• Regardless of whether this really is the last Budget from Chancellor Nigel Lawson it will undoubtedly be remembered as a...

• New proposals for continuous operator licensing are being opposed by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities. The...

• Chancellor Nigel Lawson introduced major changes in Vehicle Excise Duty in this year's budget, which will mean VED rate...

• The public inquiry into toll increases on the Severn Bridge this week heard that Welsh businesses, would pay the price for...

• Bank guarantees of about £96 per vehicle tonne will have to be provided by all would-be EC hauliers under a scheme agreed by...

• Renault's truck manufacturing subsidiary, Renault Vehicules Industriels (RVI), has reported a hefty rise in 1988 consolidated...

• Cheshire police suspect that last week's 40-vehicle M6 pile-up might have been caused by a fragment of a truck's leaf...

• Langdons Truckstop, off Junction 25 of the M5 and opened 18 months ago, has been voted Britain's best truckstop by Commercial...

• Come to Truckfest 89 on 30 April-1 May and meet Page Three Girl of the Year Maria Whittaker on the Commercial Motor stand....

• Since our News Headlines report headed "Hauliers stung on return loads" in our issue dated 16-22 February 1989, about...

hire and spot rental firm Interhire of Exeter. DJS Truck Rental, the spot hire division of DJS Contracts, gains 150 vehicles...

Tony Blackmore, chief engineer at United Transport Tankers and chairman of the RHA's technical committee. • Tony Blackmore is...

• Little more than a month after managing director Vic Wilkes revealed that Seddon Atkinson is considering an attack on new...

• Danish reefer specialist Norfrig has signed manufacturing contracts with three British manufacturers, following the...

• Next month, the Motor Agents Association launches a national quality control scheme for dealer servicing. Each participating...

• The first Lamberet Cargofrigo trailer in the UK, and one of the first five in Europe, has been bought by Geoff Gilbert...

• AWD is poised to begin production of the 17-tonne TL17-18; flagship of the TL range. It will feature in a series of roadshows...

• Blackburn-based Vision Techniques is to market the Mitsubishi CV-650 rearview camera system in the UK. A TV monitor in the...

• Leyland Daf will have two multi-wheeled Constructor tipper chassis on show at next month's TipCon exhibition, both fitted...

• Econofreight, the worldrecord-breaking heavy haulage company, has launched a revolutionary 23 million transport system for...

• More details are emerging about the second-generation Mercedes-Benz Ti van and chassis cab range due to be launched in the UK...

• Trailer manufacturer and bodybuilder Don-Bur has launched the Pillarless Palletmaster II which features an unobstructed 12.2m...

• Sales of Scania trucks and buses were up 12% to a record-breaking .£1,415 million last year, with 31,549 commercial vehicles...

• Ownership of truck rental and contract hire company Intertraii has switched to the French bank Societe Generale. The move...

• Lowfield Distribution has won its third post-buyout distribution deal, with Asda. The food chain's regional distribution...

£200,000 contracthire deal with Warrington brick merchant Leigh Concrete involving a Leyland Daf 2300 6x4 24tonne tipper with...

• Contract hire companies within Volvo dealer Lex Service boosted their profits by 75% in 1988, helping the company push its...

• The Transport Development Group increased its profits by 8.3% to £47.1 million in 1988, but profits for the group's UK...

hubs within the next 10 years, leaving a network of 20 hubs. The district manager of Royal Mail Parcels West Midlands, Seamus...

• Craven Tasker has bought a half share of the German commercial trailer manufacturer, Blumhardt. The deal follows Craven...

• Scania managing director Ingvar Eriksson has retired from the company six months after contracting a heart ailment. His...

• National Carriers Contract Services has taken delivery of 15 7.5-tonne AWD TL8-14 box vans for its contract with Vauxhall...

• Badgerline's takeover of Midland Red West, trading as City Line, is "against the public interest", says a Monopolies &...

OFT on charges of anti-competitive practices. The Badgerline report has been welcomed by all the operators on the OFTs list who...

• Harry Blundred's Docklands minibus challenge to London Buses was boosted last week when Transit Holdings was granted its...

• Six AWD buses with Locomotor bodies are bound for a tough life in Pakistan. Supplied through the Crown Agents, the vehicles...

• The Transport and General Workers Union will push for substantial wage increases in the bus industry to keep pace with...

• Kingston upon Hull City Transport has bought Hull independent Citylink, little more than a year after its formation. Toyshop...

• Go-Ahead Northern has introduced its first new full size buses since 1986. The first of 12 Leyland Lynxes have entered...

• Leyland Bus achieved its best monthly sales figures for three years in February, with 111 buses and coaches registered in the...

• Employee-owned Luton & District has offered to back an employee-led buyout at major SBG subsidiary Clydeside & Western by...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner gave Halifax-based Wilby Transport a severe warning over the...

Transport, of North Shields, have been adjourned by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner to enable Cooper to...

• Though satisfied that Percliff Plant Hire had neglected the maintenance of - ts vehicles, North Western Deputy Licensing...

