• The Association of Metropolitan Authorities is not renowned for its love of trucks, but the new national policy report it is...

Campaign for Work as "an utterly irresponsible leap in the dark". Funds for training will be slashed, it says, even though...

• Hauliers face a council crackdown as the Association of Metropolitan Authorities votes this week on a new national policy...

• The Transport and Road Research Laboratory has slammed portable weighpads and, after testing 36 models, says "none are ideal"...

will be spearheaded in February with a publication of a White Paper based on the North report. • A self-employed removals...

• Dover seamen plan to hit back at P&O European Ferries, which sacked 900 of them last year, by setting up their own rival...

formally rejected a Road Haulage Association pay offer of an extra 2.8.50 a week for Greater London. At a conference of its...

• Commercial Vehicle registrations hit a record 356,783 last year — up 14% on 1987, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

SPD's Woking depot will shut this month, but its 96 employees are to be offered jobs in other parts of the group. The...

• A Whitehall row has erupted over Government plans to privatise the Civil Service's in-house parcel delivery system....

• The Freight Transport Association has confirmed that Transport Secretary Paul Channon will be the guest speaker at its annual...

• Leyland Daf has decided to build a batch of four-axle 95Series tractive units for the heavy haulage market, to overcome...

earthquake-striken Armenia. A top-level meeting next week between the London-based Aid Armenia office and two British hauliers...

• Scania's Series 3 truck range has been voted the 1989 Truck of the Year by a panel of 13 commercial vehicle editors, drawn...

• Many drivers are unaware of a new M23 service station because its motorway signs have yet to be erected. The area, at...

• Britain's first Faun heavy haulage tractors have gone to work for GEC Distribution Services. The three 8x8 West German...

• Scania is considering extending the fitment of its Electronic Diesel Control (EDC) truck engine management system beyond the...

• Swedish truck builder Scania is developing a version of its P93 17-tonner with air suspension on both axles for use with...

IN Mercedes Benz's smallest commercial range, the Ti series, is getting new diesel engines, new gearboxes and an interior...

• Austin Rover has denied rumours that it is about to fit Perkins' two-stage injection systems to the direct-injection...

• Stricken parcels carrier Eagle Express has been relaunched by its ex-managing director and 30 former franchisees, days after...

• Northampton-based parcels carrier Nexday has come under the majority control of an American investment group. Jim Zockoll,...

parcel carrier Lynx. He will report to former Lynx boss Graham Roberts, who is now managing director of NFC's Transport...

• P&O is revamping its European Transport Services division by merging its Tankmasters demountable tank operation with its...

hirer of cleansing vehicles to public authorities, has been bought from Tarmac Group by AAH Holdings for 06.86 million. AAH has...

• A scheme designed to make it easier for truck drivers and warehousemen to become managers or be rewarded for good work has...

• TIP has introduced tipper trailers into its rental fleet as the latest move in its strategy of exploiting niche markets...

and the South East, has snapped up the former Crane Fruehauf depot at South Mimms services, next to the M25. Scantruck beat...

• Daf By, the Anglo-Dutch truck group due to go public in a £250 million stock market flotation this summer, doubled its net...

• Unigate's Wincanton transport subsidiary has started its drive into Europe with the acquisition of Spronsen, the Dutch...

• Heronfreight has won its third contract distribution deal with Gateway Foodmarkets to service the food chain's flagship...

• National Express Holdings has taken over Thandi Coaches, the Birminghambased network which caters for ethnic communities...

• More than 500 drivers and conductors staged a 24-hour strike at London Buses' largest depot last Thursday in protest at the...

• Yorkshire Rider is taking delivery of 25 Northern Counties-bodied Leyland Olympians. They are powered by Cummins engines with...

support of his operators and has recommended to its committee not to oppose informal agreements between operators, which have...

7% during 1986/87 and by almost 3% in 1987/88; bus mileage increased by 7% in English metropolitan areas, and 17% elsewhere...

• The first new double-deck buses purchased by an independent operator in the North West since deregulation have been delivered...

• Four of Britain's largest bus operators face being broken up into smaller companies by the Government. Four Passenger...

• Municipally-owned Barrow Borough Transport has become insolvent and is up for sale. Barrow Borough says 20 parties are...

deckers on Scania chassis, and six Dennis Dominators with Cummins 155kW engines and KF 4HP500 fully automatic gearboxes. •...

outside Buckingham Palace after receiving his MBE in the Birthday Honours.

• A 100% annual test failure rate by Maun International Coachways of Sutton-inAshfield, has forced Eastern Traffic Commissioner...

• The duration of the 0licence held by Richard Hilliard, trading as Accrington Coachways, has been cut with conditions...

• Accrington-based Raymond and Mary Pilkington, trading as Pilkington's Coaches, have been banned from operating local services...

• Nottingham-based A Camm had three charges of running buses which were not displaying 0-licence discs dismissed last week,...

pushed the company into disciplinary proceedings before Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd because of...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has decided not to impose any operating restrictions on the Durham depot...

Econofreight United Transport and one of its drivers last week, after they were convicted of overloading offences by the...

their local MP Peter Bottomley — who also doubles as Roads and Traffic Minister — a hard time at a local meeting in protest...

it sounds better — Ed) for the George Simpson/Roger Phillips caption competition. Pick of the week has Simpson (on the left)...

anything more than 15 years, but at BRS Northern's Leeds branch, long service means something more. Six men have clocked up 262...

for smokers. The blow to nicotine addicts is being softened by the distribution of locallymade mints. So that smokers are not...

KEEP TRI-ING • Tri-Spray (UK) has moved its head office and factory to Leeds. The new address is Strata Building, 2 Leathley...

