• It is now three months since Commercial Motor wrote to Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson with irrefutable evidence that the...

• Mercedes-Benz is on the verge of clinching the first ever truck manufacturing agreement between East and West Germany. It...

II Loaded trucks will not be used in HGV driving tests in the immediate future. In a letter to Commercial Motor, Transport...

• The strike by Ford electricians has cost the company about 9,350 lost Transits from its Southampton plant. The plant normally...

• High interest rates, volatile fuel costs and some poor transport performers forced Transport Development Group profits down...

• Parcels and distribution fuin Whizzkids (Couriers), has gone into receivership but is being sold as a going concern.

• Plaxton Group nearly doubled its profits last year, to £8.7 million.

• General Motors has decided to build its £150 million European engine plant on Merseyside despite competition from a West...

• BRS Northern has won a five-year £4.3m vehicle maintenance contract with Bradford Council, boosting its local authority...

• Outgoing NFC chairman Sir Peter Thompson has been appointed chairman of British and Commonwealth Holdings.

again at the issue of laden test vehicles, but claims: "There are sound reasons to continue to require unladen vehicles for...

III Specialist transport group Walter Runciman has bought Cardiff International for £3.8m, giving Runciman's Currie Line new...

• Police have received a complaint over an alleged irregularity in the balloting procedure for the Transport and General...

• Europe's first crash pad able to test 40-tonners is to be built in NeumOnster, West Germany, on land belonging to the German...

• A Labour government would introduce tough legislation making transport operators corporately responsible for the safety of...

• There will definitely be a Single Road Transport Market in Europe by 1993, says EC transport director-general Eduardo Pena —...

• There was a 20% increase in the number of five-axle HGVs on Britain's roads last year, but three and four-axle artics fell...

• Scunthorpe-based Clugston Distribution has won a three-year, £10m contract to deliver cement products for Frodingham Cement...

• TIP Europe has acquired Mobiel Beheer, the Dutch mobile office leasing specialist, for £6.3m.

• Cheshire haulier Stanley Femyhough, who was jailed for 15 months last September for stealing part-loads of grain (CM 5-11...

• Distribution specialist Exel Logistics has slammed the Government's plans for a Uniform Business Rate as "patently unfair and...

• The Department of Transport has won its High Court battle to build 3km of M1 link road through the Colne Valley, Hertfordshire.

• AWD's first new urban artics have gone into operation with Mansfield Breweries. Two of the 2.5m-wheelbase Perkins Phaser...

• There are growing fears that British truck drivers are being duped into carrying drugs into the UK. Many operators, who...

N H(werspeed's brand new high-speed Seacat catamaran ferries, scheduled to enter service on Channel routes from June, may carry...

• Only £1 of every £4.50 collected in road tax is currently spent on the roads, says the AA. The association wants Chancellor...

• The Freight Transport Association is fighting a Bill which, if passed by Parliament, will give London's local authorities...

• Hundreds of top UK operators have already booked their place at Commercial Motor Truckfest '90, including Wittonbased D I...

• Unless Senior Traffic Commissioner John Carpenter is given more resources, he will be unable to tackle problems of leniency...

1 1 Western Licensing Authority Major, General John Carpenter is the first Senior Traffic Commissioner: he has 1)een talking to...

• Saab-Scania is planning to open a French production plant which will raise its European production capacity over the next...

signed by Highway Vehicle Maintenance and the London Borough of Lambeth for the maintenance of 855 vehicles and plant.

• European Shipping is looking for 38-tonne ownerdrivers or small haulage companies in the Midlands and South to help with its...

• Specialised vehicle hire company Blackett UK has been bought out by Richmond-based Bruce Cook (Road Planning). Blacken has a...

• More than 100 drivers have been made redundant from parcels firm Neill Clark (Carriers), which went into receivership East...

parcels venture which has backing from Air France, the French Post Office and one of France's largest express carriers TAT....

a Serious Fraud Office investigation, has issued writs against seven former directors for breach of duty and trust. It is...

