the same as their continental cousins, and run at a maximum of 17 tonnes weight. The nonsense of it being legal to drive a...

• Two-axle rigid vehicles plated at 17 tonnes GVW will be allowed on British roads from 1 April next year, as forecast by CM...

• UK hauliers face prosecution for carrying undeclared dangerous cargoes on board the disaster ferry, Herald of Free...

• ERE is enjoying a sales and production boom that promises to make this year the company's best since 1979, says chairman,...

• As Commercial Motor went to press it was announced that the tribunal considering the death of Michael Delaney under the...

3% increase in 11GV traffic in 1986, against a 5% increase in road traffic as a whole on Britain's roads. The most dramatic...

• Penlline Haualge is offering a reward of £.3,000 for information leading to the recovery of a tipper stolen from the...

• Britain's hauliers are criticised for inefficiency in two new reports on the British road haulage industry by ICC Business...

Ferrymasters is the only true road haulage company to be included with an award for export achievement. Managing director Jim...

• Drivers prefer Volvo trucks — according to the International Transport Workers' Federation. In a survey, entitled European...

• Out-dated customs regulations are causing long delays to express shipments and hampering the growth of a European industry...

• Leyland Daf s network of 74 distributors is to be cut to about 60 — and the group is understood to be busy selecting the...

• BRS Midlands has won a £L5 million, three-year contract to supply a dedicated distribution fleet and 19 drivers to vehicle...

• North London-based removals company Cole Brothers has been bought by NFC subsidiary Pitt and Scott, which specialises in...

• In 1986 the Freight Transport Association boosted its turnover by 14% to 26.5 million and increased its membership by 80...

• Over the next few months 371 new Mercedes-Benz vehicles will be joining Salford Van Hire's rental fleet in a deal worth 210...

• Newcastle-based express parcels carrier Northumbrian Carriers has opened a second depot in Carlisle and plans to add a third,...

• Foods and timber group Hillsdown Holdings has bought the European bedding interests of Simmons USA for 214.3 million. The...

• Leyland Daf's marketing and sales organisation is to move to Thame, Oxfordshire. The decision to merge with Preston-based...

• National Carriers has been granted authority to take over the Bournemouth Depot of Roadline (UK) Ltd following the withdrawal...

Brokers, Keith Rayner and David Garratt, have been committed for trial. at Leeds Crown Court by the Bradford Magistrates...

• Livestock haulier Howard Pickersgill, trading as W J Pickersgill & Son of Ripon, has 14 days to consider whether to make...

• Falsified tachograph charts cost Oldham lorry driver Brian Armstrong 2650 in fines and costs when he appeared before the...

• A driver dismissed by Hudson Shepherd Transport after causing an accident which led to heavy losses has won 2250 compensation...

of a bus service between Radford and Shirebrook Colliery operated by Nottingham based A Camm after hearing that running times...

• West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has renewed the six-vehicle Passenger Service Vehicle Operator's Licence...

• Iveco Ford claims that at 8,/:30kg its new eight-legger from Germany is the lightest tipping chassis in its class....

• Kidderminster-based Tornkinson Carpets has reduced its annual distribution costs by between 15 and 20% by changing its...

• Nottingham City Council is buying its first Volvo FL7s, to join its wheeled-dustbin-collector fleet. The 12 'f-Ride vehicles...

• Craven Tasker's fullyautomatic Safetip system will debut at TipCon. The device is integral with the tipping hydraulics and...

• Edbro is to unveil a safety system for tipping semitrailers at TipCon in Harrogate next week. The show system is fitted to a...

of ejection discharge trailers for the bulk transfer of domestic waste. The semi-trailer design is particularly suited to a...

11 A new rnidibus chassis from Leyland Bus, the Swift, makes its debut at this weekend's Brighton Coach Rally. Originally...

and, coach chassis market for the first quarter of this year, with 159 sales. Volvo Bus general manager Sandy Glennie claims...

• London Regional Transport has ordered six MercedesBenz 307D models, worth almost £100,000, to add to its expanding...

• The Knype 33-seat midicoach launched by PMT at the Blackpool Coach Rally last week (CM, 18 April), is going into operation...

which debuted at last year's Motor Show is now in full production at Avon's Wakefield plant and the first examples are about to...

• Wearside coach operator, Bleanch's Coaches of Hettonle-Hole, Sunderland, has taken delivery of four new Volvo B10Ms for use...

