• A delegation including hauliers was due to meet Minister of Police Lord Ferrers at the Home Office on Wednesday (6 July) to...

by David Harris • Police forces which charge hauliers for providing escorts for abnormal or heavy loads may be acting...

• Senior management at Britain's seven Traffic Area Offices say there will be less effective screening of new 0licence...

• Commercial vehicle and car parts distributor Edmunds Walker is set to be sold to Stratford-upon-Avon-based Finelist for £20m....

• A further 17 truck drivers who admitted falsifying tachograph records while carrying limestone products from Derbyshire...

• The IV142 is set to be widened to form a 10-lane superhighway under proposals launched last week by the Department of...

by Patrick Hook • Wandsworth, Barnet, Lambeth and Merton Borough Councils are likely to be unable to enforce bans on overnight...

• Higher tolls on the Severn Bridge have been blamed for an increase in overloaded trucks in Gloucestershire. The increase...

Eviction threat by Eugene SiIke • Disgruntled LGV driving schools are taking the Driving Standards Agency to court over its...

director Nick Smith warns, because "centres under financial pressure will put up candidates not ready for a test". But the DSA...

suffered a three - year vendetta by persons unknown has another problem to face this week: the Department of Transport plans to...

• Independent recovery operators say a letter sent to them by the RAC last week is interpreted as a veiled threat that the...

June 1994) concerning West Yorkshire-based container haulier Silver Birch was in a number of respects incorrect. It was...

insurance cover as thieves latch on to the current trend for off-road models. Norwich Union says it will not insure 4x4s such...

• Months of Joint Industrial Council in Scotland have ended with drivers accepting a 2% increase on basic pay and a 1.9%...

by Eugene Silke • Pressure for action to help truck drivers wrongly imprisoned abroad is finally mounting, following new moves...

• Yorkshire Police are cracking down on hauliers who they suspect are deliberately running their least roadworthy vehicles at...

• Car transporter specialists have been hit with the second blow to their business in a month. Peugeot and Citroen distributor...

• Waste disposal contractors have slammed Aberdeen City Council after it redrafted tender documents for its .lent, fiveyear...

Parcels carrier Panic Link expects to create 550 additional jobs in the next 18 months mainly on the back of new international...

for stolen Ford Transit vans into Southern Ireland. Thieves are exploiting a loophole in Irish law and reregistering Transits...

• Police are appealing to truck drivers for information about a prostitute found murdered in Leicestershire. Tracy Turner, 30,...

What exactly is the true cost of enforcement? Judging by what's been happening recently to some heavy hauliers and...

• Figures for the first half of 1994 suggest a significant recovery in the market for light commercials. SMMT figures show an...

• Ford has rejoined the pickup market with the Transit Flareside, which sells at £10,495 (ex-VAT). After a protracted pause the...

• Ford Transit minibuses can now be retro-fitted with seatbelts throughout. The 16,000 eight, 12 and I5-seaters built between...

• LDV (the renamed Leyland Daf Vans) has won a number of municipal orders for V400 vans and chassis-cabs. Glasgow Buildings...

MI Two of the first 10-tonne gross weight MAN L2000s have gone into service with Peterborough caterers' wholesaler Friar's...

3 swinging suzies • All 400 of the new Scania tractive units entering service with Tesco are being fitted with a swinging-arm...

• Unipower's first C-Series civilian 6x6 is expected to begin extensive tests at the end of this month before going into...

• Volvo Bus's new BlOL low floor bus will be bodied exclusively for the British market by Scottish manufacturer Walter...

• Electric vehicles specialist John Bradshaw of Peterborough has launched a purpose-built electric van giving a range of 50...

The Leyland Technical Centre, the last of the Leyland Dal companies to emerge from under the receivers' control, is offering...

fined £600 by Huntingdon Magistrates for offences involving the falsification of tachograph records.

trading as Central Reclamation Services & Damplas of Coventry was renewed for two years after West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh...

BM Marsh of Wincanton, Somerset has been revoked on maintenance grounds by the Western LA Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford.

• Crynant Transport and one of its directors, trans port manager Florence Morrison, have been disqualified from holding or...

