• Ministerial speeches at party conferences are widely seen as giving hints of what is coming up in the next parliamentary...

• The TGWU has put in a 10-a-week across-theboard pay claim to the RHA negotiating committees in London, Kent and Eastern...

• Plaxton, the Scarborough coach-builder, is set to announce a deal with Fiat, through which it will acquire the French...

• Calor Transport has w drawn from its distribution with oil giant Esso, compli that "we have been unabk reach a satisfactory...

• A plan to widen motor without the use of contrafl and cutting construction ti by 50% has been unveiled Transport Secretary...

• Over 150 staff at the Motor Industry Research Association's laboratories and proving grounds in Nuneaton are set to stage a...

• Britain's hauliers face being squeezed-out by their European competitors after 1992 unless this country improves its road...

• 'rhe new president of the Chartered Institute of Transport, Alastair Pugh, has launched a campaign to press for radical...

• The commercial vehicle sales boom shows no signs of slackening, with registrations up 11.5% in September to a record 32,009...

• A waste-disposal boss who is accused of dumping rubbish on a haulage contractor's site could face a six-month jail-term on...

• Mercedes-Benz is bringing in six new 38-tonne Powerliner tractors units for the Motor Show, headed by the mighty 1748LS and...

• Andrew English conlcudes his account of driving a Bedford Midi to Greece: After the debacle at the Greek customs we are wary...

• Transfleet Services, the contract hire, distribution and truck rental company, is moving its administrative headquarters from...

• Crane Fruehauf has shut its service and maintenance depot at South Mimrns, near the All M25 junction, because there is no...

• Three former dustmen have won Britain's biggest local authority cleansing contract, worth 60 million over five years, to...

• British hauliers are in good shape to reap a rich harvest in a unified European market, according to Ian Holmes, head of the...

• United Carriers is to break into guaranteed next-day delivery with its "Point to Point" nationwide service. Launched at the...

IN The Austrian truck show has just taken place in Weis with the country's hauliers reeling under the latest piece of...

• The Blackburn-based bus building company, East Lancashire Coachbuilders, has launched a re-designed singledeck bus body. The...

• Buses have become dirtier, shabbier and less comfortable since October 1986, according to yet another survey on the effects...

A new manager has been Light in to sort out the longrung problems that BexH.'s has suffered since its ich last January. The...

• National Welsh is introducing several new bus services in Rhymney Valley, including a new Bustler C10 minibus service from...

Deregulation in London Id be a disaster if it is introed on the same basis as :where in Britain, warns the don Regional...

• Dublin Bus plans to introduce a new type of ticket machine to promote pre-paid journeys and reduce the number of assaults on...

• Tarporley haulier John Fellows has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 21,000 for permitting four drivers' hours...

• Watson's Travel has been refused a licence by North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Frederick Whalley because he was not...

• A motorway crash in which a coach ran into the back of an artic, killing the driver and a 17-year-old courier, led to the...

• R & D Aggregates was granted a new national licence for six vehicles after West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority Gerrard...

BY THE HAWK • Star performer at the Transport and Distribution Services Show, held at Wembley on 4-6 October, was a wandering...

The Transport & Distribution Services Show has evolved into a showcase for operators to present new services, products and...

Fuel charge card systems have been changing recently. Oil companies are competing with independents for business, leading to a...

M-B 1729LS The engine is a bored-out version of the long-established 90 0 vee-eight 0M442 unit, with capacity raised from 14.6...

The NEC Motor Show will be packed with launches and innovations. Here is a taste of what some of the manufacturers have on...

Range Rovers with manual gearboxes gain improved layshaft bearings and a heavier balanced gearshift for easier changes....

designed to give double benefits in power and payload. MITSUBISHI • Mitsubishi Motors includes its 4x4 Shogun on-off road...

and the use of lower capacity tyres, gives the 96kW (130hp) S08-130 a kerbweight of 2,980kg on a 4.45m wheelbase. The first...

• Motor shows provide an opportunity for the vehicle industry's top designers to showcase their latest ideas. The last Motor...

New Leyland Six-wheeler T HE manufacturing schedule of Leyland Motors, Ltd., Leyland, Lancs., for the present year includes a...

A FEATURE of present-day trailer and semi-trailer design on the Continent is the rapidly increasing use of backbone "-type...

at Sunningdalc were crisscrossed with miles of spaghetti-like television cables. The BBC Outside Broadcast team was in town....

A=N W hat do Olympic rowing champions eat for breakfast? Nothing much. says Steve Redgrave: they wait for brunch. Not so, says...

B ailiffs first appeared in England in the Middle Ages. It is an ancient and honourable title and Ashley Stephenson. Bailiff of...

H is marriage to racing motorcycles is over and his cockney accent is now tinged with a hint of "Down Under", hut Barry Sheene,...

"just another job". To the rest of us it is the biggest European construction project ever. Work on the central service tunnel...

C hance is a fine thing. "We didn't choose removals," says Tony Abel, "it chose us." In any case, the combination has worked....

W hen the autumn mists arrive. Graham Eames takes his trucks to Scotland. The game season means big business for his food...

WHEELED OFF I t was with shock, sadness, stunned incredulity. but on more sober reflection deep and touching relief that the...

Industry Research Association laboratories and proving ground in Nuneaton have called off their threatened strike action,...

• More than eight out of 10 UK hauliers want a 40-tonne weight limit for trucks and most believe that our 38-tonne ceiling puts...

• Common Market plans to make hauliers pay tax in the countries used by their lorries — the "territoriality principle" — are...

• Seven London boroughs are set to pull out of the Capital's lorry ban because it is "ineffective and costly". Bromley, Bexley,...