• It's ironic that in this week's issue we have a feature on the benefits of BS5750 — and a report that nigh on one in four...

or hauliers • Two major initiatives designed to help the haulage industry in Europe are being planned in preparation for the...

• The Road Haulage Association has received two 1990 pay claims — both for a £15 rise in basic HGV rates. The...

• Research into wheel loss syndrome at the Motor Industry Research Association is to go ahead despite a poor response from...

• Truck fridge manufacturers Thermo King and Petters are combining their technical support organisations next month,...

• TNT Truckcare has won a Home Office contract to store and maintain 900 'Green Goddess' emergency fire engines at...

• Barnet Council, the Tory-controlled authority which includes premier Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency, is to ban...

• Hino Trucks is now a member of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. As it is a firststage member. Hino will have...

• An HGV ban is part of a package of measures proposed for Ripon city centre, which also includes the pedestrianisation of...

▪ The Department of Transport has introduced the changes to Special Types regulations that were mooted last month (CM 3-9...

• The 16th Routiers World Professional Driving Championships in France was won by The Netherlands. West Germany was runner...

• The race by Europe's leading truck makers to acquire a substantial stake in Enasa, the Spanish truck and bus builder which...

pay. The National Union of Ci and Public Servants will meet the Department of Transport tomorrow (6 October) to discuss the...

• Staffordshire-based Birch Group, which owni Bulk Storage, and Longt( Storage and Transport, h acquired Stockton Haulag and...

• Scottish Road Service has landed a three-year contract-hire deal with th, Evening Times of Glasgo , which will involve a...

• A group of 13 companies faced prosecution breaking the London lorr ban last Tuesday as Co mercial Motor went to press. The...

rransport Secretary Cecil cinson saw the next genion of "quiet" heavy vehiin action at the Transport Road Research Laboratory...

• Plans for a trial EC cabotage scheme next year have been hit by a French proposal which is considered unworkable by other...

• Nearly one in four ot the vehicles stopped in Operation Chemcheck (CM 28 September-4 October) were breaking Hazchem or...

• Road haulage and distribution is becoming more and more dangerous, according to the Health and Safety Executive in its...

• A crackdown on truck firms which flout safety laws is promised by the Labour party conference this week. If Neil Kinnock...

Truck Aw, sponsored by Cornmercia Motor at the first Scottisl Trucldest was Tom Shan from Aberdeen with his vo F88; Tommy...

• Transport minister Michael Portillo will give keynote speech at Trans tech's Friendly Green Lol conference on 20 Octobe The...

• The Association of M ropolitan Authorities has written to Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinsol urging him to "stand firm for...

• Lynx Express has the thumbs-down to the West Midlands-Manchest toll motorway, predicting that it will be boycotted I major...

• The DTp has publish a new list of UK tachogr; calibration centres, availa from 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.

II Claimed to be the big gest, most luxurious passenger/freight ferry ir the EC, Olau Line's 01a2 Hollandia, makes its firs...

ing its £16.3m warehouse and parts distribution cen at Magna Park, Lutterwo in preparation for the han ling of Leyland Bus...

• Early next year MercedesBenz is to offer a relatively simple but more efficient exhaust brake, initially for the Powerliner...

first DROPS vehicle at its Special Vehicle Assembly Plant at Leyland. The truck will go to the Ministry of Defence for...

following trials of the £1,800 system with two Exel Logistics vehicles based at Swindon. The computer provides operators with...

In America Ford has announced plans to move production of Cargos from Brazil to its plant in Louisville, Kentucky by the last...

• Nissan has announced plans to reduce exports 13,1 30% by 1992 and to doubt imports into Japan, as part of an exercise aimed...

• Truck air brake systen manufacturer Bendix has quired heavy lorry air brat control firm Magnetti ivlarelli of Italy....

• Manor Bakeries, makers Mr Kipling cakes, has taken delivery of three triple-deck step-frame trailers from Tid Strongbox....

• Waste management spe ist Drinkwater Sabey has ti delivery of 13 Leyland Daf Constructor 30.30s to oper on contract to...

• A Coventry-based company which advertised for hauliers and parcel firms to set up a nationwide distribution network based...