Six drivers from Sandwichbased Romac Haulage had their HGV licences suspended for tachograph offences by South Eastern...

E N An unemployed truck driver who moved to London to get a job to support his family was awarded £4,000 in the High Court last...

• Ken Lane Transport, which lost its licence last May because of excise licence and overloading offences (CM 26 May-1 June...

• Two truck drivers left their jobs with Frank Stowes when they became dissatisfied with their pay, following the company's...

• South Wales bus operator Clayton Jones has been fined £40 by the Pontypridd magistrates for driving a coach on the wrong side...

BEES BUZZES TO SAWSTON • Bees Security Distribution has transferred its business from FeItham to its depot in Sawston,...

LEARNING TO LEAD WITH THE RTITB • The Road Transport Industry Training Board will be running an experimental management course...

N OTIFICATION OF N EW SUBSTANCES • A revised version of a booklet giving guidance on the Notification of New Substances...

FORWARD TO GERMANY • Davies Turner has extended its forwarding services for cargo to and from northern Germany to cover all of...

FINNISH DATA • Datapex, an integrated freight forwarding computer system developed in Finland by Datatrons, has been launched...

GUILDFORD DELAYS • From early April to the end oi August, Traffic on the A3 at Guildford will be restricted to one lane in each...

lail M25 Surrey: Contrallow at 313 (Staines) 311 (Chertsey). M3 Hampshire: Co' ntraflow lail M25 Surrey: Contrallow at 313...

more than 75,000 of its UK customers red in the face on Red Nose Day last week by delivering Cartoon Aid packs to them. The...

eyrie last week, the Hawk spotted one trucker who was obviously determined not to be outdone and to have the biggest and best...

that it might spoil that hard-won yuppie image? Never fear, the TGWU is moving upmarket too, with a trendy leather Filofax for...

"What a waste" . . . "it's not necessary" . . . "It only adds to the cost" . . are typical of the sceptical comments bandied...

Pressure is mounting for better fuel economy, improved engine efficiency and reduced emissions. A nice trick if you can manage...

TO WI LET COMMERCIAL MOTOR PAY FOR YOUR HGV CLASS 1 TRAINING I Last year more than 50,000 hopefuls endured an hour of acute...

issue of 2 March. Please don't despair. Training will always have a high priority in the better companies and no priority in...

report (CM 23 February) about the VBRA's adoption of ISO 9000. The SMMT welcomes moves towards the introduction of...

the Reynolds Boughton Brigadier (CM 23 February). As a company that is operating in the highlycompetitive world of fire...

on staffing at the Transport Studies Group (Profile, CM 16-22 February)? The Polytechnic does in fact provide six permanent...

English and Welsh PSV operators are settling down to business following NBC privatisation and deregulation. Now its Scotland's...

You voted Langdons in Taunton Britain's best truckstop, which was reason enough for us to head south west for a good feed, and...

The rapid growth of Northampton, and the current M40 extension, have meant work on the doorstep for East Midland quarrier and...

OF THE DIRT Today's all-terrain trucks are designed to perform daunting tasks in daunting conditions. We test 10 denizens of...

Lorraine Stanton has been promoted from field sales executive to sales manager at Norfolk Line. Based in Birmingham, she is...

John Kendall as its financial controller. He joins the company from coach bodybuilder Duple International, where he was chief...

Kim Breaker has joined Unipart as press relations officer from SEAT (UK), where she was press officer. Debbie Owen has been...

Chris Farmer has been named regional manager (south) of HDL Engineering. Based at the company's workshop in Chippenham, he will...

Neil Johnson, former sales and marketing director for Jaguar Cars, is joining Land Rover as sales and service director. He...

has appointed Peter RandallCook as project leader. Based at IES's Bristol HQ, he handles customer support for the company's...

The Freight Transport Association's committee for the North West Midlands division, has elected its officers for this year....

manager (north of England) for freight forwarder Baxter Hoare. Based at Liverpool, he works alongside Ted Swift, the northern...

Following Drawlane Transport Group's acquisition of Crosville, changes have been made on the Crosville board. Richard Stanley...

NFC Distribution, has appointed Tony Hague as bulk fleet operations manager, responsible for Alpine's 40vehicle refrigerated...

Dana has appointed John Elliott as sales manager for its Brown Brothers subsidiary, following Roy Rogers' move to distribution...

Ferrymasters France has promoted Laurent Adams to operations manager of its Calais terminal. Adams will be responsible for...

• It's probably just an optical illusion, but judging by the decreasing number of pieces of shattered tread to be found along...

Why do operators seem to have overlooked manufacturers' claimed potential savings on fitting equalisation systems to their...

New tyre and road-surface materials are constantly improving traction, but how much influence does load distribution have? With...

Premature lyre failures are, at the very least, a waste of hard-earned cash; at the worst they can come in the form of a...

The lost wheel syndrome is one of the great transport mysteries. To find out what could be done to cure it, the Institute of...