week and next dominates this issue — and rightly so. The motor show represents the biggest and best opportunity for two years...

• Leyland Truck's new managing director George Simpson has confirmed that the Rover Group has no plans to draw its two...

• A British lorry was hijacked by a group of 30 angry French farmers this week, In the latest and most serious escalation of...

the air brake link • Last May's horrific accident in Maidstone when a 32tonne articulated lorry knocked down and killed...

• Bunzl Transportation has decided to switch its predominantly Bedford fleet to Leyland vehicles over the next three years,...

of the latest Ford Transit in time for the NEC. The conversion will be offered only on Transit 160 vans and chassis-cabs...

• The latest provisional figures from the Department of Trade and Industry show that production of commercial vehicles in the...

• Nick Manning, winner of the £70,000 Commerical Motor Talbot Trekker, is seen here at the wheel of his shiny new vehicle....

• More than a quarter of all hauliers in England and Wales are losing money, according to the latest figures from ICC...

• Despite opposition from the Transport and General Workers' Union, (CM August 16), Birds Eye Walls has gone ahead with the...

• Following the recent regional wage claims submitted by the Metropolitan and South East, Southern and Eastern regions of the...

Faced with operators' demands for increased performance, most truck manufacturers have reacted predictably by increasing...

AS TRUSTED WITH GOLD BULLION, INTENSIVE CAR] PATIENTS AND MRS. PROWSE'S KETTLE. The Ford Transit is the overwhelming choice of...

• Two years after the launch of its Turbostar premium tractive unit and rigid drawbar range on the Continent, Iveco has...

• Mitsubishi's latest L300 panel van and L200 pickup make their European debuts at the Birmingham Motor Show this week, but...

• In a speech on Tuesday Volvo Trucks (GB) managing director Bernt Brandtzaeg launched an attack on the costs of exhibiting...

• A new 21-seat minibus, based on the Iveco 49.10 Turbo Daily chassis, is being launched at the NEC Motor Show by Reeve...

on its 119kW t160hp) 6.5-litre turbocharged 411 The research vehicle in which the engine is fitted is a 16.26-tonne Freighter....

• Bendix, the Bristol-based brake manufacturer, has bought Anti-Skid Controls for an undisclosed sum. ASC went into...

• Fresh controversy over the definition of British trucks has been raised by Peter Foden, chairman and general executive of...

• Leyland Trucks has joined the list of manufacturers which offer more roomy sleeper cabs specially-equipped to appeal to...

Metro rider MCW has launched a new midi bus in time for deregulation. The Metrorider is a fully-integral midi with seating...

• Ford is planning to invest .0,460 million in Britain over the next five years on the development of new vehicles, and .E550...

• French truck rental and contract hire cmpany VIA, announced its entry into the UK market at the Motor Show this week. It...

• Colt Car Company managing director Peter Beaumont is hitting out at the way the quota system under the Japan/Britain...

• Hendrickson Norde is hoping to gain a share of the growing rigid vehicle air suspension market with its new HA suspension...

• National Carriers-Roadline is investing £4.3 million on replacement vehicles, new technology and property as part of its...

• In the second quarter of 1986 British commercial vehicles made a record 54,300 journeys to the Continent, a rise of 21%...

the Range Rover has already beaten its previous record for UK sales in a full year. The latest available sales figures —...

• GRP Cooltrucks, the Pudsey-based light refrigerated bodybuilder, is moving up the weight range following its purchase of...

• Management-owned Tibbett & Britten has boosted its 1986 first-half pre-tax profits by 39% to £1.26 million, and is looking...

• Richmond haulage company E Dowse & Son successfully appealed against fines imposed on them by the Wetherby magistrates...

• Fines totalling £170 were imposed on three drivers employed by I J Blakey Haulage when they admitted drivers' hours...

• Though unhappy with the procedure adopted by Cameo Haulage when sacking a driver, a Cardiff industrial tribunal has decided...

• William Whorlow, sacked by Montgomery Transport after he rolled his artic over on a motorway slip road, has been awarded...

• Taking no action against the licence of bitumen manufacturers Kelbit and granting an additional five vehicles and 18...

• Whether or not an operator was guilty of "using" a vehicle which had been hired, and driven by an agency driver, is to be...

• Southern Vectis, the National Bus Company's local operator on the Isle of Wight, has become the fourth of NBC's 70...

• Leyland Bus's manufacturing director George Newburn has revealed plans for a new midi-bus — the first vehicle to be...

• The Lancet mid-engined bus chassis from Dennis Specialist Vehicles is now available with the Cummins B' series 5.9 litre...

• Recently reorganised Sussex Leamland is running its new fleet of five LAG Panoramic integral coaches on an operating lease...

