• For the average haulier who never goes within 100km of central London, the battle over the issuing of permits exempting...

• As we report this week, many NV operators are being forced to raise their fares to cope with the Chancellor's surprise...

Yugoslavia are now available on request from the International Road Freight Office. This replaces the old quota system.

truck, the FL608, will be aimed at distribution companies and municipal operators. The FL608 is the first of four new FL6...

radio channels to Britain's two cellular radio operators, Vodafone and Cellnet, to enable them to improve services outside London.

a new training scheme, called Transport Training Initiatives which is designed to promote independent and in-company training.

specialist Bailee Freight Services last year Bailee had a turnover of £12 million. It is based at Stokesley near Middlesbrough,...

expected to announce a rise of around 30% in its net profits.

• Next month, seven former senior managers and directors from NFC's ill-fated Fleetcare subsidiary will face conspiracy and...

• MPs voted last week to support the Government's line in negotiating amendments to proposed European legislation on drivers...

concrete motorway and road bridges following the publication of the Maunsell Report, published at Westminster on Tuesday (18...

• The haulage industry has failed to convince a High Court judge that the compulsory fitting of air-brake silencers to...

Minister Margaret Thatcher to protest that Transport Minister Peter Bottomley will not let him advertise his roping and...

• Perkins' new Eagle TX engine range will be used by ERF and Seddon Atkinson. Leyland Daf has not yet announced whether it will...

• Government proposals to divide passenger-transportauthority-owned bus companies have been attacked by the Greater Manchester...

• A new version of the Iveco Turbo Daily light van and chassis cab will be launched at next month's Barcelona Show — and...

of the year, at Blackpool last weekend — his third such success in the event, Driving a W-registration 11rn Volvo Plaxton...

• Austrian Guenther Spindler (OAF) won last weekend's Mobil Truck Superprix at Brands Hatch, ahead of German Hans George von de...

• Britain's international hauliers face a new rail-borne threat when the Chunnel opens, following the expected launch this...

• Employment in UK vehicle manufacturing fell by 40,000 jobs to 289,000 between 1982 and 1987, but vehicle productivity...

• Internatinal road transport tariffs between countries should be entirely abolished from 1 January next year under an EC...

• Ten right-hand-drive Pegaso Troner 360 TX 38-tonne tractive units will arrive in the UK for fleet operator trials next...

• Commercial vehicle manufacturers are bracing themselves for tough new exhaust emission limits that could boost retail prices...

• The M40 is to be completed at top speed, says Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley, who wants to fill in the "missing...

• This is your last chance,. to enter the Commercial Motor/Castrol competition to win a free fact-finding visit to three...

• The CV and road transport industries have fared well in this year's Queen's Awards for Export and Technological Achievement....

Overdrive general manager Frank Acton explains how he can keep his company, his drivers and his customers happy. j •...

• Only two years after the launch of its Eagle 800-series engines, Perkins has announced a new Eagle TX range, which will...

• Iveco Ford has joined the select band of truck builders offering a six-wheeler with a power output of more than 205kW (275hp)...

• Leyland Daf has launched a new body-mounting system intended to help independent bodybuilders fit all types of body to the...

IIIBletchley Motor Group, which owns several commercial vehicle dealerships, has announced pre-tax profits of £930,000 in 1988...

• British Rail is to set up a Minilink road/rail container base at Warrington, on its London-Glasgow route. If successful, it...

• Trailer operator George Berends Road Cargo has bought 30 air suspend triaxle tilt trailers from Van Hool.

building products firm Truline to transport goods to builders' merchants throughout Yorkshire.

• Tiphooks's manufacturing division Adamson Modular Systems has won a multi-million pound order from West German freight...

• Kent distribution company Alan Firmin Transport has taken delivery of five ERF ElOs with Eaton SAMT transmission, and expects...

• Bibby Distribution Services is planning a national network of up to five road/rail warehouses in preparation for the opening...

• Hays Interbond, part of Hays Distribution Services, has won two distribution contracts with Gallo and Long John Export and...

• BRS Western has officially opened its Austin Rover distribution centre at Cowley, Oxford, which has been under development...

• lveco Ford is firmly back in the black following the announcement of a net profit of £9.6 million for last year, compared...

• IS Engineering has established its truck dealer division as a separate company. Headed by Bill Pringle, and called SE Trucks...

• Foden Trucks is to build a £4m HQ and engineering centre on the site of the Foden Trucks' vehicle assembly plant. It is due...

• Berkshire-based vehicle distribution and servicing company William Jacks boosted profits by 21% to £1.04 million in the year...

• Ryder Distribution Services is to recruit 120 parttime agents for its new Freemans home delivery contract in the North West....

• More than £1 million is being invested into temperature-controlled transport operations at RH Freight Services of Nottingham....

its first order to supply Swedish Hagglunds BV206 allterrain vehicles to the Ministry of Defence — only weeks after winning the...

• Vehicle rental and leasing group Avis boosted profits by 32% to £72 million in the year to 28 February 1989. The results were...

