HA'P'ORTH OF TAR. • It is depressing to hear this week that cash shortages have brought research into the "great wheel-loss...

• Britain's hauliers are spending 15% too much on fuel and wasting millions of pounds a year on uneconomic vehicle management,...

• A London ban on peak-hour lorry loading will be maintained as long as the rail dispute hits road transport in the capital....

• Cartransport plans to double its turnover during the next three years. Former BRS marketing director George Inch is setting...

• TNT Newsfast plans to offer a door-to-door distribution service to European newspaper and magazine publishers through TNT's...

• New EC standards on carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbon emissions will affect new trucks over 3.5 tonnes from 1...

• Deliveries of Scania trucks and buses rose 32% during the first four months of this year, and sales rose in most West...

• Ron Irons is leaving NFC after 40 years with the company, most recently as Group Managing Director of BRS. Irons, 56, plans...

• The result of the dock strike ballot of more than 9,4(X) workers will be announced on Friday, says the Transport and General...

• Two blue and white Leyland Constructors and a Daf truck have been stolen in the past week. One Constructor is registered...

A cash shorta g e is haltin g research work on the soled mystery wheel-loss synxne, warns Don Wri g ht, airman of the British...

I Volkswagen plans to set up a nationwide light CV dealer etwork by the end of this year. The van centres will offer extended...

• Despite Leyland Dal's success in winnin g the £155 million Ministry of Defence contract for 5,350 four-tonners (CM 29 June-5...

• Ripon Magistrates Court slammed agricultural contractor Geoffrey Nutland of Rainton near Thirsk this week for running a...

• The top Transport and Road Research Laboratory scientist who is investigating the effects on road wear of different truck and...

• A Which? magazine investigation of hire vans has found that two of the 11 vans it hired from a mix of six national firms and...

• Driver Terry Hull (above left) has improved business margins for his boss Adrian Williams (right) by winning the free use of...

• 'kirk has decided to centralise assembly of rigid versions of its Thermostar body at its Clay Cross, Chesterfield factory....

approved the Road Haulagl Association's submission fc grant status for its annual conference, to be held this year in Orlando,...

▪ Spanish permits, the la ones remaining on an allocation system, will no longer be rationed to UK hauliers, says the...

• The Departmentof Transport is studying the effects of safety belts on coaches in the wake of a crash which killed a teachei...

• Registrations of goods vehicles over 1,525kg hit 9,400 in May, up 18% on 1988, while top-weight arti registrations were up...

Tuesda3 more than 16,000 London Buses workers were expected to join the transpor strike on 5 July.

C utting fuel consumption is the major factor in lower operating costs. A skilful driver has the key to this in his use of the...

• One of the first four MAN tractive units fitted with a fullyautomated version of Eaton's 12-speed Twin Splitter gearbox has...

Leyland Daf has stepped up attack on the Ilk drawbar 7ket with the launch of its st powerful prime mover del to date — the...

Sudden Atkinson has deli:ed its first five Pegaso Dners to British operators as 1. of its test programme for top specification...

• Edinburgh-based industrial and commercial flooring contractor Floorall has bought one of the first Mercedes-Benz 408D vans to...

• BPW air suspensions and axles, which feature both fourchannel anti-lock braking systems and a full load sensing capability,...

Show ground trailer • Lynton Commercial Units has developed a new type of dual-purpose marketing support trailer which has a...

• Parcels company WPS Express is preparing to launch its own franchise scheme in August, complete with a new company livery,...

• A £13 million distribution and warehousing deal has been struck between Transport Development Group subsidiary Beck &...

• The amalgamation of the entire trailer fleet of CSL into TIP, the trailer rental giant which bought the company earlier this...

is using the French bi-centennial celebrations to promote its service as shipping agents specialising in Anglo-French traffic....

• MAN Volkswagen has won an order from Wheel Van and Truck Rentals for more than £1 million. The London-based spothire company...

• Business transfer specialist Everett Masson and Furby has set up a division to handle sales, acquisitions and mergers for...

• BRS Southern has won a £500,000 contract with Quaife Paper of Wembley t supply five vehicles to the company's London depots....

Manchester-based William ittall and Sons and WE .selden and Son of Strood, :nt are to merge into a single lependent operating...

a touch, with the NEC 9A portable phone he has just von in the Commercial lotor Digital Mobile Cornnunications competition....

• Losses of up to £500,000 are expected from Interlink Express German operation, set up only two months ago, for the year...

• Bickfords of Wolverhampton, which acquired a former Royal Ordance transport depot in Featherstone near Wolverhampton in 1979,...

• Up to 20 council workers at Melton Borough Council face redundancy following AAH Tyler's successful bid for the local...

£2.5 million contract-hire deal to replace the fleet at its Widnes Surewaste operation which the firm took over earlier this year.

a contract-hire deal with Ryder Truck Rental for three tractor units, seven trailers and a rigid demountable swap body. More...

