• Almost 90 drivers at Prestons of Potto and its subsidiary FVS at Stocktonon-Tees have won a 31% pay increase until next May,...

by Nicky Clarke • The two men shot dead in Stockport on Monday this week were vehicle examiners employed by the Vehicle...

• The Government has rejected plans to raise the 0-licensing weight threshold for goods vehicles from 3.5 to 6 tonnes because...

of security at its 91 test stations. The review will consider Commercial Motor's recent suggestion of establishing a register...

by Amanda Bradbury • Hauliers and dairies this week launched a joint attack on the Milk Marketing Board's "anticompetitive"...

• International operators are warned of disruption in Belgium tomorrow (Friday) as unions prepare to operate a national...

• Combined transport operator Allied Continental Intermcdal is the first in the market to pub. lish reight rates to Continental...

• An entrepreneur who promised to set drivers up as hauliers and dropped his scheme three months later owing them £30,000, says...

• TNT Express will be looking For 1,500 drivers as 10 parcel delivery depots open during the next five years. Sites at Park...

• The prospect of disruptions to all P&O European Ferries services looms this week as ships officers join seamen in considering...

by Karen Miles • The Government last week offered private transport oper ators more business as it proposed to put the...

• Industry calls for a nationally recognised career structure in road haulage were answered last week with the introduction of...

• Dunstable Renault VI United Kingdom has cut its losses "by a factor of four" since the company stopped vehicle production...

• A Monopolies and Mergers Commission probe into the servicing of gas analysers has cleared manufacturers of restrictive...

by Steve McQueen • A team of purchasing managers under a director of procurement will lead a move to reduce the number of...

deal in Notts • Nottinghamshire operators could be in the running for a major contract hauling gypsum from the newly...

month. Output for the 10 months to October is 25.21% down on 1992's figures. Lack of work is holding back one in four small...

by Grant Prior • Insurance firms will increase their premiums for hauliers by up to 20% in the New Year. The jump follows steep...

• A driver and livestock agent were fined more than £6,000 after they pleaded guilty last week to charges under the Animal...

III Drivers moving explosives around the country will have to carry Health and Safety Executive permits in their cabs from...

• Sibley Haulage is searching for an operator with 15 trucks which wants to sell-up in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire or...

• A dozen more Canadian-built GMC Tri-Star ambulances have been ordered by the Cambridgeshire Ambulance Service. The 6.2-litre...

• Malindra importer UK 4x4 plans to start assembling the Indian-built off-roaders in either Britain or the Republic of...

• A security system that automatically shuts and locks the cab door behind the driver has been devised by Cartwright of...

• Leyland Daf has released early details of its flagship 95.500, due for launch at the Amsterdam Motor Show in February. Apart...

rigids have joined the Lane Group fleet, working on a distribution contract for the Body Shop. The ERFs are powered by Cummins...

• An anti-fatigue system to wake up drivers who fall asleep at the wheel and slow the truck down at the same time, is scheduled...

trailers held by GA Transport (Cardiff) has been revoked, by South Wales Deputy TC Gerrard Sullivan. Director Catherine...

• Haltwistlebased Richard and Janice Philipson, whose licence was suspended after they failed to attend a public inquiry in...

• Though convicting Walling ford haulier David Pope of exceeding the permitted gross weight of a tractor unit, the...

• D&L Tarmac, of Tylorstown appeared at a Cardiff public inquiry over maintenance problems and convictions for using vehicles...

• Two brothers who falsified tachograph charts on Continental journeys were ordered to pay £2,700 in fines and costs when they...

• Heavy haulier GCS Johnson (Skeeby) and one of its drivers have been cleared of allegedly using a dangerous vehicle by Hendon...

West Midland Deputy TC Roger has granted Clarence Partridge, trading as Selectadrive Services, a new onevehicle licence despite...

Much media hype last week centred on the Government's Deregulation Bill announced in the Queen's Speech. But draft laws...

) Is 13ft 4in (4m) high, and anyone who hits it is prosecuted. ) There are 11 signs on the Blackwall tunnel southern approach,...

MI TIP has invested £1,25m in container trailers from Maxilode Transport Equipment, aimed at helping its customers to prepare...

• King Trailers has introduced a lightweight plant carrier that offers maximum C&U payloads but which is ready to uprate to 44...

its pan-EC fleet. Each has 10 load securing winches fitted. The 23-tonne payload, 87m 3 vehicles run on 5AF air-sprung running...

