• Is it us, or is the Vehicle Inspectorate facing a few problems? As one of the first of the Tory Government's wonderful...

• The future of AWD truck designs was secured last week when Marshall SPV bought the British manufacturer's design rights,...

• The Government is being urged to privatise the roadbuilding responsibilities of the Department of Transport to slash the...

hecks VI for bribes a e • An announcement is expected within weeks over whether charges will be brought against an enforcement...

• A scathing attack has been launched on RTITB Services by Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers...

• The number of commercial vehicles failing smoke tests has risen by 1,000% in the month since electronic metering was...

• The price of a vehicle test following a prohibition notice for random defects could be halved from April 1993. A Department...

earlier this month, thanks to a first-aid course his employer put him on in a move to clinch a contract with British...

• Movement for London director Andrew Pharoah is calling on the DOT to speed up the start of the construction of the...

ty Patric Cunnane • The long-awaited showdown between Wincanton and Tankfreight, to decide who is responsible for 200 drivers...

• A Mercedes-Benz flagship 1850LF demonstrator worth £73,500 has been stolen from a lorry park in Surrey. The K-registered...

• The public would accept heavier trucks if it meant there would be fewer of them on the roads, according to a MORI survey...

MI Seddon Atkinson's Strato 210 4x2 17-tonner was introduced at the IRTE show in Scotland last week, where we took time out for...

• All MAN trucks over 17 tonnes GVW will now be imported with Euro-1 engines; a further development of MAN's ECO series of...

• Scania is evaluating an R113 MA 400 turbo-compound tractive unit in the UK. The model was scheduled to reach the UK this...

Inmarsat satellite communications and GPS positioning systems are taking part in a Dutch government study into accidents...

• Four-valve cylinder heads, electronically controlled fuel injection systems and higher power outputs are among the...

• Plans to force companies by law to pay hauliers more quickly were rejected at the European Commission last week. A bid to...

• Brick manufacturer Ibstock Johnsen is planning to increase the ratio of owner-driver brick deliveries to client collections...

• Joloda, the Liverpool-based truck loading system and material handling equipment manufacturer, went into receivership last...

• Gerald Broadbent, former managing director of truck bodybuilder Boalloy, is back in business. He is running a load restraint...

• Renault Vehicles Industriels has confirmed its commitment to its UK subsidiary, Renault Truck Industries, but warns that...

• UK freight traffic through ports reached a record 495 million tonnes last year, up three million tonnes on 1990, according to...

recruit 20 drivers by the end of the year as part of expansion plans which include the opening of three depots, near...

• Coal hauliers are bracing themselves for a further decline in business from British Coal with the threat of further pit...

• Red Star freight could transfer from rail to road if an outside bidder is successful in buying the British Rail parcels arm,...

• A Leeds Industrial Tribunal has ruled that Plowman Brothers was right to sack driver Stephen Cork after a complaint from one...

• Wilton Contracts (London) has been refused a licence because South Eastern & Metropolitan Deputy LA John Stevenson does not...

• The duration of the licence held by Newport based Si Haulage 1) & Storage has been curtailed to expire at the end of the...

• Bradford Cargo Terminal won a licence at the second attempt at a Leeds public inquiry before North Eastern Deputy LA Brian...

£3,015 compensation to two drivers after a Birmingham Industrial Tribunal decided it had acted unfairly when picking them for...

6 6 • Teesside magistrates have dismissed charges against North Yorkshire heavy hauliers GCS Johnson (Skeeby) and ordered the...

• British operators will have to wait until early 1994 for Iveco's new Euroclass coach range, which was launched in Naples,...

• Volvo is abandoning plans to build its B6 rear-engined midibus at the former Steyr bus plant in Vienna following teething...

• Reading Buses is about to launch a three-month trial on a fuel based on rapeseed oil which can be used in diesel engines with...

/ Blackburn-based East Lancashire Coachbuilders has completed a stylish re-build for London General's Red Arrow operation....

• Don-Bur has supplied Swiftflow with 52 semi-trailers and seven demount bodies to service three contracts for garment and roll...

• Road planning specialist Tetlaw Contracting of Newton Abbott operates a fleet of 10 road planers which are moved to road...

• Lawrence David has launched a curtainsided 13.6m semi-trailer with a self-supporting roof and no intermediate pillars. Its...

week, we published the wrong price for the Atlas Conversions Renault Extra "Cool It". The Sifo 600 unit is £2,325; the...

It will be at least 14 months before the first trucks go through the Channel Tunnel. The project has been beset with problems,...

• There is a truck stop on the approach to each terminal — one at Ashford and the other at Marck in France — which will be open...

• The transportation specialist group of the Institute of Management Services is to hold a seminar on the importance of BS5750...

Contact Amanda McEwan on (0707) 275641. Fog on the road • Need to know how to cut through the smog of EC regulations on the...

similar event next year. It will be held in JOnkOping on 24-28 August. Contact (036) 15-20-00. BAR talks • Moving out of...

F71111FILMUF Fruehauf's law • A guide to the 1993 laws on construction and weight changes for 35tonne vehicles has been...

• Drivers are warned of the following delays: — the A2 Rochester Way at Welling, where maintenance will last until the end of...

• For the latest information on the roadworks and road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed...

ot so long ago your avian corres pondent was to be seen strutting around like a pouter pigeon. The reason for such...

ands up all those missing Gazza! No sooner have we got rid of the Geordie wizard to Italy, than we stand to see him on Channel...

D very company relies on its personnel, and Gatwick Airport's motor transport wing, Autosky, is lucky to have technicians with...

Are we seeing the last of the giant car and CV shows? At this year's Paris show, the only heavy truck makers were Renault,...

hard time, consider this. In 1989 24,000 trailers were sold in the UK. This year sales are not expected to go much beyond...

up, connect the suzies and off you go. Unless there's anything obviously wrong with lights, brakes and tyres, or the load is...

the dominant position of the double-deck bus in British urban public transport. In many areas unions would not agree to one-man...

business for dealer Bridges of Minworth. But when a customer's currency is worthless, what do you do when he offers you a...

W hen you decide to invest in a Mercedes-Benz truck or van you do so on the basis of sound business principles. You need a...

If new truck sales are slow, what impact does this have on auctions where dealers look for used bargains? CM joined the bidding...

• Regarding the Vans On Test feature (CM 8-14 October). I would like to point out that Bauer Millett is not the only authorised...

hen considering the transport needs for new industrial developments, planners are likely to look no further than the roads. We...