POLITICAL WEIGHTS • Slowly but surely the details of Labour's 10,000 word transport policy document are becoming known. Top...

• The Labour Party is considering allowing lorries of more than 40 tonnes on designated routes in Britain. Transport spokesman...

• Two companies within the Martintrux group are in the hands of receivers and are looking for buyers. Martintrux and...

NI Roads and Traffic minister Robert Atkins seems likely this week to bow to pressure from industry and raise the maximum...

I Overseas reefer operators voted to follow the code of conduct rerated by '1'ransfrigoroute (UK) for the last five years at...

MI Public transport minister Michael Portal() says revised EC proposals for changes to drivers' hours and tachograph laws would...

• The success of the Channel Tunnel depends on hitting the right balance of "quality, economy and speed", according to the...

• A new haulage business, Mayday Express, has risen from the ashes of Bristol-based Slick Services which went bust in July,...

• Registrations of trucks (above 3.5 tonnes) resumed their upward surge in August after a slight fall in July to reach 55,232,...

• Kenny McDonald of Shell UK Oil has won this year's Lorry Driver of the Year Competition, held at Bruntingthorpe in...

• Associated British Ports (ABP) will outline its plans to develop the haulage side of ti Red Funnel Group's business in about...

• A 2150 million, four-lane highway is being planned for the Docklands, to link the Cil to the Isle of Dogs. The project,...

• Two high-volume truck chassis featuring a specially shortened S cab are being launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show this...

• An investment of over El million in new panel-making equipment at Norfrig's prodth tion plant at Hvam in Demrna should enable...

• LAG has launched a 'Eur grade' specification tanker in the UK. The Eurograde has range of features from which the customer...

• A major new report on vehicle rental and contract hire predicts that rental companies will merge and diversify as 1992...

• Removals firm Brewer and Turnbull has signed up the first of its target of 14 franchisees, Edinburgh-based Broughton...

• Freighthire (Tank Haulage has secured lucrative contract; following its 225,000 investment to gain the BS5750 standard. It...

• Henry Diaper, a Merseyside warehousing and freight company, is expanding its UK distribution fleet with the addition of four...

• TNT has won its first European distribution contract with Nutricia, parent company af Cow & Gate. The company's TNT Con:ract...

I Home Buy, the South 'ales-based company set up to nploy long-term unemployed :ople, has taken delivery of e first 10 of a...

• Peter Lane Transport Group and Keeling & Sons have together set up a new division of Peter Lane, called Bull Force, to handle...

• Last week's fourth Fire International show, held at the NEC Birmingham, attracted over 150 exhibitors. There were more than...

• If Customs and Excise is introducing changes in its timehonoured system, then change must truly have arrived. Last month saw...

• D E Appleton (Haulage) of Formby, Lanes was said to have failed to keep its vehicles in a fit and serviceable condition, when...

• Gary Rowland, general manager of ERF Manchester, has been held to be partly to blame for a 2 million order for trucks by...

• North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu took no disciplinary action against Manchester bus operator Citibus Tours,...

• Ross on Wye magistrates were told last week that the supplier of a vehicle to Ice Company (Bedford) is to be sued over its...

• South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh says he is appalled that an Abe rgavenny coach operator did not have a...

• The generosity of William Cox, managing director of Cox's Transport, in paying Class I lorry driver Edward Johnston his full...

• Wednesfield haulier Philip Jones was given an absolute discharge by the Ashbourne magistrates after admitting nine offences...

• Eastern Scottish has bezome the latest Scottish Bus Group company to use former London Routemaster doubleJeckers. It has...

• Nlore than 580 staff of Aberdeen-based Grampian Transport have become shareholders following Inland Revenue clearance of the...

• VL Bus and Coach has announced the names of support dealers so far agreed for 1990 as part of its combined Volvo/Leyland Bus...

• Plans by Ribble Motor Services and Lancaster City Transport to revise fares and services have been attacked by both Lancaster...

• South Yorkshire Transport's upgrading of services continues, with the introduction of a "Mainline" unit on its 93 route from...

