IN "Other than saying air suspension, we can't tell customers what they should be ordering — and we can't even build it until...

Hider attack • A possible loophole in the Road Haulage Association's new conditions of carriage could leave hauliers open to...

elected vice-chairman of the Road Haulage Association. Pat Lee of Wincanton is the other vice-chairman. Bobby Heaton has been...

• Free with this week's issue of CM you'll find a pull-out wallchart telling you everything you need to know about the latest...

a former traffic manager of Freightliners, has been jailed for 15 months for corruption and conspiracy to defraud. See next...

up a new company, Wisbech Bulk Systems, to manufacture bulk carrying vehicles.

block the country's busiest highway near Toronto in protest over high taxes and fuel costs which they say makes them...

sell or use radio security alarms which are not Type Approved.

• A truck driver has won £70,000 compensation after slipping on grease and injuring himself while working at the Hays...

• The industry's two main trade associations have until 12 June to try and sway the Department of Transport on the final...

• North-East hauliers who paid high prices for diesel due to a price cartel can now sue for the losses they incurred, following...

a new driver payment system, which has been welcomed by the Transport and General Workers' Union, has increased vehicle...

week to hold a three-day conference in Antwerp next March and has appointed Leo Nuyens, editor of Belgian magazine Transporama...

joined forces. Ford and Warren of Leeds, Wedlake Saint of London and Norwich-based Rogers and Norton are pooling their...

• The row over whether vehicle examiners are regularly forcing hauliers to put their trucks through a full MoT if they want to...

• The Department of Transport took its first steps towards raising gross weights for medium-to-heavy trucks with the issue of a...

• The National Hauliers Association has appealed to the Road Haulage and Freight Transport associations to join it in a forum...

• Middlesbrough magistrates have thrown out overloading charges against haulier Beck & Pollitzer because police ignored...

• The Labour Party is promising a "London-wide transport strategy" if elected, which would include ensuring that there are at...

• Reefer van operators could face a chilly choice from next year — break the law or go bust. Few refrigerated trucks under 7.5...

/ A fuel bunkering network is investigating how three trucks which filled up with dery at one of its sites broke down soon...

• The defunct former UK arm of international truck drivers' club Routiers is unlikely to be able to pay anything to creditors...

• The problem of operating heavy recovery vehicles legally has been tackled by Bedfordbased recovery company NMT with its...

from Finnish manufacturer Sisu. The 6x2 truck is essentially the standard Sisu cabover design with curvy GRP panelling. But for...

licensing agreement with Japanese truck brake supplier Tokyo Buhin Kogyo to enable it to use Lucas's design with automatic...

• Renault Truck Industries' director of engineering, Gerard Velu, has hinted at some of the forthcoming changes to the Renault...

• Vauxhall has given the Brava pickup a series of minor improvements, including increased payloads, revised seats, and the use...

• Egg distributor Deans Farm has taken delivery of the first of four 1720L Mercedes-Benz rigids. The Mercs, supplied by...

• The Tipcon debut of J Roberts Special Purpose Vehicles' latest four-wheel-drive conversion, the JR4x4, adds yet another...

/ Troubled car transporter group Toleman Holding is still trading unprofitably — despite an £11.75m cash injection from the...

• Crane Fruehauf has taken on more welders and fitters to meet a sharp increase in orders for chassis from sister companies in...

/ Drivers are among the 300 workers being made redundant at Castle Cement when it shuts its Pitstone, Buckinghamshire site in...

/ Texaco is believed to be studyinge detailed report on the future of its fuel delivery, which is currently carried out by...

• AWD has taken its first step on the Continent with the appointment of Hunter of Antwerp as a distributor in Belgium and...

• Southern-based vehicle hire firm Bratt has become a victim of the recession with the receiver taking over its five depots...

• Up to 1,000 owner-drivers throughout the UK are owed money by Transworld Distribution Services which has crashed with debts...

by large firms. "This led to borrowings costing us up to £4,000 a week," says director Neil Hooson, son of owner Roy Hooson....

• High calibre transport and distribution managers are approaching recruitment firms because they are afraid they are going to...

• Inter-modal drawbar outfits are taking over from artics as the key vehicles at McKellar Trucking, a long-established...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences have cost three drivers employed by Oldham-based B&J Haulage a total of £1,425 in fines...

• Personnel Hygiene Services has been ordered to pay £3,279.14 compensation to an assistant transport manager sacked because of...

• A warehouseman sacked by Manchester Depot Services for refusing an order to drive one of the company's vehicles has been...

