• This week we caught a rare glimpse of that age-old political phenomenon, the public face in a public place at odds with the...

• P&O and Sealink have renewed calls to merge their Dover to Calais services to prepare for competition from the Channel...

• The Railway Conversion Campaign this week told the House of Commons Transport Committee that British Rail only uses its route...

a code of practice to clean up the image of cellphone suppliers. All of the retailers will have to conform to recommendations...

• BFI Wastecare has won a 25 million contract with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for refuse collection and street...

• North American waste disposal company Laidlaw Transportation has bought a 22% stake in security and auction group ADT.

• Vauxhall Motors made record net profits of £151.9 million last year on a turnover up 22.8% to 22,048 million. Bedford van...

• British HGV drivers are among the lowest paid in Europe, according to a survey of drivers' working conditions, hours, and...

• Penman Engineering has fitted the Leyland Daf 8.15 Roadrunner participating in the Commercial Motor/Leyland Daf Runnerthon...

• Truck drivers deserve a proper workplace, and that means proper cabs, says United Road Transport generalsecretary Frank...

• A DTp campaign to reduce Britain's annual pedestrian death toll includes plans for more 'sleeping policemen' speed-control...

on a case which hit the national headlines about a woman in Leeds who appeared to jump from a 20m high footbridge onto the busy...

Dutch airline KLM's international parcels subsidiary, XP, which will retain its brand name and product range International...

/ An appeal by Freightliners against the London Lorry Ban requirement to fit air brakes silencers has been rejected.

• A national strike ballot of dockers is to go ahead although the Transport & General Workers' Union says it is "not abandoning...

• Stagecoach, the fastgrowing Scottish bus operator, has gone on a buying spree — snapping up ex-National Bus Company...

• Plans for eight-lane "super" motorways are near to completion as part of a major Government investment boost for Britain's...

• Traffic Area Offices may soon follow the lead of the Vehicle Inspectorate and be hived off and operated as an 'Executive...

• Senior professionals within the transport industry believe that investment has failed to match the growth in transport...

• Latest DTp figures predict that road traffic will grow by a maximum of 2.5% in 1990 and 2.2% in 1991. For the past five...

• The EC Commission says that Britain's derogation permitting lower weights for two, three and four-axle lorries should end on...

• Eagle Star has launched a European-wide fleet vehicle insurance scheme. From 1 May, policy holders operating overseas will...

Eagle Star commercial motor manager Fred Whitworth says: "The new package reduces administration and will be a real help to...

• Several obstacles remain for British hauliers if they are to take advantage of the "considerable" opportunities for expansion...

• Mersey Tunnel tolls will go up in about a month following a Department of Transport public inquiry. HGVs over 7.5 tonnes will...

• The Association of London Authorities has attacked the Government's draft Strategic Planning Guidance for London. It says...

• Poor pay is delaying road maintenance. North Yorkshire's deputy county surveyor Michael Moore says there are 56 vacancies in...

• From 1 May tolls will be levied on every Hungarian motorway.

• Delays at Liverpool's Royal Seaforth Container Terminal should be resolved soon, says Bill Bowley, secretary of Mersey Docks...

Alan Soper, new managing director at Lynx, will spend the next months pondering the benefits of a hub system, how to package an...

• Yugo will be strengthening its attack on the UK small truck market with a 3.5-tonne version of its Z50.8N 4.5tonner minibus...

sole agent for French recovery equipment company Jige LoIr. Apex can now offer lifting capacities of between one and 21 tonnes,...

venture with Bulgarian engine manufacturer Vamo to offer technology and design in. Eastern Europe. Initially, six Perkins...

• Supertrucks of Yatton, near Bristol, has developed a glass carrier incorporating curtainsider protection. The new design can...

• Leyland Daf has sold five Roadrunner 10.13s with crewcabs to Cumbria County Council for use by maintenance workers on the M6....

• Otis Transport Services, part of the Faber Prest group, has put the first Foden 4000 series twin-steer tractive unit into...

Japan's largest car maker has recently announced its intention to invest £700m in its first European car assembly plant at...

• Iveco Ford will launch its 190.32 TEC fleet tractive unit and its uprated 190.48 Turbostar in the UK at the Institute of Road...

