• Has the time come to end the concept of a national drivers' wage agreement? ERS certainly seems to think so, as do Schweppes...

• All around the country there has been a wailing and a gnashing of teeth — and our phones have been ringing red hot. The...

of HGV and PSV driving test examiners from 98 to 120 in a bid to cut waiting lists. Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley...

• Claims that a cross-Channel freight ferry's engine room was a fire risk have been supported following a fire on P&O's...

• The German Truck Grand Prix last week was won by outsider Dieter Hauser. The West German drove his class C Transimex MAN...

• The Transport and Genera Workers Union is calling for at all-out national strike at BRS, the National Freight Consortium's...

of London's 20,000 bus workers, retired this week after 30 years' service with the union — and plans to start a new career as a...

• Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley is to amend the UK dim-dip lighting requirements, so that vehicles will be exempt...

1 The Post Office is to inject 10 million — including 22 milon on new vehicles — into its latapost parcels service over le next...

• A group of former Highland Scottish drivers is operating eight minibus routes in Inverness in competition with their former...

• A transport expert is to survey hauliers fined for losing truck wheels in a bid to gather evidence which could be used to...

• Ricky Herbert, warehousing and distribution manager at Garfield Lewis in Leeds, took delivery of his Leyland Daf Boalloy...

• Traffic on Britain's motorways has increased so fast thE Transport Secretary Paul Channon may use private money to build new...

Talk to a Lloyds Bowmaker asset finance ialist and you will realise quickly that his e concern is to help you turn the...

• Following reports of premature engine wear and breathing problems (CM 9-15 June), Land Rover has agreed to modify engines...

• Leyland Daf is pushing ahead with its plans to provide replacement engines for a number of its Freighter, Cruiser and...

• As predicted by Commercial Motor last April, Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) is now offering its 342kW (465hp) F16 flagship as a...

• German trailer builder Schmitz is sending one of its 12.5m Cargobull reefers on a countrywide demonstration tour in a bid to...

• Isuzu's 4x4 Trooper Commercial van will be offered with a 2.8-litre direct-injection turbodiesel engine from next month....

a petrol-engined Ford P100 pickup was shown at last week's Kent County Show. The conversion, by Tur bo Technics (Northampton)...

• Phil Charlesworth has left Neville Charrold to set up his own aluminium tipping trailer and bodybuilding company, called...

• Municipal cleaning vehicle manufacturer Whale Tankers is launching a shorter-term contract hire scheme which allows customers...

• Temperature-controlled specialist Alpine has won a three-year 21 million contract with cash and carry wholesaler Linfood, to...

• Management-owned trailer manufacturer York Group has finalised its takeover of what it claims is Italy's second biggest...

• Warrington Hino truck dealer and distributor HCV, which went into administrative receivership last month, has been bought by...

• Irish Dairy Board UK subsidiary Adams Foods is to stop distributing its own products and move to third party by the end of...

• Esso, in its centenary year in the UK, has completed a £26 million investment in its lubricants operation at Purfleet. The...

• Heavy plant hire firm Plant Hire Universal of Sale, Cheshire, has added a sixwheel Scania 340 tractor unit to its six-strong...

• A black mark would remain on Benton Bros (Transport)'s record following the premature termination of its licence because of...

• A licence held by Daventrybased Britrox is to finish early at the end of July because of the use of an unauthorised operating...

• No action has been taken against Belgrave Coaches of Leicester, trading as Fosse Travel, for the admitted nonoperation of a...

• Manchester Industrial Tribunal has upheld the decision by Mellor Trailers to make redundant a driver who had refused to pay...

• Environmental objections by local residents have led South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson to refuse to renew...

le Bus and Coach Council acted angrily to calls for orceable code of practice s operators, made last by the National...

• A substantial order for rnidibuses by former National Bus Company subsidiary South Midland coincides with a retrenchment of...

• South Wales bus operator AE &FR Brewer has acquired Llynfi Motor Services and now has a fleet of almost 50 buses as a result...

Legal action is being eatened by Thames Transit s Harry Blundred against ford Bus Company (OBC) .tr the city council's subsidy...

• London Buses is evaluating AEC Routemaster repower packages from Daf and Iveco in a bid to keep the ageing double-deckers on...

SIR • CLUES WANTED IN LOST WHEEL MYSTERY All transport operators are aware of the "lost wheel mystery" and the current...

• Royal Mail Parcels runs one of the argest transport fleets in Europe and it carries more items each year than all of he other...

BY THE HAWK • A bemused National Breakdown controller thought someone was taking the mickey when he took down these breakdown...

• How do you get 151 tonnes of truck, measuring 6.4m high, 6.2m wide and 41.4m long around London's North Circular Road and...

Introducing the UK launch of the Mobil Diesel Club (MDC). A fuelling system designed to help you run your diesel fleet more...

THE ROUGH • Onlookers gaped in astonishement as, with all its wheels driving, the AWDBedford TM8x8 Multidrive clawed its way up...

appears to be minimal. This has allowed Bennie to achieve around 70,000km from some of them: the last pair of orginal XZAs was...

• jar 1.3-litre engine produces 46kW (62hp) at 5,300rpm — also 30% up on the Polo's output. On a strictly power-to-weight...

• Few trailers, with some notable exceptions, could be described as glamorous — but the current boom in road haulage is being...

• A few years ago, a discussion on trends in trailer design would have been dominated by talk of monocoques and zomposites and...

• Road haulage is littered with several well-known "facts". Unfortunately, they seldom stand up to long, hard scrutiny. Here...

• It takes a brave transport manager to develop a special vehicle for his fleet. The costs can be immense, and the potential...