• Seddon Atkinson is making more redundancies at its Oldham truck manufacturing plant as part of its "general slimming down...

open sites in France, Germany and Belgium over the next five years, despite takeover rumours. The company, which also wants to...

• Hays' distribution profits rose by 20% to 213.5 million in the six months up to 31 December 1989 thanks to a furniture...

• Weetabix has bought its first Scania, a sleeper-cabbed P93ML4X2R 80 prime mover, which will haul a drawbar trailer to give...

to Vamo, the Bulgarian state-owned engineering company, about assembling up to 50,000 Maestro cars and vans at a new plant in...

• Nuclear Electric has unveiled a prototype nuclearwaste transporter which is now on trial with seven power stations including...

• Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries has ordered the first five of Don-Bur's Urb-A-Tic urban artic semi-trailers following an...

• The RAC has chosen Scotland to evaluate the first Volkswagen to join its recovery fleet. The crewcabbed LT50 will be expected...

• Up to 200 Mercedes-Benz 308D boxvans, worth around £2.5 million, are set to join the fleet of high street electrical retailer...

• Nottingham-based Royston Conpump has chosen the ERF ES6 18R to accommodate its long reach German-built concrete pump....

• Renault Truck Industries is stepping up its attack on the UK heavy tipper market by reducing the tare weight of its G290, 30D...

• The South Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority has taken delivery of the first of a new generation of telescopic Simon...

• A Granning lift-axle conversion on one of Brewery George Gale & Co's Mercedes 1317 rigids has doubled the vehicle's payload...

• One of Scotland's oldest and best-known private bus operators is up for sale, amid rumours that the owners have already...

• A new leaflet detailing tourist coach parks in central London has been produced by the London Tourist Board in association...

• Lancashire independent Northway Little White Buses has launched an attack on the Ormskirk-Skelmersdale trunk route operated...

• IlneKpectedly high costs of trolleybuses look likely to delay or even kill off the proposed Bradford route which is planned...

• Maintenance problems have resulted in Hordean-based Castle Coaches' vehicle licence being chopped from 14 to four by South...

• The Transport Tribunal has refused to re-open the Clayton Jones Group appeals against 0licence revocation. In January the...

• Employees of Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport have been told that their proposed buyout is a non-starter. The borough councils...

• Eight Optare Delta CityBuses built to Disabled Passenger Transport Advisory Committee specifications are being delivered to...

• Greater Manchester Busses has completed its restructuring with the appointment of four more depot general managers. All 13...

• Sheffield independent Yorkshire Terrier has snapped up Silver Service of Rowsley, which recently called in the receivers....

With the UK's high interest rates, weakening exchange rates and poor capital allowances, a growing band of international...

• Derbyshire general and heavy haulier Heanor Haulage has had its licence revoked on maintenance grounds. Granting the company...

• The operation of a defective weighbridge by Park Royal Haulage led to the company being ordered to pay 4()3 in fines and...

• Normantonbased Sanmar Container Services has been given an absolute discharge by Ilarrogate Magistrates after being charged...

• Kent haulier Roland Barton, trading as Roland Barton Transport, has had his licence cut from 12 vehicles and six trailers to...

IN Stockport Magistrates ordered that up to £200 of the defence costs of ARM Construction (Chorley) should be paid out of...

• Gwent haulier Brinley Bevan & Son, whose licence expired in November, voluntarily accepted a cut in the vehicle...

IN Deception charges relating to the use of an Operator's Licence against Pontefract-based Michael O'Hara were dropped when he...

• Swanseabased Logan Williams Transport has been granted an additional six vehicles and trailers on its licence, following the...

BY THE HAWK • The Hawk was suitably gratified to receive an invitation to a cost management conference arranged by eminent...