• Bauma — the world's lar g estconstruction plant and vehicle show — included over 500 truck-based exhibits in Munich last...

• AWD has announced profits of 25.6 million in its first full year of operation. For the 14 months up to the end of December,...

• Capital Commercials, a subsidiary of the Bus Engineering Group, has taken over Seddon Atkinson's London distributor at...

• Booming demand for temperature-controlled vehicles has led BRS Northern to invest a further 21 million in its freezer rental...

• Industrial refrigeration specialist Grenco Matal has taken over Transfreeze, which installs commercial vehicle refrigeration...

• Ocean Transport and Trading is swapping some of its UK-based road freight businesses with Dutch transport firm Nedlloyd in an...

• PLG has bought five Renault G260-24D 6x4 tippers with Meiller 4293 front-end tipping gear and a split tailgate from Praiden...

• Wincanton Vehicle Rentals has signed a contract with Job's Fast Food Distribution for two Volvo FL6.17 refrigerated units.

• Charlesworth Transport Engineering of Newark is expected to announce tomorrow (Friday 28 April) that it has been taken over,...

• The management buyout bid at Cleveland tanker haulier Sadler Transport has been successful, despite bids from a number of UK...

• A franchised parcel operation is being set up in West Germany next Tuesday (2 May), by Interlink Express Parcels. More than...

• The parcel operation of Northampton-based Nexday will be franchised out in May — just three months after the firm was bought...

• Gateway's most recent distribution centre in Huntingdon, which opened last week, will be sold to Asda if the proposed...

• Roger Middleton of Antler Holidays, Rugeley, drove a Jonckheere Deauville Volvo BlOM to victory as coach driver of the year...

• Door-to-door buses for office workers, serving coffee and newspapers en route. couk put a stop to inter city bus stop...

• Blackpool Transport has taken on four more Optare CityPacers, boosting its Citypacer complement to 35. They are all...

• The Dennis Duple Dart 39seat bus, unveiled at last year's NEC Show in rolling frame/ prototype chassis form, is due to go...

• Leicester City Bus's minibus operation in Loughborough is expected to be sold to neighbouring Midland Fox, less than two...

• There were several first public appearances of new coaches at this year's National Coach Rally at Blackpool.

• Within a month of launching its Coach Europe operation, International Leisure Group has got the venture under way. The...

• AlS Holdings subsidiary Harrogate and District has taken delivery of six new Leyland Lynx service buses which are the first...

Though revoking the NV operator's licence of W Gash & Son of Newark, Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd has...

Milnethorpe Transport has been granted authority to transfer vehicles from its Carnforth operating centre, to meet increased...

guilty of permitting drivers to drive excessive hours and take insufficient rest, and of failing to produce tachograph charts....

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Gloystame & Co and 34 of its drivers £12,720 in fines and costs when they...

see whether it will be granted licence authority for a new operating centre at Sandbach, which the company has been using for...

• Maintenance problems led to the refusal of a bid by the Midland Fox subsidiary, Wreake Valley Travel, to increase the...

BY THE HAWK • Vehicle factory workers in Russia will soon see breath testers installed in their workplaces by the Soviet...

VANGUARD OPENS IN MILTON KEYNES • Vanguard Storage has opened a containerised storage warehouse in Tongwell, Milton Keynes, to...

• Davies Turner has relocated its cargo centre from its headquarters at Chelsea Bridge in London to a new building by the...

groupage capacity from Hagen, West Germany, to the UK to bring the number of departures to four trailers per week, servicing...

company Arrowfast have started a new service between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with two departures a week with...

has linked up with Nordisk Express A/S to provide full-load and groupage services between the UK and Norway. Exporters can...

1989 General Accident Lorry Driver of the Year competition take place at the following venues: 0 14 MAY: Nottinghamshire — The...

regulations after 1992 will be held in Paris on 9-11 May. The conference, which will feature simultaneous translation between...

Board's committee for young HGV drivers has changed the foundation module for skills assessments, with the result that the...

I Humberside County Council has published a pair of leaflets A guide to public weighbridges and A guide to lorry parks and...

sites on Britain's major road network to provide drivers with overnight accommodation, refreshments, fuelling and servicing....

the ride comfort of the Mercedes-Benz 2421 tipper chassis (CM 23-29 March) Bostrom has advised us of an air suspension package...

the Latium Administrative Court, the carriage of perishable foodstuffs on Sundays and public holidays in Italy is now subject...

hauliers don't reply to ill-informed flak against the industry. Well, I am. As an owner-driver I have for the past four years...

