• In clearing David Bruce (Northern) Ltd, and one of the company's drivers, of tyre offences, Ampthill magistrates have ordered...

Mid Sussex Water Co 111 The South Eastern As and Ds records that at a public inquiry a licence variation was granted in...

II One of the problems with magistrates' courts is the apparent discrepancy between one court and another. I tried to explain...

Michael Stevens, of South Yorks • After hearing representations from 20 local residents, North Eastern Deputy Licensing...

II What exactly constitutes an operator's operating centre for the purposes of the licensing legislation? This can be a thorny...

M R Jones v Job Horton • The dismissal of a driver by Job Horton Ltd has been held to be unfair, by a Birmingham Industrial...

John Porter and Robert Whaley (Stapleton Removals and Transport, of Long Eaton) II The two vehicles licence held by John...

• Injuring a pedestrian while driving carelessly and driving after drinking too much are rated by the public as more serious...

• A reader has asked for guidance as to what is a "commercial vehicle". Curiously, while we all use the expression knowing...

F Goldsmith (Sicklemere) II The decision of the Eastern Traffic Commissioner to revoke a public service vehicle operator's...

• Advice to coach operators attending the Glasgow Garden Festival is published in the Scottish Notices and Proceedings at the...

• It comes as no surprise that the frustrations of stranded lorry drivers have boiled over into action on the ferry docks this...

• A new HGV testing station opened in Workington, Cumbria on Tuesday 10 May. The 2450,000 station at Lillyhall Industrial...

• Furious lorry drivers used their trucks to blockade Dover's Eastern Docks this week, refusing to allow any vehicles on or off...

• The Government's spending watchdog, the Audit Commission, has criticised Britain's local highway authorities for not spending...

• Bus workers in Bristol who bought shares when their company was privatised eight months ago have seen their holdings rocket...

ruling that drivers can work more than six daily driving periods within six days, provided that they do not push the total...

• The current commercial vehicle sales boom shows little sign of abating, judging by the latest registration figures from the...

increase in international haulage permits to West Germany to 45,000 permits a year — an additional 5,000. "This increase is...

• The European Commission came under pressure last week to table proposals for a common minimum tyre tread depth for trucks....

• This year's Commercial Motor Livery Awards — the prestigious company image competition — is to be sponsored by ICI...

• The Road Haulage Association has attacked Government proposals to offer road construction projects to private sectors....

halt a decline in an area in which the UK was once pre-eminent, has made its first Company of the Year Award to Eaton Truck...

free. No reason was given for ending his one-year sentence eight months early, but Henderson was told by warders on Monday last...

• lveco Ford has developed a lowered version of its powerful — 130kW (177hp) — 175.17 17-tonner for the brewery and drinks...

• Lancer Boss has launched a range of RO-RO lift trucks which, it claims, do not suffer from brake fade due to overheating. To...

• The Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland is experimenting with two Volvo 4x2 tractive units coupled to single steered...

flatbed drawbar into service to distribute bikes from its base at Eastleigh, Hampshire to retail outlets throughout Britain....

• After months of speculation, MAN has finally decided that its mighty 338kW (460hp) 19.462 tractive unit will go on sale in...

• Translide, the Bedwas Ford Transit driver's sliding door, can now be fitted in four hours while you wait. The cost is .£576...

• Wreckers International, the Hertford-based recovery equipment company, staged its own "hands on" show at Knebworth Park near...

• CSL Corporation, which claims to be the fifth largest trailer rental company in the UK, had a good 1987, with pre-tax profits...

• Express parcels carrier City Link Transport has opened its 40th office in the UK. The depot, in Gloucester, makes City Link...

• A specialist in-house and contract design service for commercial vehicle manufacturers and bodybuilders has been launched by...

• Plant hire company Go Plant has added 42 road sweepers, mounted on lveco Ford Cargo 1311s, to its 160strong fleet. The...

• HP Information has launched a statistical service to update motor trade subscribers with the latest UK vehicle financing...

vehicle tyre plant, which has produced six million truck and bus tyres since opening in 1969. Although no new jobs are being...

• After weeks of speculation, the National Freight Consortium's newspaper distribution company, Newsflow, has finally tied up...

arm, is streamlining its London operation, splitting the King's Cross branch's work between a new depot at Muswell Hill in...

• TNT is to launch a contract services division aimed at car, electronics and plant manufacturers following the success of a...

• A mobile cleaning service for commercial vehicles, launched by the Tankclean network of road tanker cleaning stations in...

• Temporary drivers' employment agency Overdrive has agreed with the Transport and General Workers' Union that its 6,000 staff...

• Sheffield-based parcels carrier Tuffnells Parcels Express delivered a record number of consignments last year, increasing its...

non-Europe countries, from Eindhoven to Leyland Dafs UK headquarters at Thame. • Willhire has taken delivery of two tipping...

• Leyland Bus is dropping the Royal Tiger integral coach, the Lion double-deck chassis, as well as the TL-I1 engine from its...

