• This Monday, September 29, sees the biggest shake-up in drivers' hours regulations in this country for almost two decades....

• A mob of more than 200 people hurling paint bombs and brandishing lumps of concrete, pieces of wood and hammers launched a...

• Badgerline, the National Bus Company subsidiary, has been sold to its management in the second NBC bus company buy-out....

Carriers Contract Services to distribute commercial and car parts to 72 Ford main dealers in Wales, the South West and parts of...

• Vanplan of Warrington, the bodybuilder best known for its removals bodies, has gone into voluntary receivership. Touche Ross...

• An inquest into the accident last May (CM May 31) when a lorry ploughed into pedestrians in Maidstone, killing three...

IN Less than a week before the new drivers' hours law comes into effect, the Transpori and General Workers' Union has issued a...

• Transport Secretary John Moore has been Oven a golden opportunity to extol the virtues of the Cr( vernment.'s bus...

• The London Residuary Body has dropped its plans to make the fitting of hush kits on trucks operating within the London ban...

• TNT Road Services is being sued by Stockport-based Dow Freight Services for up to 21 million. Dow and TNT are currently...

• Iveco Ford Truck has moved into top position in the UK truck market, according to the company's commercial operations...

Last , weekend four drivers gathered at the Lydden Hill Circuit near Dover to give the first demonstration of truck rallycross...

• More than 340 vehicle offences were uncovered on the A2 at Falconwood last week, when the police and transport officials...

Faced with operators' demands for increased performance, most truck manufacturers have reacted predictably by increasing...

What began 20 years ago as Ford's entry into the medium commercial vehicle arena, has evolved into one of the most outstanding...

• Iveco Ford Truck will have at least three new models on display at next month's Motor Show. The long-awaited right hand drive...

■ Perkins Engines (Shrewsbury) has developed three new, high-torque variants of its 12.17 litre inline six cylinder Eagle...

The trailers are capable of carrying 12 small cars or five large panel vans and have been developed by Lohr to Silcock's...

• From the beginning of October Shell Oil will offer a new engine oil which it claims will reduce fuel consumption when used in...

111 Complete semi-trailers are now being produced by Southfields Coachworks of Loughborough. The first to be built include some...

• Recent changes in Construction and Use Regulations, which mean that semi-trailers normally used on international journeys are...

• Speedlink is investing more than ,e100,000 in a 48hour mini container service between London and Glasgow, using 11.8m 3...

• Sheffield-based Tuffnells Parcels Express has just taken delivery of 33 new vehicles, in an order worth more than...

• Three of the UK's largest regional independent courier firms — United Parcel Services (Midlands) of Leicester, Esher Park...

the first half of 1986 by almost 30% to 1767,000, while its turnover has also been increased by 15% to £15.78

Wool Producers of Wales has been able to reduce its vehicle excise duty bill as well as-increasing its payloads. The change...

• The first of two new super-ferries designed to compete with the Channel Tunnel was launched in Bremen last weekend. Townsend...

to new 5,000sq m offices and warehousing premises at Oldbury in the west Midlands. General manager Julian Atkins says the move...

• MAN-VW will be launching its own fleet management computer software in the UK at next month's Birmingham Motor Show. Although...

• South Wales Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson has made the unusual request that he be allowed to see the minutes of National...

• Shamrock and Rambler Coaches has been given authority to operate a 'hail and ride' mini bus service through the centre of...

• Lincolnshire haulier Claud Veale trading as Veale's Transport has had his licence for 11 vehicles and 14 trailers prematurely...

• In renewing without restriction the North Eastern area licence of Blue Circle Industries, North Eastern deputy Licensing...

• Poor maintenance has led to the revocation of the five vehicle international PSV operator's licence held by Peter Lusher and...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences led to G&R Cadwallader, Cadwallader Continental (Oswestry) and 14 of their drivers...

• Sheffield haulier T Robert's (Haulage Contractors) has been given a month in which to consider making representations against...

• Northern National Omnib Company has been granted road service licences for the operation of three mini bus services on a...

a party of operators on a customer liaison trip from Dover to Dunkirk last week owing to a strike by dock workers at the French...

French utility and heavy goods vehicle market conducted by SAEP for the French Ministry of Transport has concluded that there...

Association (BDG), there are wide discrepancies in the various taxes paid by transport firms in different European countries....

in the West of Hungary and Austria has been closed to international traffic, remaining open only for two-way traffic between...

the south in the province of Styria has acquired the reputation of being highly dangerous. Several fatal accidents have...

is proceeding with an expansion programme which it started last year and is now aiming to obtain a share of the Turkish market....

Italian subsidiary in Verona to improve its truck distribution operations and to offer servicing and repair facilities near to...

Norinco in Peking for the manufacture of 1,000 buses per year over a 10-year period. Omnibusrevue, September.

tonnes will not be allowed in Austria. The new Transport Minister pointed out that the extra weight would cause too high an...

payable by truck drivers crossing Czechoslovakia is only due if the total weight is between 48 and 60 tonnes and not 42 tonnes,...

by Brookes Transport of Margate, Kent, has been forbidden to leave Romania until he pays a 332,000 lei (£20,000) tine for...

designs, in Lille, France, compare well with the new automated VAL metro, but automation alters the economics of operating...

has released a study showing that EEC standard underrun bumpers designed to stop cars sliding under the rear of trucks, are...

