• Labour's proposer for thre .c1r 0-licence to be introduced instead of the suggested continuous 0licensing was rejected 12 to...

by Karen Miles • Many international hauliers could find their profit margins slashed this year as the European Union looks set...

• Parcels carrier TNT plans to open a second hub at Atherstone by mid-1996, which will more than double its UK volume handling...

by Nicky Clarke • New drivers of vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes will have to meet tougher licensing requirements by July 1996, in...

• Receivers at Samar Container Services have disclosed that there were no "tangible assets" left other than land and bad debt...

• Same-day parcels network Securicor Pony Express is moving into franchising for its new sites to allow it to increase its...

Leicester-based King Trailers was acquired last week by its management from parent company Bousteacl in a fl .5 million deal....

• Major schemes—many of them cited as crucial to industry—were slashed from the £23 billion roads programme last week as the...

by Steve McQueen • Promises of compensation according to settlements usually agreed by industrial tribunals could be offered to...

• Last week's merger of Toleman into Tibbett & Britten will lead to voluntary redundancies, despite the group anticipating an...

• A vote for indefinite strike action at Summerfield Group's Middlewich depot has been averted because of a court of appeal...

• A survey of more than 1,000 shop stewards in the United Road Transport Union will help create a more pro-active organisation,...

• Contract hire and truck rental firm Ryder's turnover increased to £100.4m from £94.4m last year, which helped pre-tax profits...

by Mary Williams • The truth about congestion levels on Britain's roads is being covered up by the DOT, say roads campaigners....

• A French lorry driver has been jailed for 45 days because his employers' agents could not guarantee that fines and costs of...

• The European Parliament is taking legal action against EU law which lays down minimum rates of annual lorry tax and allows...

• The Stoke-on-Trent franchise for overnight parcels carrier Panic Link is up for sale for £60,000, complete with two of its...

Truck thieves are under attack from a tracking device that is designed to recover stolen vehicles, catch the people, who took...

• Surrey Police showed CM how Tracker works. A car carrying a transponder used for training was sent to hide a few miles from...

• ELT has produced four lowlevel ERF EC14 6x2 mid-axle lift tractive units for Kendal-based Milnthorpe Transport. The tractor...

• Mercedes-Benz has launched a range of alarms and immobilisers for its vans and trucks. Three systems are available: a key...

• In CM's 17-23 March Keep It Legal wallchart on Special Types we showed a photograph of a Scania RI 43-450M twinsteer operated...

• Fiat is at last launching its revised Florin() high-cube van in the UK—on 9 April at £6,966 (ex-VAT). The new Fiorino will...

Transit volume Transporter engine boost by Toby Clark • Ford will launch a true high-roof version of the Transit in May,...

for the Transporter van, and improved the specification of the Transporter range. The 2.5-litre, five-cylinder petrol unit was...

• Importer IM Group has agreed to start handing over imports of the lzuzu Trooper to General Motors. A high-spec version of...

• The latest Korean import to the UK is Asia Motors' Fourwheel-drive Rocsta (pronounced "rock star"), a Jeep lookalike...

• The two-vehicle licence held by Cesare Brandonisio, u - ading as MT Skips, of West Bromwich, was revoked when Brandonisio...

• The renewal of the twovehicle licence held by Neasden haulier Francis Collins was refused at a Westminster public inquiry....

• Environmental representations have led to time restrictions being imposed on the licence for five vehicles and 45 trailers...

• Viewfield Pallets & Engineering, of Glenrothes, was granted a new twovehicle restricted licence for two yearw , ly, at an...

• The receivers at Gamwell Engineering, of Aston, Birmingham, have been severely cr . ticised by West Midland LA John Mervyn...

• Exeter Crown Court has quashed fines imposed on Peterborough Heavy Haulage and two of the company's drivers after vehicles...

William Hayes Freight after West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh was told the company had acted on advice from a vehicle examiner....

