• Parcels carrier is planning to float on the Stock Exchange. The Liverpoolbased business increased its turnover by 20% to...

by Amanda Bradbury • Some of Mercedes-Benz's 65 truck franchise dealers have criticised the manufacturer's plan to launch a...

• A new initiative against truck and load theft—the Truck Theft Action PackHelping Hauliers Fight Crime—is launched this week...

• Commercial Motor will be offering free legal advice on its stand at this bank holiday's Truckfest. Leading transport lawyers...

by Juliet Parish • Truck operators can expect to start paying for using the nation's 3,210km motorway network within just four...

• Conoco's 211 drivers are voting whether to accept the company's revised plans that will cut its annual drivers' wage bill by...

• County standards officers at Hampshire are investigating an Irish livestock haulier "with a view to prosecute" after...

• Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel admitted this week that its prediction of a May start for freight services had not been...

• Bottle manufacturer Rockware Glass has reorganised its UK distribution by reducing the number of contractors used for its...

by Mike Jewell • Dutch haulier Edcrest has had its Sittingbournebased licence renewed for 12 months only by South Eastern LA...

A third of all transport and distribution companies are less likely to invest in major assets in the second quarter of 1994...

• The Transport Developmen Group has sold its industrial removal and installation subsidiary, Beck & Pollitzer Engineering, in...

• Transport lawyer John Backhouse is appealing to hauliers for clarification on the meaning of the "sixth day" in EU law under...

by Juliet Parish • Training schools say that their businesses will be left in chaos unless the co-ordinator of Britain's truck...

benefit from the start of the third bulk rail operation to emerge from the reorganisation of British Rail company Trainload...

fleet depot at Burton-onTrent six months notice of closure last week. Work at the warehousing and delivery depot will cease on...

• The latest commercial breakdown service for trucks, introduced last week, breaks new ground with no membership or...

• A random check of 42 LGVs at Junction 26 on the M1 by Nottingham Police led to one driver being arrested and 19 immediate or...

by Amanda Bradbury • The future of hundreds of drivers and maintenance staff servicing 300 trucks operated by BR subsidiary...

• Fullers Logistics Group is looking to buy temperaturecontrolled operators in the South West and North West to develop its UK...

• Commercial vehicle production in March rose almost 10% over the same month last year according to the Society of Motor...

• A seriously defective vehicle led West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh to direct that the licence held by Birmingham owner-driver...

• A Bradford operator who had his 0-licence renewal refused last October on maintenance grounds was disqualified from holding a...

• Disciplinary proceedings involving Homepride Furnishing Centre (South Wales) have been adjourned pending an investigation...

• Cardiff-based Gareth Stickler was banned from holding an 0licence for 10 ye,arsafter he failed to appear at a Cardiff...

• West York sh i re haulier Nichol McKay has been held to have acted reasonably in sacking a driver after his vehicle shed its...

• A series of offences cost Stockport ownerdriver Moham med Akhtar 11,000 in fines, costs and back duty when he appeared...

by Bill Brock • Birmingham-based Motor Vehicle Imports, concessionaires for Lada, will launch the Indian Tata 207 pickup in...

• Renault has finally launched a low-emission 135hp (1010W Euro-1 Perkins-powered Midliner S135,08/A into the UK 7.5.tonne...

the Perkins Prima engine from its 200 range this autumn. It will be replaced by the Peugeot XUD 1.9-litre diesel engine. •...

You can always rely on Stateside truck shows to combine technical innovation with a little razzmatazz. The Mid-America show did...

by John Kendall • Registrations are showing continuing signs of recovery for multi-wheelers and several manufacturers will be...

losing his second truck to thieves within six months: it could leave him thousands of pounds in debt. Ian Adams fears he will...

£2,000 for information leading to the recovery of its Mercedes-Benz 814 which it re-liveried around four weeks ago. The antic,...

truck to thieves over the Easter Bank Holiday. The 7.5-tanner, reg CYY 644C, went missing outside the Cavalier Services at...

days of each other in mid April. ne, a Leyland Daf 400 Series, was stolen from the County Council over the night of Monday 18...

hook lift system which was on test by the truck's owner Reynolds Boughton. The eight-wheeler, reg F22 FGC, was stolen from...

stolen from Ford near Littlehampton in West Sussex on Wednesday 13 April. The vehicle, with engine number 497979, chassis...

Waste developments • The 1994 Institute of Waste Management conference is to be held on 1317 June in Torbay at the Festival...

Repair control III The TT Club, Neptunus Services and Unicon International have teamed up to offer a container repair...

Ask a dozen UK franchised truck dealers what they think of used commercials and you're likely to get 12 different answers....

D A s a change from producing a Trucker's Atlas including roads not yet built (the A14 between Kettering and the M1-04 24...

2 orries travelling through West Sussex villages may be forgiven for thinking there's a paint spillage ahead when they...

ens of classic trucks will have I:1 afield day this Sunday if they manage to catch a glimpse of the 33rd London to Brighton in...

I] wo Northampton firms recently joined forces to send aid to Bosnia and Croatia. Peter Brown commercials provided a 7.5-tonner...

I ews that Yorkie has dropped truckers from its 1V advertising campaign, claiming they no longer qualify as popular "folk...

TO GO Mercedes-Benz has improved the 2527 over its predecessor with plenty of lugging power and strength for off-roadwork....

G300.26D 6x4 tipper chassis, fitted with a Neville Charrold steel body. It's more than competent and competitive in most areas...

of load restraint straps. In 1992 we tested 10 straps to the British Standard and most of them failed to meet their claimed...

ii T he tests were conducted in rigorously fair conditions; the consistency of the results ore testimony to this. However, the...

T he British Standard covering load restraint assemblies used for surface transport, B55759 1987, is to be replaced with an EC...

reducing the risk of a hefty fine for running overloaded—they are increasing their productivity, says Steve Foster, sales...

6 L ast month I visited the three-day logistics show, Semaine Internationale du Transport et de la Logistique held in Paris....