EURO SURVEY • It seems like everybody is talking about Europe, 1992 and that wonderful Single European Market. Hardly a week...

or merger • Volvo and Renault started discussions last week on "potential areas of cooperation", leading to speculation that...

• A group of independent recovery men working as agents for the RAC will meet in Warwick next month to launch a campaign for...

• Britain's leading tanker operators are calling on the Government to follow the lead of Germany, Spain and the United States,...

• A Yorkshire driver's ti was hijacked and his £85,( load of lambskin pelts stol. a four-hour ordeal 70km s of Rome. The...

Cho John Dee Group's )pean division has clinched . ee-year contract with the svvagen car plant in Brusbringing its total...

• A new EC scheme to popularise multi-modal transport through tax rebates for hauliers using piggyback trains has been drafted...

• Scania will pull out of truck racing at the end of this year's season when its contract with RH Racing Team ends. "The...

• The Freight Transport Association has slammed the decision by the London Boroughs Transport Committee to reject Blue Circle...

• South Yorkshire Trans' has been found guilty of an competitive behaviour tow2 private owned bus operatoi Groves, in a report...

• Lorry driver Thomas Connelly walked away with cuts and bruises after leaping to safety seconds before his vehicle full export...

• Tractive unit designs will have to change to comply with the new legislation on trailer lengths, says Leyland Dars...

• Craven Tasker is launching 13.35m dry-freight semitrailers capable of carrying 26 metric pallets, that can be coupled to...

• Tipping gear manufacturer Ilytec is launching a large-bore valve which is said to reduce the lowering time of tipping bodies...

• The EC Commission is to spend £700,000 on a study of electrical propulsion systems for buses, light trucks and special...

• One of the first Seddon Atkinson Strato drawbar ot is now operating with lives' haulage specialists Harvey Ashworth. The...

/ Ryder Distribution Services is launching itself into the beverage industry and expects to develop million worth of business...

IN A haulage network which uses rail for its trunking work is to expand as a result of the Birch Group's take-over of Stockton...

• Bibby Distribution Services, the transport and warehousing division of the Liverpool-based Bibby Line Group, has won a...

111 Intertrail Rentals is to buy two companies — one in distribution and one in contract hire — that will expand its operations...

• Prestons of Potto is to appoint a transport consultar early next year to find poter European partners, probably Belgium or...

'arcels carrier WPS ress is strenthening its UK :hise network prior to thing into Europe "which bring us into tlie league of...

• Business services group Hays is to expand its distribution operations into the DIY and food sectors. The Hays Interbond...

• KP Foods, which launched a Snack Line franchise operation in July (CM 20-26 July) has two franchisees on the road, with a...

goal posts • Parcels carrier Nexday, which launched a franchisee network in May, has shifted its target franchisee from...

Brighton streets • Brighton Council has lost its contract for street cleansing services to Spanish company FOCSA. The FOCSA...

• Speculation that Volvo is to buy into Renault remains unconfirmed although the companies have been negotiating over common...

• Osborne Garages, Colchester, has delivered five refrigerated Seat Terra vans to Dine Inn, a locally-based sandwich delivery...

• Kelvin Central Buses is blaming the 14-week Central Scottish drivers' strike for the closure of its East Kilbride and Wishaw...

• Chesterfield-based East :\lidland has bought seven Alexander-bodied Leyland Olympians, its first new fullsize buses since...

• The Department of Trade and Industry has approved a 50% European Regional Development Fund grant for South Yorkshire...

• Metroriders, Metrobuses and Ailsas are listed in the Department of 'rransport's latest Vehicle Safety Recalls bulletin, for 1...

• Fleetsure, the commercial engineering division of Busways Travel Services, Newcastle, has launched a "Fleetsure Maintenance"...

• Scania underlined its ongoing commitment to "clean bus engines at the recent It tute of Road Transport Engineers show in...

I Drawline subsidiary Midnd Fox, has bought GK inch's buses and services in a E..al which wipes out its last dependent...

• London Regional Transport has signed a 23.5 million contract with Plessey UK to equip about 4,500 buses wtih transponders...

• One-day Saturday stoppages are on the cards following a ballot of drivers at York City and District concerning the...

• Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Air Vice Marshall Ronald Ashford, has refused to grant an 0-Licence to tipper operator...

• The registrations of two local services operated by Thomas Vasey, trading as Vasey's Coaches, of Ashington, have been...

• Stoke-onTrent-based Barry Proctor Services has been cleared of permitting one of its drivers to take insufficient rest and...

5 • North Westem Licensing Authority Martin Albu took no ac tion against the nce held by Bolton-based !ter Forshaw after...

• Husband and wife Mary and Brian Price, both of whom hold Operator's Licences, failed to appear at disciplinary proceedings...

• "Moving with the Times" was the theme for this year's Road Haulage Association annual conference in Orlando, Florida. For...

