• Leyland Trucks' Peter Capon is right when he says operators must take up the challenge of telling the manufacturers just...

At the moment DAF buys £27 million worth of its components in Britain but this is expected to rise to £35 million next year....

• Bedford unions met last week with Robert Stempel, General Motors' executive vice-president for operations outside North...

• Scammell Motors and Foden Trucks have been awarded the main production contracts for the Ministry of Defence's £220 million...

exposure on television, except in the reporting of accidents. So it is good to report that there is a chance for the public to...

• Government proposals to change the 0-licence regulation's environmental provisions have been slammed as "negative and petty"...

• Peter Capon, Leyland Trucks product development director, has challenged operators to put forward ideas on how the latest...

• The number of tipper lorries being reported to Cominercial Motor as stolen continues to grow. At about 2am on Thursday,...

high-speed diesel engine for the foreseeable future, despite the current trend towards direct-injection for this size of...

• Vehicle prices are expected to rise sharply in January because of the weakness of the pound and many manufacturers have...

• Up to £16,000 in cash and products must be won in a new competition launched by the Bandag Tyre Company in association with...

• The Rover Group is pulling out of the Confederation of British Industry after 21 years of membership. Under the new...

Freight Transport Association, Gerry Osborne-Bartrarn, is demanding that much more Government money should be spent on research...

• The Dal twin-engined Paris-Dakar Rally truck which was displayed =bodied at the Paris show in October has been completed. The...

• Crane Fruehauf has won an order worth more than 21.25 million to supply Shell with 30 new bottom loading tankers, the first...

• Foden's firm line on the advantages of using 6x4 tractive units has taken a rare turn with the introduction of a 6x2 model...

• Cadbury Schweppes is putting 40 new 16-tonners into service to distribute soft drinks from its depots in Southampton in the...

• Paclease, the truck leasing scheme operated by Paccar in the United States for many years, is to be introduced by Foden...

• The joint venture diesel engine manufacturing company planned by Detroit Diesel Allison & Deere and Company has been named...

distribution trucks to Carlsberg. The new vehicles, which will be delivered in early 1987, have 5.8 metre wheelbases and...

• A merger between shipping and property group P&O and European Ferries, the Townsend Thoresen ferry company, will not distort...

• Christian Salvesen has increased its profits by 11% in the six months to September 30, on turnover up from £133.7 million to...

in which HGV and PSV drivers have been issued licences without taking any tests. Drivers holding the fake licences were found...

approved a commercial agreement between Fiat and the Polish car maker Pol and Mot. Financial Times, November 28. FRANCE PORT...

the longest-ever UK-made trailer road train has been built to cope with the rigours of the Sudanese desert. The road train,...

• Iveco has developed a short four-axle construction site vehicle especially for the Swiss market, where the prevailing...

• Pegaso has launched a luxury version of its Midicar 5317 coach, designed especially for tourist applications. The 5317C is...

• Worthing-based International Automotive Design has won a contract to design, engineer and build a prototype 10-seater minibus...

• One of the first casualties of deregulation is Glynn Pegg Productions which began operations in South Yorkshire on October 26...

for the MCW Metro Rider midibus which was launched at the Motor Show in October. The first order is for 80 Metro Riders from...

• Sammy Jones (Contracts) has to wait to see what action West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson intends to take...

• West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson has adjourned the hearing of an application for a West Midland licence by...

• Shipping and forwarding agent Reed and Sutcliffe of Boston has been fined £350 with £50 costs by the Sleaford, Lincolnshire...

• Hereford operator Charles Amos has withdrawn his appeal against West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson's refusal to...

• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has renewed a Sheffield haulier's licence for 12 months only, and has...

II Halifax magistrates dismissed charges against Cheltenham abnormal load carrier Aflwood Transport that it had used 10...

• A driver was sacked by Peter Lane Transport after his vehicle was stolen when parked near to his home overnight. Now he has...

• An application for an additional operating centre has been rejected by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Norman Moody...

• Leyland Trucks has strengthened its northern sales and service team with the appointment of Murdo Macleod, 34, to regional...

• Stephen Duke has been appointed sales manager of BRS Membership Services, based at the organisation's head office at...

Menzies-Wilson, 59, is chairman of Ocean Transport & Trading, also chairman of Viking Resources Trust, president of the...

• Three non-executive directors have joined the board of PSV operator West Midlands Travel. They are councillor Peter Lister,...

• Former Leyland Truck sales director, Bernard Pickup has died following a road accident. One of Pickup's contributions to the...

• Alan Halfpenny has been appointed distribution manager (North-East) for ICI's new Chemicals and Polymers (Uzi') Group which...

• John Earp is the new regional general manager (Western Hemisphere) at London Transport International, the consultancy arm of...

NEW PHONES • British Telecom has introduced a new two-way radio service in London which it claims gives a faster, clearer and...

MODULAR MANAGEMENT • The Road Transport industry Training Board (RTITB) has launched a new "modular" management training...

PERMIT ALLOCATION • Hauliers are being invited to submit new applications for multi-lateral permits by the Department of...

CHUNNEL WORK • Hauliers are to be given an extra opportunity to move some of the bulk materials used in building the channel...

NEW SCHEDULE • Duc to growing demand from British hauliers for night ferry sailings out of the UK, Brittany Ferries-Truckline...

FERNDOWN BYPASS 11 The 5.5km Ferndown Bypass on the A31 is now open, two months ahead of schedule. Built by A E Farr of...

• London and South-East M2 Kent: Lane restrictions between junctions 5 and 7 (Sittingbourne and Faversham) until end of...

hit Kane" (CM, November 29), I note that one of Kane's stolen vehicles was spotted heading north between 6.50arri and 7am on...

in a news item (CM, November 8) headlined "Ford Cargo Tops 50,000". While you are quite correct in saying that "Cargo exports...

report that haulier Harry Munt is promoting the idea of photographic identity cards for self-employed drivers, similar to the...

• I write after reading an article (CM, November 8) about race relations and driver shortages. Well I don't know about...

point of ridding yourself of all your gas appliances by the exorbitantly-expensive British Gas flotation advertising campaign...

ease the traffic congestion in London. This involves building new roads on stilts above railway lines (remember the cartrain...

Vehicle Contract Hire and Leasing has grown from scratch to a company running 200 trucks in just three years. Next spring it...

Ford's Transit has a reputation for tough dependability. Now, with a little help from County Tractors, it's available with...

Bryan Jarvis tests lveco Ford Truck's Cargo 2424C and discovers an able competitor in the 6 x 4 tipper market • Tipping work...

Harper Trucks could be described as the epitome of Iveco Ford Truck dealers, with roots in both camps. Founded just five years...

• Trade and Industry Secretary Paul Channon's Commons statement on the latest Leyland Trucks talks came out of the blue last...