it needed an up-to-date code for -assessing the suitability of bridges to bear up to modern traffic conditions. It now has that...

• Four lucky winners in this week's Commercial Motor Cash on Delivery game will share £1,500 in prize money. First to phone in...

• British hauliers need to face up to the threat to their business posed by large American and Australian transport companies,...

holding talks with the Russian Government which could lead to the setting up of a joint van project. The talks could include...

• Hopes of getting an increase to 40 tonnes before harmonisation in 1992 suffered a fresh body blow last week following the...

• UK hauliers will find no simple answers to the problem of becoming successful in EEC freight markets, but a report published...

• The National Freight Consortium's beleagured parcels division — National Carriers Roadline — is spending some million on new...

• Radical proposals to streamline the way hauliers pay for training, given an overwhelming thumbs down by training associations...

• Growing sales in Great Britain helped Daimler-Benz hold on to its number one position in the West European truck market last...

• Up to three more European truck production plants will be closed by the 1990s as part of the restructuring of the industry,...

• The Freight Transport Association has condemned the high failure rate — nearly 23% — for trucks undergoing the annual DTp...

• Dunlop has introduced its latest air suspension for drive axles of seven to 13 tonnes capacities, based on a simplified...

• Pannell Engineering of Andover has launched a new range of curtain-sided bodies ranging in length from 4.8m to 12.2m for both...

deck tor Pilldrigtons and pallets of bottled Guinness on its extending neck. The dual role has been specified because in...

models to the Pesci 6 to 40 tonne/metre range of truck loaders it imports into the United Kingdom. The additional models are...

Machines) used in Britain to monitor the wet skidding resistance of our roads. The latest, based on a MAN 19.361 tractive unit...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) has invested £9. 1 million in its new vehicle preparation centre at Wentworth Park near Barnsley. The...

• Aberdeen-based Charles Alexander Transport is investing around 22 million on new vehicles and premises, and has commissioned...

• Parcels carrier ANC is continuing its fleet expansion and vehicle replacement programme with the addition of 15 new Leyland...

fulfilled chairman John Harvey's financial forecast for 1986 by increasing its pre-tax profits by 75% to 23.4 million (g1.94...

• Last year the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association increased its membership by a massive 82% to 1,514 members. The...

• The maintenance contract for British Rail's 7,000 road going vehicles is to be handled by TNT, Securicor and Transfleet in...

• NFC vehicle delivery company Cartransport has won renewed contracts with Toyota, Volvo, MercedesBenz and London Taxis...

• Economic Excavations, the South London earth moving contractor has added two Mercedes-Benz 3025K eight leggers to its fleet...

profits by 38.6% to 2174.1 million (from 2125.6 million), and its turnover by almost 20%, to 21,950 mitlion (1,630 million)....

• St Helen's-based J K Phillips (Haulage Contractors) has been given six months in which to find a new transport manager by...

• An application bid by John Snarling for a new international licence for his company Pendas, trading as J P Spading of...

M The conduct of West Yorkshire Road Car was criticised when it and John and Joan Wreglesworth, trading as Glenn Coaches, were...

• North Western LA Roy Hutchings has decided to renew the licence of J Bibby Agriculture without restrictions — despite...

• Newcastle-Under-Lyme Magistrates have fined four drivers employed by L&M (Staffs) a total of 21,067 for falsifying tachograph...

• Despite opposition from local residents, Transgulf Transport of Caerlon has won a relaxation in the environmental...

• The police have been ordered to pay 2750 towards the costs of the defence of Transport Services (Lindsey) after Middlesbrough...

• Disciplinary proceedings against Welsh haulier Cyril Barrow have been adjourned by South Wales Licensing Authority John...

• Leyland's Tiger coach chassis is to be offered in the UK with a 216kW (290hp) Cummins L10 horizontal engine, making it the...

more Olymp i ans • Leyland Bus has won a £5.5million repeat order from Kowloon Motor Bus of Hong Kong for 110 three-axle...

• The first of 13 Leyland Lynx buses being supplied to Merthyr Tydfil Transport entered service this week as part of a...

has taken delivery of his first Optare CityPacer. It has a bus specification but is fitted with 25 high-back coach seats and a...

• Coventry-based SelfChanging Gears has launched a new retarder specifically designed for mounting on ZF S665, S6-80, and S6-90...

• The Volvo Bus Corporation has completed its 15,000th BlOM chassis at its Swedish assembly plant at Boras. Over 85% of all...

• London Buses has won six of the seven routes around Kingston put out to tender by London Regional Transport. These include...

• Townsend Thoresen has a new UK freight manager at Portsmouth in the shape of Lawrence Strover, formerly UK freight manager...

• Cheshire-based transcontinental specialist Carmans Transport has appointed Bob Foskett to the board. Foskett has previously...

• Cummins UK is reorganising its sales team under the leadership of Roger Wilsdon, formerly field operations manager, and now...

