• Yet again, it appears that the Government is going to saddle the British haulage industry with an unsatisfactory compromise....

• Spring is outdoor fair and rally-time. Leading this season's events, as ever, is Commercial Motor Truckfest 86. We will be...

• Kassbohrer Setra continued its winning streak in the British Coach Rally last weekend by again taking the prestigious coach...

Spray stays where it s • The anti-spray regulations will not be extended to existing heavy goods vehicles. Junior Transport...

• United Parcels has made a belated entry into the nextday parcels market with a unique system of demountable drawbar trunking...

it Land Rover • The battle for Land Rover entered a new phase this week with a bitter war of words between rival bidders J C...

We apologise for the coal skin caused by wrong cap tions in Table 3 of our recent article on petrol W. diesel (CM, April 19,...

(ELING-BARFORD — 1 for Range Rover and nd Rover, BAMFORD — bid for onge Rover, Land over and "possibly" eight Rover. /MIRO —...

)ne of Leyland's smaller 3rofitabLe subsidiaries, !ntry-based Self-Changing . s, is being sold to Arneri)wners. announced this...

sales 'soon' • Two long-awaited sales of transport industry companies are expected very soon. Hawker Siddeley's sale of L...

• Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottornley is to meet British transport workers to discuss their fears over the September 29...

• A new distribution contract for BRS Western has plunged the company into a row with the Transport and General Workers' Union...

• The "bold new thinking" of Ford and Iveco's truck merger in Britain is the best way forward for both companies, Ford of...

• Following a slump in sales last year, Nissan UK has stopped importing its range of Spanish-built Ebro sixand 7.5tonne GVW...

• Despite a drop in UK of almost 11 per cent, Swe ish truck manufacturer Saal Scania has increased its ne , orders for...

• The engineering subsidiary of Hestair, which includes Dennis Eagle, Dennis Specialist Vehicles and Hestair Duple, recorded a...

• Friday April 18 marked the end of an era at Commercial Motor. lain Sherriff retired after 20 years' service to the magazine....

• Volkswagen has added an extra hatchback van model to its light commercial range with the arrival of the Polo van based on the...

• Hawson-Garner of Andover has introduced a new Luton body to match the modem styling of the Ford Transit chassis cab. Designs...

• Production of York Trailer's Thermostar refrigerated semi-trailer range has been switched from Northallerton to new...

• NISSAN UK will launch a new range of one-tonne pickups in Britain within a month. Two versions, a 4x2 and 4x4, will be...

• Dutch semi-trailer manufacturer Royal Nooteboom Trailers is now offering an axle-lift option on its hydraulically-suspended...

• A Euro MP is pressing the EEC to crack down on unscrupulous freight-forwarding agents after a haulier in his constituency...

• Ocean Transport and 1 ing is reorganising its supermarket and distributic companies into a single Dis bution Services Unit....

• Hopes of substantial 1 pensation for 18 drivers sacked by Bolton Roadway months ago after an industi dispute are rising...

• Ten Texaco service stations in the Thames Valley are being fitted with direct debit equipment to allow customers to pay for...

• Ferries between the Isle of Wight and the English mainland are speeding-up their vehicle unloading operations by using a...

Ile Post Office this week iled a string of improvets to its Datapost express ice which it describes as ajor assault on the...

ccording to Payne, there been significant growth in number of heavy parcels ie inland Datapost system, he Post Office is likely...

• Former Labour Chancellor Denis Healey is to speak at this year's Road Haulage Association Tipping Convention. Healey, who is...

• Recent and substantial bad debts have driven Suffolk haulier James Downie and its associate company G. E. Thorpe (Haulage)...

I. Middlesbrough-based chemical handling specialist Cargo Fleet Chemical is to join the Ellis and Everard Group from Bradford,...

TDG men • A Transport Development Group firm slipped up when a food firm's stock went missing. For Inter City Transport of...

• A Manchester industrial tribunal says a driver was sacked unfairly for failing to hand in his tachograph charts, but it says...

• A Stoke on Trent haulier, John L Bailey, was ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling 26,900.15 when he was...

IN A Leominster ownerdriver, said to have put potatoes before the safety of the public, has had one of the two articulated...

Zepresentations on en iental grounds from a ibouring firm were red by North Eastern rising Authority Frederick [ley when he...

• A Scottish local authority has lost its appeal against the granting of an operator's licence to a forwarding company. The...

• Complaints to Westminster City Council by the Swiss Centre concerning the use if Wardour Street as a sightseeing excursion...

• Opposition from Hail Borough Council and resider has led South-Eastern Traffi• Commissioner Randall Thorr ton to adjourn an...

• Iveco and Freight Rover have both won significant orders from major operators for local service minibuses. Iveco is to...

Teny Way • Increasing business prospects have led London-based distribution company Bucks to appoint a second business...

• The management of West Country general and refrigerated haulage company Langdon Industries has bought the company from Tozer,...

main topic of conversation during a recent visit by the Duke of Kent to ERF's Sand bach plant, where he witnessed production of...

• Lancaster City Council Transport, the new company which is to take over the operation of the city's passenger transport...

• Managing directors I been appointed for the four new, and as yet unnamed, operating companies which take over services run by...

Services, based in Cardiff from May 1 Noton has been the comparr traffic manager since 1978 a his promotion follows the ap...

MAN: LEAKING VALVE • MAN is recalling all its 6.5 tonne to 10-tonne GVW MT range and all the 16.25-tonneGVW 16.170 models sold...

LAND/RANGE ROVERS • The 1986 Land Rover Directory, compiled by Peter and Veronica Hobson, contains just about all you will ever...

YOUR COMMENTS, PLEASE • The Department of Transport is continuing its review of HGV test and licence fees. Already this month...

COWER • If the moment has come when you have to get to grips with a computer for the first time, then help is at hand....

BUCKS IN KENT • Distribution company BL opened a new depot in Mai, stone this week. This left room at its head office deix in...

• NBV• TRANSIT SOLD • The first of the new-shai Transits has already come ii the secondhand market. A C-registered Transit 8C...

DFORDS AND SUZUKIS Bedford and Suzuki have eased prices for their res:tive versions of the RasSuper Carry rnicrovans ich are...

MORE FOR TENDER • Local authorities may in future have to put out more road maintenance to competitive tender. Junior...

ROUTES TO WATCH III .1s, the weather slowly improves, the number of roadworks on Britain's 2,400km (1,500 miles) of 'motorway...

The buy-British syndrome is under attack among local authorities, but Leyland says it is doing better If it wasn't for the...

Few Europeans can compete with the superb bodybuilding seen at the Temperature Controlled Storage and Distribution Show this...

Government inaction on the 2.5m width limit puts British manufacturers at a disadvantage — recent proposals amount to no more...

With reference to the supply of foreign trucks to the Texaco Company by Tankfreight. I entirely agree with Mr Colin B....

They got it right: this Daf-powered ACE 31-seater has the qualities to appeal to both driver and passengers Many major chassis...

BY THE HAWK • Warm-hearted is not an expression I can recall using in these columns to describe any politician. To the best of...

a MAN-hauled luxury home on wheels, out of a potential hole when his vehicle developed axle to;uble. He went to MAN's...

The aged Dusseldorf range, which stopped at 6.5 tonnes, is being replaced by one which goes up to 7.5 tonnes and offers a vast...

• For anyone used to driving Mercedes-Benz's LN2 family, the new 12 will be a case of more of the same. For anyone used to the...

Britain's only independent truck maker has a new model with squarer lines than the CP Series it replaces ... and several less...