Next week, Commercial Motor launches an exciting new competition in which you could win the use of this Leyland Daf Roadrunner...

• The Budget has become a ritual, a bit like the opening of Parliament and the changing of the guard, both of which are little...

II Motorway traffic rose 13% last year over 1986 and vehicles are travelling 72% further on motorways than a decade ago,...

• Fuel and vehicle excise duty rates were both increased in Tuesday's Budget. Dery went up by 1.1p/lit, adding 1.46% to total...

• The Council of Transport Ministers has approved an increase in the maximum width of refrigerated trailers to 2,600mm. At...

blow to David Green of the FTA who announced that he would have reduced duty on dery from 16p to 11p/lit (75p to 50p/gal), and...

• The three-week-old strike by the 6,000 Solihull-based Land Rover production workers is still almost solid, despite the...

in Britain has blocked a deal to scrap the European Community's bilateral international haulage permit system. At this week's...

• Labour Euro MP Joyce Quin has asked the European Commission to crack down on cafes and motorway services that refuse to serve...

• One of Britain's best-known heavy hauliers, Pountains of Sudbury, Derbyshire, is ceasing its heavy haulage operations and...

▪ The Transport and Road Research Laboratory is to conduct a series of surveys on drinking and driving. They will take place...

• Tax-free overnight subsistence payments to lorry drivers are being put at risk by careless employers who do not maintain...

• Leyland Daf has unveiled the long-awaited 6x2 twinsteer and tag-axle versions of its 95 Series tractive units. A further...

• Cleveland County Fire Brigade has recently invested £210,000 in what it believes is the British fire service's only 6x4 P92M...

• The latest Econocruise electro motor operated (EMA) speed limiter is claimed to offer improved driver control. The new system...

• Bedwas Bodyworks has reduced lead times for fitting its Supercool bodies on 3.5tonne chassis-cabs to two weeks for insulated,...

• Britain's first MAN F90 22.362 twin-steer has gone into service with owner-driver Albert Dale, who has just celebrated 15...

• This Carmichael lightweight bulk Superloader tank semitrailer gives a payload of 26.2 tonnes when coupled to an ERF EIO 4x2...

• Mercedes-Benz is now offering factory-built crew-cabs for all its 12 models from the 5.6-tonne 609 to the 811D 7.5tonne...

• The recent appointment of Ted Hesketh to the position of chief executive of Ulsterbus, which will be vacated by Werner...

• Smokers travelling on Eastern National buses next month will have to stub out their cigarettes before they climb aboard....

• Hestair Duple, the Blackpool-based coach builder, has delivered 12 vehicles to various small companies throughout the UK. W...

• As advisers to the Scottish Office weigh up the pros and cons of selling off the Scottish Bus Group as a single unit, 180...

• Cut-throat competition on deregulated bus routes is leading to violence between drivers trying to win passengers, the...

• Northumbria Motor Services, a former National Bus Company subsidiary bought by its management last October, has ordered 10...

• London Regional Transport is keeping tight-lipped about the tender battle for one of London Buses' busiest routes. London...

• London Buses has won a contract to run "Carelink" wheelchair-accessible midibuses between London's railway termini and the...

• For the first time the EEC Commission has published the breakdown of the bilateral quotas of licences issued for journeys...

• Roadchef, the motorway service area and transport cafe owner, is to give more of its 800 employees a chance to buy shares in...

• Leigh Interests, the Walsall-based waste disposal contractor, is raising almost 210 million from its shareholders as part of...

• The Post Office's parcels service would be more efficient and productive if it was bought by its management, says the...

• Transport Development Group made "steady progress" in 1987, ending the year with pre-tax profits up by more than 10% to £43.5...

• Troubled parcels carrier Lynx Express has formally taken over its Scottish sister within the NFC, Scottish Parcels Services...

• High street retailers will depend even more on central delivery systems and third party distribution during the next decade,...

• Rockfield Truck Rental has added eight 3.5-tonne Volkswagen LT-35 refrigerated vans to its rental fleet. They are fitted with...

• A haulier has won a fight to go on operating from the Suffolk village which has been his base for 24 years, despite protests...

• A haulier whose previous two businesses went into liquidation has won a new licence in his own name. Barry Parker, who used...

• A county council which objects to buses waiting on a town's high street has been asked by a traffic commissioner if there is...

• A local council's ban on buses laying over on a busy town thoroughfare has been comfinned by the traffic commissioner. Martin...

• Brigg Magistrates cleared transport manager David Dent of ABC (Grimsby) of using a vehicle without an operator's licence last...

• David licin was ordered to pay 2125 fines and costs last week at Eccles Magistrates for not calibrating and checking the...

• P & M Transport of Newport in Gwent agreed to reduce the number of vehicles listed on its application for a new international...

opening a sales and parts centre at Broadoak Business Centre, Trafford Park, Manchester. Depot manager is John Murray.

computer systems for warehousing and distribution companies, has moved its Scottish operation from Dumblane to the Coatbridge...

and industrial removals company, has moved to a £1 million depot at Avonmouth, Bristol. Contact the firm on (0272) 824605.

appointed Barton Coach Services of County Kildare as its sole agent in Ireland. Barton will also supply Northern Ireland. For...

opened a new parts and service dealership on the Al(M) at its junction with the A169 at Birtley. The 1,150m 2 premises are...

is expanding into the commercial vehicle cleaning market. Owner Graham Powell says his company's steam cleaning and vehicle...

is offering a management support package for medium-sized firms which do not have their own specialist distribution managers....

