• Yet again, the fuel companies have demonstrated their "heads I win, tails you lose" approach to fuel prices. As the cost of...

• Our road testers have been to Scotland and hack with two vehicles from Scania; a P112, 6x2, 38 tonner with 245kW (330hp)...

• Employees of the National Freight Consortium will be given the chance to share in up to 15% of the company's profits in a...

are held by the company's employees, with the remaining 17% held by approved institutional investors. All the company's shares...

• Less than three weeks after announcing "excellent" first-half profits for 1986, the Transport Development Group has now...

• Bedford management met with union representatives this week to discuss the worsening crisis at the loss-making truck and bus...

• Following a 25% increase in its truck sales this year, Foden's recently-appointed managing director Mark Pigott is predicting...

• The RHA has launched a blistering attack on the pricing policies of the fuel companies following the rise in dery prices last...

• British reefer operators running into Italy face long delays after changes to the country's weekend lorry ban. Last Saturday...

• Union representatives from the Transport and General Workers Union were due to meet with Abbey Hill management last Wednesday...

• The latest Department of Transport interpretation of the soon-to-be-introduced driving hours law for parcels carriers has...

• Lorry and bus drivers are perceived to be the least likely of road users to cause accidents, according to a national poll of...

'86 (CM July 5) is Gordon Roberts, transport manager of SGB Imports of Larbert,, Stirlingshire. Roberts was the only contestant...

• As predicted exclusively by CM three months ago, Foden has become the first European truck manufacturer to offer the latest...

• Roger Dyson Recovery Systems of Droitwich has developed a heavier-duty version of its self-loading rampbody equipment. The...

• A General Motors-developed composite leaf spring could soon become an option on Rubery Owen-Rockwell trailer suspension....

• Ford and Mercedes figure prominently in the latest Department of Transport goods vehicle safety recall bulletin covering the...

at a cost of more than 210 million, for its short-term rental fleet and contract hire business. This investment is in addition...

• Many of Britain's major hauliers are preparing to use the new ferry service between Dartford in Kent and Zeebrugge, which is...

• Dover Harbour Board is planning a new multi-million pound road and rail ferry berth at its Western Dock. The new tidal train...

• Overnight parcels carrier Interlink, which came out so well in our recent parcels survey (CM, July 12), is to join the...

UK to and from the Spanish Peninsula will be introduced from September 8 by Sea bourne. The door-to-door service will cover...

• From next Friday (September 12) hauliers with a standard national operators' licence will he able to take unaccompanied...

• Newark-based haulier BWH has invested .333,000 in 11 new Volvo FL7s, which will be used on distribution work for British...

• Ford dealers in Britain are now able to supply and install cellular radio telephones into the full range of Ford commercial...

• As predicted in CM (August 16), Brighton Council has imposed a ban on all lorries parking along the seafront, despite police...

• Volvo bus and truck sales increased during the first half of 1986 according to the company's sixmonthly figures. Bus sales...

• Sheffield owner-driver Michael Bracey had his operator's licence prematurely terminated so that it expires in six months'...

• Two operators who specified a vehicle belonging to an owner-driver on their own operator's licence have each been fined £200...

• A lorry driver made redundant by Renwick Freight (Scotland) Limited has been awarded £2,210 compensation for unfair dismissal...

• A lorry driver sacked after he delivered a load of contaminated sand to a firm of glass makers has been awarded £5,253.41...

• Owner driver John Popland of Manchester has retained his 0-licence despite being convicted of falsifying tachograph records...

• A decision is being reserved on a renewal application by T Roberts (Haulage Contractors) Limited of Sheffield following...

that truck production in Western Europe will grow by around 3% in 1986 and 1987. The countries covered by the survey are West...

approved plans for a 25% increase in equity captial from DM 1.5 billion ($729 million). Financial Times, August 21.

speeded up. The Marseilles Salon Arles section of the Marseilles Fos/Spain motorway and dual-carriageway will reach completion...

• The Leningrad-Orcha road via Luga Pskov Ostrov Opochkaa Nevel Vitebsk is now open for international road traffic, reports the...

buses to Melbourne Metropolitan Transport Authority in Australia in a deal worth DM27 million. MTA has chosen the MAN vehicles...

work takes them away from home for long periods have been asked to take part in a study being undertaken on this subject....

Suzuki of Japan are starting the construction of a C$650 million (E312 million) assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ontario, to...

traded on an exchange like wheat or potatoes? The organisers of Capacity Exchange Inc (CAPEX) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA,...

is projected for the allaluminium body on the Grumman Corporation delivery vehicles now being built for the American Postal...

60,000 of the Ford trucks built since 1984 for checks following reports of leaks in the fuel systems. Verkehrs Rundschau,...

• Peking Jeep, the major Sino-American joint venture, has resumed production after a two-month shutdown caused by Lack of...

• Extra coach parking sites have now been made available in and around central London, following publication of the Department...

• Surrey County Council is to launch two special community bus services. The first is Access Bus — a new service to Guildford...

• A new "Hail and Ride" service of Whippet 16seater Ford Transit minibuses has been launched by Alder Valley South in...

• Birmingham-based Carlyle Works, the National Bus Company engineering subsidiary, has been expanding its business activities...

