• Last weekend hundreds of trucks were lined up by their owners and drivers to be judged on their condition for awards at...

• London's night-time and weekend lorry ban needs the support of Transport Secretary John Moore to survive says the scheme's...

• Dover faced all-out chaos this week as the port's customs officers intensified a go-slow work-to-rule and planned a 48-hour...

• Prospects for the newly merged Leyland Daf are looking bright this week, despite reports to the contrary in the national...

TNT Newsfast del:wring Sky to 350 wholesalers. • TNT Newsfast has won a major magazine distribution contract with publishers...

• The Road Haulage Association will wait until after the forthcoming General Election before it presents the Department of...

• Last week, before the Barcelona show opened, we went to the Madrid headquarters of Enasa, the Spanish state-owned CV...

• Foden has replaced its long-running S10 Series with a new range called the 4000, which features a new cab on the existing...

• Cadence or anti-locking braking systems for light commercial vehicles up-to-3.5tonnes currently add around £1,500 to the...

• Redhill-based warehousing and haulage company C J Hammond has bought the total share capital of Global Services (Haulage), in...

• Container traffic through the Port of Felixstowe during 1986 has risen by more than 23% to a record 639,460 containers. This...

• In 1986 the Road Haulage Association made a surplus of £212,000, down almost £90,000 on the 1985 figure. The fall results...

• The Contracts Division of Tate and Lyle Distribution Services (TLDS) has won a new dedicated distribution contract with...

• lveco chairman Georgio Garuzzo says that West European manufacturers' sales of vehicles outside of Europe fell by more than...

• Hunter Collins Transport has been fined 2488 by Leeds Magistrates for 18 drivers' hours and tachograph offences. Five of its...

• No action was taken aga the licence of E C Transpor (Wimborne) when the comp. appeared at disciplinary proceedings before...

• The Geneva PSV and Municipal Motor Show has been launched to take pressure off the overcrowded Swiss Commercial Motor Show,...

• Since bus deregulation last October, the number of bus and minibus operators has increased by 4% to 2,100. A total of 83% of...

• Carlyle Works has won advance orders worth £750,000 for 38 of its latest minibus bodies built on Freight Rover Sherpa...

• A bigger Beaver minibus from Reeve Burgess coachbuilders, debuted at last weekend's Brighton Coach Rally. Based on the...

• Avon Maxwell Transmissions now offers a two-year warranty and the option of a five-year maintenance contract to operators...

the new chairman of the Confederation of British Industry's Transport Policy Committee. Phillips is Rank Hovis's distribution...

marketing manager for MAN Volkswagen. He will be based at Swindon and succeeds Steve Barnes, who is now working in the United...

John Kane is now head of personnel; he was with Birds Eye Walls until it was acquired by NFC in January. Alpine's new...

of the national all-makes hire and leasing company Trimoco Vehicle Leasing, has appointed Jane Cowie as customer support...

He will be responsible for the company's computerised control centre in Bradford. Smart has spent the past 30 years as a...

Jim Hulme in the West Area succeeds Ian Bradshaw who takes over the South. Bob Tait moves from the North to the East. The...

of the nationwide Containerbase Group, has announced the appointment of Geoff Bayley as managing director. Bayley joins the...

Journal, Richard Gibbon, has joined Nissan UK as press and PR manager. Gibbon has spent the past 15 years in the newspaper...

• This year's Barcelona show is the first since Spain became an EEC member and the impact of that event is evident on the...

Although the 7.5-tonnes sector accounts for the lion's share of the tipper market — estimated at one in every four tipping...

BY THE HAWK in There are many transport veterans who can fondly recall the days when an operator had to apply for his...

IN From the front seat of a 1922 Maxwell Charabanc, the 26th Historic Commercial London-to-Brighton Run proceeded at a...

• Last September we tested Scania's tag-axled P112 6 x 2 tractive unit. A month later the company launched the long-awaited...

SCANIA P112 the bias of braking effort to the front axle. then perhaps it should specify its anti-lock system as soon as it...

SIR PRICE OF EPS • I read with interest the letter from the Kent fleet engineer regarding the cost of repair to the EPS...

TRUCKFEST Clive Ayling's superb 6x4 black and grey Scania 112 won Commercial Motor's Best Kept Working Truck class against the...