by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers operating trucks over 12 tonnes will need to recalibrate their speed limiters downwards from 60mph...

• International hauliers have been warned against using their belly tanks in the EC. As a result the EC and trade associations...

• I lauliers are demanding that roads minister Kenneth Carlisle gives personal attention to making drivers' appeals fairer...

• Beck & Pollitzer has ;Answered the challenge of leading MN demanding an investigation into its dealings with the Home Office...

by Karen Miles • A push to end the modification of goods vehicles, legally required when replating, begins this month. The Road...

• The Association of Chief Police Officers is this week urging the Government to update transport law to empower police to...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Scottish Office is considering a change in Scottish law to give hauliers the statutory right of...

hit back at VAT • Police are planning to set up a stolen trucks hotline in a bid to combat soaring theft levels. The move...

by John Kendall 0 Three cabs and three engine -anges spanning 278kW-378kW 370-507hp) feature in the new Eveco Ford EuroStar...

• Polleyn Transport of Reading ha:taken the first two Volvo F12 Globetrotter 6x2 pusher-axle tractive units equipped with rear...

• The new Roadhaus high-roof cab tipped the scales in Radcliffe Eurotrans' decision to buy its first MAN F90 22.372 FVLT 6x2...

• Two new German trucks debuted at Commercial MolorTruckfest '93. Mercedes has won type approval for the 1317AK...

• Problems associated with tipping 6.1 and 9.1m (20 and 30ft) skeletal trailers with free-flowing bulk loads are said to be...

by Karen Miles • Drivers are claiming that attempts to introduce a new national agreement at Tibbett & Britten's Transcare...

• A former HGV driving school boss in Southampton is claiming that a hate campaign by rival firms has caused his business to go...

• '['he long-term haemorrhage in new truck registrations is starting to heal. April's Society of Motor Manufacturers new truck...

• RH Group expects to recruit more drivers for its European groupage service later this year to cope with a sharp increase in...

by Grant Prior • Six people nave lost their jobs and 10 more are under threat following a long-running planning row between a...

• Gefco is inviting owner-drivers to apply for jobs on driver-accompanied services to Italy and Germany. The company has...

• A Spanish i■ wry driver spent a night in the cells after a traffic examiner found he had driven for 12 consecutive days....

• Colin L Parsons Transport (Halesowen) is £7,634 worse off after paying fines, costs and back duty for using six untaxed...

• Caistor, Lincolnshire haulier R. amid Baker has been cleared of overloading charges and failing to have a two-year tachograph...

• John Raymond Bodybuilders of 13ridgencl has been ordered to pay £13,442 compensation for unfairly dismissing a foreman. A...

• Oldham-based Dew Group challenged the accurac-v of the Ainley _ Top dynamic weighbridge for weighing abnormal loads vehicles...

• The licence held by St Helens. based John K Phillips Haulage Contractors was renewed for only a year after North Western...

• A version of the Ejectaload system designed for rigid chassis has been developed by tipper manufacturer EM Wilcox of Market...

• St Neots-based Leay, which transports grass-cutting machinery, has added an MAN 17-tonne rigid with Atlas lorry loader and...

• Boalloy has joined the ranks of trailer manufacturers offering slim neck high volume trailers with lifting roofs. One of its...

built Krone trailer chassis • GRP Massey has supplied Unigate with another five 11.6m insulated trailers to carry its dairy...

by Bryan Jarvis • Silentnight has invested more than 1:5rn in six new 126m 3 drawbar outfits, each having five 7.95m bodies...

If ever there was a case of two wrongs not making a right then this is it. But that's what you get when you go down the route...

delighted to learn that their old foe, the Cruise missile carrier, has been demobbed and is now on sale for civilian duties,...

T he best story doing the rounds at the Irish Road Haulage Association conference in Cork last month concerned an international...

I magine a meeting of Fiat, Citroen and Peugeot, the three partners in the Sevel project: the van market is dead in the water,...

tasks confronting a truck driver these days. Even synchromesh boxes can offer relatively quick changes, while air assisted...

• SAMT is based on Eaton's 12-speed Twin Splitter constant mesh box. Since the majority of CMs testers are confirmed...

• Renault also uses a combination of visual display and lever control. The lever is a joystick moving forwards, backwards and...

T en years after the last big increase in lorry weights, the 44-tonner is poised to make its debut in the UK. But the number of...

H aulage operators tend to expect the worst of EC Directives, but there is one which promises good fortune for those in the...

LTere is a bizarre example of 1 lhow we have got law enforcement priorities totally wrong in this country. Recently, a blue...

looks certain to be longer when the rush starts' 4 D rivers transporting dangerous substances by road after 1 January 1995...

By its very nature, the aftermarket is composed of small workshops, paintshops and suppliers with diverse interests and little...

• The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered Mercedes-Benz to withdraw an advert warning workshops against using...

• The Garage Equipulto Association (GEA) has made a submission to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, countering allegations...

• Service times on ERF's latest EC tractive unit range have been cut and many of the changes made to reduce repair times were...

• The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association (VBRA) has condemned the Environmental Protection Act as "farcical". In a...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate (VI) has moved to clear up any confusion between the MoT test procedures on windscreen repairs and...

• Veng has announced that all its UK-made replacement body panels now have electrocoat primer. This is about to be extended to...

• Workshop operators face huge damages for contaminating the water supply—even if the pollution was accidental and took place...

I t seems that almost everything you touch on new trucks is, or is about to be, controlled by electronics— from ABS brakes to...

a little short of wind with today's quest for power being so dominant. But with a history stretching from 1978 the little heart...

tank on the air system. This prevents the workshop floor getting covered with condensate. The apprentice has already learnt to...

EPA is a blessing in disguise. Before he was allowed to move into his spacious new premises early this year, the local council...

solvent threshold, or demonstrate to a local authority how they intend to reduce solvent usage, PanelWet-Wi pes will be of...

A BS, EDC, EPS, SAMT, CAG, Geartronic and speed limiters — what do they all have in common? Electronics. But in addition to...

• Evolve is a range of three new cold cleaning solvents introduced by ICI with the aim of replacing ozone-depleting methyl...

• Ready Jet is a device being marketed by Gray Campling which provides a stream of air to clean workpieces without...

• Performance Oils is marketing a fully synthetic diesel engine oil made by Amsoil in the US. It s a 15W/40 which meets All...

• The AA200hs is an air-assisted airless spraygun for applying paints with high solids content. While the finish is not good...

• Centor and Centor X are ne‘■ half-mask respirators from Martindale. Depending on the filter fitted, the masks offer...

• Ecomat is the name of t oil and water separatm Ecoair. They are desig remove oil from condens other waste water. The are...

• A diesel cylinder head timing service is being ofl Impulse Developments. repairs, pre-chamber ant guide replacement, cold st...

• Bainbridge has intrudu SPA spark arrester syst vehicles in hazardous e ments. It is designed for ti sional user and works 131...

F cry time a vehicle fails the annual F . ; test it is recorded on the Vehicle Inspectorate's (VI) computer against the...