FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT • If the Department of Transport has got its sums right on enforcement it should be congratulated. But if...

• Law-breaking hauliers will find it easier to escape detection from next year, because of cuts in traffic examiners overtime...

• Graham Marshall, founder of the 63-bedroom Truckworld truckstop at Thurrock near the Dartford Tunnel, is bidding to buy back...

• NFC's transport businesses have turned in a patchy set of contributions to the group's year-end results. Group pre-tax...

• The RSPCA has abandoned its plan to take legal action to stop hauliers from taking live sheep to France, but is stepping up...

• Foden has introduced a high-roof version of its 4000 Series cab: see page 7. Going east • Volvo is delivering 440 F12...

• An inquiry by the French transport department has blamed the deaths of 49 sheep in a truck on board the French SNAT ferry...

• Cummins is likely to launch a turbo version of its LIO in the US this year — a UK version could follow. Tibbett's swap •...

• EC transport ministers have finally agreed on plans to harmonise the length of drawbars. At their council in Brussels this...

• Hauliers who are owed up to £400,000 following the crash of Stone Supplies (Stoke St Michael) last month (CM 8-14 November)...

• The Government has announced tough new regulations to stamp out fly-tipping. From May operators who carry waste will be...

• Waste haulier Hales of Hertfordshire has boosted Commercial Motor's wheel loss research campaign by £250 this week, taking...

• British Rail's choice of Wakefield as the site for its West Yorkshire rail freight terminal has contradicted plans which last...

scheme to help Russia alleviate its food distribution crisis. UK distribution managers from major UK supermarket chains will...

see how they coped with the recent severe weather. The association is concerned that, although the bad weather was forecast,...

• Somerset County Council's national campaign to restrict trucks over 17 tonnes to motorways (CM 13-19 December) is "a ragbag...

• AWD has abandoned its plan to introduce a 38-tonne premium tractor based on the old Bedford TM cab. Instead it is...

111 Foden has introduced a high-roof version of its 4000 Series cab. The Hi-Line gives 1.8m headroom at the rear (350mm more...

IN Renault's long awaited new contender in the 3.6-7.4 tonne market, the B-Series, will go on sale in the UK from the new year....

• ERF is putting its workforce on a four-day week during January to reduce the levels of trucks in stock. It has also shut down...

• Trailer rental giant Tiphook has snapped up a 10% stake in rival company TIP Europe. Tiphook chairman Robert Montague...

• More than half of Speedlink's customers could be left without a viable rail freight alternative following Railfreight...

• Dedicated Magazine Deliveries — the magazine distribution consortium formed from the ashes of Times Sensitive Deliveries...

• Kenley Motors of Darwen has joined the Track 29 network, British Rail Parcels's overnight freight company, as its 32nd...

• Scalia distributor Southway Commercials of Fareham has been taken over by Scania (Great Britain), which has injected cash...

• Great Grimsby Borough Council has bought 10 Jack Allen Colectornatics to update its fleet of refuse collection vehicles....

• Walter Alexander, Plaxton and Northern Counties are in the running to produce approved bodies for VL Bus & Coach's new Lynx...

• South Yorkshire Transport has introduced a computer system on one of its high frequency routes in Sheffield to prevent bus...

• The final Omni minibuses came off the production line at City Vehicle Engineering in Shildon, County Durham last week, as...

• South Yorkshire bus chiefs have tracked down almost 500 graffiti vandals after employing two expolice officers. They say they...

• Overloading fines against Llannvst-based Cawley Bros have been reduced from 21,200 to 2300 at Knutsford Crown Court after...

• Ray Witts, who trades as Ray Witts Transport, has successfully appealed aga - nst a conviction for three offences of...

• Worcesterbased haulier John Williams, who is currently serving a sevenyear prison sentence for smuggling cannabis, has had...

• An Essex truck driver and his employer, J Loveric Transport, have been charged with a series of hours and tachograph...

ENVIRORENTAL EXPANDS • Envirorental Nationwide, the specialised liquid and dry waste handling vehicle hire division of the...

branch in Teeside next February. The site will include an eight-bay workshop for 24-hour maintenance and repair. Contact...

OFFICIAL LAUNCH FOR SNOWBERRY • Snowberry of Yeovil, Somerset has been officially appointed as the UK importer for Dacia, with...

KEEPING TRACK OF HOURS LAWS • The Road Transport Industry Training Board has published a guide to drivers' hours rules as...

just been set up to offer specialist training in all aspects of security, including transport, intruder detection and manned...

LEADING LADIES • The Annual Business Woman of the Year award was won last year by Stagecoach chairman Ann Gloag. Entries are...

BRIGHT SPARKS • Bainbridge Silencers has produced a brochure on its Truclunaster Spiral-Flow spark arrester which is designed...

LIVERIES AT LEICESTER BRS has opened its first commercial vehicle refinishing shop and low bake oven at its Leicester branch....

fleet operators with comprehensive weekly vehicle reports has been set up by Monitronix Services of Frome, Somerset. A fuel...

CLUB TOGETHER El The Pandoro Drivers' Club, founded a year ago for drivers who regularly make the Irish sea crossing, has...

UP YER BUMPER WITH CM STICKERS • Commercial Motor is now offering you the chance to spread the message that Britain needs...

FORTH RIGHT • Authorities responsible for the road network round the Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh are to draw up shortterm...

has been opened on the A303 in Somerset to connect dual carriageways at South Petherton and the Ilchester bypass. The work was...

Lancaster demanded money by threatening the cashier with a cucumber in a bag, may be forgiven for believing that they had...

to induce drivers to stop overnight, but has learnt from a feathered cousin in the US that a truckstop in Baltimore has signed...

supplying three splendid die-cast Routemaster model buses mounted on wooden plinths with a desk pen. Adaptable to most road...

Commercial Motor looks back on some of the main — and more interesting — stories of 1990. Paul Ashwell, the Northampton lorry...

The Commercial Motor first tested the Ford Model AA in June 1930. We thought that it was time to reappraise the forerunner of...

Benny hated Christmas, that's one of the reasons why he volunteered to take a load to Dunfermline late on Christmas Eve. But he...

the tree on its journey. Every year the people of Oslo commemorate the Royal family during the Second World War. This • The...

Peter Christian plays the part of lorry driver Frank Rogers in Channel Four's popular soap, Brookside. CM went along to the...

• AA-DRS FLEET RESCUE POVVELL Recovery operator AA-BRS Fleet Rescue has appointed David Powell as regional sales executive for...