to use the roads compared with other European countries. He is calling for better enforcement with sterner penalties. • An...

by Miles Brignall • The United Road Transport Union (URTU) is to launch its own driver agency promising a fairer deal for...

• Labour plans to reduce car use, manage traffic growth and change financial incentives so that car use is more expensive than...

drivers agency Round Peg Recruitment, has 140 drivers on his books. He welcomes the URTU initiative: "There is always room in...

by Miles Brignall • Drivers working for Leeds. based A One Transport, who have not had a wages increase since 1991, are voting...

• The Department of Transport has come under fire for violating civil liberties after admitting that it is screening 0 licence...

hambers Twentieth Century Dictionary defines the word liberty as: "...freedom to do as one pleases...". It's a flawed...

by Derren Hayes • An innocent British truck driver endured three weeks in a crowded, rat infested Moroccan jail cell fighting...

• A Hertfordshire mechanic who was all but sliced in half when a truck smashed into him on a motorway hard-shoulder has won...

• Russell Davies has written off 1200,000 after an eleventhhour decision to pull out of the bidding for British Rail's...

• Thousands of spectacle-wear ing drivers will be forced to take eye tests without visual aids when renewing their licences...

by Mlles Brignall • Changes to LGV driving tests will result in drivers passing tests in drawbars and driving artics without...

• Hopes are rising that John Harrower could be released from Bayonne jail this week as two years of negotiation between his...

• Plans that would have allowed operators to hire trucks in European countries, other than where they are based, have been...

• Van rental group Ryder and PHH Europe has won a £59m contract to lease, maintain and manage 2,500 non-military vehicles for...

by Derren Hayes • The fuel pump price war is unlikely to benefit thousands of road hauliers paying over the odds for bulk...

Most motorists want bull bars banned, according to an insurance company survey. A complete ban was favoured by 96°A. of 1,000...

• The sale of the Government's road safety research body to an in-house bid has been welcomed by unions, which say the move...

by Karen Mlles • Impounding trucks running without 0-licences is inching closer this week as provisional figures from the...

• Hundreds of hauliers face the prospect of longer and more costly journeys if a local authority proposal to ban lorries from...

• A 27-month jail sentence on a goods vehicle driver whose faulty coupling of a trailer caused a pedestrian's death has been...

• A Leicester-based training and relief driver agency is putting drivers through a fuel-saving driving course. John Coates,...

Truck sales grew by 17% over 1994 last year but maintaining growth could be difficult. by Nicky Clarke • Truck sales broke...

by John Kendall • "Built at a cost of SKr90m (008.9m), Volvo's Environmental Concept Truck will definitely not be going into...

by Bryan Jarvis • Thompson Carmichael has unveiled a petroleum tanker which, it claims, sets new industry standards, way beyond...

being relaunched as a fully fledged magazine in its own right. It is also extending its reporting of paintshops and PCV...

• Doubts have been raised about some of the advice on wheel-fixing maintenance in a revised British Standard published this...

• Vauxhall's Corsa, Combo and Astravans are to get cleaner engines from the beginning of February, ahead of the 1997 emissions...

• UPVC manufacturer Marshall Tuflex has acquired three new MANs; two drawbars and a 17-tonne rigid. The F2000 drawbars are...

by lep van der Meer A fibre-reinforced plastic semi-trailer wheel will be exhibited at the Amsterdam Commercial Vehicle show....

share of MoD light fleet • The Ministry of Defence's long-awaited and controversial order for £200million-worth of new vehicles...

• M Dickerson of Waterbeach has specified a lifting mid-axle conversion on a Volvo FL618 taking its GVW to 22,360kg....

delivery of its 32,000th Ford Transit and will take one in every 25 Transits built in the UK over the next three years. The...

• A bid for a new 15-vehicle licence by Harris Transport (Merthyr) was adjourned by South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh (pictured)...

• Western Deputy LA John Robins has granted a new 10vehicle restricted licence to Billy Boy Frozen Foods (South West). But he...

OA former lift engineer who used his redundancy money to set up a business carrying waste paper has had his 0-licence...

• The Transport Tribunal has backed an LA's refusal to allow Chambers Waste Management to continue to operate from a Guildford...

• Manchester lorry driver David McCartney was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £525 after Trafford magistrates...

H ow much longer must refrigerated hauliers endure the frustration of the inappropriately named "timed delivery'? After...

T am appealing through I your magazine on behalf of Micky Chinok, an international driver serving a long sentence in a Turkish...

nd now a belated story of Christmas cheer. Drivers visiting Junction 38 Truckstop last month on the M6 at Tebay received a...

D his precariously placed fellow is Securicoes chief executive Roger Wiggs, following the announcement that the company has...

ur Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, near Dublin, is better off to the tune of £106,000 following the raffle of a...

N OW I know what the initials AA really stand for— Anything at All. It seems that AA mechanics will turn their hand to...

Body debutante • Rema Tip Top UK will exhibit for the first time at the Commercial Vehicle and Bodywork Show at the Birmingham...

• A conference on the Vehicle Preservation Movement 1996-2020 will be held on 23 March to discuss the vehicle industry, spares...

• Advanced Transport Telematics Comes of Age is the theme of Transfix 96—a conference and exhibition for the transport...

• Environmental technology for waste management will be featured at the sixth Environmental Technology exhibition and...

Free air • Users of SAF axles and air suspensions can get the SAF International Service Directory free from IMS. It lists SAF...

• Truck drivers could benefit from a computer driving theory programme by Kosmos that teaches the theory syllabus specified by...

• Bee Line Transport has moved its Stoke operations to Appleton Thorn Trading Estate, Appleton, Warrington because it has...

• Seafield has bought a 6.5acre site with an 7,700m2 warehouse at Shawfield Road, Barnsley and won a five-year warehousing...

Tank cleaner • MTS has opened a computer-controlled tank cleaning site with four cleaning stations; two for edibles and two...

• Loalhaul is offering a coal haulage package based on its new purpose-built rail terminal near Junction 3 of the M18. It...

Screen fixer Kent Industries claims Screenfix 212 will retain windscreens in accidents up to 50km/h and is suitable for the...

• Scrubs in-a-Bucket is a tub of impregnated and slightly abrasive hand wipes designed for heavy duty hand cleaning with no...

nationwide. According to a survey From the RAC and Road Haulage Association it could be costing the industry as much as £1.6bn...

The South-East • London: Contraflow between Hilary Road in Acton and White City's Northern Roundabout. • A27 East Sussex:...

• MS Somerset: Bridge repairs with lane closures either side of J23 until March. • A377 Devon: Roadworks between Exeter and...

• MI Leicestershire: Roadworks and lane restrictions between J21 and 22 should finish by February. • A6 Leicestershire: Major...

• MI. West Yorkshire: Roadworks with a contraflow at the end of the motorway at J47 will continue until summer 1997. • A167M...

• There was little in the Chancellor's autumn Budget to lift tipper operator's expectations for 1996 so many will be looking at...

bridging equipment, prototypes (:) were given a severe bashing over battlefield conditions. The Sappers, who could neither...

When surprise snow storms hit the Shetlands at Christmas, cutting phone and power lines, even the fire service would have been...

I s it too easy to become a haulier? In a cut-throat market, besieged by critics who say too many lorries are unsafe, this...

Some people end up running haulage companies by accident—John Donald and Glenn Finch run one because of the kind of accident...

4 w e enter 1996 facing nearly 10% cuts in transport spending, with more cuts to come. The transport budget sinks to...