• It seems incredible that load restraint straps which fail at less than half of their rated capacity can be legally sold in...

E QUESTION: What has 280 pages, complete technical specs of every CV on the UK market, comprehensive listings of dealers,...

• BRS's 3,000 drivers are being recommended by the Transport and General Workers Union to accept the company's latest national...

• Hundreds of operators might be operating trucks with potentially lethal webbing load restraints, claims the Association of...

• Irvine-based Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) has won a SA million export order for its new M6 Highlander 4x4 military truck,...

• Institutional investors will be queueing up for a piece of NFC if employee-owners decide to sell. City analysts believe the...

• Dorset-based EC Transport has won the first batch of Department of Transport training certificates for the transport and...

• The Autoguide driver information system won Government approval on Monday (23 January). Roads and Traffic Minister Peter...

• Over two thirds of Britain's road transport companies would support a merger between the RHA and ETA, judging by the latest...

"We believe that the enforce ment of transport law is not different from any other law and is properly the responsibility of...

• Britain is fighting European Commission proposals to increase the length of artics, and also looks likely to oppose a plan to...

• The National Owner Drivers Association is looking for peace with RMC Readymix this week after its national strike ballot only...

ice on the roads, you might be interested in the following news from Shell. We can't of course claim to have turned January...

• High Swiss labour costs have led to the development of high-specification refuse collection and public cleansing vehicles....

• Ratcliff Tail Lifts has developed a simple, lightweight, all-electric tail-lift, conforming to BS6109 Code of Practice, for...

• Lincolnshire-based TIR operator Hargrave International has been so impressed with the prototype Gray and Adams aerodynamic...

• Fiat has released full details of its four-wheel-drive SEVELbuilt Ducato van which is due for a UK launch in July. Of the...

• Aberdeen-based Grampian Transport (GT) has completed its management workforce buyout following approval from Scottish...

• The biggest UK singledecker order since 1977 was signed last week between West Midlands Travel and Leyland Bus. The order,...

• Swiss bus company Montreux is to be the first European operator to run the AG 700 articulated bus launched by Van Hool at the...

• Northern Counties has invested over £500,000 in a paint and final-finishing shop at its Wigan coachbuilding premises. •...

• Wages, conditions, and the number of employees in the bus industry have fallen sharply since the introduction of deregulation...

• Barrow Borough Transport could be broken up between several buyers, says financial consultant Price Waterhouse, which has run...

• Fish distributor Charles Alexander Transport of Aberden has bought the assets of South West-based Lawrence and Rae Fish...

• Lowfield Distribution has won its first post-buyout dedicated distribution deals with food group Princes Buitoni of...

• Salford Van Hire is launching a truck rental and contract hire operation in northern Italy following its 21 million takeover...

• BRS Western has won extra business on its contract hire deal with the Consortium for Purchasing and Distribution — the...

• Prospects for UK commercial vehicle bodybuilders and manufacturers in the 1990s are good, says a new report from industry...

• Fast-growing West Midland haulier Renwicks Freight has bought four transport companies, boosting its fleet by more than 140...

• Two immediate prohibitions placed on the sole vehicle operated by James Connolly Wholesale Meat, of Northampton, have...

• The defence costs of a driver employed by Joseph Hoyle Transport are to be paid Out of public funds, following his acquittal...

• Absolute discharges were granted to Clifford and David Butler, trading as Butler Skip Hire, of Wallasey, and one of their...

• Allegations by neighbouring residents, that Twiggs (Farm to Freezer) had been breaking environmental conditions imposed on...

• David Evans, managing director of Nottingham-based B Harris and Sons (Haulage) "volunteered himself for the guardroom" by...

• When Atlas Express used "economic duress" to get a customer to agree a rate increase, it made its contract invalid, ruled...

• A bus war in east Kent has Led to a three-month ban on the registration of new services by Chisholm Coach Travel's boss...

BY THE HAWK • The Foden truck marque is: "ail but extinct and only lives on within the name ERE" This shocking (certainly to...

SIR EPS GEAR CHANGE: TESTED AND APPROVED • As a truck sales manager, I and my team of colleagues in Spartruks have been very...

HANDBOOK BUSINESS MOVES LEEDING THE WAY • Farceline has recently opened a new distribution centre in Leeds at the Millshaw...

• A year ago there was consternation in the industry when the Freight Transport Association announced that it was interested in...

Unfortunately, the responses to this question indicate a disinterest within the haulage industry to the prospects for 1992....

• "Accidents will happen" is an adage which constantly proves itself true. Fighting such inevitability is a never-ending task...

• The National Owner Drivers Association (NODAL which represents owner-operators' rights in the precarious concrete and...

• The "winter of discontent" 10 years ago marked the zenith of trade union power. It also marked the point at which public...

