• It must come as a relief to most of the road transport world that the Vehicle Inspectorate is not to be privatised, but is to...

• Speed kills, just like tiredness, complacency and bad habits when you are thundering down the M6 in bad weather with 38...

• All around the country there has been a wailing and a gnashing of teeth — and our phones have been ringing red hot. The...

will have to be capable of using unleaded petrol by October 1990, if draft regulations published last week are adopted, says...

med limiters • More than three out of five hauliers think that speed limiters should be mandatory on trucks to prevent drivers...

• A haulier has been fined £400 with £200 costs for breaking London's night time lorry ban, despite a bid to escape on a...

• New Transport Minister Michael Portillo is on an inside track to the Cabinet. His meteoric rise to minister of state, less...

IS The Vehicle Inspectorate, including its commercial vehicle testing stations, is to be the first Government department to be...

• Silentnight drivers came out on top at the northeast regional finals of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition held at...

• West Mercia Police, investigating the murder of Marie Wilks on Saturday 18 June on the M50, are asking for truck drivers who...

• Two coach operators have been fined for dangerously overloading their vehicles by as much as a third with passengers'...

• A third of Britain's coaches are running over the legal load weight, according to the results of a roadside weight check in...

• Intertube's automatic truck chassis lubrication system, which is claimed to minimise downtime and to prolong component life,...

• Wreckers International has increased the GTW of a double-drive Seddon Atkinson 4-11 tractive unit to 65 tonnes by adding an...

• A small but powerful headlight system, using a gas discharge bulb, has been developed by Bosch to complement modern...

• Six specially designed bulk carrier trailers have been built by Kassbohrer to carry coal dust to blast furnaces in Duisburg,...

I The Consumers' Lssociation has called on luzuki to suspend UK sales of Ls popular 4x4 vehicles after onducting safety tests...

it has come up with an interesting solution to the age-old trailer market Danundrum. Namely, how many are made each year in the...

• A trailer which allows a 6x 4 vehicle to carry two tonnes more than an 8x4, yet costs £770 less in road fund licence, is...

• Bus drivers in Hanwell, west London, staged a one-day strike last week following claims by a driver that his bus had...

• Bournemouth Transport is running a vintage summer service between Boscombe Pier and Bournemouth Square using an...

• Blackpool-based coachbuilder Hestair Duple has just completed its first Scania K92 semi-integral with Hestair Duple 320...

Plaxton Coach and Bus delrered 400 coach and bus proucts and achieved a 94% onime delivery rate during the trst six months of...

• Chesterfield minibus operators Brian and Stephen Fantam and their company B & S Minibuses have been given six weeks to...

I Why should Lincoln City f;ransport operate buses bear County Armagh registration dates? According to transport nanager Hardy:...

• A driver and a traffic clerk, sacked by F W Farnsworth for fighting, have been given fair and unfair dismissal decisions by...

• A Chesterfield haulier with neither the facilities nor the experience for rapid expansion, has successfully applied to...

/ Chemicals giant ICI is set to accept a management buyout bid for 75% of its "uncompetitive" distribution operation at its...

• The Post Office has begun a series of monthly sales of surplus commercial vehicles. At least 100 vans, from one to six years...

• Tankfreight is renewing a 200,000, three-year contract to distribute malt extract for ABM Chemicals of Newark. An Iveco Ford...

• Contracts to haul up to 1.5 million tonnes of coal a year could be up for grabs to west of Scotland hauliers when a Northern...

• Truck rental group Ryder is about to announce the first contracts for its dedicated distribution offshoot, Ryder Distribution...

• Volvo Trucks (GB) doubled profits and increased sales by 30% last year, 1987. Pre-tax profits rose from £4.9 million in 1986...

• Transport Development Group has bought a majority stake in French chemical and petrol tanker haulier Innocenti. The company...

• Within weeks, Esso will announce plans to contract out its distribution, but no single tanker operator is likely to win a...

• Mercedes-Benz has sold its 110,000th truck in the UK. The company says its sales in the 3.5-tonne plus market are up by 16.1%...

• Leeds bodybuilder GRP Massey is supplying 25 sixmetre rigid reefers on Leyland Daf 16.16 chassis to the People's Republic of...

• Transport company Hays Distribution Services is splitting into two operating divisions; contract distribution an storage....

• Derbyshire owner-driver George Warrington left the haulage industry in March 1987 because of financial difficulties and...

• The maintenance record of Worthington's (CoHingham) has led to the company's licence being cut from 13 to 11 vehicles, and...

I The widow of a man who ed after becoming entangled the wheels of a trailer :cepted over £100,000 damps in the High Court last...

• A disciplinary interview which led to the dismissal of an accident-prone driver by James Strange had not been conducted...

II Haulier and garage owner Leslie Gardiner has plans for a motorway "super-truckstop", with some of the best facilities for...

• There is a curious logic to the results of our HGV motorway speeding survey this week. On the one hand, more than 60% of...

11 Transport Secretary Paul Channon has welcomed the motorway safety campaign. He says: "The worst accidents — the multiple...

• For the past two weeks the police have been co-ordinating a national motorway safety campaign aimed at educating drivers and...

