• Radical proposals to overhaul the 0-licencing system are announced today in a DOT consultation document The Government is...

trucks over 16 tonnes between 1995 and the year 2000. The range will conform to Scania's integrat ed driveline philosophy, but...

• Three of the four bombs exploded in Northern Ireland last week were planted in commercial vehicles. A Mitsubishi skip loader...

up to .€3,000 as part of a plan to cut CO 2 emissions. Fuel taxes will also rise to German levels.

• The BRF has suggested a compromise plan for the controversial East London River Crossing, avoiding ()ideas Wood. On the...

• Details of privately financed toll road concessions will have to be published under new rules announced by the DOT. The...

• A national hire-and-reward strike is looming, warn union chiefs who this week announced a campaign to force employers to end...

111 The Vehicle Inspectorate will launch a crackdown on drivers' hours and tachograph enforcement next month. But to free...

• The Government's controversial plans to make hauliers pay tolls to use motorways are due to be published this week as part of...

over Sunday working. Up to 70 drivers and 30 warehouse staff at the company's Whitefield, Manchester depot overwhelmingly...

• Two former TNT Express drivers have lost claims for unfair dismissal. An industrial tribunal rejected their claim that they...

by Nicky Clarke • The bulk of British Rail's profitable freight operation is to be sold in three regional sectors as part of...

• A hazardous load which could kill if it is mishandled has been stolen with a Ford Transit curtainsider belonging to general...

Transport's managing xtor John Basham: "It would wrong for the Severn River ssing to have our £3,000 sit; in its bank account...

m claiming their vehicles were Following an "excellent onse" from 10 operators ionwide, the police have estabied that a...

• Small businesses should be given protection against late payment by larger firms who should declare in their annual reports...

• Dennis Specialist Vehicles has launched a Super Low Floor Bus chassis, based on the Lance. The first chassis are being bodied...

• Mermdes-Benz and Detroit Diesel are to co-operate on supplying heavy truck engines in the US, Canada and Mexico. Mercedes...

• A new suspension system is said to reduce road damage and offer the ride quality of active suspension at much lower cost....

• Eaton is to supply its Twin Splitter-based SAMT (Semi Automated Mechanical Transmission) to Hino for fitting in a 388kW...

• Mintex Don has launched a campaign supported by a "Don't reline this shoe" poster prompted by increasing incidents of...

• Volvo has launched a 1310M mid-engined bus chassis 14 years after the original 1310M made its debut. The latest chassis...

• Hatcher Components launched its "Line Tidy" system at the recent IRTE Show at Telford. Line Tidy is designed to prevent...

• Harman Mirror, part of the French Reydel Automobile group. is developing a prismatic mirror • for trucks. Renault Whicules...

by Juliet Parish • Business Post, one of the UK's leading independent parcel and express mail delivery firms, is planning a...

• Rugby Cement is inviting tenders for a contract worth up to ,£200,000 a year for the haulage of 60,000 tonnes of fuel. The...

• Supermarket giant Asda has confirmed a reorganisation of distribution in the North-East with the opening of a purposebuilt...

• Commercial vehicle production in April fell by 33.5% compared with the same month last year,to 14,989. This was the third...

• Finance company Barclays Mercantile predicts a steady revival in fixed asset investment over the next three years that will...

• Up to 400 drivers and engineers working for Rank Hovis McDougall have been offered a 2% pay increase, according to one of the...

• Exel Logistic' F'ashionflow drivers have accepted a 2.5% increase backdated to 1 January, says independent wage analysts...

• BOC's vacuum and distribution division, which includes BOC Distribution Services, increased its operating profit from £7m to...

• Beck & Pollitzer, a Transport Development Group subsidiary has won a 1:1.5m/five-year distribution contract from Regency...

• Spalding-based Lockwoods Distribution plans to buy a business in the South-West to provide eastbound backloads for its...

• ExeI Logistics is evaluating a clean-running diesel fuel that is said to produce 20% less NOx than conventional fuel but...

by Juliet Parish • Food haulier Geest's Stansted depot has improved its del i v cry record by 10% by using in-cab computers to...

• Iveco Ford plans to convert more Leyland Daf dealers before the troubled manufacturer's truck plant is sold. A prominent...

0 March 1993; Evans Halshaw, Coleshill, Birmingham. 0 March 1993: Sherwo Sheffield, 0 March 1993: Sherwo Nottingham. 0 May...

• A director of 13arrow in Furnessbased CAW, who obstructed a vehicle examiner attempting to inspect the company's vehicles,...

• Maintenance problems led to Workington-based Gunn Bros (BM) appearing before North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu...

• Protesting residents were satisfied after King's Lynn, based Dennis Crofts, who trades as D W Crofts Haulage, agreed to...

• Kidderminsterbased Philip Stanford, trading as Wolverley Plant Hire, has been warned that if he continues to park vehicles at...

• Van Hee Transport, one of three finalists as 1992 Environmental Operator of the Year, has been ordered to pay fines and costs...

• The six-vehicle licenc held by Crovvinill, of Wolverhampton, was renewed for 12 months the West Midland Traffi Commissioner...

