The...

• City of Oxford Motor Services has invested 2450,000 on five Daf coaches to operate the summer timetable of its X70 airport...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) has signed a co-operative venture agreement with Plaxton under which the coachbuilder will body and...

• The management at Kelvin Central (formerly Central Scottish) is taking the Transport & General Workers Union to court over...

• ATL subsidiary Airebus, which operated services in Leeds, closed down last week. The surprise move came two weeks after...

• Huddersfield coach operator Ivy Travel has sold its buses and goodwill to Wakefield-based Caldaire Holdings, leaving Ivy...

• Joseph and Wendy Dean have been fined 21,000 with 2140 costs after tional journey permits with intent to deceive. When they...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority George Smedley has ad cence renewal bid by South Shields-based Marchant Road...

ator's licence, although he does not have any vehicles. Cleveley, who holds a licence for two vehicles, appeared at...

• The position of the nominated transport manager on the licence held by Shropshire haulier Victor Harding is to be...

• Because Seagull Foods had recognised a management deficiency and put it right, West Midland Deputy LA Roger Seymour decided...

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the only fair and reasonably accurate way of testing a driver's knowledge, skill and competency. A practical and economic...

BY THE HAWK • A 125-year birthday party is planned for mid-June in Ulm to commemorate the foundation in 1864 by CD Magirus of...

a pretty good idea what the average Japanese Sumo wrestler looks Like, so it comes as no surprise that a Japanese manufacturer...

micro van ages and components wear. Neither version has any trouble at all keeping up with other traffic in urban and suburban...

• Hauliers are currently in a strong position to shop around for the best insurance deal for their goods and trucks as more and...

These include vehicle insurance (Fleetcover); cargo, insurance (Thnicover), and transit goods insurance (Transitcover). It also...

cutting hefty insurance premiums is to enrol on a defensive driving course. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents...

it three weeks later, badly damaged. The vehicle was worth about £25,000. The damage comes to some £8,000. The insurance...

load of passengers) in a roadside check. Every thing was OK but the traffic examiner picked up on the first-aid kit above the...

sharply on the approach to a road obstruction. I was driving a drawbar artic with 10 cars aboard. To my horror the trailer...

week and told that his calibration plate on the tachograph was out of date and that he would be reported for the offence. How...

DR, Croydon A This information is conitained in 1.380, volume 28, Official Journal of the European Communities, Commission...

to trade it in the same name. The new firm's Operators Licence is for five vehicles and 12 trailers and ours is for 26 vehicles...

I/ The change of venue for this year's Institute of Road Transport Engineers conference and display on 11-12 May has won the...

• There is no such thing as cheap insurance, says veteran road transport insurance broker Len Jose. Penny-pinching hauliers who...

HORTON/HARDING/ HARTFIELD Geoff Horton has been promoted to national development manager of NCCS. He was previously...

BULLETIN AN OPERATOR was ordered to pay Plk Imes and costs totalling £326.50 in his absence by magistrates who convicted him...

• WILL the Department of Transport and the Freight Transport Association alter the advice they are giving, following the recent...

• THE HEALTH and Safety Executive has issued Draft Approved Codes of Practice covering the classification and marking of...