bring benefits to all areas of industry. And its not surprising when you consider our pedigree that the road transport industry...

• The arrival of the National Hauliers Association on the road transport scene begs the question: To we need another trade...

• Scantruck, Scania's whollyowned distributor in the SouthEast, has made its South Mimms branch manager Nigel Base redundant,...

• Patrick McCallan of Esso Petroleum in Belfast has won the 1990 Lorry Driver of the Year competition, held at the Birmingham...

• A Mobil tanker with a full load of petrol overturned and leaked fuel at a roundabout on the Aylesbury ring road, Bucks on...

• The web of restrictions on truck movements is tightening with news of two more truck bans by local authorities. In...

• A new national hauliers' pressure group has been set up following the decision by the North Midlands Hauliers Association to...

• The supply of Spanish permits at the International Road Freight Office has dried up and the Spanish authorities are alleged...

• Following the first UK showing of its four-stroke Series-60 truck diesel at last November's Scottish Motor Show, US engine...

• British vehicle manufacturers face financial disaster after 1992 because they are ignoring the Continental market, a...

• A Ford dealer has undertaken to move several hundred cars individually, rather than using car transporters, after complaints...

• A device which spreads a truck's load by reducing friction on its axle springs can cut road damage by 20%, according to the...

• At least three British drivers are still stranded in Iraq as the Gulf crisis intensifies. Tony Lynch and Dennis McGrath, who...

• Bob Sturgess has resigned as managing director of the haulage co-operative Roads after only a year in the job, its founder...

• A woman who narrowly missed death when her car swerved in front of a truck wants to fmd the driver whose quick reactions...

• Diesel prices are expected to remain stable despite the Gulf crisis, oil companies said this week. BP, Shell, Esso and...

• The latest Escort van, Ford's first all-new commercial vehicle since the 1986 Transit, makes its official debut at the NEC...

• Chorley-based F Clayton & Sons has taken delivery of the first two 6X2 Pegaso Troner tractors sold in the UK. The tri-axle...

• York has developed a tipping skeletal chassis, with rails, which, it says, makes it easier for operators to load and unload...

• Cummins will be giving truck operators a taste of the future at next month's Birmingham Motor Show when it shows a 14-litre...

• DGB Scenery of Enfield, Middlesex, has put the first low-decked Cargo 1718-based Thrudek six-wheeler on the road. The...

• A year-old freight company has collapsed with debts said to total £250,000 to about 70 creditors. Towerwood of Thorne,...

• Currie Freight (Southern) has been acquired by Aim Distribution, which set the company up in a joint venture with Currie of...

• Parcels carrier Nightshift Express is looking for 10 extra UK franchisees in the next six months, as part of its expansion...

• A Midland haulage company which has depots in Leeds and Scotland is looking for a partner in North London. The firm, which...

• Private buyers for the parcel dispatch and vehicle hire arms of the Government-run Crown Suppliers are likely to be named...

• British Rail's new overnight light freight service, Track 29, has taken on six more collection and delivery agents and has...

• Leading garment distribution companies are having to fight hard to hold on to their market shares because of the slump in...

• Long-standing Warrington haulage company Phillip Priestner is selling 80 of its 96strong fleet and cutting its workforce from...

Si Joan _laggard, whose firm Jaggard Taman specialises in aftennarket products for curtainsider operators, is retiring. This...

• Leicester bus operator Midland Fox is continuing on its takeover trail with the purchase of Stamford independent Blands and...

• A new luxury coach body mounted on an Iveco chassis has been designed for the French market by Plaxton subsidiary Carrosserie...

• Tayside Public Transport Company has taken over Dundee-based Greyhound Coaches to strengthen its presence in the Continental...

• Bus Engineering Ltd's buyout team has pulled the lossmaking servicing and parts firm into profit after only seven months...

• Bus managers prefer to be in a competitive world rather than operating secure franchises from local or national government,...

• Rossendale Transport is the first company in the NorthWest to introduce the new nine-metre Dennis Dart on routes in...

• Go-Ahead Northern has lost its contract with the Northern Regional Health Authority to transport non-urgent hospital...

Ii • Darlington based G Stiller Transport and one of the com pany's drivers have been given absolute discharges by Selby...

in One fault should mean one penalty in cases of multiple overloading offences, said Judge Michael Walker at Sheffield Crown...

• Edward Young, trading as A&A Demolition, of Cardiff, was said to be living proof that the maintenance system recommended in...

• A bid by John Griffin, trading as North West Haulage, of Blackpool, to increase his vehicle authorisation, and consideration...

• The current batch of roadworks going on up and down the country had been caused by overloaded lorries, rather than the poor...

• The sixail vehicle licence held by Tam worth tipper operator John Leadbeater has been suspended indefinitely, by West...

• "There won't be an area in transport we won't be able to provide training for by 199L" claims Rebecca Jenkins, new group...

/ I'm indebted to one of my Swedish fledglings who brought this load of old cobblers back from a trip to America. It's so awful...

• The WPS Express parcels franchise operation is an octopus, according to managing director Brian Lawrence: "The...

that. Franchising has its household names, such as Interlink, TNT and ANC, but it also has its fair share of unscrupulous...

• The only reason Ken Ward became an owner-operator was because he got fed up with taking orders from an employer specialising...

TO CARE offered his first franchise area. he had been • Ibrahim Jaeban is certainly a happy franchisee. In just four years he...

WITHOUT A CAUSE • The Audi Quattro made four-wheel-drive popular for passenger cars when, previously, the most common...

LFB Humberclyde of Basingstoke, which lends to both fleets and truck distributors on new and used vehicles, does not move money...

page 19 of Commercial Motor 19-25 July about an operator being cleared of an overloading offence. In the picture you showed a...

the support given to RTITBMOTEC HGV driving instructor training course by MF Jackson in his letter (CM 2-8 August). I would,...

East Anglia, it does appear to me that I am missing out on several startling and even mind boggling developments in vehicle and...