Cleveland Tankers' Managing Director, Richard Kirby, is a chartered accountant with 26 years' transport experience. Not a man...

• Like every industry, the road haulage industry needs every well-trained person it can get, and the better trained those...

• There has been much celebration this week of the 'completion' of the long-awaited — and even longer-needed — London...

• Thoughts of winter operation inevitably turn to the problems of diesel waxing, cold starting, iced-up screens and in-cab...

• Margaret Thatcher officially opened the final section of the 21 billion M25 orbital motorway, the world's longest city...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board is proposing a number of major changes to the way operators pay for training...

• There are growing calls for designated tanker routes in the North East of England following two serious toxic leaks within...

The Commercial Motor Road Testers challenge at the Motor Show attracted a huge number of entries. The fastest time recorded was...

• British hauliers are bearing the brunt of the latest escalation in the political row with France over the continuing "Iamb...

• Leyland Trucks scooped the pool in Commercial Motor's annual Advertisement Awards which were announced at a special...

• The FrA and RHA is taking the "No need to speed" safety campaign (CM, Oct 4) to the streets, with a national roadshow...

• Camden Council will take a decision later this week on whether to apply for a court injunction to stop the London Residuary...

• The Police chief responsible for the Wapping area of London has warned that somebody will be seriously injured or killed if...

• Neoplan Coaches are to be built under licence in the UK by Carlton PSV Sales, currently Neoplan's sole UK agent. A Skyliner...

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

• ERF, the Sandbach-based truck builder, has increased the planned service intervals on all its Group 1 vehicles from...

• UK tipper operators can now buy a highly wear-resistant plastic body lining, developed in the United States by Hoechst...

• Griffith and Elder of Bury Si Edmunds — the UK's largest producer of single axle weighers — has introduced a low cost...

• York subsidiary Trailer Equipment and Components (TEC) has introduced a new lightweight and compact air suspension for...

• Attempts by Eurotunnel to raise £206 million in the first round of financing for the Channel Tunnel are being met with...

• Transfleet Services has won a five year contract, believed to be worth around £5 million, to manage and operate the...

• TDP Distribution of Hitchin has ousted NFC Distribution company SPD from a WH Smith distribution contract. TDP and SPD...

• Bristol-based Peter Lane Transport has taken over all the delivery and collection of cargo for international shipment for...

• The new owners of Langton Storage and Transport have invested more than £14 million in developing a service they are...

• Waste disposal specialist Grundon, has opened a new million greenfield-site at Beenham, near Reading, which will provide...

• Russell Davies Haulage has fitted mobile telephones into two new Volvo tractor units, which it intends to use on a contract...

• A Lancashire haulage company which operated vehicles taxed at the private light goods rate has had its fines of 211,700 cut...

• Environmental objections from the Borough of Watford and local residents have led to Metropolitan Licensing Authority Air...

III Felixstowe-based Cowan Bros (Haulage), whose licence was revoked last November when the company and its directors were...

• Failures to take sufficient weekly rest cost Alfred Hymas and nine of the company's drivers 21,330 in fines and costs when...

• Eleven drivers employed by J&M Heathcote of Stalybridge have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 21,365 after...

• While accepting that the maintenance record of West Yorkshire haulier Kenneth Moorhead was not bad enough to justify taking...

• Volvo is pulling back from its involvement in integral PSVs. Larsarik Nilsson, president of Volvo Bus Corporation, says:...

• As de-regulation came into effect earlier this week, the debate over the benefits of the changeover reached boiling point....

• Following the successful launch of its CityPacer range, Optare has now produced a 21/25 seater minibus based on the Dodge...

• Nigel Lane is the new National Business Development manager at distribution specialists Bucks of London. He was formerly...

• Andy Jacobson, Ford of Europe's chief designer, is to replace Uwe Bahnsen as the company's vice president of design....

• lain Knox has been appointed general manager of , Laidlaw Trucks, the Iveco Ford truck dealership based at I Bellshill in...

• Philip Page is the new sales director of Interlube Systems of Plymouth Well known in the commercial vehicle and mobile...

non-executive director of Tiphook of Bromley, Kent — the international trailer and container rental group. He is also a...

French reprisals • In a move likely to embarrass the British Government, French Transport Minister Jacques Douffiagues has...

• Kamaz diesel trucks which can bum natural gas are being tested in the Soviet Union. In the first 10 minutes after it is...

• The annual season ticket rate for the toll on the Brenner motorway in Austria increased from 17,000 to 25,000 Schillings on...

• Sales of heavy goods vehicles in Spain dropped by 29.7% to 4,854 vehicles in 1985, mainly because of a contraction by the...

• Italian and Spanish truck operators are worried about the planned liberalisation of the transport industry within the EEC....

III The European Community Bank has agreed to a loan of 25 million Portuguese escudos to improve the Portuguese road network....

IN The international truck link between Leningrad and Orsja, due to be opened early in 1987, will shorten the route between...

• The latest fleet orders from the Post Office — one of the largest light vehicle operators in the country — have been...

• A range of milk float bodywork based on the short, and long wheelbase Ford Transit chassis cabs has been developed by...

• Volvo Trucks (GB) plans to capture a 10% share of the lucrative UK 7.5-tonne market "within a reasonable time" — possibly...

• Daihatsu has facelifted its old 850 micro van which now becomes the Hi Jet, and goes on sale in the UK following its recent...

• From the middle of this month, Freight Rover will offer the joint Austin-Rover/Perkins (Prima) two-litre direct injection...

• Walkers of Markyate is now offering a glassreinforced-plastic hard-top canopy specifically designed for the nev5 Suzuki...

• The future of Bedford's Electric CF looks a little brighter after the recent decision to cease its production at the...

SIR NEC IS OK Ei I write in reference to the letter from Mr Charlesworth of Neville Charrold Limited. Whilst agreeing with...

Deregulation is finally with us. Under post D-Day conditions, which vary from business-as-usual to near-chaos, CM has been...

Even the Americans are taking aerodynamics seriously. Kenworth's T600A has a rounded 'soft nose' that has led its manufacturers...

BY THE HAW • Those of us in road transport who notice names, keep a subconscious eye open for product nomenclatures that...

With the E6.18 ERF is making its most determined effort to date to grab a major share of the lucrative 16-tonne UK market •...

ERF E6 Right: The 5.9 litre Cummins engine is impressively flexible with higher maximum torque than its competitors. Below...

"When you walk into a motor show the first things you should see are trucks, not the stand structures. This is more like the...