• Takeovers always mean that somebody, somewhere, gets hurt. As West German truck builder MAN takes an 80% stake in Austria's...

• Christian Salvesen has acquired Belgian pharmaceutical distribution company Henrotaux et Cie and Destexhe Freres (H&D) for...

• Steve Abel has succeeded Ron Irons as managing director of BRS Group. Abel joins from BRS Western.

• The Freight Transport Association has submitted a report to the Office of Fair Trading on the P&O Ferries/Sealink UK plan to...

• Mann Egerton has bought the Newport Iveco Ford and Ford dealership from Evans Halshaw for £8.15 million.

The Association of County Councils has asked for a review of speed limits on Britain's roads. It wants a meeting with transport...

• Distributor Tozer Kernsley and !Vlillbourn (TKM) lifted pre-tax profits by 19% to 221 million in the half year to 30 June....

• Work has begun on vehicle access structures for the train loading platforms at Folkestone's Channel tunnel terminal, part of...

• Following its acquisition of German bank Gewerbekreditbank AG, Dal aims to strengthen its interests in financing, truck...

• The review of Traffic Area Offices will crush any Government hopes of turning them into an executive agency, says the...

• Responsibility for the death of 79 beagle pups which suffocated in a Monock Freightowned container on board a ferry may...

• Plans for a distribution centre in the Vale of Evesham have sparked a hitter wrangle between Horticultural Development, a...

• Transport and distribution group RDB Freight Lines is launching a specialised European service for delivery of engineering...

• TNT Truckcare has started public-sector contracts with Bromley and Wandsworth Borough Councils for the maintenance of their...

• The Belgian Truck Grand Prix superfmal was a runaway victory for Thomas Hegmann. He led from the flag in his Mercedes 1450...

• The West German environment ministry is pressing for EC laws to reduce emissions from lorries and coaches by 40 to 50% by...

• Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) more than doubled its pre-tax profits in 1988 from £9.9 milion to £23.4 million. Turnover was up...

• Top truck dealer principals are paid less than half as much as their car dealer counterparts, says recruitment specialist APA.

11 The Vehicle Inspectorate is )oised to bring in a package of - iew working practices which it lopes will beat the test...

I Blue Circle is being forced to continue operating in London vith temporary permits, despite winning its appeal against the...

• The future for Steyr Trucks in Britain looks grim following the news that the German manufacturer MAN has acquired an 80%...

• Transport union leaders are pressing the government to tighten up legislation on vehicle lengths, following the announcement...

• Fifty-tonne trucks on special lorry-only highways could be introduced under Labour, says shadow transport secretary John...

• A combined police and Department of Transport operation on the M6 motorway led to six foreign lorry drivers, three Frenchmen,...

• The Freight Transport Association is to fight a proposed night-time ban on motorway routes in Austria. It says such a ban...

IN Hundreds of British truck drivers were stuck in a 24km tailback when Italian lorry drivers blocked the Brenner Pass motorway...

• We have been asked to point out that Mayday Express of Bristol, which we wrote about in last week's issue under the headline...

The 1989 CM/ICI Autocolor Livery awards were presented at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu this week. See page 52 for...

• Intermodal and international transport predominated at the Freight Transport Association's bodybuilding exhibition at Torquay...

• Volvo has stepped up its attack on the high-power truck market with an uprated version of its F16 flagship tractive unit. It...

• The Aberdeen Shore Porters' Society has bought two Scania 230 rigid trucks. The trucks, winner of the 1989 Truck of the Year...

• Bletchley Motor Group's interim pre-tax profits reached £475,000 compared with £480,000 for the six months ended 30 June.

£3.15 million, five-year refuse collection contract by Three Rivers District Council. This is the company's first contract in...

• Rockfield Contracts has won a £2.3 million tender from Tamworth Borough Council, West Midlands, in the face of competition...

• TNT Contract Distribution has won its third drinks industry contract in a multi-million pound deal with the Peter Dominic...

• A Yorkshire chemical recycling firm is looking for a haulier to move about 2,500 sealed drums of toxic waste from the village...

• Two Leyland Daf dealers in the South-West have gone into liquidation. Exeter Truck Centre and Tamar (Plymouth) will now be...

• Falling rates and declining business has forced SouthWest haulier Wheeler and Son to halve its fleet and workforce. Already...

million, five-year contract to supply a complete transport package to Brohome. Vehicles supplied will include six Mercedes 1729...

1 Crane Fruehauf is to lay off early one-third of its workrye in response to the slump m the trailer market and the loomy...

• Cashflow problems have forced Hertfordshire haulage and distribution firm Metra to look for financial help. Metra, which has...

• Three major European retailing groups are to co-operate in a trading partnership which will develop new methods and...

• Parceline is to make 29 staff redundant following a decision to restructure the company into five regional divisions. The...

• Six back-to-back comparisons were made at the Institute of Road Transport Engineers/Brewery Transport Advisory Committee...

