• Last week's agreement on increased international haulage permits seemed like good news — but it was an easy agreement to...

• Hauliers are buying, hiring and renting more commercial vehicles than ever before, according to surveys out this month. Sales...

• The maximum fee charged by approved tachograph centres for tachograph calibration has been increased to £32.21 (exVAT) from...

• On Monday this week all of Britain's national daily newspapers were delivered by road for the first time. British Rail's...

• A haulier is to plead not guilty to charges of breaking London's lorry ban when he appears in court on Tuesday 26 July. Finn...

• A Midland haulage company is to be prosecuted after allegedly dumping asbestos on an illegal site in Worcestershire. P J...

• The European Community is likely to decide soon on the future of European cabotage after 1992, says European Transport...

• The UK road haulage industry could lose out to European competitors unless the Government spends more on improving Britain's...

• Workers at six depots of the soft drinks company Coca Cola and Schweppes Beverages — including 800 lorry drivers, their...

• A truck driver weighing over 150kg (nearly 24 stone) has failed to prove that two firms were at fault when he fell from his...

• Furniture and carpet retailer Harris Queensway has terminated its £9-million-a-year dedicated distribution contract with...

• A proposal to restrict designated London roads to those who can afford to pay tolls has been rejected by Transport Secretary...

• The Department of Transport has rejected a new Road Haulage Association request that it should revise truck overloading laws...

• Mercedes-Benz's longawaited new SK range of heavy vehicles (described in detail on pages 30/31) will start arriving in...

I probably be joined later by a I high-powered variant, the 3233, fitted with the 249kW vee-six diesel. Weighing 720kg in...

• Esso has taken its M & G 38-tonne fibre-reinforced polyester (FRP) tank trailers out of service after only nine months...

• Gardner's plans to reestablish itself in the UK heavy truck market have suffered another setback. Neither Seddon Atkinson,...

• Boalloy, the Congletonbased body builder, has revisel its production lines, splitting them into three separate units to meet...

• A lighter, and more power Hino eight-legger is ex3ected to make an appearance n the UK by the end of November. While the...

• Bingley-based trailer manufacturer and bodybuilder Wilson Truck Services has developed an extra-high-capacity drawbar...

• A month after launching its crew-cab conversion on the MAN G90, Stoke bodybuilder Whitacres is now offering a crew-cab...

• Foden has now officially followed the example of its Sandbach neighbour ERF by offering the latest air-to-air, charge-cooled...

• Trailer rental company Tiphook will be market leader in Europe by April next year, vows executive chairman Robert Montague....

• Transport managers today have a choice of over 500 different distribution computer packages — almost twice the number that...

• Birmingham motor group Evans Halshaw is buying Ford and Iveco Ford dealer UBM Motors for 27.5 million. UBM's two truck...

• Northern Ireland bus and coach manufacturer Wright's of Ballymena has launched its latest contender for the midibus market....

• Optare's continued London success has benefitted the Volkswagen LT55-chassised CityPacer "Mobility" buses. London Regional...

• Who has the best looking bus on the road today? Whether you operate one or one thousand buses, coaches or minibuses, you can...

1 A furious row has erupted ver the future safety of bus rews following a Department f Transport refusal to discuss re funding...

• The first Cumminspowered buses to join the Nottingham City Bus fleet have gone into service. Fifteen Leyland Lynx...

• Busmen from Midland Scottish Omnibuses, who are considering buying out the company following Scottish Secretary Malcolm...

• Six drivers employed by Gateshead-based Van Hee Transport may have to be made redundant, following a decision of the North...

• Environmental objections to plans by Newport haulier Robert Hughes, trading as RBH Transport, to base four additional...

• The PSV operator's licence held by David Crossley, trading as Crossley's Coaches, of Blackburn, has been revoked by North...

• Fines of 25,000 on Wharfdale Traction of Ilkley, for 16 offences of allowing drivers to break hours regulations and take...

• The dismissal of a lorry driver because of defective eyesight has been upheld by a Manchester industrial tribunal. This is...

• Haulier TC Brears and Son has won a national licence for four vehicles and seven trailers, despite a protest from the local...

BY THE HAWK • The Hawk is an old smoothie. There is nothing he likes better than relaxing in his pied-a-terre, listening to...

SIR SKILLCENTRLER ROLE IN TRAINING • From time to time articles appear in your journal on the subject of a lack of skilled...

• Mercedes-Benz has replaced the top end ot its heavy truck range with the new SK-series featuring new engines, gearboxes and...

We look at parts prices for one-tonne vans and 17-tonne trucks which manufacturers parts are cheapest? INTRODUCTION IN Most...

• Back in April while Britain's international hauliers were bearing the brunt of the seamen's strike, we were offered the...

• Abal Engineering's name was chosen because, with the possible exception of Aardvark Truck Parts, Abal's name always kicks off...

Roadrunner registrations in 1987. Clifton uses the unpopular HGV 3-type vehicles because they allow him to be sure that...