T HE time has come for the real questions posed by truck racing to be answered, and for the industry to face up to its...

BEDFORD certainly can't be accused of letting the grass grow under the wheels of the Astra van. Although it was launched only...

deal for ban appeals ,ROAD TRANSPORT trade associations are seeking better representation on the London lorry ban appeals...

THE SECOND Multipart British Truck Grand Prix at Silverstone ended in chaos when the declared winner ran away after he was...

beat V6 THE DIVISIONAL Court has ruled that a suitably constructed breakdown or recovery vehicle does not require a test plate...

FODEN TRUCKS is capitalising on the Greater London Council's proposed lorry ban for a sales campaign. It has advised its...

THE OM CONTAINER theft conspiracy trial at Ipswich Crown Court (GM, August 10) ended abruptly last week when one of the...

ELECTRONIC warning signs are to be installed on the A102 northern approach road to the Blackwall Tunnel in London. To try to...

FREIGHT ROVER is launch a high powered Sher for police and ambulan work around the same time Ford is going to be tempon ily...

THE WHEIVOOD Tru. Stop, sited a quarter of a m: off the M62 near junction . at Castleford, We: Yorkshire, has been granted...

TRUCKS has launched we powerful and fuel effiversion of its largest dieagine. has revised the breathing fuel injection...

''S ATi MODELS have turbochargers, Bosch injection pumps and inrs, a redesigned cam:, crankshaft and piston, a more efficient...

IN A bid to increase British sales of its FTG twin-steer models by 20 per cent, Daf has sliced a third of a tonne off its...

ROAD HAULIERS have moved to fill the gap created following the current rail dispute which knocked out around five per cent of...

THE RESPONSE to our appeal for drivers and mechanics to serve for six months in the Sudan on behalf of the Save the Children...

LEYLAND TRUCKS is believed to have maintained its loss reduction in the first, half of 1985. Details are expected to be...

MERCEDES-BENZ is to unveil two higher power V8 .engine variants for its topweight tractive units at next month's Frankfurt...

THE TRANSPORT General Workers Union planning for an expec flood of oil .distribut contracts going to hire reward operators by...

SCANIA GB martavm was moving quickly t week to cope with anothe its dealerships going into ceivership. United Commerci'z which...

FOX FREIGHT (Irvine) i be liquidated following a I non by other Fox Fre clearing houses at Kilmarr Sheriff Court. Liquidator...

THE FREIGHT Transj Association is opposing p for a southbound bus Ian London's Tottenham C Road which, at present, northbound...

BORDERMAN Tru points out that it has sold its Scottish M dealerships to Beau Trucks (CM, August 17) Carlisle and Penrith brar...

EAST ANGLIAN truck and trailer rental company Collease has appointed Andrew Newdick as general manager. Hc succeeds John Walsh,...

FOLLOWING the acquisition by the Willy Van Doorne group of specialist distributor of heavy goods vehicle parts TruckCare, Peter...

BARNSLEY commercial vehicle bodybuilders NMI has appointed Francis Pickering as sales engineer responsible for curtainsiders...

MANAGEMENT consultant Ivy Penman has joined Christian Salvesen Food Services Europe in the new post of commercial manager. She...

, NEW GENERAL manager of National Holidays is Graham McDonald. On September I Mr McDonald, who has been company secretary,...

THE BOARD of the Road Haulage Association's insurance company has been joined by Terence Goulder. Mr Goulder is a director of...

FORMER managing direc of International Harvester Great Britain, Rob' Calder, has been appointed general managing direct( body...

BOBBY HADDOW been appointed area sal manager for Gardner tru and bus engines in Scotia' and the North of Englan H, has been in...

IAN WILSON has been a pointed sales executive I TIP Trailer Rental, based the company's Willenh branch. He joined TIP fro Thorn...

F ROADFREIGHT has authority to add 30 des to its Western Area - ator's licence despite local ority objections and reentations...

• • /E HAULIER'S environnal representation against ther was ruled invalid last k. +lavigation Haulage (Hor- y) made...

THE ISLE of Man Steam Packer Company will provide two return sailings each weekday between Heysham and Douglas during the...

A NORTH Shropshire haulage firm was swindled out of a lorry and trailers worth nearly £12,0 0 0, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard...

A TEESSIDE driver who underwent open heart surgery last year has had his heavy goods vehicle licence restored on appeal....

THE FORESTRY Commission has specified Windfoil's new grp cab-roof extension to give all-weather protection for its drivers. A...

CHESHIRE haulier F and Carlisle and the manag director's son, Christop Carlisle, were charged Sandbach magistrates I lowing the...

minibuses feature in the D'aish Bus Group's der for 120 buses and aches for next year. Only eight of the 11 SBG crating...

RENAULT UK has entered the British psv market for the first time with a minicoach based on the long wheelbase Master diesel and...

by Noel Allier VOLVO BUS has certified the first B9M midi coach built to British specification. The 9.7m vehicle has a 4.6m...

THE SCOTTISH Traffic Commissioners have thrown out plans by both Central Scottish Omnibuses and Strathclyde PTE for new...

SCAN1A unveils its fin British-specification K92C: coach at the Bus and Coac exhibition in London, . 3.4m-high Berkhof Esprit<...

DAF BUS is replacing i MB200 mid-engined coac with a modified MB2 3 range. Two versions, the 260h DKFL and the 280hp DKV are...

PMT ENGINEERING c Stoke-on-Trent has receive orders for 84 midi an minibuses from Cellos National Bus Company subsi diaries....

A GOVERNMENT Minister and the top Department of Transport civil servant are to speak at separate major bus industry conferences...

London coach dealer Arling ton Motor Company i holding a bus and coach sho‘ at its Mellison Avenue, En field premises from...

HEFACE Engineering i sponsoring Showbus, the ne , and vintage bus and coac rally at Woburn Abbey o September 1.

As soon as he had taken the winner's garland, owner-driver Gaudenzio Mantova was chased by stewards off the rostrum. What...

Esso has done it again. One of its drivers has won Lorry Driver of the Year for the fourth time in recent years, but, for a...

LDoY 1985 Results: 1st, Ken Davies, Esso Petroleum; 2nd, Dave Goddard, British Telecom; 3rd, Roy Stewardson, Conoco; 4th, J....

L NYONE who cares for animals cannot fail to be disturbed by ay some destined for slaughter are d in their last hours....

Alan Millar looks at the prospects for a GM takeoy of Leyland Trucks C 4 4 X PLORATORY" talks F between General Motors and BL...

and torque for operation at 38 tonnes led Mercedes-Benz to introduce the 2033S 6x2 last year. The model follows the 4x2 1633S...

The 2033S shares the same power train as the 1633, and was available on the German market as early as 1979. Its flexibility is...

:he L-type sleeper cab is an all-steel .nibly built to a high standard to orporate sound and heat insulation, goise levels...

top provided a ratio for every occasion. Progression through the double-H-gate using the detem to pass from low to high ratio...

well except on three occasions along the A68. The overall consumption was 40.76 lit/100km (6.93mpg), achieved without detriment...

Electronically-controlled fuel injection is the next important phase in diesel engine development, and Detroit Diesel Allison...

THAT'S THE KEY Only an operator with a wide breadth of handling skills meshed with appropriate facilities can meet complex...