ZF gear shift systems have dispensed with mechanical linkages and, the need for insulation, having reduced the problem of noise...

• The road haulage industry has an uncanny knack of attracting bad publicity; sometimes through it's own actions, sometimes...

Ind limiters • French plans for compulsory HGV speed limiters are being considered by the EC Commission. Brussels officials...

• Following claims that confidence in secondhand tractors fitted with the Cummins L10 engine is "dwindling", Cummins Engine has...

• ERF is cutting vehicle production back to a four-day week from 13 November, blaming "the current economic situation and a...

• MPs are demanding tighter control of livestock exports. This follows a Sunday Times report alleging that 557 lambs en route...

A court has called for an restigation of how drivers' urs regulations are applied to my drivers. This follows an cident last...

• Leyland Daf marketing director Christopher Thorneycroft-Smith has presented £8,050 to The Royal Manchester Childrens...

• Hauliers have condemned truck rental companies for allowing people to hire vehicles for business use without using...

• Steyr Trucks (UK) — Steyr's wholly-owned UK importer — is to close. The operation has been run for just over a year from its...

• West Germany is heading for a legal showdown with the EC after the Bonn cabinet approved plans last week to impose road usage...

• Prison sentences impose( on Humberside haulier Alan Blakey and his son Simon ha been quashed by the Court c Appeal. An order...

The Volkswagen Caddy has en developed from a pickup ,o a car-derived van, and is Limed to offer a larger lume (2.6m 1 ) and...

Bristol-based Fendt agriRural tractor importer Bill .nliett Engineering has ineased its carrying capacity ma three to four...

• As predicted, (CM 26 October-1 November), AWD launches a major assault on the international construction market this month,...

• ERF has made its first sale to an oil company in 15 years, with 10 ElOs and an E8 joining Conoco's 243-strong tanker fleet....

• Davies Magnet has added a low-profile sliding fifth wheel coupling to its double-safety-jaw DM range which it says is...

• Renault Vehicle Industriel is to fit front-axle disc brakes as standard on all models. Last year RV1's R420 was fitted with...

• LEP Swift's expansion into Europe continues with the LEP Group's acquisition of a Dutch distribution company. Steenbergen...

• Dawsonrentals Truck and 1 . railer Hire has signed a £750,000 five-year contract with the Surrey-based Hammond Transport...

• Large Japanese and American food companies attracted to the Single European Market could have a major effect on pan-European...

• Stowmarket-based national distribution and warehousing group Taylor Barnard has bought British Iberian International...

• Express Foods Group (Inernational) has merged its two listribution divisions to step up ts attack on the third-party...

• Al International has bought curtainsider manufacturer Kurtrans Developments for E370,000. All 23 employees will be kept on...

• First-day dealings in Hays shares were disappointing because of a nervous stock market, says communications co-ordinator...

BRS Southern has won a ive-year El million contract vith Birmingham-based SP ,syres, supplying seven vehicles o SP's South-East...

• Paula Rosa Kitchens has sold its 76-strong fleet of HGVs, light vehicles, trailers and demountable bodies to Wincanton...

• ERF will launch a lightweight six-wheeler chassis fitted with the all-steel Steyr cab at this month's Scottish Motor Show —...

• The army has taken delivery of the first of 80 Iveco Ford 330.25s, ordered in August 1988 for off-road clearance work. The...

• German vehicle servicing specialist Dekra has developed a mobile test unit which it plans to use in France, where periodic...

• Buxted Animal Feeds has taken delivery of a 30-tonne non-tipping tanker, mounted on an ERF E10, from Seadyke Freight Systems...

• Crosville Motor Services of L iester, bought earlier this year by Drawlane Holdings, is being split up in a reorganisation of...

• Stagecoach Holdings has bought Portsmouth City Bus as the latest move in its aggressive expansion programme. The deal...

• The Plaxton Group might )UV Walter Alexander's coachmilding interests, following the umouncement last week that he WA Group...

• London Regional Transport plans for hefty fare increases have been vetoed by Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson. Parkinson...

/ Express competition has broken out on one of Scotland's most important inter-city services, for the first time since...

• G M Buses, once the country's premier minibus operator, has cut its 360-strong operating fleet by over 60 buses, which are up...

• From next year all operators tendering for Tyne & Wear PTE routes will be asked to supply buses with better access, better...

Volvo Trucks has put more into the lap-top computers used by its salesmen than most. Tell the computer what you need and it...

• Peugeot is now building electric-powered light commercial vehicles. At a recent car launch the French company demonstrated...

• Land Rover has made a number of improvements to its Range Rover line-up, including uprated engines and an antilock braking...

• Suzuki has added a longwheelbase 1.3-litre model to its SJ multi-purpose four-wheeldrive range. The Santana SJ413 LW13 is...

1 . Fleetwoodbased Pandoro and one of its drivers were given absolute discharges last week for using a vehicle with dangerous...

• Doubts about the ownership of the proposed operating centre of Barbara and David Littleford, trading as D B Transport, have...

• Scarboroughbased Ridge Car, trading as Lovitts Coaches, has had its PSV Operators' Licence extended for a further six months,...

