• No doubt the RSPCA has the best intentions in its new campaign to highlight the conditions animals have to travel in during...

• The RSPCA has lost its Hi g h Court bid to stop hauliers takin g live sheep to France, but it is considering either an...

• Dery prices could fall this week if the Gulf situation does not worsen, says fuel analyst Oil Price Assessment. Building...

• Strikin g owner-drivers at Alfred McAlpine quarries in South Wales returned to work last week after failing to win an...

• Bulgarian transport workers will he given tips on pay bargaining by Frank Griffm, general secretary of the United Road...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has announced plans to audit the recall systems of truck, bus and trailer builders. However car...

• Hauliers have won a second round in their fight for a fairer deal from the Government on truck weighing. Following pressure...

• Hauliers who lost money in the Spanish truck drivers' dispute have finally been told that the Spanish government will...

• Scotland must have a "first class infrastructure" if it is to compete with England effectively after the opening of the...

• The latest dismal CV registration figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders could herald a recession as bad...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has given the green light to private toll roads. Last week Parkinson published The New...

• The Princess Marina, a former Wick lifeboat, reached its last resting place, the National Lifeboat Museum in Basildon, last...

• Despite the current downturn. Hino is believed to be reviving plans for the assembly of its commercial vehicles in Britain....

• Edbro is introducing a new tipper hoist for six and eightwheelers. The DX Superglide replaces its DE model which has been on...

• An Irish company has won the concession to sell Romanian Dacias in the UK, following the collapse of former importer MIL...

• The Ministry of Defence has ordered over L000 Transits from Ford, for purposes ranking from dog collection vehicles to...

• Vauxhall has released prices for its new Novavan, which goes on sale this month (see roadtest, page 34). The 12litre petrol...

• Gardner engines can now be reconditioned to the latest standards on noise and exhaust emissions. The offer from the...

• Cornish Brewery of St Austell says the performance of its Volkswagen LT 35 diesel van has been "transformed" by using...

Receiver expects Voith's getting heavier • Troubled bodybuilder Wreckers International could be bought this week, according to...

• Reducing rolling resistance on truck tyres could cut fuel consumption by 3%, a top Michelin engineer predicts. And rolling...

October) we quoted the wrong fuelconsumption figure for Aroads. The figure should have read 16.181k/100km (17.4mpg), not...

• Torbay Council is putting its vehicle and plant maintenance contract out to tender. The contract covers 450 vehicles and...

• The Transport Development Group has bought the Calor group's transport business, Liquids Powders & Gas Transport, for just...

• NFC has expanded its employee share ownership scheme with the introduction of a Personal Equity Plan (PEP) which is open to...

• Removals consortium Britannia Movers International is planning to almost double its membership of family-owned businesses, in...

• In a move to match the efficiency of its competitors, parcels carrier WPS Express is centralising its sales and...

distributor Sun Valley Poultry is planning to treble the number of reefers it sends to the Continent and open distribution...

• Parcels operator United Carriers is replacing its 219strong Leyland Daf fleet with Mercedes-Benz vehicles in a 29m deal....

• Some 580 staff at Bee Line Buzz have voted to accept a cost-cutting package after being told they could all lose their jobs...

• Reading Transport has sold Reading Transport Commercial to Renault for more than 22m, so that it can concentrate on its bus...

• Stevensons of Uttoxeter has taken delivery of five Robert Wright-bodied Mercedes-Benz midibuses for its Darlaston and Burton...

MI The new Gardner LG1200 engine has been specified by Dennis Specialist Vehicles for its double-decker Dominators, including...

• Minibus builder LHE Engineering of Eastleigh has been wound up after going into receivership last month with debts of more...

• Westminster City Council has received more than 100 complaints about coach drivers since last month when it launched its...

• East Lancashire Coachbuilders will start bodying Dennis Dart chassis next year using an adapted version of its aluminium...

IN National Express subsidiary Crosville Wales is hoping to resume its bus services in Wrexham this week following a twoweek...

• Stoke-based operator PMT is cutting its coaching operation by 50% after a disappointing summer season. Paramount Travel will...

• Winchcombe livestock haulier Gilders Transport and 12 of its drivers have been fined almost 2,500 for drivers' hours and...

• Neal Bros (Leicester) has been Oven the go ahead to change the operating centre for its 12-truck international licence from...

g • Ulster haulier Dennisons Transport Ser vices and one of its drivers have been found guilty of using a vehicle with...

• Truck driver Nigel Watson has been jailed for 15 months and disqualified from driving for four years for causing death by...

It= • Dumfries based William Johnstone has a change of operating centre, despite representations from another operator and...

MAKING AN IMPACT • Birmingham-based Impact Accident Repair has opened its second depot on a 1,500m 2 site at King's Norton. It...

SPRING AT GIGANT • Gigant Suspensions (UK) has become sole UK agent for the original equipment products of West German truck...

held at Nutts Corner race circuit at County Antrim on 2728 July. Contact (0266) 47819. QUALITY ON THE STREET II A one-day...

COLD GUARANTEED • Shell is renewing the winter performance guarantee for its advanced diesel, which means that purchases made...

FRENCH CONNECTION • Transport operators who want to improve their French may be interested in an advanced level French language...

