• When enough people want something to change for the better, they have a habit of changing it. Certainly the latest moves...

CI QUESTION: What has 280 pages, complete technical specs of every CV on the UK market, comprehensive listings of dealers,...

presented to hauliers at this year's Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference, when the director of transport law at the...

for a 29 increase in basic wages, a 22 increase in their subsistence and an unspecified reduction in the working week. The...

borne its first fruit: the VW Taro pickup. The one-tonne Taro produced by VW is a licence-built Toyota Hilux with an...

by the Government to display their diesel and petrol prices in metric measurements. It will be an offence for retailers to...

for the 5,000-vehicle, 125 million British Army contract, to also go for an order worth around 225 million from the Singapore...

• A new selective membership procedure is being considered by the Road Haulage Association in a bid to keep out "cowboy"...

• The National Owner Drivers Association (NOVA) gets the results of a nationwide strike ballot at RMC this week. If the union's...

bership policy because of the current review of operator licences by the Department of Transport (CM 22 December — 4 January)....

show an all-time record of more than 475,000 sales predicts Cotnislay Maksimovic, Iveco's export manager (Europe). Speaking at...

• Employee-owned transport giant NFC has increased pretax profit 42% to 267 million and announced that public dealing in its...

• Austrian truck builder Steyr has completed the final stages of type approval for its range of trucks, and the first should...

has bought the vehicle engineering division of He stair for 218.75 million, predicts a strong future for the business....

• Some junctions on the M25 motorway could be closed in the quest to reduce congestion, the Transport ministry's top civil...

Series engine, is now in production at lyeco Ford's Langley plant, and we should see the first models on the road in February...

worth 210 million. Tanker haulier Tankfreight has bought 160 38-tonne tractive units, and Wincanton and United Tankers have...

a narrow margin to accept a two-year deal which will increase their pay by 7% from last December with an inflation-linked...

take place this year on 14-16 June at the Park Hall Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre near Chorley, Lancashire. A seminar,...

general secretary of CND, has been appointed to Labour's front bench transport team headed by John Prescott. Ruddock. She will...

Proposals are due to come before Parliament which would ensure that owners of lorries used for illegal waste tipping would be...

would have to be registered either with the London Waste Regulation Authority or their local waste authority. If they were then...

• Volvo could soon follow Scania's lead by offering Bosch's Electronic Diesel Control (EDC) microprocessorbased engine...

• Mitsubishi has introduced a new 2.5-litre, four-cylinder diesel engine for its L200 pickup. The latest power unit is fitted...

• Iveco Ford's long-standing policy of offering only its eightwheel tippers with a Deutz aircooled engine could be slowly...

turf to customers with this specially developed all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz 1617A1C. The 16.8-tonne vehicle is equipped with...

range of tail lifts, with capacities ranging from 500kg to 1,500kg. The new models are designed for vans and dropsided...

of changes to its replica vans after Commercial Motor's criticisms of the steering weight, and headlamps, which flapped...

van based on the Renault 50 Series chassis. The City Freighter 700 Series has an interior which is two metres high, five metres...

• Worldwide sales of Range Rovers broke all records in 1988. Sales of the luxury 4x4 workhorse jumped by 18% to 24,185 despite...

• A new French commercial vehicle based loosely on the original Willys Jeep is being launched in the UK by a former sales...

Max0p three-way access body with a Ford Cargo 7.5 tonner now available for onsite demonstration. Among the new features are...

• 'lough competition has forced municipal operator Lincoln City Transport to cut its fleet by almost half during the next...

the sale of its Ridings Travel operation to neighbouring Yorkshire Traction of Barnsley. The company's 19 high-spec coaches...

the total stoppage at Scottish Bus Group subsidiary Central Scottish after talks between management and workers broke down on...

since 1983, according to the latest report from the Department of Transport.

• The country's largest private bus company, Yorkshire Rider, has turned in a net loss for its first 18 months trading, in...

• More than 30 companies have shown an interest in taking over troubled South Wales bus operator Inter Valley Link (IVL)....

• Hampshire coach operator Marchwood Motorways has added another three LAC Panoramic integrals to its 35strong fleet. The...

• The 500-strong workforce at Cleveland Transit has mounted an employeemanagement bid to take over the municipally-owned bus...

