• "He that is without sin among you, let the first stone ..." Given the cant and hypocrisy seem inextricably linked with any...

• An angry mob of French farmers ambushed a British trucker in northern France and burnt his load of beef.

• The Bus and Coach Council has expelled two members — Ferris Coach Holidays of Senghennydd and CTC Coach Travel of Bridgend —...

• Old-style weight limit signs are still in use despite being outlawed since 1 January, claims the Freight Transport Association.

• York's biggest bus company, York City and District, has been put on the market by the AJS Group which bought it in 1987...

• Yeovil-based Abbey Hill Vehicle Services is about to take delivery of a revolutionary fully enclosed car transporter for the...

• Cabotage permits are still available from the International Road Freight Office in Newcastle. Contact 091232 7575.

• A hotline for public complaints about smoking diesel engines attracted 500 calls from the public on the day it opened,...

• As CM went to press, a meeting between French ferry workers and Sealink had been arranged which was hoped to end the Channel...

• Sea Containers has launched a £17.5rn bid for the control of 160-year-old ferry farm, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

• The future of the proposed 3.5-tonne goods vehicle driving licence limit is now in jeopardy because of a new EC amendment....

• Southampton City Council has been forced to delay its proposed lorry ban until 1992/ 93 due to lack of funds. It wants to...

MI The European Commission looks likely to take emergency steps to stop the West German government from introducing its lorry...

• An unprecented plan to open up a network of lorryonly toll motorways in Britain has been unveiled by the Prime Minister. Mrs...

will be welcomed by truck manufacturers as 7.5-tonne vehicles represent a large proportion of their product mix. Ryder is...

• ERF Group's pre-tax profits plunged by more than 50% to 23.27m for the year ended 31 March 1990, from 27.8m last year with a...

• Refuse workers at Bromsgrove have gone on strike in protest over council plans to charge staff 250 for every day they are...

• The Freight Transport Association has drawn up a set of conditions of carriage, to be published in about a month, which will...

• Furious civil servants faced with the closure of three Traffic Area Offices are considering taking industrial action, which...

• Demands for stricter controls on lorry speeds are to be given fresh consideration by the Government, a senior Home Office...

• Police are anxious to contact the driver of an artic who may have witnessed a fatal road accident on the Al2 in Essex on 14...

eyes peeled for a missing Daf 3300 ATi tractor, stolen from the Kidderminster premises of Robert Reynolds Commercials between...

• The first section of the Ml-Al link between Thrapston and Kettering in Northamptonshire was opened this week.

• The driver of one of Toleman's new Mark V car transporters (CM 25-31 January) has been praised for his reactions during an...

• Renault is depending on its new French-built G and iirange rigids and tractors to boost the flagging heavy truck fortunes of...

• Foden Trucks has beaten its UK rivals in the performance stakes by taking orders for 4000 Series tractive units equipped with...

UK main dealer network from 46 to 32 (CM 22 February). Marketing director John Massey says its revised network gives each main...

• A company which sells advertising space on spray suppression flaps is offering to pay hauliers to have flaps fitted to their...

• A Foden 2200 4x2 rigid equipped with a prototype commercial vehicle body styling package from York Trailers is currently...

• French parcels operator Ducros Services Rapides has bought a 50% interest in Tuffnells Parcels Express, part of the Transport...

• Haulage Services, the bulk liquids, bulk powders and general haulier based at Newtonabbey, Co Antrim, claims to be the first...

• German trailer manufacturer Schmitz-Anhanger has set up a new firm in Magdeburg, East Germany, called Schmitz Cargobull....

• Federal Express has bought a privately owned French trucking and express courier company, Transports Transvendeens...

• Trailmaster Trailers of Kettering, Northants, is the latest casualty of the downturn in the trailer market. It went into...

• Small hauliers such as David Hardwick of Gainsborough Express which were contracted to furnishing group Coloroll, which...

• Michael Cave, whose company sub-contracted Paul Ashwell, the driver at the centre of the Iraqi `Supergun' affair, has been...

• A new intermodal distribution company called Charterail has been set up in north-west London. It is the first privately...

• Newbury-based Roadline International has suspended its operations — owing several owner-operators thousands of pounds....

