• The trial has begun this week at Manchester Crown Court of Thomas Bourke, the man accused of shooting id two

by Amanda Bradbury • The Department of Transport says there could be a delay in a European Commission deadline of 2000 to make...

• The European Commission is poised to raise the European Union's minimum levels for fuel excise duties. This issue was on the...

by our Brussels correspondent • The United Kingdom is to fight a costly EU proposal to appoint a safety officer in every...

• The Government has refusedto endorse claims that hauliers could be forced to sort out compensation for employees injured at...

I f the good Lord had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings—which would have made life easier for all those tipper drivers...

by Kathy Watson • A crackdown is planned against hauliers who fail to protect their drivers from falling from their vehicles...

building programme faces a new threat with the planned loss of 450 jobs at the Highways Agency, which is responsible for roads...

• Fly-tipping is on the increase in the London area, says the London Waste Regulation Authority (LWRA). Following a lull...

• Heavy vehicle recovery operators in Norfolk have become the latest group to take action in the Jong-running dispute over...

by Miles Brignall • British Gas has made the first move towards contracting out some of its inhouse transport. This will entail...

• A 15,000 reward is on offer to catch thieves who threatened a driver and hijacked his trailer containing £250,000 worth of...

• Operators of commercial vehicles fitted with lifting equipment will have to comply to stricter safety legislation From 1...

sentence for deaths 'I • A drunk driver who killed two lorry drivers on the M6 is this week facing a quadrupled prison...

• BOC Distribution Services has bought two firms to give it a stronger foothold in the air cargo and European haulage markets....

Tolls on the Severn Bridge will continue to rise next year. Hauliers will be hit with a 10% increase, taking the fee from...

Ai Three LGV drivers were blockaded into a construction site for eight hours as a buyer and supplier of specialist cladding...

• The only truckstop for 99km on the A21 between London and Hastings will close unless its proprietor can persuade Shell to...

by Karen Miles • A former Air Products driver plans to take the gas manufacturer to an industrial tribunal over a claimed lack...

• Hauliers starting to have more confidence in the recovery of the market are buying more new trucks and artics and fewer...

turer i berlond appoints Christian SalvoDistribution to handle its warehousing and distribution out of its Sunbury depot. has...

by Miles Brignall • British drivers in France are facing on-the-spot fines of £40 to £1,000 for carrying belly tanks—even...

• Tougher penalties against lawbreaking livestock hauliers should come into force before the end of the year, according to the...

Boughey Distribution, has bought Wigan-based grocery distributor R.N Bolton for about 22m. Derek Cook, managing director of...

by Bill Brock • 3M has introduced Scotchlite 980 diamond grade, an improved selfadhesive reflective material which can be used...

• Driving at night or in poor weather could be made much safer using a vision enhancement system developed by Jaguar,...

• Asda has taken delivery of 176 Scania tractive units. The P113 4x2 320s are supplied on contract hire from Scania Contracts....

• Argos has included four double-deck 12.2m versions in an order for 26 Tidd Streamliner trailers. Hauled by a new fleet of 28...

I:( ('1.1 by John Kendall • Mercedes-Benz has launched the UlOOL 4x4 chassis, the promised little brother to the U1401. 4x4...

ar Competence ends • Stornoway, isle of Lewisbased Lewis Land Services' licence has been revoked with immediate effect by...

A charity has been fined £50 after being convicted of using a vehicle for hire or reward without an Operator's Licence....

An • Magistrates did not endorse the WV driving licences of Stockport haulier Raimo Allen, and one of his drivers, despite...

• Durham lorry driver Scott Hylton has been fined • 100 and ordered to pay £50 prosecution costs by Barnsley magistrates for...

• A driver who left his job with JM Gorry & Sons in Heysham because he was ill has lost claims for redundancy and holiday pay....

• Plans by a Welsh owner-driver to park his tractor unit in his back garden have been thwarted by Gwent County Council and...

eader Ross Mauro of Littlehampton, West Sussex has sent the Hawk this exciting picture of a group of passengers who are...

D ravelling through Southern Ireland recently on the way to an Irish Road Haulage Association function, the Hawk's...

0 service to 0 service to A commemorate the victims of road accidents takes place this Sunday, 20 November, at 3pm in Coventry...

a variety of awards from the Engineering Training Authority, including Workplace Competencies and NVQs at level 3 and 4; the...

D urrey scouts have contacted the Hawk seeking advice on an exchange trip to Poland. The 2nd Cuddington (Rowe) Scout Group has...

Ei he heroic efforts of French driver Amine Fatmi, in delivering aid for humanitarian transport specialist Equilibre...

I must respond to Nigel Cole's letter in the 3-9 November 1994 issue of Commercial Motor. In 1988, when the introduction of...

T often hear of transport Imanagers complaining about the poor service and inadequate backup they receive from truck dealers....

Tread with interest the letter Ifrom Chris Draycott, sales director of S Jones Truck Centre (CM 3-9 November). I guess that one...

W e read in your article on the proposed change in charges for continuous 0licences that large fleets benefit at the expense of...

T am appalled, but not really isurprised, at the attitude of the Department of Transport towards the smaller operator on the...

Big brother • Drivers can now tap into the AA's Tel-Me journey planner via the office computer and a modem for...

New packaging regs • Free training on the new packaged goods and driver training regulations is on offer on Humberside over...

