by Karen Miles • The prospect of legal action to protect hauliers from ferry companies is increasing as it emerges that the EC...

• Truck contract hire and rental firm Rocldield Contracts is on the verge of being sold to Walsallbased competitor Topmark...

by Nicky Clarke • UK operators will have to pay up to ..C1,000 a year for every 38tonner they run into Germany, the...

• West Nlidland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh may have the tables turned on him next month and be forced to explain...

a major transport employment survey which says 8% more hauliers will be taking on staff compared with industry as a whole....

• Geoffrey Cave-Wood is about to leave the High Wycombe-based haulage firm which made £200,0( profit last year. He will Iv'...

• Italy is to be taken to t.1 European Court of Justia over its failure to refund payments promptly. Briti hauliers are owed...

• Ernie Lindsay has resigned from Panic Link the third time, according chairman Eric Norman. I: his last stint Lindsay was...

• Truck manufacturers Renault and Volvo are believed to be moving nea to their long awaited men in which Renault is expec to...

four hauliers to see if there is a need for an aircraft-style black box to integrate dat including fuel constunptic and reefer...

their loc police next week in a bid I thrash out effective anti-ti measures for the county.

• Maidstone-based Appli Distribution has placed it first order for trucks whit are not Leyland Dafs: it hi ordered 17 Volvos:...

• The merger of Datapost into Parcelforce has enabled the Post Office subsidiary to cut its costs by £36m and help it reduce...

• A scheme to protect hauliers from freight forwarders going bust has stalled , because the British International Freight...

• North-West traffic police this week start a two-week surveillance campaign to crack down on dangerous truck drivers in the...

• Truck driver Gillian Lilly should be told on 24 September if she has won her second fight against a driving agency for sexual...

• Parcels courier DHL plans to increase its network to a total of 42 stations this year by opening sites at Newport, Gwent;...

• Commercial vehicle production in May stood at 14,913 units, down by a third on the previous May's output, according to...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Labour Party will reverse controversial motorway charging plans that are expected to cost individual...

• The first international railfreight service to be privately owned and managed will begin operating in the autumn. The...

• Drivers are accusing management at Tibbett & Britten's Transcare division of "blackmail" over the imposition of a new...

by Brian Weatherley • After four months in receivership Leyland Daf has been reborn into a new world of interrelated production...

• Newly appointed lveco Ford heavy truck specialist North East Truck and Van is offering a fully factory-approved Pet-reg...

• In CM 17-23 June the next week box preview of the MAN 17.192 Used Truck Report we inadvertently used a photograph of an MAN...

• Daf-engined 80 Series Roadtrain tractors and 70 and 80 Series Constructor tippers built at the Leyland aSsembly plant are...

• Foden Trucks has increased its 400-strong workforce by 20% over the past two months, said CM Pigott, chairman of the American...

• British Rail officially put Red Star, its loss making parcels business, up for sale last week. The contract to supply Red...

IN AAH Distribution Services' has doubled sales and net margins in the year to end March but says its white-hot buying spree...

• The 75 hauliers owed 4:90,000 by Fuel Management Supplies will be lucky to get 40% of their money back from the bulk diesel...

• HOC Distribution Services will expand its primary distribution Interbrand division next month, and is to add an additional...

• A new Scania truck site is set to open in Stoke-onTrent. Franchisee Centurion Commercials has acquired land at Chemical Lane...

• Inter Forward Logistics has won a three-year/16m contract to supply transport and distribution services for Whirlpool UK

• Dublin-based Blueflite has won a five-year/L3.75m contract for the warehousing and distribution of Semperit Sales products...

• A new waste giant was created last week when ARC more than doubled its waste-carrying fleet through the purchase of...

by Juliet Parish II Removals hauliers are being urged to join a scheme which will ensure their customers' move is carried out...

• New bosses at parcel dist tion specialist Lynx are sha up the company's structure bid to reverse losses of £6.1 the first...

• Gordon Seymour, former director of the failed Gordon J Seymour Haulage, is likely to be granted a licence in his own name,...

• Garrick Engineering Co, of Southport, Lanes had solved its maintenance problems by switching to a fleet totally on contract...

• The Operator's Licence held by Coventry-based Gean Singh has been suspended by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn...

• A Cardiff man who had been operating from the same site for 20 years until his company went into liquidation, has had his...

• The licence held by Malcolm Harrison (CV), of Stone, Staffordshire, has been revoked at a Birmingham public inquiry. The...

• Brecon-based Talgarth Transport has been held to have "constructively dismissed" former transport manager Edward Williams. He...