• Wincanton aims to follow TNT and NCCS into brewery distribution. The Somersetbased carrier told brewery bosses at last week's...

• Dafs 7,000 British employees might be offered free shares in the company's 2400 million flotation which will begin on 2 May....

• Garrett Automotive is planning a £3.3 million factory expansion in Skelmersdale, Lanes, to manufacture a new range of...

• If local authorities are unable to prove that they provide good service, a future Labour Government would force them to...

• Harrogate Independent Travel, the drivers' partnership which has competed aggressively for two years on town services, has...

• ATL subsidiary Airebus of Leeds, which was severely criticised by the Traffic Commissioner last October when it had its...

operators have formed a committee and signed a code of conduct in an effort to end the city's chaotic bus war. With 16...

new livery and a change of name to London & Country. The company has also taken delivery of 46 Dennis and Volvo double-deckers.

Lynx city buses, together worth £900,000, The 51-seat Lynxes are the first large buses to be bought since the company was...

• Wallace Arnold Tours, the leisure and holiday division of Leeds-based Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, announced record profits...

• Portuguese bodybuilder Elme 2001 has launched its 'CareCoach' on to the UK market. Distributor, Avondale International of...

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne based Busways Travel services is taking delivery of 20 Scalia N113CRB single-deck buses — the first in...

• Rising inflation, increasing fuel costs and the recent massive hikes in Vehicle Excise Duty are forcing many PSV operators to...

modernisation programme at the Criclde'wood garage of LBL subsidiary Metroline. The 12 month project will include the...

• Scottish Bus Group subsidiary Western Scottish of Kilmarnock, has acquired three Peugeot Talbot tri-axle Freeway minibuses...

• Four new types of single-decker bus are in service with London Buses in a 12-month trial which could determine its singledeck...

• Plaxton subsidiary Roadlease is supplying Cleveland Transit with 10 Leyland Lynx city buses under a leasing deal which...

Al" licensing applications will have to be re-heard following adminis trative errors. The High Court was asked last week to...

• Wellingtonbased HW Pryce & Sons has been convicted by Telford magistrates, of 21 offences of permitting drivers to exceed the...

• Retfordbased Ken Lane Transport, a company that lost its licence last May because of excise licence and overloading offences...

• Evidence that ABF could lose a major homedelivery contract with Queensway if its operations were restricted at its...

Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford to show it can keep its vehicles in a fit and serviceable...

• Associated Projects, a sister company of HoIme-onSpalding-Moor haulier B M Cassidy, was last week given an absolute discharge...

been successful in seeking a licence in her own name. Her husband was disqualified from holding an operator's licence in...

WINDSCREEN DEPOT IN CHESTER • A new National Windscreen depot has opened at Greyhound Park, Chester. It will offer 24-hour...

GETTING HEAVY IN NORTFIGATE • Tildesley Ford of Northgate, Aldridge has been appointed a heavy truck specialist for Iveco...

Steyr dealer for Tayside, Fife and north Scotland. For more details contact Alba Trucks, Smeaton Road, West Gourdie, Dundee DD2...

ANIMAL MAGIC ▪ Shropshire's Department of Trading Standards has organised a seminar on legislation affecting operators who...

is the theme of the next Transport Conferences seminar, on 15 June at St John's Hotel in Solihull, West Midlands. The event...

6 644 LORRY DRIVER OF THE YEAR • Truck Skill '89, Lorry Driver of the Year — Commercial Vehicle Motor Show will be held at the...

Development will hold a conference in Esher, Surrey called Planning for Today and the Future on 24 April. The conference, which...

N IGHT HOURS AT FELIXSTOWE • Following talks between the Road Haulage Association and Felixstowe Docks, the Landguard teminal...

LIFT OFF WITH BSI • British Standards Institute has published BS6109: Part Two, which describes the design and safety...

• The Bus and Coach Council has joined forces with the London Tourist Board and the Metropolitan Police to produce a map of...

has published a book on the European motor industry. The Motor Industry in the European Community analyses the state of the...

A PORTABLE FRIEND • Cellular phone dealer Talkland had added the Panasonic portable D-series phone to its range. it has an...

EARLS COURT SPACE FOR 1101/s AND PSV5 • A new coach and lorry park has been opened at Warwick Road in London, near to Earls...

TAKING THE HELM • The Road Transport Industry Training Board has developed a new course designed for directors and senior...

• EP Training Services is offering language courses in French and German to help operators prepare for 1992. For details...

• A contraflow system has been introduced on the eastbound carriageway of the M4 in Wiltshire at junction 17. According to the...

• The Department of Transport has announced its plans to restrict the width of the A41 at Gloucester Place and Dorset Square in...

▪ Junction improvements on the western section of the M25 between junctions 11 to 13 have begun and will continue until June....

Commercial Motor (23-29 March) and would like to comment as follows: El We test ratchet assemblies on a regular basis (1 per...

sector are accused of being less responsive than their counterparts in the private sector. A gross generalisation perhaps, but...

depot in Southampton escaped the long arm of the law by fleeing on foot — after he had reversed the PSV giant into a pursuing...

day on CM's light van test route. Returning along a stretch of dual carriageway on the A217 he was confronted by a road full of...

