▪ To the surprise of everybody, it seems, except professional road users, Britain is having a winter this January. The evidence...

• How can you spot that your drivers are not taking their declared rest breaks? Just how safe is a commercial vehicle compared...

• UK hauliers this week have been battling with some of the worst weather on record in an attempt to deliver the nation's...

• Renault Truck Industries (WEI) chairman HerveGuillaume says the company will make a trading profit this year, but has hinted...

• The EEC Commission has asked Britain to submit an urgent report within the next six months on the state of the country's...

• The sale of Leyland Bus to its management has been completed — and the deal differs from that originally proposed. For a...

• International hi-lateral journey permits to Italy are impossible to get for many small, growing haulage companies and...

• Austin Rover's flagging car-derived van sales have received a massive E2.2 million shot in the arm with its biggest single...

• In a move described by one industry source as either "Very brave . or stupid", Scania Great Britain, and its...

• At the halfway stage of this year's Paris/Dakar rally the leading truck i9 the TurboTwin II entered by Daf and driven by Jan...

I A group of more than 20 MPs has been formed to oppose the Channel Tunnel, and to encourage opposition to the Channel Tunnel...

• Freightliner, BR's road transport subsidiary, is planning to close eight of its 22 depots and cut up to 480 of its 1,747...

• Profits, sales, and return on capital are all increasing in the vehicle rental and leasing market, according to a new report...

21 new Leyland Roadtrains and 20 Crane Fruehauf 12.2m temperature controlled vans as part of a 2.25 million capital expenditure...

• Interim results for 1986 from the Tiphook Group (which includes Central Trailer Rental), show an impressive 56% jump in the...

The meat company has placed contracts with the two distribution specialists to commence in March. Shop stewards for the...

U Job prospects in the transport industry look bleak for the first quarter of this year, with 13% of employers in the industry...

IN Leyland Trucks is experimenting with auctions as a means of disposing of its exdemonstrator and company vehicles. The...

up for sale. Chairman Alan Caffyn told Commercial Motor, "We have decided the time has come to move out and reinvest in the car...

• Kirkby Central Group — currently in the process of being bought by Plaxtons — is to buy the Sheffield-based Leyland truck...

• Specialist distribution consultancy. Planned Warehousing of Guildford, with a client list including Tate and Lyle, House of...

• Despite its recent development of a 343kW (460hp) turbocharged and chargecooled vee-ten engine, German truck builder MAN...

• fruckrent and Trailerent have joined the growing number of operators and manufacturers now specifying asbestos-free brake...

• Heavy haulage specialist Hallett Silbermann has taken delivery of a new Volvo F12 6x4 tractive unit, capable of operating at...

I/ York Truck Equipment of Corby has converted its first Leyland Roadrunner chassis for Leeds-based Airmaster Engineering. The...

specifications of commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes GVW is now available from a new, Surrey-based company called Truckspec....

• At the Brussels Commercial Vehicle Show this week, Scania revealed changes to the brake control system on all of its truck...

• Bulk operator Liquids Powders & Gas Transport of Batley has bought two Leyland Cruisers to operate on its new contract with...

• Blackpool bus operator Easyway Bus has become the first independent operator to be banned since deregulation last October....

E Overloading charges against Skipton haulier W&G Taylor were dismissed by Rochdale magistrates after the driver claimed he had...

with a warning when they appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall...

• A number of hauliers and drivers gained absolute discharges after Lichfield magistrates accepted that they were not to blame...

R. Somerset of Chapel-enle-Frith has been increased from 10 vehicles and 16 trailers to 14 vehicles and 24 trailers without...

• Chris Wright (Baildon) is to be given the opportunity to make representations about the effect on its business of proposed...

• Operation of unlicensed vehicles by Brierley Hill-based Bicton has led to the refusal of the company's application for a new...

• Newbridge Gwent haulier Brian Chilton & Sons (Transport) has had its licence cut to 11 vehicles and 19 Trailers and shortened...

• More one-person operation, more bus services under contract, and improved fare collection are key points in London Regional...

