• The International Road Freight Office's plan to force British TIR hauliers to return 'underutilised' annual EC permits...

• Two legal cases have given a boost to hauliers pressing for due diligence to be accepted as a defence or strong mitigation in...

Community permits • A row has broken out between hauliers and the International Road Freight Office over its decision to...

• Brighton & Hove bus company is to publish a wide-ranging report which reveals, among other facts, that its fuel bill has...

• Stagecoach's plan to buy the National Welsh Bus company has been sidelined by a bid from the Cheltenham and Gloucester bus...

• Operation Meathook Two is out to catch more unscrupulous meat hauliers, with a team of environmental health officers...

• More than two-thirds of artics are running with dangerously dim lights — and Transport Minister Christopher Chope says he...

• The number of hauliers being prosecuted for missing the mandatory two-year tachograph check has rocketed, says the Road...

• The Road Haulage Association has ditched a plan to set up a "master haulier" quality stamp for companies meeting the required...

• Truck drivers have voted the Haldon Chalet at Kennford, near Exeter as the truckstop with the best cuppa in a competition run...

Mintex Don advert appeared which implied that a Don product is offered by Volvo as original equipment. This is not the case....

• Kent County Council has asked the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association to help it fight traffic...

• Esso Distribution has offered its 300 drivers wage rises of 12.6% in response to a union claim of 12.8%, based on inflation...

• A truck driver who fumbled for a tobacco pouch on the floor of his cab caused the death of an elderly couple. Gerald Steward...

companies ▪ loom • Liberalisation of European haulage will create a layer of about 10 "mega companies" offering a network of...

• AWD will launch a 38tonner in the first quarter of next year, managing director Michael Sanderson has told Commercial Motor....

• The first European TCS&D exhibition, held at Rotterdam's Ahoy Congress Centre, fell a long way short on attendance,...

• Leyland Daf has developed a four-tonne recovery vehicle, with bodybuilder Brimec, of Bristol, which is based on the 400...

• NCS of Chesterfield has developed a trailer-mounted loading system for 12.2m containers, and has built 12 for refrigerated...

• Foden has developed a range of options for its 2000 Series 17-tonners which are designed to enhance their appeal to long-haul...

/ Truck Fitments of Sandy, Beds has launched an uprated version of its 3.5-tonne triloader for recovery vehicles. It is capable...

a UK subsidiary and network of seven dealers to sell its range of hydraulic lifts for trucks from 1.5 to 7.5 tones. Their...

• London Carriers International is making 150 people redundant, including 60 drivers, as part of a major reorganisation which...

• AWL) has completed its job-cutting programme with 150 compulsory redundancies. This brings the total number of jobs lost...

• Tanker haulage firm Dawsonfreight is axeing its lossmaking road transport fleet. The move will mean the loss of 15 drivers...

• Leyland Daf has sold 180 trucks, including 7.5-tonne Roadrunners, 17-tonners and Series 95 prime movers, to contract-hire...

• ERF is the latest manufacturer to announce a sales push in the contract hire market, coupled with an improved aftercare...

• Redhill-based haulier Hammond Transport has won a further distribution contract to deliver parts from Toyota's Lutterworth...

• Scania is supplying a Russian transport organisation with 70 R113 tractive units, half of which will be stationed at Brest....

• Wincanton and Exel Logistics are joining forces in a new European venture for chilled and frozen food distribution using...

E A rescue package for troubled bodybuilder Besco could be finalised this week. Founder and managing director Don Wilson says...

• The Transport Development Group has brought 'together its UK plant hire companies under the Cox banner. Beacon Plant now...

• London minibus pioneer Harry Blundred is trying to persuade fellow Docklands operator Kentish Bus to take on up to 90...

• Bova, part of the United Bus Group, has appointed Thoma Fahrzeuge as its coach importer for Switzerland. From next year Thoma...

• Competition has broken out on the Wirral peninsula with the launch of a new company by three former Merseyside Transport bus...

• Employee-owned Yorkshire Rider has increased its turnover and profit, net results are slightly down on last year because of...

• Northern Counties of Wigan is developing a new bus body for four manufacturers' chassis, which it hopes to have ready for the...

• PMT of Stoke has revised the Ellesmere Port services of its Crosville subsidiary. Four new local minibus routes have been...

I . Magistrates have thrown out charges against a haulier for allegedly failing to make a driver hand in his tachograph charts...

• A hazchem haulier has had his 31-vehicle licence renewed even though a neighbour alleged that nitric acid had been discharged...

• Bus operator I fill's (Tredegar) has had its licence authorisation reduced to 59 vehicles after receiving 25 prohibition...

South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has criticised the Vehicle Inspectorate for not bringing a road haulier's...

IN Two Lancaster hauliers have had their international licence suspended because the cheque they sent to pay for their licence...

Operators are in for a tough time if the proposed changes to the Traffic Areas go ahead. IN The proposed changes to Traffic...

Terry Goldrick has taken over as chairman of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. More emphasis is needed on training and...

FRENCH CONNECTION • A shipping route between Warrenpoint Port, Northern Ireland and Atlantique Nantes, Saint Nazaire, on the...

QUALITY CIRCLE • Longlands College is running a one-day seminar on how the automotive industry can prepare for assessment for...

LIVE-IN TRAINING • Plymouth Citybus is offering a new residential training course at its PSV/HGV driving school. The one-week...

WORLDWIDE DATA • The International Road Transport Union has published its 1990 world transport data. It contains information on...

FIXED PRICE FOR FIVE YEARS • Trirnoco is offering fixedprice contracts for up to five years on vehicles up to 38tonnes....

OSCAR WINNER El Vehicle thieves who encounter the Oscar anti-theft kit will find life hard, says the maker, as it immobilises...

the next few months on the N15 between Cullompton and Willand in Devon while repairs are carried out, warns the Department of...

their colleagues in the rest of Eastern Europe, are having to come to terms with negotiating wages and conditions with private...

received this year goes to this picture of a multi-storey car park and officeihotel complei sent by German firm, Krupp. And...

Track 29 is British Rail's new parcels service. CM went to talk to one of the hauliers involved in the project, MS Freight. Mi...

the best thing to come from the company in a very long time. With its economical engine, modernised Club of Four cab and basic...

THOUG HT Charterairs Robin Gisby admits he would be foolish to think that moving goods by rail is the answer to everything but...

Image was the theme of this year's Tokyo Truck Show which gave the Japanese the chance to demonstrate their incredible...

More and more politicians, environmentalists and pressure groups are shouting about inter-modal transport. CM looks at the...

of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. He has worked for Avis and Mann Egerton.

board of the Comet Group. He will he the company's first distribution director and will moni tor Cornet's suppliers and...

works director to managing director at Laird (Anglesey). He has been with the company for 10 years.

Warrington has appointed a quality assurance director to work towards the B55750 quality standard_ He is Tony Camm, former...

manager at P&O Roadways. He moves from sister company P&O Distribution where he was manager of the Canning Town, London depot.

manager for its northern depot at Newton-le Willows. He leaves Allport Installations, where he managed the northern depot.

• Hauliers who speak a second European language are finding that their skill is putting them ahead of the competition — and...