• If you made dynamite for a living what would your reaction be if you heard that the man you hired to haul it was in the habit...

• More than 100 jobs will be cut at Leyland Bus, Workington by August, leaving a workforce of just over 300. Debt plea • The...

• Top model Maria Whittaker will be at Commercial Motor Tnickfest South West on Saturday 6 July. Maria, who has been a popular...

• Hazchern hauliers who break the law on dangerous loads should be reported to their customers, says Road Haulage Association...

• A licence condition banning parking outside an operating centre also prohibited loading and unloading of the operator's...

• Operators should be allowed a second weigh on dynamic-axle weighbridges, says the Road Haulage Association — even though it...

• So close ...Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind placed a symbolic bolt in the final piece of steel joining the two halves of...

• Scottish hauliers have been given a year to prove that they need a new interrnodal freight service — otherwise they will lose...

• Returnline, the new phonebased return-load network, has taken on more than 900 hauliers in its first week — although most of...

Brunt's yard two weeks ago has been spotted. A reader called Frome-based Brunt after reading about the theft of the blue H-reg...

• Hauliers based near waterways are being encouraged to switch freight from road to canal by Government grants for green...

• A Vehicle Inspectorate check on Cardiff's light goods vehicles last week found that fewer than half of the vans stopped were...

• Exel Logistics is to spend more than £3m on an environmental policy — and it is challenging the rest of the road transport...

• Tibbett & Britten Fashion Logistics says it has agreed contracts with two-thirds of the customers of Scorpio International,...

/ May was another dismal month for truck manufacturers, with few signs of the recession ending in the latest CV sales figures...

/ Only 10 hauliers have bought the first national weighbridge directory, which has been criticised for being too dear (CM 16-22...

testing "electronic mufflers" to reduce noise on truck and bus engines in the US. The system reduces_ noise by electronically...

• A Devonshire haulier carrying waste from a superstore site faces a curfew after residents complained it was breaking an...

• Crane Fruehauf has developed an all-aluminium bottomloading 38,000-litre petroleum spirit tanker semi-trailer that is...

• Tankfreight's new dual-purpose tri-axle curtainsider/ tanker, designed by Wilson Double-Deck, was on show at this week's...

• York has put a second highcapacity Colossus into service — this time with Dutch trailer operator Cargo Care. It has a shorter...

• After many years of selling its Jake Brake engine retarder through a UK franchisee, Jacobs Manufacturing has set up a wholly...

• York's new trailer refurbishment centre in Mansfield is now fully operational and handling 15 units a week. The factory, at...

• Scania is to fit low-profile tyres to all its tractive units and 4x2 rigids. Standardising on lowprofile rubber saves fuel...

• Donald Wilson, who pioneered the design of aerodynamic bodies with now-defunct Besco, aims to specialise in aerodynamics...

in Volvo plans to launch three new models in September, all with "low-emission" engines The 4x2 FS7 is designed to bridge the...

• A 15-tonne M1518, due to be UK Type Approved next spring, is one of five trucks on display on AWD's stand at this week's...

• The Transport Development Group is to cut the number of companies in its distribution division from eight to four in a...

parent company Unigate released a "disappointing" set of figures showing Wincanton's operating profit down from £16.6m to...

Thame, Enfield and Eastbourne and will sign up another in Watford later this month, bringing its total to 34. Until January...

• Textiles distributor Harvest Processing — which rescued the Harvest Group from receivership last year while trading under the...

• A new freight forwarding firm claims it will offer a fairer deal to hauliers. The International Drivers Club is owned by...

year, but they still accounted for 30% of group profits on 41% of revenue. Profits before tax in 1990 fell by 9% to DM4.36bn...

• Portsmouth-based Clayton Removals will join the Brewer & Turnbull franchised network on 1 July. Clayton has an operation in...

• Smithybridge Storage and Distribution and four of its drivers have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £2,690 for...

a. • David Morgans, trading as DEJ Tarmacadam, of Pontardulais, West Glamorgan, has held on to his Operator's Licence literally...

• North Western Deputy LA Kenneth Birchall has granted Merseyside operator L Greenberg a new licence for 14 vehicles and two...

Services, has failed to get a new six-vehicle 0-licence in her own name. Green, trading as Evergreen Haulage, of St Cenydd...