• Profits for the Wincanton Group plunged almost 22% for the year ended 31 March, despite a rise in profits for distribution...

• Tipper operators working for Tarmac in the Caniforth area of Lancs have won a 7.5% rate increase from 1 July. Drivers had...

• Daf has signed dealer and service contracts with H East German companies; 36 more are in the pipeline.

• Leading coach companies have warned that a newly . approved EC directive on package holiday liability will bump up holiday...

• Three extra coaches have joined the coaching subsidiary of Warrington Borough Transport, bringing Coachlines' fleet up to 10....

• East Yorkshire Motor Services of Hull is buying five secondhand Leyland Atlanteans from Cleveland Transit. They are all over...

• A total of 10 double-deck Scania N113DRB's have gone into service with Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company. The East...

• Three articulated airport passenger coaches are being supplied to Bristol Airport by Pickering Commercial Vehicles, based in...

• Leyland Bus rolled out the first UK-built Volvo BlOM chassis from its Workington plant this week. The UK chassis will be...

• PMT of Stoke-on-Trent, which now owns Crosville Motor Services of Chester, has made a comprehensive review of minibus...

• A call by residents to ban coaches from using a popular scenic route over the mountains between Llanidloes and Machynlleth...

• Grey Green has won the tender to operate two more LRT routes; the 168 from Hampstead to Waterloo, and the 210 from Finsbury...

• Striking bus drivers employed by Hull's biggest operator, Kingston upon Hull City ,Transport, returned to work last week...

• Target Travel of York, the minibus subsidiary of the AJS Group, has hit back against Reynard Buses with an hourly service...

• Reeve Burgess has signed the first fleet order for its new Beagle bodies. Eight on Iveco Ford A70.140 chassis have been...

• Chatham-based Maidstone & District Motor Services has spent £0.8m on five new Leyland Olympians' with Northern Counties...

• Katherine Ferris, the wife of South Wales coach operator Raymond Ferris who was jailed for nine months for the falsifying...

• Maintenance problems and environmental representations against a prop)sed change of operating centre brought Aslam Mohammed,...

obtain an operator's licence, which it wanted as a back-up in case of problems with its haulage contractor. Angus and Kathleen...

• Kendal haulier James W Nelson and lorry driver Liam Kelly were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £630, after an artic...

• Trainslide of Bermondsey has had it licence revoked because the Metropolitan LA was not satisfied that the firm met the...

• A driver sacked by Ex AA press Light Haul age, after he re fused to take a vehicle out because weather conditions were too...

• A faulty fax machine led to J Hope (Carlisle) being ordered to pay £100 in fines and costs for an overloading offence by...

• South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has hit out at a gap in the legislation that left him powerless to take...

• DCA Vehicles & Trailers, run by Barry Bright, has been granted a new national licence for 12 vehicles and trailers by North...

• Kirklees Metropolitan Council has been criticised by North Eastern Deputy LA Brian Homer for the amount of time it is taking...

the road so that the train can take the strain, after this little number motorists could get off the roads and leave room for...

last week when a lorry overturned and shed its load of 24 tonnes of onions near Epping in Essex at J28 — another sob story.

in the Dartford Tunnel, it's Gilbert Bataille driving the 13.9km length of the Frejus Alpine Tunnel stunt on two wheels. Both...

survey (see page 34) was a Pegaso dealership in Valencia, Seddon Atkinson sportingly helped arrange things with its Spanish...

Times must be hard in Somerset; at the end of the press conference a group of employees stood at the doors ensuring that all...

• Here are the answers to last week's gruelling quiz on diesel engines, compiled by Bolton-based truck driver Peter Holliday:1,...

1 Plummeting drop of great depth off a mountain road (5). 8 Get smaller, as the piles of items being off-loaded (8). 9 Lond...

who sent in the first correct solution to the Hawk's Prize Crossword 11; the usual CM polo shirt will he on its way soon. Have...

GRAND PLANS • Brentwood-based Grand Transport Systems has set up a Copenhagen subsidiary, Grand Transport APS. It is under the...

Contact David Pigeon, Parcel Link, 15 Greatbridge Road, Romsey Industrial Estate, Romsey, Hampshire S05 2QG, or phone (0794)...

COWIES COMBINATION • Ford dealer Cowies has opened a new site in Bii - mingham to replace the three existing sites in the West...