• Bostrom, the Northampton vehicle seating manufacturer and specialis engineering group, increased its pre-tax profits by...

• Gatwick Airport has opened AutoSky, a 24-hot transport department for maintaining and refurbishit all sizes of fleet,...

• Rugby-based Econocruise, manufacturer of automotive cruise control systems, has achieved the British and international...

• Leyland Daf has just secured its second successive two-year pay deal, giving the 2,000-plus hourly-paid employees at...

• Business services group Hays, which came on the Stock Market last week, has earmarked £2 million of shares for its...

• Western Freight of Bristol has added three more MAN F90 22,362 tw-steer tractors to its fleet under a contract hire deal...

• Despite the recent slow down, the UK haulage inchn will continue to grow, movit 123 billion tonne/kilometres 1992,...

A consortium of 27 leading opean removals companies launching their own :rican-style vanline system reparation for 1992. he...

(P Express Parcels Sys ; is aiming to capture a of the heavier consign ts market, which would it into direct competition its...

Norfolk Line plans to merge its recent acquisition R Devolder with its Belgium subsidiary Bollenberg Transport from next...

IN Ryder Truck Rental has opened 11 dealers in the Midlands, south London and Scotland in the past few weeks. The centres, at...

II London-based Video Media, which designed defensive driving computer programmes, has gone into receivership with insolvency...

IIII Total sales of Scalia trucks and buses increased by 19% to .,843 million in the first half of 1989, with 17,900 vehicles...

• Cumbrian-based powder tanker operator J&M Casson is the first UK operator to buy a Feldbinder Spezialfahrzeug trailer. The...

• The first 350KW (470hp) Scania 143 tractors are set to go into service with British operators as soon as Type Approval...

• Truck Panels of Leek plans to be concentrating its production on "ozone-friendly" panels for temperature-controlled...

• From mid-December Seddon Atkinson 4x2 Stral tractor units with sleeper cabs will be available with an optional wheelbase of...

• AWD has signed a £100,000-plus deal with fir appliance manufacturer HC Angus to supply three 17tonne TL17-19 chassis in...

• Leyland Daf has sold its first 95 Series tractor to Royal Mail Parcels as part of an order worth £8.2 million. The Royal...

• The Stagecoach Group has sold its bus operations in Central and South Manchester to the Drawlane Group and this week sees...

• Liverline has ordered 10 Northern Counties-bodied Scania N113 double-deckers for its four services in the Liverpool area....

• GM Buses is among the companies in the consortium building the 290 million Manchester Rapid Transit. Metrolink should be...

• London Country North East made a net profit of £49.000 on a turnover of £11.5 million in the 44 weeks up to the end of...

• Cowary Lion of North ampton has added three Reeve Burgess coaches ti its fleet of 29. It has taken delivery of 29-seat...

• Amberline Coaches of Liverpool, recently acquired by National Express Holdings, has diversified into commercial local...

• C G Whittaker's PSV division Europa Coaches is adding coachbuilt 29-41-seater vehicles to its 12-24-seat converted van...

,ancaster City Transport tibble have completed a . dinating agreement coverle whole of Lancaster and !cambe. ncaster City...

:roydon's shopping centre thout buses as drivers six South London garages ;e to use a single-track bus they have slammed as...

of Cedar Travel's routes in Worthing, having moved in to compete two months ago (CM 17-23 August).

• Plaxton Group plans to move into Europe, working via Carrosserie Lorraine, the French coachbuilder which it bought last year.

• Alder Valley Engineering is to import Berkhof-bodied coaches, and hopes to sell up to 40 coaches in 1990. A new company,...

• In response to a spate of attacks on bus crews and a rising tide of vandalism, Yorkshire Rider has launched 'Bus Beat', as...

IN Cheshire haulier Stanley Fernyhough was jailed for 15 months, and fined 250,000, after being found guilty at Knutsford Crown...

• Claims h two tanker drivers that they were u fairly dismis sed by William Brennan (Bulk Liquids) have been rejected by two...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner has renewed the licence of steel stockholders Henry Barrett Group,...

• ]IRS Northern received a warning from North Eastern Deputy Licensing iority John Hampton, when cence was renewed in ret of...