Cambridge-based Philips Scientific has won its second .27m order to supply closed-circuit television equipment to complete the...

more than an HGV 1 driver. One of the Hawk's readers has sent me a clipping from the Manchester Evening News. Wilbro Drivers...

last week and more than 10 vehicles were involved in crashes after three men abseiled off the bridge, distracting even the most...

colleagues do — but last week, one of them had a bash at the preview of the CellnetICommercial Motor Safe Business Driver...

in Derbyshire. Pinelog Products builds wooden cottages for use at holiday centres, but intriguingly, it builds them in...

This year's Fleet Management Conference — Commercial Motor's 25th — is designed to keep you on the right side of the law. In...

OF THE PINION Having a good diff-lock will keep you going on tricky ground but making the right choice of system is vital. •...

Bad backs are the bane of the brewery distribution sector: reducing this painful problem was one of the potent issues discussed...

Artois, hopes its new take-home dedicated distribution deal with Tibbett & Britten will reach the parts other carriers cannot...

transport operations in the brewing industry. It wants to keep it out of the clutches of third-party firms like TNT and NCCS...

have the charisma of heavy horses and a well-turned-out brewer's dray, but they are rather more fuel-efficient. • When the...

Brenda Bell, transport administrator of Ennemix Holdings, is chairman; Terry Fensome, managing director of Sherwood Transport &...

retirement of current managing director, George Lilly, who has been with the company for 39 years. Bradburn joined the company...

the Road Transport Industry Training Board for a further period of three years. He joined the board as chairman in April 1983.

promoted Andrew Fitzmaurice to general manager of its nextmorning business postal service, TNT Supamail. He joined TNT two...

to director of H T Hughes & Sons (Transport), Hughes Container Service and W G Privett & Sons. He was previously general...

of chairman and managing director of Adam Opel, the West German subsidiary of General Motors. He was pre viously vice-president...

Maurice Hunt deputy director general. He succeeds Kenneth Edwards who retired at the end of last year. Hunt was previously...

been appointed sales and marketing manager for Procter, Nolan and Partners, publisher of the CAP books of used vehicle values.

development manager of Turner Leasing, having joined from TIP Trailer Rental. It is hoped the position will strengthen Turner's...

of the Christian Salvesen depot in Rugby. He joined the depot as an HGV driver in 1984 and was promoted to traffic controller,...

has been elected eastern district chairman of the Road Haulage Association. Simms, a member of the association since 1971, is...

of Portslade as manager responsible for selfdrive and contract hire. She manages more than 200 vehicles, ranging from Fiesta...

• GRP Massey has opened a £1 million, 3,700m 2 (40,000ft 2 ) extension to its Market Weighton production plant. Additional...

• Cantilever tail-lifts with capacities ranging from 500 to 9,000kg are now available in the UK through Northern Taillifts of...

• Craven Tasker's Ulsterbased parent group Ballyvesey Holdings aims to broaden its European manufacturing position beyond the...

• A new triple-ram scissor hoist for 38-tonne tipping semi-trailers has been added to the Harsh range of underbody lift gear by...

• Austrian manufacturer G Kremen of Linz has introduced an unusual airoperated tipping system that uses the compressed air...

• Tico Cranes of South Killingholme, South Humberside has produced a centre-mounted loader for block and brick-carrying...

• Dry freight bodybuilding specialist Papworth Group (formerly Papworth Industries) is now offering its customers a vertically...

• One of Britain's leading recovery manufacturers, Wreckers International, is building tipper bodies at its new factory in East...

• Abel Demount Systems has adapted the lifting assembly on its demount body system to conform to Philips-concept dimensions foi...

• Supermarkets are evaluating JR Supplies' Loadmaker, with an insulated, moveable bulkhead which uses compression seals to...

• Metal-faced polyurethanefoam panels will be used in up to 10% of the 15,000 commercial vehicle bodies likely to be built in...

• Boalloy has introduced a new bolt-together front bulkhead design for its Tautliner curtain-sided semi-trailers that will help...

• CEMA Enterprises of Weston-super-Mare has developed and patented a torque-absorbing fixing unit that, when used to mount...

• Don-Bur will mark next week's Tipcon exhibition and conference with two new tipping semi-trailers: a 47.8m 3 all-aluminium...

The tipper sector is being transformed by new materials and technology, but some buyers are conservative in their choice....

Tipper operators have to cope with gruelling working conditions. Bodybuilder has been out and about asking what they need from...

Penman Engineering of Dumfries has no truck with "cheap and nasty" bodybuilding. The company proudly says it is at the quality...

Leyland Daf offers more MAN VW list • I _eyland Daf has extended its body-mounting back-up service with a new range of...

of recognised bodybuilders will in future have to offer quality assurance at least on a par with BS5750 or IS09002, both being...

your bodyshop • Four chassis manufacturers are planning a national conference aimed at setting a common industry standard on...

and marketing courses from Sewells International Training and Consultancy of Queens Square, Bath is being held at Thames Lodge,...