HAULIERS must not be penalised according to a recommended table for magistrates with a resulting severity second only to fines...

A MANCHESTER industrial tribunal ruled that a refusal to accept terms of employment from a firm's new owner did not break...

HOW DO YOU PLEAD... guilty or not guilty? Those are words I heard many times during 25 years service in the police. I also saw...

oat" over a licensing application for a change of oper Fridge Freight (Fyvie) Ltd was said to be to blame for the operation of...

MAINTENANCE problems have led to the licence held by McHale Civil Engineering Ltd being renewed only in respect of the vehicles...

A DRIVER who walked off the job has lost his claim against Monaghan Distribution Services Ltd. for compensation for alleged...

A COMPANY was a team and a team was only as strong as its weakest link. If employees did not work as a team, then they might...

FITTERS must be made fully aware of their responsibilities, otherwise badly carried out inspections and repairs could cause...

OVERLOADING a vehicle carrying baking materials cost John and Anne Gardner, trading as lain Gardner, and driver James...

RAFFIC AREA enforcement teams are no longer doing the job that they were created to do. This has become increasingly obvious....

ILL THE HARMONISATION of European legislation make many parts of our domestic legislation ineffective? Our insurance law stems...

GLANCE AT APPEAL 1989 No A22 shows 27 parties to the appeal. This serves to remind operators that they must consider the effect...

FoUl the dri ver to d off ' HESE DAYS we even have phones and CB radios in the cabs of many heavy goods vehicles. We're in...

• Ratcliffe & Partners, a member of the Institute of Automotive Engineer Assessors, has told Commercial Motor that in the 16...

Wheels Fund donors include: C R Butterfield J N M Pargeter Transport H R Goodale Hamilton Farmers Thomas Anderson Chassis...

• Thousands of transport managers could be passing their Certificate of Professional Competence exams by cheating. One training...

• Tankfreight's monopoly of Texaco's petrol retail distribution is set to be challenged as industry rumours mount that the NFC...

• Hauliers will be forced into multi-modal work with rail and ship operators during the next decade, to cope with the possible...

Coldicott. "Centres are told not to open the papers till they get into the exam room, and if an inspector arrived and found the...

• New regulations covering rigid truck drive-axle suspensions are on the cards, following research by the European Commission....

• West Mercia police and the industry's two leading trade associations have launched a "keep your distance" safety campaign...

• Proposed turning-circle requirements for 16.5m artics will increase road wear by 25%, warns the Institute of Road Transport...

• Transport Minister Robert Atkins is about to modify the Operator Licensing system. This follows the consultative document...

• The Department of Transport has no idea how to ensure that truck engines conform to environmental legislation throughout...

• Six drivers who had worked for Coates on a self-employed basis have been held to be "employees" by a Leicester industrial...

• A national campaign to improve safety at broken-down vehicles on motorways has been launched by the National Tyre...

• The RHA has attacked the Government for withholding information on the road expenditure outlined in the White Paper on public...

• Renault Vehicules Industriels gave a hint of the planned modifications for its entire vehicle range, when it unveiled style...

II At an Institution of Mechanical Engineers emissions seminar last week (see page 6), John Needham, manager of Ricardo...

• Improved fuel consumption could be one benefit of what is claimed to be the world's first electronically-silenced exhaust,...

• Continental's revolutionary Energy Optimised Tyre has been withdrawn from the UK market, after being launched in a blaze of...

• Three purpose-designed drawbar units, worth £250,000, have joined the fleet of computer and electronics transport specialist...

• Oldham Council's first Seddon Atkinson 3-11 six-wheeler has been fitted with a permanent tipping subframe, enabling the...

• Sameday courier Pony Express has moved into France as part of the Continental expansion plans of parent company Securicor. A...

• Newly-launched NFC subsidiary Exel Logistics — Regional Services, plans to open a depot in Basingstoke later this month. It...

• Seven drivers at Welsh brewery Crown Buckley have been made redundant as part of the company's plans to centralise its...

• Tiphook and Stena have called off their long-running hostile bid for Sea Containers after it agreed to sell them assets...

• ellundreds of tipper operators have had haulage rate cuts forced upon them by industry giant English China Clays. Operators...

• Swedish distribution group Scansped has joined forces with Polish state-owned transport company PSK to become the first...

• Railfreight Distribution expects its intermodal swap-body service to be operating from Harwich to Warrington by the spring....

• West Midlands Travel has submitted an employee buy-out plan to Transport Minister Michael Portillo in a bid to avoid being...

• Samways Travel of Leicester has had its PSV licence cut down to one vehicle for six months because of poor maintenance...

• The Drawlane Group has sold Crosville Motor Services to PMT of Stoke-on-Trent. The Chester-based subsidiary's break-up began...

• At the opening of West Yorkshire PTE's headquarters in Leeds last week, TGWU leader Ron Todd made an urgent plea to the...

• The Scottish Bus Group privatisation process is now under way. The Scottish Development Department has published the ground...

• A London Bus subsidiary has had its licence shortened on maintenance grounds following a joint sitting of the Metropolitan...

• A West Yorkshire haulier who served a prison sentence for stealing a lorry in 1980 has been refused an Operator's Licence....

• Willenhallbased Ruby Transport and one of its drivers, were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 22,570, after admitting...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has given Michael North, trading as Straight From The Farm, East Halton,...

• Clive's Transport, of Llanwarne, Hereford, has succeeded in getting West Midlands Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh to...

• Russell Davies (Europe) has been given an absolute discharge, after admitting a 2.9% train weight overload before Richmond...

• Alfretonbased CAS Transport and Warehousing has been cleared of overloading an artic, after Richmond Magistrates heard there...

• At 44-years-old, Leif Ostling has become president of Scania, the world's fifth largest truck manufacturer, at a time when...

SCOTTISH BOUND • Specialist exhibition trailer manufacturer Club Car (SPM) has opened a Scottish regional office at Axwel...

The production and chassis straightening departments have also moved to Frenchwood Works, Frenchwood Avenue, Preston. All mail...

OPEN ALL HOURS • Morville Trucks, Lutterworth, which services Scania commercial vehicles for the East Midlands area, is now...

IMMINGHAM CONNECTION • Norfolk Line and sister company Britline (both subsidiaries of the Mwrsk Company) will relocate their...

INTERNATIONAL SIMPLE MINDS • A simplified four-part dangerous goods note has been introduced by the Simpler Trade Procedures...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M1 London: Overnight lane closures on entry and exit slip roads at Scrotchwood Services,...

Ireland means that truck drivers have a good choice of departures for the 2hr 20tnin crossing. With five ships providing up to...

to court because of the cost of legal fees? Although British justice is of a high calibre, it's a fact of our legal system that...

• People's feelings about vehicles are often not what you might expect. Take car drivers for instance: in a recent survey,...

• "We're not afraid of the Tunnel any more. It's sharpened our edge and made us understand our business better. We're still...

BY THE HAWK • So dedicated is Cecil Parkinson to his vocation as our transport champion, that he has made the ultimate...

• Ryder Truck Rental is putting its 120 rental and contracthire sales representatives through a two-week Americanstyle training...

Up to £16,722 pa inc. As a result of recent expansion, our newly reorganised transport department is looking for an...