Islwyn Westcott, of Port Talbot • Port Talbot haulier Islwyn Westcott was advised to consider surrendering a number of...

Alan Wood-Townend • The disadvantages of a haulier operating in his own name, rather than forming a limited company, were...

Collict (Specialised Transport Services, Leicester) In Although prepared to grant Collict Ltd, trading as Specialised...

Frank Miele and Malcolm Davis (Miele & Davis Transport) • One of the partners in a partnership which was refused a...

• A recent overloading case involving Econofreight United Transport Ltd before Huddersfield magistrates suggests that...

Geoffrey Bayles (Geoff Bayles Transport) • Geoffrey Bayles, trading as Geoff Bayles Transport, has lost his appeal to the...

Khami Metals Company 111 The Transport Tribunal in a written judgment says that the South Eastern LA was entirely justified in...

• With a considerable sense of regret, I return to the question of overloading. My reasons for doing this are a combination...

MJ and P C Venskunas • The operator's licence of M J and P C Venskunas, brothers, has been revoked by Metropolitan LA Air...

Ron Hall International Trucking under Regulation 5 of the Goods Vehicles (Operators Licences, Qualifications and Fees)...

• Following a recent fatal road traffic accident in Bristol in which a parked coach was considered to be a contributory...

1. Forget 1984. That used to be the year of doom, thanks to George Orwell's novel and a horrific 1953 TV adaptation, but now a...

• Is it better to own or rent — to travel hopefully or to arrive? For Esso this week it is obviously better to rent and...

• The Road Haulage Association's Tipcon exhibition and conference for the tipping industry will take place at Harrogate from...

• Britain's tanker distribution hauliers are getting ready for an oil boom. Esso, which runs 400 vehicles and has 450 HGV...

• The rules for transporting explosives by road are to be up-dated in the summer says junior transport minister Peter...

its first year of trading since it was formed in June 1986 — but its performance was much better than predicted in joint...

for Export for the second time in seven years. The group's managing director Clive Bourne started the company 26 years ago in...

• The permits for UK hauliers travelling to Italy have been increased from 20,000 to 23,000 following negotiations, junior...

• All right-hand-drive Daf 1900 trucks are to be built at Leyland Daf's assembly plant in Lancashire with production starting...

• A deal to sell off Portsmouth City Transport (PCT) has collapsed following the city council's last-minute rejection of the...

night-time lorry ban, and a third has had his case deferred this week after pleading not guilty in the latest blitz of...

• Monster trucks, wheelie trucks, jet-powered trucks, best-kept working trucks, vintage trucks, recovery trucks, street vans...

• Swift Transport of Northampton is investigating the cause of a blaze which destroyed a Volvo tractive unit and its general...

• A video of trucks creating potential deathtraps for motor ists by U-turning across the central reservation of one of...

Licensing Authority for South Wales. Davies, 50, has been clerk to the Neath Magistrates since 1974.

• A coach driver with Smiths-Shearings, who has had a heart condition for more than six years, lost his appeal to regain his...

• As predicted, Fiat's new Fiorino van will be based on the popular Uno passenger car model (CM 13-19 August 1987), and will...

• A Scania open day in Hamilton, Strathclyde last week featured a display of fire fighting equipment designed to serve into...

urban artic conversion (4.12 tonnes at the front and 7.8 tonnes at the rear) are 0.88 and 0.84 tonnes below their respective...

eight-legger Mercedes 3025K tippers, after putting three different makes of 8x4 chassis through a series of onand off-road...

UK by June this year, despite the doubts that were expressed by importer Seat Concessionaries late last year (CM 3 December-9...

• York has just launched two new Thermostar refrigerated trailers. The first, designated the Thermostar 250, is a 12.2 metre...

• Veeder Root has finally fallen into step with the rest of the transport world with the launch of its stylish new 8300...

• Operators bidding for local authority refuse collection contracts under competitive tendering next year, could be offered...

• Express Newspapers is on the brink of handing its multimillion-pound national distribution business to Newsflow, the...

• Wallace Arnold Tours' revarnped management, headed by managing director John King, has been a major force in reviving...

• Renwicks Freight, the West Midland-based haulage group, has acquired PA Stanley International, of Frome, Somerset, and...

• NFC Contract Distribution, the retail distribution division of the National Freight Consortium, is giving its new contract...

• Leggett Freightways, the road haulage, forwarding and warehousing group has bought eight storage depots from British...

• Cash and carry Wholesaler Nurdin and Peacock has awarded a 2500,000-a-year distribution contract to Alpine, the National...

to its hire fleet. The vehicles have Leyland DAF Freighter 16/13 16-tonne chassis.

hire firms owned by Lex Service and Lombard North Central, increased their profits by more than 100% in the first six months of...

• Daf BV, the Dutch motor group formed from Daf Trucks, Freight Rover and parts of Leyland Trucks, has reported Off 63.1...

• Lowfield Distribution has won a contract to distribute wine and spirits for off-licence chain Augustus Barnett in the South...

• Heron International is opening 150 service stations in the UK, offering its own brand petrol and diesel. The company...

• Former trial area city, Hereford, will get a new network of high-frequency minibuses, operated by Midland Red West on 23...

Holdings looks likely to be accepted by the shareholders of the two companies. It has already been agreed at board level....

97kW (130hp) Ctunmins B Series engine for its mid-engined Swift midibus chassis. Until now, the Swift has been available with...

• Grays Luxury Travel of Barnsley has acquired a Daf Bus SB 2305 DHTD rearengined underframe chassis with Duple 320 SL...

• The latest "domestic market" version of Walter Alexander's Singapore-design export single-decker body is now available in...

• Efforts by Scottish Bus Group (SBG) directors and employees to convince the Government to sell the group to them have been...

