• Historically, Britain's roadbuilding and maintenance programme has been a bit of a joke. The latest disruption to that...

for Brave Conduct for saving five people trapped in a motorway pile-up on the M6 in October 1985. Smith switched off the coach...

• Britain's heavy haulage industry is beginning to feel the burden of the massive twelvefold rise in excise tax on their...

• A world shortage of ethylene glycol could lead to leapfrogging prices for antifreeze this winter. Wholesale prices have...

• Long distance lorry driver John Flynn narrowly escaped jail this week after he admitted his part in a diesel fraud scheme set...

!.t. "Now we're making even ss money," it says. "It has Ttainly made an impact." Jim Hope of Carlisle is at the her end of the...

• Manchester independent bus company Bee Line Buzz looks certain to be sold this weekend by owner BET, and a mystery buyer has...

its Spanish parent, Enasa, from the middle of next year. Seddon has just announced its own new premium truck range, the Strato,...

• Forcing London lorry ban hauliers to fit air brake silencer hush kits is illegal. According to to legal advice, sought by the...

• The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been told by the Freight Transport Association to improve Britain's congested road...

to launch a recruitment drive to reverse the decline in its membership from over two million 10 years ago to below 1.3...

smuggling operation involving the illegal conversion of lowgrade red diesel to highquality white fuel. The smugglers were...

• Two new bus companies have been set up by former South Yorkshire Transport busmen in Sheffield to compete with their former...

EXTRA • Hauliers do not need to read the latest national road maintenance survey to find out that our roads are still...

Prior to the cutback decision, the DTp had asserted that some 130km of motorways and over 320Icm of all-purpose trunk roads...

• The value of Britain's heavy truck imports rocketed by 50% to £354 million in the first five months of this year, exactly in...

• Trio Containers, the waste disposal rental fleet operator, has added Boughton front-end loaders to its fleet. They are...

a 32.5-tonne GVW Foden 6x4 drawbar rig from North Riding Garages of Middleton St George. It has a 21-tonne payload and is...

I International trucking cornmy Aston Clinton Haulage is taken delivery of its first cania 3-series, an R143MA6 2R 450 lift...

• Britain's biggest producer of swap-body systems, Ray Smith Demountables, is preparing for a boom in road-torail freight after...

El Ray Smith Demountables has also started building demounts near Melbourne, one of Australia's biggest freight transport...

a Volvo FL6 and a Mercedes 814 — to service a contract-hire deal with Storopack UK. The VBG-designed drawbar system adds 134m...

has bought a specially adapted 18m Mercedes drawbar rig with a sleeper cab stretched from 3.2 to 5.3 metres by JR Engineering...

• Leyland DAF's latest model of the Freighter fire appliance has a lowered chassis to allow easy cab access and repositioned...

• The new DEL Equipment • QD (quickly detachable) range of tail-lifts comes in aluminium or steel with 500kg and 1,000kg...

• Tycoon National Freight Consortium workers, whose shares in the employee-owned company have now leapt to an incredible 70...

17 vehiclemounted aerial work platforms, comprising: 12 Spencer EFB12 units mounted aerial work plattwo Spencer HM28s mounted...

RO-R 0 service from Portsmouth to Poole from early next year. A freightonly vessel, however, may continue to sail from Portsmouth.

offering standarised documents and back-up procedures plus improved staff training. Customer service managers are now in place...

first phase of a 2500,000 investment in information technology, with the ordering of the latest IBM AS400 computer.

• Nightfreight Group member company, Rainbow Nightfreight, has taken over Jobo Express to boost its coverage of the Worcester,...

• Truck components manufacturer Eaton is pooling its experts, who develop drivetrain systems, into a new specialist division....

• James Hemphill of the P & o Roadtanks group has finalised a contract distribution agreement with Carless Refining to...

• Moving to the private sector seems to be paying off for Unipart. It announced pre-tax profits of 27.3 million, an increase of...

• BRS Northern is extending its 23.5 million reefer rental scheme to a second, as yet un named, site. It plans to move into...

1111 West Country - based trans port group Wincanton has bought four businesses in a 210 million summer spending spree. They...

• Archbold ' s contract dis tribution division has won a nationwide contract to deliver motor parts for the Internation al...

The deal, worth over 22 million a year, is expected to increase as Volvo de velops its parts service to UK dealers.

contract with automotive plastics manufacturer Caradon Rolinx using 10 curtain sided trailers with chassis and bodies by...

parcel ' s Survey, is in no way related to Seabourne European Ex press Parcels.

• Hempsall Bulk Transport ir operating a MAN 16.332 for Viking Cereals of Grantham, Lincolnshire. Resplendent in Viking ' s...

