• The Road Haulage Association is developing a 'Green' code of practice for hauliers in the face of ever increasing...

• ETA director-general Garry Turvey is urging Chancellor Nigel Lawson to authorise enough money to more than double the road...

• The European Commission will take the German government to the European Court in Luxembourg if the country goes ahead with...

• Former Transport Manag of the Year, John Ashmore, has left his 2.30,000-a-year jc as commercial director with West Sussex...

• The Liverpool region of the Transport and General Workers Union has submitted its 1990 pay claim to the Road Haulage...

• ERF aims to be the first truck manufacturer to win the quality standard BS5750 next year. Most major truck manufacturers have...

• Blue Circle's successful appeal against the refusal of 18 permits could undermine the London Lorry Ban, the London Boroughs...

• As predicted (CM 21-27 September), the Palmer Report on Traffic Areas proposes that the Vehicle Inspectorate and Traffic...

(16-22 February). Renault Truck Industries has finally replaced its long-serving Commando with a new line-up of Midliner...

• International haulage reference tariffs in the EC are due to be formally abolished by Common Market transport ministers at...

• Registrations of trucks above 3.5 tonnes hit 56,454 for the first nine months of the year — up 8.6% on JanuarySeptember...

• Raptor (UK) of Diss, Norfolk has won the UK concession for the French-built Auverland range of 4x4s. The Peugeot XliD9 66kW...

• In the first six months of this year a total of 27,117 light and heavy commercial vehicles were recalled in 14 campaigns....

• Transport Development Group subsidiary Contract Hire (Commercial Vehicles) has just completed the conversion of a Leyland...

• Boalloy plans to set up an extra assembly plant near its Cumbemauld factory to produce its 1.7 Liner, 3.5 Liner and 7.5 Liner...

• Bedford is putting the 1.4litre engine, used in the new Cavalier, into the Astravan and Astramax models, to replace the 1.3...

• York Neville Charrold chose last week's Institute of Road Transport Engineers Scottish Show to unveil the latest incarnation...

• Swift Transport Services has won three contracts to sort and deliver components to the newly-commissioned Rover R8 production...

• TIP Europe's pre-tax profits have risen by 40%, from £9.1 million last year to £12.7 million for the 12 months to 31 July....

• Two more companies have joined the Brewer & Turnbull franchise network. Middlesbrough firm Richardsons Removals has now...

Wincanton Distribution , rvices' Transport Division s won a contract with Shell I UK to provide 10 troleum distribution...

• John Dee Group is competing with another leading transport company to buy an Italian haulier. Although Dee will definitely...

• Hays subsidiary Data Express, the specialist overnight delivery service, has bought the South-East regional carrier Parcel...

• lveco Ford has stepped up its assault on the UK tractor market with the launch of three new models With gross combination...

• In addition to the recent changes to the Trafic and Master ranges, Renault has made the five-speed gearbox standard in the...

• The sale of the final significant Metro Cammell Weymann product, the Metrobus, is set to go to a joint consortium between Daf...

• The Department of Trade and Industry has accepted undertakings given by Badgerline Holdings following its purchase of Midland...

• Maidstone Boroline is advertising nationwide for dri' ers for its Bexley area operations under contract to Lon& Regional...

• Amberley Travel, the ind pendent operator banned frot operating in Leeds, will have least three months to wait fo the outcome...

Vestem Scottish managing !ctor Alan Wilson has Tied against the latest ves by a rival group seeking yin control of the company....

The Labour Party transport cy, including an end to bus te tendering procedures and oduce franchising with a xible" licensing...

• National Expressliners is to order 75 more Volvo Plaxton Expressliner coaches for lease to National Express contract...

• Though renewing the licence held by Scottish Road Services for five years, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority Ramsay Dalgety...

• Craven ASP Crowthers Arms-based Livestock Haul age has appealed against the revocation of its Operators Licence. The...

• Manchester-base W Maher & Son was ordered to pay fines and costs totallin E80 at the Sale magistrate after admitting using a...

E • Two Lancashire hauliers, said to have been part of a sophisticated ganisation for "ringing" comercial vehicles, have been...

ai James Gaffney & Sons, of East Kilbride for a new 12-vehicle/ six-trailer national licence has been adjourned by Scottish LA...

SIR BAD EXPERIENCES • I have been interested to cad some of the correspondence your article concerning agency drivers has...

BY THE HAWK • Just when you thought the Hawk had exhausted his supply of Lada stories, another came trundling to his notice....

I Tom Kidd started out in the haulage isiness with a horse and cart — and his - andson, 41-year-old Trevor Kidd, is Imaging...

UK bus and coach makers will have to act quickly if they are to hold on to a big slice of their home market and meet the...

17-TONNERS Next name on our list was Smith Self Drive. Again we would have to sort out our own insurance, but a 16-tonne box...

2.30pm and were ready to leave just after 3pm. The rental office kept us hanging about while the truck was brought out of the...

the onset of middleage spread. For months you can hop on the bathroom scales and gain smug satisfaction from the fact that,...

• Hauliers have traditionally carried much of Britain's coal on spot-hire or nonexclusive contracts. But the past two years...

• "We picked France precisely because it was so complicated," says DC Meeus, owner of Meeus Transport. The Dutch haulier...

• Stress is a hidden but expensive item in any company's costs. Absenteeism is costing British industry billion a year, and...