• Like the twin theatrical masks of joy and sorrow, there appear to be two very different faces to the Department of Transport...

• Britain took a faltering step towards a 40-tonne truck limit this week when the Government announced plans to increase axle...

• Road users are not getting value for money and are entitled to a much higher standard of road maintenance than county and...

• Southern National bus company has launched a probe into an incident in which a driver dumped three 11-year-old children in a...

• HGV and PSV drivers are to be given new-style licences in a bid to cut down on fraud, says Junior Transport Minister Peter...

• The Freight Transport Association is launching a blitz on new London laws that are forcing many hauliers to fit hush kits and...

• Martintrux, the Grays, Essex-based haulage firm, has won 23,000 damages from another haulage company following a motorway...

II The Government hopes to reach a compromise with objectors over the design of the proposed privately-built Dartford Bridge....

• European Commission proposals to alter the drivers' hours law for the second time in 16 months were slammed by all sides of...

• The Metropolitan police have decided to get tough with the 350,000 vans and cars which park illegally in central London every...

• Midlands-based international haulier Brit European has ordered 12 MAN low-frame underfloor-engined 6x2 23.362 units ready for...

• Nooteboom is offering reengineered, extending flatbed semi-trailers for special types work. These are priced at 20% below the...

• Daihatsu UK has added a high-roof Hijet van model to it microvan range. The new van has 10% more load volume than the...

veils urban dray microchip trailer Crane Fruehauf's • Gilbraith Commercials of Chorley, Lancashire has unveiled the Leyland...

• Trailer manufacturer Crane Fruehauf is spending 2750,000 on a new computer-aided design (CAD) system at its headquarters in...

• Mitsubishi Motors has added a diesel engine option to its short-wheel base 4x4 L200 pickup. The 2.5-litre 51kW (68hp), 146Nm...

• The Scottish Office has denied rumours that the Scottish Bus Group (SBG) will definitely be sold as a single company....

• The Bus & Coach Council has denounced European Community plans to impose VAT on bus and coach fares as being contradictory to...

• WBS Keillor of Kellas, Scotland, has joined the fastgrowing ranks of PSV bodybuilders which offer a luxury minicoach...

• Rodney Hawkins, National Bus Company's director of engineering and technical services, has died at the age of 46, following a...

• Leeds-based bodybuilder Optare has confirmed that it will launch its long-awaited single-deck bus body before the end of...

• Britain's big bus operators appear to be finally spending money again on new vehicles, according to the UK's leading...

• Leyland Bus has scooped orders worth over 2500,000 with two municipal operators. Chesterfield Transport has bought six...

• Only 12 companies remain to be sold-off by National Bus Company as part of its rolling privatisation programme, following the...

• Production of Iveco Ford Cargo trucks at the Langley, Slough, plant could be threatened by the strike of Ford's 32,500 manual...

• Britain's bodybuilders can expect the demountable body market to grow, according to this week's Financial Times Motor...

• Eurotunnel, the consortium set up to build the Channel Tunnel, wants to follow BP's example by taking legal action against...

• Workers at Renault Truck Industries in Dunstable are poised to strike from next Thursday (25 February) — and that could halt...

• It has been a record year in sales and production for Paccar, the parent company of Foden Trucks. End-of-year figures showed'...

• TNT has announced several ventures for 1988, which is its tenth year in Britain. Plans include the expansion of the express...

• London haulier Quickborder has had its licence revoked and its director has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a...

• Sheffield haulier Ian Smith escaped with a warning when he appeared at a Leeds public inquiry at which the new North Eastern...

• Ramsbottom-based Xercon Industries was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 24,244.50 by the Bury magjstrates, who were...

• Shrewsbury coroner Colonel David Crawford-Clarke is calling for improved hazard warning signs to be fitted to the sides of...

• Though authorising the operation of a double-decker by Blue Bus Services of Eccles, North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin...

SIR NO TRAINED STAFF: HERE IS WHY • As a regular reader of your magazine, I was interested to read your article on recruitment...

• As transport technology improves and drivers spend an increasing proportion of their time in their vehicles, cab comfort is...

• Ever since Volvo and Sc,ania entered the British truck market at the end of the 1950s to set new standards in cab design, the...

Daf at floor level, almost 30% worse at the seat squab, and almost twice as bad in forward pitch. Foden's 4300 was in a class...

• Austin Rover has had rather a lean time in the car-derived-van market of late. Five years ago it held 30% of the CDV sector,...

The A-Plus is a very willing worker, and judging by its performance around our 137km light van test route, it can be economical...

BY THE HAWK • Sir Peter Thompson has brought back an alarming trait from the United States where he has been spearheading the...