• Cambridgeshire bus operator Cambus has taken delivery of 12 Northern Counties-bodied Leyland Olympians. The vehicles are 9.5m...

introduce a county-wide cheap bus-pass system for the elderly and disabled.

operation of three London Regional Transport routes. The twoyear contracts are for midibus route C2 (Oxford Circus to...

of a Reeve Burgess 19-seater coach based on the Mercedes-Benz 6091) van.

• Proposed legislation to define anti-competitive and illegal fare-fixing schemes between bus operators could come before...

• Derby City Council is to sell its 116-vehicle bus company. Which parts of the company are on offer will be revealed in a...

Postplan plans PO blitz Postplan's sack burden • Express courier company Interlink has axed its lossmaking subsidiary...

Contract Distribution, a tag it says is more "in keeping with the company's image". A new livery will be given to all its...

milestone of 10,000 units on hire for the first time during one week in December.

a rights issue. The cash will boost its marketing and fund a new production line on the site of its old fire engine plant at...

Harlow retail distribution centre for Tesco, which opens next month and becomes operational in April. John Broomfield is to be...

Walesbased light commercial vehicle self-drive and contract hire operation with a fleet of 500. Wellhill has outlets in...

Motor's diesel survey (CM 5 January) has prompted it to commission laboratory trials on its Shell Advanced Diesel product...

vehicle manufacturer Land Rover, Rover Group and car subsidiary Austin Rover.

• Buoyed by support from major fresh produce hauliers, GKN Chep plans to introduce its pallet hire system to 39 markets in the...

• Transfleet has won a 22.5 million deal to run a Scottish council's 77-vehicle transport operation (CM 22 December). The...

• East Sussex haulier JJ Adam has set up a transport company with a Dutch partner as a base for its drive into Europe. The...

year and created 20 new jobs, says prospects for 1989 look rosy, "despite a lot of people predicting doom and gloom for the...

• North Yorkshire-based Malton Fertilisers is establishing a separate transport operation, called Mahon Freight, to undertake...

• Railfreight is to change its strategy in the Chunnel offensive against road transport. The British Rail subsidiary had...

Metro-Cammell Weymann, the Birminghambased bus and coach builder which is being sold by its owner Laird_ Laird managing...

• A bid for a new five-vehicle licence by Wakekeen, trading as Challenger Transport, has been granted for one year only, by...

• T H Smith (Rawnsley) has escaped with a warning, after the company admitted operating articulated outfits when it did not...

• A driver sacked by Edmondson Freightliners after being off work for almost 10 months because of head injuries received in an...

BY THE HAWK • "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a...

With a 100-year history, the Chartered Institute of Transport could easily be seen as part of the establishment, but new...

been created by fleet vehicle management service supplier PHH of Swindon. The company will now be called PHH Al!star, and it...

The company, which was recently involved in a management buyout, is now situated at Boothferry Road, Howden, Humberside DN14...

Dover, the customs clearance and sea freight agent, has moved to offices in a new complex on Dover's Eastern Docks. The...

operation to a new factory in Saxham, near Bury St Edmunds. The company manufactures rear end loaders, skip units and mini...

a fuel additive called Add-itt DFC, which the company claims can protect diesel from freezing down to —22°C. It has also...

Edmunds in Suffolk, has launched a versatile weighing system called the Flexi-Beam, comprising two free-standing beams (1250mm...

methods of collecting payment from customers, the Road Haulage Association has arranged two seminars on the subject. Sessions...

Auctions at Mitcham will be holding weekly sales of public service and commercial vehicles because of a big increase in...

is to host an international symposium and exhibition on roads and safety on 14-17 June. The venue is the Grand Duchy's trade...

England open-air museum, has released its programme of transport activity days for 1989. There will be steam road roller...

modernised by Kentish Bus and Esso Petroleum and is now operational. Operators using the fuelling station will be issued with...

long or short-term agency work can now call HMS — free of charge! According to David Gallagher, managing director of HMS...

It is designed to run on any IBM PC-compatible computer, and DPS says it will provide users with optimum routes between any...