Sefton, Merseyside has been renewed for one year only by North Western TC Martin Albu who was unhappy with Watson's ma intel

• An eight per cent train weight overload cost Brian Yeardley Transport £450 when the company appeared before the Sittingbourne...

get it from place to place? An ample coat pocket should suffice for a Subbuteo squad, but if your players are the full-size...

"Officially our policy is not to allow roadside cafes, but because they provide a service we're not going to clamp down on...

• Heavy rain showers failed to deter waste watchers, shifters and processors from what looked to be the lar g est Institute of...

• Andover Trailers is developing a range of low-loader trailers designed to suit UK and Continental operation. The new models...

The160 and 150 split-system models, using R22 and RI 34 respectively, are for small box bodies; the 320 compressor-driven...

kits for Leyland Daf and Mercedes 7.5-tonne chassis. They will be assembled at the BRS bodyshop in Leicester,

curtainsider trailers with dual ride heights to its 'Flyer' express service. The 13.6m, 28-tonnepayload tri-axle units offer...

• Sidcup-based horticultural w holesaler H Evans & Son is speeding up its delivery of bedding plants by using four specially...

• [1: Waste has adapted the British Army's DROPS drawbar system to improve efficiency on its clinical waste collection service....

i ts frames a treat • To make its bodywork more resistant to corrosion Southfields is fitting pre-treated steel frames as...

• A series of seminars on the EC Thermic programme and how to bid successfully for a Thermie grant are being held around the UK...

▪ Bedrijfsauto RAI 94, the Dutch commercial motor show, will be held at the RAI International Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam...

• The 13th international commercial vehicle show covering both passenger and goods transport takes place on 14-23 January 1994...

• Entries are being sought for the 1993 Business Commitment to the Environment awards for companies of all sizes which can...

• The Global Logistics Professional, a profile of the international logistics manager, has just been launched by the Institute...

• Hella has launched its Optilux exchange unit catalogue for 93/94 with a new layout Contact (0295) 272a13.

• Lease Plan has issued its approved Suppliers Directory for 1993 containing details of over 2,000 franchised garages in the...

• The 1993 Guide to Grants for Business is now available at £39.50. Contact (0793) 480374.

• A two-year full time National Diploma in HGV Engineering begins in September at the Newton Rigg College in Penrith. Cumbria....

• Transportation marketing strategy financial management and advanced transportation management are featured in a programme of...

• A bureau de change has been opened at the Portsmouth Freight office of Truckline. Contact (0202) 675048.

• For a fee of £1.75 applicants for 0-licences can be given proof of publication acceptable to the Department of Transport....

• Atlet has developed a truck based on the LPL low-level order picker whose forks can be raised or lowered to avoid the...

• Bevin Computer Services has added a vehicle servicing scheduler and a new invoice style to its TRAIVIM software. They are...

• Nlarcon i Systems Technology is launching TeleTag, a radio tagging system which automatically identifies vehicles, trailers...

only south J7-8 (A44/M50) and north between J7-8 (Worcester turns) with 50mph limit. West Midlands: M6/J8 (M5 interchange),...

contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min off-peak; 48p at all other times): West Country: (0836) 401...

a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the...

to the Caribbean to soak up the sun. Nothing can beat the thrill of winning a Groeneveld speed and rpm limiter in a CM...

D I n antique dealer who brought nearly 5,000 bottles of beer safely through Dover customs after a French day trip had the lot...

the man with the ice cream is trucker John Wall relaxing at the Hilton Park Pavilion, recently refurbished by motorway service...

When a customer goes into receivership should you continue to trade with the receiver? If the business is salvaged, it could be...

• The arrival of the M range of 4x2 12-17tonne rigids completed MAN's revision of its CV range. Introduced in 1988, the M90...

To hauliers anxious for a slice of the action, Government plans to privatise Parcelforce represent a major business...

T he air we breath is made up of approximately 80% of the inert gas nitrogen and 20% of the life-giving gas oxygen. Tins is...

On 27 April Peter Hawes put bars on the windows of his roadside truckstop and welded himself inside to protest against an...

T would like to comment on the story 'Unit fine would lower cost' in CM3-9 June. Without in any way condoning the offence,!...

m i a _ Ratcliffe's statements bout manufacturers' comments on the proposed BSI standard in C11120-26 May need challenging...

T fear you have fallen for the IDepEirtment of Transport's attempt to wash its hands of responsibility for EC speed limiter...

4 I t seems again that Transport Secretary John MacGregor wants to extract more money from the haulage industry. He and his...