• The Department of Transport has published its longawaited consultation paper on revising Britain's driver licensing system....

• The 1988 Paris-Dakar rally has claimed the lives of two competitors. Kees van Loewezijn, the navigator on Dafs 95x2 TurboTwin...

• Britain's 10 million trades union affiliates may be called on to boycott Trusthouse Forte service areas, restaurants and...

• British Rail has slammed suggestions that it is set to pull-out of newspaper distribution on key routes because it can no...

• A private bus company running on routes tendered by London Regional Transport (LRT) is endangering its passengers by...

• Four eight-wheel tippers have been stolen in central England since the new year. R W Dodds of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, lost a...

• A White Arrow Services delivery driver, who was sacked when his van was stolen last month, has had his appeal for...

• A British lorry driver facing jail in Hungary for leaving the scene of a fatal accident has made a last-ditch mercy plea to...

tables on trailers • Andover Trailers has developed a 12.2m long tri-axle trailer designed to carry rollers, pavers, paving...

• Al Trailers of Maldon Essex has supplied Roystonbased haulier Gary Smith with a sliding bogie skeletal semitrailer which can...

• In its largest-ever investment in new equipment, trailer rental specialist Intertrail is spending over £1.4 million on 78...

from Don-Bur • Don-Bur has developed a new tipping semi-trailer called the Streainlowda which it claims is lighter, lower and...

• MAN has launched a new Technique Improvement Programme this month for drivers, claiming that careful driving can directly...

• London Buses' Wandle District is having 100 of its 10 year old Damiler Fleetline double-decker buses reengtned with...

• The first used-mini-bus centre in the UK opened last week. Birmingham-based minibus specialist Carlyle Group is running the...

• London Buses launches its fourth new local area bus operation this Saturday (16 January) trading as Bexleybus and based at...

• TNT has won Britain's first major dedicated brewery distribution contract to go third party, in a multi-million pound deal...

• A S Jones & Co of Merseyside, part of P&O Roadtanks, is to distribute BEOCO edible oils in a contract worth £750,000 in the...

• Craven Tasker, the Sheffield-based trailer manufacturer, is expected to announce the name of its new owner "before the end of...

MI A year ago the mood among truck manufacturers could hardly be described as optimistic. True, most vehicle builders were...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu has refused to renew the sevenvehicle PSV operators licence held by Frank...

El Despite winning a new national licence for 61 vehicles based in the West Midlands, Smiths Haulage (Blechington) decided not...

SIR HEAT EXPANDING BRAKE DRUMS • I am prompted to write to you with reference to the news article Vehicle Inspectorate Report...

BY THE HAWK II The RHA is taking to sponsorship in a big way. Leyland DAF support of the national conference has been followed...

COLD WAR • Successful enterprises tend to regard problems as challenges. For those suppliers of foodstuffs to the big...

distribution functions together. Sainsbury was one of the first retailers to award UCD a dedicated contract; the depot at...

• ACCELERATION An early indication of the SH283KA's lack of pace came during acceleration tests. With this power-to-weight...

light vans and pickups we tested last year, the Sherpa 200 diesel has won the day in the 1.8-3.5 tonnes class. The Freight...

16.26 tonnes, as the maximum weight for two-axle rigid vehicles is to be increased to 17 tonnes from this April. By now all...

the newest 4x2 tractive unit to come on to the British market. The Leyland Daf 95-380 bristles with the electronic gadgetry...

Leyland's Royal Tiger Doyen, Dennis's Javelin Duple 320 and the Duple 425 are four very good long-distance coaches. The two...