The Frejus toll for a twoaxled truck is now 570 French Francs for a return journey, compared with 5501.1. last year. Three...

a new service point in Leningrad, in conjunction with Sovinteravtoservice, the Russian organisation responsible for assisting...

of fiendish sumo wrestling hold, but the truth, as usual, is rather more mundane. Toyo Kogyo is the Hiroshima-based group that...

• An Amstrad 1640 microcomputer sits quietly on the desk of Richard Hartley, managing director of Warrington-based container...

very pleased to see our name at the head of the list in your annual winter diesel quality survey. It would clearly be...

headed "Waxing Lyrical" can be called comprehensive as you have relied totally on CFPP to indicate your diesel samples'...

with enough power to run a payroll program for 2,000 employees, an accounts program for a 100-vehicle fleet, a route-planning...

The original Amstrad PC1512 cannot really be considered a good buy, principally because its screen has very poor resolu 1...

Genuine IBM computers fall outside our nominal £1,000 budget, as do most models from the chief rivals, Compaq and Olivetti....

and RAM (Random Access Memory), because both are measured in kilobytes or megabytes of memory (thousands or millions of...

• The British truck market boomed in 1988, and while the Belgians buy fewer trucks than we do, they've been doing very nicely...

Are you making the most of your computer's power? From churning out accounts to predicting future costs, from producing...

WYSIWYG (pronounced "whizzy wig") means What You See Is What You Get. Word processing programs can make your printer do...

Spreadsheets, by their very nature, work in columns, so they are ideal for lists. Here's how to make an automatic duty roster:...

COE • David Coe has moved to Interlink Express Courier Parcels as managing director from the Lucas Group, where he was general...

TOPLEY Mark Topley joins Trimoco as projects manager from the Ford Motor Company where he was a senior zone manager: His brief...

Steyr Trucks has promoted Johannes Pulanek to financial controller,. at its UK head office in Milton Keynes. He has been with...

DYMOTT/COCKLE/ STEDMAN/BRIJNATH/ WILKINSON The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has made the following...

MAGRILL Leonard Magri11 is general manager, supply operations and trading, at Texaco. He joined the company in 1973.

COLES/PERKINS/BRAIN Three directors have been appointed at Fleet Management Services: Tony Coles, who has been at the company...

Alec . Archer have become joint chairmen of the board of Peacock & Archer. Roy Kendrick is commercial manager/sales director...

Auctions as marketing director, responsible for marketing and advertising. Before this he was sales and marketing manager of...

VAN DEN BOS Joep van den Bos is named joint deputy managing director of Ferryinasters. Continuing as European services...

SMITH/GOTTOWIK Liquids Powders & Gas Transport has promoted John Smith to depot manager at its South Bank depot on Teesside,...

MOCROFT/RENDALU CRESSEY/DAVIS National Express Holdings has made the followings changes: Tim Mocroft becomes group finance...

RAN N Paul Rann is appointed managing director of Sea Containers Property Services at Blackfriars, London. Prior to this he...

BOYD NovAtel Communications names Tim Boyd as its new sales and marketing director, to manage sales and marketing of cellular...

MOTOR PANELS Keith Hemmings, design and engineering director of Motor Panels, died on 29 December, after a long illness, at the...

this country, so it can be very difficult for operators to keep abreast of the law. Frequent changes to regulations covering...

Q I was interested to read your headline story recently about the accuracy of tachographs when using badly printed charts. I am...

Q I am an owneroperator. Yesterday my truck was damaged while it was parked at a motorway service area. Unfortunately I...

Q I hope you may be able to answer a query I have about regulations as they apply to parking. My interest stems from a recent...

Q I read an article in Commercial Motor a few weeks ago about the exemption plates needed on lorries to deliver in London....

Q I have built my own transport company up over the last eight years to more than 35 38-tonne tractor/trailer combinations,...

Q Last month one of my drivers was stopped in a roadside check and his tachographs inspected. No problems, except that the...

Q As freight forwarders we handle in excess of 100 accompanied trailers and 200 unaccompanied trailers a day. In the past...

Q I would like to know whether I will be exempted from taking the national Certificate of Professional Competence examination,...

Q My husband is looking to buy a 16.5tonne truck with a body that makes it 4.6m tall. I know that there is a 4.2m limit for...

Q I control 43 drivers and most nights I go to bed with a headache: half of the drivers disagree with the other half on the...