• Let the word go out, the Government is gunning for cowboy operators, or for that matter for any haulier who thinks it is...

• This week's Commercial Motor will include a 'Spotlight' supplement on tyres and wheels, with a detailed investigation into...

• Perkins Technology, part of the Perkins Engines Group, is taking the lead in six diesel projects being undertaken by the UK...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has denied claims that he is "going slow" on the Government's 213 billion road...

• The pilot cabotage scheme, which was agreed by EC Transport Ministers in December, faces a legal challenge by members of the...

• The Government has confirmed that it intends to retain the Cardiff Traffic Area Office. This follows a proposal in last...

• The Royal Society of Arts is considering tightening Certificate of Professional Competence exam security following claims...

• The largest Scottish first-aid convoy since 1917 has left Edinburgh with supplies for Romanian orphans. The 21-vehicle...

• Spy cameras are being used in Hertfordshire to catch drivers breaking truck bans. A video system, developed by the Transport...

• One of the world's largest container companies is believed to be building up a significant stake in leading trailer rental...

• Badgerline Group has acquired Swansea-based South Wales Transport from United Welsh Services. The deal includes United Welsh...

• Liverpool City Council has ordered 283 CVs in a leasing deal worth almost £4m. The Ford Escort vans, Transits, Cargos and...

• Transport Minister Robert Atkins plans to crack down on tachograph fraud. Over 1.4 million tachograph charts wil be checked...

III Chrysler and Renault are to invest 2310 million in the joint production of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, code-named the JJ,...

• Plans by the NFC and British Rail to develop a huge goods yard site near Kings Cross station are under threat from St...

• In a case which sets an important precedent, the High Court has ruled that the third lane of motorways is barred to all goods...

• The Government has rejected proposals by some of the UK's biggest parcels operators which want to take on the Royal Mail in...

MI Latest Government figures confirm that British hauliers are paying more for diesel than almost anyone else in the EC. Last...

• Hauliers could be facing an upsurge in attacks by organised gangs of thieves following the uncovering of a new tyre spiking...

• Plans to charge public utilities each time they dig holes in the roads have been shelved because the Department of Transport...

• '1 he managing director and chief executive officer of Crane Fruehauf, Tom Lyrichy, has also been appointed deputy managing...

III It could be the end of the century before work starts on a new M1/M62 link in West Yorkshire, says Transport Minister...

• Felixstowe Magistrates have fined 26 Russell Davies Group drivers a total of £4,305 for drivers hours and tachograph offences.

• One of Britain's top road transport engineers predicts that steel suspension systems could take over from air suspension as...

an average of 2.9% with immediate effect. The Polo now costs . 25,056 (from 24,986); the Transporter now costs £7,131 (S6,833)...

Brirnec lightweight recovery vehicles to come off the production line. Based on the Ford Transit 190 chassis, the one-tonne...

• Voith plans to market its small Model 120 CV retarder in Britain soon after production begins in July. The retarder,...

Retarder 120 A range of automatic transmissions, developed by Voith for the midibus and CV markets, are scheduled for series...

• MAN is expected to exhibit the ATK automatic dry clutch at this year's Birmingham Motor Show. The ATK, developed by Fichte!...

• Troubled Rockwood Holdings has lost its 25 million highstreet distribution contract with Courage Take Home Trade to its...

• Eire-based general haulier O'Reilly Transport plans to expand its cross-Channel operations by acquiring a transport company...

• American parcels giant UPS, which plans to buy an established UK express carrier to expand its UK market share, is believed...

• Renault Truck Industries is to re-organise its distributor network and will set up a secondhand vehicle scheme to boost...

MERF plans to strengthen its position in the UK by offering its customers vehicle finance and contract-hire packages through a...

for sale. The Salfordbased company has 140 trucks on long-term contract hire, 15 on short term rental, and holds 200 service...

• Hemel Hempstead-based haulier Furnell Transport Services has developed an unusual light delivery vehicle with rotating side...

• Carrymaster, the Doncaster-based trailer manufacturer, has gone into receivership and the company is up for sale. Receiver...

• Exel Logistics has won two new three-year contracts worth more than 21.5 million from Pal International and Holmes Halls...

• Westermann (UK) is searching for UK operators to join its specialist international distribution network. The firm, which...

Trading) has acquired the warehousing and distribution business of Livingston Allpak (UK), Northamptonshire, for more than 29m.

• The Renault Midliner range will be extended during 1990. RTI plans to launch a sweeper chassis by the end of the summer, and...

Cl Along with the new G and R-range models scheduled to arrive in the UK this year (CM 15-21 February), Renault might also...

111 The company is also shortly expected to revise the Phaser engine options in its 50 Series range, replacing the current...

• Robsons Distribution Services has adapted a vehicle based on a Leyland Daf FAS2100 DHT to collect glass for recycling. The...

CI Renault is planning to extend the use of front air disc brakes on its heavy tractors, but in 1990 they will be restricted to...

• The bus industry faces a multi-million pound bill for new training vehicles if EC proposals on PSV licensing become law. The...

• United Automobile of Darliniton is testing five Leyland Lynx and five Daf Delta singledeckers in Durham for six months, to...