• Falkirk-based coachbuilder Walter Alexander is to cut its workforce by more than 17%. The company blames high interest rates,...

• Kentish Bus & Coach has put 13 new double-deckers on its number 51 route at a cost of about £1 million — and it has placed a...

delivery of six long-wheelbase Scania N113RDB doubledeckers, the first in the UK. East Lancashire Coachbuilders of Blackburn...

for the commercial PSV market, three months after being taken over by the KBD Group. The range will carry between 20 and 33...

• The first Reeve Burgesa Beaver minibuses to go to a Scottish Bus Group company are four Renault 556 vehicles, delivered to...

• Shearings has complete( the takeover of Archway Motors of Shiffnal, and has strengthened its position or Shropshire services....

I Dublin Bus inspectors have nded their dispute over pay ifferentials which brought tem out on unofficial strikes n three days...

I Vanguard Coaches, Bedorth, has been sold to West. n Travel — parent company • Midland Red South — for an idisclosed sum. But...

• Leyland Bus is exhibiting a Northern Counties-bodied Olympian at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week in a move to promote the...

• County Durham independent Law Travel has sold its routes and five vehicles to competitor Go-Ahead Northern. Law Travel will...

• Crosville Wales, the Welsh subsidiary of National Express, is introducing 29 additional minibuses into Clwyd on a major...

of a £140,000 LAG Panoramic coach. The vehicle is Daf powered with a ZF gearbox. NW moves to Ribble • Liverpool-based North...

• The 20vehicle PSV operator's licence held by Sheffield-based Sheaffine (PSV), the company set up by a co-operative of former...

• AD faylor, company formed to take over the business of West Midland international haulier Adrian Taylor, has dropped an...

IN The licence held by Norman Lewis Tankers, of Helsall, near Selby, has been cut by three vehicles and trailers and renewed...

• Stevenson: of Uttoxeter was ordered by Derby Magistrates to pay fines and costs totalling 1500, after admitting permitting...

• James Ramage, a former director of Scunthorpeased Scott Cabs will have 1,600 of his defence costs aid out of public funds...

& L Garages and its sales manager, Graham Precious, face charges alleging that they deliberately under-declared the unladen...

• Sixteen drivers employed by DLS Europe, said by the prosecution to be the international trading arm of A One Transport, were...

• • MAN's purchase last week of an 80% stake in Steyr's truck-making interests solves major problems for both companies — and...

truck rental service with the opening of the company's largest UK commercial vehicle rental centre in West Bromwich, West...

ampton has been appointed by Colchester Tillage as its first UK dealer for its Italian-built Cormach Cranes, trading under...

• Maywood On Board, manufacturer of on-board weighing systems, is establishing a nationwide distributor network based on...

• Red Star has opened an international parcels gateway at Heathrow Airport and announced a same-day-by-air service in the UK....

• Free RAC membership for one year and window-etching against theft is now being provided on all Ford Transits, P100 pickups...

• Road Iransport Associates of London has opened a new training centre in Aveley, Essex. The RTITB-approved centre, known as...

by 1-3%, which means the Shogun range now starts at £13,659 for the threedoor 2600 petrol model, with the L300 panel van range...

aimed at transport students and transport managers takes place at the Portland Thistle Hotel, Manchester. The event will be...

• A conference outlining the part which electronic data exchange (ED!) will play in the Single European Market will be held in...

• Kogan Page has published detailed guide to 1992 aimed a the transport and distribution industry. The Transport and...

book in his series on timber haulage, entitled Wood. Wurlitzer and Wesley, be released next spring. Proceeds from his second...

the London Tourist Board's official marke ing guide, is now available fre to tour operators, with a red( signed format. For a...

Alarmphone, which can be programmed to ring a pre-set number and play a recorded message if the vehicle is tampered with. The...

roof manufacture, has moved in to the vehicle alarm market and is marketing products from Texalarm of France. The range goes...

haulage drivers must carry their Community permits on board vehicles so that they are available for inspection. For details...

increase tolls on the Severn Bridge. From 3 December, tolls for light vans will be doubled to 50 pence, and Lolls for trucks...

• The 250 million A77 Ayr Road Route is to go ahead as riginally planned, despite a )ublic local inquiry held last fear. The...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M1 Bedfordshire: Controflow between 112/J13 (Toddington/ Bedford). M40 Buckinghamshire:...

piece which said: "I could fill my office with graduates, but drivers are gold dust." Where I live there are quite a few...

"who is to blame if a temporary driver is found by the police to be out of driving hours'?" (CM 24-30 August), in reading your...

temporary drivers and dodgy agencies (CM 24-30 August), surely the answer has to be greater regulation of the "fly-by-night"...

defensive driving (CM 31 Aug-6 Sept) is rather like taking a sledge hammer to crack a walnut. While the aim of the programme is...

BY THE HAWK • This picture arrived in our office several weeks ago with a scribbled note identifying it as a spray suppression...