10E - 4 Ikt • Yorkshire haulier Fewston Transport has been cleared of two alleged defective tyre offences because the...

defence costs of Barber Road Services be paid out of public funds after dismissing an allegation that it permitted the use of a...

d alla Ut • David Griffin, trading as DJ Transport of Melton Mowbray, along with one of his drivers, has been fined a total...

• Owner-driver Stanley Lycett of Wrexham, trading as Lycett Haulage, has been fined E735 in fines and costs by Birmingham City...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

• A Lancashire haulier who operated illegally for 18 months because he failed to renew his 0-licence has been granted a new...

assessing and increasing the skills of the UK's 100,000 bus and coach drivers, PCV operators are undertaking to fit calibrated...

turmoil, according to the 1989/90 Merseytravel annual report and accounts, published this week. "The bus service network...

/ Government proposals to deregulate and privatise London's buses "as soon as possible in a new Parliament" have been attacked...

• Thomas Electronics, manufacturer and distributor of electronic components for CV arid bus use, has a new sales and marketing...

• The Freight Engineering Company has a new manufacturing complex at Belvedere Link Business Park, Church Manorway, Erith, Kent...

• The Thetford, Norfolk depot of Watveare is closing this week because of company reorganisation. Future enquiries should be...

• The Financial Times is holding a Transport in Europe conference at the Inter-Continental Hotel, London, on 28-29 May....

• Business implications of future EC environmental policy is the subject of a conference at the Portman Inter-Continental...

• Atlas Hydraulic Loaders' third "Lorry loader of the year" competition will be held on 15 September at the Cosford Aerospace...

• A public meeting under the banner "Route to Chaos" is being held in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, on 8 June at the...

• The AEC Society hopes that its rally on 26 May will attract more than the 122 AECs which attended last year's event. The...

• Oliver Rubber Europa has a free telephone line for national and large fleet users of its tyres. Advice and assistance can be...

• Balvin has introduced a fuel management system which is DTI approved for re-sale use. The 2500C and 2500K systems, with list...

• Oliver Rubber Europa's new Waste Haulier Rib tread tyre has an extra large shoulder design to protect against damage from...

• For the next five or six weeks between Junction 27 (Wigan) and Junction 28 (Leyland) of the M6 resurfacing work will mean...

• The southbound carriageway of the Chester southerly bypass between the A41/A55 roundabout at Boughton and the A483/A55...

A nd now, back by popular demand... Spratts' dogbus, left unattended with the passengers clearly chattering heatedly as they...

ij irst the good news: Bavarian trucker Alois Mittermeier, known as Al to his friends, can look back proudly on 28 years of...

A package which fell A package which fell off the back of a Datapost lorry and ended up in a Westminster bin has been returned...

" he Hawk recently reported the success story of David Fowles, aged 14, who has passed his CPC in bus and coach operations (CM...

H ir Peter Thompson reveals that between 1952 and 1962 he never gave a haulier a rate rise. According to Sir Peter, now NFC...

uring CM's spring-clean the Hawk unearthed: The Vintage Lorry Album edited by Nick Baldwin; British Trucks at work in the...

filling out an Income Tax return form. You start off confidently, make the fatal mistake of consulting the seven-page...

Price as tested: 29,220.78 (ex-VAT). Includes £186 for tailgate, heated gloss and wash-wipe. Engine: 1.90 litres 53kW 171 hp)....

• For many years the Royal Society of Art's Certificate of Professional Competence has been accepted as the entry ticket to a...

1101 • It's finally happened. Despite a steady stream of broad hints, veiled threats and political rhetoric, the road...

You know that you're a competent, trustworthy, selfmotivating genius who would be an asset to any transport operation. But how...

The road transport training industry has been shaken by recent legislation changes. CM talks to two driving schools that are...

• We were delighted to read your report (CM, 11-17 April) on the aerodynamic package we have developed for truck bodies in...

• I would be greatly obliged if you would put straight the errors made in the article published about my decision not to seek...

11 Column-lift manufacturer Somers Handling of Halesowen, West Midlands, has appointed two area sales managers: Steve Poyner is...

• Trevor Ward has joined DG Taylor Commercial Vehicles of Driffield, Yorkshire, as sales executive for new and used trucks....

• James Clark is the first new business development manager at AA-BRS Fleet Rescue, reflecting the organisation's success in...

R oy Johnson has joined Trans liner Bodies, Wolverhampton, as business development manager. His brief is to develop new markets...

in the days following Truckfest requesting photographs of different events and some of the fabulous trucks on display over the...