• "The basic operator licensing system is meant to maintain quality standards — but this is not enough. By granting more and...

• Shadow Transport Secretary John Prescott is taking a close look at operator licensing — and he has pledged to serialise tacho...

• An HGV training school boss has asked the Government to allow trainee drivers to sit their tests without having to wait for a...

• The new man in charge of transport at the European Commission in Brussels is to be British. Robert Coleman, a bureaucrat...

• Transport Development Group profits are down 8% chiefly because of a disappointing performance from its overseas...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union is attacking a London local authority for banning trucks from the only official...

• Metropolitan Licensing Authority Ronald Ashford is to take over as overseer of the revamped licensing authority system, the...

• Scottish parcels operators have been told by a ferry company that they can continue to enjoy special rates for their...

• Tipper drivers have been warned to beware of potentially deadly overhead electricity power lines when making rural...

• Sales of commercial vehicles in the UK continue to tumble: they are now running almost 40% down on 1990, with 17,214 CVs...

• The first prototype engines from the joint IvecoiNissan medium-duty truck diesel engine research project will break cover...

• Fiat's new Uno van, which was unveiled at the Fleet Show in London last week, has a 903cm 3 29kW (39hp) petrol engine, not...

• Iveco Ford says that production of right-hand-drive versions of the 85kW (114hp) charge-cooled TurboDaily, launched at the...

backsliding • A device which is claimed to prevent trucks from rolling backwards on hills is being launched by Rotalok of...

• Four UK tanker builders — three of them from Northern Ireland — are bodying 500 Russian Kamaz 24-tonne sixwheelers bound for...

• A Belgian haulier has placed the biggest order yet for Renault's AE tractive unit. Super-Liner Cargo of Antwerp is taking on...

• As predicted by Commercial Motor, Mercedes-Benz is to unveil four new models in May at 6.6, 7.5, 11 and 24 tonnes. The 11 and...

• A Formula One racing team is buying the first left-hooker Scania R113 360 Streamline in the UK. The Benetton team will take...

• John Davison, former owner of the collapsed transport giant the John Dee Group, has lodged an application for an Operator's...

• UK distribution companies should be prepared for a "major threat" from Japanese rivals, warns logistics consultant Martin...

• Dedicated Magazine Deliveries, which was set up to launch a magazine distribution operation following the collapse of Time...

• Drivers at Taunton Cider are waiting to see how an impending management buyout will affect their jobs. The company employs...

• Tipper operators have reacted angrily to a decision by Brentford-based contractor Day Aggregates to slash 5% off the rate for...

• BRS has lost a 25,000-ayear vehicle maintenance contract with the Transport Development Group, which has awarded the work to...

• Staffordshire-based used truck specialist Malcolm Harrison is looking to sell its headquarters at Barlaston. According to...

• TNT is negotiating with AAH Tyler over the future of a 100-vehicle maintenance contract following Bromley Council's sale of...

• A haulage boss who admitted running vehicles without authority following the demise of his previous company has had his bid...

• Hereford City Waste Traders has lost its Operator's Licence after failing to advert:se an application to change its operating...

• A driver for Thirsk-based Calvert and Sons was criticised after his vehicle was given an immediate prohibition order for...

• Abbey Freight of Chesterton, Staffs, has had a licence application refused because no one from the company turned up before...

• Leigh Environmental has won authority to base 20 vehicles at Trelogan, near Holywell, following its acquisition of the waste...

• Anthony Biker, managing director of AW Biker, Bedale and 14 of its drivers have been committed for trial at Teesside Crown...

IN A waste disposal contractor who moved his operating centre without getting official permission has had his licence revoked....

• Walter Alexander is bringing its Q-type single-deck bus body to the British mainland after winning orders for nearly 100...

• Optare debuted its 10m single-deck Vecta citybus on the MAN 11.180 chassis at Edinburgh last week. The Alusuisse-bodied...

this is the cover of Tanker Talk, the house magazine of Ravenshaw-based firm Whale Tankers. Inside it reveals: "Our cover shows...

• Although it seems likely that the Government will scrap the Poll Tax and replace it with a more palatable form of local...

IN Many small hauliers and owner-drivers shy away from hiring an accountant, believing that their company is far too small to...

a bold new range of heavy trucks from Leyland. Today it has a new engine, a new name and a new grille... • Take a cab designed...

The arrival of the Series 80 spells the end of proprietary engines in the Leyland Daf tractive unit range, with Cummins and...

Having inherited a comparitively unsophisticated chassis from the Roadtrain, it is perhaps not surprising that the Series 80,...

SS • The local authority waste disposal business has undergone some major changes since the sixties — and Doug Tomlinson has...

• For many years the Republic of China relied heavily on its communist neighbours for truck technology. In the seventies it...

in this country at moaning amongst ourselves about the rates situation in the haulage industry, but when it comes to doing...