• Successful enterprise in the bus and coach industry must be built on a foundation of skilled management. That was the...

SIR • May I use the columns of your publication to extend our thanks to the "ex-ambulance man" who administered first aid to...

BY THE HAWK • Recent political developments in East Germany, including hints by visiting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov that...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is planning to make HGV braking test data cards available to hauliers before the end of this year,...

• Eighteen months ago Mike McClelland realised the importance of BS5750, long before the majority of the transport industry had...

LEAF companies like TPI and Dawn press, using hot press techniques, have proved immensely tough as well as scruff and gouge...

spigots mounted in surface plates which are bonded to the spring. A sales coup just announced by GKN involves the first...

CAME IN FR • What do you call a Lada with twin exhaust pipes? How do you double the value of a Skoda? Why do they fit a heated...

The power comes from Lada's own 1,499cc iron-block/alloy-head unit and, breathing through a twin-choke carburettor, with a...

• Carl Ager is a driven man. And with good reason. He has just sunk nearly £2 million into the transport side of a 23.5 million...

• There is a serious shortage of information for hauliers on what to do in an emergency while working abroad — if your load...

• AutoCIM of Leamington Spa has developed and installed a computer-aided design program, based on its AutoCAD system, at...

• Wheelbase Engineering has built four special drumtransporter trailers for supplying chlorine to ICI's customers in the UK and...

builds for distance • Southfields' latest Fleetloada Ultra curtainsidei which debuted at the IRTE's recent Scottish show in...

I Allied Breweries has aken delivery of an ERF 8-265-based drawbar outfit - om Balsa11 Heath odybuilder Peter G Reeves n use at...

Saxon Bodies of Bedford ns to win orders for its dualmpartment insulated ixvan, currently being aluated in Fitch & Sons' tional...

• Specialist manufacturer Andover Trailers says that business is still booming, with an order book worth well over £1 million...

• Specialist bodybuilder A Smith of Great Bentley near Colchester has bodied a 13-tonne Mercedes-Benz for its neighbour...

• The first Mercedes-Benz 2235 air-suspended 38-tonne drawbar outfits to run on Irish roads have entered service with Dublin...

• Erith-based Len Shields has been appointed UK agent for Kassbohrer tankers and has taken the first five twin-hopper powder...

IIII Contract Hire (Commercial Vehicles) has built a Centurion recovery truck at its Vale Lane, Bristol workshop from a kit...

• Ballyvesey Holdings has invested £750,000 in new shot blasting facilities and a reefer production line at Craven Tasker's...

• Mellor Coachcraft, part of the Plaxton group, has openel a £300,000 extension to its Rochdale plant and is concentrating on...

• Hauliers are expressing a general lack of confidence in the Government, which they believe is more interested in rail links...

• Boalloy, which has just been accredited with BS5750 certification , chose the Transport and Distribution Show to launch the...

• Crane Fruehauf, Britain's biggest trailer manufacturer, claims to be bouncing back after a gloomy September, which saw it...

Cargofrigo for the UK • The Cargofrigo chassisless triaxle refrigerated semitrailer, launched by specialist refrigerated...

• With an order for containers running into the third quarter of next year, Graaf, West German suppliei of metal-faced high...

• GRP Massey has supplied Losely Daries of Guildford with four Cargo rigids fitted with dual-compartment GRP refrigerated...

• Be - Plas Marketing of Bromborough, Merseyside ha been appointed by Belgian pultnision manufacturer Bekaert to market its...

Moulded glass-reinforced plastics rear hinged doors and an inset moulded stairwell have been developed by Vaile for its...

• There were several new products and plenty of detail developments among the exhibits in the bodywork display at this year's...

• Stockton-on-Tees-based Inclitell has developed a truck body balancing device that helps the driver to manceuvre into a safe...

• York Transport Engineering is equipping its nine UK centres to carry out wheelbase modifications on 38-tonne artic units to...

• A Daf 2500-based drawbar outfit built by Ray Smith Demountables for Transfleet will carry three 4.75m (15ft) Southfields...

• An automatic anti-tipping device has been developed by David MacKrill Engineering of Bury St Edmunds for use with the...

• Impetus Trading's latest design of dry freight shutter door is now available from i Rornsey, Hampshire factoQ It uses...

• Saxon Bodies has supplir Asda with 25 threecompartment 12.2m reefer trailers fitted with Transit - 4 undermount freezer...

• As well as 'green' issues, this year's Frankfurt show reflected the dimensional changes planned for 1990. Trailer builders...

supports in place of standard mechanical/ hydraulic devices. It also uses BP Niv' running gear and tares out at 7.0 tonnes, but...

British operators with bulky consumer xis to shift should take a serious look irawbar outfits because there are mite road tax...

national retail outlets network. London Carriers, part of the Philips electronics group, operates a number of swap body...