Borgudd won both his power class heats at Sweden's Mantorp Park. In Denmark, bad weather hampered him on the first top-power...

• Leyland Daf has announced record production levels at its Lancashire plant. At the opening of the new Leyland Daf sales and...

new company has named the first 51 of its proposed network of 57 dealers and distributors, leavijng several existing dealers...

• The Freight Association launched a long awaited campaign for 40-tonne trucks this week, only to be told by the Secretary of...

that it must allow 40-tonne trucks to run on British roads, and it must fall into line with the rest of Europe as soon as...

• Bedford's Dunstable trucks plant could be sold to off-road vehicles specialist David Brown. Brown, whose group includes...

Speaking at the Freight Transport Association conference, Besco Bodies managing director Donald Wilson castigated the...

call to member states of the EEC to relax restrictions on international haulage. A new report in Strasbourg stresses that if...

• Daimler-Benz's decision to link with Mitsubishi in a new van partnership has been attacked by Giorgio Garuzzo, managing...

plans to begin the privatisation of Austin Rover by the middle of next year — 18 months after a Tory backbench revolt stopoped...

• Two reports published this week confirm the dominance of road vehicles in the transport of freight, both in Britain and...

Coach Council to repeat assurances made by the Prime Minister during the election campaign that Britain will fight EEC moves to...

• Hauliers' associations have joined the call for improvements to roads to and from London's Docklands — criticised as being...

• Connect UK's largest backer has run into financial difficulties and has withdrawn its interest in the yet-to-belaunched...

• Associated British Ports, which operates 19 ports in the UK, has announced a 21% increase in pre-tax profits for the first...

portable televisions and radio/cassettes — have been bought by London haulage firm Les Sampson Services. The 38-tonne,...

• This is the re-vamped livery that the BBC has adopted for its fleet of more than 1,000 commercial vehicles. It features two...

205 and 305 vans in the UK, made £5.7 million nett profit in the first six months of 1987. This compares with a loss of 28.3...

star performers at Hestair during the first six months of this year. In the half-year to the end of June Dennis sold 287...

months of 1987 of £101.1 million, a sharp increase from last year's £69.8 million, confirming that most of its costs from the...

• York Group has bought the rest of Thermostar, which manufactures temperaturecontrolled bodywork, from Le Capitaine of France....

subject of a management buyout from the British Steel Corporation. This was financed by 31 (Investors in Industry) from a 230...

main ferry service between Liverpool and Dublin, sack half its workforce and will ask the remainder to take a 10% pay cut in an...

• NFC International, part of the employee-owned National Freight Consortium, has made a move into the Far East removal market...

sales target for its Whale Blazer gritters in only four months. In August alone the company won 2180,000 worth of orders for...

Mercedes six-tonne vans and five 28-tonne Volvo tractors and trailers which will operate with its distribution fleet.

two Freighter 1314s to Dunlop tyre-manufacturer SP Tyres, in a five-year contract hire deal worth £850,000.

trailers ordered by Central Trailer Rental as part of a 250 million investment in new vehicles. This year CTR has ordered 3,000...

• Fine, calm weather gave optimum conditions for the 16.26and 38-tonne classes at the Brewery Transport Advisory Committee...

• It took 14 years and as many attempts for Wolverhampton-based Roy Foster to clinch the coveted Lorry Driver of the year...

• The 14th annual finals of the driver championships organised by UICR (Union Internationale des Chauffeurs Routiers) were won...

• Leyland Daf has launched a range of 108kW (145hp) versions of its Roadrunner, using the turbocharged version of its 300...

converter systern was on show at Frankfurt to demonstrate that Land Rover can meet US and European emission requirements —...

• Scania could become the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to put a turbocompound diesel engine into production. In Sweden...

• Eaton is to launch a number of new gearboxes, axles and power take-offs before the end of the year. As predicted (CM 30 May)...

• Hargrave International Transport has bought two foam-insulated aluminium tipping trailers from Crane Fruehauf. The tippers...

systems to improve safety in its fleet of refuse vehicle and skip loaders. It is now the council's policy to fit the system on...

• West Sussex County council has been testing a variety of trucks during the past year to decide on a replacement for its...

• Skoda, the East European car manufacturer, has announced details of a new vehicle which it plans to launch in Britain, both...

• Dutch specialist bodybuilder Terberg Benschop has come up with a novel system for loading and unloading pallets, designed...

• Metro-Cammell Weymann has reached an important export agreement with Dutch bus and coach manufacturer Bova, under which Bova...

• Walter Alexander (Coachbuilders) has developed a midibus body range for the Iveco Ford Turbo Daily range. The bodies are...

more than a third of total spending in London's shops, according to a survey by London Regional Transport. It finds that 41%...

• Daf Bus has now released details of the vehicles it will be showing at the Bus and Coach Council Exhibition next month. The...

• The first five 'newgeneration' Mercedes-Benz 811D midi-coaches have been commissioned by Wings Luxury Travel of Hayes,...

• A joint working party comprising management and unions at London Buses, together with Sir Keith Bright, chairman of London...

• Carlyle Group, the Birmingham-based minibus builder, has won further contract, worth El million, to supply 50 Sherpa Carlyle...

