• Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley must be an optimist. Speaking during the recent Parliamentary debate on spray...

Kammac Trucking of Birscough, Lancashire, which went into receivership two weeks ago, following cash flow problems. Pointbid...

• Department of Transport experts have snubbed Roads and Transport Minister Peter Bottomley by rejecting his proposal "that any...

• A lorry driver, who caused death, injuries and damage when his vehicle ploughed in to stationary traffic on the M2 motorway,...

• Nine out of ten foreign lorries stopped by Hertfordshire police last Thursday failed road safety checks. Out of 45 lorries...

• "rhe International Road Transport Union (IRU) has demanded that Europe's Governments "eliminate all unjustified restrictions...

a watchdog body to supervise the transportation of hazardous goods in Humberside. The union fears that Humberside County...

• Swiss voters have thrown out a proposal for a coordinated transport policy which would have offered major benefits to foreign...

• Terry Goldrick, the Freight Transport Association's director of engineering and consultancy has been made an MBE in the...

with the loss of almost 200 jobs. Owner Noel Hanlon called in the liquidator after striking employees rejected a management...

• As predicted by Commercial Motor Cliff Groves, the former director of marketing at Scania (GB) has been officially appointed...

• Better targeting of checks on trucks carrying potentially deadly radioactive loads is being called for by Department of...

• HGV traffic is at an all-time high, according to the latest Department of Transport statistics. HGVs covered 6.3 billion...

• W and E Electric Vehicles and Iveco Ford Special Vehicle Operations have jointly produced the first electrically powered...

• Axle manufacturer Rubery Owen-Rockwell has extended its links with the Dutch trailer suspension manufacturer Weweler NV,...

• Mazda has revised its Eseries one-tonne panel van range to give drivers greater protection in the event of a head-on...

• The first Cummins engines sold in the UK with full electronically-controlled fuelinjection could make their British debut...

a York Magnum 27 tipping semi-trailer to transport bulk loads of grain, malt and barley to merchants and malting companies....

• The world's largest exhibition of emergency vehicles and equipment, at Hanover last week, attracted a record number of...

• Stoke-on-Trent bodybuilders, Whitacres, is now offering a crewcab conversion on the latest MAN G90 7.5tonner. The Whitacres...

• Falkirk-based Walter Alexander looks like becoming the first British PSV bodybuilder to offer a single-deck bus body on the...

council has taken another turn with a proposal for diverting all buses down side streets. If accepted, other cities could...

for its Leyland National re-power kits from West Midlands Travel, which is buying 122 kits to update part of its large fleet of...

• Australian-owned tour operator Westbus UK has made its biggest single investment since it was established in 1986 with a...

• Employees at Glasgowbased Scottish Citylink are planning to stage a buyout bid with the help of the management now that...

• Troubled London Country North East's new managing director is, as expected, Bob Howells. Formerly with Yorkshire Rider, he...

• A national charity dial-andride bus service, specialising in carrying the disabled, is to come under local management in...

of Basingstoke Transit, under the directorship of Harry Blundred, who runs services in Oxford (Thames Transit) and Exeter...

• Seven Newcastle bus companies have unveiled a voluntary code of practice, aimed at cutting congestion in the city centre....

• A company's bid for an international licence has been refused, because one of its directors was previously managing director...

and costs by Worcester magistrates, after failing to produce 124 tachographs. Astons of Kempsey (Coaches), Droitwich Executive...

• Bridgend haulage firm Ralph Jones Transport has had the duration of its licence cut because of vehicle maintenance problems....

• Potteries Motor Traction is to be allowed to increase the number of vehicles on its North Western licence from 34 to 40,...

• Hungarian state-owned haulier Hungarocamion has launched a massive expansion in Eastern Europe and beyond. It plans to issue...

• Northern supermarket chain William Morrison is buying 25 ERF twin-steer 38tonne tractor units with 40 York trailers, partly...

• Trio Containers, one of Britain's largest refuse skip rental companies, has placed an order worth over 22.2 million for...

its pre-tax profits by 67% to .E4.12 million in the year to 31 March. The company runs 400 skip vehicles, rear-end loaders and...

• Reliant Motor has started to reorganise its affairs and is considering a rights issue later this year, but production of the...

uses a network of 30 local hauliers throughout the UK, has won contracts for The New Statesman, children's comic Scoop, and...

• National Freight Consortium distributor SPD has spent 2250,000 on four Daf 2100s and four 2500s for a dedicated contract with...

• If you want to make a killing in road transport, get into farm or reefer haulage. Running tankers, on the other hand, could...

• Bus operators have been warned not to pull out of routes they have moved into competitively without fulfilling legal...

Richards and Son from Fakeham admitted liability for an accident which left a motorcyclist suffering from brain damage. Robert...

• A French lorry driver, who carried on driving after a prohibition had been put on his vehicle, was spotted again by the same...

