• Second-class citizens in a second-class world. We could be talking about black South Africans, or Amazonian Indians, or...

• Police are appealing for lorry drivers to come forward if they know anything about a 21-year-old girl who was found...

• Top union officials are pushing for an EC directive to improve "appalling" truckstop standards in the UK — and they hope to...

• Safeguards for operators buying trucks have been unveiled by the Motor Agents Association. This move covers all types of...

• A Stevenage bus driver has been jailed for six months after he was found to be more than five times over the drink driving...

• The Spanish Government has restructured the package involving the sale of 80% of its state-owned truck producer, Enasa, to...

• A national appeal fund has been set up with the help of leading figures in the road transport industry to raise cash for a...

• Schemes to toughen up tachograph laws are being considered by the Department of Transport. Transport Secretary Cecil...

• European drivers are planning to blockade West Germany's border routes at the end of June in protest against the proposed...

• The road transport industry received many accolades in this week's Queen's Birthday Honours list, with an OBE going to...

• The National OwnerDrivers' Association has secured an 8% pay increase with Redland, Ready Mix Concrete and Greenhams, and a...

in County Durham will cost 26.4m and take 10-12 years to complete, according to a report by Durham County Council. The bridges...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson is under growing pressure to pump more cash into the development of railway freight...

• An urgent review of the legislation surrounding deregulation must be carried out if buses are to be effectively used to solve...

• As predicted (CM 14-20 June) Reynolds-Boughton and Renault Truck Industries have won a £20m deal to supply the Ministry of...

• Schmidt has broken into the on-highway clearing sector with the launch of the 7.5 tonne Metropolitan road sweeper range at...

• Foden has extended the availability of air-suspension on its middleweight and heavy truck ranges with the launch of a...

• Specialist trailer manufacturer Lysander Engineering of Wrexham has ceased trading and is calling a creditors meeting with a...

• Bendix Heavy Vehicle Systems has launched a series of goods vehicle anti-lock braking seminars. They cover the latest EC...

• Gigant Suspensions is marketing a new lightweight air-suspension for bulk tankers. The NLRM system is available for six to 11...

• Warwick-based Dennis Eagle has won an order worth almost .27m to supply the Hong Kong government with 116 refuse collection...

totalled 2609m during the first four months of 1990 — a 5% increase on the same period last year. A total of 10,900 vehicles...

• Shelvoke Dempster, the refuse collection and road sweeping vehicle manufacturer, has been bought by its management after...

• Kelmac Developments, which was set up two years ago to sell Japanese-built Hino trucks, has gone into liquidation after...

• The Harvest Group of Companies which specialises in distribution, packing and international haulage, has gone into...

• IIFA Dolman of Southendon-Sea, Kent is rationalising its business following the retirement of two principal directors, Fred...

• Reorganisation within the Christian Salvesen group has paid off by producing an 18.5% boost in profits to £62.1m for the year...

• Truckrent is under the control of its fourth new owner in three years following the purchase of its parent company,...

• David Johnstone Haulage is being forced out of its 930m 2 site at Kirkpatrick Fleming, near Gretna Green in Scotland, where...

move into Europe in the next two years, following a restructure, which included the development of a European division....

• Bury Borough Council has received a Section 13 notice from the Department of Environment following its decision to award a...

• Midland Scottish is about to be bought by GRT Holdings in a move which will more than double the size of the Grampian Group....

• The US Greyhound bus company, America's only coast-to-coast bus operator, has been forced into bankruptcy by its...

irnmm ent • Dutch group United Bus and Den Oudsten, one of the leading bus bodybuilders in Holland, are planning to merge....

• Newcastle-based Northumbria Motor Services has taken delivery of its second batch of Optare Delta singledeckers to cash in on...

• Burtons of Brixham, a subsidiary of Transit Holdings, has introduced a new highfrequency route between Brixham, Paignton and...

• Sheffield independent Yorkshire Terrier has strengthened its local service operation with the acquisition of a half-share of...

that Wallace Arnold Tours is part of Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust plc and not Mecca Leisure Group, as incorrectly stated (CM...

