• Whatever you do, do not assume that our lead story on 40 tonnes this week is just another boring chapter in the endless saga...

• The Freight Transport Association tightened the screws on Transport Secretary Paul Channon this week, in an attempt to...

company's collapse (CM 16-22 February). Davies Magnet's fifth-wheel assets have been snapped up by Cheltenhambased M L Douglas...

• Truck driver David Jones was stopped by police on the M4 on Monday after damaging five motorway bridges with his load of...

of international freight growth. OLau Line has launched two 35,000-tonne ferries for its Sheerness-Flushing route. Truckline is...

• South Wales haulier Graham Lowder Transport has put the first Steyr tractive unit to hit Britain's roads into service this...

• Britain's bodybuilders look set to embrace the International Standard ISO 9000 in preparation for 1992 and the Single...

• Cabotage could become a reality next year if a pilot scheme supported by the British Government is approved by EC transport...

• Following Commercial Motor's report on unscrupulous freight forwarders (CM 16-22 February), hauliers are setting up their own...

a management team headed by managing director Philip Powis. The company was previously owned by Wbitworths Holdings. Lilley has...

• Southworth Chassis Engineering has fitted its first lifting mid-axle conversion to a Seddon Atkinson Strato. Owner John...

• The long-awaited British relief convoy to earthquakestricken Armenia will leave on I March. The trip will take between 11 and...

• Telehoist has transferred production of its Telloy smooth-sided aluminium tipping bodies to Charlesworth Transport...

• The services and support sector was well represented at last week's Road Transport and Logistics (ITR) Show in Paris. More...

£41 million fouryear agreement to develop a new diesel engine with low emissions. The Integrated Diesel European Action project...

• EC proposals on truck particulates emissions could lead vehicle manufacturers to reject diesel fuel in favour of alternatives...

• The first right-hand-drive versions of MAN's longawaited 338kW (460hp) supertruck — the 17.462 FLTS tractive unit — are...

entitled Gathering Strength, stated that Besco Bodies has joined forces with neighbouring Buckstones. This should have read...

• The first tanker-bodied ERF ES6 is now operating with Poole-based Upton Oil. The 17-tonne vehicle is built on a 4.5m...

• Leyland Daf has revealed that it is looking at the latest Perkins Eagle TX engine currently under development for possible...

• A year after its stock exchange share placing, trailer rental group TIP has increased its capital base from 283 million to...

new AWD trucks and says it has 14 in stock, including two with bodies. The company says most customers so far have been one-man...

company Scottish Road Services have renewed their 21.5 million-a-year reefer contract hire deal. The deal covers 15 reefers,...

• A £5.5 million order for new vehicles heralds major growth plans at BOC Gases, including a new division and a European...

• Lex Service has sold its six SMT dealerships in a 25.1 million management buyout. SMT managing director Bill Dryden and...

• A-One Transport has taken delivery of 22 Craven Tasker semi-trailers, including six Task chassis fitted with Boalloy Euroline...

• Food group Geest has sold its contract distribution divison to a management-led team for £16.5 million. Distribution...

• Boalloy has lured a top production engineer back from the United States to oversee the company's manufacturing operations,...

• Ferrymasters is about to take over Dutch transport and forwarding company GTW. The purchase will help expand Ferrymasters'...

• BRS is to spend 23.5 million on 150 MANs and Volkswagens including M90 17lonners, F90s, G90s and Volkswagen LT35E vans and...

as it goes on sale • Metro-Cammell Weymann estimates that 200 employees, mainly casual staff, have left the company, which has...

fuel duty • Crosville Motor Services, one of the country's largest bus companies, has been sold by ATL to the Drawlane Group....

of Transport to review its policy on fuel duty rebate for local bus services. An NAO report says the present system offers a...

• Caldaire subsidairy West Riding of Wakefield is under threat of industrial action because it had decided to employ RCO...

• South Yorkshire Transport has placed a £1 million order with Philips for its Band III radio communications system after...

• Newly formed Compass Bus of Wakefield — a partnership between South Yorkshire Transport and managing director Paul Bell —...

• The Berks Bucks Bus Company, generally known as "The Beeline", has taken delivery of five Optare Star Rider Fastflow...

• Minibus builder Dormobile has been sold by its parent company, the Coalite Group, to Marshmail Investments of the West...

• MAN-VW is considering bringing in a new 134kW (180hp) midibus/coach chassis with a body produced by a leading Continental...

• No end is in sight for the increasingly bitter strike which has paralysed Central Scottish (CM 16-22 February). Management...

MI Alexander of Falkirk has now completed delivery of the 107 midibuses ordered by London Buses for use on inner-city routes,...

II Bus crews and passengers in Croydon are being terrorised by "steaming" gangs who surround and rob single upperdeck...

• Smiths Shearings of Wigan has placed a repeat order with Leyland Bus for 66 Tiger chassis worth over E2 million. When...

• Police alleged at Wmsford magistrates court last week that a tyre shown to the court by Wigan-based NBC Asphalters was not...

