• Japanese manufacturer Isuzu has teamed up with Tokyo Gas to produce what it believes is the first practical truck to run on...

II Scottish drivers have plumped for a £10.25 flat rate increase for all drivers, making Scotland the first Road Haulage...

• Sales of commercial vehicles last year were more than 20% down on 1989 as the industry slid into its worst slump in a...

• Two armed raiders who hijacked a Securicor van in South London last week were foiled by the Datatrak tracking system fitted...

offer. It meets again on 15 January. Dates have yet to be set for JIC meetings in the Eastern region and the East Midlands. In...

• Britain's two leading road transport associations have given the Government their recommendations on how to avoid a repeat of...

• Hauliers are being asked to contribute information to four months of research into the impact of distribution on the...

Operators seeing red that's official • London's first congestionbusting 'red route was finally launched on Monday (7 January)...

• Welsh bus company Shamrock Private Hire (Newport) has been fined £1,500 after admitting failing to maintain the brakes on a...

• Japanese vehicle manufacturer Nissan looks like stepping up its attack on the European market with a new range of...

• Andover Trailers has supplied a 55-tonne GVW lowloader trailer with a particularly low deck height to allow drilling rigs to...

• Swift, Lep International's distribution arm, has invested nearly 21.3m in 40 rigids (28 Volvo FL617s and 112 AWD...

• A major US fifth-wheel manufacturer has established a base in the south of England to move into the fifth-wheel market both...

• Hino has developed a 257kW (345hp) version of its SH tractive unit along with a premium 'Space Cab' model, and has a 313kW...

• BP has taken delivery of live ERE E14-32TT-drawn NEI Thompson Tanker 32,000litre artic combinations in a deal valued at...

• North West Water has invested more than £1.5m in 26 vacuum tankers, mainly on Leyland Daf, Seddon Atkinson and Volvo three...

• Eaton has produced a pinion for axles used in heavyduty truck applications which it says is both lighter and stronger than...

I at Multifreight • John Dee Group — one of the UK's top 40 transport operators — has gone into receivership. It owes several...

• Seabourne World Express is planning to invest "several million pounds" in freight forwarding and courier business...

• United Carriers has kept about a third of Multifreight's business since UC closed its multi-box next-day parcels system in...

• Seven Scania P93M rigids supplied through Scania Contract Hire to International Motor Parts and Service will be used to...

• I WM Freight Services is planning a big push into the Scottish parcels market after joining forces with the Nightfreight...

• Parcels carrier Nightshift Express sacked a shift of nightworkers just before Christmas after a spate of pilfering incidents...

• Applied Distribution's Glasgow depot expansion programme is on target to be completed in March, according to ADL regional...

• South Yorkshire Transport has recorded its second profit in the latest set of accounts, up to March 1990, but the results...

• Bus companies will be penalised if they operate an ineffective service, warns the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport...

• Ten £100,000 Leyland Olympian double-deckers with Northern Counties bodies have been delivered to Busways as part of a 22m...

III Six new Dennis Darts and four secondhand doubledeckers have launched Warrington Borough Transport's response to North...

/ The Hong Kong-based CNT Group has stepped in to buy the local bus operating arm of Ensign Bus Services, after a US venture...

• Full-size buses have come out top with young mothers and pensioners in a survey commissioned by Yorkshire Rider, following...

• North Eastern LA Frederick Whalley has revoked A One Transport (Leeds)'s 0-1 . cence because of drivers' hours and...

• The previous conduct of Alan Scott, trading as Ashleigh Properties, has led to his new Operator's Licence being restricted in...

George Allinson (Transport), against the deletion of five vehicles and 10 trailers from its licence, which was only renewed for...

• Hull-based Mightyhire and its managing director, Philip Barker, have lost appeals against the revocation of the company's...

• Transport policy is likely to become one of the main issues facing the European Community in the 1990s — and Karel van Miert,...

believes that the EC could play a major role by helping to develop links between member states. Speed limits are another...

• After months of consultation the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is putting the finishing touches to changes in the two...

• Frank Lloyd was surrounded by a German TV news crew when Commercial Motor visited his yard. The object of their attention was...

To achieve this platform length Mercedes-Benz uses its shorter day cab, taking care of sleeping accommodation with a...

not help to get us going on the hill restart). On the Crane Fruehauf trailer Skidchek is specified as standard. Its operational...

• Christopher Chope is a typical politician. Smart suits, a barrister's background, and an endless list of Government-line...