• The Department of Transport has reaffirmed its intention to make road speed limiters mandatory on new coaches — and...

• Lower wages and more flexible working gained by minibuses could spread to the rest of the bus industry, BCC delegates heard...

• The new bus network emerging from deregulation seems likely to save money in revenue support, Bus and Coach Council...

• The failure of BET Group subsidiary United Transport International to reach agreement with the newly-formed West Yorkshire...

El Bus passengers in Oldham are currently taking part in a trial run of a new type of ticketing machine. The trials are part...

• The introduction of proposed vehicle safety features in new coaches should be speeded up, according to the Association of...

• Coach and tour operator REW Beavis from Bussage near Stroud has added its first Scania coach to the company's fleet of ten...

its SB220 city bus underframe, The low floor 12metre bus chassis has a horizontal rear-mounted 11.6 litre engine developing 124...

floor city bus at the Amsterdam RAI bus and coach show, (see page 27). It is powered by a side-mounted Oaf 8.25 litre engine.

is over. The strike began on September 5 after three mechanics at Larkfield Garage, Glasgow, were suspended for refusing to...

• The European Ferries Group has made three senior appointments within Townsend Thoresen shipping at Dover, Portsmouth and...

• Harry Milne has been appointed manager of Pickfords Removals Dundee branch. He joins Pickfords in Dundee after 27 years with...

• Birmingham-based automotive refinishing company PPG Industries (UK) has promoted Mary Ward, (right), formerly supervisor of...

• National Express has appointed six product managers to control day-to-day operations of the 900 coaches on its inter-city...

• NEC Distribution Group has ear-marked four market sectors with high growth potential and appointed new business managers to...

• New financial director of Coopers AP Filters is Peter Chadwick, recently with Turner & Newall. Coopers is the largest filter...

• It is with deep regret that we record the deaths of George S Steel, fleet engineer and director of hauliers John Russell...

This year's Autobus RAI exhibition in Amsterdam included a 26-bed coach with off road capability and shower facilities, and a...

Engineers is holding its third Scottish National Lecture and Display next weekend. Among the 26 companies present in the...

examination in a British Road Federation!Chartered Institute of Transport conference in November. "Keep London Moving — a...

REMOVALS KNOW-HOW • A one-day course entitled "Selling in the Removals Industry" is being run by Wessex Training Services of...

MORE FOR MULTICAR • The price of the 3.5 tonne GVW East German-built Multicar chassis rises as from Wednesday. October 1. The...

MERCEDES BENZ IN HAMPSHIRE • • • Mercedes-Benz commercial dealer Spartruks has moved into new purpose-built premises in...

truck, van and car dealer covering Merseyside has also moved. The new address is Mann Island, Pier Head, Liverpool L3 1DG....

• MAN Volkswagen has appointed South Wales Commercials of Newport as a truck centre. It will sell and service the entire range...

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK • The 1986-87 edition of the Road Haulage Association's International Group handbook and directory has...

GOODS IN TRANSIT • There are insurance repercussions in the recent change in the rules concerning the delivery and collection...

SUZUKI WARRANTY • Suzuki has launched an extended warranty scheme for all Suzuki commercial vehicles, including the commercial...

• Containerbase Scotland, the inland clearance depot at Coatbridge has installed new equipment so that it can now lift and...

NEW DRIVERS' HOURS • The new EEC drivers hours regulations come into force this Monday, September 29. Here are the major...

STRIDING TO STRANRAER • A bottleneck on the busy A75 Strannter-Gretna road will be eliminated next week when a by-pass around...

• The main roadworks of the week continue to be on the MI at Junction 11, with five mile tail backs in each direction at peak...

the contra-flow up near Forton on the M6. 1 would just like to thank the driver of a Ferrymasters artic, who the other Friday...

straight over who really pressed to get the changes in the rules allowing Standard National Operators to haul unaccompanied...

and are not necessarily those of Commercial Motor or its publishers. The Editor reserves the right to edit letters for reasons...

Prices, CM September 6. Users of oil, especially road hauliers, must surely feel that they are being exploited. Oil companies...

the poor design of the Bedford TK and similar tilt cab lorries. Since writing I have been involved in two accidents. In each...

THE FLEET With 3,400 vehicles on the road the AA operates one of the biggest fleets in Britain. CM talks to the man who...

With entries from a wide cross section of operators, the 1 98 Brewery Transport Advisory Committee fuel trials were marked b:...

With com•onents from Britain, America, France, Germany and Japan Foden's new S104 tractive unit is toug , powe u •ut wit poor...

BY THE HAWK • North Western, the bus company, is in a bit of a quandary. Before printing its new timetables it wants to know...

on the A2 which nabbed a number of =roadworthy vehicles, including this coach which was immediately prohibited from proceeding....

