• With the first Commercial Motor Workshop conference and exhibition being held in Coventry this week, much of our attention is...

• The Transport & General Workers Union is teaming up with one of the largest road transport unions on the Continent in its...

• TIR hauliers could be barred from cross-channel ferries if they do not have documentary evidence of their vehicles' weights....

• The police are warning hauliers to beware of a gang of "expert" truck thieves operating in the Lancaster area, following the...

• The Transport and General Workers Union has submitted its 1988 pay claims to the West and East Midlands Joint Industrial...

• Britain's highest-paid manager of a truck dealership earns £52,000 a year — double what most managers in the industry earn,...

• Bedford Trucks has won an 211 million order to supply the Ministry of Defence with 281 TM4-4 two-axle trucks for delivery...

• The Government should be spending an extra 2135 million a year over the next five years on bridge repairs, as well as...

• Transport Development Group member Harris Distribution has won the contract to deliver goods for Comet, the electrical...

• The number of deaths on Britain's roads rose by 4% to 1,280 during the second quarter of this year over the same period last...

• Truck operators regularly running into, and out of, the heart of Britain's motorway network are being offered a new roadside...

• Truck rental and contract hire company Chart Hire Services has teamed up with A S Baird of Newton Abbey, Northern Ireland, to...

• British Road Services has won a £22.5 million contract hire/fleet takeover deal with Gateway Foodmarkets, just a week after...

• National Freight Consortium subsidiary Newsflow has won the contract td distribute the Star Sunday Sport, which was...

• McGregor Cory Distribution has bought 26 Leyland Daf FT2100 DHT tractive units worth some £0.75 million as part of a major...

• To coincide with the launch of its F16 flagship (see page 53) Volvo has substantially revised its F10 and F12 models, and...

• Cummins Engines says its C-Series engine range, which has been available to bus and coach operators since last year's NEC,...

• Sandbach-based truck builder ERF is now offering its 14-17 tonne GVW E6 two-axle rigid chassis with the option of SAF Type E...

• A range of crew cab conversions for some of the most popular light truck chassis is now available from York Transport...

• Anti-lock braking systems could become mandatory within two years on all heavy trucks and buses if new EEC proposals become...

• Two new products from Cummins are aimed at easing winter operation problems. The Cummins drivers' handbook published this...

• Staffordshire haulier Michael Bailey Transport Services has been cleared of using a vehicle for which a higher rate of excise...

• Salford magistrates have decided that allegations concerning the falsification of tachograph records by drivers employed by...

• A fly-tipping lorry driver who rammed a building company's Land Rover which was blocking his escape has been ordered to pay a...

• Drivers hours offences have cost Lancashire livestock hauliers H Smith & Son (Wardle) and four of its drivers a total of 2830...

• P & 0 subsidiary Pandoro and its driver William Freshney have been given absolute discharges by the Newbury magistrates after...

• Atlas Express's western traffic area licence has been renewed, but with a condition which bans vehicles from reversing out of...

• British PSV manufacturers and bodybuilders were well to the fore in the midi-bus and coach sectors at last week's Coach and...

In an ever changing market, with an ever increasing need for operators to respond to passengers demands and expectations,...

• Leicester Citybus has suffered a £22,000 loss at the end of its first five months' trading to the end of March this year....

by. We have a sound base from which to expand and despite a minimal loss, we have been able to order new buses for the coming...

• Britain's "quiet revolution" of bus deregulation has created better services for more than five million bus users according...

• The contract to operate a bus service for disabled passengers — including people in wheelchairs — linking central London...

To call the Fiat Fiorino a practical, economical, reliable and very versatile small van would be half true. Stylish,...

SIR TRAFIC NOT A DRAG IN I wish to raise some points on Andrew English's comments on fuel consumption and the aerodynamic...

SIR white lines; no hills, no blind bends, cyclists or pedestrians. There will be cones down the middle and, usually good...

BY THE HAWK • A series of successful attacks on underfloor safes is reported to have taken place at 30 business locations,...

• Lowfield Distribution has no time for fuel additives to prevent winter waxing problems. "We've tried additives in the past,"...

• Lowfield's managing director Rob Scribbens has an air of cautious optimism about him at the moment. "There is some light at...

• Starting and running vehicles through the coldest, iciest conditions that January and February can throw at you is hard. It...

Volvo's Fl 6 has finally arrived, we have driven one — and it was well worth waiting for, because it bristles with technical...

• Fuel waxing is one of the many causes of broken down vehicles in the winter. Waxing itself has many causes, including badly...

British Coal has decided to cut its losses in South Wales and switch its distribution system from the railways to the road....

Twelve months after D-Day we take a look at how the country's deregulated PSV operations are performing — and the news is not...

LITRE BEATER • We tested the Duple Integral 425 coach last year (CM 8 March 1986) and felt that it showed great promise....

• CAB COMFORT This Duple has plenty to commend it to the driver. The driving position is high enough to give a commanding view...