• The week in which Europe's newest truck manufacturing company, Leyland Daf, begins trading is a good time to reflect on some...

• Once again Commercial Motor will be sponsoring Britain's road transport showcase, Truckfest, on Sunday-Monday, May 34 — and...

• After all the uncertainties in the British truck manufacturing industry over the past year, the latest figures from the...

• The Severn Bridge will be closed four times during the next two winters to allow essential maintenance work to take place,...

• The Citroen C25 has become the third Sevel-built van to become available in the UK, joining the Fiat Ducato and Talbot...

• Transport Secretary John Moore is resisting pressure to reveal the prices paid for the 30 NBC subsidiaries that have so far...

• Work on building the Ml-Al link could begin early next year, says transport secretary John Moore. The 73kin dual carriageway...

• All three Leyland Daf manufacturing plants have gained new managing directors. John Gilchrist is new managing director of...

• Owner-driver Marshall Hartnett who won the Commercial Motor/Mobil Diesel Plus competition. He received his 21,000 prize from...

• Eurotunnel, the AngloFrench Channel tunnel consortium, has warned that the whole project may collapse unless British Rail and...

• Road transport managers will no longer be able to resort to the time-honoured excuse of not having enough time for training...

/ York's latest frameless aluminium semi-trailer van, the Freightmaster 2000, is built to an improved, sturdier design to offer...

• Econolite of East Dereham, Norfolk, has supplied 36 stylish body kits for Mazda 2200 and 3500 chassis cabs for the Dutch...

• ERF has broken into the Royal Mail fleet with an order for ten EIO 4x2 tractors. The vehicles, together worth over £300,000,...

• Major plant equipment manufacturers, such as Caterpillar, Terex and Volvo BM, are noticeably absent from the International...

• Leyland Daf makes its first appearance at TipCon in May with the first public showing of the 8x4 30.30 Constructor and 4x2...

• Petrol-engined light commercial vehicles will soon become a rarity in Europe, if the trends reported in a study by a...

• Northampton-based Brittains Coaches has taken delivery of its first two Scania coaches and has placed an order for a third....

six routes • Six bus routes currently operated by London Buses under contract to London Regional Transport are being offered...

• South Yorkshire Transport is to expand its successful Little Nipper minibus service with a further 50 minibuses, worth over...

• Hampshire Bus has become the first local bus company in National Bus to be sold to an outside bidder. The new owner of...

• Coach ticket clearing house PSV Operators has changed its trading name and its commission rates on day excursions and express...

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• TNT is squaring-up in the fast-developing European overnight express parcels market with the acquisition of three British...

• In a move to combat the growing number of truck thefts and break-ins, BRS Truck Rental will be spending over £125,000 on...

• Transport and financial services group British and Commonwealth Holdings (formerly British and Commonwealth Shipping) is to...

• Tibbett and Britten, the nationwide clothing transport company, has expanded its 250-strong fleet with 28 Iveco Ford Cargo...

Even more remarkably, they're capable of making an intelligent decision as to exactly the right moment to effect the change....

II A breakaway group of four former Lease Plan UK executives has formed a new vehicle leasing company, called Leasing...

• Two new round-trip groupage trailer services to West Germany are being offered by Burlington Northern Sea Freight. They will...

• Dow is now operating four specially-converted drawbars on Italian routes to join the existing ten 12.2-metre tilt trailers...

• Overnight parcels delivery firm Elan has upgraded its service into Paris and Northern France with daily deliveries now...

• Environmental conditions have been imposed on two operating centres which Express Group Food was taking over from...

• Two Merseyside bus operators have lost their High Court claim that the local passenger transport authority's maximum fares...

• The possible unauthorised use of vehicles by Butterfield Holdings, trading as Pennine Stone Sales, is to be investigated by...

• Despite failing to declare a number of convictions David Bruce (Northern), trading as Dewsbury Haulage, has been granted a...

11 Coventry operator Sean McMulty, trading as Dairy Farm Products, was fined £145 by Rugby Magistrates for offences committed...

• A driver who drove a Case 580 G digger along a public road with its toothed bucket in the lowered position was following the...

HANDBOOK PANNELL GOES EDBRO • Pannell Engineering of Andover, Hampshire (0264 55696) is now a distributor for the Edbro range...

BY THE HAWK • Be careful, it's war out there. The stolid, respectable and dull streets of surburban Oxford have never seen its...

PEUGEOT 504 • Strange chaps, pickup buyers. Some of them will only buy a vehicle if it's a Ford, and they push the...

" PEUGEOT 504 gearbox does indeed give better fuel economy, but when loaded to gross weight the vehicle may be "slightly...

• Linfood is Britain's first cash and carry grocery group to set up its own national distribution centre, in a brand new,...

• As Detroit Diesel Allison takes to the floor with its DDEC four-stroke diesel engine microprocessor control system, we learn...

• No truck operator can survive without achieving maximum fleet utilisation, and in the cost-conscious 1980s down-time and...

CRANES Consequently, a 'roll-on roll-off' crane swop system was invented by Dee with the collaboration of Atlas Cranes,...

SIR INSULT TO INJURY I. I was horrified to learn that upon raising the Herald of Free Enterprise, Townsend Thoresen hopes to...

• Scores of famous haulage names have disappeared in recent years. The recession has killed off many and the rest have been...