• The proposed management buy-out of Wakefieldbased West Riding Automobile Company has hit a snag with the news that the...

• Bus services in Scotland will be 'over-hauled' again from January 6. On that date changes in the privatised services come...

John Whitehead, trading as Sports Tours of Littleborough, over local services in the Rochdale area. North Western Traffic...

to 90% of the other's he can drive his competitor out of business, says a newly-published Transport and Road Research...

• West Midland traffic comnissioner Ronald Jackson took Lwo West Midland Travel single-deck buses to check that they could pass...

• NFC subsidiary Cartransport has appointed Roger Sanders, 44, as divisional director with responsibility for car delivery....

• Richard Greenwood has been promoted to the main board of W&J Foster as marketing director. He is responsible for the...

• Two top civil servants have been appointed by the Department of Transport to oversee current changes in the bus industry....

• David Buck has been appointed to the main board of National Carriers Contract Services as marketing director.

• Newly-launched VIA Truck Rental has appointed three new managers. Eddie Cowper, 49, joins VIA as technical operations...

• The Nottingham branch of British Car Auctions has a new management team led by James Gibson, 29, who joined the company in...

• International journey permits have become so scarce that Britain's hauliers are being forced to turn work away and lose...

SEDDON EXTENDS • Two new distributors and a parts and service main dealer will be added to Seddon Atkinson's UK network on...

LONG DISTANCE GUIDE • The RHA's Long Distance Functional Group has produced its 1987 directory of long-distance operators —...

COACHING WORKSHOP • Over 100 exhibitors representing a variety of coaching interests will be attending the Bus and Coach...

W C DOUBLES UP ▪ NFC Car Auctions' Stoke on-Trent branch (0782) 417000) has doubled its planned commercial vehicle sales for...

NSF STRETO4 & SWITCH • North Sea Ferries is spending £16 million on lengthening its two passenger/freight ferries, the Norland...

• Halcon Motors of Charfleets Industrial Estate, Canvey Island (0268 685006) is now offering a van rental service to Essex...

VW VANS UP 3% • Volkswagen has raised the prices of its light commercials by an average of just under 3%. The continuing...

FT BREAKDOWN • A mechanical breakdown insurance scheme — Iveco Ford Hallmark — is now available on all makes of used...

PEUGEOT TALBOT EXTENDS • Peugeot Talbot has introduced a new second and thirdyear extended warranty scheme for its light...

Prins GRANT CLAIMS • As reported in Commercial Motor December 27, 1986, the Road Transport Industry Training Board has...

• The following roadworks are likely to cause delays and should be borne in mind when route planning. CM's roadworks reports...

your headline news item "More Cuts for DTp Examiners" (Commercial Motor, November 29, 1986). It disturbs me considerably to...

your Comment "Permits" (Commercial Motor, December 20) — it is eight years too late. Until 1978 all EEC permit increases were...

on your recent article "Skills Motor Coaches gains and losses" (Commercial Motor W/E December 20). The substantial number of...

Motor. December 27, entitled Who's Jake? from A Reddin of Aberdeen was typical of all drivers who use a Jake Brake. Your...

Club is compiling a register of all Shp and 10hp sidevalve-powered, Ford cars and commercials built in the period 1932-1962,...

We take a hard look at last year's commercial vehicle registrations. With a few notable exceptions, the motor industry will be...

excise licence on his vehicle, chewed it up and swallowed it. I shudder at the thought of what he would have done had he been...

electric locomotives travelled the 27km from BR's works at Derby to the Brush Electrical plant at Loughborough for...

Volkswagen's LT35E offers excellent handling, marred only by poor rear wheel traction. It doesn't come cheap, but offers more...

Three years ago London Transport's bus and maintenance operation was set to lose £17 million. Now it is moving into profit. We...

Allan Lock bought an ex-Army truck in 1949. Now he operates 26 tankers, transporting hazardous chemicals for the likes of Esso...

Britain's the first hauliers are forced to operate under a crippling tax burden — and for time the Freight Transport...