• It's now a year since Commercial Motor reviewed the progress of automated transmissions in trucks and buses (Engineer's...

• Four years ago the Swedish parliament decided that by 1995 it would reduce sulphur emission levels by 65%, and nitrogen oxide...

• Hungarocamion, Hungary's stateowned haulier has 1,700 trucks — one of the biggest fleets in Europe. It has run as a private...

I The first purpose-built American-style trucker's centre in Britain is set to open next month just off the M25, near the...

BY THE HAWK • Kidd's Services, the international removals company, provided eight trucks for its local Lions Carnival at North...

• The company which empties Paris's bins has won its first local authority contract in Britain. Sitaclean, the UK arm of French...

• There's definitely a touch of deja vu about Renault's R365 tractive unit. Maybe it's the cab. It started life on top of a...

windows to the rear of the doors. By providing a view of both the drive axle and the rear of the trailer they could be used to...

A crawler gear makes restarting on any steep incline up to a 25% (1-in-4) gradient very easy, and we were grateful for it on an...

SIR :OWBOY CONCERN 1 The article in News Headnes (CM 24-30 August) highghted the serious concern uite rightly expressed by the...

• More and more haulage companies are getting wise to the fact that a little investment in driver training can bring big...

• Furniture foam supplier Harrison and Jones can now carry more foam blocks than before, thanks to a Foden 6x4 drawbar outfit...

• Fire Trucks of Micheldean exhibited its latest airfield crash fire tender at the Fire International show, held earlier this...

• A new design of marketing support trailer built by Lynton Commercials features removable floors to accommodate large...

• Granning's Rippondenbased Stemfast division is no offering a 2.408m-wide axle tc suit car, fork lift or planttransporter...

• Advanced Technology Panels of Ossett, West Yorkshire is marketing an Indonesian-made hardwood plywood which is suitable for...

Wincanton Bodywork, part )f the Arlington group, has leveloped a 12.2m reefer railer that offers a 2.6m nternal height within...

I An opening-roof version of iortech Bodies' curtain-sider designed for ease of loading y crane. Once catches at the rear of...

Bedford-based Short is :veloping a roll-up rtainsider system and a plugled version of its slidingor temperature-controlled...

Sweet semi trio • Three step-framed semitrailers built by Tidd Strongbox for a confectionery manufacturer are making use of...

• Folkestone coachbuilder Dormobile, which was acquired last March by automotive engineering design consultancy KBD. has...

• Simon Engineering of Dudley, West Midlands unveiled its long-awaited ST telescopic platform firefighting and rescue appliance...

• Lawrence David has completed an order for 19 curtain-sided 12m trailers for British Telecom, built with Kerbsider strapless...

• GRP Massey has bought a large part of the Dundeebased Tayside Comercials bodybuilding business. This includes the right to...

MI An article on road tankers in July's Bodybuilder suggested that when vehicles are equipped with electrical extras such as...

Dobson Dc mounts offer you considerable advantages over ordinary vehicle distribution systems. You increase control, get more...

• It is just 10 years since a "universal" standard for British-based demountablebody systems was developed by the Society of...

• Besco, a pioneer in aerodynamic bodies, still leads the field in fuel-saving design, says managing director Don Wilson, The...

• A ramped body with curtain sides was specified by Aston Martin Lagonda for its latest specialised car transporter, based at...

IN Some removals companies are suffering their worst year on record. Because of the continuing decline in the housing market,...

One of the largest removers we questioned mentioned an egalitarian type of working party, where everyone from senior management...

• We started loading at around 10am, but because most of the load had to be sorted and then carried down six flights of stairs,...

• At the 1989 Waste Management show in Paignton, Devon, a new name was evident among the specialist bodybuilders catering for...

• Fuel savings of up to 26% are being achieved by Exel Logistics with two aerodynamic box vans on contract to Argos, the...

• Northern Ireland trailer manufacturer Montracon is turning out new and lighter models from its improved factory in...