Green transport

of a one-day Freight Transport Association conference being held on 1 December at the Waldorf hotel in London sponsored by...

• A series of one-day seminars on stress management for women is being held across the country beginning in January by the...

International transport, warehousing, distribution and garage equipment exhibition will be held on 1923 September 1995....

be held at 19:00hrs on 21 November at the Leeds Hilton and will be repeated at the same venue on 8 March by the North Eastern...

• Vehicle maintenance and bar coding come under the spotlight at a joint Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Institute of Road...

Legal contacts • Commercial Motor is preparing a new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert...

Better battery • An uprated design of Tungstone Batteries' Type 621 commercial vehicle battery is available in Tungstone,...

cif = coming into force Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 cif 1 September 1994. Consolidates the much amended Vehicles...

• "Bridge bashing"—proposals for in-cab height signs for vehicles over 3m; warning systems for vehicles with high level power...

U ntil recently the introduction of personal contracts as opposed to collective bargaining as a method of setting wage levels...

• Management prefer "silences" in the contract to any specific statement of rights and duties; • Contracts tend to he offered...

The Ford Transit enjoys a unique domination of its market sector to the point where to many people "transit" means one-tonne...

H ow would you like to see the future? And, apart from knowing the result of the 3.30 at Haydock Park, what's the point? Some...

W e were impressed by most of the entries, depressed by a few; some entrants thought tha all that was needed was a restyled...

gained design experience with Mercedes. This artic was the most radical entry in the competition. The wedge-shaped, asymmetric...

was far from just cosmetic. "There always has to be something new,' he says, and his design—called Or - ca -- incorporated...

j ohn Vincent won the 11-tonne category with this friendly-faced 4x2 rigid featuring a modular interior—buy only the...

R osenbobm is another Coventry student with experience of working with Mercedes' car studios at Sindeifingen. And it shows ii...

hauliers, Norbert Dentressangle, is fast becoming as familiar a sight on Britain's motorways as the famous green trucks of...

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT OPERATOR No 5:Driving licence law for goods vehicle drivers Requirement to hold...

£2,000." Ile also says that the general haulage market Norbert Dentressangle dominates is over-supplied and low margin. It is a...

Norbert Dentressangle, the chairman of the FF1.9bn (£230m)-turnover business, is still only 40 and his rapidly expanding...

A change in the law last year extended employees' rights to a written statement of terms and conditions. The law demands the...

6 0 ver the 30 years that I have been driving HGVs the rules and regulations on drivers' hours have changed several times but...

Hampshire-based Gentrac Systems has expanded its mobile calibration service to cover the entire UK and Channel Islands. With...

Contrary to the claims being made by some brake manufacturers, the bedding in of new linings is most definitely not an instant...

We hear a lot about the 'information super highway' these days. Electronic chatter, data gathering, stock and personnel...

• Wasey Exhausts (Manufacturing) of Warrington has been awarded BS5750 Part 2 quality certification. The company designs,...

• A new British Standard for high-visibility warning clothing has been issued by the British Standards Institution...

• The National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA) has relaunched its 24-hour truck tyre breakdown service under the new name...

multi-million-pound long-term contract to TNT Logistics for managing its deliveries . to the UK mainland replacement market....

• Research by Simon Crisford for his MA marketing project, sponsored by Trace Systems, looks at the use of computerised fleet'...

• ERF has reduced the prices of exchange Eaton remanufactured gearboxes. The 20% price reduction covers Eaton boxes in any...

• One of the biggest and best-equipped commercial vehicle paintshops in the UK has just been completed for Marshall SPV of...

EPartco, the largest independent supplier of parts to the garage trade, is running its fourth Winter Wisebuys promotion. It...

Steve Fulford, managing director of Allparts Automotive, High Wycombe, will be the ADF President for 1995. Scottish success...

Having your used engine and transmission oil analysed could reduce your running costs and help avoid costly downtime. Chris...

BP BP's system, Indic-8 (Reader reply No 60) has been running for five years. les open to au and guarantees a 36hour...

tipper, with steel instead of rubber suspension, is an important vehicle for the French manufacturer. It's the first Renault...

over nine years. He joined the company straight from school, served a three-year apprenticeship and now enjoys working on...

Part 2 of our report on the world's largest automotive trade fair T he Diesel-Cat from Dinex (Reader reply No 66) is an...

Tony Patterson investigates the choices and considerations to be made. D irly trucks cost money. Washing equipment is...

• 3M has launched a new doublesided adhesive tape —Scotch 4430 synthetic foam tape — which is designed for applications such as...

• lip until mid-December Deb is offering free sweet-filled Christmas stockings with selected brands. The five-litre cans of...

• A new range of AL-KO Kober hand-operated winches has just been released. There are four in all, rated at 350, 300, 650 and...

• The latest development of Tressler Environment's MultiPress is an air-powered pneumatic machine that is claimed to compress...

• Livingstone Hire claims to have introduced the first truly portable hydraulic fluid testing equipment. A big advantage of the...

• The Bulldog Roller Shutter Lock is a new locking device produced by Leisure Crafts. A bolt is designed to be slotted through...

• Lucas has added the Iveco Ford New Cargo range of callipers to extend its 'new for old' CV exchange scheme, under which a...

• St. Albans-based Samco Silicone Products has introduced a range of high performance replacement silicone coolant and...