• Two drivers from Manchesterbased R C Cole who failed to take sufficient weekly rest cost the company and themselves £1,000...

• The trial of Phillips Tankers (Bulk Powders) Manchester and two of its direcon charges of permitting irs to exceed the...

• The efficiency of a diesel with the refinement of a petrol engine is the tempting prospect offered by Volkswagen in its...

• This is the little-change( exterior of the updated Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen ft wheel drive vehicle, which , launched at the...

• Supplies of Peugeot light commercials could be under threat if the industrial action currently taking place in France...

forthcoming environmental measures on light vehicles predicts that prices will rise by an average of 7.5% annually over the...

tell drivers how much carbon monoxide is emitted by their vehicles is about to appear on garage forecourts. The 'Green Machine'...

Mercedes-Benz is joining move to composite leaf rigs for light commercials Fitting 'plastic' leaf springs batch of its...

• Land Rover's long-awaited new engine saw the light of day for the first time at the Frankfurt show, when its first...

• A detailed study of vehicle safety standards by the Consumers Association in its Which? magazine praises vehicles from...

BROMBOROUGH TESTS • A new :650,000 Dip HGV testing station has been opened at Bromborough on the Wirral. It replaces the old...

an insurance policy which offers legal protection to the families and employees of its members. Called Family Lawplan, the...

network of motoring centres at Granada motorway service stops offering vehicle rescue and repair facilities, which are open to...

LESSONS FROM BRIMEC • Brune(' is running two-day courses in light and heavy vehicle recovery at centres throughout the...

SOFTWARE EXHIBITION • The National Materials Handling Centre at Cranfield has chosen 13 and 14 February next year as the...

• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is calling for papers for its seminar on "Managing engines for profit", to be held...

the vehicle industry, takes place next year from 15-18 May at the Palexpo exhibition centre in Geneva. For more information,...

• 'Die Institute of Transport Administration, with Aaron & Partners and Ward & Associates, has organised a series of half-day...

• EW HO FOR TEXACO • Texaco is moving its UK headquarters to new premises at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands. The...

DANGEROUS LIAISONS 11 The College of Petroleum Studies has produced the first of a series of desk-top manuals entitled...

Study Manual of Professional Competence in Road Transport Management is now on the shelves, with updates on recent legislation,...

B UMP BEATER • A warning device, the BumpGuard, which alerts drivers to nearby hazards by means of a cab signal light or...

The portable Outback has programmable keys, can store up to 50 numbers, has a fivenumber recall key and comes with an...

▪ The Zero ice detector warns drivers of all types of vehicles of the presence of black ice on the road, by means of a probe...

• Ellis Integral Valve Lock: has introduced a security wh nut designed to prevent the theft of wheels and tyres frol...

I A device which eliminates iter from diesel fuel tanks is ing marketed by Valtech ading. The Water Eliminator filled with...

South Midlands ComLnications has introduced its nd Ill mobile radio, which a number memory, a facilfor calling other Band II...

The Wel managment softre Fleetfax has been exded to include a costs modand a stores module. t is said to enable fleet manTs to...

S1A has introduced a PCed software journey nning package, based on its utefinder programme. Called chrones, it calculates and...

has reproduced 500 authentic models of the district's 46 buses which were converted for ambulance duty between 1939 and 1945.

phone box in your garden, so why not buy a parking meter too? Birmingham City Council has more than 1,000 meter heads for...

M4 in South Wales is no longer the safest motorway in Britain, police told a road safety conference in Cardiff last week....

to avoid a prison sentence, if they agree to go on probation and attend the county's education project. If offenders do not...

is Phi11 Hanson of Middletonbased PH Trucking, with his Iveco Ford TurboStar 190.42. He not only drove away with the best kept...

on the M25' courses for businessmen and commuters. Now how about establishing survival courses for truckers who have to avoid...

way to adverti: its services — through the side of a truck. Not conter with a picture of its planes on its support vehicle,...

minutes to answer their latest of duty — to Madagascar, some 6,500km from base. No, they won't be putting out a fire, or...

calender for 1990, featur a range of working Scammel It costs 27.00 to nonmembers (£6.50 to member plus 21.50 for postage and...