• Coach operator P Smith of Lichfield and five of his drivers who used unsuitable and poorly maintained vehicles to carry...

NEW DEPOT FOR SEABOURNE • Seabourne Express Group has opened a depot and office in Aberdeen, complementing its Glasgow office....

KEEP IT CLEAN IN CAMBRIDGE • A box van and curtain-sided vehicle cleaning service is being offered in the Cambridge area to...

AIR CALL'S NEW RADIO PAGER • A radio pager which clarifies the source of calls and shows their priority is now available for...

MIDDLESBROUGH TO ZEEBRUGGE • Sealane Freight, part of the Star Cargo Group, has added a Middlesbrough-Zeebrugge sailing to its...

N EW HSE GUIDE TO DANGEROUS GOODS • A guide to the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations was published last week by...

DOVER PORT IMPROVEMENTS • New freight facilities have been brought into use at the port of Dover. A combined HM Customs and...

drivers have gained top placings in the Bandag "Drive for Safety". The national fleet drivers contest, run by Bandag Tyre with...

1 July small businesses can pay VAT by direct debit every month. Announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1987...

taking bookings for its extramural studies day and evening classes for a certificate and diploma in transport. By attending...

and transport engineers — a UK weights and dimensions chart from Commercial Motor. It covers everything from twoaxle rigids to...

• London and the South East MI London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). Entry and exit slips at J4 closed...

several stories about wheels coming loose, falling off, etc, and I remember one technical story in which you listed some of the...

• Your recent supplement covering light vehicles (Commercial Motor 19-25 May) was most interesting, especially the article "Van...

The time — 09.00hrs. Approaching the MI to go northbound I turned down Derek Jameson's patter and turned on the CB. The first...

"fly tipping" (Commercial Motor 2-8 June) may I suggest that one way to control loads removed from construction sites to tips,...

Double-deck semi-trailers have great potential for boosting operational efficiency. We invited a dozen manufacturers to let us...

Tail-lifts have obvious benefits for anyone loading and unloading a truck and the new generation of lifts are lighter, tidier...

Next month Newsflow will, at a stroke, treble its newspaper distribution business to handle 21 million newspapers a night....

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Captain Kibble — a brand of bread which six independent bakers have got together to...

BI GGER PR Y Hunter Distribution may not court publicity, but it is building a reputation that is winning it some major...

Last year Scania grabbed nearly 25% of the UK's tri-axle sector, so we were keen to see how the latest 6x2 R113 shaped up...

It began with tangled suzie hoses which partially closed an air line tap during fullturn manoeuvering, thus restricting the air...

of these weird buildings in a spot which was empty the night before. Is it a zip-open inflatable? Is it a build-by-numbers...

The Grampian Initiative ("Grampian's Going Places") is a partnership between local government and industry and the area's...

times when not a month would go by without some Pickfords van featuring on these pages. I now know why. Whereas 400 years ago...

articulated vehicle set off from Great Ormond Street Hosptial on an epic 5,600km journey that will take them around the coast...

metalic megastar Reggie the Robot tells Transfleet driver Peter Foster as he is whisked to Thames TV studios to appear in a...

the other week, giving ITV's Telethon a big lift. One of its 50-tonne lorry-mounted cranes was used to hoist an eightmetre...

in the RTITB's young mechanic of the year competition — will fight it out at the board's High Ercall offices on 30 June. They...

for the Transdery division of Mills Associates, the tachograph chart analysist is specialist.

Contract Services has promoted Peter Davies to its board, as commercial director with responsibility for sales and marketing....

made four senior appointments. Steve Levison has been promoted to divisions director, he has been with the company for 10...

chairman of the British Shippers' Council Liner Committee, a consultative body dealing with tariffs and the monitoring of EEC...

commercial director of West Sussex county council, heading the new commercial group which handles cleaning and vehicle...

managing director of Bibby Distribution Services (Holdings), a division of the Bibby Line Group. He joins the company from...

Felixstowe with Keith Beadle as manager. He has transferred from the Abingdon office of Overall Transport, which was acquired...

planning and personnel, Barry Norris, is joining its executive board. He will be responsible for developing the company's UK...

new managing director of London Country Bus North East. He takes over from Alan Jones, who quit last month.

the family Albion Leyland distributor in Newcastle Upon Tyne, has died suddenly aged 74. The firm was acquired by Hargreaves...

NI More trucks may be sold at 7.5 tonnes than at any other weight in the UK — but when it comes to the money-making end of the...

With an increasing demand for heavyweights, manufacturers have extended the options available to prospective buyers. We have...

When the 38-tonne limit came into force, Bulldog International Express lost no time in making full use of it. Now it runs a...

In the course of a year we roadtest more 38-tonners than anyone else, and our tests are the most searching in the business. For...

Frank Chippendale is responsible for distributing tonnes of card and chipboard every week for Smurfit Paper and Board of...