• A driver who walked out after a 6 6 dispute over pay, but who later returned to his job, has lost a claim for unfair...

vIL - 4 port of Greenock Inverclyde Trans • Bus operator was given seven days to produce documents to back up claims that a...

his licence revoked and he has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for a period of 12 months after failing to...

• A warrant for the arrest of West 474 Yorkshire haulier Kenneth Stand age, trading as Star Trucking, has been issued by...

DIRECTORY II Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses,...

Renault to acquire 37.5% apiece of the share capital of French bodybuilder Heuliez Bus. EDC coach • Kassbohrer's Series 300...

• Vauxhall has introduced an eight - seat conversion with space for a wheelchair on its Midi window van, in its first serious...

• The Walter Alexanderbodied Iveco TurboCity doubledecker was one of the main attractions at the UITP exhibition in Stockholm....

• Reeve Burgess has increased the seating capacity of its Beaver body with a long-rearoverhang option on MercedesBenz chassis....

• Royal Mail Parcelforce has opened a £1.3m international hub at Heathrow. It employs 50 staff. Royal Mail A PARCEL(*.FORCE...

• Norfolk Line has added Nortrader, a 36-trailer ferry, to its Great Yarmouth-Schevingen route. The company now offers 135...

EVENTS Golden oldies • The Historic Commercial Vehicle Society's annual Chiltern Area Road Run starts from Leighton Biwzard at...

Mind your own business • The British Association of Removers is holding its autumn conference entitled "Mind your own...

• More than 300 people have already booked to attend the annual conference of the Institute of Logistics and Distribution...

• Peter Orr, an owner-driver with 15 years' experience of international trucking, has produced his own down-to-earth guide to...

Higher studies in transport • Birmingham Polytechnic is up-grading its transport courses and aims to offer a diploma in...

• TNT Materials Handling has launched a new plastic liner bag to make its bulk food pallecon boxes more attractive to the food...

• Expect delays for the next four months on the A303 near Chicklade, Wilts. A contraflow with a 40mph speed limit will be in...

N rocks even older than the Hawk can look forward to a day out in Merthyr in the Welsh Valleys later this month. More than 200...

octors in the US have come up with a novel way of tackling that most common of truck drivers' malaises — back pain. American...

fi wo international drivers from Croydon-based theatrical remover Radcliffe Transport have embarked on what is claimed to be...

fil he vehicle with the number plate ART IC failed to find a buyer at auction last week. The 1972 Land Rover 88 has "gone back...

fi he Road Haulage Association is delighted to welcome as many exhibitors as it can to its esteemed Tipcon exhibition ... as...

collapses, soaring interest rates and redundancies. Accountants in the guise of receivers, liquidators and administrators are...

Sutton set out his literature on his half of the stand and had begun to attract much interest when RHA organisers spotted the...

• It's a long time since Commercial Motor last had its hands on an MAN eight-legger. We only tested one such truck in the...

Subcontractors hauling tankers for the Milk Marketing Board are being asked to change the way they run their businesses to help...

practical to do so. What's more, the board says it will talk to each haulier, farmer and dairy to discuss the feasibility of...

When driving my eight-wheel tipper can I split the 45-minute rest break into three 15-minute breaks, or do I have to drive for...

A driver told me that his tractor unit can use the outside lane of a three-lane motorway when it is used without a trailer...

I understand that new trucks have to be fitted with end outline marker lamps. I have noticed that on one make of tractive unit...

My company is in haulage and plant hire. I bought a Bedford TK box van at an auction and drove it away on trade plates. On the...

and all too often it is the tanker industry which suffers the media's wrath. The tightly regulated, safety-conscious reality is...

how media coverage of road accidents can vary. Both the Daily Mirror and The Daily Express claimed in their front page reports...

Are hauliers being dangerously complacent about road pricing? CM looks at the issues involved. • In the furor over last...

• What is happening to the haulage industry? The rates are atrocious; we are in 1991 not 1891 and yet we are unable to earn a...

• I read with interest your correspondent's interpretation of the RHA's new limitation of liability clause in its 1991...

• I refer to the letter of GM Charlesworth of Macfarlane Transport in CM's 18-24 April issue. We were disappointed, but not...

C liff Groves, who launched Steyr Trucks in Britain three years a g o, has become g eneral manager of Plaxton Retail Sales...

• Graham Thomson has become director of communications at Crane Fruehauf. He was most recently manager, corporate and public...

• Terry Patrick has been appointed international sales and business development director at Federal Express Business Logistics....