The first, launched earlier this week, is a fast link service between Morecambe and Blackpool via Lancaster, Galgate, Garstang...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles has won a repeat order for 60 three-axle Dragon doubledeck bus chassis from the Kowloon Motor Bus...

Gseries trucks in the six to 10 tonne class will be sold under the Pegaso badge in Spain. The first 210 trucks, worth over DM...

Roadrunner trucks Daf-badged Roadrunners will be launched in Switzerland next month. Still no news on the 400 (Sherpa). which...

the Yugoslav-Creek frontier at Dojran, about 30km to the East of the Covgellia-Thessaloniki-Serres road, cuts the route to...

in Johannesburg is now out of the question, according to South Africa's Truck and Bus. Trolleybuses ceased operation early last...

in the US may face a rule to bring them into compliance with the EEC under the influence of blood alcohol limits (0.04%) that...

1986, Japan gained a record 16.3% share of the European commercial vehicle market, only just behind Renault whose leading share...

Four types of truck are being assembled at the Narciso LOpez Roselle) factory in Havana: three in co-operation with the Spanish...

GEORDIE DAFS ON NEW SITE • North East Daf Trucks has opened new premises at Blaydon on Tyneside. The new depot, based on a 1.0...

NEW NETWORK ON THE AIR • A new company called National Mobile Radio has been formed to operate a public radio communications...

IT'S A GAS • Air Products has launched the Minitank gas supply to offer bulk quantities of gas in a compact and portable...

CUSTOMARILY FAST • M&B Transport has been appointed as a Customs Clearance Agent. The Higham Ferrers-based company is now...

CHILTERN GATHERING • The Chiltern Gathering of road transport will take place at Didcot on Sunday, 21 June and will include...

NEWS OF GREAT IMPORT • The Department of Trade and Industry is writing to organisations including the Confederation of British...

CRASH COSTS • Road accidents could be reduced if both sides of industry would devote more resources to road safety activities,...

TRAILER TALKS • A seminar on the servicing and maintenance of drawbar equipment will be held at the St Johns Hotel in Solihull...

A449 IN GWENT • John Laing Construction has won a contract for repairs to the southbound carriageway of the A449 in Gwent...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST MI, Junctions 9 to 10 (Harpenden/Luton) Reconstruction: various lane closures; exit and entry slip...

Rob Owens has been appointed to the new post of used vehicle merchandising manager at MAN Volkswagen commercial vehicles,...

BRS Northern has appointed a new manager and assistant manager for its Tameside, Manchester branch. Stuart Warren joins BRS...

Colin Ely has been named as the new manager of Meadowsfreight's key Colnbrook centre. He is succeeded as Colnbrook deputy...

William Smith has been appointed as local director of Laidlaw (Strathclyde), part of the Laidlaw Group of Scottish Ford...

Truckcare, the Witham, Essex-based importer and distributor of all makes of continental truck parts, has announced the...

Northern Counties, the Wiganbased bus body builder, has appointed Mike Winter to the newly-created post of sales and marketing...

Alistair Cheyne is the Automobile Association's new regional director for the South East Region. He replaces John Fisher, who...

Phil Paterson has been appointed sales representative for TI Bainbridge Silencers, manufacturers and distributors of...

Bus and coach operator Midland Red South has appointed a new commercial manager — Ian McAllister. He will be responsible for...

John Moore, Secretary of State for Transport, has announced the re-appointment of Ralph Kanter and Clive Hollick as part-time...

clever' was read with great interest. However we would take issue with two points raised in the section on the Eaton SAMT. In...

week ending April 11, 1987 and your article on Linfood, which I was drawn to because our company, Plastic Protections Limited,...

the new Hazardous Goods regulations I decided to go to Somerset on a 4-day course. Friendberry Ltd holds these courses all in...

more of those stickers you have had published, as I fully agree in what it says; what 1 have heard from the unfortunate few who...

I like to read the Bird's Eye View page when the magazine arrives. I was disgusted last week to see that the Hawk referred to...

week's PSV issue (CM, April 18) always talk about how great all these buyouts are, and how efficient these new operators are....

competition prizegiving CM, April 11) contained an unfortunate error, for which we apologise to Mobil, who so generously...

be "commercial" rivals to established steam rallies has led to the County of Salop Steam Engine Society adopting a "get tough"...

up to 160kmh) and the uprooted trees which resulted, I will feel much safer should 1 be travelling in a Wadham Stringer...

which managed to implicate the tipper and the driver after a young woman killed herself by crawling under the rear wheels of...

Volkswagen's Caddy pickup loses out in the handling and payload stakes, but it is a solid vehicle offering reasonable...

