• If West Germany gets away with its decision to stall the liberalisation of the EEC road transport industry by imposing a tax...

• AWD has launched a contract-maintenance scheme for its trucks operated by Contract Care Plan 'of Leeds. The scheme offers...

350-year history. It will clear London's orchester Hotel, which is undergoing a giant refurbishment, in 280 loads over three...

during the past three years and 33% of the industry has upped individual turnovers, according to a new report from ICC...

• West Germany's decision this week to tax lorries using its national road system has been attacked by international operators...

• Bristol employment agency has celebrated its 10th anniversary by launching a new specialist HGV driver training course at...

• John Prescott MP, who challenged Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party this year, has returned to his...

• Back problems cost Britain £1 billion every year, and many of those injuries are sustained handling loads at work. New...

• Leyland Daf chairman Frans L'Herrninez (left) collected the 1988 Ando-Dutch Award for Enterprise from HRH The Duke of Kent...

ading French distribution roup SAVAM this week, irrently valued at 355 milxi French Francs (233.2 BET is confident that the...

• The National Freight Consortium's only loss-making subsidiary, parcels carrier Lynx Express Delivery Network, has broken into...

• Following deregulation just under half of Britain's privatised bus companies are running anti-competitive and illegal...

report at last week's European Transport Maintenance Council meeting in The Hague, arguing that it is senseless to make a...

• Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been wasted on unnecessary road schemes as a result of faulty traffic forecasting...

• Many cones used at contraflows and road repairs do not conform with the standards laid down for visibility at night, warns...

Not only did he win second place in our Bedford Midi Marathon and a week on the beautiful Greek Island of Kos, he is also...

• The Department of Transport's vehicle and components approval division is a candidate for semi-privatisation. It is to have...

• The boss of a waste disposal firm escaped going to j last week after promising no to break a court order. Jeffrey Litwin,...

• Norfrig has developed a 7m-reefer body featuring multiple-hinging side-access doors. Silver Arrow Services, Norfrig's UK...

• Ratcliff Tail Lifts has collaborated with King & Taylor to develop a 4m bottled-gas body on a Roadrunner 8-13 chassis. A...

• Operators can trade in worn-out engines for a remar factured unit under Gardner Engines' "Power Exchange" scheme. The...

11 A new method of balancing tyres using polymer-based compound and floating weights inside the tyre has been developed by...

I Increasing demand for aluMum frame trailers has ampted Don-Bur to introduce all-alloy tipping powder tank assis. Its Alu-Tip...

Heavy haulage firm Wrekin ansport Services of Telford s taken delivery of a Volvo 2 for Special Types work. It is rated for...

• Shanks & McEwan has bought two newly-designed waste-collection trucks from DME which not only lift bins, but also open and...

• This unusual mini-artic is based on a standard rigid Mercedes 1114 which was reconstructed for Yorkshire Pine Products by...

• The European petroleum and chemicals distribution market is ripe for UK tanker hauliers to move into the Continent and snatch...

is available in a package launched by F Goff of Milton Keynes. Mt company advises on the conditions imposed and per Is required...

vehicle ybuilding order for the third year running, and will upply 156 Lutons, box ans, dropsides and tippers a deal worth...

dividend payment and provide a profit forecas at the beginning of each year. It is the first British listed company to do so.

1 Newspaper carriers NewsLow and TNT Newsfast have een failing to meet contracted aoming delivery times since Acing over...

1 The Post Office is to lience private carrier Securicor collect and sort letters for he Royal Mail international ulk delivery...

their marketing strategy for the Single European Market (SEM) in 1992 is being held this month at Huddersfield Polytechnic....

• Waste management group Leigh Interests has bought a 12.7% stake in Wistech, the waste management company which runs tanker...

• Mayling Transport of Harefield, Middlesex, is putting its first two ERFs into service, after many years of only buying...

/ Industrial adhesive manufacturer Stadex has transferred the running of its commercial fleet to BRS Western. In a five-year...

11 New Road Haulage Association director-general Bryan Colley, who like his predecessor Freddie Plaskett is an exArmy head of...

ZF gear shift systems have dispensed with mechanical linkages and, the need for insulation, having reduced the problem of noise...

• Leyland Bus unveiled its low-emission Volvo-engined Lynx under the banner of the "Lynx City Bus Concept Vehicle" in Amsterdam...

• Scania and Scania-13ussar are planning to invite Swedish transport companies to cooperate in a series of studies on "the...

• Iveco exhibited both the Robin Hood City Nipper 11 and the new Carlyle midi coach at the Amsterdam Autobus show in order to...

• Daf is now offering its eight-speed S140 gearbox on the SB300 with an easy shift option. So far this is only avail able on...

manager in Holland. According to Hestair Duple 425 project manager, Mike Martin, this is an attempt to penetrate the Dutch and...

examine the possibility of substituting buses on several rural services as it conducts a review of its rural network.

It will have an aluminium structure built by Alusuisse and will be unveiled next year.

• Plaxton Bus and Coach ha: released details on its new fea tures for 1989. These include: pneumatically-operated centre and...

The ambitious plans of ATL ■ Idings have been dealt a dy blow by the North East affic Commissioner's decision curb the...

Lancaster City Transport is w operating a bus service 1m Lancaster to Quemmore, dphinholme and Abbeystead behalf of Lancashire...