• 'Ile three-vehicle PSV 0licence held by Raymond Riley, trading as Maid Marion Coaches of Wednesbury, has been revoked by West...

• The Court of Appeal has ruled that a fuel tanker driver, who had been employed for 15 years on a seasonal basis by...

• South Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Michael Turner granted an 0-licence to J Needham Agricultural on condition that...

• Licensing Authorities are taking a tougher line over the standard and supervision of vehicle maintenance, says North Eastern...

fines imposed for an overloading offence was accepted by Judge Devlin at Aylesbury Crown Court last week. The company claimed...

• Joseph Dean Transport Contractors and two of its directors appeared before the West Bromwich magistrates this week. The...

• Maintenance problems put Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council before West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh last...

last week Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottoniley said: "Current average speed (on roads in central London) is about 11mph...

your wheelbarrow test (CM 22 December), I purchased a wheelbarrow of the model type "Rusty", as it seemed good value for money,...

SEA ROUTE PREPARES FOR 1992 • Groupage operator and freight forwarder Sea Route has extended and reorganised its Le Havre...

SJ OPEN DAYS • Scania bus and coach distributor Stuart Johnson is to hold open days on 2,3 and 4 March to Launch its new...

NEW ISLAND SERVICE • Beginning in Mid-June, Orkney Ferries will run a daily, no-advance booking RO-RO ferry between Gills Bay...

WRITING ABOUT THE LAW • The Road Haulage Association is inviting people in the industry to submit papers of up to 3,000 words...

H I-TECH REVERSING AID • Sonic Tape has launched "ReverseAid" — a high-tech sensor system which emits ultrasonic beams from the...

CALLING ALL SCHOLARS • The Chartered Institute of Transport is seeking applications for its 17 research scholarships. This year...

FOWLER ON THE MENU AT RHA DINNER • Principal guest and speaker at the Road Haulage Association's annual dinner will be...

LOOKING BACK • The proceedings from the National Materials Handling Centre's series of one-day conferences held last year are...

CHIA VAN SALE • Central Motor Auctions will be holding a van sale, on behalf of the Royal Automobile Club, at Shepshed on 27...

EMERGENCY NUMBER • Truckstart and AA-BRS Fleet Rescue have joined forces to set up a national breakdown service for...

1992 AND ALL THAT • The Road Transport Industry Training Board has developed a one-day seminar for managers looking to the...

A27 PEVENSEY BYPASS MI The Department of Transport has announced work will start on the A27 Pevensey Bypass in East Sussex from...

• London and the South East M25 Sun-ey:Contraflow at J13 (Staines) and J11 (Chertsey), M25 Surrey: Overnight lane closures at...

and we are replacing our tandem-axle semi-trailer for the start of our 1989 test programme. i • Our new trailers replace units...

• Jack Allen (Motor Bodies) Municipal House, Buckingham Street, Birmingham B19 3HS. Tel: 021-236 7124 Fax: 021-233 2240....

After deregulation Brighton Borough Transport realised it had to diversify to survive. Marketing, competing for business and...

British local authorities are obliged to put their transport services out to tender, but Antwerp still runs its own fleet of...

BLAZES For a long time Dennis had the front line fire-appliance market all its own way. Now there are a number o stron•...

Three ex-Westminster Council dustmen have carted away traditional working practices with the City's rubbish. A move which has...

country, so it can be very difficult for operators to keep abreast of the law. Frequent changes to regulations covering...

Q I. have recently heard of a piece of equipment that will give us instant vehicle recognition and mileage covered as soon as...

Q We have three minibuses with which we transport handicapped children and elderly people. In January one of our vehicles was...

Q We have a tractor unit with a lifting tag axle and all our trailers are three-axle. We tax the tractor at the 38,000kg train...

() Last October the Police and Trading Standards Officers paid particular attention to foreign vehicles leaving and arriving at...

Q i hear a lot of talk about.Lout codes of practice, particularly about the use of weighbridges, especially dynamic...

Q In August I purchased a new tractor unit. For the first four months there were no problems but then it developed oil leaks...

Q i was very interested to read your article on vans or minibuses towing trailers, and whether such vehicles are subject to...

Q As an owner-drive r of a new 38-tonne Scania I pride myself on its appearance, and as the cabin is a second home I treat it...

Q There are certain times of the year, during company holidays when our fleet is not used. For example, during the summer the...

manager of Uniroyal Tyres' commercial tyre development department, based at Aachen in West Germany. Kessel, an industrial...

manager for its Scandinavian division. Reporting to Graham Dil ley, UK general manger for the division, he will be used at the...

Greenhous Midlands to head its parts operation. He has been at the company's Willenhall depot since it opened in 1982, starting...

the following appointments: Keith Miller becomes business development manager, and is responsible for warehousing and...

new general manager is Robert Can - . He joined the company in 1986 as unit manager of the company's Covent Garden depot and...

driver, became the London district secretary of the passenger group last month. He joined LT in 1965 and was appointed a...

for south and central Scotland, has named lain Knox as general manager. Tom Dyet has been promoted to sales manager, having...

area managing director of GM Buses, has taken early retirement, after 26 years with the company. Robert Tait, currently east...

and storage sectors, has appointed Alan Vass as financial director. Vass joined the company two years ago as finance and...