• Sir Keith Bright, London Regional Transport's chairman and chief executive, has been re-appointed for a further three years...

• The vacancy on the board of the National Freight Consortium, caused by the retirement of Frank Law in February, has been...

Thompson joined his present company, Jessups, in September 1963 from a post with British Electric Traction. He was assistant to...

• John Cooke, transport manager for Lucas Electrical, is the newly-elected chairman of the Freight Transport Association's...

• A cash prize of £750 has been awarded to Cohn Hutton, for being the top sales consultant at Marley Vehicle leasing during...

• Bob Marshman has been appointed technical sales representative at Romfordbased Henderson Mobile. He will work in the...

• Electrical components manufacturer Holger Christiansen has appointed four new staff; Bob Fairplay as UK sales manager, Alec...

appointed four new staff. Ronnie Farmer and John Gorm, both drivers, have been brought in to work the company's new vehicle...

promoted two of its staff onto the board of the company. Barry Pashley, formerly financial controller, is now the financial...

• Peter Clayton, 33, is the new sales director of North Manchester-based Centaur Fuel Management Systems. He joins Centaur from...

• Today's road transport scene is changing so rapidly that woe betide any manager who takes his eyes off it for much more than...

• Exhaust emission legislation is the main problem faced by Volkswagen engineers as they design vehicles for the future. VW's...

that it hopes to launch a replacement model for the P100 pickup early next year. No photographs have been released yet, but...

• Is this how the next Freight Rover Sherpa van will look? This stylish artist's impression recently appeared in a recruitment...

• Robinsons of Abingdon has added two 97kW (130hp) Leyland Roadrunners with Sparshatts curtainsider bodies to its removals...

• Luton body sales have been enjoying something of a renaissance since mid-1986, and the appeal of the stylish new aerodynamic...

TIDD BUYS P4 • Tidd Strongbox has acquired 1-'4 Design and Developments, a small engineering and design company based in...

STC'S MANCHESTER MOVE • Sandbach Truck Centre — Foden's main dealer for the North West of England — has opened a new parts...

FORK TRUCK FUNDING ▪ Yale, the fork-lift truck group, has linked up with the Midland Bank's finance house Forward Trust to...

DISTRIBUTION DATA • Do you know how much frozen fish has been consumed over the last five years? Or how much meat, tinned...

HAZCHEM GUIDE • The Health and Safety Executive has published a guide this week to yet another set of new Hazchem regulations,...

SWANSEA-CORK RUN • A new RO-RO ferry service from Swansea to Cork starts operating from 15 April. The new company — Swansea...

DTp MAINTENANCE MI This year's major road maintenance programme will cost the Department of Transport more than £152 million...

FRANKFURT SNOW There was an error in this year's Commercial Motor Year Planner: the Frankfurt Show is scheduled for 11-20...

I LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST. M11 LONDON New road layout and reconstruction work continues at Redbridge Roundabout. M2 Kent...

• Your editorial comments and the report entitled 'Inspectors slam Care Standards' (CM, 7 March) points to a rather sad state...

• Fortlicr to the article published in Commercial Motor, 17 January, we are writing to confirm that we also are having trouble...

• I would refer to your roadtest of the Leyland Roadrunner 8.13 in Commercial Motor, 21 Mardi, 1987 and in particular to the...

March) regarding Leyland Daf, makes me wonder which world he lives in. We operate 32 Roadtrain 32and 38-tormers and work them...

"If every piece of mechanical equipment was as good, we'd have no worries." That is Ron Sinclair's comment on the ZF Ecosplit...

The average truck driver makes hundreds, sometimes thousands of gearchanges in a working day. Recently several manufacturers...

Maximum power: 274kW (367hp) at 2,000rpm IISO 1585). Maximum torque: 1,420Nm (1,047Ibft) at 1,250rpm (ISO 1 585). Clutch:...

Maximum power 243kW (326hp) at 2,200rpm (EEC 80/1269). Maximum torque: 1,350Nm (996Ibft) at 1,100-1,600rpm (EEC 80/1269)....

Al] of the test drivers were asked to list the gearchange system — not the complete vehicles, engines or even the gearboxes...

Renault Vehicules lndustriels will definitely retain its UK manufacturing base, but with a reduced workforce. In an exclusive...

Scania's P92M 8x4 tipper, when fitted with the optional DSC9-01 charge cooled engine, offers improved power and economy, but at...

tachographs and spies in the cab were a relatively recent innovation, but you'd be wrong. The tachograph appears to have been...

of the newly rationalised Leyland Dal range, and at last I can oblige. Traditionalists among you will be pleased to note the...

backed by a sponsor hardly ever complain about their equipment. One group of sportsmen who will have no grounds for complaint...

my verdict on the 1987 edition of the quaintly-named Highway Code. I am pleased to report that it does contain some useful new...

horse rustlers and caravan thieves. The 'cow boys' have so far managed to evade the police by heading for the Surrey hills...