SLOW BUT STEADY • "Good Morning miss, is your mother home?" Whatever happened to door-to-door salesman? Like baggy football...

by Amanda Bradbury • The Government has reassured operators hoping to grab millions of pounds worth of newly offered Civil...

By Karen Miles • Tipper operators could face a work bonanza if PowerGen goes ahead with its decision to quit its multi-million...

• Owner-drivers are to be stopped from using the Southampton Container Terminal's trailer park as an operating centre this year...

• A 21-year-old who believes she could be the youngest female HGV1 driver, after passing her test last month, is hoping to buy...

The Government is hoping to end the disparity between top-weight drawbars and artics. In its consultation document on allowing...

• Extra costs and hold ups will hit carriers and forwarders made responsible for full in-house goods screening in proposals...

• Sales of trucks and artics rose 10.7% to 2,585 last month compared with February 1992, the eighth monthly increase in a row....

Winning team II Commercial Motor has been voted "Editorial Team of the Year" by UK Press Gazette, the trade magazine of the...

by Nicky Clarke • Enforcement agencies across Europe are teaming up to harmonise spot vehicle checks and enforcement documents....

• Transport Development Group will continue to rationalise its operations this year by selling non-core activities. Announcing...

Weight check • A safety check on trucks in Humberside has cut the proportion of overloaded vehicles from 25% of those checked...

• Many hauliers say they are saving a significant amount of time on journeys to Europe following the disappearance of EC border...

• Cummins has launched a "thinking" version of its 14-litre diesel with ESP (Electronic Smart Power) which can automatically...

• The first Bedford-designed truck rolled off the line at Marshall SPV's assembly plant at Cambridge last week. Marshall SPV...

Training trucks • BRS, Perkins and ERF are donating vehicles and engines to RTITB Services which has contracted to provide...

• ServiceBond is a new scheme which enables operators of postAugust 91 Iveco Fords to buy two years maintenance for a single,...

by John Kendall • Ford has updated and rationalised the Transit range with two basic models, reduced prices, a second...

• The long-running row between the RAC and vehicle recovery operators in North Yorkshire is hotting up with calls for the...

by Karen Miles • Legal action is being considered against Barnfather Ltd's directors as the liquidator nears the end of...

• The number of transport companies going into receivership or administrative receivership has fallen slightly compared to last...

• Government could help small businesses by making tax changes to encourage retention of surplus profits within businesses,...

by Gail Ashton • Parcelforce driver unions say they are not convinced by management claims of good job security but are...

• Opportunities for operators in sewage distribution have been given the green light by Strathclyde regional council now...

• TNT Express Delivery, Red Star's Coventry-based contractor Roadexpress and Red Star managers, considering a buy-out package,...

• A haulier is set to lease artics to three drivers it planned to make redundant last Saturday, so it can take them on as...

• Macclesfield lorry driver 6 Robert Chapman, caught smuggling cannabis with a street value of £0.85m, told Chester Crown Court...

4% • Despite "tarnished" repute and finance sufficient for only one vehicle, Rodney Bunce, trading as T Smith Transport of...

• A Brecon haulage contractor who allowed a hard-up friend to use one of his licence discs, has had his licence revoked and...

Transport Scheme lorry ban has cost Tesco Stores and an agency driver £500 in fines and costs.The company and driver John...

• Till & Co's 20vehicle licence application depends on its 12 vehicles passing new MoT tests, the West Midland Traffic...

afx no 0Licence, has of a stolen VED disc, and having • Fraudulent use cost Manchester owner-driver James Johnston £1,374.66....

Gray guilty • Using a vehicle without Operator's Licence has cost PA Gray Construction of Pinner £65 in fines and costs. The...

• Ottershaw, Surrey-based WS Hunts Transport has introduced what is believed to be the first 35tonne GTW drawbar tanker...

• Walsall Borough Council has invested f335,000 in a Foden 4300 8x4 with Boughton hooklift demountable Ampliroll system for...

• King Trailers has supplied Cyprus construction company Nemesis with one of its SUPER Lowbed stepframe transporters. The...

• Romford-based Stolt-Nielsen Leasing has developed a refrigerated 6.1m (20ft) tank container system that will carry up to...

• Fifteen new dual-height semitrailers from Boalloy are helping Heron Distribution provide national deliveries of soft drinks...

• Bedwas Bodyworks has opened a 1,100m2 extension to its Chorley, Lancs plant to coincide with the launch of a series of...

Shop talk • The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association will host its annual conference at the Peebles Hydro in Scotland on...

ahere are times when even the best-mannered knight of the road must frel tempted to express his views on the driving skills of...

ne of my spies at the recent Brityrex show in Harrogate happened to be on hand as the Mayoress's limo pulled up at the front of...

aransport Secretary Joan MacGregor wants to find out if slowing traffic down on the M25 would reduce congestion (how do you...

peaking of the Hawk's favourite carpark, it's become the subject of a film: M25—The Movie The two-hour video offers a clockwise...

IDgroup of Foden admirers have set up a society called, logically enough, The Foden Society. Sadly, the majority of marque...

ver the years there has been much angst over pallets being used for anything but their intended purpose. Now one of my...

For the latest in our series of Eurotests we joined our colleagues from French, Belgian and German truck magazines to assess...

It was noticeable how much less smoke the Euro-1 engines produce when starting from cold. The odd man out was the Iveco Maggie,...

Sold as the 32.372 in the UK, MAN's 272kW (365hp) eight-legger is one of the most powerful on the UK market. It shares the...

The 3538K is the more powerful and heavier of the Mercedes-Penz eightleggers. Its chassis-cab weighs 1.54 tonnes more than the...

The Maxter, launched at the Paris Motor Show last October, was the newest 8x4 chassis in the group but its cab hardly qualifies...

Volvo eight-wheelers evolved at the company's Scottish plant at Irvine about 17 years ago, but nowadays lefthand-drive FL10...

Which hauliers will get the cream when milk distribtion is deregulated, ending the monopoly of the regional milk marketing...

What's the price of quality in a recession? Adherents to BS5750 reckon real savings can be made when mistakes are eliminated...

Leyland Dors crisis coincided with an uncompleted order for 3,000 military vehicles. Can the British Army do the unthinkable...

Commercial Motor wekomes readers' letters, which can be 'phoned in on 081-6523689 (24-hour service) or faxed on 081-6528969....

uaving read Ilona Richards' Iletters regarding speed (CM11-17 February), I agree that something more has to be done about the...

rrom Llewellyn as is his 1 wont and custom exhibits a great deal of common sense when he pleads the case for extra duty on fuel...

re are in limbo—our VV industry is in limbo. ff the Government wants an easy, painless way to restimulate our economy, it must...

Iwould like to comment on two articles in 'Sound Off' recently, one from the Green Party, the other from Transport 2000. For...