Do British operators want a one-tonne panel van with an off-road capability? Renault thinks so, with the new 4x4 Trafic. in...

East Germany has a reputation for its tough, crude vehicles. The new 4x4 version of the Multicar is a classic example • When CM...

Traditionally, if you wanted to bond pieces of metal together you had little alternative to using the techniques of welding,...

• Varta Batteries Ltd (tel 01 965 7991), UK subsidiary of Europe's largest battery manufacturer with 50% of West Germany's...

0753 31151) gives clear advice on risks in the bodyshop in its brochure Health and Safety in Vehicle Refinishing, including...

• When Bristol Omnibus added 100 minibuses to its fleet to make its services "Fast, Friendly and Fun," fleet engineer Andy Bird...

• When a minimum 30 dozen Flaw Finder aerosols are ordered from Goodmark for disclosing cracks in metals, they can be supplied...

• Kwik-Fit (Tyres and Exhausts) is, according to the Daily Telegraph August 2 city pages, cutting its borrowing by £6.25...

• Vanders (UK) Ltd has been launched to meet increasing demands for the Vanders range, particularly industrial hand cleaners,...

warm environment and energy costs money, how many workshops managements have investigated waste oil burners? Davair (c/o Ian...

that research in the Midlands shows that operations and maintenance "economies" in some fleets are causing incresed long-term...

• Soariau claims that its Modula diagnostic system enables a full check to be carried out in less than three minutes and is...

the Department of Transport announced certain minimum requirements for equipment at MoT testing stations — there are over...

lii Following the takeover of Runbaken by Link-Sedan (tel 0203 28585), the original range of Runbaken battery chargers has been...

Trades' stockists details the correct procedures for imishing both cellulose and two-pack paint. It illustrates the sanding,...

• Aluminium fabrication and welding company Braby Bristol began updating its welding equipment after visiting a UK welding...

into account the problems that may occur when a part needs replacement and that is true of the exhaust systems on the...

• Twenty references added to the Moprod range of wheel-bearing kits for British, European and Japanese light vans and cars...

Estate, Accrington. Lanes (0254) 301331 have been approved by the Department of Transport as a Tachograph centre for Frenchmade...

Group has appointed newly formed Allen Diagnostic Equipment (UK) to spearhead a move into local production and a major sales...

Distributors is to offer the new range of Ingersoll-Rand automotive air tools to the aftermarket. The company is suuplying its...

(Nottingham) has set up a division to market the American Hunter C111 system in the UK and Ireland. Technical Marketing...

1, 1960, are to be exempt from Plating and Testing Regulations, subject to certain conditions of use. The new regulations,...

of Birmingham have been occupied by Lintite Systems, which manufactures and supplies blind fastening systems. As well as...

Transfleet is reorganising Woking's transport. While its contract for the first year only just covers the cost of running the...

Among adhesives, reactive acrylics, now used in many industries, have much to offer the road transport engineer • How strong...

had quite a few changes over the years though the basic design has remained much the same. To learn where the service...

versions of its tyre-service vehicle compressors. Both are powered by the new Honda GX240 6kW (8hp) fourstroke OHV engine and...

[JA mid-priced Applied 4-912 Traffic Film remover, for use in pressure washers, priced at £24.50 per 25 litres. Applied 7384...

The company has for several years been supplying coach manufacturers with poke welding equipment to reduce the cost and time of...

• The range of portable machine tools available for sale or hire from the on-site machining specialist Sibex (Constructions)...

United itates by Allen Group, and idopted by General Motors or use in its dealer network, s now available in this country rum a...

for multi-brush systems, is one of the attractions of Karcher's single-brush RBP 4 and 50(X) vehicle washers, according to...

have 30% higher thermal efficiency—thanks to relocation and refurbishment of its manufacturing equipment. As our picture shows,...

cuts out the need for time-consuming road tests. The rolling road simulates normal road conditions — at speed, the drag on...

by the Deb Group to complement its Swarfega and Tufanega brands, is said to have a built in "scrubbing brush". It combines a...

been added to the popular Gilbarco Highline 1 fuel pump 25,000 are in use in the UK — giving it increased capacity and control...

• Dow Corning Hansil has launched five industrial sealants for the vehicle bodybuilder. Hansil ID 5051 is a one-part...

II Two hours after rusty iron or steel has been cleaned with a wire brush and treated with Konvertex, says Wailes Dove, milcl...

\\ hen a . 0 ., -I os walls suffer water penei a freeze. thaw cycle can result in de g radatkm and incre;ised ener g y costs....

KI from sanding, cutting, and sawing can he extracted at source through a pad, eliminating the need for a hood, by use of a...

METRINCH SOCKETS • A normal socket will only (accurately) fit one size of nut or bolt-head. It has 12 internal serrations...

MI A self-priming drum pump introduced by Lumatic at a "budget price," has a telescopic riser or suction tube which...

• Hofmann's NIonolift will lift a two-tonne vehicle just over six feet and, because it uses only a single column. take little...

s Cseti in con j unction with cligine test e q uipment. the Function Tester — rollin g road — marketed by Claydrum, can be used...