Sons to Perkins marks a significant change in the engines business — and it will probably have a significant effect on the...

• Three months ago Bedford claimed a double first when Rascal/Suzuki Super Carry micro van production began at Luton. The...

• London's night and weekend ban for lorries over 16.5 tonnes looks more likely to remain in force following last week's local...

• Heavy goods vehicle and PSV drivers are being given seven instead of five days to produce their licences to the police. New...

• The much anticipated takeover of Gardner Engines by Perkins is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Perkins...

• After two years of development, the first pre-production of a new municipal truck chassis cab has been demonstrated this week...

• The road haulage ii should beware of pofitich who call for "coherent" transport strategies, Hoi Secretary Douglas Hurd the...

)ne of the largest traffic lops" ever undertaken in h-East England took place ie A2 at Faiconwood last c, when the police,...

is part of its UK nsion, Ryder Truck al has taken over Forrest k Rental Company and its Vest Country depots. le acquisition...

Leyland and Merc scale new heights • Leyland and MercedesBenz are maintaining their growth in the declining UK truck market,...

• A fatal accident on the M4 in January 1984 in which a tanker driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, led police to...

• '[Ni' drivers driving through print workers' picket lines while distributing News International's newspaper titles now face...

• New EEC rules aimed at tightening controls over the transport of toxic chemicals and other dangerous goods by road are being...

• Leyland Trucks has underlined its determination to break into the removals industry market by sponsoring last weekend's...

• Leyland Trucks is expected to make the longawaited announcement this week confirming its intention to use the Cummins/Case B...

• Hyva (UK) is to import the German Schulz rubber-assisted lightweight steel trailer suspension, said to be the answer to load...

• The first fix 2 tandem steer Leyland Roadtrain 20.29, with LTA 10-290, 10litre Cummins engine and Low Datum C40 day cab has...

• BPW Marcar's 0-S suspension, using a new q of air bellows, makes its flu appearance in the UK at T Con this week. A...

:astrol has launched two oils which could cut the transport industry's £2.7 n fuel bill by around 3% at the same time erving...

.yka, the Preston-based and specialist vehicle ifacturer has sold its inits to two separate corn!s. nes Robertson and Sons...

prevents recoil • TTB (Fabrications) of Townstal, Dartmouth, has developed a safety device to prevent the rapid recoil of door...

• A second Bedford TM 4x4 16-tonner has been specially equipped by Welford Truck Bodies of Warley, West Midlands for the...

• Scorpio International's plans to take over an existing operating centre from another United Parcels Group subsidiary, Atlas...

• An owner driver with a standard national licence has been given a conditional discharge for six months and ordered to pay £15...

• A Scottish delivery dri er's unusual attitude to his. work included not speakin: to his employer until spok, to and refusing...

• A man who used his d father's HGV driving licen has been fined 260, condit nally discharged for two years and disqualified...

High Court ruling that m Plant (Services) Ltd of e is responsible for the s of its self-employed iort manager has led 'Western...

he failure to comply with dertaking over the ig and maintenance of his ehicle has led to the ation of the licence held ieph...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have cost Welsh Quality Lambs (Craven Arms) PLC and five of the company's drivers a...

• Britain's largest coachbuilder, Plaxtons at Scarborough, is to shed around 200 jobs owing to the low demand for new luxury...

• To provide an efficient airside passenger link between the new Terminal Four and central area terminals at Heathrow Airport,...

iii London Buses is to introduce a new bus ticketing system in the autumn. The system, which will initially be experimental...

• West , Yorkshire F application for a Goverr ment grant for its Leed and Bradford trolleybus project has been rejecto by the...

• London Buses' commercial unit now has 50 AEC Routemaster double-deck buses in use on its London sightseeing tour programme....

• Allied Aims, the computer service company of Allied Breweries, will launch a new version of its vehicle cost management...

• Plans for revival ol Dundee-Rotterdam ro-ro vice have been deferred u the early autumn, says th , Dundee Project, the body...

• Can you help locate two missing vehicles, a Leyland Clydesdale skip lorry and a platform trailer? P and M Skips (phone 0992...

• Mercury small consignments service, launched by Bolton-based Parkers Transport in January this year, is to be transferred to...

The news that Perkins is going ahead h its plans to buy Gardner from wker Siddeley confirms one of the st persistent rumours...

• Ted Philp (picture) was installed as the new president of the British Association of Removers at its conference in Harrogate...

• As expected, Flowers Transport chairman Glyn Samuel has been elected national chairman of the Road Haulage Association in...

• As the National Bus Company continues to prepare for privatisation, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has announced the...

• Mike Kneen, the Roac Haulage Association's techn manager for the past nine years, is retiring this month Kneen, who joined...

• John Rogers, a former chairman of Britain's Assoc tion of Vehicle Recovery Operators (AVRO) has beer elected international...

REDUNDANCY REBATE CHANGES • The abolition of redundancy rebates for employers of ten or more employees will come into effect on...

CREDIT CHECK • A new computerised credit-monitoring service for the motor industry has been launched by the recentlyformed...

• The bodybuilding Wilcox Group has issued the telephone numbers for sales and factory enquiries at the company's new Market...

• Lucas Kienzle's Automatic Electronic 1318 tachograph, which is already fitted as original equipment by a number of...

DOVER DEVELOPMENTS • A new freight drivers co plex, called the Wheelhouse has just opened at the East( Dock Ferry Terminal at...

and exhibireturns to its usual venue iolihull next week on irsday, 22, and Friday 23 V. lore than 150 companies, uding all the...

• BIN Turbo: H&D Distribution of Eastleigh, Hants, has been appointed PSV distributors for the BTN Turbo Garrett Airesearch...

for the way we capitalise on the benefits of rubber as a shock absorber for multi-wheel vehicles on rough roads! Apart from...

. am fed up with reading ut transport managers and lers singing the praises of vos, Scanias and Oafs, and iging the...

I would like to clear up a .sible source of confusion in kr article "Rail Grant Fare" (CM, April 12), erein reference is made...

• To think they are actually going to reduce the cost of the HGV Test is music to the ears of those of us who have been...

means that industry as a whole should enjoy lower prices for finished products. The monitoring services demonstrate a unique...

Materials and attitudes are ow to change in the tipping dustry. Nevertheless each year e look forward to visiting those ainped...

Light tipper operators should have a better knowledge of the bodywork available to them. Brian Weatherley asks a leading light...

After nearly 20 years' absence the Comet has returned to the Leyland model list. Like that other returning cosmic body, it is...

QUALITIES Seddon Atkinson 301 cab may be ageing, but that does not detract from the appeal of the company's 8x4 Operators may...

• A range of flashing beacons for vehicles has been launched by Dorman Smith Traffic Products Limited, better known for its...

• The new 5000 series roof racks from Desmo have been designed to fit a wide range of vans and minibuses. The 5100 has rolled...

• This fabulous and unique Talbot Trekker cost 270,000, but it is ;oing to be given away in our competition which continues...

- eet — well some of them, irway — will be ever-grateto MAT Transport (part of ; MAT Group) who recently iertook an unusual...

Where? Well, where would you guess? Lurking, apparently, in the depths of a modern distribution centre having, obviously chewed...

The release — intended to be a "funny" (like this Bird's Eye piece) — carries a statement by TNT spokesperson Christine Wilson,...

on a truck after it has been parked for the night, is it fair to include this time in 'driving hours'?" That's a current...

of Metropolitan Authorities' Public Works Committee, Councillor John Kotz, received a fitting moment() when he attended his...

This is a question that most operators will have considered at one time or another. After all there are plenty of fuel saving...