Ignorance may well be bliss, but for whom? Like a High Court Judge asking "Who is Gazza?", it probably pays certain Euro MPs to...

W hen you decide to invest in a Mercedes-Benz truck or van you do so on the basis of sound business principles. You need a...

• One of the country's best known used truck dealers, Malcolm Harrison, has gone into receivership. The company owes £3.9m to...

II A Welsh owner-driver forced to retire through illness has accused ARC Northern of preventing him from employing a...

• Owner-driver Bob Elder flies to Sicily this weekend to fetch his truck held by police since a fatal accident 14 weeks ago....

• Licensing Authorities must crack down on illegal operators, Road Haulage Association chairman Bobby Heaton has urged. At the...

• A Northumberland haulier is facing charges of stealing a £40,000 Volvo truck. Victor Thompson, 49, of Newton-by-the-Sea,...

• Furious van owners are threatening to blockade the Severn Bridge over Bank Holiday Monday in protest against a 180% hike in...

and parcels divisions will be revealed in a Government white paper later this year.

8% on its fleet of 3,000 vehicles since introducing a green policy a year ago. It says it is on track to cut another 7% within...

faces a cash crisis and may have to rent out half its London headquarters.

TNT have set up a working party to draw up an environmental standard, BS7750, for the industry.

overturning John Dee Ltd's 0-licence application have been delayed until next week.

management team led by managing director Pat Waterman. It is the first of 12 London Buses subsidiaries to be sold.

chairman of the Road Haulage Association. His vice-chairmen will be Pat Lee of Wincanton Distribution and Geoffrey Cave-Wood of...

to be ahead in the race to become the party's deputy leader.

England has described the prospect of 44-tonne trucks in the UK as "alarming".

manager, has died after an illness. He joined Leyland Motors in 1959.

warehouse in Birmingham to centralise its storage. If planning permission is granted for the project 70 jobs will be created.

its five UK depots into DFDS Transport's network on 1 June as part of a pan-European alliance between the two groups.

• One of the European Commission's top road transport officials has slammed the "appalling" lack of understanding shown by Euro...

• More than 200 truck drivers, face fines after being caught using a 400-year-old bridge by a spy camera which has been in...

CH's truck prize • Chorley-based fruit and potato merchant Peter Turner has won the Com merrial Motor/MAN/Boalloy truck...

• MAN is preparing a replacement for its G90 middleweight range of trucks, which will use a version of Steyr's lightweight...

for 33-pallet reefers. The Maxima uses the CFC-free refrigerant HCFC 22 and has a capacity of 6,300W at —20'/+30°C, and 12,200W...

in the design, development, manufacture and sales of aerodynamic packages for commercial vehicles. The SAVE (Southfields...

trailingarm two-leaf design for intermediate steered or unsteered axles. With a lifting option, the new suspension is rated at...

Russian manufacturer of medium trucks, to investigate an industrial and marketing arrangement for truck diesel engines and fuel...

• ZF and Eaton are both pushing ahead with development of their semi and fully automated transmissions. ZF now plans to go...

• Renault and Volvo are jointly developing a new medium weight truck cab which is likely to break cover by the midnineties. In...

Brimec has installed its slideback hinged recovery system on a sleeper-cabbed Iveco Ford New Cargo 150E18 chassis. The vehicle,...

• Scania Trucks and Buses has reached an assembly agreement with Kapena of Poland. About 200 vehicles will be involved...

• The BBC has ordered five Colour Mobile Control Rooms. The first will be tried out at Wimbledon and then sent to cover the...

• Austrian specialist vehicle manufacturer Rosenbauer has launched its 8x8 air-crash tender. The Panther, seen on the MAN...

• Wage restraint is under consideration at Transport Development Group's £106m-turnover transport division as the group plans...

• Aberdeen-based Shore Porters' Society, which claims to be the oldest road transport firm in the world, expanded south last...

• P&O European Ferries has given up hope of a joint venture with Sealink Stena Line on the short Channel route. This will...

• There are continuing signs of recovery in the transport industry with truck manufacturers posting April production levels up...

• Glass Glover Distribution is to target the food retail industry with the appointment of Liam Tucker as business development...

• RoadExpress, the operator which carries out courier work for British Rail, has hit back at television allegations which cast...

• TNT has created three managing director posts in its expansion and restructuring programme. Tom Bell, TNT Express Delivery...

• Owner-drivers trade association Transport Users Group is claiming a number of successes for its debt recovery service after...

• Exel Logistics has won a multi-million pound, three-year contract to distribute hanging garments daily to 137 BhS outlets....

• North Cornwall has refused to give Cornish hauliers an assurance that they can continue to use the county's waste transfer...

