• Before June comes to an end, two truck manufacturers will be bitterly disappointed and one will be celebrating. The reason...

• Ferrymasters has won a contract with Renault Truck Industries to transport parts from Blainville, near Caen to its production...

• The British Army's 5,000vehicle, four-tonne truck contract is thought to have been won by Leyland Daf. As Commercial Molar...

• The government's legislation reforming Britain's driving licence laws and authorising the introduction of automatic computer...

• EC officials are working on technical specifications proposals for all European CVs in time for 1992 and the SEM. They should...

• MS Northern has won a £300,000, three-year contract hire deal with Volex Wiring Systems. Dawndrop quiz • The FTA is sending...

• Rubery Owen-Rockwell opened its new administration, design and development site in North Wales last week, as part of an £8...

• Spending on roads controlled by local authorities is set to rise by 8.9% in real terms over the next three years, to reverse...

• Boalloy has acquired Spanish bodybuilder Lecanox, taken a "substantial" stake in French bodybuilder Behm SA, and built a new...

• The Department of Health has issued new guidelines on the transportation of chilled and frozen cooked foods. In the HMSO...

• Over 70% of bus operators believe that the industry is becoming dominated by nationwide holding companies with thousands of...

• Exports of British-built commercial vehicles have risen by 32.55% over the past 12 months to 43,363 vehicles. Total UK output...

• Pervious road surfaces designed to reduce vehicle spray could be in use on British trunk roads next year. The Transport and...

• Bodybuilder Marsden Vanplan has built its first pantechnicon body on the AWD TL 13-tonne chassis. Destined for Robins Remov...

• The organisers of this year's Truckfest South West at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallett this weekend (1 & 2...

• Motor traders should provide minimum statutory warranties on all used passenger vehicles, a motor ombudsman should be...

• Renault Truck Industries has sold its first R420-19T in the UK. The R420 is the only maximum-weight tractive unit in Europe...

• Uckfield-based timber distributor Hackman Woodpax has taken delivery of two Mercedes-Benz 1625s fitted with a lifting single...

Imports, has been established to import pre-1982 American trucks to the UK. Dick Hudson, the company's founder, says he has...

• Econofreight United Transport has won the 1989 heavy haulage industry's top international awards, sponsored by the SCRA...

• Exel Logistics has joined forces with sister NFC company BRS to win a multi-million pound distribution contract with...

• Waste management spe cialist WT Hughes has taken over Aerial Skip Hire a waste collection firm and waste transfer station in...

• Coventry-based Transfleet Services is to increase the size of its truck rental fleet by 30% under a 212m investment...

• Up to 700 people face redundancy at United Carriers following the firm's decision to close eight UK depots to streamline...

• Rental and transportation company, Stardes, is spending 2750,000 to renew its Daf and MAN fleet and by December it will have...

• Yorkshire-based DIY distributor Rickaby & Lee has taken delivery of 15 new Volvos. The 2500,000 order, supplied by Volvo...

• Adams Foods, the UK marketing arm of the Irish Dairy Board, is shutting down its in-house national distribution operation....

• Sherwood Leyland Dal plans to develop its business as a vehicle distributor, following its recent acquisition of Kirkby...

• Major food manufacturer Hazelwood has abandoned running its own transport operation in favour of a five-year deal agreed with...

• ERF's profits soared by 40% to .27.84 million in the year ended 1 April. Turnover was up 35% to £164 million, and UK factory...

• Goodyear (GB) has signed a five-year renewable contract-hire deal with BRS Midlands, for a fleet of 16 artics. Finished in...

III Sheffield-based warehousing and distribution company, Scofield, will acquire Worksop haulage and warehousing group Peter...

• Scania is revamping the engine range available for its 113 and 143 rigids and tractive units, with the 11-litre 310 and 340...

• A new lightweight ERF sixwheeler fitted with the all-steel Steyr cab could make an appearance in the UK before the end of...

• An Australian-made tri-axle low-loader trailer with hydraulically widening track, decks and ramps is being evaluated by...

costs. A skilful driver has the key to this in his use of the gears and gearshift system. ZF synchromesh gearboxes and double-H...

• Metropolitan bus operators coped well with passengers who were diverted by the 21 June rail strike. In London, British Rail,...

• Yorkshire Rider has proposed an £11 million guided busway system for east and south Leeds as an alternative to West Yorkshire...

• Greater Manchester Buses made a profit after tax of .276,000 in 1988, compared with a loss of £1.762 million in 1987....

