• Most good vehicle operators would probably consider the Association of County Councils the most unlikely of allies in any...

• Common Market officials are working on a draft directive to increase the width of temperature-controlled vehicles in all EEC...

• Radical changes in roadside facilities are proposed in a new report from the Association of County Councils, entitled: The...

• As Commercial Motor went to press the announcement of a Daf takeover of Leyland Trucks seemed imminent. The Dutch company's...

been reached. Birkenhead JIC has agreed an increase of £5 a week on basic rates across the board, with an overnight subsistence...

• If the Department of Transport gets the legislative opportunity to revise the law concerning operators' licensing and...

The number of goods hides and PSVs recalled der the code of practice )nitored by the Departnt of Transport fell draItically in...

• The 83% employee-owned National Freight Consortium expects to raise its 1986/87 turnover by 22% to £913 million, and boost...

• The 'Super Soaraway Sun' — a newspaper not normally known for its love of road transport, at least not editorially, is giving...

• Tonbridge, Kent-based S&S Services is offering a £1,000 reward for any information leading to the recovery of its ERF 6x2...

Scottish and Newcastle Breweries order for pillarless, curtainsided semi-trailers. King is to supply S and N with 27 tandemaxle...

• A revolutionary new car transporter arrived in Britain this week for testing by the Brentwood-based Toleman Group. The new...

• When Cummins Engines launches its new, mid-range 112kW-198kW (150-265hp) C Series truck engines early next year, it will also...

• York Trailer, in conjunction with its recently-acquired rigid tipping bodybuilder Neville Charrold, has produced a new...

• Grau Girling, the Echlin subsidiary which manufactures Skidchek truck and trailer antilock braking systems, is to close its...

• With Fiat and Peugeot Talbot poised to battle it out in the 3.5-tonne gross weight panel van market with their heavyweight...

• West Midlands Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson took no action against the licence of Telford-based H W Pryce & Son when the...

• P&A O'Neill Haulage, which is run by a Leicestershire family, has withdrawn its application for a new licence for six...

• Ian Armstrong Transport has been fined £75 for a defective tyre which was noticed by a police examiner after one of the...

• West Midlands Licensing Authority . Roflaid Jackson has cut the licences held by G & IZ Cadwallader and Cadwallader...

• A case involving the alledged aiding and abetting of drivers to falsify tachograph records against Stalybridgebased haulage...

PSV operators' licence held by NBC subsidiary Luton and District Transport to expire at the end of the year instead of in...

• A driver has been driving Class III vehicles since 1972, while only holding a provisional HGV driving licence — but he has...

• The new temperaturecontrolled distribution arm of the National Freight Consortium Distribution Group is to start trading...

• United Parcel Services has extended its UK network after reaching new agreements with nine regional courier companies. The...

• Following the decision by UB Distribution Services to withdraw from the direct distribution of frozen foods by the end of...

• January 1987 was a record month for Besco Bodies, with the Northampton-based body builder completing 311 vehicles,...

on contracthire from Trailerent last year (CM, October 4, 1986), UK reefer operator Frigoscandia Transport has taken another...

/Less than five months after investing £4.3 million on replacement vehicles, new technology and property (CM, October 18)...

• Shell UK Oil — currently the largest operator of Foden 6x 4 tractive units in the country — has bought another 18 in a deal...

• TIP Europe made a 25.42 million pre-tax profit in the year to July 31, 1986, on a turnover of £23.64 million. Chief...

• Harrogate-based Dunlopillo has invested £750,000 in a brand new delivery fleet. The fleet comprises five Daf 2100...

IN According to Jim Davies, managing director of York Trailer Holdings, York is now the country's largest body builder. The...

• W S Yeates, the Loughborough-based coach distributor, is to sell Portugese-built Caetano coach bodies. Salvador Caetano (UK)...

— National Express — for sale, and it expects to complete the transaction in May or June. National Express is being offered...

• Northern Counties is offering a bus repainting service from its Wigan coachbuilding premises in an attempt to broaden its...

In to Interleasing • Scottish Traffic Commissioner Hugh McNamara has refused to impose traffic regulation conditions designed...

• Leyland Bus has celebrated its recent management buyout with the capture of a major order from Ulsterbus and Citybus, for 195...

• Eight National Bus Company engineering subsidiaries have been sold together to Beattie Engineering in a move which should...

Road Haulage Association's Eastern district on the retirement of Ken Williams later this month. Wright has spend many years in...

director from Canada where, in eight years as company vice-president and previously general sales manager, he had...

• Barry Green, founderdirector of Kings Lynn Leyland Truck dealer GDM Transport Engineering, has taken over responsibility for...

• The Road Traffic (Carriage of Dangerous Substances in Packages, etc) Regulations 1986 came into effect on April 6, 1987, and...

• Following the growing concern about drivers using cellular phones while on the move, Storno has introduced a handsfree...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) has moved its commercial vehicle preparatiom centre from Wakefield to a new purpose-built facility at...

a revised edition of VAT Leaflet 700/13/87: VAT Publications. It lists all VAT notices and leaflets available from January...

• Middlesex-based Nationwide Crate Hire has launched a national service for removals operators engaged in office moves. Each...

established a 24hour tachograph centre at its Gloucester branch. Branch manager Mike Burton says: "Having workshop facilities...

is to launch a major campaign to promote sales of a plastic card that pays motorway tolls electronically. The card is prepaid...

Cherbourg multi-purpose ferry route from April 15. The service will link with the Weymouth to Cherbourg service. Sailing times...

renew and improve the M1 between junction 9 (A5 Friars Wash) and junction 10 (Luton Airport) will last from February 16 for...

• London and the South-East A40(M) Marylebone flyover Closed for repair work until the end of February; diversions are...

THE BOBCAT 'BOBCAT' — the Borough of Bromley Call-A-Trip service, operates a trio of Renault Trafics, specially equipped for...

• I was recently supplied with a demonstration tractor unit from a well known British manufacturer, which was fitted with...

• )ne of our drivers was reciitly given an on-the-spot tine for taking an artic unit without trailer — weight just over six...

• Please could you tell me if there is a maximum distance a broken down lorry may be towed, or a straight bar, not an 'A'...

• I would like to reply to an article about Norman Curl's Drivers Bureau which appeared in the Bird's Eye View page in...

/ With reference to the recent comments made by Norman Curl, director of a drivers agency, about HGV drivers not wanting to...

When Air-Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford applied to become Metropolitan Licensing Authority he had no idea of what the job...

Demand for Mitsubishi CVs regularly exceeds the importer's quota. Far from resting on its laurels, however, Colt is...

obstacles which inevitably present themselves when buying a new home. When you are at the viewing stage, some houses are...