BUSINESS MOVES SCOTTISH DATA • Overnight parcels carrier Data Express has opened a new depot in Cumbernauld near Glasgow. The...

• London and the South East M1 London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). Northbound entry closed at...

SIR ALCOA SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT II We are very concerned to find that in the July 7-13 issue of Commercial Motor you have...

Two hauliers have decribed this week how wheels explicably flew off their rucks at high speed — hours er they claim to have...

BY THE HAWK • The last lap of the busy A2 into Dover — named by truckers as "the cart track into Europe" — has been given a...

Fuel is the most important variable cost in the operation of trunking vehicles and savings here can significantly reduce...

van after a turn-ofthe-century Prime Minister with a love of social reform and golf is beyond us. It's a bit like calling your...

game away. Most obvious of these are the wheels that are too small, being only 16in in diameter. Reed defends his company's...

• Greenhous Hereford is one of 47 dealers appointed to represent the AWD truck marque when it is launched. The dealership...

• Dealers, especially truck dealers, have changed in the past few years. The demise of Bedford Trucks, the birth of AWD, the...

All dealers will arrange finance, although large companies usually arrange finance themselves. The majority of the vehicles...

• If you go into your friendly local car showroom and ask for a model with a rather complicated list of optional extras, the...

But why does air suspension give such a smoother ride? The answer lies in the air 'bellows' fitted between chassis and axle....

• What levels of change can be expected in servicing and repairs by 1992? Considerable, we suggest, and the Number 1 factor...

• Nicholas Partington, of Radlciffe Road Garage, Bolton, has won the Road Transport Industry Training Board's Young Mechanic of...

• Intercare, the aftermarket distributor of specialist automotive components, is seeking further distribution outlets for its...

• Duckhams, in what it calls a positive move against black sludge, has upgraded its volume brand Hypergrade to meet the new...

• Between 10 and 25 representatives from British automotive component and design companies are visiting Russia in October. The...

• Company representatives have given an enthusiastic welcome to Bus and Coach Training's plans for a standardsbased scheme for...

• Quick Group managing director Tim Worrall declared war on "management by grapevine" and brought together the company's 860...

• The sixth annual report for the Committee on Automotive Repairs and Servicing — the CARS Survey — involved a Gallup poll of...

• The completion — ahead of schedule — of Supra Autornotive's new warehouse and distribution centre at Southam marks the...

Mi Harvey Liddell becomes technical officer for the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association. Based at head office in Leeds,...

maintaining a rental fleet must be better organised and run than almost any other kind of repair shop. An unplanned vehicle off...

The reason that many operators send their trucks to the test station in good faith, and are surprised when they get a failure...

• Extensive, international, original equipment business provides the basis for the Lucas Girling replacement brake parts range....

I/ More than any other factor, water damage caused by condensation is reponsible for brake component deterioration, says...

The first stage of servicing, indeed, of daily checks, is under the front-grille plate where live the windscreen washer...

• The Lockheed Steering Division of Automotive Products has relaunched its range of manual and power steering racks. They are...

compressed an . • Largest model in a new range of plasma cutters from Migatronic Welding is the PDX 70, using compressed air...

• Deltron, the new quality refinish system from PPG, is now available in the UK replacing Acryline as the flagship brand. It is...

• Murex Welding Products, prominent in the development of both MIG welding equipment and flux cored wire, has combined the two...

• Delmex has a solvent-free hand cleanser (DL23) in powder form. Applied to wet hands, the tiny grains dissolve into a rich...

• A new range of locking wheel nuts specifically designed for large commercial vehicles has been launched by car security...

• Resin floors, says Resdev, are starting to be used in the motor trade. Employing either epoxy or polyurethane resins and a...

• Spraytech Services has put together what it believes to be a unique licensing package for the application, by a new spraying...

• English Abrasives & Chemicals has brought out an enhanced Safe-Guard range developed to meet the demands induced by changes...

• Vanquip vehicle interior systems from Vanquip, a division of Barton Handling + Storage Systems, are designed to increase...

• Foam air filter manufacturer Pipercross claims that usage tests results show an 8% fuel saving in normal operation, when foam...

• ICI has brought out an eight-page brochure on its Cleanfast range of easy-to-use vapour and liquid/vapour metalcleaning...

Parcels' German operation as managing director. He will be based in Frankfurt, and has previously worked in Africa and...

International's director of sales and marketing for on-highway products, Europe. He will be based at the division's...

Hill national operations manager. He is a former branch manager at Leyland.

MAN Volkswagen at its Swindon headquarters: Scott Walker will look after dealerships in the Midlands and the South; and Richard...

executive, south east England for gasket manufacturer Coopers Payen, of Slough. He was previously marketing services supervisor.

representative of New English, the Poole-based Iveco Ford and Ford van dealership.

operations managers: David Sudbury will be responsible for the North; Alan Evans will cover the Midlands and South West; and...

the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association. He will be based at the association's head office in Leeds.

Hanbo, who joined Ferrymasters in 1977 as a regional sales manager, will report to Scandanavian division general manager John...

been conferred an Honorary Doctor of Technology at Loughborough University of Technology.