• Now don't tell anyone that you heard it from us, but Warwickshire County Trading Standards will be prosecuting fewer hauliers...

• The National Owner Drivers Association is poised to go to court to defend mixer truck drivers who are being forced to pay for...

• County trading standards chiefs are having to reduce their truck weighing activities by up to 75% because of crippling budget...

• Hard-pressed Cornish haulage firms and owner-drivers have been hit by the closure of the county's two remaining tin mines:...

• The Road Haulage Association is to push for retro-fitting of HGV speed limiters. This is in clear opposition to the...

• The European Conunission is preparing a paper on the environmental impact of transport. Countybus launch • Northern...

• Drivers delivering heavy goods such as carpets and furniture to shops along London's first Red Route cannot cope according to...

• Diesel prices ranged from 41.6-43.6p/litre as CM went to press. Scania dealer • Scania is setting up a wholly-owned...

• Owner Operators UK is cautiously backing haulier Mike Pickering's campaign to set up a network of haulage companies to fight...

drivers win ▪ 6.7% • Thick drivers in the West Midlands will get a 6.7% pay rise from 1 April, following an agreement between...

• A man who sued TNT after losing an arm following a collision with one of its trucks, has been ordered to pay for the damage...

• Oil giant Shell is sponsoring 10 HGV training places for jobless applicants from ethnic minorities. "Almost all our job...

of a new Ultra 92 tri-axle curtainsider trailer courtesy of Commercial Motor and Southfields. HRG's vehicle and building...

• The Cliffe Group of Rochester, Kent, has bought the first factory-built righthand-drive Volvo F16 8x4 heavy haulage tractive...

February), we stated that Leyland Daf does not produce a 149kW (200hp) chassis at 17 tonnes GVW. This is true for the Freighter...

• Light goods vehicles weighing up to 3,500kg will ' come under the annual MoT testing scheme from 18 March. Vehicles of...

• US truck devotees could find it cheaper and easier to buy Macks, Kenworths and Peterbilts after April. That is when the...

• Customs and Excise is cracking down on hauliers who use red diesel by investing in a fleet of mobile laboratories. The...

• York will launch an open-top curtainside trailer at the Rotterdam Show in mid-April. The product, which will be available in...

• South West Water has bought the first AWD MTL 33 Multidrive artic, which was previewed at Tipcon last year. The water...

• Seddon Atkinson has extended its recently launched Strato TC multi-wheeler lineup with the adoption of the 198kW (265hp)...

• JR Supplies has come up with what it claims is the first cliptogether truck shutter door with a continuous hinge along each...

if the nut is working loose, is the latest idea for beating the danger of lost wheels. If the arrow moves it means that the...

• Parcels carrier Lynx has taken the first six Bedwas PV600 high-capacity vans to go into service. The 3. 5-tonners, based on...

• The NFC group, the UK's largest transport operation, spent £8m on redundancy payments in 1990 and more job losses are...

• Federal Express is spending 21rn on equipping all of its courier vehicles on the M25 with an in-cab computer known as DADS...

• Overnight parcels carrier Nexday is about to appoint its first three franchisees in London and the South-East, with 20 more...

• Railfreight Distribution will continue to operate a service for its customers in Ireland after Sealink closes its Holyhead...

• Yorkshire haulier Abraham Transport is developing an overseas operation after 67 years of UK haulage following its...

• Trailer manufacturer York has made its third major Continental acquisition, snapping up Italian petrol tanker specialist...

• The Geneva-based International Road Transport Union has attacked Ireland's "inadequate and dilapidated" roads in a report...

• Exel Logistics has re branded and relaunched its Spanish and American operations under the Exel banner following the...

• Michael Whittle, former boss of international haulier Whittle International, has joined his old rival Assured Freight to...

• A management buy-out team has set up a contract hire and rental company based on Rockwood Fleet Services, which went into...

6 6 • Wilkinson Furniture acted unfairly in sacking a driver who disobeyed instructions that vehicles must be parked at their...

• A Cardiff public inquiry has warned Abergavennybased haulier Cyril Lane following a "spate of problems" with the condition of...

• Acorn Haulage of Lincoln has won a new 15-vehicle licence despite an 1_)J eCt ion troll' the city council. The company was...

Red Rose Transport, has won a Crown Court appeal against a conviction for failing to have a two-year tachograph check on a bus...

• Dewsbury Civil Engineering has appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North East Deputy LA Brian Homer following a fatal...

• A haulier which carries urgent medical supplies for Boots the Chemist has had its licence renewed for an increased number of...