• Top minibus award at this year's Showbus event at Woburn Abbey went to a Roadrunner MCW Metrorider operated by East Midland....

this month as part of privatisation of the National Bus Company network. Five other sales are scheduled for October. They will...

chiefs in the Midlands are banning children from using "day-rover" passes on buses. West Midlands Travel says the move is...

bus company following legal action by the Performing Right Society. The society has been granted an interim interdict against...

• A Carlisle haulage firm and one of its former drivers left court with an absolute discharge after magistrates heard that they...

• Scottish Licencing Authority, Hugh MacNamara has reserved decisions on a bid by Glenboig-based Slatter Transport Limited to...

• Smethwick Haulier Denis Thorpe has won authority for an additional five vehicles and two trailers despite opposition from...

• The use of unregistered vehicles and the switching of registration plates led to associated companies H & L Garages and...

• London Haulier J J Walsh, said by Metropolitan Licensing Authority Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford to have played fast and...

• Fines totalling £8,250 imposed on Draycote Continental Transport, its managing director Michael Kent, its former transport...

team, who are accused of conspiring with drivers employed by the company to falsify tachograph charts, have been adjourned...

• Twice during the past 3 months we have had near serious accidents when we were off-loading heavy plant over the rear of one...

The microprocessor controller on Eaton's semi-automatic mechanical transmission can process gear changes as smoothly,...

INCENTIVE TRAVEL • Coach and tour operator Incentive Travel has opened a new head office at 85 London Road, Marks Tey,...

FASSON • Fasson UK has appointed newly-formed All-Bond to distribute its range of selfadhesive industrial tape products in the...

WEST YORKSHIRE • Researchers at Huddersfield Polytechnic are launching a survey of transport and distribution firms in the West...

BRAKES • A computer program has been developed by Brentfordbased BPW-Marcar to give an instant, on-site answer to brake...

COACHES ON PARADE • Next year's British Coach Rally will take place at Brighton, on the weekend 9-10 April. It has been timed...

organised at the Royal Welsh Showground at Builth Wells in mid-Wales for 9 and 10 October. The event, called Welsh Wheels, is...

SPECIAL TYPES GUIDE • A guide to the new special types heavy truck operating regulations, for users of lowload artics grossing...

set out its new specifications for lead-acid batteries in a booklet available to operators. The standard emphasises cleanliness...

It features special service tools, and portable boring tools for servicing the most popular Cummins engines. There are sections...

SOFTWARE SHOW • London's Royal Lancaster hotel plays host to next year's Warehouse and Distribution Software Exhibition on 2-3...

TAX DODGE CHECKS • The Department of Transport and Tayside Police have launched a crackdown on motor tax dodgers in the Tayside...

• Sewells International has launched its 1987/88 programme of training courses for staff working within the motor trade,...

• Five more training centres have been established to provide courses under the national (dangerous substances) driver training...

• Yeadon-based Northern Transport Training is now taking bookings for intensive courses in the Certificate of Professional...

Junction 39 at Durkar and Junction 40 at Dewsbury Road have begun and are expected to last until mid-December. Traffic is...

• Resurfacing work on the M74 in Scotland could cause delays between Junctions 6 and 7, warns the AA. The northbound...

there may be severe delays on the M56 from this Friday, when repairs are carried out on the southbound carriageway between...

BY THE HAWK • A British road safety handbook which saves lives by helping local authorites eliminate accident blackspots has...

vehicle, was almost blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other. He was also colour blind, a snap police eye test...

by a well-known manufacturer that its design team has "concretised" some parameters. Can somebody please tell me what they...

Looking towards the future, the message from Frankfurt this year is "think international". Manufacturers must look beyond their...

265 kW (360 kp) engine from the recentlyannounced 190.36 Turbostar. The new model — the 190.36 T — should join the Iveco-Ford...

that it is not a potential collaborator with Leyland-DAF's subsidiary Freight Rover in the development of the replacement for...

would see the Japanese company selling M-B products on the Japanese market. Dr Gerhard Liener, head of M-B's Commercial Vehicle...

The Javelin-bodied Dennis offers the best fuel consumption of any 1 2-metre coach we have tested —yet combines this with a high...

Tolly Cobbold is a medium-sized regional brewery with big ideas. How does the company's group fleet engineer, Tony Artiss, view...

director of the National Freight Consortium's Scottish Road Services. He was formerly managing director of Scottish Parcel...

Bus since 1986, has retired after almost 40 years' service to the industry. Price, a Lancastrian, began his career at...

sales divisions following the retirement of Midland sales manager Des Lewis. Duncan Watson takes over as sales chief for the...

non-executive directors Dr Stuart Timperley as company chairman. He succeeds Bryan Driver, who is retiring. Timperley is also...

appointments to its engineering and technical support services. Martin Fallon joins the Runcorn-based company as technical...

director of Venture Hire, part of the Wincanton Group. Venture Hire, specialists in low-milage used-car con tract hire, was...

director of Wincanton Group. He takes over from John Worby who has moved to Unigate as financial director. Bown, 42, joined...

sales team at Southern Transport (Service) Enterprises. He was previously sales and marketing manager with a division of Glover...

Carriers, has been appointed chairman of the NI section of the Chartered Institute of Transport.

Penetone as transport division manager. He provisionally spent several years with cleaning chemicals manufacturers in the...

has made two appointments at its plant in Kenfig, South Wales. Roy Dawson has been promoted to plant manager, and Paul...