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• In aweA Hi which the Monopolies and Mergers Commission presents its report on the fuel retailing industry to the Department...

anger routes • Cleveland County Council is considering a mandatory routeing scheme on all operators transporting dangerous...

• NFC boosted its pre-tax profits by 34% to 290.2 million in the year to 30 September l989. In the year it went public, NFC's...

• The Freight Transport Association has condemned the EC for excluding own-account hauliers from holding cabotage permits....

• The European Conimission has accused the Department of Transport of misusing EC roads money. The Court of Auditors — the...

• Leyland Daf has delivered the first of the 1522 DROPS medium mobility load carriers it is contracted to build for the...

• The dispute between independent recovery operators and the RAC hit crisis point last weeek when an RAC member suffered...

• Pay talks in the Metropolitan area have broken down after union officials threw out a pay offer of 210.80 — a rise of 8.47% a...

• Every British truck manufacturer is now cutting back in response to the drastic fall in sales over the past three months....

• Lorry drivers should not suffer long-term health damage as a result of inhaling diesel fumes, says Health Minister Roger...

• The Monopolies and Mergers Commission is to investigate the Highland Scottish bus company's commercial practices, after the...

• Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) general manager Jim Lamont is leaving to join satellite communications specialist Locstar, based...

• AWD's long-awaited assault on the UK tractor market will begin in earnest next year, with the pilot build of the first...

• A simpler, cheaper and lighter version of the AWD group's constantly-driven Multidrive artic system is now undergoing...

• C ummins is to launch four new diesel engines in the UK, including the most powerful version of its 14-litre unit — the 347kW...

• Blakes Chilled Distribution hopes to become the first UK haulier to operate at the new 16.5m combination length when its...

• Tiphook's takeover of rival trailer rental firm Trailerent has been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. The...

• Imperial Tankers, which was bought out from ICI last April, plans to spend V million on new vehicles next year. It is also...

• Silentnight, the Lancashirebased bed manufacturer is cancelling its direct delivery service to furniture group Lowndes...

• Transtleet is experimenting with the first 3.5-tonne curtainsider to join its rental fleet. The Leyland Daf 400 Series...

• AWL) is set to announce the first of its sales operations on the European continent with the establishment of AWD France on I...

• The Bus and Coach Council has welcomed the package of improvements for transport in London. including a 485km (300-mile)...

• I hscussions between trade unions, the Passenger Transport Authority and West Midland Transport are being held over the...

• I'lans are underway to transfer the operations of AJS subsidiary York City and District, with the closure of Malton depot and...

• Independent operator Alan Palmer of Carlisle is the latest Cumbrian operator to sell out to the Stagecoach Group, with the...

• Two newly-developed lowemission engines from Scania are to be used in trials on 70 buses in Stockholm early next year. Scania...

• Environmental conditions relating to the Ossett depot of Transport Deelopment Group subsidiary larris Distribution, imposed...

• Overloading convictions resulted in Timothy O'Sullivan, trading as Express Deliveries, of Coventry, receiving a severe...

IN A driver sacked by South Wales haulier John Benyon Evans & Son, after he changed his mind about working overtime, has been...

.5 IIIEWHERE • ELSE • "I've never seen snow like it. said the big lad with the seat by the window. I'd been watching him for...

nightmare' "Rods? Lines? That sort of thing?" "I thought I might have dropped my keys there." "Why didn't you go straight to...

• As 1992 approaches, the changing face of European industry is nowhere more apparent than with the manufacturers of commercial...

Katy Richmond. Age: 24 months. Assessor's verdict — "slow starter and has a tendency to rev engine noisily. Great style when on...

• It's hard to drive the subject of this week's roadtest without a sense of awe. This Leyland Lynx was one of a batch of 10...

• Trucks and their drivers receive little recognition for their crucial work in distributing products and foods, but a steady...

El The recession of 1989 hit the haulage industry like a bad hangover. It followed years of good living as transport firms...

1980 US hostage rescue mission to Iran fails ... Reagan elected ... John Lennon murdered. As the decade opened, the recession...