Van Hool's 181 5 Alizee offers: effortless cruising at the legal limit ; an excellent standard of finish; good handling and...

Computers are about to invade your cabs, telling you where to go next, what to deliver and how long to take. MAN and Mercedes...

ago, and its consultancy operation has been going for 17 years. The Mercedes in-cab system is a 'black box' mounted between the...

As Britain's mobile cellular telephone network grows, the choice of what system to specify grows. We have been looking at some...

Being in constant communication with every vehicle on a fleet must boost an operator's efficiency: now a number of systems are...

ZF Ecosplit has proved 100% reliable" "Reliability is everything in our business" said Bob Brady, Managing Director of T....

COURSE Getting lost isn't just irritating — it wastes time, fuel and hence money, and reduces a fleet's operational...

• Approximately two to 2.5% of the capital cost of a vehicle is allocated by manufacturers for warranty claims, according to...

3664 Publishing director: Gavin Howe 01-661 3676 Workshop is published monthly as a supplement to Commercial Motor by Business...

• Wilmslow-based manufacturer Holt Lloyd has announced "the strongest product and promotional package in the company's history"...

• West Yorkshire-based Fleetclean used Karcher HD 755 hot-pressure washers to clean the 120 cars in the National Breakdown...

• The Federation of Engine Rernanufacturers is holding an exhibition at the Metropole, Brighton, May 27-30, and admission...

original equipment to Calor Gas's 16tonne rigids; most of the company's 500 tractive units already have the anti-lock brak ing...

• The European Garage Equipment Association's council is to forward its recently agreed "Recommendations for the Safe Operation...

• Brimech Industries (UK) has been formed to market its range of recoil thread inserts — made in Australia — in Europe....

• The latest winner in our turbo card competition for Workshop readers is AB Morris, workshop supervisor at Dalgety Agriculture...

/ A British-manufactured aluminium truck wheel aimed at achieving more payload was launched at the Brityrex Show in the...

• Vehicle brake tests can be controlled with a handset in the vehicle as a result of developments by FKI Crypton — the most...

• Some cleaning fluids have a nasty habit of disappearing into thin air, and even if they are not dangerous the loss of fluid...

• Minden Industrial's new SATA sprayguns are intended to enable painters even in smaller bodyshops to achieve high-quality...

• Bass, which has 56 tractive units and 160 trailers, the majority tri-axle, has dispensed with its toe-in gauge that could...

• Redashe reckons that its Durtoff Tack Rags, imported from Germany, are probably the best available in the UK. They are...

Phil Reed looks at three companies equipped to offer a service in various types of hydraulic equipment used in the tipping...

by Bill Godwin • A new range of vehicle hoists with lifting capacities from 2,000kg to 2,800kg, introduced by an Austrian...

• A new test unit to check the correct functioning of diesel engine heater plugs has been introduced by German manufacturer...

• VISTA — the Volvo International Service Technical Association — is this year organising the ninth competition for Volvo...

• Safe welding practice in motor transport workshops calls for a clear view of electrodes and the work piece until the safety...

• Iveco has opened extra emergency service stations at Brest and Mukachevo in the Soviet Union. This brings Iveco's total in...

N Renault's G170 is in some ways a mixture of the old and the new. The new part is the electrical system where, if you do not...

• MAC reckons it is set to revolutionise the coin-op pressure washer market with the introduction of its MAC Share...

• HDVW heavy-duty vehicle wash is supplied by Mainsol specifically for high-volume users at 59p per litre and further...

• Holt's RadTop can be added to any sealed cooling system expansion tank or conventional radiator, without dilution, as an...

• Oil Hog is a new disposable tube for containing industrial spillages, manufactured with an outer casing of strong porous...

• The Drester Tuckaway from Redashe is a degreaser which is easy to install by fixing to a wall. It is then filled with solvent...

• Further cleaning and maintenance products for engineers from Dermaglen are: HDC, a 100% fireproof solvent for cleaning metal,...

• Beans Engineering, which has been remanufacturing for Leyland Truck and Bus and Ford over a number of years, has launched its...

• Car dealer BMW Bridgate, needing to maintain the cleanliness of its workshop at the level of its showroom, since customers...

• For almost 80 years Britool quality handtools have been known to mechanics and other engineers, and these days in response to...

Fleet engineers are under pressure to improve vehicle cleaning routines. What sort of equipment is available? Alan Bunting...

While good equipment is worth good money, don't be harried by salesmen into buying non essentials. Consider taking on a trainee...