• We have seen the future of road transport in Europe — and it's green. At least, that's the message which any truck operator...

The trend in truck liveries is away from signwriting and towards adhesives. The method is cheaper and the livery lasts longer,...

Delivery Services (Roads), the hauliers' cooperative which offers members a credit card for fuel, breakdown and other...

• At last! After 15 weeks, five operators, five body changes and an unscheduled meeting with a filling station canopy, the...

1111 1k G 0 14 This year's Commercial Motor/ICI Autocolor Livery Awards competition attracted nearly 200 entries, among them...

Owner-driver Doug Gould of Westonsuper-Mare in Avon took this award with a traditional design, "beautifully crafted,...

Fast-growing Swift Transport Services of Northampton romped home in this category with its bold new black and red livery. The...

The 17 tonne-plus artic section attracted the biggest number of entries again this year and timber preservative manufacturer...

be alarmed. The Cumminspowered Cargo 1718, supplied by lveco Ford for our appraisal, has been fitted with a Windfoil body which...

Price as tested: £39,079 (ex-VAT). Includes £28,920 for basic vehicle, £331 for tyres to bring the vehicle up to 17 tonnes...

zrorn 2 October Paul Foden viii take over as director of nanagement services at ERF. -le will be responsible for perlonnel and...

ollwing the promotion of 'hilippe Gras as deputy manging director of Regie Remit. Jean-Pierre Capron as been nominated to...

)UFFY/INMAN/ STACEY/ iti,LGARNIE/BOND/ NCHES/HOUGHTON Vith the retirement of Bob )uffy as senior executive dicer after 28 years...

British Railways Board, has made two new staff appointments. Stephen Bennett is to take the position of road transport officer....

to relinquish his post as Pirelli's press and public relations manager. He will continue with the company as a full-time public...

Lynx Express Delivery Network has appointed Bob Golbourne as courier development manager to coordinate the new consignment...

fleet sales manager for ROR. Garston previously worked in the engineering department as fleet sales engineer.

Richards financial director of Bibby Distribution Services (Holdings), and Mike Stringer as director at Bibby Distribution...

warehouse manager at MRS (Distributionrs new headquarters and warehouse building which is being built at Whitehall Industrial...

Federal Express European division as development manager. Trevor, who joined the company nine years ago, has had 20 years in...

of the Chartered institute of Transport is Sir Kerry St Johnston, who takes up his position on 1 October. Until June this year...

regional sales manager for South East England. He will be responsible for dealer liaison and development.

NORMAN DREW RHA insurance services, jointly owned with Bain Clarkson, continues its expansion with the appointment of Norman...

NURSE Go Plant, the Midlands-based hirer of specialised vehicles to the public sector, has appointed Geoff Nurse as its new...

Hurt as marketing manager. After moving from Robsons Distribution Services where she was marketing controller Sue will head UCI...

John Stower joins - rDG subsidiary Protean Systems as managing director of the software house. John recently worked at lioskyns...

the appointment of Wouter de Voogd as operations director. He is fluent in four European languages and will be based in the...

• The party's definitely over. After enjoying a purple patch on sales, along with the rest of the commercial vehicle industry,...

British trailer manufacturers are at the forefront of design and production techniques: in a sector as tough as this they need...

true that the road transport istry wouldn't get far without sepower. ut its equally true that it would nowhere without the...

Britain has barred 40-tonners until the end of the century, but length limits are to increase. We examine the implications. •...

Britain's third biggest trailer builder, Craven Tasker, wants to be seen as one firm, instead of a group of four companies,...

If the Government really wants to promote fuel-efficient HGVs, it should bring in more sensible drawbar regulations — because...

1. The speed limit for a goods vehicle not exceeding 7.5 tonnes maximum laden weight on single carriageways is: A: 40mph: B:...

1,280kg, some 17% a building contractor was lined £1,500 and driver £300. I. BUILDING contractor Roger Bullivant Ltd, and one...

• THE LEGAL NEWS columns of Commercial Motor do not too often contain material on international law, writes Chris Butterfield,...

* PROSECUTE drivers' in magistrates' courts for drivers hours and tacho offences and not the operatorthat appears to be the...

records not a vailable as they should have been, has been warned about its maintenance standards and supervision. • WESTBOURNE...

told by a traffic examiner, the time to complain is when he is given a ticket to sign. El WARRINGTON-BASED Bett-R (Haulage) Co...

of a delay in delivery, returned his load without permission and failed to provide service to a customer, was fair, decided an...

by John Durant GUIDANCE ON EWR In THE FLEXIBILITY of new Regulations to control danger from electricity at work was...

Health and Safety Executive deputy director-general Jim Hammer told a conference organised by the HSE on noise in the...

by Jonathan Lawton KEEP CHECKING WEIGHTS • MY NEXT OBJECTIVE is a holiday well deserved, I might add and, as a parting...