• What's the difference between a defender of the environment and a busybody? If the latest initiative from the Department of...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate plans to clamp down on hauliers whose truck exhausts are seen to emit smoke. This follows the...

• Two long-established haulage, companies became victims of the recession this week. London-based BFI and Burroughes Transport...

• Leyland Daf has been honoured this week in the Queen's Awards for Exports — for its £200m contribution to the export drive...

• Lorry drivers travelling between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are being delayed by a dispute over computer...

• A blueprint for cabotage and harmonisation in Europe's haulage market is to be drawn up by European Commissioners this...

• The European Commission wants to harmonise maximum truck weights at 46 tonnes for 3+3 combinations, 44 tonnes for 3+2s and 42...

• Midlands tippermen who met quarry owner Tilcon last week to demand a 15% rate increase heard a discouraging response from the...

• The backers of two of the industry's biggest events are heading for a clash over dates. The Institute of Road Transport...

• UNIT '91, the owner-drivers association founded by haulier Mike Pickering, attracted more than 70 to its launch meeting at...

• MAN will be offering a highroof version of the F90 heavy truck cab — first seen on the experimental mid-engined UXT tractor...

• North Yorkshire police are warning hauliers to tighten up vehicle security following a 50% increase in truck thefts. Already...

• As predicted by Commercial Motor a month ago, Leyland Daf has introduced a revised range of light middleweight rigids based...

• Daimler-Benz has unveiled a range of reduced capacity lowemission vee-six and vee-eight engines with power outputs from...

• When Seddon Atkinson introduced its Enasa-cabbed Strato range of tractive units in 1988 it was obvious that a lower...

• Central Trailer Rentco has collaborated with Crane Fruehauf and Shorfast to develop a double-deck dry-freight/garment...

• Hendrickson Norde, supplier of rubber bogie suspensions to a number of UK and European chassis manufacturers, will unveil a...

• East German light municipal 4x4 manufacturer Multicar has revamped its M25 Minitruck (above) with a tougher chassis and a new...

• The row about VAT changes in the European Community is escalating with furious parcels carriers complaining that they will be...

• Central Roadways of Brierley Hill near Birmingham has gone out of business. Managing director George Atterbury says it was...

• A three-day strike by Liverpool Council workers last week has failed to save the jobs of 25 drivers. Redundancy notices have...

• Returnline, the hi-tech telephone return load service which is due to be launched on 3 June, is already attracting hundreds...

• MAN produced 34,000 trucks and buses in the 1990-91 fiscal year, beating the previous year's total by 3,358. It also expects...

• BET will be announcing an outright sale or joint-venture deal for its waste management subsidiary Biffa within the next few...

• The DVLA has reversed its decision preventing PCV driving instructors taking more than one student out on a trainee-driven...

• Birmingham coach operator Pattersons is moving into local bus operation. It launched two services for the West Midlands...

• Reeve Burgess is moving manufacturing from its Pilsley and Stonebroom sites near Chesterfield into its stablemate Plaxton's...

• Optare scooped first, second and third places in the Bus of the Year competition at the British Coach Rally in Southampton...

• A judge has ruled that a driver AA takes over a vehicle when he starts driving — not when he boards it. The judge at...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences cost four drivers employed by William West (Ilkeston) 2.1,040 when they appeared before...

• A Carmar then-based poultry farmer has won authorisation to run three more 7.5-tonners and a 17.5 tonne reefer unit after...

revoked • North London-based haulier David Sawyer, who had two Operator's Licences revoked, used a third company to get round...

• An Italian truck driver has been fined £450 after being arrested on the M62 for driving excessive hours and operating a...

• South Walesa?, based operator Mark Cutter has had his restricted licence cut so that it now expires at the end of October,...

hole: a van was seen in North London with a si g n on the back which read "My wife said she would leave me if I didn't give up...

C-Series powered AWD TL 6x4. According to AWD it was introduced to meet the demand of operators who missed the old Bedford TL...

The cab is trimmed predominantly in grey which includes the mouldings, floor mats and carpet over the engine. Our test vehicle...

usually specified for site work or with roll on/off bodywork. At 18.8 tonnes the B-ride bogie is rated at 520kg less, but with...

IN A reported rise in police checks on container lorries in East Anglia is apparently making hauliers in the region...

ROR TE9000, 9 tonne capacity axle designed for triaxle 27 tonne bogie trailers, fitted with super single wheels. The two prime...

converted unit. The company builds chassis in a range of lengths to suit most applications and tractors and can also adapt to...

TIPCON MI Don't expect to find many tipper makers smiling at Harrogate. Last year multi-wheeler sales fell by over 46%, and so...

• Derbyshire-based tipperman Michael Salt felt strongly enough about low rates to join a one-day strike last October at...

• When WH Malcolm was founded in 1925 it started with a horse and cart. Now the family firm runs 500 vehicles: you don't build...

• Ray Dorney is not your average operator. Somebody he has never met plans his vehicle routes; his drivers choose their own...

haulage and an aggregates company and I would like to propose a few points for discussion on the current question of...

• Cartwright Freight Systems has developed a roller floor system for semi-trailers (and docking areas), to speed up...

• PPG Fabrications is building 60 aluminium tipping trailers for German and Belgium customers as part of a larger order won by...

• A 13.3m Naughton Parkhouse twin-lifting-deck livestock carrying semi-trailer, shown earlier this month at the National Pig...

• Oxford-based DEL Equipment has produced a 750-1,500kg range of 'dumpover' folding tail lifts for nonHGV tippers with bed...

• Linktip has devised a triple compartment Unibank container for collecting recyclable waste from schools or civic amenity...

• Birmingham City has ordered six Foden-powered bulk refuse vehicles from TTB (Fabrications). One a Multidrive outfit based on...

• Cliffe Group of Rochester has added a specially developed French-built Nicolas semi-trailer to its low loader fleet. Matched...

glass to concrete • German manufacturer Langendorf has modified one of its tri-axled glass carriers to allow Norwegian haulier...

• Secret testing in various climates or pre-launch displays of new models to dealers calls for discreet car transporters. An...

• A new 21,820-litre waste water tanker has been built onto an AWD MTL 33-27 8x6 Multidrive chassis by Fuller of Chepstow for...

Despite the lack of activity in the tipper field at present, the Road Haulage Association has a wide range of exhibits on show...

• A curious fact about a recession is that transport companies, looking to make economies, will often defer normal fleet...

CHILLER • Reefer men looking to Green their operations could do worse than consider liquid nitrogen as an alternative to the...

transport manger at mushroom grower Chesswood Produce, is equally enthusiastic following a one-month trial with the system. He...

• One in three tipper operators said that they have no plans to buy any new vehicles or bodywork this year. Many of those...