• You can cut all the red tape you want. You can reduce the level of government involvement to a bare minimum. But at the end...

• More than 80% of hauliers fear that road haulage standards will plummet if the Government goes ahead with its 0licence...

• A 23 million out-of-court settlement has ended a threeyear dispute between NFC and the Lowndes Queensway furniture group....

I The relocation of the City London's Spitalfields market a new site in Leyton, East mdon could cause disruption r many local...

• The London Waste Regulation Authority is calling on magistrates to get tougher with fly tippers. It accuses magistrates in...

• The Office of Fair Trading is to take proceedings in the Restrictive Practices Court over a fare fixing agreement between two...

• Road traffic congestion, particularly at black spots such as London, the M25, the M1 and other urban centres, will get worse...

• The Road Haulage Association is still dissatisfied with EC proposals for legislation on the transport of animals. The RHA's...

• The Transport and Gem Workers' Union in the West Midlands intends to campaii for Birmingham's orbital rel road — the Northern...

• Beck and Pollitzer Network Distribution is poised to develop its European activities in the white goods, groceries and paper...

• The Hammond Transport Group has clinched three separate deals worth collectively nearly £2.5 million. The new business will...

signs 50m deal • Trailer rental operator TIP Europe has signed a £50 million multiple option financing facility with 16 banks...

• One of the country's leading brewers has gone into ihird-party distribution. Courage has split its secondary distribution...

I The slump in the truck ren1 market has taken its toll on awsongroup, whose pre-tax - ofits have fallen from .£3 milin to...

• Just look what has happened in the past six weeks. Interlink has seen the value of its shares tumble after losing £500,000...

• Spanish manufacturer Seat is stepping up its attack on the UK light commercial market by expanding the options for its...

• Renault has dropped the super-mini Renault 5 carderived-van from its UK commercial line-up. The company claims that the...

• Manufacturers' impatience is growing, as the Department of Transport "is still discussing" proposals to do away with the...

17-tonne range will be launched in the middle of next year. The existing 1617 model will be replaced by a 1717 model, although...

• Ford has denied that it is involved with the new Michigan factory that will build 250,000 two-stroke Orbital engines a year....

• Northern Ireland manufacturer Montracon has produced lightweight versions of its curtain-sided and skeletal semitrailers....

• The resurgence of Land Rover continues, with the UN manufacturer announcing record sales figures for the Lan Rover and Range...

• The PSV operators licence held by R S L Carter, trading as Five Star Travel, of Warrington has been revoked by the North...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority George Smedley has only granted Batley-based G Brocklehurst Transport an additional...

• I• Metropolitan Borough Council has been granted unrestricted renewal of authority to operate nine vehi des from its Thorne...

• A Humberside ownerdriver, who lost his 0-licence last August after aeing convicted of theft of return loads has had his...

• The loss of a 22-gallon barrel of beer from a vehicle belonging to Whitbread & o was possibly the result of a ault in the...

• The licence held by Peter Athur and Nun Morgan, trading as Arthur & Morgan, of Killay, Swansea was renewed for three months...

• Volvo's new sales agency for the former Leyland and Volvo passenger vehicle businesses, VL Bus and Coach, has announced its...

• Two of the latest municipal operators to consider management buyouts are Lancashirebased Rossendale Transport and Preston...

• Several Greater Manches ter operators have been brought together in a ticket promotion. Marketed by Greater Man. chester...

• Stoke-on-Trent operator PMT has launched an mi lion investment plan in new vehicles, which has resulted • the first purchase...

• Plans for licences for life get a particularly warm welcome from hauliers who back many of the Government's proposals for...

BY THE HAWK • Emma Nicholson, Tory MP for Torridge and West Devon, must have thought she was very popular when her phone just...

IPCOL SHI • "Drove it all over England me. Put a plank between the seats for a bed, and the dog slept in the footwell....

AWD 17-18 The steering lock, however, is scandalously large, and thr( times we were caught out on tight ( •iers and had to...

IN It could have happened to anyone. You were driving steadily down this narrow, winding village road, minding your own...

need to do is look clearly ahead, and act quickly. We encourage people to do things early." Indeed, the defensive driving...

• Owning your own haulage business need not mean more hassle than managing someone else's, says Philip Powis. He has just...

• When you pass a KP Foods vehicle on the road you could be forgiven for feeling rather peckish. One side of the van will tempt...

