• Money does matter, whether we like it or not. And wasted money matters most. To hear the influential House of Commons Public...

• SITPRO, the organisation which aims to simplify trade documents, has agreed to introduce a new dangerous goods note to meet...

• The Post Office's parcels business made a profit of £9.4 million last year against £35.3 ninon in 1987. It blames the drop on...

• Parcels firm Nightfreight is expanding its services to Ireland. The company, which developed from Heraway Transport in 1984,...

• The Post Office's parcels business made a profit of £9.4 million last year against 235.3 millon in 1987. It blames the drop...

• The FrA has welcomed the European Commission's view that proposals by the German Federal Republic to introduce a road fee for...

• Land Rover is to take on 200 more workers at its Solihull factory to make the 4WD Discovery vehicle.

• Sally Line has issued its formal offer document for the Red Funnel ferry company, which operates between Southampton and the...

• The recent Transport Industry Forum organised by Overdrive and entitled A Time to Act called for a more united voice and an...

• A top scientist working on a study backed by the Department of Energy has told Commercial Motor that the Department of...

Britain's hauliers have been warned to prepare for tougher new pollution controls on diesel-engined trucks. Representatives of...

All internal border controls the transport of live animals within the EC will be scrapp under a proposal formally adopted by...

tic without aerodynamic aids. says that aerodynamics can in g the CD of an artic down around 0.44, but that, "one II always...

• Federal Express increased its worldwide turnover by 33% to £3.27 billion in the year to the end of May, but pre-tax profits...

• The fifth round of the European Truck Racing Championship took place at the Nurburgring circuit last weekend. Winner of the...

• Tax payers will be hit for an extra 120 million because of Britain's stop-go road building policies, MPs have warned. The...

• The industry faces a jobs crisis in the next five years from which many small employers will never recover, warns Malcolm...

• Britain's roads are grinding to a halt, warns the Institution of Civil Engineers. Its report, Congestion, recommends a...

• Four of the first Iveco Fc 190-32 tractive units to ente Britain have joined the fleet Exel Logistics on long-term hire from...

• Honda of Japan has taken 20% stake in the Rover Gra and is to build a 2300 million assemby plant at Swindon, creating 1,300...

• The fourth policeaccompanied lorry check und the London lorry ban was mounted in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets] week....

• Working under a government support research programme, Perkins Technology of Peterborough has reduced the pass-by noise level...

• Transfleet and Chart are merging their contract distribution businesses, which have joint sales of more than 215 million....

• A new tractive unit, and seven other new models, figure in ambitious plans for AWD following the loss of the MoD's four-tonne...

• All new Ford vehicles cal be converted free to run on unleaded petrol, says the cot pany. Some vehicles will be able to run...

• Scania (Great Britain) is stepping up its attack on the UK tipper market with a highpowered eight-wheeler fitted with the...

Fuel savings of up to 26% being achieved by Exel gistics with two rodynamically-finished box as on contract to Argos, the count...

I John Dee Transport is the St operator to take delivery factory-built Seddon Atkinn 6x 2 Stratos plated at 65 nnes. The 6x2...

• MAN's F90 19.462 has made its debut with a British operator, joining the fleet of Le Fort Taylor International, based at Bury...

Mitsubishi is launching a vision system, aimed primarily for use as a reversing aid on trucks and buses. The system, known as...

• John Dee Transport is bucking the trend of an exodus from the heavy haulage sector by establishing its own heavy haulage...

• Glass Glover Distribution has introduced 25 sepcially developed trailers and the latest Scania tractive units to service its...

• BRS Notheni has won a five-year, £300, 000 contract hire agreement from Derbyshire-based kitchen manufacturer Regency...

• Tiphhook, the fast-growing UK container and trailer renta] group, has announced an 81% increase in its annual pre-tax...

• Laura Ashley Industries has invested 275,000 in five Volvo trucks to launch its new furniture home delivery service in the...

• She!yoke Dempster, the Letchworth-based manufacturer of refuse collection vehicles and road sweepers, is up for sale...

• Danzas, the Swiss-based transportation and forwarding organisation, has acquired CAT Nationwide Carriers via its subsidiary...

Magazine distributors are ming to road transport in a to beat the chaos caused by 'eldy strike action on British iL Comag, one...

TIP has won a contract to ?ply 100 new trailers for rd's European distribution et of 520 specificallysigned York step-frame...

programme, Reliance Tankers has ordered 34 ERF El0s, ten of which will be used on a Burmah Petroleum Fuels contract. ,

• A S Jones and Company, part of the P&O Roadtanks Group, has won a threeyear contract with Lubrizol to distribute lubricating...