• June Peace has been promoted to Depot Manager at the Newmillerdam depot of Cartransport, where the company delivers...

• Colin Bruder, former national sales director of Renault UK, has joined Spafax as its new managing director. At Renault he...

• Appleyard Group has a new chief executive, Michael Williamson, who joins the motor dealing and finance concern, headquartered...

• England's only manufacturer of vehicle washing machines, Smith Bros & Webb of Alcester, has promoted Bob Myatt to the post of...

• Denis Flower — a veteran bus and coach administrator — has joined the Bus & Coach Council in succession to Ken Brindle, who...

• East Yorkshire Motor Services has a new finance director and board member. He is Brian Burley, who has been with the company...

• Bob Kennard has been appointed general manager for Allen Diagnostic Equipment (UK), responsible for the company's operations...

• Leyland Trucks has made major changes to its Roadrunner range, first introduced two years ago. Out goes Leyland's own 98...

• Automatic Transmission Services of Letchworth is offering operators the option of a four-speed automatic gearbox on Ford and...

• Bicester-based Mole Trailer is now producing custom-built aluminium trailers for light vehicle drawbar operations. A variety...

• Production of the longawaited three-litre V6 petrolengined Transit begins this month. The 75kW(100hp) engine — previously...

• Thirteen jobs could be lost at the West Midlands Ambulance Service's central ambulance maintenance depot if rationalisation...

• One of the first Dodge S66 4x4s, converted for RTI by Reynolds Boughton (CM, July 12), has entered service with the South...

• The high proportion of damage and injury accidents involving minibuses bears witness to the fact that being an 'experienced'...

array of vehicle financing schemes in its new article The Commercial Route to Transport Funding. Further information is...

• The British Standards Institute has updated the recently-published standard for power driven mobile cranes to give wider...

Industrial achievement • The deadline for the 1986 Lloyds Bowmaker Industrial Achievement Award has been extended until...

Drivers' hours courses • With the new Driver's Hours and Tachograph Regulations coming into force on September 29, a series of...

webbing lashings and lifting-slings and their loads has been introduced by Cargo Equipment International. The sleeves — called...

• ICI Autocolour's sales operation in the west of England has been strengthened by the appointment of Wessex Autocolours of...

service and maintenance facility at Darlaston Road, Wednesbury will be officially opened on Monday, September 15 at 6.30pm.

two new main dealers: Grantham-based Victor Wood opened its new Austin Rover dealer premises on September 1. Lords of Reading...

Crashed vehicle register • A central computer file of all accident-damaged vehicle insurance write-offs has been introduced....

Community fair • The second Community Transport Exhibition and Trades Fair will take place at the University of Lancaster on...

All makes from Clayton • Clayton Dewandre, Aftermarket Division has introduced a new Interchange range of alternative air...

can be taken out part-way through a month instead of at the start, under new Department of Transport regulations to be...

price by an average of 2.5 per cent from September 1. The increase, which will affect all Bedford commercial vehicles, will not...

for drivers around the country tins month, A spate of new motorway repairs is due to start bringing problems on the MI in...

go-ahead for a £40 million dual carriageway road linking Coseley in the Black Country to Junction 10 of the M6 at Walsall. The...

The Transport and Road Research Laboratory will monitor each of the 96 trial sites to determine whether the markings are...

traffic of the first phase of the York northern by-pass has been welcomed by the Freight Transport Association. The new road...

letter from Mr Davies in your issue of August 16 in connection with the training of lorry drivers. It is true that many firms...

• Although living in Austria I am English and a regular reader of Commercial Motor. I wish to make a reference to the letter...

August 9, 1986, edition of Commercial Motor that PMT Engineering was not included in your 1986 Bodybuilders Guide. I...

Mobil tanker drivers' wage increases indicate to me that you may not be aware of just how questionable these increases are in...

Last week Leyland launched a modified version of its 8-10 Roadrunner — the 8-13. Just before the newcomer made its trade debut...

Several major fleet operators are finding that rigids can be surprisingly flexible. CM investigates the benefits of...

Rubery Owen-Rockwell is the UK market leader for trailer running gear — and plans to stay that way, despite growing opposition....

There have been some radical changes to the British trailer industry of late. Craven Tasker is planning to boost production —...

Specialist skills still spell success in the trailer market — we look at bespoke builders Andover Trailers • They were pulling...

for a suitable name for the second Severn crossing. Suggestions by the hundred are pouring into the Cardiff offices of the...

moose. From moose we rn000ve (sic) to bulls. It seems that a bright red fire engine in Dorpstraat, Belgium was recently...

a caring Whitstable haulage company, all come together for the first two weeks of September in an effort to help a tragically...

chassis drove out of an assembly line and ran over his left foot. George Addison from Strathclyde was standing on the roadway...

fragile 18ft long model of the QE2 — complete with glass case — was a task successfully undertaken recently by the Glasgow...

Cottage Farm, Grindleford Derbyshire. Fairfax, an unemployed lorry driver, has come up with an idea which will make full use of...

Mercedes aims to maintain its share of the 3.5 to 7.5-tonne market with the new T2 range. It faces tough opposition from the...