BULLETIN 2 A council valuation and estates officer told an LA that a licence applicant's Nissen hut-type accommodation for his...

• A client phoned the other day to point out that, despite my promises, my articles continued to be of a pessimistic turn of...

MI The controversy over the taxation of vehicles with retractable axles appears to have ended with the withdrawal, just before...

• Road Haulage Association national chairman Glyn Samuel visits the Southern African kingdom of Swaziland this month. He is not...

• The disruption of ferry services over the last week has underlined just how vulnerable is lorry traffic to and from mainland...

• Simon Engineering has bought Telelect, which supplies lorry-mounted cranes — its second US takeover in two months. Last month...

• Britain's heavy hauliers were shocked to hear this week that the Department of Transport is considering increasing vehicle...

• Sales of commercial vehicles have got off to a flying start in 1988, judging by the latest registration figures from the...

• b a bid to prevent vehicle excise duty rates from increasing in the next budget, the Road Haulage Association has made it...

• Furious reefer operators are to sue the National Union of Seamen for losses suffered during the week-long ferry strike. Up...

• The European Commission has developed a radical plan to step up the number of roadside police patrols so that every member...

It is proposed that European Community countries should carry out simultaneous checks four times each year. The draft...

• There is no need to increase commercial vehicle duty rates, says the Freight Transport Association in this year's Budget...

• The Channel Tunnel, already three months behind schedule, faces further delays unless another 1,000 qualified engineers can...

• Questions have been raised in the House of Commons about an accident involving a Scammell 8 x 6 rigid which overturned during...

• Scania's newest distributor, Southway Commercials of Portsmouth has delivered its first truck to Southern Bulk Traffic...

• Among the latest revisions to the Iveco Ford Truck range is the option of a faster rear axle ratio on the company's 228kW...

• MAN had a good year last year, says chairman Wilfried Lochte. It produced 23,331 trucks and buses: 725 vehicles (3.2%) more...

• Iveco Ford Truck's Special Vehicle Operations department at Langley has developed a "stretched" Cargo 1313 for the bakery...

• The first three-axle tractive units to enter service with the NAAFI were delivered last week by ERF. The four El0 6x2s mark...

• Daf Bus has confirmed that it will be entering the UK single-deck city bus market with its long-awaited SB220 underframe,...

• PSV bodybuilder Reeve Burgess is now offering production versions of its latest 16-seater 'Budget' coach conversion, based on...

• The number of buses and coaches failing their annual test will go down if proposals to scrap passenger comfort and vehicle...

• Smiths-Shearings of Wigan, Britain's biggest coach operator, has placed repeat orders for 42 new vehicles, worth nearly £2...

• London's red buses are being given a new-look livery. New vehicles will now appear with a grey skirt and white stripe — but...

• Rentcors first major deal since it was bought by its management has been finalised with tissue manufacturer Serla Tissue...

• Mail order parcels carrier White Arrow is investing 2100,000 in a computer mapping system which gives its drivers...

• Harris Distribution, part of the Transport Development Group, is investing 23 million in a dedicated retail distribution...

• TNT Garment Express has won a six-figure, three-year contract with high street fashion retailer Home's to distribute more...

• York Mount Group is to buy the remaining preference shares in its subsidiary CSL Truck and Trailer Hire, some twenty months...

• Plans for expansion into Europe and the United States form the background to the decision by the board of the National...

• Two former directors of Ipex Freight Brokers who were given suspended prison sentences for conspiring to make false...

• No action has been taken against the licence held by Barnes Tipping, and an application for an additional two vehicles and...

• Two more South Wales coach operators have lost their licences following the issue of prohibition notices after warnings over...

• A surprise prosecution witness has led the Selby Magistrates to adjourn the trial of Norman Lewis Tankers and 19 of the...

HAND300 < SILVER ROADWAYS ADDS ANOTHER • Silver Roadways, the general haulage and transport clearing house subsidiary of Tate...

SIR • Your article "Nine Below Zero" published in the January 21-27 edition we found very interesting and we find no fault...

BY THE HAWK • The Army bobsleigh team, Britain's top four-man squad for the Calgary Winter Olympics this month, are being...

• Taking Time is the theme for this year's Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference, which will take place on Thursday 14...

• We kept our Volkswagen Transporter for an extra two months, to ensure that the van completed its long-term test with a...

AND SURVIV E / Would-be hauliers face daunting odds: 90% of newcomers go broke within five years — and only one in a hundred...

• Production of Iveco Ford's non-HGV Cargo already accounts for more than a third of the company's total UK output, giving it...

• Since 1982, and the publication of Franklyn Wood's Cola Cowboys, trucking to the Middle East has gone through quite a few...