• "It's a miracle more people weren't killed". Anybody who saw the pictures this week of the 54 vehicle pile-up on the M18 and...

/ Operators in Leeds faced chaos this week as the City Council introduced and effectively scrapped a lorry ban within a day —...

• UK hauliers are more honest than most, according to a survey by a French transport study group. The Conseil National des...

/ By the year 2000 hauliers will be charged for every mile their trucks cover in towns. Road pricing will be introduced in...

• Fears that the Government's three-year £6.3bn new roadbuilding programme is to be slashed were strengthened this week by...

• The European Commission looks set to abandon its plan to impose EC truck maximum speed limits. EC Commission officials have...

• Environmental uproar and a price cutting exercise by British Rail has removed any chance of hauliers being able to bid to...

are expected to campaign for the retention of the VI in its present form. They believe that any move to allow the private...

White Arrow Express drivers, whose vans were stolen after they left their keys in them, were fairly dismissed.

Statement The Freight Transport Association has recommended government investment in the roads programme, which it says would...

other people's vehicles repaired at the cost of his employer has been jailed for 12 months. Steven David Benson of Bradford, a...

to open in Spain next month; it will be followed by sites in France and Portugal. They will be supplied with ERF parts and...

LGV tests should rise by £1.68 to cover the new smoke emission test — but the FTA dismisses this figure as being "grossly...

and its trucks are being re-liveried, following Redland's takeover of Steetley last March.

over who will pay for modifying their engines to comply with the new annual smoke test introduced last month. Perkins engines...

all UK livestock vehicles will be obsolete by 1998 if the EC accepts proposals for new regulations based on Dutch requirements.

his truck racing debut at last weekend's Lucas International Truckprix, came second to European champion Richard Walker in his...

improving the Pennine road links, Trans-Pennine Study: Strategy Report, is available from the DOT.

contract with the Home Office. It is believed the deal involves taking over a Prison Service warehouse at Branston, Staffs...

is expected to recommend up to 90 more redundancies from RTITBS' workforce of nearly 260 by Christmas.

• The standard of dangerous goods vehicle operators was this week praised after the Health and Safety Executive carried out its...

• North Yorkshire County Council trading standards department has warned weighbridge operators in its area that refusing to...

E As the future of troubled Municipal Mutual Insurance hung in the balance this week, local authorities were told to be ready...

• Foden is the first UK truck manufacturer to offer Cummins' low emission Euro-1 14-litre engine (CM 17-23 Sept). The N380 will...

• A 10-tonne version of SAF's nine-tonne Euro-Axle is expected to enter full production before the end of the year. It will be...

• Scania has won a £29.5m order from Iran for 600 trucks. They will be used on tipper and concrete mixer work. Last year Scania...

• Renault dealer RH Commercials is supplying 32 Renault trucks to its holding company, the RH Group, in a deal worth £,1.5m....

• Leyland Daf has launched an 11-tonne GVW version of the 45 Series to join the 6.2, 7.49 and 10-tonne GVW models. Cummins B...

• VBG of Runcorn has developed a two-height fifth wheel which allows the latest generation of ultra-low-height tractive units...

• Sixteen months and 171,000km (106,875 miles) ago CM roadtested Ken Longthorne's Perkins Tx325powered Foden 4350 eight-legger...

• The 200 drivers employed by Castle Cement have been threatened with the sack if they go on strike again. This follows last...

• Northampton-based Swift has won a multi-million-pound contract with Vauxhall Motors to collect production materials from the...

take pay cuts of up to £40 a week and the introduction of overnight shifts to keep a contract with Birds Eye at the Monks Path,...

• The Transport Tribunal has upheld a decision to refuse Cleveland-based CT Transport Services a licence for three trucks and...

• Charterail's survival campaign has been boosted following talks with British Rail about reducing its track costs. Now...

• Coboco, the Co-op's £1.5mturnover bodybuilding business in Urmston, Manchester is to close this week. But the paintshop,...

• Cavewood Transport is back in profit for the first six months of this year after making a loss of £80,000 on a £20m turnover...

• BRS is to open a dedicated reefer rental business with a fleet of 50 vehicles operating out of the BRS depot at Erdington,...

• Bristol-based Amtrak Express Parcels wants at least 18 more franchisees to join its network of 190 by the end of the year....

• Eurotunnel has been demonstrating LG V loading procedures to more than 100 hauliers at Folkestone — but it refuses to say how...

by West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh after the company managed to put its five vehicles and one trailer through...

/ South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Gerrard Sullivan took no action against the licence of Methyr ioF - 4 Oki...

/Transporting 6;1 drums of metha nol without dis playing the or

cost Frederick Suckling, trading as J F Suckling & Son, of Guisborough, Cleveland, £400 in fines and costs at Thirsk...

