• What price a unified Europe? The British Government, after a burst of quite uncharacteristic enthusiasm for the idea, now...

of damage to. buses has been sentenced at Warwick Crown Court to six months youth custody. Simon Bremman, 17, of South Yardley...

• The European Commission announced plans this week to allow longer articulated vehicles and roomier cabs. From 1 July 1989,...

• Scottish Bus Group is to be sold off piecemeal, Scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifldnd announced this week. As Commercial...

• The High Court has thrown out an inquest jury's verdict that a teenager, crushed under the wheels of a TNT truck in the...

• Britain's Richard Walker stormed to victory in last weekend's Austrian truck grand prix in his Century Oils Cummins-powered...

Ricky Herbert, warehouse and shipping manager of nonferrous metals stockist Garfield Lewis (Yorkshire). Having found the right...

weight on the drive axle will be 11.5 tonnes from 1 January 1992. No other truck category has been recommended for an increase...

• IC1's long-distance tanker drivers at Haverton Hill, near Billingham, and at Sevemside, near Gloucester, have been offered...

• The Government is to fight European Community-backed plans to reduce the threshold for HGV driving licences from 7.5 tonnes...

after an overnight fire seriously damaged Sealink's freightonly Channel ferry Sea Freight Freeway, with 40 trucks aboard. One...

• Troubled parcels firm Connect UK is scrapping its Heathrow HQ and moving to the Midlands in a bid to decentralise and save...

• Hale Road Safety claims that this is the UK's first lorrymounted cushion — the Alpha TmA. It has been bought by Hereford...

• A Government Green Paper proposing new legislation on materials handling will be published this summer. Under the...

• Daf By, parent company of Leyland Daf, is raising 246 million through a bonds issue in Holland. The bonds guarantee...

year, wi 108 four-axle rigids registered before the end of April. The company says it is winning customers for 32.5-38-tonn...

• Bee Line bus company of Berkshire admits it is struggling to run a full service after an arsonist set fire to its Newbury...

• The Government wants to change Britain's bus door safety laws, forcing operators to install fail-safe devices on...

recent world-record breaking 7,600-tonne Econofreight load-out at the Press Offshore Hadrian Central yard took place on a day...

• The Bedford Midi van range has been revised for 1988. The changes include three new engines, an updated interior and minor...

sales vans has been supplied to Swedish-owned Hemglas AB of Norwich which will use them throughout East Anglia this summer. The...

• The Engineering Division of British Airways has taken delivery of 12 new Renault 50 Series vehicles fitted with King &...

Hoot 12.6m tilt trailers fitted with SAF suspension, HaIdes automatic slack adjusters, Lucas Girling Skidcheck units,...

• David MacKrill Engineering has launched a new skip lifter called the Leader XL with redesigned arm geometry to handle skips...

• Bodybuilder W W Bence, has just built its first mobile breast-screening unit for South Manchester Health Authority. The...

the Bedford DLR8 urban artic tractive units has been launched by Perkins. The kit is claimed to ensure minimum dowtime: it is...

• A number of exotic trucks and vans appeared at this year's Finnish Motor Show in Helsinki. The country enjoys some of the...

• Wharfedale Traction of Ilkley, West Yorkshire has been fined £5,300 for allowing its drivers to take insufficient rest,...

/ Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford has banned London Country Bus Services (North East) from...

• A total of 52 prohibition and defect notices have led to the 48-vehicle licence held by Swanbrook Coaches of Cheltenham...

years of collecting pig swill in his truck without the necessary 0-licence, that he has been running illegally. Clifford...

• TNT Newsfast, which has been losing ground in the battle to capture Britain's "up-forgrabs" newspaper distribution market,...

• Harris Distribution is preparing itself for Europe in 1992, and for future trends like teleshopping and home deliveries,...

Esso distributor which runs 22 tankers and employs 40 people. Cotswold, which will move 95 million litres of fuel this year,...

• TNT Ipec is moving its air freight operation to Luton Airport and has signed a five-year lease on a new hub. According to...

forces to capture 40% of the UK's 27.5 million fuel management market. Surrey-based PM Services, which installs and maintains...

• Warehouse and distribution group Tibbett and Britten has won contracts with two grocery chains, and is negotiating with a...

• Building and quarry contractor Steetly Construction Materials has switched a fifth of its 300-strong fleet from in-house...

depot at West Bromwich • BRS Midlands' 24 million depot at West Bromwich was opened last week by BRS Group managing director...

frozen food to Argyll group's 340 Presto stores in the UK. It is the first for its new distribution division under managing...