• The European Commission's green paper on European postal services has called for a greater role for private carriers and...

• Longton Commercial Vehicle Services is venturing into the minibus market, with a deal to convert Ford Transit high-roof vans...

for London Buses subsidiary Westlink. The surplus vehicles from a Merseyside operator are being fitted with a rear door,...

selling the midibus maker piecemeal, after failing to find a buyer for the business.

has received 40 more applications for the Wigan-based bus bodybuilder since re-advertising it earlier this month.

• Shearings is the first British operator to take Van Hool's modified Alizee coach bodies; two have been delivered on Volvo...

• A system that tells waiting passengers when the next bus will arrive is going into operation in September on London Buses'...

• The Government's commitment to deregulating London Buses was re-confirmed last week when it announced a working party to...

• Every driver employed by Leyburn-based AW Biker, trading as Bikers of Bedale, had seen alsifying tachograph charts regularly,...

• Breaches of the 41-hour driving rule have cost JHM Pargiter Transport, of Stroud, and five of the company's drivers £1,930 in...

/Scunthorpebased Krane Services was cleared of an overloading charge after Wetherby magistrates concluded that they were not...

• The EC tachograph regulations are being wrongly interpreted by the enforcement agencies, according to Alan Gurley, the Bus...

• West Midland DLA Alan Cattell adjourned disciplinary action against George Taylor (Wolverhampton) after a company director...

The EC is threatening to tax fossil fuels in a bid to clean up the environment. The scheme could mean 4p on a litre of diesel...

• Cellnet's annual Driver Challenge now has a category for commercial drivers, giving bus and truck drivers an opportunity to...

• Hauliers who want to know how to use BS5750 as a selling aid in promoting their business can sign up for a seminar organised...

• The remaining stock of a report on trading in the single European market is available at a reduced price of £40 from the...

• Reading-based Vinyl Graphics has published a brochure explaining its logo and pre-spaced text signwriting system Vynatext....

• A publication designed to help British hauliers diversify into France is now available from the French Chambers of Commerce...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has introduced a customer charge account aimed at making it easier for hauliers with complicated...

• A hand-wash unit which works off a 12 volt plug has been introduced by Quality Industries, the Telford-based van racking...

• A range of anti-theft devices are available from distributor GMS Trading in Market Deeping, Peterborough. Truc-Loc is a unit...

• For the latest information on the roadworks and road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

(0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401 115...

EFFICIEN In these cost-conscious times road hauliers are looking for vehicles that can boost their productivity. The Institute...

We operate six-wheeled tippers carrying stone for a large public company. The quarry manager has said that from 1 April all...

I have a full class one HGV licence and for the past 12 years I have delivered new and unregistered buses and coaches on trade...

Price (as tested): £31,500. Passenger capacity (as tested): 16. Engine: 2.5-litre 55kW (75hp). GVW: 4.5 tonnes. Average fuel...

the vehicle on the 25% (1-in-4) test hills. Restarting on the 25% test hill was only possible with some front wheelspin. • CAB...

Toll rises at river crossings around the country have left hauliers incensed. The lack of consultation and the apparent...

• CM guarantees free publicity for any operator unfortunate enough to become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your...

1:11 f further evidence were needed of the toll the recession has taken on small hauliers, take this tale from Mike Pickering,...

la here's plenty of bounce left in a set of old balls according to the International Tennis Federation which is behind a scheme...

a breakthrough in moving small amounts of goods at great speed on inland waterways — even more can be carried if you take away...

ean Connery, once James Bond and once voted the World's Sexiest Man, has not lost the ability to act the tough guy at 61,...

ednesday: to Buckingham Palace where the Duke of Edinburgh launched a charter to persuade industry to back his award scheme for...

their representatives from all over the world gathered in Barcelona, Spain for the 23rd World Congress of the International...

I After 44 years with a rearmounted engine driving the rear wheels, VW made a complete about-face last year for its new model....

N First I would like to congratulate the organisers of Truckfest '92 on another highly successful and enjoyable event. However,...

ill In a recent edition of (CM 2-8 April) you published an article on the vexed question of VED. I am writing on behalf of a...

• I have just been given some back issues of CM and was particularly interested in your features on wheel losses. I was a...

• With reference to Mr Wells' letter on the subject of vintage values (CM 30 April-6 May); I can assure your correspondent that...

• While agreeing with most of what Rob Swindells had to say in "Sound-oft" (CM 14-20 May), I would take issue with one point....

• I read with dismay the suggestion in a recent Commercial Motor News Extra (CM 7-13 May) that the level of frontline...

(IP feel that it is time • ▪ who have had their trucks repossessed should get themselves united. Owner-drivers are the...