• Bendix plans to close its anti-locking brake manufacturing site at Coventry in October.

• Booming business in Staffordshire has led express parcels carrier ANC to expand its Newcastle under Lyme depot. The site...

IN Snacks manufacturer KP Foods is preparing to launch its own 'Snack Line' franchise operation following a successful 15-month...

• Charges of the unlawful use of trade plates and the operation of an untested vehicle by Steetley Transport have been...

• A South JUI who was too Wales haulier busy to attend ; new operator's seminar after being granted a three-vehicle licence...

I Coach operator Smiths Shearings was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling ,E29,100 after Wigan magistrates convicted it of...

/1 South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has given Jenkins Tours (Llanelli) just over 14 days to have its 10 PSVs...

• Blundell & Rimmer (Group) and the driver of one of the company's vehicles were both given absolute discharges for overloading...

• Two operational vehicles belonging to Skipton haulier John Gill have been suspended for six months by North Eastern Licensing...

• Though announcing his intention to renew the licence held by Caldicot, Gwent-based Hillard Blake Transport for 10 vehicles...

• Differing decisions as to whether drivers who pay their own income tax and National Insurance can be regarded as "self...

• No action ha been taken against National Welsh Omnibus by South Wales Deputy Traffic Commissioner Gerrard Sullivan. . The...

I The Commons Public ccounts Committee has called the Department of Transxi to work with the Bus and pach Council on "a...

• Chester City Transport has taken delivery of two coach-seated Leyland Olympian double-deckers which are among the first...

• The Bus and Coach Council is researching the effects of the Education Reform Act on coach operators carrying school parties....

Transport Users Consultative Committee hearing his week approves closure A its BarnetbyGainsborough line in Linminshire. The...

• Bus Engineering Limited, which occupies part of the former London Transport bus works site at Chiswick, is to move into two...

• Renault Vehicules Industriels has added a high-floor GTX model to its FRI coach range. The 3.55m-high ver sion, with 12m 3...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles is to build a new £10 million factory at Guildford to cope with increased demand for its Javelin...

• Scania has appointed Re liable Vehicles as its Scottish bus and coach distributor. Reliable is based in Renfrew, with depots...

• Within days of Cedar Travel being brought before the Traffic Commissioners on maintenance charges (CM 13-19 July). Southdown...

• Alan Stephenson, boss of Harrogate-based AJS Holdings, is withdrawing his minority interest from East Yorkshire of Hull, to...

• Wigan-based Smiths Shearings, which operates six buses on town services in Telford, is planning to take over Shiffnal...

• Lancaster City Transport's 18-month venture into the competitive market in Kendal will come to an end this month. The...

• Bordeaux has placed the first order for 10 "Megabus" three-section artics with Renault Vehicules Industriels. Though MAN...

• Nottinghamshire independent bus operator South Notts of Gotham, still halfowned by the Barton family has resumed its...

• Leyland Bus intends to use the world-wide organisation of its parent Volvo to promote the double-deck bus concept, says...

In January 1990 the first .220 million phase of Volvo Parts Corporation's new warehouse at Magna Park, Leicester will come into...

NEWS AUSTRIA Roadworks Al: Various between Salzburg and Vienna. (Nov). Due to heavy roadworks on the Al: Western approaches...

SIR ROUTIERS SIGNPOST ME ROAD AHEAD • I write with regard to the irticle on the UICR (CM 15-21 une), and I would like to...

FREIGHT '89 • The Freight Transport Association conference and exhibition will be held on 13-15 September at the English...

in collaboration with other international road transport associations, is staging a conference, Transport and Logistics — Which...

be gathering at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, Lancs for a Foden In formal Weekend. As the name implies...

TCS&D Europe '90 will take place at the Ahoy Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam on 13-15 November 1990. It will be accompanied by a...

PACE JOINS THE BAND • Pace Communications (UK) has been appointed as a service provider for Band Three radio services on behalf...

Mills Associates, Novadata and Systemlynx as dealers for its Navigator route planning system. Contact DPS, 51a Upper High...

STFJPACO GROWS • Stemco Truck Products, the parts arm of Foden Trucks, has added several products of its after-market range,...

a GRP under bumper spoiler. The kit comes complete with fog lamp mounting brackets at 2150 plus carriage. Contact Southway on...

launched another in-cab heater, the D1Lc, which is said to be particularly quiet and has variableheat and low-burn settings....

