• Why should anyone care whether or not truck drivers get a fair deal? Why should a nice new motorway service area cater for...

• Emotion has been running high around the Commercial Motor office this week. The sense of outrage felt by everyone involved in...

• During the next 10 weeks, every issue of CM will contain a chapter of the Commercial Motor Handbook, published in association...

• The Frankfurt Motor Show, the biggest CV show in Europe this year, has opened with few surprises. The two big German-based...

• Latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that truck sales last month reached all-time record...

• The Italian Road Haulage Federation (FM) has warned that the recently-extended weekend ban on heavy goods vehicles could...

• The formal inauguration of the General Motorsilsuzi joints venture at the Bedford van plant in Luton is likely to take place...

• Proposals to fit spray suppression equipment to all lorries above 3.5 tonnes and to trailers have been approved by the EEC...

• The contract to transport the first of the giant 650 tonne Channel Tunnel boring machines has been won by two Scottish...

• A fortnight after the publication of Kent County Council's 1987 Transport Plan, which blames heavy good vehicles for causing...

• Latest proposals to amend the British Standard on diesel fuel quality have been rejected by the Road Haulage Association, a...

• Reports this week that the Dartford Tunnel could be "crumbling at its foundations" have met with "tremendous concern" from...

• Rapidly-expanding Federal Express has arranged a 225 million 'revolving credit' finance package — a form of overdraft...

• Thorn Ericsson has taken delivery of three new Leyland Daf 16.15 Freighters. The four-wheel dropsiders were supplied by BRS...

• International freight carrier TNT Ipec has launched a European overnight air express service to offer guaranteed nextday...

• The National Freight Consortium has rejected reports in the national press that is will launch a 2460 million share flotation...

• Thirty-five demountable bodies, with special provision in the bulkhead construction for the fitting of refrigeration units if...

• Dudley pie manufacturer Butcher and Baker Foods has switched its fleet to contract hire in an experimental fiveyear 2160,000...

M Three-year-old trailer manufacturer Tinsley Trailers is looking for a third manufacturing plant in the Darlington area. The...

• Renault (RVI) has updated its light-middleweight Midliner truck range giving it a re-styled cab. The French 6-14, 5-tonne...

• The longest loadspace on a drawbar outfit operating in the UK is claimed to have been built by Abel Demountables. Southern...

• A service to convert permanent all-wheel-drive Land Rovers and Range Rovers to Nissan diesel power is offered by ITS diesels...

• The Bus and Coach Council and the National Federation of Bus Users have united to slam EEC moves to abolish zeroVAT rating on...

• Recently-privatised Wilts & Dorset Bus Company is spending £500,000 on new minibuses and improvements to its existing...

• Birmingham's Bull Ring bus station in Dudley Street could become a worthless "white elephant", following a decision by...

• After the recent flurry of buyouts, the privatisation of National Bus Company operating subsidiaries appears to be entering a...

• Despite ealier promises, Leyland Daf Bus will not now be showing a version of its SB220 rear-engined singledecker bus...

• Carlisle Magistrates have given Cambridgeshire-based Knowles Transport an absolute discharge on three overloading offences,...

• Scottish Licensing Authority Hugh McNamara is proposing to attach environmental conditions on a licence he is granting to...

• A British company using Dutch-owned vehicles, registered in the Isle of Man, has been ordered to pay fines, costs and back...

• Despite being given a conditional discharge for two years after admitting two offences of breaching a control of noise order,...

• Truck drivers are being refused parking space and turned away from the new South Mimms service station on the M25 motorway....

along the kerb of a busy road, over the entrance roundabout, through flower beds and to enter the site through the back of the...

HANDBOOK • Following the recent introduction of the Road Traffic (Carriage of Dangerous Substances in Packages etc)...

II No other manufacturer combines European and American truck engineering practices — and well-proven truck technology with new...

/I The Commercial Motor Livery Awards are the most important awards for commercial vehicle livery in Britain. They are...

man's dream — a mobile 48-sheet poster site. It was in the effective use of this opportunity that Jaycee Furniture scored its...

a certain amount of trouble. With operators moving away from their staid corporation images of the sixties and seventies, there...

• Looking smart on the street is important to any operator who cares about his own and his industry's image, and imageconscious...

• "We've always Oven a good service, and our customers are happy. Besides, what do I want with a load of bow ties poking round...

the bow ties will probably start to look inside. The so-called 'internal competitive advantages examination' will go further...

• Probably the most significant new vehicle exhibited at this year's Frankfurt show, is the new Daf 95 Series. Powered by the...

SIR • Referring to the comments on Charlie Barber's retirement in Bird's Eye View in Commercial Motor 2 July 1987, we wish to...

BY THE HAWK • Renault has a secret weapon. According to the company's press office it is 1,625mm long, 48kg heavy, blonde and...

BULLETIN 1 A Scottish haulier, convicted of excise licence offences after he got into financial difficulties because his...

El Many hauliers who tax two-axled tractive units at the special concessionary rate for vehicles with a maximum permitted train...

• In June I discussed cabotage in the light of the Anti-Cabotage Campaign. So far that campaign, like most discussion...