Tipper operators it seems, are not immune to the demand for more and more power and the extra productivity , it can bring —...

Despite an alarming toll of accidents involving toppling tippers, there are few products on the market aimed at making them...

TURIN SHOW • Britain and Italy have much in common. Our populations are about the same size, as are our gross domestic...

• In the UK, the four-wde market sector currently accounts for about 5% of all of the vehicles sold over 3.5 tonnes. Last year...

he went for the biggest Volvo available. Read, a tipper ownerdriver, works for aggregates carrier Foster Yeoman, and reckons he...

It's Commercial Motor Truckfest time again. On 30 April and 1 May, the East of England Showground will be packed with working,...

have much bigger engines — but if you're operating in really rough conditions its theoretical gradeability will take some...

position of head of personnel for VAG (UK). He is responsible for all personnel matters at Volkswagen Audi's UK headquarters in...

Geoff Bailey, transport manager of Eastern Counties Scaffolding & Plant, is chairman; Stan Humberstone, traffic & distribution...

of sales and marketing in the UK, after a five-year secondrnent as managing director of security company Sonitrol. He aims to...

TNT Express (UK) has promoted Andrew Fitzmaurice to general manager of its nextmorning business postal service, TNT Supamail....

to fleet engineer, responsible for more than 100 commercial vehicles at Bristol-based Peter Lane Transport. He joined the...

development manager of Turner Leasing, having joined from TIP Trailer Rental. It is hoped the position will strengthen Turner's...

of Lada Cars, has been appointed director of operations at the group's head office in Wythall. He is responsible for the UK...

director of Heathrow Commercials, the west London Volvo Trucks distributor. He joined the company in 1987 from another Volvo...

Hubert Teare a non-executive director. Managing director of The Rugby Group, he started his career as a graduate trainee with...

Chartered institute of Transport on 1 July, when his predecessor Ken Alcock retires. Botwood is currently directorgeneral of...

manager of Watts of Lydney (Gloucester), the Rover and Leyland dealer, responsible for the company's vehicle sales and...

made Roy Attenborough, John Smith and Brian Fergie regional managers, South/Midlands and North/Scotland respectively.

manager at MAN and VW dealer Truck Services Witney, part of the Watts Group Motor Division. He was previously regional manager...

finance director designate of Simon Engineering. He will succeed George Richardson, who retires this year.

service manager for Kelly Trucks, the Scalia distributor for the West Midlands. His brief is to oversee the service...

The new sales manager at truck rental company Countryside Hire is David Gilbert. Before this he worked at computer supplier...

depression of 1930. Convinced that steam power was obsolete and that Foden — the family firm — was already behind the times,...

The Showering name was bound up with the West Countly town of Shepton Mallet at a time when the horse served as the engine of...

through to 1945 and the close of World War Two, but wartime shortages meant that the army's preferred Gardner 4LW diesels could...

For the first eight years that mechanic George Hunt worked for Manchester Coop milk division, new trucks and spares were like...

at the age of SO, was a body blow to the company, his family and the Sandbach workforce. He was admired for his acute business...

In the 42 years Richard Read has run his family haulage business in Longhope, Gloucestershire, he has bought and operated...

the sixties appeared as a truly brave new world — the "swinging" world of The Beatles, miniskirts, motorways, flower power,...

Jock McBean glances prim* along the row of 22 ERFs lined up in the yard of his premises at Kirknewton, a few miles to the west...

of the seventies was marked by an overriding air of uncertainty. Driven by proposals that 44-tonne trucks should be allowed on...

• This was the decade when Abba hit the charts, Watergate hit the headlit les, Sebastian Coe hit the record books and ERFs hit...

would be to indulge in the Great British habit for understatement for the truck manufacturers it was catastrophic. Within five...

SUNSHINE Semi-automatic transmissions are still treated warily by British hauliers: they cost more to buy and are generally...

No one knows the truck manufacturing business better than Peter Foden. Not surprisingly he has strong views about the likely...