• Two multi-deck semi-trailers have joined the delivery fleet for ERF's cab sub-frames. Maker Fruehauf has been able to add an...

• Walsall Borough has taken the first of Whale Tankers' 7.5tonne, 2,500-litre (550-gal) nonLOV high-pressure jetters. Called...

• Yorkshire Water's Global Environmental Services has added two 25,000-litre Boughton llm vacuum tankers to its fleet. Both...

• East Sussex reefer maker Refrigerated Vehicles (RVL) has built a special multi-compartment delivery truck for a Parisbased...

• Schmitz Cargobull is offering a Ferroplast insulated panel For dry Freight vehicles carrying temperature sensitive goods. It...

least to the suggested remedies. We heard nothing. The implication was that as journalists we were getting hot under the collar...

It's a classic The Classic Commercial Motor Show will take place on Sunday, 12 June 1994 at BP Truckstops, Watling Street,...

• The Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Exhibition is scheduled for the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham between 28...

Gearbox ident • Brevini is offering a free gearbox identification visit by a qualified engineer in advance of breakdown so...

• Repair and maintenance of refrigeration equipment on vehicles is the latest service being offered by the Aldridge-based...

• A network to provide fleets with easier access to tyres and services nationwide has been launched by Goodyear called Hi-Q....

• The new Glacier bearing catalogue has just been published by AE Auto Parts. A worldwide publication, it covers engine...

• DJ Distribution which markets DETA automotive batteries has changed its name to DETA Batteries and relocated from Stoke on...

Stronger straps • A cargo restraint has just been launched from America by Marlin Leek. Its Absorb Edge Webbing is claimed to...

• An electrically heated seat cover designed to plug into a truck's cigarette lighter is available for £39.95 from...

• New 15W dual voltage Xenon vehicle beacons are available from Delta Design. They produce high intensity light with an...

• Low noise and environmentally friendly rubber/metal anti-vibration mountings for transport refrigeration systems are now on...

• Powertec Platforms is selling a new front-mounted hydraulic pump for vehicles which lack a gearbox power take-off facility It...

simply contact one of the Following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak; 48p at all other times): West...

ur friends at Shell have a new TV advertising campaign to promote a fuel with detergent additives which the oil giant claims...

M eaty haulage specialist Vanguard Engineering has just shipped a 10,000 ton oil refinery to Hainan, China For nearly 20 years,...

s every reader knows, Commercial Motor is A 0 always right. it was with some concern, therefore, that the Hawk detected a note...

iana Dooner, the Ipswich wonder woman who campaigns on many issues close to the heart of truckers, has launched a "Trucker's...

JP Fruit Distribution, in Romsey, Hampshire overnight on 11-12 November. The trailer is a 24-pallet Gray & Adams tri-axle...

with the livery of Anthony McPhillips Transport stolen from inside the APP Chemicals factory in Market Drayton, Shropshire at...

for information leading to the return of his stolen Mercedes tractor unit. The 4x2 1633 model was stolen late last month by...

Does performance-related pay motivate or disillusion drivers and does it fly in the face of European law? CM looks at some of...

Along with other Japanese manufacturers, premier bodybuilder Nissan Freuhauf, member of the global group Fruehauf...

It's no longer good enough for hauliers to shake hands when agreeing terms with a customer—a written contract is vital to...

must be made to bring the conditions to the customer's attention at the time the order is given. 2. The price of what is being...

plant at Irving, Scotland saw the birth of Volvo's eightwheeler long before it became an option in most continental countries....

cab. When the vehicle is used on long haul with a possibility of overnights, operators go for the sleeper version on the FL10....

T he B-ride suspension is intended for occasional offroad work but the cross axle and inter-axle differential locks means there...

N . one has any real idea how many people driving on the roads are no longer capable of legal vision. And there is another and...

eye troubles that truck drivers themselves may face. Cataract problems can be treated directly vision starts to become...

‘ know it's not my imagination—it is a fact. I The industry which pays all our wages is burdened with legislation. Most of it...

I was most interested in your comments on the Silent Majority in a recent issue of Commercial Motor. I have found in my short...

have worked in transport all my life as a driver all over the plac e , even to the Middle East, and in the past I found 98% of...

on lthe article on a magistrates ruling that a haulier could carry demolition material in some circumstances without the waste...