by ourselves, or any other part of the media, trying to establish cause or blame for the loss of the RO-RO ferry Herald of Free...

Ili A midnight traffic check by Lancashire Police and Department of Transport traffic examiners last week stopped 70 vehicles...

• Around 500 Leyland workers this week braved snow showers to lobby MPs at the House of Commons. Leyland AUEW convener Derek...

• A number of hauliers face heavy losses following the closure of freight forwarder RS International. The company, which had...

• The sinking of the 8,000 tonne Herald of Free Enterprise last Friday (March 6) has been described within the haulage industry...

• There have been "quite a lot" of enquiries about the sale of National Express, the coaching arm of the National Bus Company....

• The recent speculation over the future of Leyland Trucks has not dissuaded operators from buying the company's vehicles,...

• After a successful week-long strike by Italy's mainly self-employed HGV drivers which sparked off fuel shortages, higher food...

• The holding company of Mansfield-based E&J Meeks has been purchased by Consilium AB of Sweden. The deal is materials...

• The first Iveco Ford 190.42 TurboStar tractive unit in the UK to be fitted with an air suspended lifting tag-axle will...

• Gardner has developed a higher-power 216kW (290hp) version of its 12.7 litre 6LXDT turbocharged six-cylin. der in-line engine...

• Renault Truck Industries has carried out a cab re-styling exercise on its Commando range and has revised the plating and...

• The long-awaited in-Line six cylinder, four stroke diesel engine with electronic injection control developed by Detroit...

• Following hard on the news that Swedish vehicle manufacturer Saab-Scania had its tenth consecutive record year in 1986,...

• ANC, the Stoke on Trentbased parcels carrier has expanded its parcels trunking float with 15 new ERF E10 4x2 tractive units....

• NFC distribution company National Carriers Contract Services has picked up 29.5 million worth of extra business from the...

• Eastbourne Borough Council has become the first local authority in the country to win back a waste disposal contract from a...

• Following the approval of the new London North/South route from Tottenham to the M25, estate agents Healey & Baker report...

• Chamberlain Phipps Transport, the sister company to M&B Transport of Northampton, has opened a new 371m' depot in Erith, Kent...

• Oldham-based Seddon Atkinson has won orders for 78 trucks — worth over £2.5 million — from four of the country's major oil...

• Transport Development Group has extended its parcels carrying business with the acquisition of the distribution arm of GEC —...

• The international 18vehicle and 12-trailer licence held by Expo Fuel Oil of Bexley has been revoked on grounds of repute by...

• The new Eastern Licensing Authority, Brigadier Compton Boyd, gave what he called a "gypsy warning" to Latiock Public Works...

• 'Me loss of two trailer wheels from a trailer axle in an incident on the M6 motorway was not the fault of Worksop haulier,...

• Maintenance problems led to the number of vehicles authorised on the PSV operator's licences held by Associated Crown Coaches...

• Loughborough-based PSV dealer WS Yeates has supplied Grey Green Coaches of London with seven new Volvo BM coaches in a deal...

• Nine more National Bus Company subsidiaries have been sold, bringing the total so far privatised to 28. Canterbury-based...

• Blackpool-based coachbuilder Hestair Duple has sold seven new coaches in four separate deals with coach operators around the...

• London Buses will begin large-scale trials of an advanced ticket system in Southeast London on March 22. This marks a return...

• Maintenance problems have led to the 26 vehicle PSV operators licence of CH Field of Bristol being prematurely terminated so...

• The most important factor in determining whether minibuses can replace conventional buses on any given route is • round trip...

• Recently privatised East Yorkshire Motor Services is to buy the Anlaby-based bus and coach operator Cherry Coaches, which...

• The London Liner service between London and Eastbourne — launched last May — ends on March 28, and the service between London...

• German bus builder Neoplan, already selling double-deck coaches in the UK, is now examining the single-deck city bus market....

• Over the past decade Detroit Diesel Allison — General Motors' diesel engine and automatic transmission-manufacturing...

SIR FT'S TOUGH TO GET TESTED • I have become very concerned recently that the availability of appointments at our local test...

BY THE HAWK • Variations on a theme have inspired the best of us, from Raclunaninov to emulsion paint manufacturers. We at...

RISING PRICE • Heavyweight Japanese Hino trucks have been built in Ireland since 1968 when J Harris (Assemblers) of Cloghran,...

In Europe, we constantly talk about overseas manufacturers taking our markets. Do we sell aggressively enough? • People have...

Originated by Scottish & Newcastle's former fleet engineer Alan Bruce, and named in his memory, the new front-wheel-drive...

• Following the Paccar takeover in 1980, Foden altered several of its operating practices. Some of the changes are more obvious...

• London's dial-a-ride mini-bus service, the public transport system for handicapped people, is to get more government money in...