QUALITY CONTROL • The latest cry for stricter controls on access into the haulage industry sounds rather like a cracked...

• A fuel cartel operating in the North-East has cost local hauliers thousands of pounds in inflated fuel charges. The cartel...

• Remoulded tyres have been withdrawn from sale at all Halfords vehicle parts and accessory outlets following tests that...

• Following Commercial Motor's roadtest of the Seddon Atkinson Strato (CM 29 March-4 April) Cummins is working on a series of...

• Haulier Paul Ashwell won the first round in his battle to prove his innocence in the Iraqi `Supergun' affair last Friday when...

• The Road Haulage Association wants stricter controls on entry into the road haulage industry, in a bid to keep out cowboy...

Z.0.5• 1 ' * " . ; ..r9+ t o rorit e Ai 1/401('114 • With Commercial Motor's Wheel Loss Fund still growing (helped by a...

• Villagers in Portdinorwig, Gwynedd are threatening to barricade their main street in a bid to keep out trucks. Angry...

• Best under test! Last week at london's Savoy eight CV manufacturers picked up their 1990 Commercial Motor Testerc Choice...

• A new deal between the EC and Switzerland should make border crossings easier for hauliers from July 1991. The two sides...

• A plan to build a major truckstop on the Al near Dishforth in North Yorkshire is being opposed by a property developer....

• ZF's battle with Eaton in the gearbox market appears to be intensifying, with ERF and Seddon Atkinson expressing interest in...

• Norba Waste Handling Services has supplied the first batch of its K70 crew-cab refuse collection vehicles to Birmingham City...

• Railfreight has transferred a new 12.43m refrigerated `Caisse Mobile' body built by Schmitz Cargobull from a Railfreight...

• Guinness has taken delivery of five Volvo FLIO tractive units. They will join Guinness's 25-strong trunking fleet at London's...

• "Ishree more parts and service dealers have joined ERF's network in the South-East. Transport Logistics, of Maldon, will...

• Four Boalloy curtainsider trailers are the first to be fitted with the latest Carrier Eurostar refrigeration units. They...

NI This year's International Vehicles Recovery Exhibition was used as the launching pad for REMSA — the Recovery Equipment...

• MAN has re-vamped its contract maintenance programme which is now "designed to match exactly the particular needs of each...

• Leading car transporters could be hit by the takeover of Western Motor Holdings, which owns car distributor Autocar and a...

• Hirmirigham-based parcels firm Inter County Couriers is looking for 100 couriers to expand its overnight parcels service....

• The court battle over the rights to the Coldstream name is over, but the protagonists still have to decide who will pay the...

• BOC Distribution Services "performed satisfactorily" in the half-year to March, during which its parent industrial gases and...

• Government officials will oversee TNT's servicing and maintenance of "Green Goddess" military fire engines (CM 5-11 October...

• Mayne Nickless, Parceline's Australian parent, has taken its European expansion plans a step further with the acquisition of...

• Pickups Transport of Pudsey, West Yorkshire has made 25 drivers redundant, following its decision to pull out of general...

• National Courier Network, which began trading last month (CM 29 March-4 April) plans to nearly double its UK network this...

• International courier giant DHL could be on the brink of strengthening its hand by clinching a joint-venture deal with two...

• Reduced speed limits, urban and motorway congestion, and loss of terminals could stop the growth in express coach services,...

• South Yorkshire Transport is mounting a major single-deck conversion progamme with the arrival of 50 Volvo Citybus...

• Leyland Bus has slashed the workforce of its Workington assembly plant by 120 after orders for this year have failed to come...

• Competition on the York City tour has hotted up with local operator Jorvik Tours doubling its fleet in the face of opposition...

• Technical co-operation between Dutch PSV specialist Berkhof and MAN has led to the design of a new bus which is claimed to be...

• Liverpool independent Liverline has taken delivery of 10 new Scania double-deckers bodied by Northern Counties (CM 15-21...

• Citylink is the third Scottish Transport Group company to go up for sale in the group's privatisation programme. The company...

• Pines totalling c.8,170 were imposed on three members of the Russell Davies Group, after they admitted breaching tachograph...

MI Salford Magistrates ordered that the defence costs of P R Excavation Haulage be paid out of public funds, after they...

• Claims by Stoke-on-Trentbased Baymex that the accuracy 1 = of the dynamic axle weigher at Doxey, Staffs, could be in doubt,...

• The threevehicle licence held by Huddersfieldbased D&M Builders Merchants has been revoked by North Eastern Deputy Licensing...

• Harrogate haulier Albert Hymas had its 26-vehicle/28trailer, licence renewed when environmental objectors failed to attend a...

• Leyland Bus could not be blamed for suffering from an identity crisis. Since being bought by Swedish giant Volvo two years...

BY THE HAWK • Northumberland-based operator Bryce Rennison took the top prize in the recent Volvo Trucks/Commercial Motor...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT • The Institute of Road Transport Engineers' second visit to Telford for its annual conference and display...

• Each time haulier Paul Maggs buys a new truck, he chooses a different make to the one before. It is not that he is ever...

• Four-wheel-drive off-road vehicles have been one of the niche-marketing successes of the 1980s. Success, however, is ususally...

Discs at the front, dual circuits, servo asistance and a rear pressure limiting valve should provide powerful, positive...

Above: "frank( l'SV driving instructors undergo a nine-day course. Below: Skillplace attracts trainees from all over the UK:...

Sentenced to twenty-one years hard labour down a salt mine. This isn't Siberia, ifs Cheshire The ICI Rock Salt Works at...

City Vehicle Engineering is a company facing a dilemma. How do you sell the most passenger-friendly minibus on the market to...

MI Life has not been easy for Scottish Citylink in recent months. The Scottish Bus Group's express coaching arm faces two...

SIR • Now I've seen it all. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a very serious new disease of cattle. Fears that it...

• A company called Logistics Training International has been formed to help distribution firms in what it predicts will be a...

• West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service has invested £110,000 in a weighbridge tester to meet tighter controls being...

Briefly.. . 0 Carrier has published new dealers directories covering the UK and Ireland. An International edition covers...

• Guinness has added thirteen Don-Bur Palletmaster tri-axled semi-trailers to its Park Royal trunking fleet. The 12.2m heavy...

• Dorset bodybuilder Vaile & Co has adapted its shapely Parcel Master body system for the Mercedes 814 7.5 tonne GVW chassis...

II A Volvo FL617 fitted with a 7.34m insulated GRP body with a lowering roof to allow access to low-height entries will be on...

• BoaIloy has extended its range of tensioned curtainsiders with the launch of the Fineliner for operators not requiring the...

• An air-operated safety rail with an air brake interlock for road tankers is being marketed in Britain by Safewalk Railings...

• Bedwas unveiled its new Challenger 14 prison vans and a modular concept Service Unit (PSU) van at the National Police Vehicle...

• The first of RO-R's latest lndair Offset suspensions with extra low ride height, have been fitted on two semitrailers by Tidd...

• Every so often, a bodybuilder or trailer maker catches the imagination of the industry by announcing a new use of aluminium...

• Harrogate sweltered and Tipcon gleamed yet there was no hiding the air of difference among body and trailer builders. Order...

• British bodybuiders are doing well in the reefer market. More than seven out of ten operators buy home-built equipment and...

II Today the UK lorry loader market is covered by a large number of companies and with few exceptions, most lorry loaders sold...

• Anyone with an interest in bodybuilding who visits a county show or a major outdoor sporting event cannot fail to be...

• A surprise visitor to the FPS show came in the shape of Charles Roberts Engineering's first tri-axle Lowmax safety tanker,...