HIRED HELP IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS • Municipal vehicle hire company Go Plant has opened a depot in Tunbridge Wells, offering its...

has been appointed UK distributor of Alcoa forged aluminium truck and trailer wheels. Contact Tyre-Line Original Equipment,...

introduced on Sealink's Portsmouth-F ishbourne route with room for 20 vehicles and 1,000 passengers. It increases the service...

TALKING FRANGLAIS • The 1990 Franco-British Road Haulage Conference will be held on 2 April at London's Park Lane Hotel by the...

held on total quality management. The first, a European conference on education, training and research, will be held at the...

symposium on industrial robots will be held at the Bella Centre, Copenhagen on 23-26 October. Contact (0234) 853605.

Transport Mutual Services, is running the Stoploss 90 competition to identify ways of avoiding damage to goods in transit and...

programme on fault diagnosis of electronic ignition and electronic fuel injection systems has been introduced by the Road...

on quotations, pricing, agreements, loan requests and the distribution of sales and health and safety information. Contact the...

Backstop works using a rubber sensor strip which is mounted on the rear of the vehicle. The sensor reacts to any slight...

its low-profile Monopoly T600 tyre range for coach applications, and has developed a new version of its Monopoly R200 range to...

by G E Information Services to aid freight forwarders and hauliers keep track of various consignments. Contact 01-846 9711,

'Door-Lok' models either fit direct to the existing locking mechanism or via heavy-duty curved brackets. The locks cost around...

tyre-pressure monitoring and pressure adjustment system called Trak System has been introduced by Thomas Electronics Services....

which are said to be 20% lighter than its previous models. They are available from Intertruck, Dana, Kelletts, Foden Paccar...

launched the Austrian-built Shukra backrest in the UK in three versions: a mountable version which is strapped to the vehicle...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST M4 London: Overnight lone closures eastbound, 11-3 (Chiswick-Hayes). M25 Buckinghamshire: Two...

Starting out in business is not as simple as it may seem and red tape can trip the unwary. We tell you how to avoid the...

BRUIVINUE • Has anyone else thought how ironic it is that the recent spate of destructive storms has coincided with a severe...

Leyland Dal, like Freight Rover before it, is in the habit of producing commercials with solid road behaviour, and the 100...

with two top potential clients on the Continent. Doug Lawrence did — thanks to Commercial Motor and Castrol I/ Winning a trip...

North East Leyland Daf is the first UK truck dealer to win the quality standard BS5750. Other distributors will be forced to...

All the benefits of a national parcels network without the bind of joining a franchise network? That's what Phoenix Express...

Q I am thinking of starting up my own business with my own truck. I am hoping to go on a CPC course. If 1 was not able to get...

Q One of our drivers dropped a semi trailer on a lavby to go and get some food. When he came hack he found the police at the...

Q A few months ago one of our vans hit overhead power lines that had been brought down. The roof rack was wrecked and the roof...

Q I do semi-permanent work for the gas and water authorities which are not required to use tachographs. Because I am not...

Q I own a 12-seater mini bus and have taken out three of the seats to accommodate passengers' luggage. I have been told that I...

Q I have been told by the police that I need to use a tachograph on my dust cart. Surely that is not right? They intend to...

Q Could you define cabotage, there seems to be some confusion over the issue. Also is it legal if a foreign vehicle is banned...

Q I have been an ownerdriver for 17 years, and recently read an article about people hiring vans to do removals. Who holds the...

Q Our vehicles are fitted with top-speed limiters which are set at 100km/h (62.14 mph). Surely this is wrong. We have argued...

Q [was delivering a container to a port early one morning when the dock foreman told me I could not get out of the cab, because...

Q As hay and straw merchants, we use two-axle long-bodied vehicles. If we stack over a certain height we experi ence roll...

Q On a recent CPC course, I was told that the 45 minute rest period could be split into 15-minute periods. Does it have to be a...

Q I have looked in detail at the EC Regulations governing the use of tachographs and record sheets and cannot find any article...