• Scania's new front-axle air suspension (CM 1-7 June) has been on test in Sweden with Commercial Motor. The axle is suspended...

• Scottish coachbuilder Walter Alexander has handed over the first six of a £7.5 million order for 95 double-deckers to...

• While negotiations for the sale of municipally-owned Derby City Transport continue at the shortlist stage, Drawlane...

• Brighton Borough Transport has bought Campings Luxury Coaches of Portslade. The Carryings coaching business was set up in...

• Lincolnshire operator Appleby of ConishoLme has established an outstation at Seamer, on Scarborough's sea front, and is...

I Ensign Bus Services of irfleet is buying Frontnumer outh East), the London arm Stagecoach-owned East Midad Motor Services, in...

• Employee-owned Yorkshire Rider has drawn up a 2150 million redevelopment plan for its Leeds base, minibus depot and adjoining...

• Richardson Travel of Sheffield has transferred five commercial and three tendered routes to South Yorkshire Transport and...

• Blackpool Transport is taking delivery of six East Lanesbodied 76-seat Leyland Olympians, its first new doubledeckers for...

• Arlington has supplied a Van Hool Cummins-powered T815 Alizee integral coach to Cronins Coaches, Cork, liveried for tour...

• Lincolnshire owner-driver Anthony Willings was given an absolute discharge following a series of offences involving a vehicle...

• An applicati( designed to merge the businesses of three Sheffield hauliers has been granted by North Eastern Deputy LA Brian...

• Springvale Removals has been ordered b a Birmingham i dustrial tribunal to repay £78 it deducted fron the wages of a driver...

ii • In lifting the suspension of the licence held by Ronton Haulage of Newport, South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn...

• The absence of a crucial prosecution witness has led to the adjournment of the hearing of a series of altegations against...

• Sutton & Sons (St Helens) and one of its drivers have been given absote discharges by the Hud?xsfield magistrates, after...

• South Eastern LA Brigadier Michael Turner has cut the duration of the international licence held by Grays Transport of...

• Hoyers (UK) has to wait to see if its bid to add 10 vehicles and 21 trailers to 'ts existing authorisation for 19 vehicles...

• Renault has launched updated versions of its Trafic and Master panel van ranges. The most important change is the...

• Astatic Cars has launched the latest generation of its Skidmaster driver training vel des, based on a Ford Transit panel...

pickup here I Ford's new Fiesta van lould be facing a more worthy ial this time next year when e second-generation Metro ts...

pickup here • The Ford P100 pickup with a turbo-diesel engine is now on sale at dealers, as predicted in CM (4-10 May)....

I Sloping ground and steps in orlivays can make loading rd work but, as Compass aff have discovered, some pes of tail-lifts...

• Proposed changes in driving-licence requirements could encourage growth in the large-volume 3.5-tonne market, McDonald Kane...

• A Russian factory will be turning out 30,000 3.5-tonne diesel panel vans a year from 1993, if current plans come to fruition....

BY THE HAWK / An amazing line-up of trucks is about to hit Germany, including the Boss Truck of America which set the first...

• At the beginning of the year six hundred of Europe's top business corporations were asked to name the company best prepared...

also started negotiations with a large freight forwarder, but they are not so far advanced," says Kuehne, where K&N was...

SIR TRRL AIRS ITS VIEWS The article "TRRL: air hits roads harder" and your editorial comment "Suspending this belief,...

A back-to-back test of Toyota's Hilux pickups; the bashful 4 < 2 petrol and the intimidating 4 4 diesel. Does their performance...

• If lorry manufacturers are to be believed, most of the road haulage industry's problems can easily be solved. Tractive units...

• Some truckers love them, others hate them — but speed limiters are here to stay. France has already forced all commercial...

CAINCIRA • Police on one of Britain's busiest stretches of motorway are using video cameras to trap speeding truckers and...

He and Wealleans have a lot of sympathy for drivers. "We all know it's not easy being a truck driver, and 80% of them are fine:...

• AWD TRUCKS LAKE P. Barry Laker has been ippointed sales finance mana;er of AWD Trucks. He has ;pent all his career in...

SPECIAL REPORT by Chris Butterfield • ON FRIDAY 23 June, well over two years after the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized...

has such a vast armoury of charges that can be brought without needing to resort to that one. I have already mentioned Section...

by Jonathan Lawton TACHOGRAPHS AND SPEED WHEN A DRIVER is asleep in the bed PA provided in a sleeper cab he is, in statutory...

by John Durant SPEED LITIGATION MI THE HOUSE of Lords earlier this year refused to strike out an action on the ground of...

1"1, OVERLOADING is considered se rious by LAs, as is evident from a number of recent cases in which operational fleets have...

Dear Sir I. Over the past few years it has become apparent to many of your readers that enforcement agencies in general and...