them down too well, it appears, for the oil companies, which have just increased their DERV prices again, in order to restore...

• Motorway speed limits for lorries and coaches in the UK may be reduced under an EEC Commission plan just published in...

• Just as the Road Haulage Association issued a fresh warning to operators on rising prices, oil companies raised the cost of...

• A new service for Scania customers — called Lifeline Lease — will be launched by the company next month. Full details of the...

considering the fate of the controversial Arena programme "Night Moves" which was to have been shown on Friday, December 19....

• Next month's Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference in London promises to provide a platform for new initiatives in...

• As predicted in CM, December 6, Robert Maxwell has chosen National Carriers Contract Services to distribute his new 24-hour...

• Department of the Environment proposals to amend the waste disposal laws could have serious implications for all carriers of...

awarded MAN's new F90 range the title "Truck of the Year 1987". The judging criterion for the award is said to be based on the...

• Leyland Trucks will have to wait at least two weeks before the Government gives its official reaction to the latest Rover...

Council's decision to put a weight restriction on a main road bridge. The council's highways department says it is not...

• While the UK has still to decide on whether to raise the weight of two-axle rigids, Ireland has gone ahead with its own...

The men were caught in the act of cutting up several stolen trucks at their yard in Hoo, near the Isle of Grain, on Friday,...

Transgo • The Transport Development Group is linking up with OSTRA, its French subsidiary, to produce an Anglo-French parcels...

of this Daf FT2100 DHT 4x2 tractive unit as part of a major fleet replacement programme. The 35-tonne GCW artic brings the...

The new division will operate in contract hire, truck rental and contract distribution from depots in Hinckley, Morley, Feltham...

to transport up to 40 trailer loads of tractor parts per month from Massey Ferguson in Coventry, and Perkins Diesel Engines in...

by 12% to 211.2 million Edbro, the Boltonbased manufacturer of hydraulic tipping gear saw a decline in its pre-tax profits to...

• Newspaper reports have fuelled speculation that container leasing company, Tiphook, is about to make a bid for the troubled...

Many businesses around town just didn't realise they were operating at a disadvantage. Either with an overly-large van running...

• Andover-based bodybuilder Pannell Engineering has produced the first in a range of new articulated tipping trailer...

• Foden plans to update its composite and tubular steelframed cab during the current year, following growing criticism of the...

• The range and versatility of Palfinger lorry-mounted k:ranes is being extended early this year with the addition of an...

new pattern of delivery in the UK and a new lurpale livery for Butterdane. The Danish company, based in Aarhus, has just...

Bruce SN project vehicle, developed by Scottish and Newcastle, as having an Eaton dropped transfer gearbox. The vehicle is in...

• By using a new technique called sequential turbocharging, Volvo Trucks claims the power output of today's truck diesel...

• Manchester Minibuses, a subsidiary of United Transport International, plans to start its minibus services in Altrincham and...

• The National Bus Company has continued its pre-Christmas privatisation spree. Following the recent sale of its operating...

million to 265.9 million in the year ended March 31, 1986, although revenue support declined from 66 million to 258.1 million....

• Retford-based Kettlewell's Coaches has purchased two Scania K92 single deck buses for bus work in the local area. The buses...

• Ingleton haulier John Taylor and his son Robert have been cleared of an overloading offence by the Bingley magistrates in a...

Leicestershire haulier Edward O'Neill, trading as J&E Transport, has had his operator's licence revoked by Eastern Licensing...

• Victory has gone to Ken Abram in its battle with West Lancashire District Council over the use of the company's operating...

• A Spanish-built SEAT hightop car-derived van will go on sale in the UK from October this year. Left-hand-drive versions of...

Syncro High roof Transporter Ambulance is the first of 12 ordered by the authority. The first vehicle is fitted with VW's 58kW...

• Prior to its crucial launch in North America, Land-Rover has made a number of changes to the Range Rover's exterior and...

• Hyundai, the South Korean manufacturer, is planning to extend its UK range with a forward-control panel van of around 900kg...

• Metro Cammell Weyman has unveiled its contender for the lucrative metropolitan taxi market with the launch of its stylish...

• After the recent collapse of Isuzu Cars (GB), the privately-owned importer of fsuzu cars which has gone into receivership,...

• Transport handbook publisher Kogan Page (01-279 0433) is about to launch a new book aimed specifically at international...

of its series of guides to contract hire. Entitled The Grey Areas of Contract Hire", the 16-page booklet deals with the points...

• Seddon Atkinson is reorganising its sales, service and parts representation in Yorkshire — which is currently split between...

last summer as a national association for garage operators who also run recovery services (CM August 16). Now it has...

• London and the South M2 Between Junction 5 and Junction 7 (Brenley Corner). Major maintenance programme in hand until further...

M5 Hereford and Worcester Contraflow between junctions 5 and 6 Bromsgrove and Droitwich/Kiddenninster, one lane open...

• A growth in the number of environmental objections to licence applications, concern about maintenance standards and warnings...

Mercedes' most muscular machine, the 1644, stormed around CA4`s demanding Scottish test route in a manner befitting Europe's...

Deregulation in 198(3 has seen new buses, routes and operators as well as the sale of many NBC companies to their managers,...

Few of us in the commercial vehicle industry were sorry to see the back of 1986, but it did have its moments. Geoff Hadwick...

In the 1960s his ability to specify a vehicle, to negotiate export orders and to maintain relationships with major fleet...

same position as C Scase (Dear Sir, Commercial Motor, Dec 13). I paid 2400 for a one-week course to pass my HGV Class One in...

• I am a HGV fitter for the Matteson Walls meat company and would like to report that all fitters and drivers in the transport...

• hilt a marvellous placA. 1,infoods' new distribution I centre at Wellingborough is: very clean and modern, some might say...

here. That means that Australia is tanning itself 'neath a daily dose of 16 hours sunshine. Kids from all over the show are...

• Commercial Motor's roadtesters are frequently asked to name their favourite vehicles. We usually avoid a direct answer to...

Up to E20,000 per annum Coventry City Council has recently undertaken a review of the maintenance and management of its total...