IN Given the amount of time spent on drafting, redrafting and reredrafting European Community laws, you'd think the Eurocrats...

of its UK business earlier this year, lost £60m in the year to the end of May.

prize in Commercial Motor's Best Kept Working Truek competition at Truckfest South West last weekend. John Miles of Blagdon...

says the ILDM. Distribution costs as a percentage of turnover are down from 5.18% last year to 4.7%, due to savings in...

appointed five new collection and delivery agents in a move which has merged territories of some former agents. Those whose...

• Proposals to harmonise drivers' working hours across the European Community could lead to a sharp rise in hauliers' costs as...

• British international hauliers could be paying around £3,000 a year to run a truck on German autobahns from next year. The...

The European Commission has decided to rethink the issue of drivers' hours and working time because of the many anomolies that...

/ Parcels delivery company Parceline has launched a European service to 13 countries across the continent. The Euroline...

• Machins, the Lincolnshirebased food distribution and warehouse specialist, called in the receiver last week after nearly 30...

/ British hauliers are being urged to team up to fight for compensation following the French truck drivers' blockade. Michael...

• A local authority-backed plan for a 370km east-coast motorway running from Newmarket to Cleveland has been ruled out by the DOT.

• Foden Trucks has appointed Bill Henry as its Northern region sales manager.

• NFC has bought US transport company Trammell Crow Distribution. The Dallas-based company's assets amount to £4.2m, and its...

• General Logistics — inventor of the Trafficmaster motorway traffic monitoring system — has won the Worshipful Company of...

• George Alcock, production director at East Lancashire Coachbuilders, is taking early retirement at 56, ending 54 years of his...

• A buyer is being sought for £1.8m-turnover removals firm Overs of Camberley, Salisbury and Addlestone which called in the...

• Cumbrian-based Eddie Stobart is Motor Transport's Haulier of the Year. Stobart beat finalists Archbold Freightage and Beck &...

• EC officials are drafting new regulations for livestock transport which the RSPCA claims could put many livestock hauliers...

• Traffic Commissioners are to meet next month to discuss the Freight Transport Association's proposals to offer a transport...

• Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has slammed a quirk in the law which makes it harder to prosecute PCV operators than...

• Peter Bell, managing director of Mahon, North Yorksbased SA Bell, has succeeded Ian Ramsay as chairman of the Transport...

• Ricardo is forming a consortium to research Ultra Low Emissions Truck Engines (ULETE). The Shoreham-based company will not...

• Iveco Ford has ordered 50 Granning Lynx drive-axle air suspension conversions for the TurboDaily, following service trials...

111 Car transporter and preparation specialist Walon of Yeovil has expanded its 140-artic fleet with a two-vehicle carrier and...

Leyland Daf's 45 Series was voted Fleet Truck of the Year at last week's Motor Transport Awards. The little 7.5-tonner beat off...

• A Scania R113 MA 4x2 320 tractive unit is the 40,000th Scania sold in the UK. It has been supplied to Glass Glover...

postal order • The Royal Mail has ordered 23 new triaxle semi-trailers fitted with SAF axles and air suspension. This is the...

• Seddon Atkinson's longawaited new 17-tonner will be offered with either a Perkins Phaser or Cummins B Series engine —...

• Foden Trucks has extended its roadside rescue and recovery service to the Continent. Those operators covered by the...

• Ford is cutting the price of its 1.8-litre diesel Fiesta vans by an average of 7.7%. The RRP of the diesel Fiesta Popular van...

• Boalloy is to licence up to eight local bodybuilders to assemble its Fineliner curtainsider from kits. It will allow the...

• The partners in Maghull, Merseysideb a se d Haulage Technique, and two drivers were ordered to pay £3,331 in fines and costs...

• An application for a new fivevehicle standard international licence by J J Adams Haulage, based in Ossett, has been...

• Cedric Johnson's loose form" of partnership with his nephew Peter brought an adjournment of a licence renewal hearing....

• Alan Melvyn Eardley, the proprietor of Montego European, has been banned from operating coaches or driving coaches and...

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

• Criticism of WJ Capper Transport's maintenance system by a DOT Vehicle Inspectorate district manager was attacked as unfair...

the duration of the licence held by Dolmac, of Erdington, Birmingham so that it expires at the end of the year. Mervyn Pugh...

Chisholm, trading as Thanet Bus, has been cut to expire in June 1993. South Eastern and Metropolitan TC Michael Turner said...

directors Peter Housby and David Brown, and a number of drivers, have appeared before Carlisle magistrates accused of offences...

absolute discharges after admitting gross and second axle overloads on an artic before Brough magistrates. The magistrates...

trial by jury when he appeared before the town's magistrates accused of falsifying tachograph records. Jones, of Castlecroft...