• Sheffield-based garage forecourt equipment manufacturer PCL has bought the UK arm of Italian vehicle washer manufacturer...

• Britain's last independent tyre maker, Avon Rubber, has made over £7.5 million profit in the first half of this financial...

Macteco Transport Equipment. It will become part of York's Australian subsidiary York Transport Equipment. The group has also...

• The Bus and Coach Council has come under strong attack from 30 of its own members who claim that it is not providing value...

from the United States, where it says prices are too low to provide satisfactory profits. The factory is located in Orange,...

• Arthur Monk Car Cruises has taken delivery of an Optare StarRider Coach Special to complete its 23-vehicle fleet. Monk, of...

• Potteries Motor Traction is using two of these new Renault S56 minibuses with Alexander 25-seat bodies for its services in...

The sale of Portsmouth ,r Transport (PCT) to joint . ers, PCT employees and ithampton City Bus (SCB), Ked set to go ahead as...

• Scottish bus passengers are "content" with the services now provided following deregulation 18 months ago, according to a...

• Metro Camila Weymann has won a major export order worth nearly £7 million, to supply Kowloon Motor Bus of Hong Kong with...

Oxford is still being challenged by the city's two major operators, Thames Transit and Oxford Bus Company. Both report long...

• Nottinghamshire livestock haulier Ken Lane Transport has lost its 0-licence. Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton...

• Central Roadways has been fined 2500 with £60 costs for displaying Road Haulage Association stickers on one of its Leyland...

• A bid for a licence for eight vehicles and five trailers, by Quarry Garage (Branton) has been adjourned for the second time...

wording of the Construction & Use Regulations means hauliers can now only be charged with one overloading offence, and not...

• Bradford-based Redhead Freight has successfully appealed to the Divisional Court against its conviction on two offences of...

LEEDS LEADS ETP • European Truck Parts is to open a second distribution branch in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on 6 June to service...

SCANIA OPENS UP NORTH WALES • Deeside Truck Services, near Mold in Clwyd, is Scania's latest dealership. It has been opened...

ROVER REVISES ITS VAN PRICES • Rover increased its van prices by an average of 2.5% last week. The new prices are: Metro 310...

SERVICE CATALOGUES FROM KENT-MOORE • Kent-Moore has published three new catalogues covering its Dieselcare, Serviceaid and...

"Actionline" for drivers requiring immediate roadside assistance using an 0800 telephone number instead of the former "Freefone...

NORWICH GETS FLEE1WISE • Norwich Union (whose insurance income from fleets grew by 30% in 1987) has launched a new policy...

SALVAGING IN NOTIS iii Following it's acquisition of new premises at Brailwood Road, Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire, Holding &...

IN A major conference will be held in the Viking Hotel, York on 17 June to discuss exactly what the new Channel Tunnel means to...

• Liverpool Polytechnic has started to recruit students for a new part-time diploma course in transport studies beginning in...

• London and the South East MI London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). Entry/exit slips at J4 closed...

at what is a sore point in the bus industry. Not only would pre-paid bus travel save time on boarding, but just as importantly,...

Cheverton's letter (CM 19-25 May) regarding the Renault Trafic's suitability as the basis for an ambulance. I would like to...

(Bird's Eye View, CM 5-11 May). Do they mean us? Surely some mistake! I would have thought Commercial Motor would have...

to know the latest on the Leylancl Cabriolet featured in your Bird's Eye View column (CM 7-13 April). The vehicle has been...

find that the trucks they want are not readily available off the peg, something of an eternal triangle develops between them,...

Cameron, a fast growing regional brewer, is now handling its own distribution. With its specially-designed vehicles for speedy...

As the brewery industry has evolved over the years, the type of vehicle needed for distribution has had to adapt with it. We...

An intoxicating new brew is tickling the fancy of many breweries. That brew is contract distribution — but is this the answer...

Startling accident statistics among draymen were presented at this year's BTAC Trucking Consult, which drew pointed questions...

Following a successful pilot scheme, computer technology is set to transform operator licensing procedures. We examine what's...

the new president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Former president Sir Godfrey Messervy, chairman and chief...

— Roger Beswick and Meldrum MacKenzie — to liaise with customers and dealers. Beswick covers north Wales, Merseyside,...

been appointed depot manager and administration and operations manager respectively at the Rugby depot of warehouse and...

to head its new distribution services arm (CM 19-25 May). He spent eight years at TNT and another 19 at National Freight...

of StructureFlex, which manufactures replacement PVC side curtains and tilts. Richard Kerrison becomes internal sales...

