IIIII Francis Bacon hit the nail on the head when he said of the law "Severity breedeth fear". But it also breeds compliance....

• Owner-drivers working for construction and materials giant Tarmac have been hit by a 3% rates cut in the same week that the...

• The Road Haulage Association is calling for a change in law to allow Licensing Authorities more expert advice when looking at...

• The level of fines that magistrates inflict on hauliers is set to soar. When the Criminal Justice Act comes into force next...

• Transport Secretary John MacGregor ruled out wholesale privatisation of the Vehicle Inspectorate this week and announced that...

• Hauliers represented by the Road Haulage Association are demanding £300,000 (FF2,768,016) compensation from the French...

• County surveyors from England and Wales and the Department of Transport are to be briefed at a meeting in November on side...

the Linkman tanker which exploded in Sunderland last month with 33,000 litres of petrol on board. HSE investigations into the...

Yorkshire Fire Service carrying two trainees and an instructor collided with two men changing a tyre on the A6135 at Hoyland...

III Waste carriers in the SouthEast will be subject to a series of roadside checks within the next few weeks to weed out...

• The future of road/rail company Charterail still looked in doubt this week despite its complaint to the European Commission...

• Tuffnells Parcels Express is under investigation by the Department of Transport. The enquiry was triggered by the 0-licence...

• Cummins has joined the 500hp dub. It will be announcing a 373kW version of its 14-litre block at next month's Scottish IRTE...

• Steyr of Austria has developed an automatic differential locking system for trucks. The Automatic Drivetrain Management...

• Tyron (UK) has launched a safety wheel which is said to prevent a tyre coming off its rim following a high-speed puncture....

• Parcelforce has frozen a multi-million-pound investment programme in its eight new sorting depots. The first, at Liverpool,...

• Ford dealer Evans Halshaw plans to close its Avonmouth commercial vehicles dealership which it says incurred unacceptable...

• Securicor Omega Express is launching Network Europe, a subsidiary operation developing European partnerships for roadbased...

• Seddon Atkinson and Foden are considering setting up inhouse contract maintenance schemes because the company which handles...

• Hundreds of Castle Cement drivers went on strike for 24 hours last Wednesday (9 September) to protest at company plans to...

• Operators working for Blue Circle Cement were warned last week that the continuing recession means there is no hope of...

• Commercial Motor had a drive of a 12m Cumminspowered Blue Bird in the US last week — one of the dual-purpose units for which...

/ Extra resources for the Vehicle Inspectorate are to be given in areas where the prohibition rates for buses and coaches are...

• Anthony McCarthy, managing director of Wilton Contracts (London), has been given until the beginning of October to prove that...

• Bristol ownerdr iver Anthony Lloyd has been given 28 days to pay fines and costs of £1,600 after being convicted in his...

• Liverpool tipper operator John Campbell has to put his three vehicles through a further annual test, before North Western LA...

4 115 Drivers' discharge • Drivers Kenneth Woodhead and Mark Jones, employed by Lancashire haulier Terence Worthington, were...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner has decided to grant a new licence to Ken Lane Transport of Retford,...

• Police and traffic examiners gave chase when a tipper was seen attempting to avoid an organised HGV check by turning off the...

The Vehicle Inspectorate has a problem: does it enforce the rules no matter what the expense, or should it resort to cheaper...

Minibus viewing • The Community Transport Association's minibus exhibition will be held on 24-25 September in Blackpool at the...

• A one-day conference on Life Cycle Analysis and Eco-Assessment in the Oil Industry will be held by the Institute of Petroleum...

• The Road Haulage Association is to hold seminars on the legal responsibilities of employment contracts and hours and records...

• The first Zero-3.5-tonne Refrigerated Van Show will be run at Wembley Exhibition Centre, Wembley, Middlesex, on 20-22...

• Operators will be able to catch up on the latest health and safety regulations and equipment at the Royal Society for the...

• A conference to help vehicle manufacturers and suppliers ward off foreign competition is being held on 30 November and 1...

• Chemical spillage experts will gather at Wembley Conference Centre on 6-8 October for Interspill '92 — this year's conference...

Brakes breakdown • Mintex Don has published its 1992/3 catalogue of brake linings and pads. It includes a cross-reference to...

ii he Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea no longer sends out plastic wallets with licences: the explanatory letter...

Id he collapse of Communism seems to have left freight forwarder LEP Group in the red. Chairman David James, who is struggling...

fil he Holstein Friesian Society recently decided to send some of its field development officers (FD0s) to West Herts Training,...

uoyed by encouraging financial results for the past year, shipping company Sea Containers feels that it's got a quid to spare...

II I cannot help writing to criticise what owner driver, Graham Cordiner from North East Scotland says about return loading (CM...

• DF Marriner (CM 3-9 Sept) advances two reasons why we cannot change from a road tax disc system to one of gathering duty...

• In a normal year, removals firms could expect to be busy from June to September and then go quiet until the pre-Christmas...

Irish haulier Blueflite has made several attempts to develop a UK partnership ; the latest joint project was probably its last....

Price as tested: 271,208 (ex-VAT). Includes Hi-Line speeper cab (22,390), Air-Trac rear air suspension (2445), Wilcox Wilcolite...

New Euro rules are being prepared to help safe handling of loads. They are bound to benefit manufacturers of lifting gear, but...

a day. From 07:30 to 17:30hrs he averages 80 deliveries — about one every eight minutes. Some of those packages are frozen...

convince your customers that you know them' I i n the December 1957 edition of Roadway, after the death of my father had left...