Trade and Industry to Secretary of State for Transport, Mrs Thatcher has underlined again the disdain she apparently feels for...

• Joint administrative receivers have been appointed to run Stockport-based haulier Dow Freight Services. This new blow to the...

• Britain's stock of 38-tonne commercial vehicles is still growing fast as operators adjust to the fast changing haulage and...

poised to re-enter the Australian HGV market, the company claims that it is "still in the early stages of looking at it, and...

• Bill Mills, the Freight Transport Association's director of administration, has been awarded the MBE in the latest Queen's...

The leaders of both unions involved, the CPSA and the SCPS, were due to meet government officials again on Tuesday 16 June....

• Last Sunday's Cabinet reshuffle left Paul Channon as the sixth Secretary of State for Transport in eight years of...

Spanish fresh food into the South of France, the French government has offered police protection to all trucks carrying out...

• The Freight Transport Association has told the Department of Transport that if the HGV driving test is privatised it will be...

• EEC reefer operators will be allowed to run trucks up to 2.6m wide from 1 January 1988, if a new European Commission...

• Preston haulier R A Atkinson had unwelcome visitors on Saturday 6 June, when thieves stole two trucks and a trailer worth...

proposed link with Isuzu are going well and both sides are confident that an agreement will be reached soon — possibly even by...

• In its response to the Department of Transport on the fitting of speed limiters on buses and coaches, the Freight Transport...

• Central Trailer Rental plans to increase its rental fleet by more than 11% and to add four more depots to its European...

MI National Freight Consortium's beleagured express parcels subsidiary National Carriers-Roadline has ordered over E5 million...

iN Greenwich, London-based Tunnel Refineries has added four more Scania 38-tonne GCW tractive units to its 33-strong allScania...

Under a contract hire agreement, BRS has bought the company's existing 28tonne Dal tractor units and three curtain-sided...

• Cheltenham-based bodybuilder Telehoist has developed an all-alloy rigid tipping body designed to give extra stability...

• Volkswagen has revealed that negotiations with the Toyota Motor Co could lead to the Japanese manufacturer building light...

• Ford is to offer high-roof motor panels conversions as a special vehicle order on its Escort and Transit vans. The...

• Eberspacher UK is offering tanker operators carrying temperature-sensitive products an alternative heating method to...

• German gearbox manufacturer ZF has confirmed that full production of its Easy Shift (ES) electro-pneumatic gear change...

• Following extensive evaluation of five prototype lightweight trailers Bass Mitchells and Butlers, the Midlands operating...

tail-lift, has signed a joint marketing deal with the French company Hydris — Europe's second largest tail-lift builder, the...

• Knutsford magistrates have fined Horbury Refrigerated Services its associated company Horbury Freight Services, and five of...

• Complaints from local residents and a local authority objection have led to acting North Western Licensing Authority, Keith...

has withdrawn its bid for a new PSV operator's licence. At the end of April the Transport Tribunal rejected the company's...

• Middlesbrough-based John Golding Heavy Haulage has been fined £680 after Teeside magistrates decided that three huge...

• Bradford-based waste paper merchants B Holmes and Company had its licence duration cut because of maintenance problems, and...

• A specialised breakdown vehicle is exempt from the need to fit and use a tachograph — even when being used tor non-breakdown...

• Leyland Bus — bought out by its management some five months ago — is expecting to break even in 1987 and, according to chief...

of bus services run on behalf of London Regional Transport, according to its performance review for the first quarter of 1987....

• Leyland Daf Bus has adopted the Advanced Turbocharged and intercooled (ATi) engine technology, currently used in its heavy...

0 According to Leyland Daf, the European demand for buses and coaches has declined from 23,600 units in 1980 to 18,000 last...

• Following the successful operation of its minibuses within the Medway area since deregulation, Maidstone and District Bus...

The Logitrans range of computerised route-planning systems is beginning to catch on in France. Strangely enough, one of the...

traffic restictions are expected to be brought in this year, extending the compulsory fitting of seat belts to artics and...

so far the only European countries planning to introduce speed limiters. Italian vehicle manufacturer have only 18 months to...

If a proposed general motorway toll is brought in in Austria, West German operators will obviously suffer and it is possible...

set up on the Greek National Highway between Thessalonika, Athens and Patras. The road will be devided into 13 sections, each...

Belchen tunnel in Switzerland at the start of the GotthardRoute or N2 is likely to be restricted to single-lane traffic until...

The Professional Truck and Bus Driver Championships of 1987 will be held in Sweden on 11-13 September. The UICR has...