• A Northampton Crown Court judge dismissed appeals last week by Blackburn-based W H Bowker against fines totalling 2600...

• Maintenance problems and convictions have led to the licence of Blackburn-based John Battrick and Margaret Brown, trading as...

principal director Julie Reid was ordered to attend a new operators' seminar by West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has adjoumer consideration of the renewal of the licence for 13 vehicles...

• Lancashire haulier Robert McCarthy, trading as McCarthy Haulage, was granted two additional vehicles and five trailers,...

for records • Doubts over the maintenance of vehicles operated by Greybeard Antiques, and about the firm's financial...

• A bid for a new licence by the wife of James Heaton has been adjourned for seven days, by North Western Licensing Authority...

• Leek-based animal feed sup am: plier John Mor gan has been given a severe warning by West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh, for...

BY THE HAWK • Those awfully clever people at the Department of Transport have developed a whizzo gadget which automatically...

In any transport business, it is absolutely vital to know exactly what your vehicles cost you to run. Driver and fuel costs are...

• Swedish tipper hauliers have been visiting Britain in search of ways to improve their industry. Fourteen operators, from the...

TO TRUCKS • British Rail's parcels arm Red Star is trying to shed its rail-only image by taking on hauliers to relaunch...

livened. Red Star pays nothing towards the vans, 80% of which it insists must be in its colours at the end of the first year....

Q One of our drivers has been charged with falsifying a tachograph record. He has been told by a co-driver that it is better to...

Q Trundling peacefully down the M1 at 03:30 in the morning in my 16tonne parcel wagon at a steady 60mph, the inner tyre of the...

Q As international hauliers we send approximately 14 vehicles with groupage to Europe each week. Over the past few months my...

Q We submitted a 38tonne plated Scania for MoT to our testing station. The vehicle had previously been thoroughly serviced and...

carriage road (unrestricted) at exactly 40mph, when a police car overtook me and made signs for me to speed up as, obviously,...

penalty points giving me 12 in total so the court disqualified me for three months. Can I still use my HGV licence and drive...

"TIVES • Fact: British industry loses 237 billion a year to theft by employees. Fact: building material distribution alone...

with its new 11 3kW Daf power unit it still leads the performance field in the 17-tonne sector. NYou can't buy Meccano any...

SIR GREEN COMMITMENT • The RHA may be taking environmental issues seriously — as you report, T2000 looks forward to seeing...

"We'll fly you to uHulisnv to service our trucks." There are major dealerships scattered throughout Australian capital cities...

Salary £18,000 Plus Company Car LONDON & COUNTRY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT is responsible for maintaining a fleet of 420 buses...

• Used HGV prices have reached a plateau and the general feeling in the trade is that they are unlikely to get very much...

• West Midlands-based UK Motor Auctions plans to expand its operations. Set up five years ago at Warley on a 2.6ha site next...

• CV fleet operators are not making enough use of auctions to get the best residual values, according to George Gamesby,...

to look at the blameworthiness of defendants in deciding penalty If they felt they were not to blame, then they ought not to...

111 JOHN PALMER hits several nails on the head, in his review of Traffic Commissioners and Areas, particularly in regard to...

by John Durant NEED FOR ANCILLARY CPC • THE PROPOSAL by the Department of Transport, in its consultation paper on operators...

• This month we report our workshop Conference where the theme was set ting standards and on a news page reveal that the...

• TALKS are being held involving university and polytechnic representatives to set up a Road Transport Engineering Degree. Is...

• CROSSWAYS (Frating) of Colchester has opened an MAN dealership in East Anglia concentrating on servicing heavy goods vehicles...

• GREENHOUS HANLEY has opened a V million complex at Govan Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent — the biggest single development in the...

• GATWICK Airport has opened a commercial wing for its motor transport department. It trades as AutoSky and will maintain...

• GRAU Girling, now known as Grau Ltd, recently acquired by Echlin Inc, has adopted a new corporate identity — one adhering to...

• KORODY-COLYER has been specialising in replacement parts for heavy-duty trucks since 1962 and now, having been taken over by...

IN Washing is a dirty word when it comes to any type of commercial vehicle. Nobody likes doing it and a lot of money is...

• When Iveco (as it was then) reintroduced the "Maggi" eight-wheeler in 1986, it already had a long and favourable service...

is raised to allow easy access to the chassis and to let more light in when working underneath. Props are inserted to secure...

• Many delegates were espe:ally concerned with one particular paper at our Workshop Conference, and were not disappointed....

Ralph Davison, of Abets International, said that he, a furniture remover, had been refused tests when unloaded. It had been...

• The Workshop Conference with the theme "Setting standards" was supported by an exhibition in the lower hall at Telford...

Bendix puts the pressure on MI The first demonstration at this year's Workshop Conference and exhibition was given by Bendix...

• The ground rules of vehicle washing have changed substantially since Workshop last considered the subject in detail. Public...

New coat for Mark Baker • A new role for Mark Baker at Sikkens paint manufacturer Akzo Coatings is to develop a business plan...

• Perkins Engines rod Tony Gilroy welcomed 150 local business executives to a Department of Trade and Industry "live action"...