;;YA, / Japanese commercial vehicle builders have mirrored the country's "economic miracle" since the last war, but few of the...

liner should be a added to any options list for the Brava buyer. • DRWELINE Brava's driveiine starts with the Isuzu 2.2-litre...

It's An Exciting Time In Our Development So Make It An Exciting Time In Yours cE18 (negotiable) + car At Leyland DAF, we're...

• So long as trucks require drivers, so will road transport remain labour intensive; and on the maintenance side, while oil...

• Chertsey-based Staines Metal Products has acquired the first Portoblast Magnus, an all-British invention, to be installed in...

safety • The Freight Transport Association has launched a "Vehicle workshop safety audit service". According to the...

• Higher interest rates are making it even less attractive in the short term for workshops to carry large stocks, Motalink...

• Two seminars, "Accident Repair" and "Technology and Training," are being held jointly by the Institute of the Motor Industry...

• Examination of spray suppression equipment, fitted to heavy goods vehicles and trailers, became part of the MoT test from...

• The Chelsea Power Take Off Plant is doubling production of its Chelsea 812 power takeoff unit announced at last year's Motor...

• Operators with trucks or trailers which are fitted with Norde tandem-axle suspensions should be aware of a slight risk of an...

• MAN's 17.292 38-tonne tractive unit is the latest in the company's FSeries, and though servicing and maintaining it is very...

For Trucks, Vans, Coaches and Minibuses I f you're looking to install additional heating into your commercial vehicles, take a...

• There is a story concerning air filters, perhap slightly apocryphal, which illustrates the importance often not attributed to...

• As overhead costs rise, companies look to spread these expenses and im prove profitability. In the transport indus try one...

City of Bristol Transport Services is aiming for 20% of turnover to be accounted for by work from outside public bodies over...

Thus, CBTS has to have profitable outside work to help cover the cost of its overheads in order to be able to quote...

• While most people are willing to balance the tyres on their cars, how often do truck tyres get balanced? Yet, out-of-balance...

• Although West Midlands Travel operates 24 sets of four Somers Hywema RG5 mobile vehicle lifts, because of the design and...

• Marigold Industrial says that Blue Nitrile industrial gloves provide first-class hand protection when working with oil-based...

• Six battery service products have been introduced into the Kent-Moore Serviceaid range. They include two battery testers —...

• GKN Autoparts has introduced a range of GKN Masterparts camshafts kits, covering a wide range of popular applications...

• 3M Automotive Trades has introduced an acrylic foam tape that is stronger and offers higher adhesive strength than existing...

• It is clearly worthwhile using a top-lubricating oil additive with today's petrols, says Neoval Oil. "Although...

• Chassisjet has brought out an automatic washer for • awkward-to-wash vehicles such as tankers, tippers, and refuse vehicles....

• The new Stokvis Series 400 Weather Guard dock shelter combines rigid and flexible materials for durability with sealing...

• The Rotowash Combi R5 has been designed for floor cleaning jobs at the bigger end of the market. In one movement, it...

• Binks-Bullows has introduced a spray gun, the BBR Auto, designed for use with fully automatic spray painting systems. The...

• The Powergen A/C retrofit alternator from Driftgate converts engine power to provide a truck, or even a small car, with...

• Fewer than 12 months after bringing out a new guide to welding consumables, ESAB has produced issue No 2, updated to give...

• New self-adhesive vinyl vehicle liveries, from Le Mark Self-Adhesives, are screen printed in any required number of colours,...

• Creating a safe, healthy and well planned working environment is the basis upon which, says Nederman, it develops its...

• Fleets using either Scotseal of Scotseal Plus oil bath hub seals to protect truck wheel bearings from dust, dirt, water and...

• Enco Express says 40 West German-made Multispot welders were snapped up by garages and bodyshops within a few days, when it...

• Guyson International says its Jetstream 11, priced at ,£345, brings low-cost genuine beadblasting to the smaller workshop. It...

• Chemical Express has launched to franchisees a new emulsifiable solvent degreaser. RTU is suitable for degreasing engines,...

• Automotive gasket manufacturer Coopers Payen has a new full-colour corporate brochure available in English, French, German,...

• When Bullens recently moved around 15,000 different part numbers for a Southampton firm, it removed the stores from their...

• The Tamworth, Staffordshire workshops of J Roberts (SIN), heavy-duty truck refurbisher, is putting a 14-tonne Stertil-Koni...

• What it assures the trade is an ozone-safe spray that will not harm rubber or paintwork is now produced by Dimex to aid tyre...

• New from Harboran is the Vulcan 20 — a hand-held mini welding torch that, operating on standard lighter fuel, can reach...

• Alentec Orion has a range of mobile lubrication systems and this picture, which unfortunately appeared in our January issue...