• Lowland Scottish is the first of nine Scottish Bus Group territorial companies to be placed on the market, as predicted in...

• Commercial Sunday services in York by York City and District Travel are to end, following the company's presentation of a...

Southampton Citybus. They are standard 9m models with Duple-built 36-seat Dartline bodies giving room for 15 standing.

• Wetherby bus station has been saved by West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. It was to close following the departure...

• Stagecoach's Malawi subsidiary UTM has placed an order with ERF for 28 Gardner-engined Trailblazer bus chassis. They will be...

• Kentish Bus, London Forest and East London Bus are to run services on the nine Hackney routes put out to tender by LRT.

• Leyland Bus has won union agreement to transfer chassis assembly from Farington, Lancs to Workington, Cumbria. Only the...

• Grey Green Coaches has won Castrol's Britain's Brightest Bus Service Award, following a survey of over 40 national operators....

• Kentish Bus and Coach has converted its Sevenoaks services to minibus operation with 16 Peugeot Talbort Express Pullman...

bus battle ends • Stagecoach subsidiary East Midland has ended its sixmonth bus battle with independent Maun International...

• Employee-owned Derby City Transport is to make most of Midland Red North's 50 Derby-based staff redundant, as it winds down...

• The Bus and Coach Council is pressing the Government to act on child safety on school buses. In a letter to selected MPs,...

• Reorganisation of bus services in Newcastle is to transform Tyne and Wear Omnibus Company. The firm, which was bought by...

• Fiddling tachograph charts, and other offences, led to Bridgwater-based Wheeler & Son and 10 of its drivers being ordered to...

• An operator who had his licence curtailed last September for breaching drivers' hours regulations, has been congratulated by...

• Licences have been granted by North Western LA Martin Albu, to two firms in dispute over using the same operating centre....

• Abbey Hill Vehicle Services has been successful in a bid to increase the size of its fleet at its Slip End, Luton depot, and...

• Though concerned about granting a licence for premises that do not yet exist, North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu...

taken against the licence held by F & R Cawley, of Luton, by Eastern LA Brigadier Cornpton Boyd. The company had been called...

wait to see what action North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu is going to take against it, following a Manchester...

We visit Terry Hull, winner of the Commercial Motor/Wilcox "Win a tipping trailer competition," to see how his prize is...

Sub-contracting can be a legal minefield. If something goes wrong and no written instructions exist, a long haul in court can...

seldom straightforward. In the same way that marriage is often accompanied by an element of compromise, the merger of two...

• Are you self-employed? Are your drivers self-employed? These questions are not so simple. Every year a number of people are...

The trouble with running a bulk tanker operation from Northern Ireland is that hauliers have to look harder for work, explains...

Commercial Motor joined Paul Selway Transport travelling with a German charity convoy to Romania. Having set off from Munich,...

carefull Few operators bother themselves with the make or type of tyres, but it may be worth them looking a little closer if...

There are many schools of thought on why wheels and wheel-fixings fail, but the point is wheels still come off, sometimes with...

T he first thing you may feel is a lurch towards the side with the puncture, and an awful rolling sensation as the tractor...

Tyres are notorious for being ignored until they wear out or fail, and to a Special Types haulier tyre failure is particularly...

With EC milk quotas keeping a tight lid on profits, the Milk Marketing Board is looking for economies of scale through weight...

wait any longer. Is there anybody out there with any common sense or observation? In your letter by M P Fisher, Traffic Jams —...

• A stylish multi-functional racing trailer, built by S Cartwright & Sons for Williams Grand Prix Engineering, contains a...

• Hoynor, better known for its large car transporter combinations, has built a shorter 2+2 drawbar outfit for Tiptoe of Great...

• Guyott Engineering Services of Colchester has bodied and equipped its Catengined Foden 4300 series 8x4 rigid chassis with a...

Hyva (UK) has supplied Davidsons Waste Paper of Bolton with three NCH cable lift refuse collection systems: two on sixwheeled...

• Ludlow livestock hauler AE Jones has taken a second allaluminium semi-trailer built for UK and continental operations by...

• Wilcox Engineering group, which includes such wellknown names as EM Wilcox, Seadyke Freight Systems and Bulkerpart, has been...

• Following its move to new premises last November, specialist vehicle builder Loco motors has acquired the municipal. tanker...

• Surrey builder and supplier Hall & Co has ordered 41 tippers from Thompsons UK of Croydon, to be supplied in batches...

• To speed up delivery and reduce capital outlay, the Home Office's Supply and Transport branch has invested in Dobson Demount...

Many bodybuilders thrive by specialising in a specific market sector. Norba has an impressive share of the UK refuse collector...

A few years ago Dutch bodybuilders were saying swap bodies had a 3% market share. Today it's nearer 20%, proving that...

West German silo tanker manufacturer Feldbinder already has 40% of its home market, so it is spreading its wings. First stop...

With tipper accidents currently running at more than 3,000 a year, K & J Withey has teamed up with the engineering department...

While the vast majority of borough councils have won their own refuse tenders, many are stili in delicate negotiations. We find...

The present downturn in demand means that more panel suppliers are willing to deai with smaller bodybuilders to keep production...

It's self-evident that transport legislation has a direct effect on vehicle design. In Switzerland the trend is towards...