STARTING OUT • The Road Transport Industry Training Board has produced a booklet on how trainees can enter the road transport...

ciation has OrFT I A% arranged a French language %O r course for its members which will take place in France on 20 25...

now offering evening classes for the Certificate of Professional Competence. Also available are the final professional exam of...

LOVE MY TENDER • Transfleet Services has published a 12-page booklet fo local authorities on compulsor3 competitive...

issued a leaflet explaining changes in the rural transport innovation grant scheme. Revenue grants will now be available in...

TAIL-LIFT HELP • A freephone emergency re pair service has been set up by tail-lift and tipping gear manu facturer BCT...

DARTFORD DELAYS • Work has now begun on the widening of approach roads to the new Dartford Bridge: in particular, the A282 is...

▪ Traffic probibitions on com nercial vehicles over 7.5 tonles have provisionally been waived in France on the route )etween...

ALARM Even the most determined truck thief is likely to be deterred by an alarm that goes off before he even gets the door...

In our last look at turbocharging technology (CM 18/24 May) we reviewed some of the latest developments in turbocharger design....

BY THE HAWK • Far be it from Commercial Motor to denigrate Britain's magnificent nineteenth century rail network (well it does...

GIIIT T Volvo's contender in the tough 17-tonne sector, the FL617, is fast and comfortable. Operators will judge this against...

Mg of the exhaust brake, which is tucked back behind the driver's heel and can be difficult to reach. The button doesn't...

MAS Stolen trailers quickly vanish into the secondhand underworld, so Simon Howe, a former victim, has devised a marking...

Truck theft is a major problem — and a growing one. But there are steps you can take to make your vehicle a daunting prospect,...

hauliers to phone in confidential information about crimes. Security devices would add only a few hundred pounds to the price...

• Coachwork Walker of • Coachwork Walker of Colne, Lanes is the latest bodybuilder to use Cromweld's 3RC12 stainless steel, in...

to Tescos • Tesco Stores' regional distribution fleet is about to t joined by 160 York Thermostar refrigerated semi trailers....

• A new folding version of Weston-Super-Mare-based CEMA Enterprises' underrun protection device can be moved into an upright...

• A drawbar livestock carrier I An Aussie-built low loader ith hydraulically-widening 'heel-track, decks and ramps proving...

of Andover by Houghton Parkhouse Coachwork uses a drawbridge-type front bulkhead for through-loading into the rigid body. The...

• Extra Special Vehicles, owner of Banbury Horseboxes, has launched a high-value-cargo transporter. It is designed to provide...

I Thayers Ice Cream has rdered five dual-role reefer axes from GRP Massey, all n Roadrunner 8.13 chassis, ir its multi-drop...

• An article on sliding roof systems in last month's Bodybuilder referred to Cooks International Services. It should, of...

• Norfrig's first UK-built Transpolar reefer semi-trailer has a slimmer chassis than the monocoque Kassbohrer version, giving...

• Ingemex of Telford has developed an improved version of its all-aluminium dropside/platform body system. Leyland Daf offers...

• Al International, part of the Hadleigh Industries group, has formed a separate company called Showpoint to develop and market...

• A range of single and double-axled drawbar trailers is being marketed by Mike Gauntlett (Truck Equipment) of Chipping...

• Howden-based trailer builder CB Cottingham, until last August part of the Dee Corporation, aims to win sales of £5 million a...

• Recent developments from Hytec Tipping Gears, which now claims an 18% share of the 6x4 and 8x4 tip-gear market, include a new...

• Telehoist has followed up its Tele tender mini fire engine with a larger, emergency rescue version. It uses the same GMC 4x4...

Judging by exhibits at this year's Tankcon show, continental manufacturers are queueing up to grab a share of the UK market—...

Road hauliers have to comply with many regulations — and not surprising tanker operators face more than most. They also use...

Refuse collection vehicles are hardly at the glamorous end of road haulage, but their growing efficiency is critical in these...

Few air travellers spare a thought for the airside emergency vehicles that could save their lives if disaster strikes. CMB...

• The Bedwas range of integral parcel van bodies provide a larger capacity than is normally available from standard...

York Bodybuilders, under the leadership of its new boss Mike Tweddle, has emerged from a group shake-up ready for growth — and...

Safety being paramount in petroleum tanker operations, it is no surprise that the West German TOPAS and British Lowmax tankers...

• INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY SUPPLIES TATTERSALL Jack Tattersall has become after-sales and service manager of Industrial Machinery...