Commercial Vehicles' van and truck operation at Bucksburn. He succeeds John McHardy who retires at the end of February after 29...

as a design draughtsman, concentrating on design for Kurtrans' curtain-sider bodies.

engineer for Triscan. He previously worked as a sales and business house consultant with Althams.

manager, fleet engineer and commercial transport manager, died on 13 February 1989. GARDNER Gardner's former chairman, Hugh...

I The spares and accessories industry like the curate's egg: good in part(s). 'here's new equipment on offer for lost jobs, as...

• Independent tests undertaken on behalf of the Association of Webbing Load Restraint Equipment Manufacturers have revealed...

• The repair/recovery operation marketed in the West Midlands as Red Triangle since 1987 has achieved a successful roadside...

• Perkins Engines is to fit fuel-injection pumps and injectors from the Stanadyne Diesel Systems Division of Windsor,...

• New guidance designed to prevent accidents involving drilling machines as used in workshops has been published by the Health...

• Coopers Filters, backed by its new parent company, Fiaam of Italy, is to invest £1 million in 1989 as the first part of a...

• New EEC directives require equipment manufacturers to involve themselves in actually improving the quality of the working...

models in the ERF E-Series range has grown. The range includes both Cummins and Perkinspowered variants, though the bulk of...

• The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988 (COSHH), which come into force on 1 October this year, mean...

Call in professionals. • Managers specifying major alterations of workshops or specifying new ones on greenfields sites can...

• The Association of London Transport Officers has produced a model specification for local authorities placing vehicle...

Following our Workshop Ways feature on the second generation Transit, we have received some updated service information...

design and test centre at Luton established by the David J B Brown organisation, as general manager. Twemlow's experience...

• Cummins Engine Company has converted its machine shop oil mist removal system to individual filtration units to gain improved...

• The RAC is launching what it calls an Elite Register of garages open only to those that agree to go "on trial" for a minimum...

• A 26 million distribution centre and recycle plant being built by Safety-Kleen UK at Dinnington, near Rotherham, South...

Keeping your fleet on the road can depend on the parts back-up from your supplier. We look at the services offered by...

British Gas asked selected local firms to tender for the opportunity to maintain at their own cost a sufficient stock for its...

We tried the SIP Startmaster on a lorry parked up overnight with its lights on. The ammeter indicated completely flat baitenes....

• Until now, efficient lighting without a 220-volt supply from the mains or a generator, has been but a dream for many. Teklite...

• "Ultimately," says Bob Juggins, business manager of Pipercross, which makes foam filters, "the paper element is dead." Its...

• PCL Cygnus has installed an 8.4-metre-long conveyor wash at the Star Service Station site in Stanmore, Middlesex; it can...

• DRG Sellotape produces the Sellotape wheel-paint kit in conjunction with Spectra, and it will be sold alongside Spectra's...

• The WypAll and EconoMizer ranges of disposable wipers from Scott have now been extended to include a smaller package option —...

• Lucas Aftermarket Operations, Braking Parts & Service, has issued a new brake discs catalogue for commercial vehicles and...

• Combinoto overalls, marketed in the UK by Redashe, are now available in a washable version. These fabric overalls can be...

• 1V1olnlycke has launched four product collections — at 2 special price with a free T-shirt until 18 March — for workshops,...

• From Kent-Moore come workshop inspection lamps for hand use, 12 and 240-volt, and 12-volt lamps in freestanding and...

• Pneumatic Components, the Sheffield-based manufacturer of garage equipment and motor accessories, has secured the UK rights...

• Martindale's new Proteuspowered respiratory system is designed to offer a high standard of protection against glass fibre and...

• A anti-stonechip coating, designed to protect against corrosion and damage, has been launched by Dunlop Adhesives in its...

• Almost five years ago at the Geneva Motor Show, Derek Carroll and his brother John, who run CPH Transport at Birdingbury,...

• Ingersoll-Rand says its approach to achieving its strategy of commitment, investment and new technology centres around...

• Alexander Binzel (UK) has introduced a water-cooled version of the Binzel MB25AK torch. The new torch is designated the...

• Andrews Powerclean has announced a second product range in two months — six hot/cold pressure washers. This follows the...

• Its new range of Huckbolt fasteners, the metric MHP series, combines superior tensile strength with faster, more precise...

• Moisture, dirt and excessive oil in the air stream, with the immediate risk of freezing and, longer-term, of corrosion and...

• Whiteacres is converting 10 Volkswagen LTs to provide a nearside loading door. Four are for Nottingham City Council and the...

• A wide range of metals can be cut with two new manuallyoperated air plasma machines from Stubs Welding. The larger, the...

• Graffiti eradication specialist Graffiti Management has come up with a shining bright paint finish for commercial vehicles....