CCESS • Sadler Tankers, the first haulier to achieve BS5750, is winning new business four months after its managers bought the...

• Lines of military-green Bedfords, Land Rovers, AECs and Cornrners, ranging in condition from pristine to wrecks, stand...

• The independent garage and motor factor sector is not losing any ground in the battle for the replacement parts and service...

• SKF has launched a range of kits to convert non-driven axle hubs from grease to oilbath lubrication. Extended bearing life is...

• Workshop has a commanding lead among serviceoriented journal titles with 47% among franchised dealers in terms of regular...

• MORE THAN 50 million is being spent by Mercedes-Benz dealers in Britain on advanced workshops and showrooms. "Our dealers...

• ADDITIONS to the Bridgestone Corporation tyre proving ground — fully operational this month — in Japan, make it one of the...

• FORD DEALERS now have instant access to technical service information on every Ford light commercial vehicle and car produced...

• MAN service stations are to be set up in the USSR with the co-operation of Sovinteravtoservice, Moscow, to meet the needs of...

• TRUCK TYRE SPECIALISTS, the Weston-Super-Mare based tyre remoulder, has moved into new £1 1 /4 million premises and been...

• BRIDGNOR'rH, Shropshire-based British Springs is now distributing Weweler parabolic leaf springs. The company already...

• RECOVERING an accident damaged vehicle by lifting it off the road in order to lessen the possibility of a fire caused by the...

• NAILSWORTH, Giouces tershire-based RDS Technolo gy has designed and built thi Hi-Wire Detector, available fo £250, to warn...

• ONE TURN of the Thandle on the Sidewinder Speedwrench equals at least 10 ratchet motions, claims Power Engineering, which has...

attitudes to ABS • To workshop managers and fitters, checking a tractive unit's brakes is easy, and checking the brakes on a...

• For waste sump oil Davair produces a range of burners with outputs from 24,000 Kcal/ hr (96,500 Btu/hr) to 155,000 Kcal/hr...

• A range of tool trolleys in modular form is available from Troax. By fitting extra shelves, suspension beams, panels and...

• Garage Exhaust Wyrem has been designed by Compoflex to eliminate the potential danger of leaks of fumes in workshops caused...

• Fina Delta Super G SAE 15W/40 is formulated to meet the requirements of petrol and diesel engines including those fitted with...

• R E Components, a subsidiary of Dunlop's Precision Rubber Division, has lauched the first range of flexible paints designed...

• Many operators feel that good back up service has a higher priority than the product itself. The virtues of a product bears...

• MONROE Auto Equipment is holding two-day courses on suspension technology at the AA National Training Centre at Widmerpool,...

• ANY MAKE of vehicle can be serviced in the workshop at the Harborne Group's new site on the Wellingborough ring road in...

• BARROW Borough Council has agreed a £2.5 million fiveyear deal with BRS Northern to contract-hire its vehicles. BRS staff...

• ADVANCED FLEET PLAN from Shell Oils is a package of services and products aimed at commercial vehicle fleet and workshop...

is the engine oil change and filter renewal. This filter is much easier to remove from underneath the van, though with practice...

• Mike Egar, 31, becomes national service manager for FKI Transervice. Egar will have overall responsibility for the national...

• H J Groeneveld, managing director of Groeneveld Transport Efficiency BV of Gorinchem, Netherlands, has been presented by...

northern regional manager, came out tops when over 30 Spies Hecker distributors showed off their driving skills at Donington...

• Braking technology on heavy goods vehicles never stands still. Pushed on by ever tighter legislation and the increasing...

SERVICE This Bulletin describes the method to be used when checking and adjusting a Lipe single plate clutch as fitted to the...

• By using Barnwell's stainless steel precision wear sleeves the user can resurface a shaft which has become worn and developed...

• Polyurethane pads maniacLured by London Arad Plastics (LAP) are used in the composite leaf springs developed by GKN and used...

• Series 4 has introduced a range of "low-cost" circlip and 0-ring kits, designed to meet the varying needs of R & D and...

• 3M Automative Trades h relaunched Body Schutz Co; ing with a new formulation leave no sags with a wide se vice temperature...

• Gearbox Centre has e panded its services to rep; several manufacturers' hg commercial vehicles, includi: some within the...

• Mascot is the latest addition to the Stenhoj range of Lifts marketed by Garage Equipment and Maintenance (Gemco). This...