• Not more trouble for British drivers on the Continent? No sooner did we stop hearing about French farmers attacking British...

• BBC1's Watchdog programme on Monday, on the dangers of trucks and the failure of the licensing system to restrain 'cowboy'...

• You've done it again! We ought to know better by now, but the fantastic response to our recent Renault Trucks/Commercial...

union recognition • Tarmac Quarry Products won a High Court injunction last Friday to stop members of the National Hauliers...

• British truck drivers in Spain are being threatened with violence as a strike by Spanish hauliers comes to a head. The...

• Labour has pledged a "substantial shift" in freight transport from roads to rail if it wins the next election. Labour leader...

• Reading-based JWQ Transport & Storage has gone into liquidation with debts of more than £'6m, after nearly 30 years in...

• Hauliers could be made to keep tachograph records for up to six years for tax purposes despite the fact that the Department...

• Hauliers with surplus Yugoslavian transit and terminating permits are asked to return them to the International Road Freight...

• The Italian-Austrian border was closed to HMIs from midnight Tuesday on orders from the Italian government. Italy's Customs...

• The heroism of United Carriers' driver Terence Doling should win him an award, says Godalming police, who are publicising...

• Increasing numbers of Labour and Tory activists are becoming sympathetic to road transport, says Garry Turvey of the Freight...

• Panic Link managing director Eric Norman has appeared this week before Coalville Magistrates Court, charged with causing...

• Almost half the trucks stopped by vehicle inspectors in one of Britain's largest-ever spot checks have been found to be...

• Road haulage has generated its share of multi-millionaires, according to the Sunday Times' Book of the Rich (due out on 25...

that he forces operators to follow his recommended maintenance system, following criticism from the Transport Tribunal. Last...

• The BBC's Watchdog consumer affairs programme is to campaign for tougher penalties on 'cowboy' operators. On Monday (15...

• HGV traffic in London is falling by 5% a sear and has been doing so every year since 1983. But the nu4wr of light CVs using...

next year when both Renault and Iveco Ford launch new or revised ranges. Renault will be supplementing its dated 50 Series...

The model is a development of a 13.6m chassis first shown at last year's Temperature Controlled Storage and Distribution show....

• Next Tuesday (30 October) Craven Tasker will give a first public showing of its RoadRailer intermodal trailer, built for...

• The Dutch post office is running a Daf 2100 with a moveable roof by ECF that allows the overall height of the vehicle to be...

• Foden is launching a limited edition version of its 4000 Series tractive unit in metallic azure blue, with gold stripes. The...

• Scania says it will make a bonneted tractive unit for the UK market if it can guarantee at least 100 sales a year. This...

• York has come up with a "strapless" system of restraining supermarket roll cages in a curtainside trailer. The devices save...

• A ready-to-fit drive-axle air suspension kit for Ford Transit panel vans is now available from Granning. The Granning...

• Unipower is launching updated versions of its 20 and 30-tonne aircraft crash tender chassis. Both the 4x4 and 6x6 models have...

• BRS is to close 16 sites across its northern and southern regions, with redundancy looking likely for some of the 290 staff...

• TIP has won a 23.5m contract with Ford Europe to supply and service 300 curtainskiers, to be specially designed and built by...

• TNT Express is to expand its services to the Continent from Belfast, with new routes to Portugal, Poland, Czechoslovakia and...

• TNT parcels division XP Express Parcels is seeking contracts for newspaper distribution in Italy, following the completion of...

• Cory Environmental has clinched three municipal contracts, together worth 22.3m a year with local authorities in Cornwall,...

• Following its recent success in the 1990 Commercial Motor Livery Competition (410 October), Topmix Mortars last week received...

• Electronics distributor 21st Century Logistics has bought three Leyland Daf 1900 rigids bringing its fleet up to 11. The...

• Watts Group is putting its Oxfordshire MAN dealership on the market because it does not fit well into the group's portfolio,...

• Hundreds of cars are stockpiling at Ford's Halewood Merseyside plant where drivers for car transporter group Toleman...

• Bodybuilding company Truckpanels, in receivership since August, has been bought by Temperature Controlled Technology, and...

• Yorkshire-based haulage and container company Transworld Distribution Services has opened a depot on the Isle of Grain, Kent,...

The three-year contract, for which six other major tanker operators tendered, is Laporte's first move to third party...

• Local hauliers will be gaining work from the collapse of the Lowndes Queensway chain. Receiver Ernst & Young has now sold 24...

• The first two revamped Qtype bodies from Alexander of Belfast to enter service in England have joined the United Automobile...

• Three London Buses' subsidiaries are to be restructured, following the recent round of tenders. From mid-January, London...

• South Yorkshire Independent Northern Bus Company has been joined by the 'Ultimate Connection' to form a new subsidiary, NBC...

• Merry Hill Minibus, which operates feeder routes into the Black Country shopping complex, is increasing its fleet and routes....

• Reading Transport plans to sell its commercial vehicle servicing and repair subsidiary by the end of the year — probably to...

