• "How much do you really know about a subject, when all you're faced with is putting a tick in one of four little boxes?" A...

faces rivals • At least three exhibition companies are luring truck manufacturers with proposals for a rival CV show in 1991...

• Two days in London's High Court have been set aside next week for an action to win "immediate suspension" of the export of...

• Lawrence Machinery Removals of Royston, Herts is offering a reward of £2,000 for information leading to the recovery of a...

• Toleman Automotive, the troubled car transporter group, has been rescued "from the brink of bankruptcy'' by an eleventh-hour...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has promised to clamp down on black smoke from trucks and buses. In his speech to the...

• Tippermen in Derbyshire claim to have brought six quarries to a virtual standstill in their fight for a 20% rates rise....

• September CV registrations were 23,134 — over 30% below the September 1989 level. The January-September total was down 20%,...

• An alternative to the Certificate of Professional Competence is one of three initiatives being launched by the Chartered...

• Hauliers must brace themselves for further increases in fuel prices — and can expect little sympathy from the Government,...

• Ilona Richards, founder of the Lady Truckers' Club, has been nominated for the Woman of the Year Award, which will be judged...

• Daf has hinted that the key to its long-term future may lie not in full co-operation, as attempted lately in its failed bids...

• Ford is carrying out field trials with turbocharged Transits. Reputedly turning out 75kW (100hp) from the 2.5 litre...

• The first tangible results of Volvo and Renault's farreaching share swap emerged last week when both companies announced the...

• The Hartwell group is seeking a buyer for Truckrent's contract-hire business which operates 850 vehicles. It will wind down...

• Wilcox-Seadyke is not replacing the two directors sacked by backers Dartmore Investment and Sun Life last month (CM 13-19...

• Cadbury has bought four Mercedes-Benz 1314s with Boalloy Linkliner bodies, on the strength of the performance of a 1314 the...

• A year after MAN's takeover of Austrian truckbuilder Steyr, and the subsequent closure of Steyr Trucks UK, MAN has chosen 11...

• Less than three years after its first Land Rover delivery, the Richard Lawson Car Delivery Group has won the contract to...

• BOC Baker has entered into a contract distribution deal with chilled food producer RF Brookes in which it will buy the...

• The Willhire Group, which went into receivership last month (CM 13-19 September) is about to be sold as a going concern by...

• TNT has entered into a three-year national distribution contract with drinks supplier The Dominic Group, to deliver to its...

• Ryder Truck Rental has won two new contracts, the first with Allerdale District Council, is worth more than i',4m over six...

• UK drivers at Laura Ashley have escaped lightly with only three jobs lost out of a total of 40, despite 1,500 redundancies...

• Ikarus of Hungary, one of the world's biggest bus builders, is to be sold as part of its government's privatisation...

• Part of the troubled Bus Engineering Group has been wound up, four months after the group first went into receivership. The...

• West Midlands Travel is introducing a new type of double-decker as part of its challenge to independent Smiths of Alcester....

• UK bus companies should expand abroad to escape troughs in the British market, Stagecoach boss Brian Souter has told a...

• Berkhof-bodied Javelin coaches will be available from next April from Alder Valley Engineering. The vehicles are based on a...

• Drawlane subsidiary Midland Fox has mounted a rescue package to bring home holidaymakers who have been stranded by the...

• Coaching independent Pride of the Road based at Royston, Barnsley, is stepping up the pressure on Yorkshire Rider with the...

is revoked by DUI • Heywood magistrates have rejected allegations that Purfleet-based Canute Haulage Group permitted a series...

• A haulier who let his Operator's Licence expire because of ill health, has been granted a new licence for two years only, and...

INSIGHT • Serious coach crashes in France and England during the summer have again focused attention on speed checking and...

• "Hauliers are being treated as second-class citizens — people don't want us on their sites," complains Peter Edge, boss of...

premium tractors currently being touted around Europe it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that they have. No sooner...

Matched to the TD162FL there is a twin-plate clutch and the 14-speed SR2000 gearbox with splitter and range change. According...

matched to the SR2000 gearbox. Running with 315/80R 22.5 rubber at 96km/h (60mph) the F16 ticks over happily at about 1,600rpm...

1 Us 1 CON ZONE ulatory Authority. He believes the London ban is now in a stronger position than ever before having...

portrayed as lorry haters. They stress they understand the problems facing today's hauliers. They say they realise an operator...

• The battle between the London Boroughs Transport Scheme and the industry's trade associations to stop London laws forcing...

REPORT IN The recent Motor Show in Birmingham should have stolen a march over the Mondiale de L'Automobile which opened in...

this year, hut Renault has no plans for a 6x2 variant. Its B Series range, available at 4.5 and 6 tonnes. with new engines and...