that Europe's transport ministers have once again failed to come to an agreement on the amount of multilateral permits which...

have voted to step up industrial action in support of a colleague who was sacked after his van was stolen. Keith Griffiths had...

*mit farce Heavy truck traffic • Europe's transport ministers have again failed to agree on a new share-out of the EEC's...

• The Government is ready to accept the introduction of round sideguard bars on smaller lorries in order to achieve a common...

Goransson, who runs a logging business, was attempting to shift an icebound trailer using his cabmounted crane when the whole...

• Two directors and a salesman from Cranes and Commerdais Exports of Southampton will appear at Southampton Magistrates Court...

• A Grampian Regional Council lorry ban which was imposed last month has brought extra business to the 5 Star truck stop in...

• A D-registered Iveco Ford 220.30 has failed its DTp annual inspection seven times in the past three weeks. A9 Haulage of...

• Evidence of the buoyancy of the UK's haulage industry is provided in the latest motor traffic statistics from the Department...

• Haulier Freightliners and bus operator Berryhurst could face damages claims of thousands of pounds following a coach crash...

London Lorry Ban have again been adjourned. Spalding Haulage and J Oldham (Stonemasons) were to have appeared before Hampstead...

• Unless vehicle excise duty is slashed UK hauliers will suffer when they compete with European operators after harmonisation...

• Police in the West Midlands have spent £12,000 to fit video equipment in three Ford Sierras and a Jaguar, which will be used...

• The 4x4 Nissan Patrol has been superseded in Japan by a new vehicle known as the Safari which will go on sale there...

• Is this the 40-tonner of the future? The space-age artic is just one of six progressive designs commissioned by National...

• Leyland Daf has delivered eight prototype four-wheeldrive, four-tonne trucks to the Ministry of Defence. They will spearhead...

to other local authorities last February, has added eight new gulley emptiers and four refurbished gritters to its hire fleet....

• Iveco has developed the dashboard of the future, based on a single cathode ray tube system and due to be in production by...

of a company name was settled this week when a High Court judge slapped a temporary injunction on Hunts Trucks and Trailer...

• Highland Omnibus's monopoly of Inverness town centre is under threat from a group of its own drivers. Up to 300 of its 834...

• Plaxtons, the Scarboroughbased coachbuilder, doubled its profits in the year to September 1987. On a turnover up from £36.9...

Holdings (CM 10-16 December), has taken delivery of 10 Leyland Tiger llin singledecker coaches. They are powered by 162kW...

• Premier Travel Services, the Cambridge-based bus and coach operator, has been acquired by Cambus Holdings, also of...

II Reeve Burgess has just delivered four coaches: three to the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the other to Midland Red...

• Ten former Trathens managers are to be tried at Bristol Crown Court for allegedly conspiring to falsify tachograph records....

• Mone Brothers of Morley has been given an absolute discharge by Pontefract magistrates after it admitted using a vehicle with...

and P Faulkner, trading as Springfield Mini-bus Hire of Pontllanfraith, has been revoked by the South Wales Traffic...

• BRS Northern has just clinched a 2500,000 deal with the industrial hygiene products manufacturer Evans Vanodine International...

• EFT is surging ahead this year, with vehicle registrations up 55% on the same period last year, and an interim turnover which...

• Amtrak, the new Bristolbased express parcels carrier, says that it has had a successful first six months, boosting its...

Voets, have won the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' George Stephenson prize — awarded to the authors of the best original...

NEW WEIGHBRIDGE FROM GRIFFITII ELDER • Griffith Elder of Bury St Edmunds has launched a new range of single-axle weighbridges,...

SCANIA TAKES THE SOUTHWAY • Scania has moved into Portsmouth with Southway Commercials, the group's latest distributor. The...

LAST CALL FOR HAZCHEM COURSE • By 6 April 1988, drivers who regularly handle hazardous products in packages must have attended...

