• Confirmation that Steyr is to enter the British market, and that AWD will be bringing adaptations of the previous Bedford...

who may have been the last person to see 18 year-old Fiona Gallant alive. Her body was found by the Al2 just before the Marks...

• Bus companies are cutting their own throats because of their inability to appreciate the simple needs of passengers, says...

• A lorry driver has been cleared of causing the death of an Automobile Association patrol man in a freak accident. Gordon...

• The Transport and General Workers Union Eastern Region has voted to go on strike. At a meeting last Sunday (17 January 1988)...

• A United Counties bus driver was given a six-month suspended jail sentence last week for using his doubledecker bus on an...

entering the UK market with a range of middleweight trucks (above), by the end of the year. At this week's Geneva Motor Show,...

The union seems to think that the new negotiators have brought a tougher attitude to the talks and, says John, they are trying,...

• UK hauliers are being swindled by double-dealing export agents out to make a quick buck from new customs laws, claims the...

board at the company's next annual general meeting on 21 February in Blackpool. With the company expecting a turnover of more...

• The Government is launching a £9 million-a-year scheme to monitor skid levels on Britain's roads in a bid to save 1,800 lives...

of overloaded lorries on Britain's roads. In answer to a string of parliamentary questions this week, Junior Transport Minister...

• European Commission proposals on the introduction of spray suppression equipment throughout the EEC are being watered down by...

• "Government meddling" in state-owned Leyland Trucks during the 1960s and 1970s took away the independence of "one of the...

• The prizes have been awarded for the Commercial Motor/Leyland Daf Series 95 Relay competition, which took place at the time...

• The TGWU has had "congenial" talks with a Trusthouse Forte representative after allegations that THE is pursuing a policy of...

• Ray Smith (Tail Lifts) has developed a hydraulic side lift which operates within the overall dimensions of the trailer body....

• Austrian truck builder Steyr-Daimler-Puch has revealed which of its HGVs will spearhead its attack on the UK market, planned...

Drive for Safety competition jointly sponsored by Bandag and Commercial Motor the closing date for entries is 14 March 1988....

• Britain's first Iveco Ford 38-tonne 6x 2 twin-steer Cargo 3828 tractive unit hit the road this week, going into service with...

• Two British bodybuilders, Sparshatts of Portsmouth and Econolite of Dereham, have sold special bodies to Norway and the...

made by Crane Frehauf. The tandem-axle Bitumen tanks have capacity of 20,500 litres and run on Crane Fruehauf monoleaf...

*Choice of Tandem, Triaxle and Air Suspension. *Heavy Duty, Reinforced Curtains. *Fast Action Curtain Rollers, Water...

• Trimoco of Chelmsford has added a 42-tonne gross train weight Interstater heavy-duty recovery truck to its fleet. The Iveco...

artic tankers for its Scottish liquid sugar distribution. The vehicles, part of a fleet of 15 at its Greenock depot, have 1628...

M U st wait • The Transport Tribunal has set aside a decision by former Eastern Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh because...

• Stockwell Transport's bid for a licence was again adjourned last week, pending the result of a series of prosecutions for...

• West Midlands Deputy Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson lashed out at Herefordbased operator Ball of Maclley last week,...

• Paisley-based CDC Crisps escaped with a warning and permission to double the number of vehicles it operates when it appeared...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu has reserved his decision on a request by Cumbria County Council for a traffic...

• A case involving more than 200 alleged drivers' hours and tachograph offences against international haulier Norman Lewis...

• London Buses is to shed more than 1,000 jobs despite a £1-million-a-day investment boost by London Regional Transport to...

to become even worse, warns Buswatch, the national passengers' monitoring group. Buswatch claims that 94% of services do not...

• London Regional Transport has confirmed that Bus Engineering Ltd (BEL) has been sold to Frontsource, which owns a number of...

• A "bleak picture" of traffic congestion, staff problems, long waits and cancellations continues to face London's bus users...

Travel World, a fast-growing National Bus Company subsidiary with a chain of travel agencies throughout the UK. Badgerline...

• Bus operators should be allowed to duplicate services on sections of their routes, instead of having to run them along the...

• Steyr-Daimler-Puch, the Austrian truck builder, is poised to become the 12th heavy goods vehicle manufacturer selling its...

Intercooled ir conditioned. And stuck in the Ice Age. Progress can sometimes be a ,-edged sword. On the one hand, in the...

• A national, West Midlandsbased drinks distribution service supplying shops and offlicences and specifically aimed at smaller...

• The 1986 boom in international commercial traffic (CM, 19-25 November) continued well into 1987. The latest Dip RO-RO...

• Volvo Trucks has announced record UK sales for 1987. Sales in the 7.5tonnes-plus market are up by a third to more than 6,000....

• Tankclean, the Tankfreightrun network of road tanker cleaning stations, is piloting a mobile chassis and livery cleaning...

• Pallet hire specialist Chep Europe has moved into Spain and opened 10 depots. It is expected to earn 240 million Pesetas...

• Iveco Ford has turned in a better-than-expected financial performance during 1987, according to Iveco's managing director for...

distribution deal with a subsidiary of the beer giant, Allied Breweries. The 12-year contract with Oxford brewer Hall has...

• Greater Nottingham Cooperative Society has bought three new 113kW (153hp) Seddon Atkinson 2-11 rigids for transporting green...

Power Tools) has moved to bigger premises at 1 Carlisle Road, Colindale, London NW9 OHD, phone 01-200 1144. AP ALITELA MOVES...

