• The postures being adopted by both the Transport and General Workers Union and the Road Haulage Association following the...

• National Freight Consortium's Regional Group is due to be scrapped on 1 September in a move which triggers the...

for 1988? The Transport and General Workers' Union has fired the first shots in its 1988 hire and reward drivers' pay and...

• Changes to the London Lorry Ban, which are due to be introduced this autumn, may be challenged in the courts by the Freight...

• Improved sales in the UK helped Foden Trucks' parent company Paccar to increase its sales by 29% to 2690 million during the...

• When Bedford's 1,700 workers returned to the Luton van factory this week, they ' found Japanese-style "kanban" working...

• Government ministers are unlikely to see the report on the proposed 2200 million Thames bridge in London's docIdands until...

racing championships continued at Silverstone last weeked as Slim Borgudd and Curt Goransson took first and second places in...

Wincanton Distribution Services has won a new fiveyear fleet management contract with Lucas Electrical to supply over 100...

IN Belgium plans to introduce a motorway toll sticker for all domestic and foreign vehicles using the country's motorways from...

MI The Merseyside Chamber of Commerce & Industry has told Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley that the load simulators...

• TNT plans to expand its Parcel Office operation by signing up 100 new franchises during the next 12 months. With 440 existing...

• The assets and trading names of Saxon UK, the Bedford-based bodybuilder and trailer manufacturer, have been acquired by...

• Management-owned Tibbett & Britten has won a three-year contract with Fosters menswear to distribute hanging and boxed...

II Felixstowe-based Russell Davies has been appointed by Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation to...

• The share price of ERF Holdings, the parent company of Sandbach-based ERF, appears to be climbing even faster than the truck...

• The American Xerox Corporation has made what is described as "a multi-million investment" in its new UKbased contract hire...

Services • Scottish Road Services has won one of the largest distribution contracts ever placed in Scotland, in a new deal...

• A sonar proximity device developed by Ford, Texas Instruments, and Polaroid that is claimed to detect objects all round a...

• Growing interest among brewers in drawbar combinations is reflected in the BTAC (Brewery Transport Advisory Committee)...

• The repercussions of the formation of Leyland Daf in February have now spread to India. Rover Group is selling its stakes in...

• After a nine-month trial of Britain's first extra-long 26 pallet insulated semi-trailer, Fransen Transport of Kidderminster...

• Aerodyne Equipment of Perivale, Middlesex is now offering spray suppression kits specifically for stepfrarne and low loader...

Fire Brigade with three hydraulic platform fire appliances based on the P92M 6 x 4 Scania chassis. All are powered by the...

• Disciplinary proceedings against John Geraghty trading as J J Geraghty of Bolton have been adjourned because of pending...

• West Midlands Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh, has renewed the licence held by Ian Turner, trading as Andy Lee...

(Exports) — the Hampshire Police force says it has identified more of the truck parts recovered at the company's premises....

• A London bus driver who crashed his double-decker into a taxi while he was drunk has been jailed for three months. Sean...

• Western Licensing Authority Major General John Carpenter has refused AH Gore's application for 12 additional trailers...

• Scottish Licensing Authority Hugh McNamara has issued a warning to Ben McLuskey & Sons of Almondbank following the company's...

• A Glasgow industrial tribunal has upheld the sacking of five security attendants employed by Strathclyde Regional Council for...

• The big freeze on new double-decker buying in London appears to have thawed somewhat, with the news that London Buses Limited...

• A bid for a licence by Kimado, a company formed by the James family who run Tarnbrook trading as Invincible Coaches of...

first Scania coach, a topspecification K112R threeaxle double-deck vehicle fitted with Plaxtons Paramount coachwork. The...

• Willowbrook has added a new single-decker service bus body named the Warrior to its UK PSV bodywork range. The...

• Metro-Carnmell Weymann has delivered 25 Metroriders to South Wales Transport in a deal worth around £625,000. The vehicles...

• The Bus and Coach Council has called on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Chancellor Nigel Lawson and Transport Secretary...

next year with a 25-seat luxury model based on the 7.5-tonne Mercedes-Benz LN2 turbocharged 811D high-capacity van. Devon...

Volvo BlOM articulated buses to operate in the UK. The 18-metre BlOMs, which have Van Hool Alizee bodywork, capable of carrying...

Europe last year. Poland ordered 310 construction vehicles, and 70 TurboStar 190.33s are now on their way to Warsaw while...

production of a new diesel tipper truck and trailer at the Gorky Motor Plant. Their combined load-carrying capacity is 8.5...

machinery and technical help from Chrysler Corporation to produce up to 300,000 engines a year for light trucks and cars....

heavily in the Brazilian HGV market. Investments of £37 million involving the creation of 1,200 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect...

vehicle mechanic from Speyer has spent four years converting a VW minibus into an amphibious vehicle. The amphibious bus can...

