• At last the road transport industry has stood up and said "No". It is heartening to see a group of hauliers who are prepared...

• More than 20 Freight Transport Association operators have decided to say "no" to new London lorry ban permit conditions being...

• The tanker driver in last October's M61 smash which killed 13 people has been sent for trial at Preston Crown Court, accused...

transporters in West Germany. The tractive units are being supplied on a contract hire basis by Ryder Truck Rental in a deal...

• The European Community gave a green light this week to an 284 million research programme which aims to take the trauma out of...

its current Therrnostar range of trailers. The first, called Thermostar 250 is a high volume 75m 3 capacity "semi-chassis"...

• Commercial vehicle registrations rose by over 5% during the first quarter of 1988 to 89,672. This was despite major upheavals...

Paul Channon last week, including rules to force lorry drivers to keep to the nearside lane at contraflows, easier-tounderstand...

record net profits of £31 million for 1987, compared with a net loss of £61.7 million during 1986. This was almost entirely...

• ERF produced a record 421 trucks last month and with greatly improved sales in the first two months of 1988 is on course to...

• Business is booming for own-account hauliers, with most running their fleets at full capacity and half expecting to move more...

• The driver of a stolen lorry led police on a spectacular 200km chase through three counties, leaving a trail of destruction...

plan to scrap national HGV taxes and replace them with a European system based on the annual distance travelled by each lorry....

• Truck sales in Europe and the UK are more buoyant than ever despite the October crash, says independent industry analyst DRI...

• The "superswedes" dominated last weekend's Mobil Truck Superprix at Brands Hatch with Slim Borgudd first, Curt Goransson...

• Yorkshire operators dominated this year's British Coach rally at Brighton, scooping three of the top four prizes. As usual...

• Daf Bus is offering new 11.6-litre DKDL 1160 engines for fitting in the 6,000 Mk I Leyland Nationals currently operating in...

• Stemco has launched its CTR7000 in-cab computer in the UK. It is designed for fleets of at least 30 trucks; an average total...

• By the end of the summer Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) will be building all right-handdrive FIO and F12 trucks at its Irvine...

• As revealed in last week's Commercial Motor, ERF has become the first UK truck manufacturer to fit the latest LTAA10-325...

imported into Britain has gone to work with Norwich Airport. It will be used as a front-line emergency fire tender. The 263A...

• AWD will announce a new tank transporter chassis at this year's British Army Equipment Exhibition at Aldershot in June. The...

• Foden's new 3250 6x4 chassis is just the first of a range of 3000-series vehicles to be launched in the next couple of years....

• A Blackpool-based PSV operator who turfed six-yearold children off his so-called "free" bus services, miles from home, was...

were cancelled for a fortnight last week by Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd, because of irregularities in...

• Maintenance problems have meant that the licence held by Lincolnshire hauliers D F Towers & Son has been more than halved...

• A driver said to be working on a self-employed basis for car transporter operators E G Donaldson Transport, has been awarded...

• The Scottish Bus Group is urging the Government to back an employee buyout as a single unit, along the lines of the...

• As exclusively revealed in last week's Commercial Motor, Daf Bus has confirmed that it is teaming up with PSV bodybuilder...

of Wigan and 31 more will be delivered in the next few weeks. The 12m, air-suspended Tigers are fitted with Leyland TL11H...

Optare-bodied Leyland Olympians it ordered through Arlington for its share of the Bexley area services of London Regional...

• A bus war has erupted in Plymouth following the introduction of 28 directly competing routes by two of the city's bus...

off, London Country North East (LCNE) has lost tenders to run three London Regional Transport (LRT) routes. One service is now...

• Southern Vectis has been slammed by South Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Michael Turner for running a "flying squad"...

• Rental company Swan National, which doubled its CV fleet last year, is to expand into Europe. Managing director Freddie...

• United Carriers, the express parcels division of transport and manufacturing group Bunzl, is on target to make a profit this...

• KD Transport of Haverhill, Suffolk, has bought three Leyland Daf 16.17 Freighters for a contract with double glazing...

• Spicer Axles-Dana, the West Midland axle specialist, has won its first export order to supply up to 2,000 standard trailer...

• Ferrymasters, the European transport giant, has secured a £500,000-a-year contract with Royal Mail International Parcels to...

• Magazine distributor Time Sensitive Deliveries has announced it will launch its contracted-out national delivery network on...

• Salford Van Hire is supplying 10 Volvo FL6 6x2 curtain-sided rigids to Hartlepool brewer Cameron in a fiveyear contract worth...

• BRS Northern has won a 2130,000-a-year contract. This is to supply six Volvo FL10 tractor units to the car delivery firm...

during February by more than 10,000 compared with February last year, a fall of almost 16%. Some 689 fewer coaches used the...

Fleetdtive runs about 200 light vans and lorries out of a fleet of 4,300. Lex already operates Lex Van Contracts, a light CV...

TEESBULK EXPANDS • Teesbulk Handling is expanding its Tees Dock site, increasing its berthing facilities and handling capacity...

