SEEING RED • How would you feel if you were standing in your local supping an expensive pint and someone walked in, strolled...

• Seatbelts in HGVs could reduce the number of truck drivers who die in head-on crashes by around 45%, according to statistics...

• A growing number of small hauliers are cutting their costs by running on illegal red diesel to the Continent, Commercial...

• John Davison has started trading again as John Dee. He has dropped the name Indexagent and written to creditors of the former...

• Marshall of Cambridge Engineering has bought the designs and assets of Hoynor Specialised Trailers which has been in...

• MAN is launching its own design 19-tonne tri-axle brewery truck on the UK market, and is working with Whitbread on an...

The Transport Users Group, Manchester is offering small hauliers a way of beating rogue customers who promise a rate on the...

• London's first Red Route, between Highgate and Islington, is reducing journey times by up to 30%, eliminating illegal parking...

Asociation's new conditions of carriage have been published and will take effect from 1 June. They were last updated in 1982....

/ John Bryant, formerly with Volvo GM in the US, is to replace Cyril Acton as managing director of ERF, He joins the...

/ The slump in commercial vehicle sales appears to be bottoming out although figures for March are still nearly 30% down on the...

/ The European Commission has no intention of harmonising rules and restrictions imposed by individual member states on the...

• Scania is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Important improvements to the product line-up were expected as part of...

• Foden has introduced a major package of product improvements on its tractor and rigid chassis which includes a revised...

• Southfields claims that initial trials of a new aerodynamic body package, which it has developed in conjunction with...

• Abbey Hill's managing director Wayne Denton has resigned from the Yeovil-based car transporter firm as speculation increases...

63-bedroom truckstop near the Dartford Tunnel which went into receivership last November, has been bought by one of its...

• A Which? magazine survey of 636 cellular phone users concludes that Vodaphone offers a better service than Cellnet in every...

• Donald Wilson, former boss of failed bodybuilder Besco, is back in business. His new company, Barham Truck Bodies, began...

• A 60-year-old family firm has bought John Dee Yorkshire from the receiver in a last-minute deal, saving 60 jobs and picking...

• The falling bank interest rate has been a boon for the removals industry, which enjoyed a surge in enquiries over Easter. NFC...

• The owner of Kidderminster-based Gil Leighton (Transport Contractor) is closing down his 21-year-old firm which was only just...

tacho fines held responsible • A number of drivers appeared before Lewes Magistrates following checks carried out by...

• Welsh owner-driver Raymond Symonds has been warned by South Wales LA Mervyn Pugh that his licence will be revoked if he fails...

/ Needham Transport of James Street, Morecambe, has denied charges including falsifying tachograph charts and breaching...

• A fly-tipper's appeal against a Licencing Authority's refusal to renew his 0-Licence has been dismissed by the Transport...

• The licence held by Chuni Oil Products has been suspended after it failed to appear before North Western Licensing Authority...

• A haulier's appeal against an hours condition on its 0-licence has been dismissed by the Transport Tribunal. Peter and Sally...

• The haulier at the centre of the M1 pile-up in Hertfordshire last October which closed both carriageways for 24 hours has...

• Sutton and Son (St Helens) has had a fine of £200 halved at Sheffield Crown Court after appealing against a conviction for...

• Merthyr Crown Court has dismissed an appeal against a £1,500 fine imposed for faulty brakes on a single-decker involved in a...

• Wigan-based bodybuilder Northern Counties plans to diversify outside its traditional doubledeck business with the launch of...

• Plaxton Coach & Bus has made 44 staff redundant and imposed a pay freeze on its remaining 750-strong workforce until July...

• Scania plans to introduce an electro-pneumatic gearshifting system into the UK on its latest GR801 seven-speed coach gearbox,...

• WB Cunliffe & Son (Coachbuilders) has developed a conversion on the Leyland Daf 400 high-roof van, which includes a...

• When the news broke at last year's Birmingham Motor Show that Iveco was to take a 60% stake in the Spanish truck and bus...

BY THE HAWK • BP has warned its petrol station attendants not to allow customers to use portable mobile phones on forecourts....

• The Gulf War served as an uncomfortable reminder of our dependence on oil and the countries that produce it. We also know...

/Operators can redeem their money and their conscience by running a fleet on long-term hire from Green Link Contracts,...

FODEN SERIES 60 • There is a young pretender on the UK engine market. Detroit Diesel, once General Motor's diesel division and...

FODEN SERIES 60 returned respectable economy. The truck suffered from its less-than-optimum torque setting and the nine-speed...

out. Visibility is excellent, from large clear mirrors to the useful rear window with its pull down night blind. Entry and exit...

• "Why does everyone pick on the road transport industry when green issues are mentioned? We all run trucks — probably one of...

quarry and the office is broken into and frequently vandalised, so drivers have started to keep tachograph charts in their...