I As many as 100 minibuses uld soon be running in and it of the giant Merry Hill Lopping complex, near Halesyen and Stourbridge...

• No tachograph will be needed when a bus more than 25 years-old is driven on the road — provided that it is being used in...

• The 1,000th person to pass the skills test in the PSV industry was presented with the joint Bus and Coach Training/ City and...

I The Routemaster has been sured a stay of execution by >ndon Buses (LBL) which ;t week decided against a mplete switch to...

road was unsuitable on road safety grounds were rejected by South Wales licensing authority John Mervyn Pugh when he granted...

• Because a vehicle operating under the Special Types provisions moved too soon, Lancashire heavy haulier J B Rawcliffe & Son...

• Four offences of permitting a driver to exceed his daily driving limit and to take insufficient rest were said to be some of...

• No action has been taken against Midland Red (West) or Redline Bus Company, which have been involved in a "bus battle" that...

• North Yorkshire hauliers Ernest and Alan Sadler, trading as Sadler's Transport of Boroughbridge, were given an absolute...

• North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Frederick Whalley has refused to remove conditions relating to the operation of football...

UTCS CENTRALISES HQ • Contract distributor United Transport Contract Services has centralised its headquarters at Solihull. The...

DEES FOR IVECO FORD • Dees of Croydon has opened an Iveco Ford dealership in the town's Imperial Way. Its full address is: 2...

LEARNING TO QUOTE • A course teaching road hauliers, freight forwarders, parcels couriers and others in transport to quote...

DISCUSSING THE DISC • The future of disc brakes on commercial vehicles will be examined at an international conference in...

GULF UPRATES DIESEL LUBRICANTS RANGE • Gulf Oil has uprated its diesel engine lubricants to give claimed lower oil consumption,...

ices of its light and medium mmercial vehicles from 16 ay. Examples (with old ices in brackets) are: esta Van 950 Popular,...

If you join London's orbital 25 at junction 14 and want to 3ve at junction 28, are you ticker going clockwise or anti)ckwise —...

from Middlesbrough to Zeebrugge, on the vessel Aquila began this week. Details are: Flag: French; Capacity: 113 x 12m trailers;...

• London and the South East MI London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). MI. Buckinghamshire: Lane...

ZF's AVS gear changing system is designed to make cog swapping easy. We have taken a close look at what it has to offer, both...

When it comes to road transport a company vehicle is frequently the first line of contact with a potential customer, and a...

IN Well done, yet again, Commercial Motor and the other organisations for another excellent Truckfest. It is becoming an...

• It was a pleasure to notice in your report on the Iveco 175.17 (CM 21-27 April) that you appreciated our efforts to make life...

• We have read with interest the article by The Hawk' (CM 14-20 April 1988) on the Beamish Replica 1913 bus project, and would...

The rest of post-deregulation Britain may be riven by bus wars, but in Worthing the accent is on friendly rivalry, not least...

Unhappy with changes in West Yorkshire Road Car after deregulation, a group of drivers set up competition as Harrogate...

The Hawk may have discovered that lorries, like elephants go to a special place to die. In this case they throw themselves at...

of publicising launches of other magazines but it was hard to ignore the forthcoming Austin Rover paper, to be edited by...

So overcome was Felixstowe man Richard Collins by the charms of his Scania that after just one week of knowing Andrea Newton he...

Posers, sybarites and haulers of heavy loads will not yearn after a Yugo ; but its rock-bottom price, good brakes and...

The show, forming part of the Institute of Road Transport Engineer's annual conference will be a launching pad for new vehicles...

distributor SPD. He has been with the company since 1973, when he joined as a depot manager in Hull. He reports to managing...

named sales director at Iveco Ford's Wolverhampton dealership, Don Everall Trucks. He was previously general sales manager.

Bob Rudd has been appointed sales manager of Scully UK, oil terminal and road tanker safety system engineer. He was previously...

Henleys has made three senior appointments. Stephen Poster becomes managing director, for the motor division. Geoffrey Lockyer...

manager of United Transport Company, the UK freight arm of United Transport International. He will report to Richard Dawbarn,...

Alan Stubbs has become new vehicle sales manager for West Pennine Trucks, the Middleton Scania distributor. He heads a team of...

Sandy Anderson has been promoted to managing director of TIP subsidiaries in the UK and Eire. He joined the National Freight...

Chemist Keith Smith is to take charge of research and development at KaIon Industrial Coating's Hadfields and Coachline CV...

appointed Ivor Seyler director of finance. He will succeed George Suckling, who retires on 31 May after 17 years with the...

as marketing manager, working from Bristol head office. He will hold an executive position on the board. He joined the company...

Cope are the new editor and assistant editor of the Economist magazine's intelligence unit automotive division. The division is...

Tom Hastey has joined Rentco Nationwide as director, engineering — a new post. He spent 15 years with P&O Group, joining as...

John Fearn is to head a product development programme for BRS Western as new trailer rental manager. He will be based at the...