• Haulier John Yates of Stratford, East London is to be sentenced at the end of April, after admitting attempting to bribe a...

rlphe companies involved in _1 the Bell Line dispute had the right principles (CM 1016 March). Bell was clearly protecting its...

1:10 ave you got the oldest pair of curtains still in everyday use? And I'm not taking about granny's old nets in the...

2] ot for a moment could it be suggested that Irish haulier Blueflite is gloating in England's failure to qualify for the World...

0 would-be car thief got k assistance from unexpected quarters when a man from the AA stopped to help push-start the van he was...

a ycoon Richard Branson has come to the aid of a teenage businessman forced off the road by his rivals, Andrew Cawley, 17,...

5 alking of young bosses, Wincanton has agreed to sponsor the national Institute of Logistics "Young Manager of the Year" award...

0 hat's it—cancel my monthly order of a case of Yorkie bars even with the new improved range of "roast peanut" and milk with...

overnight on 22/23 March and stole a tractor unit belonging to JH Vidler. It is a white Scania 142, 6 x 2 lift axle tractor...

21:40hrs on 9 March from outside its warehouse on the Lea Valley Industrial Estate, Edmonton, London N18. The registration of...

sixwheel Foden truck, registration E255 HGV, taken overnight on 20/21 March From the Fromeside Industrial Estate in Stroud,...

vehicles in Gloucestershire worth £60,000. The Mercedes artic tractor units were disconnected from their loads and stolen from...

theft is coming soon from Commercial Motor, lveco Ford Truck and the Road Haulage Association. The Trucktheft Action...

tonnes of feed barley when its truck was stolen at 23:00hrs on 14 March from its yard in Cleeve Road, Middle Littleton,...

Blown out • `1)„Te manufacturer Bridgestone/Firestone has introduced a recovery service to help hauliers with a tyre problem...

• Norwich Union is offering 10% insurance discounts to hauliers who fit the stolen vehicle tracking system Tracker to their...

Iveco in Ireland • Dublin-based Truck Dealers International has secured the franchise for Iveco vans and trucks from the...

Tax tips • lax Facts aims to help businesses avoid exposing themselves to unnecessary tax payments. It is published by Kogan...

• Fixed and mileage costs for attics over 32 tonnes are rising faster than for other commercial vehicles, states the latest...

Reward for service • The Customer First Awards are designed to reward companies which can show how good customer service has...

Bag handling • The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association is running half-day seminars on the recovery and repair of...

• A course on Transport Management and Control will be held at Cranfield University. Bedford on 6-10 June. It is organised by...

• Yellow wheel clamps designed to deter truck thieves are available from Middlesbrough-based Lionweld Kennedy. The clamps come...

• Simac Techniq has expanded its range of software for hauliers. It includes improved data capture, links to barc.ode readers,...

• DeVilbiss has developed a mobile hopper-fed spray unit for the commercial vehicle industry for £1,395. Iris ii cleaned by...

• Gates up to 5m wide weighing up to 1,600kg can be opened and closed by the latest version of the BPI MEC800 electro-hydraulic...

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak;...

Don't be surprised if the next 32-tonne artic you see in supermarket livery is a Leyland Daf 75.300. This frugal successor to...

As usual, we took our roadtest truck out and about to see how experienced working drivers got on with it. This time we took the...

0 ne day early in 1992 Lockerbie-based operator Kenny Williamson received a mysterious telephone call from Volvo Truck's...

)ne The insurance industry caught a E6.8bn cold in 1991 and since then vehicle insurance has been hard to come by at a...

• Britain's commercial vehicle operators must improve their operating standards in order to become a more attractive risk For...

e proposed ban on all reign trucks crossing itzerland will have little rect affect on domestic uliers, but it could gnal the...

horse rearing community, sent a horse box to the Derby last year containing animals worth more than Lim. They came home worth...

F operation means that he is still involved in the sport to which he has devoted his life. He was a successful National Hunt...

6 n the past few months I have noticed a I major increase in the failure of finance, leasing and hire companies to use the...