Like the by-now-tamous reply from Mandy Rice-Davies. the results of the latest Shell survey of British truck drivers is very...

• Taunton-based road transport training company Friendberry has taken out a writ against Dale Auto Training and Transport and...

:uro survey • British drivers are the hest in Europe, while Italian and French are among the worst, according to UK truckers...

• Renault Truck Industries has become the latest HGV builder to decide to give the Scottish Motor Show a miss in November. RTI...

• Hauliers have been slov to take advantage of pretest brake checks, offered by the Vehicle Inspectorate It believes many...

1 The Transport Developnent Group had a rough ride or the first six months of its inancial year with UK transiort profits...

• The ATS Supertnick Trophy Race held at Silverstone last weekend, was a battle of the giants, with Steve Parrish finally...

• Lack of interest has forced the Road Haulage Association to shelve plans to offer a computerised load matching system to...

Thirsk, North Yorkshire, is appealing to the Environment Secretary, Christopher Patten, against Hambleton Council's rejection...

by more than 25% if duty-free sales are abolished at the end of 1992, says the Duty-Free Confederation lobby group. MPs will be...

• Many of the criticisms levelled against the proposed ADR hazardous goods regulations will be answered by modern information...

• The Department of 'I'ransport has rejected as "interesting but too expensive" proposals from the National Association of...

• West Sussex-based Highway Vehicle Maintenance has announced two new maintenance and repair contracts with local authorities....

• Austin Rover has increased the price of its Maestro van. The list price of the base model, the 1.3 500 City, is now...

• Danzas UK has bought o of the first 13.6m trailers to enter service in this country The Boalloy curtainsided triaxle trailer...

1 Dennis Specialist Vehicles usurped Mercedes-Benz as upplier of emergency tenders the Surrey Fire Brigade. 'he Guildford-based...

/ Perkins is to begin production of a more powerful version of its Phaser range of diesel engines early in the new year....

• Operational trials of Foden's new 17-tonne truck are proceeding apace, prompting speculation that the vehicle may be launched...

which offer a 24-tonne payload but weigh just 6.5 tonnes. The air-sprung, triaxle trailers use aluminium (instead of steel)...

• Mack. the American truckmaking giant part-owned by Renault, could soon be turning its attention to the European market. A...

• Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service has placed an order worth nearly £1 million with Dennis Specialist Vehicles for 20 new...

• The RAC has installed the first stage of its national data and speech radio system — the biggest in the UK — at its centres...

• Derbyshire-based National Plant and Transport has won the latest British Coal transport operations contract for the Central...

• Seabourne European Express Parcels has launched a daily parcels service between London and Gibraltar. Spicing up the City •...

• Carpet manufacturer Abingdon Carpets has signed a five-year total logistics and distribution contract with Ryder Distribution...

IIII The Home Buy company established earlier this year to employ long-term unemployed people to sell household goods from a...

• Distribution 2000 is recruiting hauliers and parcel firms to set up a nationwide distribution network built on franchises....

• Sea Containers, which ow, Sealink British Ferries, is considering selling some of it containers and ferry routes a...

• Preston-based removals firm Brewer and Turnbull is looking for a further 14 franchisees to expand its network across the...

• Forward Trust, a wholly)wned subsidiary of Midland Bank, has teamed up with Win:anton to provide a fullmaintenance, heavy...

• A home delivery firm called Systemcare set up by Federal Express has already clinched a 250 million contract with...

• Crowle, Scunthorpebased W Thomson Haulage is diversifying into the bulk haulage market after many years specialisation in...

• Intercare, the distribution division of Lincoln-based J L Holdings, has opened its first "Intercare Europe" warehouse on the...

known for its minibus fleet which operates on the narrow and steep roads of the Lake District — has bought its first...

• 'I'alks are in progress about a staff buyout at 70-vehicle municipal operator Hartlepool Transport. The Borough Council...

• Following last week's surprise announcement that National Express has acquired the Stagecoach express operations, National's...

• Drawlane subsidiary North Western is to close its Skelhome Street, Liverpool, two-level bus station next month. National...

rapid transit cars, if En-Way gains an order for a 2150 million, 18km elevated system in Leeds. This is the latest contender to...

• Gateshead-based Go-Ahead Northern, biggest of the former NBC subsidiaries, has taken delivery of 14 Daf/Optare Deltas to join...

• Isleworth, Middlesexbased London Buslines has acquired 11 Alexanderbodied 75-seat Olympians to operate London Regional...

