• The failure of York is not likely to be greeted with glee by fellow trailer manufacturers. True, a rival with a 30% market...

• Trailer builder York Group has become one of the biggest victims to date of the transport recession. The Corby-based group,...

Summer 1988: Jim Davies Ipictured) and 25 colleagues raise £61m to buy York from industrial giant Bunzl in leveraged buyout....

• Up to 400 hauliers were left facing debts of £300,000 when freight clearing house Eezee Euro Services went into liquidation...

• Operators are being forced to travel up to 80km out of their way to avoid being prosecuted under the London Lorry Ban,...

• A gang of professional thieves who steal trucks to order is believed to be behind at least four thefts in the West Country...

• Hauliers have won increased transit rights through Austria and Switzerland. Austria is issuing 1.3 million permits for EC...

• A total of 27 UK hauliers have bought a 36% share in intermodal venture Combined Transport (CTL), whose partners include...

• Haulier CM Downton of Gloucester has added three Leyland Daf 95 Series tractors to its fleet of 23, which is mainly engaged...

• Rumours that Leyland Daf is to sell its former Albion axle plant in Glasgow are "wholly untrue", says the company.

• The Government is to "drive the dirty bus off the road", according to Transport Minister Roger Freeman.

• Engine builder Perkins has been fined £2,000 for polluting a tributary of the River Severn with 1,300 litres of diesel.

46.9p per litre at the weekend but should remain stable for at least another week, according to fuel analyst Oil Price Assessment.

• Volvo's new midi chassis, the B6R, has a typical entrance height of 320mm (flat step) or 250mm (split step), not 555mm as...

• Fines for illegally parking on one of London's Red Routes are to rise £8 to £40.

• CM technical editor Bill Brock (right) presents Econocruise sales and marketing director Roger Hamilton with awards for best...

• Britain's truck market needs urgent intensive care, according to Rod England, chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers...

• More roads must be built in the UK if it is not to fall further behind its EC neighbours, says the Freight Transport...

• Congestion in London should be tackled by better enforcement of existing parking and loading rules, rather than extending Red...

• Beacon Tippers, the Stone, Staffs-based tipper builder which is currently in receivership, is talking to three potential...

• Hauliers will be free to carry out domestic work within any EC country from 1993. The liberalisation of the cabotage laws...

1993, but limited for two years to 5% of domestic markets. E UK hauliers may ply freely for domestic work in other EC states...

in French farmers have struck at British hauliers again, setting over 1,000 sheep loose from one operator's truck and burning...

• Police want to trace the driver of an HGV who fled after injuring a stalled motorist on the M6 last week. The truck hit Irene...

• Seddon Atkinson is making a limited edition high-spec Strato called the Silver Knight. Only 11 of the 3.8m-wheelbase 4x2s...

• Heavy trucks don't get a look in at Motorfair, but somewhere between the Ferraris and other less exotic machinery there is a...

• Iveco Ford has revealed the next stage of its new Cargo programme, covering rigids from 11-15 tonnes GVW. The heavier...

The new model will share the all-new bodyshell with its Sevel partners (Peugeot Talbot Express and Citroen C25). As the photo...

/ Leyland Daf is imposing a 12-month pay freeze on its 6,200 UK employees following losses of £.125m over the past 18 months....

/ Hays Specialist Distribution has reorganised itself into three business units following its takeover of Norfolk removals firm...

EXCLUSIVE • Mercedes-Benz (UK) is to contract out its entire car and commercial vehicle parts distribution operation. The...

/ Scottish haulier Kildonan Transport has closed depots on the remote Scottish islands of Mull and Islay because the oper ation...

trailers worth £1.8m to an Arab consortium which will use them to transport grain for famine relief in the Sudan.

• Supermarket giant Tesco has warned hauliers it will no longer put up with late deliveries or loads delivered on non-standard...

• As predicted in last week's CM, Flowers of York has been bought from the receiver by three managers and an unidentified...

• Parcelforce has gone back to the negotiating table after 85% of its 11,000 workers rejected its latest pay offer...

• AA-BRS Fleet Rescue has won a contract to supply a breakdown and recovery service to British Rail's 8,000-strong fleet.

• Stella Line is to axe staff on its service between the Netherlands and the UK to save about £2.5m.

• Federal Express has launched an economy service to eight Continental countries. Delivery of packages over 30kg takes a...

• Cave Wood Transport of High Wycombe has increased its service to Spain through a new partnership with Marqueset, a Spanish...

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

/Environmental representations from neighbouring residents have led to George and Jacqueline Hellewell, trading asJackto...

/ Failing to report convictions to a Licensing Authority could justify the revocation of an Operator's Licence, says North...

