• On Saturday night, BBC2 showed an advertising movie. It was made using money provided by a manufacturer of a modern product,...

• On the face of it there is no sense whatsoever in two, apparently similar, national coach rallies being held within 14 days...

• Draft regulations for coach speed limiters are now being circulated among the industry, Junior Transport Minister Peter...

• Tougher security to protect lorries on dangerous routes where hijacking and attacks are common are being demanded in a report...

• The Department of Transport is expected to announce during this week that 17-tonne GVW two-axle rigids will be allowed on UK...

an agreed offer for Rentco International, the European trailer rental subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation. Details of the...

• Dafs newly-published annual report for 1986 shows that the last pre-Leyland Daf year was a record one for the Dutch company....

Connect's marketing manager Barry Glazer has written to the hauliers who expressed an interest in joining the company's network...

• Up to 4,600 extra bilateral pemits for Italian journeys should result from this week's meeting of the British/Italian joint...

• Commercial Motor Truckfest is moving into high gear, with entries flooding in for our contests, including 'Best-kept Working...

BRITAIN ROLLING has been fantastic, with many readers requesting extra stickers. Thousands more are available, from Commercial...

1 and March 31 according to the Road Haulage Association's cost survey. Fuel and lubricants fell in price by 0.26%, but...

/ In a spectacular climax to last weekend's truck racing at Brands Hatch, Swedish driver Slim Borgudd held off Steve Parrish in...

• London Regional Transport has decided to press ahead with a planning application for a coach terminal at Paddington in...

on at Land Rover's Solihull plant to boost production. This follows the settlement of a twelve-month pay deal with union...

• Lorry drivers face a new ban around Lazio in Italy where the Administrative Tribunal has blocked the movements of lorries on...

• The Road Haulage Association is to introduce a VAT recovery scheme for international operators. Speaking at the...

• Econolite has specially developed this Windfoil GRP body for London-based Canine Express Freight, which specialises in the...

• One of Lipe's recentlyannounced range of clutches, the 13/330 330mm diameter model, has been specified by ERF as standard...

• Grau Girling will display its new air drier for the first time at the RHA's Tipcon show in Harrogate later this month, and...

has speeded up the cargo handling on its new Leyland Freighter 14.14 with Lawrence David electrically-lifted side curtains and...

• A vibrating device designed to shake loose sticking loads from the front of semitrailer tipper bodies has been launched by...

• AFTER a 17-year layoff from building drop-sided bodies, Boalloy of Congleton has added an aluminium version to its quick-fit...

• In what could be the final fleet contract for 3.5-tonne gross weight Iveco Daily chassis, Trent Regional Health Authority has...

of car transporter bodies, the sliding-bed Tri-Loader, features a 5.5 0 loading angle to deal with the problems often caused by...

• BRS Midlands has renewed its freight management contract with the Ford Motor Company in a deal worth £61/2 million over the...

• Swansea City Council is taking delivery of some 55 Ford Transits and 15 Escort and Fiesta vans in an unusual contract-hire...

• Worldwide parcels carrier Federal Express now carrys more than a million parcels a day compared with 10,000 when it was...

• Jeyes, Britain's largest manufacturer of disinfectants, has taken delivery of five new ERF El0 tractor units worth more than...

• BRS Midlands' Leicester branch has installed Ratcliff 100kg Quickfit Lifts to 20 new Daf 2100s in its rental fleet. The...

• Last week's launch of York's ninth-generation Freightmaster 2000 van body comes in a year in which York plans to build over...

• NFC International Holdings, part of the National Freight Consortium, is to take over a US-based military and corporate...

• Bodybuilder Besco Bodies has just bought Northamptonbased Barham Truck Bodies. The deal adds 1,579m 2 of production...

of the ten largest manufacturers of commercial vehicle equipment in the UK, made a profit of $138 million (85 million) last...

• Wincanton Chilled Di;tribution will be recruiting more than 100 new employees on the strength of winning another contract...

• More than 100 delegates and 35 computer software exhibitors attended last week's Computers in Transport conference at...

• Renault is predicting a 'short-term' demand for up to 100 of its 'Megabuses' and predicts long term success after eight...

• London Buses is fitting video cameras in six of its buses this week in a bid to stamp out bus crime. Two unobtrusive...

week in a spectacular laser light show by Yorkshire Rider, the area's biggest bus operator. New services starting in Bradford,...

• London Buses is to take part in the trials of an electronic navigation and vehicle location system which is being installed...

The busmen, led by Norman McCulloch, claim they were sacked when GoAhead Northern discovered they were considering setting up a...

• More than 7,000 wouldbe London Bus PSV drivers competed for 600 job vacancies following an aggressive marketing campaign (CM,...

• Reeve Burgess is working on more than E800,000 worth of coaches based on the Bedford VAS chassis, which ceased production in...

• A woman who was said by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Norman Moody to have been acting as a 'front' for her...

BRS (Northern) and one of its drivers, Dennis Mawach, were both given an absolute discharge when they admitted exceeding the...