• All vehicles working for water companies, not just those owned by them, are exempt from using tachographs, the High Court has...

• A Bus & Coach Council subsidiary is devising a qualification for PSV drivers. The BCC's wholly owned subsidiary, Bus and...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles plans to increase its production workforce by 7% this year to cope with an anticipated 20% growth...

• Ricardo Consulting Engineers has finished working on a low-emission Scania bus engine converted to run on natural gas. The...

• Lancashire minibus builder Avondale International is talking to Renault about a conversion for the new B Series van. Avondale...

• David Wilcock has a reputation for getting companies out of trouble. As the new managing director of troubled Toleman...

Owen will be the guest speaker at the Wasteman '91 conference which takes place at Birmingham next month. No one could be...

recently, a colleague of the Hawk was sufficiently distracted by the piped music played while waiting to be connected to wonder...

week with a tale that confirmed my views that the metropolis is going totally mad. Picture the scene: a street near Trafalgar...

have won the 1991 Scania Transport Trust Award for their splendid Museum of Fire in Edinburgh. The two runners up are the...

It is an old Volvo van fitted with giant wheels which enable it to cut a nifty rug up and down the *irds, or power its way...

TRADING PLACES • FIRS is moving its Hull branch into smaller refurbished premises on the same site, but the address and...

ON THE RACK • Edstrom, manufacturer of racking and storage systems for light CVs, has appointed Maidstone-based bodybuilder...

SWEDISH SALLY • Sally Line is operating another ship — the Nordk Pride — on its dedicated freight service between Ramsgate and...

RISKY BUSINESS FOR BEGINNERS • The Road Haulage Association is holding a seminar on the basics of transporting dangerous...

COLD CONVERSIONS • Euro Van Equipment (West Midlands) has been set up in Telford to convert dry freight vans into reefers. EVE...

PALFINGER POINTS • An updated Pa[finger lorry crane brochure is now available from England and Wales distributor TH White,...

PICK OF THE CROP • Setting-down and pickingup permits are now available to coach operators for the Chelsea Flower Show, which...

TEACHING TACHOS • If you, your drivers or your transport managers have problems understanding tachograph and drivers' hours...

CALLING ALL MANUFACTURERS • The RAC has developed an emergency system which enables drivers to contact it direct from their...

GU A GRIP • Work to repair and improve the skidding resistance on both carriageways of the M20 between junctions four and five...

More operators are being accused of condoning drivers hours and tacho offences: "Insider's" advice could stop you being among...

0 Women make up just 2% of the skilled workers in the transport industry (Labour Force Survey, 1989) 0 Women earn 69% of men's...

The Transport and General Workers' Union is trying to encourage more transport firms to take on women. Commercial Motor looks...

The Express 4x4 is Peugeot's version of the Citroen C25D Sevel van we tested a year ago. With 16in wheels and an additional...

By contrast the Isuzu Trooper Duty is fundamentally an on-road vehicle with an off-road capability. Its soft suspension, geared...

The Umm may not have a background as illustrious as the Land Rover, but the Portuguese manufacturer has been building 4x4s...

It's not easy to compare the prices of four vehicles too closely when the vehicles themselves vary so widely. The Umm Alter II...

image, but more women are entering the industry as HGV drivers and managers, according to an exclusive Commercial Motor...

haulage firm Deepcar Transport does not follow the same path as the declining Sheffield steel industry. DOREEN HUKINS:...

Heidi Davies' mother wanted her to be a bus driver, but she didn't like the idea of being with lots of people all the time....

Audrey Phillips is one of four HGV drivers the family firm M and S Transport, based in SoIva near Haverfordwest. "I thought it...

• So speed limiters on new lorries are to become compulsory from August 1992. I suppose this was inevitable given the...

• Betore the Gulf war started the diesel price on agency was 29p per litre, rising to 38p per litre during January. The reason...

on Malcolm Kitchener as its finance director. He joins the Milton Keynes headquarters from Fisons' pharmaceuticals division,...

trailer and bodybuilder Don-Bur as national fleet sales executive. A further addition to the sales team is Mike Pratt, who will...

director of ERF Leasing, the Crewe-based truck purchase, contract hire and lease financing specialist. Dilip Nathvvani has...

services transport refrigeration units, has taken on two new staff: Philip Bowen has become sales executive for the North...

Peter Salmon has filled the newly created position of fleet parts sales manager of truck dealer Greenhous Leyland Daf which is...

Road Operators Safety Council, has died after a long illness. He was a former assistant secretary of the Bus and Coach Council.