• Maintenance problerr have led to the duration the eight-vehicle six-tra: licence held by Evans & Mondon. of Halesowen, being...

its test certifi , expired has cost Ilford DRJ Haulage £550 in fir and costs. The comparn. Manchester City magist that a...

• Exceeding four and a hours driving without ti required break and exce ing the daily driving lirr cost Paul Kelly, a driver...

• Scottish Deputy traffi commissioner Alan Worthington said "soul( thing nasty" would haPI to the licence held by Glasgow-based...

Ever noticed how sunsets seem to be getting more spectacular nowadays? They say it's due to air pollution. A sobering thought...

• Next month's Tankcon exhibition includes an unusual Australian road tanker called THOMAS (Tank flaying Optimum Mass And...

• Changes in car delivery patterns using regional distribution centres is encouraging transporter companies to use smaller...

• Van Craft of Oaklawn, Illinois is marketing a range of lightweight fold-away extra decking for dry freight or reefer van...

130kW (174hp) 170E18S 17-tonner with Transport Enterprises curtainsid. er bodywork for use on its motor parts distribution...

• Daly Transport Services of Hornsey, North London has invested nearly £600,000 in five new Mercedes 1834 tractor units and 10...

• Ratcliff has a number tail-lifts on offer, among 1.0-tonne folding aluminii sion designed for 7.5-ton Royal Mail vehicles....

• Kaiser believes its Mega Combi is the largest sewer cleanser made. It is based on an Australian-made RFW 8x8 truck chassis...

• A part-width 350kg lift for 3.0-7.5 tonne low. vehicles has been devis by Ray Smith. Widths o 1.2m are offered, leaving room...

• Schmitz Cargobull (U which now includes its former Thermostar Opel tion at Harelaw, County Durham, has formed a L trailer...

II1James and Bloom has launched its latest lowmaintenance Eurodoor easy-fit shutter. Made fr 150mm high impact PVI slats it is...

]L et's face it, after a year there are some vans you are glad to see the back of and some you wish would stay around for a...

D potted by one of my fellow hacks at the IRTE show in Telford the other week, was this mysteriously named gritter. Is the...

2 reat Ormond Street children's' hospital received £2,000 from the Centurion Owners' Club at the end of the second club meet at...

5 here seems to be a trend for office wallahs to get their hands dirty First we had Swansea council's chief engineer Ifon Jones...

ii hese days, the biggest problem for the would-be inventor may be to name his or her creation. That well-known acronym...

Uplifting TCM • Industrial Equipment Distributors has appointed two more dealers for the TCM range of lift trucks: Tructec of...

Clocking up • Operators considering buying trucks can ask dealers who are HP1 subscribers to check vehicle mileages with the...

• Manpower driving services has introduced an accidental damage scheme in addition to its standard terms and conditions, The...

Showing off • Trucking extravaganza Convoy '93 will be held over the August bank holiday at • the Three Counties Showground in...

• The seventh Temperature Controlled Storage and Distribution Exhibition will be held alongside the Zero-3.5 Tonne Refrigerated...

• Interrnodal 93. the sixth annual conference and exhibition for multimodal transport will be held in Hamburg, Germany, on 6-8...

• A debate on the merits of third-party and in-house distribution will be held on the evening of 15 July, by management...

Heavy hand • Wiltshire County Council is offering a free booklet to help heavy hauliers arrange for their trucks to pass...

• A 100-page booklet which gives financing advice for small businesses is available free from accountant and business adviser...

Sticky business • A self-adhesive holder which has room to display tax discs and parking receipts in the windscreen...

• Exhaust system supplier Bosal has launched a towing bracket suitable for 3.5 tonne panel vans and built to original equipment...

• Refrigerated Vehicles (UK), the Uckfield, East Sussexbased reefer manufacturer, is extending its 12-month guarantee on its...

for its H-reg FOden Si 061 stolen from its locked yard at Tunbridge Welk, Kent on the night of Friday 14 May. The 38-tanner,...

trailer was stolen from Eaglewcv Freight of Fareham in Hampshire during the early hcurs of Friday 14 May. The lime-green...

worth a total of 2150,000 stolen o Friday 26 March from its yard at Kidderminster eight-wheel flatbeds, reg 1672 RUD and J101...

Whether you are a trans-frontier specialist or a UK operator considering the merits of adding international routes to your...

package, but includes full air management kit, under bumper dam, spot and fog lamps on the standard width cab. Engine: 12.76...

from the UK to the Orient— via Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and beyond. Borders within...

We operate a fleet of articulated lorries and keep one to act as a recovery vehicle. It is a two-axle tractor with a...

and step-frame trailer came within the construction require ments in the definition of a recovery vehicle in Schedule 3 of the...

What can you do if your business is in trouble? There are several ways of surviving, or going broke, and some are very...

Unloading at remote or ill-equipped destinations can be solved with piggy-back fork-lift trucks. So far, however, they have not...

A fter reading the article Animal Carriage Alert (CV/1-7 April), I would like to thank you for highlighting the problem of...

I n reply to H W Ganley's letter CM 13-19 May, I just wonder whether the account has been analysed? If not, several factors...

Tread with interest and no mean degree of satisfaction the article where a driver was heavily fined for failure to observe...

language competence in the way other nations do' 4 L ess than 20 years ago Britain was the largest manufacturer and exporter...