• No action has been taken against Milton Keynes Bus Company by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Michael Turner...

• Scorpio International has succeeded at its second attempt to win an authority to take over the Higher Walton, near Preston,...

Roy Hutchings has died suddenly, shortly after hearing the case reported here. Hutchings, 67, had been North Western LA and...

decision following environmental objections to an application for a new international licence by Noel and Margaret Buttercase,...

• Dukinfield Magistrates have fined Bellrose, trading as Knights Transport, £800 with £50 costs on four offences of permitting...

• The hearing of a case involving environmental representations has been moved from Birmingham to a village close to Oswestry,...

MOVE FROM MARYLEBONE • The second phase of Railfreight's departure from its former Marylebone Headquarters is now complete....

AS of Denmark, is about to establish a UK chain of importer/agents to represent and market its insulated range of bodywork,...

GROWING IN NOTTINGHAM • Since being appointed the lveco Ford Truck dealer in Nottingham, Hooleys has announced a 22.5 million...

to act as national distributor of spare parts for SAF trailer axles and air suspensions. Parts will be available from all Crane...

BRS Truck Rental branch in Scarborough. Previously, its nearest rental depot was in York, but a steady flow of business from...

Morley, Leeds, has appointed CEG Supplies of Poole a distributor for its MX range in Dorset.

being offered a new service. The BP ROAD (Routine Oil Analysis and Diagnosis) Service indicates the condition of engines,...

ITALIAN BOUND • British Commercial Transport (BCT), the European groupage division of the Baxter Hoare group, and the Italian...

TAGS FROM SECURICOR • Securicor has launched "Trace-IT", a new fixed data security system, designed specifically to record the...

FLEXIBLE CELLRENT • Cellrent plans to make its cellular radio phones available to truck dealers on a flexible basis for them to...

FRENCH FERRIES • Sealink British Ferries services between Portsmouth-Cherbourg and Weymouth-Cherbourg start on April 15. The...

ON COURSE FOR CPC • Safety consultants Hinton St Higgs have devised a training course to enable goods vehicle operators and...

is now responsible for the administration of the national training scheme for drivers of road vehicles carrying dangerous...

EURO COACHES • The ninth European Touring Coach and Bus Fair, Belgium, will take place from October 16 to 21 in Courtrai,...

2, Palexpo in Geneva will be house Transpublic 87, the first International Show of Public Transport and Community Services....

PERMANENT BAN • The Department of Transport has made permanent the experimental ban on traffic turning left into Twyford Abbey...

• Your feature "Five Rounds of Boxing Clever" (CM April 4) made interesting reading. Accepting that these electronically...

Hawk's article on the "Planispheric Astrolube" and believe I can throw some light on the subject. Our records show that Jose...

II May I tell your readers a true story of a fleet engineer who was an avid believer in Gardner engines, until a mere lorry...

of Commercial Motor recently and came across a news report on AMBEX 86 (21 June 1986 edition). Please could you tell me...

or agencies with a view to receiving sponsorship to pay the tuition fees for an HGV course. These fees are particularly high...

he was horrified to learn that the Herald of Free Enterprise was to be refloated and put back into service. I thoroughly agree...

to edit all letters. Please send them to Commercial Motor, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS.

IN A Jonckheere-bodied Leyland Tiger 245 from the fleet of veteran rally entrant Globe of Barnsley was Coach of the Year at...

Management buyouts are in the news. The prospect of buying out your employer may seem daunting — but the 'rewards can be...

left in the following year to become a merchant banker. After a series of senior appointments he rejoined the firm as a partner...

• NEC was one of the earliest 'privatisation' buyouts and at the time — early 1982 — it was the largest buyout ever attempted...

• TIP, Europe's leading trailer leasing and rental company, was a subsidiary of the American Gelco Corporation, which put it up...

• The record for spawning management buyouts must surely be held by NBC, which is in the process of being privatised through...

Devon General boss Harry Blundred is pushing his company and the PSV industry into new pastures, often with controversial...

In the deregulated PSV market many operators need dual-purpose middleweights, capable of urban bus operation as well as luxury...

ED MERCHANTS Speed limiters seem certain to become a major factor in the CV industry, as they are in the United States and on...

Year of the Environment, David Mitchell, Minister of State for Transport, planted a tree last week. To be more precise, he...

week that most Mobil filling stations had began giving the famous stamps to motorists. Remember the good old Green Shedd...

parlour built for a cycle racing team. It looks like Van Hool is fond of its image as a leader in the naughty industry. Alfons...

first-ever Johnston municipal body was present last week when the 10,000th Johnston sweeper was officially handed over to Go...

The president of a Canadian oil services company (Fraser McColl), who was born in Scotland, his niece and nephew who have...

all Foden vehicles to prevent paintwork deterioration. I know there are thousands of you out there who could not live a minute...

Force" the annual mismatch of drivers, celebrities and vehicles. Eddy The Mouth abandoned the lnsterstate on the grass during...