• London Buses' Norbiton garage is to close after only six years in its present form. The garage, which belongs to LBL...

• The London Community Transport Association is to launch a Minibus safety charter. Proposed safety measures include a...

claims to be the longest service of its type in the UK. Crosville Wales has extended its existing route, which now follows the...

• Lancashire haulage contractor Ronald Hennessy has been found guilty of drug smuggling at Preston Crown Court, and sentenced...

• Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Humphrey Lewis has refused to renew the licence of Leicestershire haulier Roger Bown,...

• Maurice Wilcox, trading as M W Wilcox Haulage of Meadow Lane, Birstall, has had his one-vehicle national licence renewed for...

• Maintenance problems and difficulties over the use of a new operating centre, ed to Neath-based B&D Richards appearing at...

• A Sheffield coach driver who admitted falsifying tachograph charts and breaking driver hours regulations blamed schedules set...

get damages for a back injury suffered after struggling to push a tonne of food up a slope, says the High Court. 6 EA.

has decided to take no action against the licence of RH and DT Edwards, of New Tredegar, even though they failed to pay the...

• Convictions for tachograph offences have led to Western LA Major General John Carpenter cutting the authorisation on the...

• A series of drivers hours and tachograph offences have been uncovered at Cheltenham-based S C Morris — including one case of...

• A bid for a new 20-vehicle PSV licence by Crosskeys Coach Hire, trading as Glyn Williams Travel, has been turned down by...

• The defence costs of Sutton & Son (St Helens) and one of its drivers were paid out of public funds when St Helens Magistrates...

The US trucking industry is bracing itself for draconian nationwide pollution controls. Thomas Schumacher of the Californian...

Peugeot diesel engine, took many people by surprise when it clinched joint overall victory in this year's 4WDriving Force...

NIGHTFREIGHT HUB • Nightfreight has opened a £2m sorting hub in Willenhall, West Midlands which will employ more than 200...

INVINCIBLE INVICTA • Canterbury-based Invicta Motors has been appointed a dealer for Iveco Ford Trucks. Contact Invicta...

SECOND AEC RALLY GETS CA-AHEAD • A second AEC-based rally will be held on Sunday 2 September at Rockwell's Maudsley plant at...

ANOTHER CORKER • Swansea Cork Ferries has increased the number of sailings on its Swansea-Cork RORO route from four to six...

UNLOADING DOVER • Container handling facilities have been boosted at Dover's Eastern Docks with the installation of a pair of...

PAGING THROUGH TRANSPORT • Kogan Page has published Distribution for the Small Business which examines the most popular methods...

A QUOTE FROM POLICY MASTER • A computer software package aimed at reducing commercial vehicle insurance premiums has been...

GET TO GRIPS WITH THE GRIPPER • The Pepsi Gripper is the name of a new product designed to hold soft drinks containers in...

DELAYS ON M3 • Major maintenance work will continue until mid-August on the London-bound carriageway of the M3 in Surrey,...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M1 1 Essex: Lane closures, J5/7. Contraflow M25 Hertfordshire: Lane closures .118/20 (Chorleywood/...

QUALI You do not have to be a big operator to win BS5750. The two sisters who run West Midlands-based Shipfayre Tankers only...

unit in Europe. But whether UK operators are ready to accept the sophisticated Powerliner electronics, only time will tell. •...

and ASR; £150 for seat be/ts; £298 for centre seat and belts; £370 for air-suspended passenger seat; £1,358 for side and roof...

Are you sitting comfortably? Once upon a time there was an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Belgian (and three Germans — so much for...

Time was when every truck engineer's aim was to make longer-lasting engines. Now the emphasis has shifted to cutting noise and...

Whisky production is an essential part of the Scottish economy and Allied Distillers with its transport fleet play a key role....

transport industry came to light when you published a letter (CM 22-28 March) complaining of the miscarriage of justice when...