GRIPPING STUFF IN THE SNOW • Snowgrips are a range of wheel grips designed to keep light commercial vehicles moving in the...

a 7kW water heater which is fitted with a 3.4kW half-heat option. Called the Mikuni MX60 it costs £679 (ex-VAT) which includes...

LEGAL AID KIT • A first aid kit which, its maker claims, meets the new health and safety at work regulations, is available...

REPAIR WORK AT PLYMOUTH • Repair work is about to begin on the A38 at Marsh Mills, Plymouth, which will mean occasional...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M40 Buckinghamshire: Restrictions both ways 14-5. Also J6-7 (Waltlington/ Theme). M4 Berkshire:...

M5 Devon: Contraflow between J29-30. M5 Gloucestershire: Contraflow between 11 2-1 3 (A38/Stroud). Exit and entry slips closed...

M1 Leicestershire: Two lanes each way between J23 and 124. MI Nottinghamshire: Contraflow in operation between J26-27 just...

M6 Cheshire: Contraflow between J 7-1 8. M53 Cheshire: Lane closures both ways at Hoole roundabout. M57 Merseyside: Contraflow...

M74 Strathclyde: Contraflow between 14-5 (Maryville/Bothwell). MB Lothian: Contraflow at 14 (Eastwhitburn). M90 Fife:...

to replace its brash seventies red, white and blue, with a simpler red/blue combination on a two-tone grey background. But...

The economic downturn is hitting all operators, but small hauliers are the most vulnerable. CM's latest exclusive survey...

Genera Motors is ma in. its irst oray into the car-.erive. van mar et with the Novavan. Goos va ue, a .00d payloa. an. 'Co. ue...

TNERS? A decline in passengers is not the only problem facing GoAhead Northern — but this could all change. • Drivers at...

I can assure you that Watchdog has a total commitment to dealing in facts. All those used in our film on rogue lorry operators...

all he was expecting to r was a handy travel bag. Wh got was a new Renault G' ve unit. Id not believe it at first. When CM...

promoted Keith Thompson to commercial manager. fie has been with the company for 10 years, formerly as export manager.

national sales fleet manager for Avon Tyres. Daniels takes up the post of divisional manager for Avon Tyres London.

Maurice Stansall as national accounts manager. Stansall was formerly with rival firm Chart Services, part of the Lex Group.

Waste Control as fleet engineering manager. He conies from the London Borough of Southwark, where he worked in the transport...

Terry Hall is Group 4 Nightspeed's new key accounts executive. He previously held a similar position with Red Star. Hall will...

of the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association, which represents 2,800 body repairers and bodybuilders. She joined the VBRA...

as head of engineering facilities, temperature controlled services. He was previously with Union International where he was...

the southern region is Mike Hurst. He rejoined the company last year as South and South-West regional manager, having worked...

finance director. He comes from sister NFC company Hyperion Properties, where he was director of finance and administration,...

• As the racing season climaxes, organisations are busy upgrading their support vehicles. Cartwright Freight Systems, for...

Moving panels Truck Panels, which went into receivership last August, has been acquired by Temperature Controlled Technology...

• United Transport Tankers is running electronicallysealed tanker trailers on its flOm Cargill distribution contract to counter...

• Short, which has just delivered its first 8.8m roll-up eurtainsider Clipper body which gives a 6.1m clear opening, for...

• Devizes fruiterer Mortimer Fruit Shops has replaced a Daf 3300-drawn turntable-type drawbar outfit with a closecoupled...

• Wincanton Engineering has supplied five farm milk tankers worth £400,000 to Uganda's Dairy Corporation in Kampala. The 6.000...

In A combination lock for ISO containers and box-van bodies is being marketed in Britain by Encrypta Electronics. The flat...

• From next Spring VW aims to contest the 2.8 tonne GVW front-wheel-drive market but bodybuilders must wait until May 1991 for...

• Craven Tasker has supplied Swedish removal firm Kinnarps with the first of 20 step-welled bodies for an unusual demounting...

• A roof-mounted on-board unloading system for delivery vehicles has been launched under the name Heman by Modemill of Oldham....

• Oldham bodybuilder Ken Rosebury has produced an Iveco 49.10-drawn mini-artic mobile sales shop for Donut Delight, The 9,14m...

Reefer outlet Luxembourg bodybuilder Plasti-Baeton, which sold about 200 reefer kits in Britain in the past two years,...

• Last week's first European Temperature-Controlled Storage and Distribution (TCS&D) exhibition, held in Rotterdam attracted...

Designing glass transporters can tax the ingenuity of the bodybuilder. It is a highly specialised sector which is fraught with...

IN FROM ABOVE After a long history in the glass business sliding roofs are now becoming popular with steel hauliers. • Steel,...

• Al International Pillar Box Corner Mundon Maldon Essex CM9 6NS Tel: (0621) 740741 a Bentley Radnor Park Trading Estate...

• The main builders of refrigerated vans in Scotland are to be weathering the economic storm and market-leader Gray & Adams is...

• The Ldinburgh show took on a continental flavour with exhibits from North European manufacturers as well as Scottish and...

FOR THE FUTURE Despite the gloomy business climate some bodybuilders are looking to the future and investing in new plants....