• Eccleshall magistrates have cleared Happy Days (Woodseaves) of permitting drivers to break the drivers' hours rules. The...

Bakery of Dewsbury, and one of its drivers were granted absolute discharges after admitting using a vehicle with defective...

Transport, is to appeal against his conviction for nine offences of permitting drivers' hours offences by challenging the...

Carberry Haulage, has been committed for trial at Bolton Crown Court for a series of charges resulting from the use of stolen...

to turn up at Kidderminster magistrates has led to drivers' hours charges against GH Leighton Transport Contractors being...

has allowed Allenways Coaches to continue operating after it paid £4,100 worth of outstanding drivers' hours fines. The company...

• Birkenheadbased Webster Bros (Transport) has been fined £500 after Huddersfield magistrates found it guilty of using a...

MBicester magistrates have dismissed charges against Walkers Construction after the defence successfully argued that the...

MA West Yorkshire-based lorry driver who worked for 21 hours in one day was ordered to pay £325 in fines and costs when he...

For this year's Coach & Bus exhibition the Birmingham NEC played host to a record number of new vehicles. But many of the 300...

N eorge Bernard Shaw reckons his Northumberlandbased removals business is booming, not least because George, of Acomb, is named...

D am writing to you because I feel that your readers are an influential group within the business world and the community......

[I n their time, they were the Rolls Royce of steam engines. The words belong to Dave Hardiman who was talking about his...

irmingham poll tax defaulters had their names scattered all over the city's streets when lists blew off the back of a lorry...

Fil eyland Daf has done its bit for Oxfam's campaign Time for a Fairer World, by giving the charity a 7.5-tonne flatbed truck...

egular readers will recall that last month (CM 12-18 Sept) the Hawk was surprised to receive a missive from the Eastern Traffic...

Iii hree lucky readers will be able to start planning next year helped by the 1992 Scamrnell Owners and Enthusiasts Club...

H he Department of Transport has stopped work on the £60m Norwich bypass after a truck began sinking into the newly laid...

• The Brewery Transport Advisory Committee is holding its 10th conference on 31 March 1992 at the Forte Crest Hotel in...

• The Institute of Logistics and Distribution Management's exhibition and conference is to be held on 16-18 June 1992 at the...

• Cheshire-based general haulier WP Twibell and Sons has been awarded BS 5750 Part Two, for its depot at Mobberley, near...

• This year's booklet on training courses for PCV operators in the UK is now available free from the Bus & Coach Council's...

• Small hauliers' association the Transport Users Group is offering a debt collection service for its members. And it can now...

• A wheel clamp for commercial vehicles has been designed by Middlesbrough-based Lionweld Kennedy. The Wheelok is available...

• Datatrak has updated the in-vehicle locator unit for its tracking system so that it can be linked more easily to a truck's...

• Cellnet has developed a message recording service for its mobile phone operators who can now tap a code into their phones to

instruct the network's computer to record their incoming calls_ When they next use their phones a computer message tells them...

• A video and report on reversing warning devices on the market have been put together by Wakefield Metropolitan District...

• A range of dashboard trays with cavities for drinks, cassettes and loose change have been designed by Webb's Distribution for...

ROAD NEWS Around Preston • Plans for a bypass south and west of Preston, to relieve congestion on the M6, have been unveiled...

• For the latest information on roadworks and road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

(0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401 115...

But was it right to stick to the same basic design and improve it, rather than launching an all-new vehicle? • "Millions of...

up into a Z1m-turnover operation, specialising in imports and exports of paper, wood products and machinery by rail. Chairman...

TO TASK Craven Tasker has been surprised by the tough response from unions and politicians since it sacked 42 strikers. It...

T ACK French farmers are grabbing the headlines again with their attacks on British Iamb trucks. CM talks to some of the...

Ford bills the launch of the new Cargo as "the most important moment since the company's formation in 1986", and it's hard to...

II I feel compelled to write in disgust concerning the pompous, ill-informed, biased and totally untrue views of Judith Hanna...

• Nothing could illustrate more clearly why road haulage has an image problem than Brian Weatherley's fatuous editorial ("Green...

II It was interesting to read your recent feature on the "green" views on road haulage (CM 26 Sept-2 Oct). It is unfortunate...

N orman Cassidy has become a partner in his brother-in-law's haulage firm, Nedu Trucking. Cassidy has taken a 25% share in the...

• Malcolm Watkins has joined Plaxton Coach & Bus as sales manager for the Southern area. He has spent more than 15 years in the...

• Parcels carrier Lynx has recruited four graduates for this year's management training programme: Stephen Glover will work at...

• Steven Hatcher has become general manager of TNT Contract Distribution's business development team, with a brief to win work...

at small to medium sized transport companies. If you have taken on a transport manager/engineer, sales person or depot manager,...