Chris Wilson distribution manager with overall responsibility for the London area, including depots at Euston, Wembley and...

is the new parliamentary private secretary to Roger Freeman, Minister of State for Transport.

tute of Logistics and Distribution Management. He is currently managing director of Entertainments UK, a subsidiary of...

The move coincides with the start of a same-day service to London and a next-day document service to the US.

to area manager, North-West. She is responsible for office functions and depot operations throughout the North.

Biddlecombe has transferred within NFC to BRS, where he has become the new director of engineering. He replaces John Farrant,...

Granning UK has appointed David Scott engineering manager. He has been a design engineer with the suspension and axle company...

sales force. Paul Clifton has been appointed area sales manager (South) and David Roberts is area sales manager (North). Both...

manager to director at Keyfuels. He helped set up the Keyfuels network for former haulier OH Jones (Walsall). Stephens has...

Anthony May to its board of directors. He became a consultant to the MVA Group in 1985, having joined from Leeds University...

of European Shipping. He succeeds Raymond East, who has returned to his family's demolition and contracting business.

a number of international transport positions, has joined Beauvais International as marketing and development director. He was...

Associates as transport consultant. The company, formerly known as Aaron Computer Services, specialises in transport and office...

as product development manager. He joins the company from US-based Ethyl Corporation. Lord will control the development of...

promoted Frank Dickens to commercial director. In his newly created job he will concentrate on a new nationwide trunking system...

elected Paul Osborne of Osborne Garages, Colchester, Essex as chairman, and David Cook, of David Cook Motors, Oldham, Lanes, as...

El Somerset County Council has invested £55,000 in a Cargo 1715 chassis, equipped by Welford Truck Bodies with its Mk2 fully...

• Drambuie's attempt on the Royal Marine's round-Britain record for power boats has provided Dumbarton-based Yachtech with its...

• Ray Smith and GRP Massey have combined to produce a pair of demountable refrigerated containers for a BRS Western contract...

• British Road Services has ordered 12 top loader curtain siders with Trac-cess bodywork from Lawrence David. BRS say this is...

• Pod Systems of Aylesbury has developed a range of demountable bodies for most popular pick-up trucks. An ambulance version...

• Unusual applications for Huth and Jonsered truckmounted cranes range from the installation of plate glass at high levels to...

• M&G Tankers & Trailers has developed a rolling frame skeletal trailer for containers up to 12.2m long. An electric or...

Buyers Guide. Copies cost £12 and can be obtained from the Secretary. MUTA, 148 Nethergate, Dundee. DD1 4EA. Tel: 0382 25881....

• Southport-based JamesCocker & Sons has developed a range of fully aerodynamic bodywork. all based on Freighter and Cargo...

• A new brick carrying trailer built by Montracon in conjunction with AtlasWeyhausen and Tyrone Brick uses a sliding crane...

transporters on the scene include three-car non-HGV and five-car models from Transport and Trailer Engineering of Hemel...

I A Volvo F L611 I I-tonne igid, equipped by A Smith Great Bentley) for Film and EV Services embodies the atest design of...

• Specialist trailer manufacturer Lysander Engineering of Wrexham has ceased trading and is calling a meeting of creditors with...

••Ihree 30,000-litre stainless steel tankers built by Clayton Commercials of Burscough for Tankfreight have been designed to...

• Dekra. the major German fleet testing and consultancy organisation, assembled an impressive 44-vehicle line-up ranging from a...

• The wide variety of recovery equipment and overseas representation gave last month's eleventh Association of Vehicle Recovery...

• Although still in the process of ATP testing at the Cambridge test unit and settling into the 2.43ha former Carrymaster site...

extravaganza held at Telford last month yielded a feast of automotive delights. There was innovation aplenty from, Boalloy's...

• Truck mixer buyers are tenacious men. They have to be, because with few exceptions, the manufacturers of these products have...

LOW-DOWN ON FARM • Farmers enjoy a number of exemptions from normal road transport legislation when they move agricultural...

Since joining the Powell Duffryn group, Metalair has embarked on an intensive product development and investment programme. We...

• Three out of ten councils no longer run their own waste collection fleet and just under half of the country's local authority...