The charts showed a grave breach of drivers' hours regulations • Drivers hours offences have cost Norbert Dentress angle...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh adjourned consideration of a licence renewal bid by Hereford-based Mark and Nigel Howarth,...

• Hayden Powell and Trevor Waring, trading as Eastern Valley Transport, of Pontypool, have been granted aone-year licence for...

• Tamworth owner-driver Kenneth Eaglcsfield's bid for a new international licence was adjourned for him to take legal advice...

I hold an Operator's Licence for four vehicles. I had to sell the vehicles and I returned the licence discs so no vehicle was...

One of our drivers picked up a semitrailer at the docks and put his tractor number plate at the rear of the trailer. Near the...

I have received a summons for permitting one of my drivers to drive for more than 4%hours without a break. At the time of the...

more than £2,000 for a Sheffield children's hospital charily by running from Lands End to John O'Groats in nine clays. The...

a Ms recent coverage of Australia's roadtrains has promfAed readers Peter and Malcolm Anderson from Leyburn, North Yorks to...

5 ransport Secretary John MacGregor continues to be greeted by excited crowds wherever he goes, although to be fair they do not...

hitbread brewery driver Nick Cox is again showing strongly in the National Lorry/Van Driver of the Year competition, coming top...

Charity art • Kelly Trucks is auctioning the opportunity for one of its customer's trucks to appear as the main feature in a...

Hygiene initiative • HMS Personnel Services has introduced a training system for its temporary driving and warehouse staff...

Truck costs • A seminar on the Whole Life Costs for Trucks and Buses has been organised by the Automobile Division of the FTA...

• Interrnodal '94 Combined Transport Conference and exhibition will be held from 2-4 November at the Rai Congress Centre...

Union helpline • A telephone helpline offering free legal advice on anything from "customs difficulties to a neighbour cutting...

• The DVLA has issued a clarification of fee refunds connected with the reapplication for a licence originally refused on...

• An insurance scheme which extends the warranty on MAN Truck and Bus UK's new vehicles is to be administered by RAC Mechanical...

Tracking Mercedes • Mercedes-Benz' radio tracking device, which can assist in locating stolen vehicles, is available as an...

• Rhino retractable security posts are designed to reduce car theft and ram-raid attacks. They simply lift out of the ground...

• Fuel card companies Dial and Shell have joined forces to enable all customers of Dial to be eligible for a Shell Gold Card....

• Retreaded tyres from Bandag are being marketed as a new grade of tyre because of their low cost, increased tread life and...

• Vehicle-grade reflective material can be welded to curtains and PVC covers during manufacture or repair. Lancashire-based...

• Fasson's FasFlex 3000 selfadhesive film can be used to apply livery designs to trailer curtain sides and tilts. Contact...

• A new duster designed by British inventor Les Price for dashboards which are awkward to clean is now on sale. Contact (0235)...

small trucks seem to be gaining favour with thieves, a typical example being an lveco Ford 49 - 10 tilt, reg F840 KCD,...

a warehouse full of stolen unidentified gear after thieves took a Mercedes - Benz 3025K late in April. Unfortunately they did...

I refer to your feature The Right Stuff (23-29 June). I wonder if the "plenty of graduates" looking for jobs in road transport...

W e read with interest the article in CM (23-29 June) relating to EFL introducing 44-thnners into intermodal service in the...

It's certainly not cheap. It's not the biggest nor the most up to date. But it's easy to see why so many operators lust after a...

group of professional truck drivers to see how they liked the R113 - 380 tractor. We met Alan Worley in a Renault R380 at the...

has gone on sale through 150 Ford Transit specialist dealers. The vehicle is the result of close co-operation between Ford's...

W illiams Grand Prix Engineering nestles in the shadow of Didcot power station, just off the A34 south of Oxford. It's hardly a...

B USTERS Truck drivers tend to brush off signs that work is getting to them, but experts warn they must face up to the fact...

Europe has forced the UK to improve employee consultation on business transfers and redundancies. The Government is blamed for...

The new depot you want to buy may be in the perfect location— but unseen pollutants lurking beneath the soil could cost you...

6 I f the road haulage industry collapsed tomorrow it would result in the failure to move raw materials, manufactured products...