• We should all congratulate the initiative Royal Mail Parcels is spearheading to develop a new examination system for HGV...

• Commercial Motor's Wheel Loss Campaign is picking up momentum as support flows in from concerned operators. "Our transport...

• Several parcel delivery giants are joining forces to develop new driver qualifications which "will eventually be the...

• The plan for a national licensing authority — one of the cornerstones of the Pa!flier Review of Operator Licensing has been...

• Federal Express and 39 of its drivers, face over 400 charges alleging breaches of the drivers' hours and tachograph...

• Transport operators will have to bear some of the costs of developing Greener transport, and will have to pay more attention...

/ LEP Group, the international freight forwarder has expanded its European transport network by acquiring the West German...

• Home-study courses covering the transportation of dangerous substances by road were slammed this week as being potentially...

• Lecturers wining candidates for the Certificate of Professional Competence are to form a body to campaign for fairer...

• 1 veco Ford Truck reckons that between 58,000 and 64,000 commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes GVW will be registered this...

• The culmination of a 22.5 million, five-year truck development programme involving top engineers from france, Germany and...

• Iveco Ford has proved that fitting an aerodynamic kit to a 38-tonne tractive unit can cut fuel costs by as much as 10.5% by...

• An inter-nation satellite communications system for trucks is expected to be launched by Daf Trucks next year. Leyland Dafs...

• Mack trucks, which suffered heavy losses in the second half of 1989, has been given a cash injection by Renault Vehicles...

• Ford dealers are being asked to contact owners of 45,000 Transit 80, 100 and 120 models made between November 1985 and...

• Land Rover increased its share of the off-road market in 1989 by 17.98% with 8,240 registrations: a 41.52% share of this...

• Lifting and retractable axles are to be covered by the Construction and Use regulations. Controls will be introduced on the...

• Peterborough-based Lawrence David has developed a semi-trailer to suit the 16.5m artic length limits. The 13.6m semi is on a...

• An in-cab electronic tachograph called Cabfax has been developed by Birminghambased Toleman Group subsidiary Zytek Systems....

• Williams Grand Prix Engineering has commissioned a customised semi-trailer from the Cartwright Group to use as a car...

• If UK sales of Feldhinder silos continue to expand at their present rate, the West German tanker manufacturer will set up a...

• One of the world's largest freight forwarders, Kuehne & Nagel, has acquired the controlling interests of Berkshirebased...

• Managers at Nottinghamshire-based HDL Engineering have bought the company from Hillsdown Distribution. Former general...

• Silentnight, the Lancashirebased bed manufacturer, is reappraising its distribution operation after pulling out of its direct...

• Two top directors have suddenly left truck rental company Cowie Interleasing, amid fears that 1990 will be tough. Cowie...

I Parcels company Panic Link las moved into the Irish mar:et with a depot in Belfast. The company had planned to msh into...

• Portbridge Transport International has bought Netherlands distribution firm J Stok International BY. The Netherlands firm...

Spanish company FOCSA as been referred to the Office Fair Trading by Brighton ;trough Council which claims : put in a...

• Truckstop specialist Truckers, which was acquired by the Norfolk House group in December (CM 7-13 December 1989) plans to...

• Trailer manufacturer and specialist bodybuilder CB Cottingham has made 50 staff redundant since going into receivership last...

• LAG Bus will introduce a right-hand-drive version of its high-floor EOS coach to the UK early next month. The rear-engined...

• Harrogate minibus operato Challenger, which was taken over by AJS Holdings after twt years of sharp competition, ha expanded...

• Welsh bus operator Claytoi Jones has asked Pontypridd MP Dr Kim Howells to intervene following the Transport Tribunal...

• Kentish Bus has put 13 new Leyland Olympians on the three Hackney routes it runs under contract for London Regional...

• Shearings Coach & Bus, Europe's largest coach oper ator, is spending million on a new depot at Bryn, south of Wigan town...

• A consortium of investors looks set to buy the Walter Alexander Group in a deal worth million. Spotlaunch, the company formed...

• The new Manchester-based Bee Line Buzz company is importing former Manchester double-deckers from Surrey. The new Drawlane...

• Scottish Bus Group is to close its SBG Engineering subsidiary in March with almost 200 redundancies, reducing the number of...

• Avon bus company Badgerline has agreed to operate Bristol's proposed tram network, but will not be investing in the project....

IN The latest musings from the Commercial Trailer Association offer little comfort to UK trailer makers entering the nineties....

• A report in Commercial Motor helped E &J Meeks get its North Eastern Operators Licence renewed for five years, despite...

• A driver who complained about being fined for drivers' hours offences when he was not in court, had his fine increased when...

• Cases arising out of the alleged misuse of minibuses by three people operating "courtesy services to Manchester Airport have...

for sacking • A driver sacked by Carlisle-based W Keith & Son for using threatening language over the telephone to a company...

II A haulage company run by a man with a string of convictions for unauthorised use and forging of international journey...

BY THE HAWK • With all the furore about ministers getting backhanders for jobs on the side, spare a thought for Transport...

Ni It was my geography teacher, Mr Heeward, who first told me the secret of the five Ws. He explained they were responsible for...

It 1 G U When North-East haulier Toni Barnfather heard last September that longer artics were to be allowed from January, he...

ENGINEER'S NOTEBOOK • The British road transport industry is poised to take yet another step toward European harmonisation by...

• More than a third of Britain's articowning hauliers will run with longer 16.5m combinations as they become legal this year,...

• One outfit already preparing itself to take advantage of the new trailer length regulations is Condor International, based at...

RAIL ROADS • I was interested in the views of Mr Dipple, who does not mmit to use the kgrner railway alongside Spettisbury...