• HGV sales are very poor, with prices not breaking any records, says NFC Car Auctions commercial vehicle manager Howard...

• Bristol and West Motor Auctions has bought Rotherham-based M1 Motor Auctions from motor dealer D C Cook. John Bailey,...

British Gas is being run next month by Cental Motor Auctions. Nearly 200 vehicles from four participating regions — Eastern,...

• Motorauctions Leeds has boosted sales volumes dramatically in the past year, according to commercial sales manager Brian...

can pay if they are regularly maintained, says Marley Transport boss Geoff Lampard, The Burton-based company, part of the...

Parish councillors, environmental groups and urban authorities seem to be ganging up against trucks. They hotly deny...

Oxfordshire-based Cannon is going to great lengths to reduce its environmental impact. Environmental pressures are forcing a...

California legislators want to ban trucks from the freeway — but now one manufacturer is fighting back... • You cannot...

r•I'ANDARDS An efficient haulage operation demands an efficient workshop, and you can't run an efficient CV Workshop without...

— )We have been inun-Ldated recently with terature about COSHH, ad recently we had an laployee refuse to work in le job...

Q Where do I find the regulations governing the recutting of tyres for my vehicles? I recently had a heated argument with a...

Q Under current EC drivers' hours for coaches, is daily rest measured in the 24 hours preceeding the end of the working day, or...

Q I have been told recently that air lines on trailers have to be fitted with non-return valves. Is this correct? JD,...

Q As an owner-driver, I .have been approached by a company to do dedi cated contract work. They want me to paint my vehi cle in...

Q Is it an offence to have no water in the windscreen washer bottle? PH, Doncaster A Yes, but the chances of prosecution are...

Q We transport loads up to 4.5m high and frez quently encounter telephone wires which are lower than our loads. I have heard...

changes and an unscheduled meeting with a filling station canopy, the Commercial Motor/Leyland Daf Runnerthon is taking a...

The race for BS5750 is on. For years, many hauliers ignored the quality mark: now many are finding that without it they may...

your magazine, the article "Marriage of Convenience", about MAN's purchase of an 80% stake in Steyr Daimler Puch AG, contained...

that Roads and Traffic minister Robert Atkins seems likely to accept an increase in the maximum length of articulated trucks to...

MEDIOCRITII • When Leyland Daf announced a new set of engines for its 400 Series vans (we mustn't call them Sherpas...

particularly like the adjustable delay on the wiper switch. • SUMMARY When we tested the Land Rover-engined Sherpa 350 van...

First, a welcome to those who are aking part in our Workshop Conference Telford and to those visiting our exibition and...

• COMPETITION in the UK automotive battery market is hotting up in the face of "massive" over-capacity in production...

TECH•PLUS Tungstone Batteries estimates over-capacity at 25 to 30% on a European basis. Although little has been heard from...

Each positive plate is now lividually wrapped or enloped in a porous plastic mrator. The new lower resistance aarator improves...

I BASF Coatings & Inks' Reish Division is investing over million to triple the size of training school, and upgradg and...

• THE ICC Business Ratios report on Motor Goods Distributon says: 'There seems to be little chance of the small, privately...

• MOBILE DATA terminals are being supplied to AA patrols by Spectronics Micro Systems. S340 terminals linked to base via...

• ROBERT BOSCH foresees new chances for business expansion through the emergence of the single European market, but adds in...

12.2m (40ft) triaxle refrigerated trailers with Artic insulated shutter doors made by Manchester-based Dover Roller Shutters....

• SELECTING a satisfactory bodyshop computer system still causes a good deal of confusion within the industry, says the...

• AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTICS, an international conference being organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers next year,...

• NEON SAFETY Aids in produced a high-visibility safet jacket at 224.95. For years th company has made clothing fc the...

and power-steering equipment, announced that it is now able to supply on an exchange basis, long shaft manual steer ing boxes...

— it has been around since 1969. However, with Leyland and Daf joining forces and the arrival of the 95-Series cab in 1987,...

• The organisers of the Automotive Trade Show scored a big success with their September exhibition in its new venue, the...

of more than 2,000 trade companies. Among other exhibits was Timinder — a "low-cost" way for service departments to keep...