24-hour assistance service called Actionline for truck drivers who need replacement tyres at any time of day or night....

Advisory Committee is holding its annual seminar at the Coventry Crest Hotel on Tuesday 12 April on the theme Let's get it...

on The Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations have been published by the Health and Safety Executive. They provide practical...

Rubber hose assemblies for oil suction and discharge services has been revised to include new types of hose assembly not...

across the Danube, connecting Hungary with the city centre of Bratislavia in Czechoslovakia,

Training Board is starting a supporters course for managers putting staff through the Sup ported Open Learning Management...

• Autosteer Controls of Pudsey, Leeds has added a lighter (one-tonne) lifting capacity forklift to its four-model range of...

• A rigid-frame freight container which can be folded into a fraction of its original size and stacked when empty is being...

• The Department of Transport has published proposals for a northern bypass round Wigton, between Church Rigg and Smithfield...

• The Automobile Association is manning a 24-hour hotline giving the latest information on roadworks between Junctions 10 and...

roads to and from the M53 at Junction 8 in Cheshire on 20 and 27 March. Major roadworks on the M6 between Junctions 41 and 42...

MI I Essex: Contraflow between Junctions 8 and 10 (Bishops Stortford/Duxford). M25 Surrey: Overnight land restrictions between...

MI Northamptonshire: Various off-peak lane closures between juclions 16 and 17 (Northampton/M45). MI Leicestershire: Contraflow...

M6 Cheshire: Contraflow between J16 and 17 Kidsgrove/Sandbach). M6 Cheshire: Lane closures in both directions between junctions...

M4 Wiltshire: Outside lane dosed Eastbound and 2 lanes dosed Westbound West of the Mernbury Services with 50mph limit. M4...

M8 Lothian: Eastbound traffic down to hard shoulder only at junction 3 (A899). Eastbound enty slip at junction 3 closed. M8...

to write after reading Gary Fox's letter (CM 25 Feb-2 March) about the abundance of drivers straight from driving school....

In reply to Gary Fox (CM 25 Feb-2 March), although not in the haulage business, I am a keen reader of Commercial Motor and I...

Eye View (CM 25 Feb 2 Marchj) concening our colleague Chris Mason and his Turkish Puzzle, but were a little surprised that you...

Perkins — powered Renault S46 50 Series, as I have recently ordered a similar van. I found my current 50 Series vehicles...

CALEDONIAN MACBRAYNE: ULLAPOOL-STORNAWAY M The 100Icm A835 from Inverness to Ullapool and the 3.5-hour crossing to the...

'Highway to the Islands' (CM 25 Feb-2 March) and with particular regard to the M V Suilven, I would agree that the cafeteria is...

• Most hauliers pride themselves on their ability to buy a truck at the right price and to operate it at the most economic...

Local authorities spend £200 million a year on municipal vehicles. We joined the Birmingham bin-men to assess the Britannia 6 /...

Under the local Government Bill, local authority service departments are about to face competition from the private sector. How...

members who should learn the art of delegation and trust. We and many others are training hard to match our competitors on...

Local authority central services such as treasurers' departments are now employing "real accountants" instead of the local...

Those of us who relish the challenge ahead see the immediate future as a time of excitement and opportunity. Flair, leadership...

If I had a crystal ball and had to predict the scene in six to eight years, given the current political climate, I would...

In the London borough of Havering an anxious local authority plans to compete with privateers, helped by Drive 6, a...

dealer and sales award for 1987, which is battled for by over 30 dealers throughout the country. Runner-up was Renault Trucks...

Motor Truckfest will be this brute: a Western Star, bought for £113,000 from a Texas dealer by Geoff Byford of Byfords Cargo...

and marketing director, reporting direct to managing director Ron Hancock. Wragg was previously managing director of Seddon...

joined the board of Alder Valley buses. Soper, who becomes commercial director, was previously traffic manager and joined the...

Association's press and public relations manager, will become the secretary of the association in September when Len Harper...

Spa, which supplies computers to the distribution industry, has named Gordon Scuffins, as Scania account manager of its...

sales manager of S Jones Garages in Coventry, the Renault truck dealer. He joins the company after nine years with GM in West...

has appointed Gerald Radford as chairman. He also retains his present job of managing director.

with IMS, the industrial machinery supplier, now becomes after-sales service manager.

the distributors and contract services firm, has promoted Ian Cuftley to national sales manager. He has been distrubution...

of the Semperit tyre company, has won the Association of Austrian Motor Journalists' annual award for 1987 for his achievements...

Bill Henderson is retiring as deputy chairman of Sealink. He has spent 30 years in shipping, joining British Rail Ferries in...

Alan Sivewright becomes sales and marketing director of Microsystem Design of Poole, which makes electronic bus ticketing...