• If John Major wants a class-less society he should start with road haulage: he won't find a better example of the haves and...

Britain's withdrawal from the Exchange Rate Mechanism is already affecting fuel prices. Esso has hiked diesel pump prices to...

• The haulage slump has claimed another victim with the collapse of Brain Haulage, one of the UK's largest container hauliers....

• Cambridge-based special purpose vehicles manufacturer Marshalls SPV plans to buy British truck builder AWD, which has been in...

• Standardised licences and discs which are not specific to a traffic area are to be introduced in January next year, says the...

/ Experienced truck drivers are wanted by a charity to take food and medicine to war-torn Bosnia. East Preston-based Britpol...

• John Dee has been granted an 0-licence for 105 vehicles and 240 trailers in the North-east. The licence will expire on 31...

• A Sussex haulier who claims to have been kept waiting four hours to load and unload at some Exel Logistics depots wants other...

• Daf is holding talks with major Japanese truck manufacturer Hino. Cor Baan, chairman of the Daf management board, has flown...

destroyed in a fire police think may have been started deliberately. Farnham Transport of Wouldham, Kent is using...

• A third of all goods drivers are living below the poverty line. The Low Pay Unit reports that, excluding the own-account...

• An inquiry is expected to be held into the deaths of two men who were electrocuted when their tipper body touched a...

• EC transport Commissioner Karel van Miert is to propose radical changes to EC road tax harmonisation plans. At a European...

Vehicle legislation is encouraging the use of secondary retarders almost 100% of coaches are expected to be equipped by 1995....

Cummins is using electronics on its latest 10 and 14-litre lumps in order to comply with the Euro-1 emission regs. We've been...

/ Renault Truck Industries is reviewing its assembly operations at Dunstable in the aftermath of last year's £18.6m loss....

will open its £4m national hub at Erdington, Birmingham next week. The Slough-based company operates a fleet of more than 800...

• Overnight parcels carrier Elan International has made its first new truck purchase since it was formed nine years ago,...

• Ashbourne, Derbyshire operator SAY Transport cut its 22-strong general haulage fleet by 10 last week. Managing director...

/ The transport dispute at cement manufacturer Castle Cement looks set to escalate following warnings this week that the...

• Hauliers working for RMC were warned this week that the amount of work on offer is not likely to increase for several years....

• Wincanton Distribution has recruited 25 new drivers in the West Midlands to work on a fiveyear chilled foods and fresh...

• The threat of strike action at Sadlers Tankers subsided last week as the company's 40 chemical drivers accepted a oneoff...

• Express parcels carrier Group 4 Nightspeed has won a £2m two-year extension to its contract with optical equipment suppliers...

• Trailer manufacturer Crane Fruehauf is cutting 60 jobs at its factories in Dereham and North Walsham, Norfolk, with 12 more...

/Canberra Freight Services' Gary Tarrant, who lost his licence in February 1991 on grounds of repute, has been granted a new...

Ii •Abergavenny haulier Cyril Lane has won a full five-year 0 licence renewal for 14 vehicles and 14 trailers at a Cardiff...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

/ Cardiff-based ME Thomas Transport, which was granted a licence in May, appeared at disciplinary proceedings before South...

• Deputy North Eastern Licensing Authority Brian Horner has taken no action against the lcence of Bradford haulier Paul...

al The DLA granted its licence after assurances from sole director Garrett Andrew that he had no connection with a George...

has renewed GF & CH Johnson of York's licence for one vehicle for two years only, after hearing about maintenance problems and...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles is inviting operators to view a fullsize wooden mock-up of the lower section of its low-floor...

• Scania has changed the specification of the low-floor N113 bus chassis for the UK market. Instead of the low-floor N113CRB...

• Michigan-based Spartan Motors has uprated the midi chassis it showed at Kortrijk last year to suit the European market (CM...

is entering the van conversion market with a batch of four Renault B110.50 welfare buses which are about to go into service...

Annual testing is now on the Government's agenda for privatisation. Some observers fear that safety standards will fall; others...

• The Freight Transport Association, HM Customs & Excise and the Simpler Trade Procedures Board are holding a series of...

• The outlook for the European truck industry will be covered in a one-day conference organised by DRI/McGraw-Hill at the Tara...

• The Community Transport Association's minibus exhibition on 24-25 September will be held in Blackpool at the Norbreck Castle...

• The United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association will hold a one-day conference on next year's new Health & Safety at...

• The Autumn National Franchise Exhibition will be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on 2-4 October....

• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is holding workshops on how a reduction in friction and wear can lead to annual...

• The fourth EDI user group meeting, organised by Odette UK for the automotive industry, will be held on 22 October at the...

• Exhaust emissions are the subject of a study planned by DRI/McGraw Hill. Issues covered will include the adjustment costs...

• The National Occupational Hygiene Service has produced a slidepack explaining Control of Substances Hazardous to Health...

• The Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR), which helps businesses resolve disputes without the cost and time of going to...

• The winners of Commericial Motor's Bridgestone Sporting Trivia Quiz are D Lock of Spitler & Wilkins and John Wimpress of AR...

road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

[i v,o drivers from Wincanton Transport have just returned from a 2,400-mile mercy mission to rescue refugees from war-torn...

IA he thawing of relations between East and West Europe is throwing up a feast of surprises as witnessed by visitors to this...

ecovery workers fought back tears after a lorry carrying thousands of pickling onions overturned on the A420 near Wootton,...

he Hawk learns that one of his favourite vehicles, the Reliant Robin, may be manufactured in Russia. The Fox four-wheel...

ill hose nice people at Scania have donated two autographed copies of Hooked on Golf by Australian golfer Rodger Davis assisted...

Engine: 2.5 litres 72kW (97hp). Tested GVW: 3,300kg. Fuel consumption (laden): 14.01it/100km (20.3mpg) (CM 22 - 28 June...

Haulage costs could soar if the European Community gives way to mounting pressure to restrict the number of hours that lorry...

hard look at how some of the most popular 38-tonners on the road satisfy those who operate and sell them. Now it's the turn of...

Helped by CM's loss of licence campaign, LGV drivers who lost their licences on grounds of illness are winning them back. But...

Drivers suspected of coronary health problems no longer need fear the withdrawal of their LGV licence without warning, In April...

On the face of it, training fire-fighters to handle skids on an appliance fitted with ABS is an odd idea. But with Skidmaster...

IC M y local radio station recently ran an item on the opening of the new 2.65m A5/A49 road which replaces the old A5...

May I correct some misleading points in your article "Sloppy standards" about the regulations for the training of drivers of...