Stuart Johnson as an official dealer to supply the company's "Duple" bodies on Scania chassis. Models now available include...

mobile radio pager which can carry up to 40 messages, illuminating each one on a 32-character screen, and letting the driver...

the amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order 1987, are now available from Andover Trailer, Priced...

promotional bargains for spring. For 230 and 300 vouchers, drivers can have a 35mm Praktica Sport camera and binocular set. 220...

place at Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London W8 on Tuesday 26 January to tell operators about the future of the coach...

kits to coincide with the new government regulations covering the transport of dangerous goods. From 1 April all drivers who...

ove 50 two-way conversion tables of imperial measures and their metric equivalents used in the notor industry. Charts range rom...

light, inch its manufacturer says rovides a more visible Itemative to the conventional azard triangle. For details hone Jane...

hauliers erplexed by government ,ustoms 88 changes has been pened by distribution onsultancy Davies and .obson. The service is...

increased its retail price list for Timax replacement exhausts, Tirnax shock absorbers and its Truckmaster range of truck...

builder, is holding a short training course called Basic Transport Refrigeration on 15 and 16 February at its head office in...

Traffic, has announced that a further 568 emergency crossing points on the central reservations of motorways are to be closed....

• London and the South East M1 London: j4, LC (Edgeware). M2 Kent: 34, CF. M4 London: J4, LC EB CC 21:30-06:00, D. LC. M10...

news headline (CM 7-13 January) in which the RHA states that: "hauliers have reached the end of their tether watching farmers...

29 October-4 November) concerning the Daihatsu Four-trak, having bought one from a friend to whom I had recommended it in the...

III I was surprised to read the following in the motoring column of The Barnsley Independent newspaper: "Then we have the...

latest baby to arrive in the truck world's maternity ward, Scania was very upset not to see mention of its 3 Series in your...

Head Hunters" (CM 26 November-2 December). I found the article particularly interesting and would very much like to make a few...

The Geneva Truck Show is hardly the biggest of the year — but with a surprise debut for the Series 3 Scania and word of Steyris...

Oil companies spend huge sums of money promoting their diesel, but just how good is this fuel? CM has tested nine samples of...

published a story on Alan Hawkes, the hero lorry driver who saved the lives of many children in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster....

Nissan diesel-engined "Maverick" Land Rover conversions are designed for operators in search of power. We put one up against...

The Frejus Tunnel is well served by A-class roads, offers excellent facilities and was a British idea in the first place, yet...

DALE Bob Dale has been named managing director of Lucas Automotive, a new company formed from six Lucas-owned operations. Bob...

manager with Kirkby Trucks of Orgreave, Sheffield. Nome joins Kirkby from John Hudsons where be spent 15 years as service manager.

of Microsystem Design, which makes electronic bus ticketing machines and fare meters for taxis. Dr Tim Cook

become distribution design manager with TNT Contract Services after four years with NFC rivals National Carriers Contract...

driver training and customer relations courses to the PSV industry, has been set up by Brian Evans. He has left a Bristol video...

Bank, has succeeded Sir Hugh Dundas as non-executive chairman of BET, parent company of United Transport. Dundas, who stood...

in freight transport and distribution at the Polytechnic of Central London's Transport Studies Group. The post is funded by...

of BRS Northern's Burnley branch. He was previously operations manager at the company's Knottingley branch. He joined BRS in...

Amos as commercial director of its new energy and vehicle services division. Amos was previously planning and development...

marketing director of Wighttnan Mountain, supplier of Chartwell tachograph charts and accessories. Burns joined the central...

has appointed Cliff Ogden as managing director. He joined the Kettering engineering company earlier this month_ He was formerly...

Engineering, has died after a short illness. He was 59. He joined Voith in 1955, was made transmissions division manager in...

• No matter what power, what weight, what cab comfort, what suspension or what driveline a manufacturer may put into his truck,...

The growing complexity of tyre construction could lead operators into trouble if they continue to gloss over this vital part of...

With HGV wheel failures running at nearly 4% operators can no longer afford to leave fitting to unskilled personnel • The old...

With few exceptions, now trucks over 12 tonnes GVVV and trailers over 3.5 tonnes must now have spray suppression equipment. We...

1PB. Phone: 061-872 6932 • Anti-Spray is the name given to a range of spray suppression equipment produced by Abal Engineering....

Spraybreaker anti-spray flaps and valances comprise thick pads of porous plastic material (similar to that used for domestic...

One of the longest-established specialists in the vehicle anti-spray market, Dana (Intertruck) is now producing Misty II, a...

Phone: (0922) 27373. Albert Jagger markets the Aquamaster spray suppression equipment alongside its range of CV body...

Millwood Rubber makes a wide range of automotive products produced in natural rubber, Neoprene, Nitrile and SBR, and also...

Monsanto was the first company to launch CV anti-spray equipment in Britain (in 1979) — and its Clear Pass systems have...

Netlon spray suppression systems are based on flaps and wing-lining material comprising three complementary highdensity...

2ST. Phone: (0942) 323734 Plusbrand produces side valances for nonsteered axles. They are made from 4.5mm-thick black...

Phone: (0532) 734891 Schlegel UK, the originator of the Cats Whisker spray suppression system, markets a variety of standard...

DY8 4LS. Phone: (0384) 390899 Having taken over the manufacture of reinforced plastic mudwings from M & G (Tankers), Resinjet...

The ExSpray spray suppressant material marketed by Roland Tilts is a threedimensional mesh of black plastic thread embedded in...

Every operator knows that tyre life can be extended, but a clumsy job can wreck an expensive cover or break the law....

A tyre blowout is always serious: at best it leads to expensive downtime — at worst it can cause a crash. Associated Tyre...

Alloy wheels are lighter than steel, of course, which boosts payloads. They're also strong and good looking — but virtue...