• The Jonitheere-bodied Volvo BlOM GLE Yorkshire Rider Jetrider, which won coach of the year at Last week's British Coach...

• As predicted in Commercial Motor, Renault Truck Industries is looking towards selling buses in the UK — although the UK...

11 The road transport industry's entrance exam — the CPC — is not a judge of a haulier's professional competence but a...

• West Midlands Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh angrily adjourned last week's hearing into the renewal of Central...

authorisation increased by two vehicles and four trailers last week, without restrictions, when North Western Licensing...

• Existing use certificates for storing vehicles do not cover vehicle operations, ruled South Eastern Licensing Authority...

• Selby Magistrates hammered 18 Norman Lewis Tankers hazchem drivers last week, fining them nearly £10,000 after they...

• A West German driver who admitted driving with an overlength drawbar combination for almost 35 hours without proper rest,...

• Opening Commercial Motor's 24th Fleet Management Conference, held for the first time in Birmingham, Wincanton Group...

• If Britain's road hauliers want better roads, free of endless traffic jams and roadworks, they should, "start making a fuss...

• Hauliers are looking a gifthorse in the mouth by not using tachograph information to their benefit. If hauliers studied...

• Hauliers throughout the industry are stunting their business and trade through an inability to impose proper vehicle...

jam, he thinks of the total combined time wasted and the problems caused, bearing in mind the increasing demand for...

• Following his speech on financing your fleet arid how time, or lack of it, affects the way hauliers acquire their vehicles,...

• Given the complexity of the current drivers' hours law, delegates were relieved to get a no-nonsense explanation on exactly...

• For Colin Burton, the fleet consultancy manager with Mercedes-Benz, computers and modern fleet management techniques work...

to perpetuate in your columns the TGWU-inspired myth that Trusthouse Forte is the big bad wolf of the trucking world. Please...

acknowledged as the people that York must overtake — "Trailer to Leader", (CM 7-13 April) — I am afraid that they are going...

received many calls from irate Scots about your gaff on page 12 of the current edition of Commercial Motor, but if you have...

14-20 April) regarding the prospect of Volvo F10 & F12 trucks being built in England. What I am really re ferring to of course...

RUBERY OWEN GOES IRISH • Rubery Owen-Rockwell has set up a new company in the Republic of Ireland. RO-R (Ireland) is based...

forwarding group, has appointed forwarder Jacky Maeber as its agent in Italy. Milan-based Jacky Maeder has branches and depots...

its agency in the Netherlands with two new offices: IBC Europa, Reeweg 24, Rotterdam; and Transportzone, Koggestraat,...

SCANIA OPENS IN STOKE-ON-TRENT • A Keltruck Scania dealership is opening in Stoke-onTrent. The depot, at Winghay Close, off...

opening in Hartlepool as MAN Volkswagen dealer for Teesside. Contact the manager Malcolm Ward on (0429) 265861.

Mercedes-Benz dealership in Callow, Hereford, covering Herefordshire and Worcester. The site is on the A49, 5Iun from the city...

GM LAUNCHES NEXT DAY DELIVERY • General Motors Service Parts Operations is starting a next-day delivery service for "top...

introduced a next-day delivery service into Rome as part of its European air express network operations. Based in Rome, the jet...

SHELL SHELLS OUT • Shell is offering truck drivers a range of products when they buy diesel or lubricants. Drivers are...

TALKING 11,INNELS • Commercial Motor's sister publication Railway Gazette International is co-organiser of a two-day Channel...

years, will be the opening paper, by former Department of Transport road transport division chief Reg Dawson, at a conference...

automotive technology and automation will be held in Florence from 30 May to 3 June on the theme Mechatronics — use of...

Association is launching a series of one-day seminars aimed at keeping operators abreast of legislative changes. The subjects...

N EW EXPORT SCHEME • HM Customs and Excise has changed the documentation used for the Retail Export Scheme. Properly drawn up...

is publishing a series of booklets explaining the impact of proposed VAT and customs regulations on businesses. They are: E...

ROCHESTER WAY RELIEF ROAD OPENS • The new Rochester Way relief road in Eltham, southeast London, has been opened by...

• Motorway Rescue Services (MRS) is to modernise its national network of motorway rescue and repair centres, starting with...

• Work to widen the M25 to four lanes between Junction 11 (Chertsey) and 13 (Staines) is now underway. Strengthening the...

Fed up with tedious map reading and traffic jams? A new in-cab navigation system could be the answer to your prayers. •...

and motorway services throughout the land must be suffering financially. Every school holidays the Hawk sees large numbers of...

Grabbit and Run; the legendary undertakers from Oxford, Stiff and Shroud; or the accidentprone Japanese Ambassador Harry Kin...

British lorry owner jailed in Hungary, following an appeal from his wife in these pages. He is anxious for food and...

know them. Perhaps it was the shock of actually being able to drive to Commercial Motor's 24th Fleet Management Conference that...

Ian Sayer, the magazine's publisher, used to be an owner-driver and is still involved in the transport industry as a consultant...

on the telly last week? Did any of you see the Iveco Ford tractive unit with A-reg number plates? Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

There's good money to be made in the transport industry — but only if you have the right skills. We review the recruitment...

Iveco Ford's 175.17 is the first full 17-tonner we have tested. It performs well, but its bigger tyres make it overgeared. •...

This year's event saw a dramatic increase in support with twice the number of entries and more sponsorship— including an...

TVVF recognises the need to marry rail and road transport — with the advent of the Chunnel, business is booming. When the...

From 1993 TIR operators will be able to say "no thanks" to ferries and take their trucks under the channel on a train — but...

British Rail's Speedlink Distribution operation is flourishing by adapting to meet its customer's requirements: new bi-modal...