• John F Kennedy had the right idea when he said: "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your...

• Tanker drivers at Esso have agreed to give up collective bargaining in return for an increase in wages to as much as £33,000...

• Road.transport is as safe as rail for moving dangerous goods, says a new Health and Safety Executive report. But it says a...

• Cummins is increasing the drain intervals on its 10 and 14-litre engines thanks to an increase in sump capacity. The company...

• A major dUltl step towards I ', solving the • I t great wheelloss mystery on trucks will this l be r■rolub" * ;""Z month e...

CM's Wheel Loss Campaign, launched last year, raised more than £13,000 to pay for months of work by wheel design specialist Don...

• A British truck driver, carrying urgent aid for children in war-torn Yugoslavia, has been held for 32 hours by Swiss police...

as standard, predicts top truck racer Slim Borgudd, One in seven racing trucks currently has anti-lock brakes. Borgudd says...

could cripple their industry — 80% of road transport from Greece crosses Yugoslavia.

transport users in Scotland has been formed. The Scottish Transport Users Group has the backing of the FTA.

• Parcels company UPS has relaunched Seabourne Express, which it bought a year ago, as Euro-Expedited Service, delivering to 13...

• Small hauliers' co-operative UNIT 91 wants to link with the French owner-drivers' association behind last week's blockade of...

week, Commercial Motor readers will be able to say loud and clear what they think of the plan by Brussels bureaucrats to...

• German trailer builder Schmitz and Ray Smith Demountables were this week believed to be front runners in the race to take...

Foden 4300 eight-wheeler with 23m3 Wilcox aluminium tipper body. Hirst carries quarried stone for Marshalls Mono.

by the Department of Trade and Industry's Radiocommtmications Agency over the past month did not have licences.

detailed guidelines on the type of temperature recorders most of its 105 members will have to fit by 1993.

• Former Eezee Euro executive Bernard O'Brien has resigned from Widnes Export Services, which says it does not want to be...

wage claim from the Southern region calling for increases in wages and UK and continental subsistence.

• One in five light commercial vehicles sold in Europe could be Japanese by the end of the decade, according to an FT report.

• TNT is to advise charity Save the Children on ways of improving distribution of aid in the Sudan.

• Chesterfield family haulier Fastlane Parcel Services has been awarded manure distributor Organic Concentrates' first "Carrier...

• John Taylor, Lancashire fire brigade's transport chief, is taking over from Terry Goldrick as chairman of the Institute of...

• Hauliers in the Scottish Highlands and Islands face a tougher regime of enforcement checks, says Scottish Licensing Authority...

• Seddon Atkinson's managing director Miguel Vargas has been replaced by former sales and marketing chief Robert Sculfor. Roger...

• Railfreight Distribution has chosen Mossend, near Motherwell, as the site for its Scottish Channel Tunnel freight village....

• The impact of environmental issues will mean distribution companies having to rethink their strategies, say transport experts...

• All trucks could have to be fitted with all-electronic tachographs by the end of the decade, says a European Commission...

• The Road Haulage Association has condemned the highwayman-like actions of French hauliers and farmers who have been attacking...

• Truck sales are still falling but the slump shows signs of bottoming out. Figures for last month show a 5% fall in...

• Axle manufacturer Rubery Owen-Rockwell is to launch two air suspensions in the spring which will replace its current...

• The first 13.6m twin-decked livestock semi-trailer from GR Commercials of Cheadle, has entered the fleet of Crick-based...

• Adamson Modular Systems of Stockport and Archer Engineering (Leeds) are intent on entering the UK's intermodal swap body...

• Specific operational needs has led to Boalloy changing its designs to suit customers. Fleming Howden of Clydebank needed the...

• US-made 'Ladd& hydraulic underlifts for new or existing vehicles have been added to Peter & David Cosby's Vulcan range of...

• British Gas North Eastern has taken delivery of six 7.5-tonne AWD TL 8-14s, including one fitted with a Hiab crane and...

• Vauxhall has announced prices for its new Astravan, which goes on sale this month. They are: Merit 1.4i Cat: £7,190; Merit...