MA Crown Court has rejected an appeal by Ray Steele Haulage, of Barrow in Furness against the company's conviction for using a...

• AE Hawkins (Haulage Contractors) has had the duration of its licence cut followng the issue of vehicle prohibition notices....

• The three-vehicle licence held by Wyre Forest Recycling of Flartlebury, Kidderminster was suspended by West Midland LA John...

• Lampeter-based Blackwater (UK) has had its licence suspended by South Wales DLA Gerrard Sullivan.

• West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority Roger Seymour has refused to renew the six-vehicle two-trailer licence held by...

• Appeals against two overloading convictions recorded against Northern Irish haulier Seaforde Transport (Co Down) by the...

• A new low-cab version of the Volvo B12 is one of the options being considered before launching the rear-engined...

• Van Hool has beaten Plaxton to win Shearing's 1993 order for new coaches. Rank-owned Shearings — the country's largest coach...

• Wadham Stringer's rejuvenied Wessex midibus is on line to be available to operators at the end of this year, and it should...

• Optare has won its biggest single order ever and the largest for the Vecta midibus launched early last year. The Westcourt...

• Japanese car parts importer and distributor ADL has moved into its own distribution and warehouse centre at Marden in Kent....

• Chilled and ambient food distributor Geest has moved its wholesale distribution division's South-east business out of...

• AMV Environmental has been set up in Leeds to market sewer and pipe cleaning and water recycling equipment from Vallely...

• The British School of Motoring's fleet vehicle maintenance operation, MCR, has added an accident repair site for light CVs up...

• Warrington-based Carrier Transicold has developed an undermount trailer refrigeration unit designed to suit 30 to 60m'...

• Service station chain Pavilion has refurbished its 11 sites to make them more attractive to truck drivers. They now have...

• Eberspacher (UK) has brought out an air conditioning unit designed to protect drivers from dust in quarry sites. The 1101000...

• All employers have to assess manual lifting and handling in the workplace by the end of this year. Kelvedon-based TDT...

• By January 1 1995 drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tonnes carrying dangerous goods must have a vocational training certificate....

• Price Waterhouse is starting a service for hauliers called VAT focus '93. It includes a telephone helpline manned by two VAT...

• Wabco has developed a version of its Electronically Controlled Air Suspension (ECAS) specifically for light CVs. The system...

• A high roof on long-wheelbase 400 models, increased payloads on 200 models and a bigger options package are among changes to...

• A German TV news agency has taken delivery of a Leyland Daf 400 satellite news gathering vehicle, worth £300,000. Fitted out...

IN Fiat has denied an earlier statement that the Unovan is to be dropped from its UK vehicle line-up. A Fiat spokesman says...

I/ Ford is introducing van versions of its revised Escort van and extending the range of the SVO body options on the latest...

The rules governing the movement of food now entail accurate temperature control for vehicles under 7.5 tonnes. Judging by the...

Are we steering over the limit? We have recently put a batch of 38-tonne ERF 6x2 tractors into service. Their second axles are...

The police recently took my LandRover to a weighbridge and found that the rear axle weight exceeded that on the manufacturer's...

and rail distribution systems. Road vehicles are more flexible, generally faster, more reliable and more easily integrated into...

power league — and it's looking more sensible by the day. The current 320kW (435hp) version is a greener, quieter, more driver...

this year — Sweet music to the ears of rock's specialist hauliers. If only the fans didn't dance on the trailer roofs... A n...

utler Plant Hire of Deeside, Clwyd, operates what may be one of the most expensive commercial vehicles at work in Britain today...

lill he Japanese have perfected a computer which will drive a vehicle — the driver simply punches in the destination and sits...

1' 1 61 ruckers calling at this roadside cafe in south-west London at least got a chuckle with their fry-ups. What can be...

A ge Concern 78 A ge Concern 78 Return is a novel campaign launched by the old folks charity to raise money this autumn — old...

ign spotted on the wall of Cummins' noise laboratory by one of the Hawk's colleagues while on a recent trip to the USA: "The...

ENDURANC EC legislation will force carriers of hazardous goods to fit endurance braking systems from next year. Operators will...

• I want to say well done to Mr Robinson of Griffin International Transport for the letter he wrote about the way we subsidise...

• In his undoubtedly sincere and well intentioned commentary under the heading "Recession Owner Drivers", Simon Bowdrey twice...

• Dr John Whiteleg on Radio 4's environmental programme Costing the Earth, (CM 3-9 Sept) was so close to the truth it is...

• You recently printed a story about motorway truckstops (CM 10-16 Sept) and on the front cover you used the words "Truckstop...

i uring the General Election campaign the Conservatives made much of their commitment to the road programme. One of the few...