• In the issue of Commercial Motor dated 1-7 February there is an article quoting Vanguard Engineering as moving a 55-tonne...

• As head of a motor centre for the delivery of Motor Vehicle Course with a considerable commitment to the delivery of CPC...

being used to expose our effrontery in naming our latest product Tautliner "Cabriolet" by our friends at Wilson's (CM 1-7...

• We were surprised to read in the news story entitled "Steel or air suspension battle?" (CM 22-28 February), the comments made...

marketing director at Tyreservices Great Britain. He was formerly marketing manager for truck and bus lyres at parent company...

elected Les Harris, of Ready Mixed Concrete, as chairman; Jim Riley of IMI Kynock Transport as senior vice-chairman, Peter...

ASHLEY Stuart Ashley has moved to Silver Shield Screens as national sales manager based in Coventry. He will be responsible...

GME Springs' newly-opened Manchester centre. He has 35 years in the industry.

JOHNSON/ROBINSON/ HIGSON Bill Johnson has joined Scalia (GB) as sales manager for national accounts. He has worked for Steyr,...

become marketing manager with DFDS Transport, based at the company's southern hub in Coggleshall, Essex.

EVANS Ron Evans has moved to AWD Trucks as fleet sales manager. He will specialise in the local authority and public utility...

HARSTON Maritime Transport Services has named Andrew Harston managing director of its trans port subsidary Paul Magnus...

district manager of the Exeter City Nipper minibus company and Den Jewell becomes manager. Devon General has renamed the blue...

KRIVAN Rockwell International's automotive operation has appointed Harold Krivan vice-president of on-highway products in...

HARKNESS Ian Harkness has been appointed director of trading for London Regional Transport. He was previously marketing...

HOBBS Thomas Hobbs is named marketing director of Waste Management. He will head the new marketing and development division.

Clayton Dewandre Aftermarket as area sales manager for the South of England.

HART The new post of training officer at Kenning Tyre Services will be filled by Russell Hart. He joined the company seven...

• Waste removal company Wistech has added another Vacupress vacuum/air flow tanker to its 200-strong fleet of specialised...

• George Neville Transport Safety Systems has modified its Flipsider pivot ting cover system for a Norba ejection bodied ERF...

• NMI of Barnsley has equipped two Seddon Atkinson Strato IVIultidrive 10x6 outfits with 7.92m aluminium tipping bodies for...

• Carmichael Bulk's latest non-tipping powder tanker for Rugby Cement has been built to a 3.66m low-height profile. Its...

hit RO - RO semis • Chassisless trailers intended for RO-RO ferry work will need major redesigning if, as expected, new...

• Local authorities faced with collecting poll taxes are considering using mobile banking vans. Bedwas. for example, has built...

• Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries has ordered five Don-Bur 'Urb-A-Tic' semi-trailers, its first such urban artic system to...

• Ferroplast steel-lined polyurethane foam sandwich panels, previously marketed directly by the Berlin manufacturer Schneider...

• Recovery systems specialist Brimec (UK), of Bristol, has launched a lightweight onetonne recovery vehicle package that...

OPENING T ROLLER SHUTT IS Roller shutters are not a new idea, but they have moved with the times to compete with the demand...

The new management team at Wilcox-Seadyke has come up with a plan to improve efficiency and provide greater production for a...

As the number of tipper turnovers rises to more than 1,500 a year, waste operators are turnin9 to high-capacity ejection...

TOLEMAN TRANSPORTER BREAKS NEW GROUND Toleman's revolutionary MkV car transporter is believed to be the only vehicle of its...

an in-house truck fleet because it is cheaper that way and because they prefer their own trained staff to handle the product....

The right tail-lift can make or break a distribution operation — but the huge variety of domestic and foreign-built lifts can...

Despite attempts to make the Special Types General Order laws less complicated, they are still a source of major irritation. •...

RANGE CHANGING Neville Charrold, the York-owned tipper body manufacturer, has revised its 2000 series model range. What...