• Cobra Railfreight of Wakefield has taken its first Norteck-designed steel coil carrier semi-trailer to operate at up to...

to other manufacturers. BRS's bodybuilding division has bought 22 of the kits.

• French hauliers are being offered tax incentives to fit their trucks with fuel-saving air deflectors under a 12-month...

• A prototype haulage version of the UK-designed Yasoob military truck will be ready in three months. PSV International of...

• Chassis engineer J Roberts expects to retrofit more than 10 Leyland Daf 17-tonne Freighters with 4x4 drive by the end of the...

• Allison has begun production of its new World Transmission (WT) range of electronically controlled automatic gearboxes. The...

• Boalloy unveiled a revised version of its intermodal Tautliner at a Railfreight Users Group exhibition last week, The swap...

in Companies who fail to pay hauliers for work are to be blacklisted by trade association the Transport Users Group. TUG...

• Nexday Express, the parcels carrier recently acquired by the Speedwell Group, is launching a three-day UK parcels service and...

• Some transport firms resist switching from cash to fuel cards because drivers resent losing the perk of putting sweets and...

• A family haulage business with three vehicles claims it is owed £13,000 by collapsed clearing house Sierra Freight — the...

ceased trading and is selling its fleet of eight trucks and 18 trailers.

cleaning products firm Jeyes, to distribute products from its main warehouse in Thetford, Norfolk.

£750,000 to deliver products for Battle, Hayward & Bower, the veterinary drugs manufacturer.

• A city analyst has predicted that the UK truck industry will start to haul itself out of recession next year with sales of...

• A Yorkshire freight operator is cutting hauliers' rates by 20% because of the shunp in the housebuilding market. Translift...

• Parcelforce has hit back at Consumer Association claims that only 78% of its standard parcels are delivered on time compared...

• W&J Riding has been granted an absolute discharge after pleading guilty to an axle overloading offence. Driver William...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

• A maintenance agreement submitted by a licence applicant "was not worth the paper it was written on", Judge Harold Wilson...

• Wrexham livestock haulier Philip Jones, trading as JE Jones & Son, has lost his licence for 10 vehicles and eight trailers....

charts covering weights and dimensions, special types regs, and the new LGV driver licensing rules. They cost £2 each (inc p&p)...

• Maintenance problems have led to the 0-licence of Peter Scott & Partners, trading as P&G Plant Hire Contractors, of Dundee,...

• Michael Jeal, trading as Panther Buses of Crawley, has lost his appeal against a three-month ban on the operation of local...

• A new licence bid by Philip Smith, trading as Smith's of Stratford, has been adjourned for him to seek legal advice. In...

• West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has cut the licence of Tamworth-based Burman from 20 to 18 vehicles...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have cost 37 TD Williams drivers a total of £3,864 in fines and costs. The company had...

• Sketchley Services and driver Kenneth Gemmell won absolute discharges after pleading guilty to using a dangerous vehicle...

• Midibus builder Robert Wright & Son of Ballymena is preparing its first full-length single-deck citybus body. The aluminium...

• Optare is evaluating operators' reactions to one-step ultra-low-floor buses with a Den Oudsten Alliance City, which has a...

being fitted to the 70 double-deck Olympians being delivered to Stagecoach next year.

• Wigan-based bodybuilder Northern Counties has received an order for 14 double-decker buses for delivery next spring from East...

• Iveco Ford is planning to import a new rear-engined coach to Britain by 1994. The latest model ; likely to be seen at the...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles' 1,000th bus has been sold to Hong Kong's largest bus operator, The Kowloon Motor Bus Company.

• This year's Temperature Controlled Storage and Distribution show in Manchester reflected the perilous state of the industry...

• The 1992 edition of the business directory Europages has just been published, listing 5,500 suppliers in the European vehicle...

• Customs and Excise has issued a consultation paper on the VAT treatment of transfers of going concerns. It stresses that the...

• Next year's Supertruck Ireland will be held at the Ballymena Showground on 31 July-1 August. It includes a best working truck...