The East German authorities are tightening up their control procedures on roads leading to Berlin from West Germany because so...

The DeVilbiss Engineered Systems Group in Bournemouth has received an order for two DeVilbiss TR4004 robots for the Zaz truck...

Soviet art has mirrored life, or a Marxist-Leninist vision of life, for over half a century — and vice versa, writes Edward...

Malcolm Baldridge, US Commerce Secretary, under strong pressure from Congress, has signalled a readiness to work with the US...

The Saudi Arabians have restricted the time foreign trucks may stay in their country when delivering goods to 10 days from the...

Four senior managers from Sinotrans, China's state forwarding organisation, have been visiting Britain as guests of LEP...

Arnott will have worldwide responsibility for Perkins' international aftermarket activities including parts and reconditioned...

Miller, who has worked at the company's Sheffield headquarters for the past four years, will take responsibility for all...

director of BET subsidiary United Transport International, has been elected president of the Chartered Institute of Transport...

Cheesbrough's last job was with Midland Industries of Smethwick after spending 10 years with Ford.

transport and distribution consultant Davies and Robson of Croydon as a senior consultant with special responsibility for...

The Runcorn-based company is a leading manufacturer of fifth-wheel couplings and trailer landing legs. Bilsborough will be...

as its main agent for Scotland and the north of England. Helsby will market Synergy's range of warehousing and transport...

Based at the company's Manchester office, Clifford has spent the last seven years as manager of Meadowsfreight Ireland's Cork...

Boultwood, based in the company's Brentford sales office, will be responsible for co-ordinating Kenning Leaseline's contract...

general haulage division of the Russell Davies Group, has made three appointments to its senior management team. Garry Keenan...

His responsibilities will include the overall marketing of the product range, including trolley jacks, torque wrenches and...

Ratchford to head the contracts and tendering section of its bus services group. Ratchford will be responsible for the issuing...

MAN-VW ADDS TWO I MAN-VW has added two more dealers to its UK network. Tony Andrews (PSV) Sales, of Stair in Ayrshire has been...

MAT TURKEY TROT • MAT Shipping is now offering up to 12 trailer groupage services a month to Turkey. The trailers depart 2-3...

ITALIAN RESTRICTIONS • International operators running into Italy are advised by the Italian Ministry of Public Works of the...

LIGHT CARGO SECURING TRACK • Cargo Equipment International (CEI) of Bridgend (0656 645521) has developed a new low-weight...

SECURITY CONFERENCE • Norfolk Constabulary and the Norwich and Norfolk Chamber of Commerce are organising a special crime...

• Toyata (GB) has raised the prices of its light conunercial and minibus models by an average of 2%. Typical prices, excluding...

• QRH Computer Group of Brighouse, suppliers of computer systems to the distribution trade, has produced a fact pack to give...

been carried out on the central reservation of the M1 in Northamptonshire, which reduces the available carriageway width...

• London and the South-East M2 Kent Major roadworks between Junctions 5 (Sittingbourne) and 7 (A2 Brenley). Various lane...

attached example of "Headline Writers' Hysteria" as it applies to our industry. The report, about a proposal for a new access...

• I would like to respond to your article recently regarding Certificates of Professional Competence. While the CPC is a basic...

• As your excellent magazine was made aware earlier in the year, in fact it was February when we made the decision, my company...

not checked before your editorial, "Comment Loose Thinking", was published in the issue of your magazine dated 23 May 1987....

Neville, the sprightly 73-year-old inventor who over the years has given his name to successive companies in the transport...

company was moving the goal posts in its dealings with clients you might be appalled. I can now reveal that BRS has done just...

Hero" award from Goodyear following his efforts in saving lives and preventing serious injury on the Chandlers Ford by-pass in...

the McLaughlin Buick Limited Limousine made in 1936 for King Edward VIII is to be sold at Sotheby's London sale of Historic and...

Who will be telling Britain's newly-elected MPs the policies road transport does or does not need? Lobbyists, that is who, and...

Reg Dawson spent 12 years listening to the haulage industry's gripes and requests as one of the Department of Transport's most...

Seddon Atkinson picked Perkins' new Phaser engine range for its 2-11 range of 1 6-tonners. The resulting performance and fuel...

Now run as a self-contained show at a new venue, the RHA's Tankcon '87 caters for specialist tanker suppliers and operators....

larikers have a good safety record, but the HSE and industry are continually working to improve it further. We have been...

Tanker operators have to cope with corrosive loads and fire screening regulations. A wide range of extended anti-corrision...

Petrol tanker drivers perched atop their vehicles while loading and discharging could become a thing of the past as the new...