SCANDINAVIA CONNECTION • Ferryrnasters has centralised its operations and customer services departments for Scandinavian loads...

UNDER PRESSURE • New Products EC is offering a pressure detector which can be fitted to truck wheels, checking over and under...

ALERT TO ASBESTOS • A guidance note advising staff and supervisors about working with asbestos insulation and coatings has been...

DTp GETS PERSONAL • The Department of Transport is thinking of offering a batch of personalised number plates to the public....

AA IS GOING FREECALL • AA members will be able to make 'no charge' calls for help when the Automobile Association brings in a...

BUSINESS TIPS • Insurance brokers Alexander Stenhouse has published a detailed guide to risk management and risk assessment for...

AA GOES COMPUTER • The Automobile Association has fitted computers in its 700 London patrol vans, enabling drivers to stay in...

PUSH-BU1TON CANOPY • S P Lynch of Ryton in Tyne and Wear has been appointed the sole UK distributor for the West German...

SCOTTISH ROAD LINKS • Traffic surveys will be carried out in Borders, Central and Lothian Regions during April, as part of a...

STRATHCLYDE GETS TOUGH • Strathclyde Police are cracking down on motor tax evaders this month. From Tuesday, 19 April,...

USER FRIENDLY LAUNCH • A new trade association has been formed called the Auto ID User Association to help companies which...

TALKING TUNNELS • Commercial Motor's sister publication Railway Gazette International is co-organiser of a two-day Channel...

CRAWLING OVER THE PENNINES • Crawler lanes for lorries are being built on a transPennine stretch of the M62 between Yorkshire...

• London and the South East M11 Essex: Contraflow between Junctions 8 and 10 (Bishops Stortford/Duxford). M25 Surrey: Overnight...

to showing how life in the north of England was in the good old/bad old days (delete according to whether you lived through...

recently to help turn the clock back at the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive's Musuem of Transport. Inspector...

well, hundreds of thousands do. This year's Truckfest promises to be a blockbuster thanks to custom vans and trucks, jet and...

Truckers' News from the national truckstops chain run by Truckers Catering (that's enough trucks, Ed) I spotted an advert...

Western Star is a Canadian manufacturer based on the former Canadian branch of White, hence the resemblance of the sheet metal...

MI With reference to your municipals bulk buying article (CM March 17-23) on the Consortium for Purchasing and Distribution. I...

on the 17tonne vehicle and all the fuss about axle weights. When we had 16-tonnes, with curtainsided bodywork, you were vety...

IN We note with interest your article on the SMMT Bodybuilders Quality Code (CM 31 March 6 April). In the list of bodybuilders...

Like it or not, every operator has to be a businessman as well as a haulier, and how a company is formed can be as important as...

WS FROM THE TOP This year's Fleet Management Conference attracted a record entry. Highlight of the event was as a series of...

FRED KAY • Having summarised the background to the new generation of tachographs, Lucas Kienzle Instruments general manager...

MALCOLM RIAU and MICHAEL COWSILL • Royal Mail facts and figures verge on the mind boggling. Royal Mail Letters, which emerged...

BILL DAVIES • When Bill Davies is stuck in an M1 traffic jam, he thinks of the total combined time wasted and the problems...

COLIN BURTON • In his opening remarks at FMC, Mercedes-Benz (UK) fleet consultancy manager Colin Burton said: "Time is probably...

PETER HOOK • Hauliers take great care over their choice of truck, but research shows that many do not look at the key issues...

At 25 Gary Rees is managing director of four companies specialising in the distribution, packing, and re-processing of garments...

Former steel men Ben Sy!ward, Alan Stinson and Brian Beckett have a vision: they want to run steel into Europe. • The haulage...

As AWD firms up its plans to take up where Bedford left off, managing director Ron Hancock has been talking exclusively to...

T e latest Mercedes-Benz 609D chassis with a Reeve Bur.ess Beaver bos is a .00d bet or local bus work but it still needs some...

Tankclean, the l'ankfreight subsidiary. He was formerly general manager of the division and replaces David Richardson who has...

Bryn Hudson as a contracts executive with its commercial vehicle contract hire division.

Heronfreight after nine years with Transport Development Group. Heronfreight specialises in storage, distribution and contract...

appointed three directors: Paul Hemp becomes operations director at the company's Blackwell headquarters; Neil Renshaw is the...

the new financial controller of TNT Skypak Courier. Roger Lipscombe becomes UK general manager and Ed Wins lade becomes...

has been appointed to the board of London Regional Transport as a non-executive member.

Nick Hanks as traffic manager at its Sandy transport office. He joined the Bedfordshire company in 1984.

ago as a driver, has been promoted to contract manager in charge of a E.500,000 distribution contract with Manders Paints.

board of PHH Europe as managing director, Continental Europe and Ireland.

of Road Transport Engineers, has taken over as acting national secretary. This is until a successor is appointed to replace...

board members: Michael Marx (deputy chairman); Keith LewisBadgett (managing director Heron service stations); Richard Morris...