• A local trade council has backed Southdown in its battle with Cedar Travel of Worthing. In a letter to the local paper the...

• Bee Line is moving into a new bus station at Newbury this week, after nearly four years on a temporary site. The new...

• Carlyle Group has produi the first prototype of a rang( of midibuses and coaches bai initially on the Mercedes-Be] 8111)...

• The Bus and Coach Council has sold all available stand space for its Coach and Bus 89 exhibition, to be held at the National...

haulier H W haulier H W Pryce & Sons, said to have a "full house" of convictions by West Midland Licensing Authority John...

• The trial ut Burnage, Manchester, hauliers Michael and Kathleen Duffy, their transport manager and one of their drivers, for...

• An objection by Hereford and Worcester County Council, to an application for additional vehicles and trailers by John Cooper,...

• Though granting Brick Delivery Services an increase in the number of vehicles and trailers authorised on its licence, West...

• West Mid kt, lands Licens ing Authority ing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has adjourned consideration of possible disciplinary...

• Romiley. Greater Manchester tipper operator P R Enstone Bulk Haulage has successfully applied to increase its licence...

IN A Shell ban on drivers over 60 has cost Birmingham tanker operator Alpha (Bulk Liquids) 21,784 in redundancy money and...

• A Gwent haulier who failed to properly maintain a vehicle involved in a fatal accident, has been fined 24,000 at Cardiff...

• Prestatyn magistrates fined St Helens-based Jennings Haulage 2500 for a 3% overload. The driver of the vehicle concerned,...

• Brian Fitsall heads the UK arm of one of the world's largest parcel carriers, DHL. He organises more than 2,400 employees, 43...

CHANGE FOR EVA • The Electric Vehicle Association has moved to Leicester House, 8 Leicester Street, London WC2H 7BN. EVA is now...

SPRING IN AT BEL • British Springs has appointed Bus Engineering Limited (BEL) of Chiswick, as a distributor for its range of...

ETMC CONFERENCE • This year's European Transport Maintenance Council conference will be held in London on 26-29 November....

SWITCHING TO DIESEL • Maidenhead-based technical publisher Autodata has launched the Diesel Injection Manual, designed to...

MINI BEACON • A compact warning beacon measuring only 135mm high has been launched by J R Bignail, manufacturer of the Re...

ii27 REPAIRS I East and westbound cartageways on the M27 between unction 8 (Hedge End) and unction 10 (Fareham) are ndergoing...

deride the Department of Transport's plan for narrower lanes on the motorways when it is clear that a great deal of Ministerial...

reported in CM 3-9 August (Dave Longman/cruise control/ cellular telephone) was meant as a joke. If not, when will his licence...

in CM 10-16 August the Dear Sir letter regarding medical problems. I think Mr Jones' best form of attack is to write to his...

• Recent comments in our letters page have cast doubt on the desirabiity of a Lada. However, in Russia, demand for the vehicles...

in a 6Icnn traffic jam on the M5 between Cheltenham and Tewkesbury. Suddenly, your car phone rings and you are told that a...

Castrol press release verbosely promoting a free half-litre of jollop to punters buying five litres of the stuff. It is, of...

Secretary, was heard calling into BBC Radio Essex's morning show last week to compete in the station's mystery voice...

On the trailer is a 15m glass fibre shark, mouth gaping menacingly. The shark has been there for three weeks, ever since its...

The hills were high, the day and engines hot, yet almost 250 historic commercial vehicle enthusiasts turned up again for the...

they could take a parcel from Newcastle to Stuttgart by next morning. Only six said they could. This is how they fared. • The...

I Northampton carrier Nexday, which las struggled to find a niche in the :rowded parcels market for six years, is :hanging tack...

We set another tough challenge for UK parcels operators this year: taking a consignment from central London to Belfast...

tractive unit — but how's your cash flow? Are interest rates biting just a little bit too hard? Don't despair. Commercial Motor...

• The COMMenifil Molar - Win a Truck" competition is pen to readers of Comm...elm' Motor moan... over the age of 't I. with the...

• Every evening Allport Freight's artics head for Heathrow and Gatwick to collect hitech goods and fashions which the company...

811R11711JES When the Renault Trafic arrived in 1 981 we liked its load area, handlin. and price, but not its cab, noise or...

• HAYS GEOGHEGAN Ray Geoghegan has joined Hays Specialist Distribution as information systems manager. Ile previously worked...