Crosville Wales has been ered a contract from Clwyd unty Council to divert seres from Rhyl to Chester via elogan.

• Fierce deregulated competition is about to hit West Lothian, where two operators will be vying for passengers on three...

• Britain's bus industry is on course for a long-term increase in its passenger business, according to Transport Minister...

• Coach tour operator Glenton Tours is to contract out the coaching side of its operations to Tellings-Golden Miller of...

• SUT and Airebus, subsidiaries of Houston Ramm's ATL Holdings, have taken a beating from North Eastern Area Traffic...

• Eastern Scottish Omnibuses has been ordered to pay the widow of one of the M6 coach crash victims 267,481 plus costs by the...

who cannot identify the individual responsible for an act of gross misconduct is entitled to sack group of suspects. The...

I Judge Michael Walker senneed two former directors of S Harrison Transport of oncaster to nine months susmded imprisonment...

• A verdict of accidental death was recorded against John Arthur last week when Southwark Coroners Court was lotk . 'Icl how he...

A weighbridge operator is k be summoned to give evience before the Lichfield kagistrates about the weighing I an artic...

SAFETY-KLEEN BRANCHES OUT • Safety-Kleen UK, the mechanical cleaning and finishing equipment supplier, has opened a new branch...

itself Alpha Fuels and moved its headquarters from Eagle Street in Wolverhampton to Adderley Street in Market Drayton....

SELF-DESTRUCTING SEISMIC ALARM • A new vehicle-protection system which, says the manufacturer, will self-destruct if interfered...

load/speed rating it has achieved on its R200 series low-profile tyres will allow urban distribution vehicles and 17-tonne...

CONTRACT HIRE CONFERENCE • A bird's eye view of the state of truck rental and contract hire, presented by Roger Randall, of...

D RIVING INTO OVERDRIVE • Oveidrive, the temporary driving agency, is extending its Five Star scheme which offers HGV drivers...

launched a Band Three mobile radio service for the South-East, initially extending from Hitchin down to Horsham and from...

has introduced a new charge-card for commercial and business vehicle operators, called Star Card. The card is targeted at the...

making organisation, offers the selfemployed a way to avoid financial hardship in times of illness or injury. Members make...

SAFETY IN DOCKS • The Health and Safety Commission has published twx booklets containing guidance and new regulations which amn...

CPC FROM EP • The next examination for the Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC), organised by EP Training Services,...

EARLY OPENING FOR NORTH DEVON LINK • A second section of the 28 million North Devon link road has been opened this week eight...

to see the naked female iody but [initially could not see vhy there was a picture of a and-covered female bottom on age 94 of...

(ears), and have a few simple mswers to several "bones of :ontention" which lots of letters ind editorials have spoken about n...

see the feature on the Ford "Transcon" in the 6 October edition of Commercial Motor. There is so much information we feel...

issue, Municipal Vehicle Special, we are surprised, to say the least, that our Company has been ommited from the list of...

in particularly, the article marked "Big truck check nabs foreigners" (Commercial Motor 15-21 September) we were rather...

on Fuel Monitors (Commercial Motor 29 September — 5 October 1988). We operate a fleet of 40 13-tonne vehicles throughout...

"Whatever a customer wants, we can handle it", says Peter Baulch, managing director of CAT Nationwide Carriers, whose company...

increase permitted trailer lengths as "the next great battle", he says it with a mixture of resignation and relish. He is...

editor at a tender age I have remained resolutely grounded. Clearly, that is an untenable position for a hawk so whenever there...

Frigoscandia operates from five depots around Britain, uses hand-picked owner-drivers who have passed rigorous ability tests to...

Richard Walker attacks speeding trucks — but only on the road. On the track he drives his Kenworth in a manner befitting a...

At first glance, its extra 10kW over the now obsolete 100kW 8.136F seems trivial, bearing in mind the continuing rise in engine...

The breakdown recovery operators, or "wreckers", are seeking a better image and a higher profile in anticipation of legislation...

Model maker Geoff Moorhouse specialises in recreating classic trucks of the seventies, complete with authentic liveries and in...

of Trio Containers' Birmingham depot. She joined the skip loader specialists three years ago as office receptionist.

zone mangers to help develop and service its network of dealers. Peter Soothill will be responsible for the North and...

by making seven new appointments and promoting existing staff. Neil Warwicks, Derek Moulding and Jim Barnwell have been...

commercial manager (North East) to develop Wincanton Distribution Services in that area. He will be based at the Teesside...

director of sales and marketing at Hi Way Express, part of the H I Group. He was previously sales and marketing manager for...

manager of HDL Engineering's Tachocheck Division, based at Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire. She is responsible for the sale and...

to extend its services to electrical manufacturers and wholesalers. Ian Nicholls is responsible for the domestic electrical...

has made several appointments at its Walsall centre following continuing business growth. Robert Bateman has been brought in...

operations and traffic controller, to be based at the Calais depot. His main responsibilities will be to organise full and part...

as quality assurance manager. He previously worked for Dresser Rand at Wythenshawe, Manchester, as a technical author and...

sales director of Archbold Truck Sales and Service, where he will be responsible for truck sales and expanding parts and...

Ingimex, the commercial vehicle body engineers in Halesfield, Telford, He will work with Roger Griffiths.