• London and the South East M1 London: 34, LC (Edgeware). M2 Kent: J4, CF. M4 London: J4, LC EB CC 21:30-06:00, D. LC. M10...

M1 Leics: 24-25, CF. M5 Hereford/VVorcester: J5-6, LC. j5, SB entry C. J6, NB entry C. J547, LR and/or ON LC. M5 W Mid: 31,...

M62/M6 (intersection Cheshire): LC, CF. M62 Lancs/Yorks: J21J22, RW. M8 Humberside: J36, LC. M62 West Yorks: J25426, CF, LC,...

M4 Gwent: (off peak) 327J28, LC. M4 S Glamorgan: 332J34, LC. J35437, bridge repairs. M5 Gins: 311412, LC. M5 Avon: J14, CF....

M8 Lothian: J244, CF. M8 Strathclyde: J6415, LC. J27429, LC, LD. M9 Central: J5-J6, LC. M9 Fife: LR NB. M73 Strathclyde:...

Key to abbreviations: BP: Bypass; C: Closed; CC: Carriageway closed; CF: Contraflow; Diversions; E: East; J: Junction; IC:...

• In reading your comment "Time for a stand" (CM 19-25 November) I fully agree with you regarding the matter of driver...

• Your article entitled "The Headhunters" (CM 26 November), bemoaning the fact that good quality staff are hard to find and...

• Having read your recent article putting manufacturers' breakdown rescue services to the test (CM 12-18 November), I have the...

on Phil Biddlecombe of National Carriers Contract Services, you commented on the use of Ferroplast panels for the construction...

• I have a few Commercial Motor magazines dated 194546. I am writing to ask if anyone would be interested in buying them. G A...

M1 1 is? Is that it? I am surprised, especially when you consider that the truck industry is full of people who know the...

tonnes have taken a severe knock — literally. For a lorry recently ran into the Transport Secretary's Ministerial limousine....

collections for the BBC's Children in Need campaign during Radio One DJ Mike Smith's national tour covering the country from...

Securicor waived all charges for the collections, asking its customers to make out their payments to the Children in Need appeal.

Just for a change from our usual road tests we have been reliving the great days of steam aboard a 1926 Foden and a 1938 Super...

The history of the Foden C Type can be traced directly back to the early days of steam road haulage. Indeed, in 1923 Commercial...

The Super Sentinel is fitted with a unique design of vertical boiler, fired from above. The boiler water tubes, of varying...

He pressed the heavy-vehicle priority switch and moved into the outlane of the motorway's A side. It was another day in the...

In theory the new SAD form should simplify international haulage. In practice it could cause problems if not used correctly. We...

Planes do not keep Heathrow rolling, its weird and wonderful trucks do. British Airways allows us a privileged look around its...

• "The components industry employs more people and generates more exports in its own right than do the vehicle makers," Sir...

• One-hundred and sixty exhibitors took space at Autotech '87 — International Bus, Truck and Car Products and Manufacturing...

N Truck and coach electronic speed control system manufacturer, Rugby-based Econocruise, has just gained a second large...

IN All Daf vehicles are now fitted with screw connections treated with a lubricant. These "dipped connections", says Daf, allow...

• RGS Attenborough (Tools) offers a range of hi-tech circlip and lock ring pliers. The pliers, models 1221-S and the 1234 are...

• Tom Parker has been appointed UK stocking distributor for Master PneumaticDetroit Inc and now stocks that company's range of...

• Deb is meeting increased public demand for cleaning aids on garage diesel pump sites with Lanimol, a heavy-duty hand cleanser...

market in barrier cream with its new Briodritek. It is a non-greasy liquid with a base that forms a reactive layer instead of a...

• The Europa BS range of compact hot water/steam pressure cleaning machines from Psimat has been specified to meet British...

• The demand for a new training video on commercial vehicle wheel alignment has been "staggering," says the specialist company...

Barry Baynham of Tyn Lon Garage of Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Volvo Concessionnaires managing director Philip Payze said:...

