LEADING transport administrator and prominent JP Peter Green has forcefully rejected claims that hauliers are the victims of...

A STUDY into sudden wheel loss on heavy goods vehicles has revealed that close to 40% of all cases recorded received an...

FOR those of you with no legal background here is a exercise in semantics: define "due diligence"; define 'mitigation'', define...

SCOTTISH Licensing Authority Keith Waterworth has granted authority for the continued use of an operating centre although it is...

CARDIFF haulier Robert Pembridge has had his licence revoked by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh. Pembridge...

For the firm, Michael Whiteford argued that the use of Lochrin Place had not been abandoned, but had been temporarily...

BACK-UP vehicles must be Inspected and maintained in a roadworthy condition, emphasised North Western Licensing Authority...

.% of Cardiff had its licence its licence revoked, and was disqualified from holding a licence for 28 days, when it appeared...

A NOTTINGHAM Industrial Tribunal emphasised the necessity of a proper medical investigation before deciding to dismiss on...

T IS one of the precepts of natural justice that a defendant must know what it is that is alleged against him, and although it...

p in MN N THE last two issues I looked at the history and the mechanics of the courts. But what about procedures in court —...

rt HE TERM "expert witness" no doubt conjures up thoughts of a professionally qualified person, such as a doctor, a scientist...

ERE ARE two European matters to consider. All governments of countries within the EEC are required by a directive which is, I...

• A reduction of diesel lorry pollution to 40% of present levels has been ordered by EC Environment Commissioner Carlos Ripa di...

• Fears that the Single European Market after 1992 would cause a "lorry mountain" (CM 22-28 March) have led the European...

• A fighting fund has been set up to raise cash and support for British driver Paul Ashwell, currently held in a Greek jail...

• After a series of delays, Scottish Transport Group has put its express coaching subsidiary Scottish Citytlink up for sale....

• The Department of Transport's vehicle maintenance code of practice could signal the end of mileage-based maintenance,...

MI Registrations of trucks over 3.5 tonnes were down 25.7% in April compared with the same time last year, according to the...

• Making its debut at the Institute of Road Transport Engineers' show today (Thursday) is a front-wheel drive, sixwheel, low...

• One of the most significant ranges to be introduced recently by Mercedes-Benz comprises 1733 drawbar and tractive units. The...

• Leyland Daf has now decided to offer a right-handdrive version of the latest Dutch-built Daf 3200 tractor in the UK. The...

• Oldham-based truck builder Seddon Atkinson is pushing ahead with its plans to offer air-suspension on the drive axle of its...

• Parcel Force has taken delivery of three new self-loading trailers, fitted with Hydraroll pneumatic roller track, to carry...

• Rover has stressed it has no immediate plans to relaunch the Metro van with the engine and body changes announced for the...

• Farceline's Australian parent company Mayne Nickless has acquired a 70% share in the Dutch-based general haulier and...

• Tiphook has been given the all-clear by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for its 9.4m acquisition of Trailerent. The...

• Public service company Cory-Onyx has changed its name to Cory Environmental Municipal Services, following the acquisition of...

• The Stockeurop International road-rail consortium has launched Stockeurop Logistic International, formalising its Continental...

• highland Regional Council's Direct Labour Organisation has beaten off competition from the private sector to retain vehicle...

• Petersdeld haulage and forwarding firm European Shipping plans to recruit up to 30 UK and Irish hauliers to handle its...

• Express Foods subsidiary Coldstream Distribution has bought Warwickshire milk transporter C Blake & Sons for more than...

• Nottingham-based Greenway Coaches has been given an absolute discharge for a series of offences including employing an...

• Bus deregulation has not been the disaster its critics claim, says the Bus and Coach Council. 'The 1985 Transport Act has...

• Leyland Lynx underframes are now available to independent PSV bodybuilders. At last Wednesday's launch, VL Bus & Coach also...

• Drawlane's Manchesterbased subsidiary Bee Line Buzz Company is keeping a separate identity for its operations in Cheshire, to...

• Stagecoach subsidiary East Midland Motor Services (EMMS) has rationalised its services in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire...

• Production of the distinctive Dormobile-bodied Iveco Ford Fare Stage midibus is now under way at Dormobile's Folkestone...

• Gateshead-based Go Ahead Northern (GAN) is uprating its Metro Centre Shuttle with the purchase of five new 49-seat Optare...

3 after union claim • Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Neil and Clive Moon, trading as Moon Transport, of...

• rhe National River Authority (NRA) had no right of objection or representation in an environmental case where they did not...

• An application tor a new licence by Orsett-based Paul O'Nion has been refused, by Metropolitan Licensing Authority Air Vice...

• Derbyshire haulier J and D Allsop was granted two additional vehicles after Derbyshire Dales District Council failed to...

11 . Bradfordbased Howard Uttley's twovehicle licence has been revoked for the second time by North Eastern Deputy Licensing...

• Eddom International of Hull and managing director John Barry Eddom have appeared before Lincoln County Magistrates accused of...

• Europe's top trucking event sweltered under cloudless skies and shimmered in the heat as the potent brew of soaring...

SHOPPING • Call it looking at the market through rose-tinted windscreens, or putting a brave body on things, the mood among...

• Many of the Tipcon business delegates were seeing red after they heard the Green Party's vision of road haulage. Jan Clarke,...

portant feature of the Greens' policy, said Clarke. This would be combined with steps to reduce the size of vehicles...

BY THE HAWK • This is the story of a very brave cow which made an unsuccessful dash for freedom. During its final trip to the...

• Eastern Europe's truck manufacturing industry is years out of date. Yet a ready market and an eagerness by managers in the...

brought to my attention that the local bus company entered into a contract with the council for delivery of school meals. As...

by the highways authority because they said our access was substandard and the sight lines were inadequate. We can see nothing...

EC Regulation 3820/ 85? What we want to establish is when, in certain situations, can the weekly rest period be taken....

Q Having spent the past 20 years in road transport as a HGV I night driver and the past two years as a transport night...

• What do you do if you want the volume of a 7.5-tonner but the payload of a 3.5-tonner? For most operators the answer is — buy...

sections of the route. Since the tractive unit is basically a standard Transit 120 chassis-cab, servicing should not present...

GO • The design on owner-driver Doug Gould's four-year-old Scania artic combination 142 evokes memories of vintage fairground...

• Ilaulier Peter Finch faces a crippling £22,000 rise in his rates bill under a Government scheme to make all businesses pay...

SIR • As the director of a professional transport institute and a magistrate sitting regularly on the busy Southampton Bench,...