• The results of a study into road congestion will shortly be unveiled by the Bus and Coach Council, It will be followed by...

• Robert Wright & Son (Coachbuilders) of Northern Ireland plans to increase its 1990 turnover of 24.5m by 10% next year. Its...

• The future of Britain's traditional double-decker could be at risk unless the UK wins exemptions from EC Type Approval...

• Subsidies in the 1970s and 1980s insulated the bus industry from the reality of the market and have cast doubt on whether it...

• Minibus builder LHE Engineering of Eastleigh has gone into receivership with debts of more than ,2500,000. It still has...

• Drivers at Go-Ahead Northern's Gateshead depot have decided to implement an overtime ban from 19 October, because management...

• A series of drivers hours and tachograph offences has cost Federal Express (UK) £1,870 in fines and costs. Appearing before...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences and the unauthorised use of a vehicle cost Frome-based Liberty Trading and three of...

has been refused a new 0-Licence following objections from the Metropolitan Police. Jeffrey Jebb, trading as Jebb Transport of...

Parking vehicles away from operating centres is a growing problem. But should LAs deal with it, or the police and highway...

Mike Billingham (below) has left full-time union work to champion the cause of OwnerOperators UK. He outlines his aims to CM....

The problems began when he applied for a provisional HGV licence and foolishly forgot to send his ordinary licence. Realising...

which hopes to supply the CV industry with curtain and tilt supplies from its base at Unit 1, 'Ishe Industrial Estate,...

ninth UK office, in Houghton-le-Spring. The depot provides cartage, handling and warehousing. Shipments for Europe will be...

Coachwork Walker, John Muschamp, has set up Trackman, a company which will continue the manufacture of the Trackman Top range...

three depots on the Continent, in Paris, Bornem in Belgium and Cologne. More sites are planned in France and Germany. Contact...

Trafficmaster in-vehicle traffic information system is looking ing for more UK distributors. General Logistics wants agents to...

Truck and Country Music Festival and the Scottish ERF Gathering, is scheduled for 6-8 September 1991 in Inverness. Contact The...

can benefit from training in technology is being held in the West Country. Hosted by the West of England Technology Network...

motorway and trunk road network is published by the Department of Transport, entitled Development of the Trunk Road Network....

of truck bulbs, ranging from 6v to 28v. For the first time it also includes fuses, tachocharts, booster cables, cable ties,...

at making people more aware of the dangers of breaking down. The leaflet outlines 20 points of advice for the lone traveller,...

of Professional Competence courses from November in Cardiff, Birmingham and Reigate. Contact (0984) 56310.

on the quality mark BS5750 is in Gloucester on Tuesday 23 October. The courses are being run by the Vehicle Builders and...

of Transport Managers' Tyre Distributor of the Year prize. The award is presented bi-annually.

when a vehicle's doors have been opened has been added to a temperature recorder made by Zeal. Zeal's Zeatronic RDS 300 was...

bulb and Hywire HT lead ranges, including a free wallchart and special offers on its bulbs and leads. Contact 021-236 5050.

offering you the chance to spread the message that Britain needs trucks with four stylish stickers: (A) "Trucks keep Britain...

keeping a truck cab smelling fresh and clean without harming the environment with chemicals, says the makers of Mountain...

Electronics of Marplc, Cheshire will market the product, which monitors pressure via sensors in the valves. When pressure...

Association has developed a computer package for its members to help them with estimating, job control, invoicing and financial...

carriageway of the A2 in Kent between Pepperhill and Tollgate, and will continue until mid-December. The works will restrict...

East Germany is fast being assimilated into what was previously West Germany. Already 7,000 extra permits have been allocated...

France and Belgium for their efforts to improve road and rail links to the Channel Tunnel. The ESC, which includes...

roads between its continental region and other parts of the country.

Switzerland's width restricted roads by several manufacturers including Daf, Scenic, MAN and Volvo, will soon be no more....

be probed by the new EC merger vetting team. While this is not a formal merger, the body is empowered to examine some...

now the government has set rates, but in December, operators will be allowed to decide their own in a move to encourage...

— Daimler Benz has decided — is to use it in buses instead of expensive petrol or diesel. Apparently it works, and 40 PSVs are...

country will know that having a big, torquey engine under the cab can make fast trunking a relaxing business. As the gearstick...

In our Eurotest of the EDC 470, an economy test with and without cruise control suggested that while the system is good at...

Get rid of the myth of marketing men as people in red spectacles, striped shirts and bow ties. Every haulier should be a...

• After driving trucks for 14 years Dave B knows there is no such thing as a free lunch. So when a Dutch agent offered him...

paid the Road Transport Industry Training Board levy without any argument, but since it is disappearing why should we pay a...

the local Department of Transport examiner he pointed out that one of our drivers had driven more than 10 hours in one day fin...

argument between ourselves and our transport manager. Our firm carries fruit and vegetables and we often have to deliver to...

