• Transport Secretary Paul Channon has probably not accepted the advice we offered in this column two weeks ago to study the...

days if their systems broke down, because they have not made the right contingency plans, a survey claims this week. Only 30%...

• Far reaching changes in Britain's approach to the road wear caused by HGVs are demanded in a hard-hitting report published...

• EEC proposals to extend the permitted maximum width of reefer vehicles to 2.6m have received widespread support, and EEC...

• Speakers at this year's RHA National Conference in Madeira will include national chairman, Glyn Samuel; Fred Kay (managing...

• The complete range of Austrian-built Steyr trucks, with gross weights from nine to 38 tonnes, may go on sale in the UK next...

September) the man behind the controver sial BBC drama series Truckers was scheduled to appear on the comment programme Open...

prepared to invest £5 million in the company, and plans to launch its parcels operation by the end of October. The company will...

II Britain's maximum-weight hauliers still have a strong preference for five-axle artic units, judging by the Department of...

• Iveco aims to boost its profits by at least 20% this year, according to managing director Giorgio Garuzzo. Last year the...

Alice Holt Forest, near Alton, Hants, last Sunday night (27 September) and stole a Forestry Commission ERF tractor unit and its...

• HGV operating costs rose by 2% during the first half of the year, and increases for light CVs were nearer 3% — but overall...

• Tibbett and Britten's move into contract distribution helped boost its first-half profits by 52% from a turnover increase of...

• Leicester-based Pickering Transport Services has won a £250,000 contract to supply Walkers Crisps with 21 demountable swap...

has acquired specialist vehicle manufacturer Gloster Saro from Hawker Siddeley for £6.8 million. In its last financial year...

• Semi-trailer manufacturer Craven Tasker and PSV body specialist East Lancashire Coach Builders are being sold by Trafalgar...

year too much to distribute their goods, with many using expensive guaranteed next-day services unnecessarily, according to...

• This Mercedes 1635 with EPS gear shift has gone into service with Aceplant, the Milton Keynes-based plant hire company....

• By the year 2000 the twinned tyres currently used on truck drive-axles will have been largely replaced by wide singles,...

6 x 2 Mercedes-Benz 1644 tractive unit with a non-steered, air-suspended lifting second axle. The intermediate Granfling axle...

• An £11 million extension to Scania's technical centre near the company's head office and main plant in Sodertalje, Sweden...

• Sales of fire appliances in Britain are expected to increase significantly over the next few years as more and more brigades...

• A licence bid by Kingsway Freight of Immingham, has been turned down by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Norman...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licences of Taff Ely Transport and Taff Ely Borough Council only being renewed for...

• In renewing the licence held by Slaters Transport, Scottish Licensing Authority Hugh McNamara ruled that vehicles and...

• South Wales Licensing Authority, John Mervyn Pugh has placed restrictions on the vehicles operated by Wincanton Transport out...

• No action was taken against a licence held by Northern Ireland operators Dukes Transport (Craigavon) in the North Western...

• A coach driver who drove recklessly by overtaking during a blizzard and spraying other motorists with snow has been fined...

• Salford Magistrates have again adjourned a case arising from alleged falsification of tachograph records by Student Products'...

warning about the maintenance of its vehicles by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh. Phyllis Caswell, wife of...

• Many of the hoped-for benefits of deregulation have not materialised because operators are slow to compete and tend to stick...

• The privatisation of National Bus Company has been extended to France with the sale of Voyage National, the small French...

609D dualpurpose welfare mini-buses, converted by Wadham Stringer. Each vehicle has 14 moquette-trimrned seat and is equipped...

• Continuing expansion in the welfare and community transport market has attracted more bodybuilders and vehicle manufacturers...

a E.3 million scheme which could result in the return of trolleybuses to British roads by 1989. Work on the Electro Bus...

• After a gap of almost two years, Ford has re-entered the big-volume parcel-van market with its latest aluminium-bodied...

Peterboroughbased van fleet to either Freight Rover Sherpas, or Austin Maestro vans, both powered by the 45kW twolitre Perkins...

• Strong sales of SEVEL vans and chassis cabs throughout Europe appear to be limiting the numbers of Fiat Ducato, Talbot...

its six wheel parcel van (CM Light Vehicle News 6 June) which is currently being evaluated by the company's engineers. PT is...

Ford is offering the standard PDV with either the two-litre Transit petrol engine, or the 2.5-litre direct-injection diesel,...

• The first Volvo FL4 7.5tonner to be bodied as a fire appliance made its debut last week at the Fire '87 exhibition in...

van builder, could be privatised by the end of the present government's term of office in 1992. Speaking at a recent visit to...

• Ford's long-awaited Sierrabased one-tonne pickup will make its first public appearance at next month's Scottish Motor Show...

the Cookie Coach Company, following its decision to switch from its current reproduction vintage distribution vehicles, which...