• Four major car transporters are losing lucrative contracts at Longbridge and Cowley since Rover's decision to reorganise its...

praising the work of its operations director Bob Beattie who has died. He spent the last 14 years responsible for the...

100-package-a-day contract with manufacturer Hager Powertech. The switchgear supplier has asked Lynx to work with their 600 UK...

Frankfurt is now being offered by Davies Turner in conjunction with GL Kayser.

• The National Owner Drivers Association has warned ownerdrivers to steer clear of taking on work with construction company...

• Irish haulier Blueflite has pulled out of its partnership with West Midlands-based parcels firm The Last Post alleging that...

• The future of Glass Glover Distribution's Bathgate distribution centre has been settled now Safeway is to continue with the...

• Magnet Kitchens is examining its former relationship with haulier M&M Transport, partowned by John Dee Ltd finance director...

• Scottish hauliers are set to be hit hard by the axing of 1,300 oil rig construction jobs at US company McDermott's yard in...

• TDG operation Beck & Pollitzer has linked with Italian transport giant Castelletti Group to offer a road/rail service to...

• A Sheffield Omnibus engineer has rebuilt a double-deck Leyland Atlantean chassis to take single-deck bodywork, in a £50,000...

• Scania's first right-handdrive low-floor N113CRB chassis has arrived in Britain. So far the Milton Keynes-based importer has...

• Iveco Bus has set up a company with two Italian engineering firms to build electrically powered buses. The first two hybrids...

• Northampton-based dealer Jonckheere UK is repeating its offer to fit safety guards over the interior handle of the emergency...

Tony Biker might have kept his 0-licence if his case had been heard when LAs had more freedom of choice. • North Eastern...

• Oxford-based insulated and refrigerated bodywork specialist Klege-Europ (UK) has appointed two new UK aftersales agents....

• Extra freight capacity will be available on the Sealink Stena Line Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire service. The freight-only RU-RU...

• Hauliers interested in railfreight can visit Freightconnection '92 on 3-5 September at the National Exhibition Centre,...

• The Combustion Engineering Association is running the UK's first Natural Gas Vehicle .016-w conference and exhibition. The...

• Hauliers operating up to four vehicles are being offered a special insurance package by the Road Haulage Association. The...

• A truckstop has been opened at Colsterworth, Lincs on the Al with diesel, catering, parking, toilet/showers, phones and...

• The Department of Transport has published a new edition of its national road network map designed specially for commercial...

• The Freight Transport Association has extended its range of technical training courses to take in six new subjects. The new...

• Emergency equipment designed by a retired HGV driver will give a vehicle temporary lights until the system can be fixed....

• An audible system that will warn a driver when he is about to break a speed limit is being introduced by Sailes Marketing....

• Drivers are promised instant overload warnings with a new axle weighbridge from Central Weighing, the Kidderminster-based...

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[i t is not just French truckers who are up in arms — more than a million Indian lorry drivers have refused to curry favour...

ah — you can't talk to them in the morning because they're too tired "... and you can't talk to them in the evening because...

1 ast Thursday's film premier of Batman Returns in London, featuring Superpuss Cat Woman (below), was followed by a party at...

H he police are fed up with being airy fairy about speeding drivers, it seems. Hampshire coppers are about to take to the air...

lews of the new Dartford bridge or the pleasures of watching aircraft land at Heathrow Airport are among some of the delights...

LONG-TERM TEST The Leyland Daf 200 family dates back as far as 1974. This long-running series has had many changes, so how does...

Road transport legislation is littered with talk of CV weight limits, but the terminology is woefully inconsistent... • When...

Price: 211,292 (ex-VAT). Does not include £1,240 for Tipmaster body or Smiths electro-hydraulic tipping gear Engine: 2.4-litre...

experiment, fitting devices that allow managers to pinpoint their trucks to within 50 metres anywhere in Europe. I...

RETURNS One in four transport managers fail to reclaim VAT spent abroad on fuel and services. CM explains who offers recovery...

A green concept truck has gone on trial with the Royal Mail. But will the E90,000 artic pay for itself through fuel savings?...

• I'm absolutely dismayed over the scale of protest in France against the new driver licensing law. British and other EC...

• I can have some sympathy with the French truck drivers in their current dispute with their government. Dealing with...

• in last week's Dear Sir, Alan Wilson of the Vehicle Inspectorate pointed out that the decision to integrate traffic and...

• It was painfully obvious from his letter (CM 2-8 July) that Stuart Kelly doesn't know what a transport manager's job...

, T he country road I cycle to work along is narrow, hedged and curved; a typical country lane. But recently the roadside woods...