Q The editor of your magazine recently wrote about helping women broken down on motorways. Earlier this year I was travelling...

having no rear under-run protection. Our vehicle is used for high-street deliveries, and the dealer we bought it from says it...

and the merger of the Traffic Examiners with the Vehicle Inspectorate, will we see more effective enforcement against those...

at loggerheads over concessionary ferry rates. The HGV users resent the low ferry fares charged to small vans. But the van...

engineering manager at MAN Volkswagen, Swindon, from the post of technical manager. He takes over from Bob Paton who has taken...

to freight director at P&O European Ferries (Dover) after 25 years with the company. He joined the company as a freight clerk...

as divisional functional systems manager, and will bring in financial accounting applications, payroll and human resource...

deputy chairman, replacing James Watson who becomes chairman oii 1 January. Robb is cur rently chief executive of the Wellcome...

Services has taken on David Gratton as project manager. Before this he worked at Transfleet as a warehouse controller. Another...

Murphy as regional manager for Scotland. Before joining York, he worked for John Russell, Frigoscandia and Cert Distribution.

chairman of refuse collection vehicle manufacturer Shelvoke. He is currently managing director of JCB Sales, the construction...

to a Seddon Atkinson main parts and service dealer for the South-East, has taken on Les Piper as workshops manager. He joins...

disposals divisional director at Waste Management of Rixton, near Warrington. He joined the company as general manager of the...

Group has appointed Michael Earle as European manager. He has joined from TNT where he was development consultant and has 12...

to vice-president of sales and marketing at Thermo King Europe's plant in Galway, Ireland. After 14 years at the firm he is...

Van Cottracts as account man ager, North and North-East, based at the company's Washington office. He was a transport consultant.

Joanne Kite becomes assistant branch manager at ADT Blackhushe Commercial Auction Centre. Kite has spent seven years with the...

join British Rail's new company Track 29 as national operations manager and deputy to the managing director. Also joining the...

director of Federal Express Logistics. He was managing director of FedEx's Business Logistics Services in Memphis.

managing director of VBG, he was general manager of Dayton. Melvin Geeves is area sales manager, and Howard Ostle area sales...

His main responsibility is for sales in the North-East, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

week when I noticed a problem with a diagram in the Renault AE500 roadtest (CM 4-10 October). When I looked at the dimensions...

I agree with the editor's comment entitled "Enough is Enough" (CM 4-10 October). The situation we all find ourselves in is...

show faces rivals" (CM 11-17 October) you stated that "Scania has warned it might boycott a 1992 show." I would like to...

• Since Simon Gloster Saro withdrew its peripheral interest in tanker manufacture the Gloucester-based company has concentrated...

• Pem bodies is moving from its Poole factory into a ' new 2,800m 2 factory adjoining its parent company Vaile & Co at...

Motor Show launch for versatile pole erector. • Warley-based Welford Truck Bodies exhibited the first Posa-Pali pole lifting...

• A new semi-trailer built by the Finnish Transtech division of Rautaruuki allows standard ISO containers to be picked up or...

• A Jetvac combination gully emptier built for Camden council by Whale Tankers has its swivelling gully arm mounted on the...

• Lamberet has introduced a range of demountable monobloc freezer bodies to fit most popular chassis cabs or car-derived...

• BOC Cryoplants has developed a new vacuuminsulated oblique cone tanker for carrying liquid nitrogen at —196`C on BOC's UK and...

• Halifax chassis engineers Reliance-Mercury has merged with Mountain Range of Crewe and Glasgow-based equipment supplier Clan...

• Danish haulier Gasa Odense launched a sophisticated drawbar outfit at this month's Paris show, designed to keep plants and...

• London glazier Shepherd Tobias has commissioned a Mercedes 811D fitted with an unusual frail frame built by Glass Transport...

Five-year Vulcan 0 Croydon-based Thompsons is offering a five-year warranty on its Vulcan tipper bodies for 7.5-tonne chassis.

to exhibit at the Jeddah motor show in Saudi Arabia in December.

6x2 rigid, converted by Southworth Engineering and equipped with a 19inRoto Press refuse body, is now in service on the Isle of...

of two-day bodybuilder conferences between 5 and 16 November, at its Warwick offices.

landing legs. These are rated between 21 and 27 tonnes and have a threegear train/two-speed movement.

• The array of sleek, streamlined trucks at last month's rather subdued Birmingham Motor Show was a fair indication of the...

• The second International Body Building and Semitrailer Show is just a part of the Paris Motor Show which lasts for ten days...

• Contrary to the generally depressed atmosphere in the trailer market, the York group is currently enjoying healthy sales...

The growing popularity of multi-compartments has led to various solutions to the challenge of movable bulkheads. • Various...

IN TRAD • Livestock carriers may be using foreignmade trucks but eight out of ten of them are more than satisfied with...

New legislation and a growth in frozen and chilled food consumption has once again pushed 'holdover' reefer systems to the...

A joint SMMT/VBRA seminar hears that the time is ripe for the adoption of a formal quality standard within the bodybuilding...