• United Transport International, the world-wide transport arm of BET, has appointed Richard Dawbarn as managing director of...

• C D Bramall (Contract Hire), part of the Bradfordbased Bramall Group, has named Henry Dean managing director. He assumes...

• Gearing up to meet the challenge of the recentlyawarded Iveco Ford truck dealership for the Leeds area, Archbold Group has...

/Onward Transport, a subsidiary of the Storey Group. has named Ian Ramsay, as managing (Vector. He took over from his...

• Mike Osborne has been named managing director of Wessex National, of Bristol and will lead the managementstaff buyout bid...

• Abal Engineering, one of the largest independant suppliers of commercial vehicle components in Europe, has appointed Ray...

• Truck manufacturers can look forward to increasing sales, starting next year, and peaking in 1989. This and other motor...

Cheaper Dacia • Dacia makes Operators' Handbook history with the column's first ever permanent price reduction. The Dacia...

Tax discs • New style vehicle excise duty (tax) discs are to appear next month. Any operator or motorist applying for a...

Wheel fixing • The Institute of Road Transport Engineers continues with its campaign and investigation into the subject of...

Warehouses • The Department of the Environment commissioned consultants Colin Buchanan and Parbiers and EDU International to...

• Ferry operator Pandoro is now starting to discharge the Fleetwood-Larne ferry earlier on a Monday morning....

• The economics and feasibility of electric vehicles will be one of the subjects under discussion at the Tenth National...

• Construction of the A30 Okehampton Bypass in Devon is to start next month. The 8.5km (5.3mile) scheme will improve the...

Many parts of the country have enjoyed the driest September/October for 40 years. A spin-off from this has been the ease with...

We have been sifting through the stand list provided by the show's organiser, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders,...

As well as offering spectacular entertainment, truck racing may become an important proving ground for new components IN An...

S afety is of prime importance to Bandag. At all stages throughout the retreading process work is carefully monitored to ensure...

anti-speeding campaign rightly says that it should be welcomed. Transport 2000 has been delighted publicly to support the...

27) on Foden's 3306 ATAACpowered S 104 tractive unit and we were disappointed with the fuel consumption figure you reported. We...

You report that tl lc Association of County Councils wishes regulations on PSV design proposed by the Department of Transport...

Each year many thousands of tonnes of live fish are transported on British roads, using a variety of specilised vehicles....

The installation of a high-tech semi-automated transmission in the MAN 16.331 FTS makes for very smooth, slick and fast gear...

• After several years as a biennial event, the Distribution Services Show went annual last week at Wembley Conference Centre,...

the Distribution Services Show was this reefer combination, operated by Fransen Transport (UK) of Kidderminster on contract...

Barking is the new self-rolling rear curtain on this tilt-bodied trailer. It incorporates seven strips of pre-curled high...

is the inclusion of integral, folding guard rails that double as lead-on ramps. They were designed to encourage drivers to use...

to Renault as a future replacement for its Bedford TL boxvans. This Renault G170 was merely a convenient chassis for Lowfield's...

its list of cus tomers. This is one of two for the Post Office, for use on parcels trunking, and has Wilson's own column tail...

the Institute of Road Transport Engineers display in May. The first sizeable order is from parcels carrier Elan International,...

with its Crypta II electronic sealing system, first seen in an earlier form at last year's Distribution Services Show. The unit...

about the new fixed penalty tickets for traffic offences which came into effect recently. Not, it seems, because of the fines...

Department of Transport and the insurers General Accident in support of European Road Safety Year, Wyvery TV has produced two...

(14ft 6in) bus under a 4.26m (14ft) bridge? Answer: the sack! Bus driver Don Randall of Birmingham, found this out when he was...

hauliers should be paying much heavier licence duty than they are. Indeed, Roberts reckons that in terms of road damage costs,...

A hijack perhaps? In fact, the picture shows a load of British transport journalists pushstarting their Mercedes coach during a...

The 609D is far from revolutionary — it has the heaviest chassis cab in its class and has a naturally-aspirated engine -but...

Comfortable to ride in, easy to drive and cheap to run, Leyland's new Lynx should prove an effective contender in the...

Available in the UK for the first time, the wide-cabbed FB4 combines big vehicle quality with light truck concept • The name...

THE MARKET Airiness and good vision, plus lightness of all controls are the hallmarks of the Canter, coupled with excellent...

But for the SMMT-JAMA gentlemen's agreement limiting their market share, UK Colt sale potential would be enormous I Mitsubishi...

FEW Mitsubishi has 150 dealers throughout the country, but only a small number of them will be allocated Canters to sell I...