• British Petroleum has opened a 25 million compute rised tanker distribution ter minal in Swansea for the deliv ery of bitumen...

• The bus and coach industry is on the road to recovery with manufacturers reporting healthy order books up into the middle of...

• Cheltenham and Gloucestei Omnibus Company and Red & White have agreed to accept each other's Explorer and Roverbus tickets in...

assailants with private prosecutions after a driver was attacked in broad daylight. "Late-night services have always had...

new firm, Yorkshire Terrier, by putting on two intensive minibus services linking Sheffield with Crookes and Yorkshire Terrier,...

• Bus and coach company National Welsh achieved a £22.5 million turnover in 1987 with pre-tax profits of £341,000. During the...

• Scottish bus operator William W Buchanan has lost his PSV licence because one of his vehicles, being used to carry...

• Strathclyde's Buses has ordered 50 new double-deckers as part of its fleet replacement programme. Metro Cammell Weyman has...

buses with Walter Alexander bodies to its fleet. Each offers seating for 51 and standing room for 23. They are powered by...

• A Yorkshire-based haulier and one of his drivers are to have their defence costs paid out of public funds after they were...

• Scottish Licensing Authority Hugh McNamara has given Glasgow-based Drakemire Dairy and associate company Drakemire Health...

a case involving lorry driver James Gaffney who appeared before Burnley Crown Court. Commercial Motor has been asked to point...

A licensing authority has iled that he can only control hat happens at an operating Nitre and not on roads leading it,...

• A haulage firm with a hree-year history of convicions has had its licence cut by nore than half after a licensing luthority...

BY THE HAWK • The Scarnrnell Owners and Enthusiasts Club has had its first road run, just four months after its formation. At...

look at hauliers' wives on TV the other night. Sitting snugly in the lobby of a Harrogate Hotel, he first decided that the...

• Peter Foden, chairman and chief executive of ERF, is to drive an ERF E14358T model with a 14litre Cummins engine at the...

Federal Express Systemline has already banned its 60 staff at its main Bedworth offices from taking a puff, and plans to extend...

Win a trip to the Portuguese Grand Prix with Commercial Motor and 3M Company

of motor racing: the cars are fast and expensive; the drivers the best; the action dramatic. The European Formula One season...

SIR WOMEN'S RIGHTS • I read with interest your recent articles on Women in Transport and, as a female HGV driver of 12 years,...

MISINFORMED DEFENCE • I am writing to correct a comment made in the article on page 20 (Legal News) of the 30 June-6 July...

ROADRUNNER Competition winner Ricky Herbert's prize, the Roadrunner 8.15 has joined the Garfield Lewis fleet carrying...

Think local authority contract hire and you think Transfleet Services. The company dominates the market ... completely. To...

THE TIMES Cost-effectiveness and private-sector competition are challenges now being met by many councils' transport...

• The Brigadier, a mainline B-type fire appliance, was designed and constructed by Reynolds Boughton (Devon), a company with a...

With the force of law now backing the Government's Local Authority efficiency drive, outside consultancies are offering a wide...

Seddon Atkinson goes up market with its new Strato premium tractive unit. Under the Cabtec cab is a range of new engines,...

OF POWER Only four major manufacturers offer panel vans in the 3.5 to 7.5-tonne sector. We complete our tests of the quartet...

other high-revving DI diesel engines must be judged against it. We feel that if the engineers at Ford and Perkins had been...

of the Greenhous Group's midlands division. He will head the Leyland Daf truck, Freight Rover and Bedford van dealership based...

• On the surface, the latest round of disruption in the postal service offers an unprecedented opportunity for the country's...

D Something even better than POWERPACK, the promotion that was so successful that our suppliers are still catching up on your...

frozen food distribution centre in Monkspath near Solihull staged a one-day strike last week in protest at disciplinary...

the start of its new network of Basingstoke minibus services because of delays at the South Eastern Traffic Area, has been sold...

last year, according to the latest figures from the Department of Transport. Serious injuries were down 6% to 65,300 and slight...

a leaflet entitled The Motor Vehicle and the Environment, aimed at combating the image of diesel engines and vehicles in...

and the M42 south of Birmingham, will open next summer says Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley in a progress report....

sacked because of his union activities, was dismissed because he failed to tell the company that he had a criminal record, an...

week after being dragged along by a bus when her clothing caught in the driver-operated doors.

• Britain's leading overnight parcel carriers have been hot on the Post Office's heels all week, bidding to cam Royal Mail...

• Leicestershire haulier Patrick O'Neill, trading as PA Haulage of Home Farm, Station Road, Elmsthorpe, was accused of 13...

• The United Road Transport Union has joined the National Reverse in Safety Campaign, which is calling for the mandatory...