FLORENCE FEELING • The International Workers' Federation will be holding its 36th conference on 2-9 August in Florence. The...

is holding a truck show on 8-9 September at the Eastbourne Coach/Truck Park, at Langney, Eastbourne. There will be...

Racking Today is being held on 23 October at the Cranfield Conference Hotel, Bedford, organised by the National Materials...

of the environmental lobby on the automotive industry in the 1990s has been organised by London-based group Environmental...

THE NORWAY CONNECTION • Newcastle-based ferry operator Norway Line has introduced a direct RO-RO service between the...

NEW YORK EXPRESS • Federal Express has expanded its cargo service to the US with a new 747 flight to New York. The service...

COSTING YOUR DISTRIBUTION • The 1990 edition of Manager's Guide to Distributor Costs has been published by the Freight...

BS8220 Guide for Security of Buildings Against Crime. Part 3: 1990: Warehouses and Distribution Units. It does not supersede...

Contact (0709) 701135.

the third edition of Information Approved for the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances for Supply...

the causes of and cures for lung diseases in the workplace has been published by the Employment Medical Advisory Service, part...

of chemicals covered by the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations has been included in a brochure from...

KEEPING COOL I/ Zeal has launched a programmable miniature temperature recorder, the Zeatronic RDS 300 Thermoprint. It operates...

Contact Martin Thornhill on 021-544 5154.

MARK OF SUCCESS 10 Sea Route Ferry of Heywood has won quality standard BS5750. The Heywood depot is located near the M66 and...

FACELIFT FOR M61 IN Improvement work has begun on the M61 northbound carriageway near the Warsley Braided Interchange and...

At times the motorway will be restricted to a single lane in each direction and occasionally at night it will be closed...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M11 Essex: Lane closures, _15/7. Contraflow. M25 Hertfordshire: Lane closures J18/20 (Chorleywood/...

There has been a surge this year of companies looking for local agents to set up national parcels networks. We take a look at...

We alread knew that the Seat Terra offered a •ood ea load and volume at a low .rice. Now a VW diesel en sine has .iven it...

been an overnight test, but having picked Devon and the Scottish Highlands for this year's start and finish we decided to make...

Mallaig in the UK?" We were quizzed for details and if the package was ready for collection. The telephonist was unsure if TNT...

According to Race, who regularly dispatches boxes of seafoods to hotels and wholesalers around the UK, sending consignments...

a run to the MAZ truck plant in Minsk with a pair of MANs. We pick up the story as the expedition nears the Russian border. IN...

• Further to your photograph on Page 19 of CM 31 May-6 June showing one of the new Yorkshire Rider Scania N113 double-deckers...

silly Truckers! A pound sterling is made up of pennies — the singular of which is a penny. So how can dery be coming down in...

sales and marketing personnel for its grocery and leisure companies. Paul Eden-Smith becomes head of sales; Janet Sanders is...

group accountant at Bristolbased transport, workshops and removal specialist, 011is Group Services. Previously financial...

team of national accounts managers, each responsible for a specific industry sector. Colin Campbell covers the public sector;...

(Shrewsbury) has recruited Derrick Simpkin as national accounts manager, reporting to director Andrew Morris. Simpkin has 17...

fleet engineer of Solent Blue Line to pursue interests elsewhere in the automotive and transport industry. He has been replaced...

Products has appointed Diane Elbourne as sales administrator. She has spent five years working in hydraulic systems and...

sales manager for TIP Trailer Rental, based at its Knottingley, Yorks branch. He has 14 years' experience in the transport...

of Exel Logistics, and Derek Joyce, director of distribution of HP Bulmer, have been elected to the Freight Transport...

Sir John Swire, honorary president of John Swire & Sons, is to become a director of the Shell Transport and Trading Company on...

son, to the new position of company quality manager. He was assistant branch manager at BRS Runcorn and will now be...

engineer at AL-KO (B&B), the Leamington Spa-based axle and component manufacturer. Daly, previously the company's sales...

depot manager at the Aberdeen outlet of Denholm Refrigerated Transport, part of the Denholm Seafoods division of J&J Denholm....

appointed director of marketing for United Transport Europe. He has previously worked in sales, marketing and general...