Interlube Systems, is to head the company's sales team. He will be responsible for marketing automatic chassis lubrication sytems.

Angus has made four appointments: Albert Brown becomes works director; Philip Lawton is new personnel director; Andrew Foster...

group chairman of the British Association of Removers. He joined his family business Thomas Maxted at 16, as a van boy, and now...

trainee, has been promoted to Rugby district manager of Midland Red South. He joined the company 18 months ago and will take...

group general manager of West Midlands Tra%el. He has always worked in transport, beginning his career in the schedules office...

Clive Wesson manager at its Birmingham branch. He has worked in freight forwarding most of his working life and spent 12 years...

Independent Express as marketing executive. She is based at its Northampton head-quarters.

director of Rentco International. He previously worked for CP Roberts and the US truck components manufacturer, Eaton Corporation.

CAMERON Chris Cameron has joined Valeo Distribution as development manager. He was previously with Unipart.

of the power tool division of Ingersoll-Rand, has been elected president of the Garage Equipment Association.

• We thought the days of logbooks had gone. Gone — the vehicle logbook; gone — drivers' hours logbooks. The Institute of...

• A complete bodyshop programme and full business support package has been launched by UGC — the result of a strategic...

• The Workshop! Edstrom competition for £1,000 worth of equipment to turn a van into a mobile workshop has been won by...

• The Society of Motor Auctions has declined "with great reluctance" an offer of federation from the Motor Agents...

• The new British Standard Code of Practice for Safety of Machinery is the most comprehensive guide to be found anywhere in...

• Mobile workshops and service vans can be provided with a tough, safe working environment with its specially designed...

prices 27% • Volkswagen has reduced parts prices by an average of 27% on its Transporter, Caravelle and LT commercial...

• Garage mechanics and engineers should be "licensed" or "certificated" — that's the view of the Institute of the Motor...

• Cost cutting by some of the UK's vehicle recovery operators is down grading the industry and could be lethal, says Doug...

• Honda has signed a spares distribution deal with express parcels company Lynx. The two-year contract valued at over i3/4...

• A VHS video of a slide presentation showing the dangers of brake dust is available for showing to garage mechanics from...

• The LPB20 Handycut portable air plasma arc cutting machine introduced by ESAB is capable of cutting a wide varie ty of...

for all vehicles to provide management information or facilitate route planning. It is called Monitak 2, and is based on the...

• The new De Vilbiss mobile paint arrestor unit is designed to extract paint particles when spraying in hard-to-reach areas...

• Vehicle defect rectification schemes have now been adopted by all police forces in Great Britain, says the Road Traffic Law...

Dear Sir, • I refer to the article in the Workshop magazine supplement issued with Commercial Motor 31 March-6 April 1988,...

Dear Sir, • In the interesting article in Workshop magazine — April edition — on workshop remanufacturing, recon...

• Accurate tensioning of belts assures longer drive performance, lowers maintenance costs and means fewer breakdowns and less...

• Safety-Kleen UK has launched a mobile parts cleaner — the Rollaround — for use in workshops where it may be more...

While the best advice is that good quality gear is easier to clean and lasts longer, we found that the sum spent nationally on...

available in the UK following the interest shown in these products at the Commercial Motor Truckfest. The Snickers range was...

• Iveco Ford's T-Series maximumweight tractive unit has been around long enough to get all the bugs ironed out by now, though...

• ESAB's welding robotics and cutting machine business is being combined in the UK under a new general manager, Bo Lindberg,...

If a first-class job is to be achieved in the field of fuel-injection equipment, the highest standards of both cleanliness and...

• Fuel-injection pumps have become far more sophisticated in recent years — a reflection of the higher expectations placed...

• A range of cab replacement panels is being marketed by Wright Signs and Coachworks to reduce repair costs by replacing...

• Turbo 2, the first of a new range of batteries for trucks being introduced this year by CBS Batteries, "is very definitely...

• Alexander Binzel (UK) has introduced a new plasma cutting torch to its range. "PSB 121 is the same size and shape as the...

• LAG Viewbond has bought a set of Somers Hywema mobile vehicle lifts, in preference to fixed facilities, for its new...

• "Easily the safest axle stand ever offered on the DIY market" is Paddy Hopkirk's unequivocal claim for the Load Master...

Fitters need not take a complete course to learn workshop procedure changes as the Perkins Phaser engine joins fleets — but...