FODEN'S FCL MOVES • Foden dealer FCL Trucks has moved to larger premises at Bedfont Road, Stanwell near Heathrow, only 10...

NEW EAGLE STAR CV DISCOUNTS • Insurance group Eagle Star is offering new discount rates on its commercial motor policies with...

ON THE BUTTON • Transport computer consultants Spooner and Spooner has launched a computerised fleet management system. Cost of...

POWERING UP • Fork-lift truck company Harvey Plant has announced a contract hire traction battery scheme. The new service...

PC TAKE-AWAYS • Road Transport Corresondence Courses has updated s CPC home-study packs for oth the national and internatonal...

;LOWLY DOES IT I The speed limit on the ‘832 at Kinlochewe in Scotland as been reduced to 641cmh .40mph). The Scottish Office...

M40 Buckinghamshire: Eastbound lane closures between junctions 4 and 5 (Stokenchurch/High Wycombe) during off-peak hours. M3...

PEO PL E Most companies would like to pride themselves on having a caring owner: bus operator Yorkshire Rider boasts 3,500 of...

IN The road transport industry will look back at 1988 as the year when truck sales leaped by around 14% — and when lead times...

IN Nine very different vehicles competed in this category, and the final shortiist consisted of three pickups and one...

SHORTLIST Mazda E2000 Renault Master Renault Trafic Freight Rover Sherpa 350 TESTERS' CHOICE RENAULT MASTER T35 • "We wuz...

SHORTLIST Iveco Ford Daily Mercedes-Benz 407D Renault 546 TESTERS' CHOICE IVECO FORD DAILY • While volume sales continue to...

SHORTLIST AWD TL8-14 dropside Leyland Daf Roadrunner 8.15 boxyan MAN-VW 8.150F curtainsider TESTER'S CHOICE ROADRUNNER 8.15 •...

SHORTLIST Iveco Ford 175.17 Mercedes-Benz 1617 Seddon Atkinson 2-11 TESTERS' CHOICE SEDDON ATKINSON 2-11 • Last April saw the...

WHEELERS SHORTLIST Leyland Daf 30.30 Renault G260 Seddon Atkinson 3-11 TESTERS' CHOICE LEYLAND DAF 30.30 • In the...

SHORT LIST ERF E10-32ST Iveco Ford Turbostar 190.36 MAN 19.462FT Volvo FL10-320 TESTERS' CHOICE ERF E10-32ST • Despite the...

SHORTLIST Iveco Ford 220.36 Leyland Daf 95-310 Scania R143 TESTERS' CHOICE SCANIA R143 • Despite an initial price premium of...

Our long-term test van has proved very reliable and is blessed with superb load volume but lacks comfort and is rather noisy....

Among several other business interests, Tim Askew sells cellular phones. Trading as TGA Communications, he has sold a...

on the new series "Any Questions" which I feel is an excellent and longneeded service. I would like to pass a comment on one...

your "Any Questions" (Commercial Motor 15-21 December 1988) deals with an issue on which the FTA frequently receives enquiries....

This summer Ford plans to launch the eye-catching body styling kit for the P100 pickup which made its debut at last year's...

PRIMA SHERPA We test Freight Rover's 250 Crewbus to see whether improvements made to engine and body warrant the company's...

Motor has a new editor in Brian Weatherley, 35, our former deputy-editor, and a new deputy-editor in Geoff Hadwick, 29, our...

has made a number of staff appointments: Leading the national sales division is Geoff Taberner, the director (national sales)...

executive secretary of the European Transport Maintenance Council. Before this he was general advisor at the Institut du...

member of the Transport Tribunal replacing Charles Scott-Malden who, after 10 years' service, is retiring. She joins from the...

be promoted to managing director of North East Leyland Daf from 1 February. He has been general manager of Lex Tillotson,...

the Motor Industry has appointed Les Wharton, the managing director of the Austin Rover Group, as a vice-president.

sales and marketing director at Charringtons Contract Hire. He joined the company in March 1987 as sales and marketing manager.

appointed two national accounts managers at its Walsall headquarters. Steven Burdon joins from British Car Auctions, where he...

He joined the company in 1973 on the sales force and was most recently general manager of the Scandinavian division. In his new...

engineering and purchasing of Greater Manchester Buses. He deals with Light Rapid Transit, GM engineering, purchasing and...

of Godfrey Davis (Holdings) after 54 years. He remains as a non-executive director and has been appointed president.

Published by Commercial Motor CONTENTS Page 2 A Benbecula operator, said by a vehicle examiner to have a complete lack of...

• Because they believed that Victor Clements, trading as Clements Transport, of Sheerness, and his driver David Beeching, had...

A A MacDonald Contractors (Benbecula) • The imposition of prohibition notices on vehicles operated by A A MacDonald...

Delta Cars of Manchester 111 An application for a restricted public service vehicle operator's licence by Bernard Jeffries,...

1111 Leyland magistrates fined lorry driver John Davis £75 for an overloading offence, but decided to give his employer, Walter...

• I have a mixed bag again this month. It is the New Year and the postal service is suffering its usual agonies. Still, I have...

A H and M J Brown 111 The Transport Tribunal has decided that the Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority misdirected himself in...

Recent case is a lesson for hauliers The recent case of Peter Maughan Transport Ltd, before North Eastern Deputy Licensing...

Thornton's book on law and procedures in road transport • Every applicant for an operator's licence including a renewal must...

Christopher John Dean (Dean Haulage) • In 1985, Christopher John Dean, who trades as Dean Haulage, was granted a standard...

What hope of discretion for professionals? • I did not anticipate arty response to my article on operator licensing in...