815, should be available for export to Western Europe before the end of the year. A prototype of the Czechoslovakian twin-axle...

Advisory Council in Christchurch, New Zealand, have bowed to lobbying by pressure groups and opted for differential limits as...

in Italy is running at 2,600 units. Iveco has 45% of that market, followed by Inbus at 25% and Menarini at 14%. Now Inbus has...

cars and 170 transit buses to correct possible defects in their braking systems and headlights. Wall Street Journal, 30 July....

of freight policy and road haulage at the Department of Transport, has been appointed to the position of Traffic Commissioner...

to Geoff Cash of MercedesBenz UK as having held the position of marketing manager within the company. This was incorrect....

and cab engineering, Richard Stone, has left the company to join Hendrickson Norde as chief engineer for special projects....

transport manager for British Gas South Western, has set up his own business called Special Fleet Services. SFL will provide a...

Alf Sutton OBE, founder and chairman of Sutton & Son (St Helens), one of Britain's largest private haulage and warehousing...

speed control equipment, has a new marketing manager. He is Stephen Kehr, who joins the company from the NetIon Organisation.

by Crane Fruehauf from technical sales representative to sales manager. The new job is based at Crane Fruehauf's Whitburn...

as chairman and chief executive of the Russell Davies Group on 1 September. He succeeds his father Ron G Davies, who is...

and managing director of Freightliners since 1982, James Evans is the company's new managing director. Evans has been with...

of truck and plant operations of British Car Auctions. He will be responsible for all the company's heavy commercial, plant and...

marketing manager for Scalia trucks in the United States. He was formerly sales promotion and advertising manager for Scania in...

manager is Bernard Tomkins, aged 34, who joins the magazine from Today newspaper, where he was sales group manager. His...

of truck refrigeration equipment, has appointed Finlee Engineering of Dundee as its latest north-ofthe-border dealer. Finlee...

packages require waste producers to classify all their by-products, listing their characteristics, and containing them in sound...

Executives (YES) Group will launch a twoyear study course on road haulage in October. The eight study weekends, over a...

the Transport and General Workers Union Commercial Road Transport Section is to hold another meeting as part of its...

Ferry Road, Grangetown Cardiff (0222-44744) has launched a new series of heavy commercial vehicle auctions to be held on the...

SILENT MESSAGES • A silent vehicle radio system which transmits written rather than audible messages is being launched in...

DRIVER UCENSING REGULATIONS • The Motor Vehicle (Driving Licenses) Regulations 1987 will come into effect on 3 September. They...

BOSCH ALARM DOUBLE • To help deter vehicle thieves, Robert Bosch has developed two new electronic alarm systems. The 20c...

BYFLEIT BRIDGE ▪ The 16.5-tonne gross vehicle weight limit which was previously imposed on the A425 Plough Bridge at Byfleet in...

• London and the South East M11 London New road layout and reconstruction work continues at Redbridge roundabout. Mll Essex...

PERFECT On the face of it the Dacia Shifter's rock bottom price could make it a tempting prospect for o•erators seekin• a...

Foden has won just over 1% of the British truck market over 3.5 tonnes this year — but it's in profit and has some ambitious...

BUT BETTER When Foden set out to design its 4000 Series cab to supersede the old S10 Series it talked to its customers, and...

When John Dobson clinched a deal to haul lager for Whitbread he needed a tough, reliable tractive unit weighing less than 6.2...

Tom Llewellyn is the figurehead of the UK's heavy haulage industry. He is also the managing director of Econofreight, our...

Starting out from a small room and one truck, Brian Rodwell has built Leicester Heavy Haulage into a thriving heavy haulage...

At long last the DTP has issued new Special Types regulations. Some manufacturers will like them — some operators won't. We...

of a small/medium sized commercial vehicle bodybuilding company, and feel that your comment on 6 August needs a response from a...

county reference library, D T Buckley's letter of Commercial Motor 16-22 July. His complaint that initial enthusiasm was...

warranty terms for the Iveco Ford 190.42 Turbostar as 12 months unlimited/mileage. While this is correct, it should also be...

your elevation of the USA to a 52-state nation, there are as yet only 50 states (Hawaii and Alaska being the last two...

Hawk. I especially like a good fry-up in agreeable company, and my sympathies go out to the Transport and General Workers Union...

of people you should owe money to. You can however, rely on these two to pull you out of a tight spot. The spectacular Mercedes...