• Gerni is launching a type of lance that will greatly improve the performance of its highpressure cleaners. A small turbine in...

• No longer is the smaller operator faced with the choice of a dirty vehicle or splashing about with bucket and brush. The...

• Workshop personnel can take a lead from Oliver North and shred old parts and waste. The Ratan Garage Shredder is claimed to...

on a variety of machine parts, including vehicle wheels, brake discs, drainage pumps, cylinder heads and injection moulds. A...

It takes only one piece of grit to wreck a rebuilt engine, writes Richard Longworth. Somewhere between a strip and rebuild,...

• The latest driving aid to come from Brigade Electronics is the Backeye reversing video system. The system gives the driver a...

• CSC (Specialised Vehicles) has delivered 20 fully equipped mobile workshops to the Royal Engineers. They house a full...

• V L Churchill has opened a centre at Daventry, where it will be training customers to use its garage equipment. This includes...

• An extensive range of hydraulic workshop cranes, available ex-stock from Pfaff Silverblue Mechanical Handling, come in five...

automotive paints, primers and accessories has been extended by over 36 Colour Touch and Autospray additions. These are...

• Metsorb Oil Pads are claimed to be able to absorb 25 times their own weight, and will only pick up oil based products....

the latest cars. The manual explains how car fuel injection systems work and gives step by step instructions to track down...

• ATUM, semi-flexible heatshrinking tubing developed by Raychem, eliminates moisture penetration in electrical and electronic...

• Kent-Moore has introduced a compression test kit for both petrol and diesel engines. The KM 4138 is designed for workshop...

maintenance areas to ambulance bays, to AA vehicle recovery and repair depots have common problems and special needs, says...

• To provide instant protection against electrocution when using powered hand tools a new circuit breaker is now available....

• Texaco's rapid oil analysis service, Texcheck, provides a full written report dispatched typically within 48 hours. Wh ere...

• Competitively priced hose clips are the first fruits of the production facility set up by Norma Products Ltd at its new...

machine which converts a standard twist drill to a countersink. The drill point is reground to give an initial relief angle...

• Engine oil can now be changed at the flick of a switch with the Fumuto oil drain valve. Extracting the hot oil from an engine...

for truck tyres between 17.5 and 22.5 inches. The Unimont Junior is designed for one-person. It can be bolted to Tip Top's...

• Bondaglass is producing a floor covering that is poured into place, is self levelling and bonds itself to the existing floor....

• Souriau claims that its 2690 diagnostic unit for PeugeotTalbot dealers is the first multi-system tester and repair unit...

• Armstrong Forest Fasteners has boosted its Nyloc locking nuts with the introduction of the Deltaloc range with the Deltatone...

Anti lock, fitted only by CF as standard, is reliable and effective. Most problems are traced to maintenance faults or failure...

• PCL's reconditioning and recalibration service enables old air line gauges to be exchanged for reconditioned units at a...

DGB Products comes the Fame oil level control system to remove the inconvenience of the dipstick while assuring that the engine...

Contracts, that is flexible and resists impact and surface movement caused by heavy traffic. It comes in vehicle and pedestrian...

• Centaur Fuel Management Systems has gained exclusive sales rights in the transport sector for the Sirius searchlamp, which is...

fibre disc system for faster metal grinding. The system includes the previously announced Cubitron mineral disc, which grinds...

• EECO has added truck weathershields to its range of products. Having manufactured these very popular items for cars since the...

An initial paint spray at, say, £625, will both improve your image and save money over five years, argues John Price, director...

bought by the Volvo operator. The service operations are tied closely to the manufacturing operation, and if the same problem...

to be serviced is the fitting of a seat cover. The cab is the driver's home for most of the day, and is treated with due...

With small vans one rogue vehicle can cost double in servicing costs, but to prove this and to justify buying equipment like a...

Iveco has decentralised training in the face of the severe shortage of skilled workshop technicians in Britain. By Geoff...