• I feel I must comment on your anonymous writer's letter (Dear Sir, CM 10-16 September 1987), with what I can only interpret...

• We were very interested with the letter from "Name and Address Supplied" of your recent edition. This was in response to a...

• If you would care to pass my name and address on to the writer of The Firm that likes to say NO, I would be only too pleased...

• More uninformed criticism — this time from a haulier who chooses to lambast the RHA from outside the Association! Ms Sue...

• What with all the fuss made by yourselves and other organisations within the industry about the BBC Truckers series I sat...

• I have been a regular reader of Commercial Motor for 27 years. In that time I have read all the readers' letters religiously....

over the former Distillers distribution depot at Kingswinford, near Dudley, as part of its programme for setting up a national...

ITS GETS FODEN • Foden Trucks has appointed Ipswich Truck Sales (0473 215025) as its main dealer for truck and parts sales and...

Motor a month ago, the maximum fee charged by approved tachograph centres for tachograph calibration will go up on 1 October...

GFASPO EXTENDS ON LCV PARTS • General Motors Service Parts Operations (GMSPO) has extended the warranty on all genuine GM parts...

liAZPAOC COURSE FROM fin • Colchester-based TDT Management Services has been approved to provide training courses to meet the...

parent company, has expanded its financial backup to operators with the official launch of PacLease, full maintenance/service...

ANTI-LOCK ON VIDEO • Clayton Dewandre/Wabco Automotive Products Group has produced a video which demonstrates the features of...

FASTER CLEARANCE AT DOVER • Dover-based shipping agent Freight Clearance claims that its new method of presenting customs...

LOUGHBOROUGH NIGHT our IN Transport operator F Sherwood & Sons is to open a truck stop at its Loughborough depot on 1 November....

24-HOUR ROADWATCH ON ORACLE • The Automobile Association Road Watch Unit, which provides roadworks bulletins for Commercial...

MIDAS IN TOUCH 11 High Street business supplier Prontaprint now offers Midas Cellnet's range of cellular radios. Prontaprint...

• London and the South East M3 Surrey: 11-2, CF. M27 Hants: J3-4, CF. J5, LR. M275 Hants: Rudmore RBM27, RW. M4 London: J4...

Southern Electricity is making effective use of the swap-body concept for split-trunk operation in the South-West. It is saving...

New computer technology is revolutionising systems planning and evaluation in the distribution sector: NCCS and Swift are...

Chris Hayter has built his warehousing and distribution business up from nothing. How does he survive alongside some of the...

"As the UK's largest independent truck rental company we rely on our equipment being thoroughly reliable, whatever is asked of...

Robbie Bums is taking over as NFC Distribution Group's managing director. We have been to talk to him about how his company,...

The Transport and Distribution Services Show takes off at Wembley next week. If you want to know what to look out for, and get...

Due to the quota system, Mitsubishi's 3.5-tonne Canter will not reach the UK in large numbers. Mediocre performance and fuel...

has a very light and airy interior. It's also very light on fuel, and of course it's an absolute dodite to park. "As for the...

original to promote themselves using "artistically produced" calendars. As I was the one to instigate the 'Tacky Calendar 1988...

to find its best driver. Sixteen finalists — highest-placed Marley employees from the national Lorry Driver of the Year contest...

of washing powder worth 215,000 has been reported stolen in Grays, Essex. Only a few days ago a large amount of cannabis was...

bitterly disappointed man. Two weeks ago Commercial Motor's cover bore the words FREE STICKER in two metre high letters....

John Baker has been appointed marketing manager at Leyland Daf, based at the company's UK marketing and sales base at Thame,...

Paul Adey is the new UK sales and marketing manager of Charringtons Contract Hire, the Stoke on Trent-based firm.

Bob Jones has been appointed area manager for Silver Roadways' branches in the Midlands, Nottingham and Warrington. Silver...

been appointed sales director of Angloco, which designs and builds fire engines and ambulances and is based in Batley, West...

Shell Oils has appointed Bob Wright as technical services manager at its Cheadle Hulme (Manchester) head office. He has worked...

He joins TNT after five years with National Carriers.

George Nordenfeldt has been appointed manager of Pickford Removals' heavy haulage vehicle workshop in Birtley, Tyne & Wear.

Terry Hodgson is to join the R&A Young Group as a project manager. He will leave a £26,000-a-year job as chief executive of...

Land Rover has appointed John Sellers as finance director. He previously worked for British Leyland and Vauxhall.

Bill Glenroy has been appointed managing director of Scottish Road Services, a member of National Freight Consortium. He...

Hays Distribution Services, part of the Hays Group, has appointed Frank Hawkins as marketing and sales director. He previously...

James Evans has become managing director of Freightliners, the British Rail freight subsidiary. He leaves Transmark, BR's...

David Bayliss is succeeding Dr Tony Ridley as chairman of London Transport International, London Regional Transport's...