Subaru has increased the price of its Sumo microvans, From 2 December the 1.0 2WD will cost £4,900 (ex-VAT) and the 1.2 4WD,...

TRAINING Sales assistance • A consultancy service to help commercial vehicle manufacturers and dealers train staff in sales,...

• The Manchester Training and Enterprise Council is looking for local hauliers to give its LGV students three weeks work...

• A hospital is offering truck drivers credit card-style records of their blood group to help hospital staff in the event of an...

in Truck drivers who find themselves redundant, sick, or needing extra cash because their truck has broken down may be...

• Securicor Communications has added a panic button to its mobile phones. In the event of a raid, the driver presses the button...

• Ford has introduced a side window air deflector for its Transit van. The clear plastic shields come in sets of two and can be...

London and South East M1 Herts: contraflow J5 (A41, near Watford). M20 Kent: lane closures J10 and 11 (Ashford/Hythe). M20...

M6 West Midlands: contraflow J7 and J9 (Gt Barr/Wednesbury). The northbound entry slip road is closed at j7. M6 Staffs:...

M5 Devon: one lane closed southbound 08:00-19.00hrs between J27-28 (Tiverton/Cullompton). M4 West Glam: restrictions J39441...

M74 Strathclyde: various lane closures at 36 (Hamilton). A701 Lothian: contraflow near Milton Bridge.

(0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401 115...

16 he Hawk hears that JS Tallett of Oxford is researching for a book about long-distance haulage between 1920 and 1940 — he...

rivers of black cabs in Manchester have been ticked off by the city council for not conver ing their cabs at £1,000 a time to...

the cream of Devon in the shape of 39 Arabian horses, two dogs, three cats and assorted people who together make up the...

E he Government's Citizen's Charter aims, among other things, to make public transport run on time. What a pity CM received an...

auliers having trouble getting customers to pay their bills should take heart from the latest technological development which...

a truck. But that's exactly what we did eight weeks ago when we revealed that Ecoclear had become the first company in Britain...

disaster on more than one occasion. It nearly went bust in 1978, when it was a tiny outfit with only two trucks. Since then it...

We have two Ford Cargo recovery vehicles fitted with slide-back bodies and spectacle lifts. Each has a gross vehicle weight of...

I have received a summons for an hours offence from a traffic examiner. The statement which accompanied the summons gives a...

• There are many uncertainties about the freight service that will operate through the Channel Tunnel, but it is clear that...

When is a truck load insecure in the eyes of the law? Transport lawyer Jonathan Lawton finds out. • Some years ago I was...

• This year Commercial Motor was instrumental in promoting and raising sufficient monies for an indepth research into the...

As a member of the operations committee of the IRTE's national council, I have carried out a research over the years into this...

• In reply to Mr Robertshaw's letter (CM 31 Oct-6 Nov) I would be quite happy to supply "genuine cost information" on fuel...

• Your 10-16 October edition contained an article on page 22 headed "Brake problems for AP", and the associated photo caption...

• We felt we should write to yourselves regarding the prices of spares. We had occasion to ring Seddon Atkinson at Preston...

• I was interested to read the letter from Mr Hanley of Bedale (CM 26 Sept-2 Oct) regarding the poor public image of the road...

• It is difficult to know how to respond to the letter consisting mainly of insults from MP Fisher (CM 24-30 Oct). Transport...

B rian Williams is the new chairman of Lowfield Distribution, Tibbett & Britten Group's grocery distribution division. He...

• Christine Key has replaced David Moores as sales manager at Parceline's Manchester depot; Moores now runs Trafford Park.

• Irving Transport Services of Newcastle has made Norman Charlton transport manager.

• Roy Halkett, formerly of Maywood Haulage, has become transport manager for Watford-based operator LA Franklin.

MI John McCallion is the new marketing manager at parcels carrier Red Star.

• Derek Fallows has been appointed fleet sales manager at MAN Volkswagen.

• David Jackson and Peter McLoughlin join the board of Hays Distribution as finance director and director.