• Public in q uiry inspector Sir Richard Posnett has come down against Hampshire County Council's proposals to ban large buses...

• Robinsons of Great Harwood, Lanes, has taken delivery of five Van Hool Alizee-bodied Daf MB230 coaches for UK and European...

• The House of Commons Transport Select Committee has rejected the idea that London Regional Transport (LRT) should curb...

• Neoplan, which was instrumental in promoting the low-floor concept in Continental bus practice, showed this MAN-engined Type...

• The Coach Tourism Council (CM 22-28 June) has been launched to involve coaching, tour, ferry and hotel operators with...

• Scarborough & District Motor Services, part of the East Yorkshire Motor Services group, carried out the first stage of a...

• Stagecoach subsidiary East Midlands is trying its first Routemaster, encouraged by managing director George Watson who...

• No action was taken against Rochdalebased James Nuttall (Transport) by North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu, at a...

• The High Court has ruled that Jersey is part of the UK for the purposes of the international carriage of goods by road. The...

West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh renewed the council's national licence for seven vehicles and two trailers —...

• The trial of Phillips Tankers (Bulk Powders) Manchester and two of its directors, accused of offences of permitting drivers...

• Ensuring hired vehicles are in good condition is the responsibility of the operator, no matter what the terms of the leasing...

set up a cooperative bus company after privatisation, were unfairly dismissed, an Industrial Tribunal has ruled. Keith Peacock...

• In deciding to grant Harris Distribution the 22 additional trailers it requires for a distribution contract with Rank Hovis,...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn 6 Pugh has warned that operators who ask magistrates for time to pay fines will have their...

by Stafford Magistrates for an axle overloading offence. Lisser, trading as Spinney Haulage, of Heather, near lbstock, had...

(Longridge) and four of the company's drivers £2,050 in fines and costs when they appeared before the Preston magistrates. The...

• Budapest hosted the 48th Congress of the International Union of Public Transport (UITP) — the first to be held in an Eastern...

SCOTTISH MOVE FOR TUFFNELLS • Tuffnells Parcels Express is relocating its most northerly depot to Perth in September. The new...

OWNER OPERATORS ROADSHOW • Owner Operators UK, the organisation set up to provide small operators with the volume purchasing...

PLUG FOR VAS • Industrial Machinery Supplies is now marketing Groeneveld's plug-in electrical integrity tester for automatic...

BP HGV OFFERS • BP has introduced special Truckstore vouchers for HGV drivers when they fill up at BP Oil stations. In addition...

HANDLING MATERIALS 1.1 The Institute of Materials Management has launched a foundation course on materials management, covering...

A2 HOLD-UPS • There will be major maintenance and construction work on the A2 in Kent between Singlewell and Pepper Hill...

III LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M4 Berkshire: Lane closures west of junction 12 (Reading). M40 Buckinghamshire: Contraflow...

its new £5 million headquarters which will allow deaf customers to use the national telephone network in case of a breakdown....

tanker marks it as one of the best early entries in this year's Commercial Motor Livery Awards. So far this year's entries...

Even law-abiding operators can be snared by overloading laws. CM asked hauliers how the law should change... • Overloading...

fatigue and cab comfort are obviously all closely-related subjects which interest me and many others in our industry. I was...

The scales of justice are heavily weighted against the truck operator under current overloading laws. Transport consultant Stan...

Getting cut flowers fresh to market demands dedication and complete reliability from specialist hauliers like Martin Holland...

With public weighbridges often far from base, operators can find it difficult to check that their vehicles are within the legal...

. but no, those Eurocrats can't resist tinkering. Among the latest ideas to be circulating around Brussels, along with...

At the centre of the 13518 dashboard sits Steyr's unique Check Control unit which monitors all the truck's systems. A schematic...

Low-profile 265/70R19.5 tyres minimise the load platform height on the 13518. With a full load on board, the loading height of...

On the track at MIRA, the 13518 gave a lively performance accelerating over the measured mile while cab interior noise levels...

Travelling clown from the Midlands on our stop-start distribution route across country to Newbury, we averaged 18.961iti 100km...

Although still a relative newcomer to the UK market — its registrations do not yet appear in the monthly Society of Motor...

• Former Volvo Trucks (GB) marketing manager Sandy Young has joined AWD as UK sales director. He replaces Vic Wright who has...

MAXTED/ROBINSON Robert Crosthwaite, a director of Abels of East Anglia, has become president of the British Association of...

Higgins as systems development manager. He was previously project manager at Manchester-based software consultancy, Hoskyns...

International, has announced that Jeffrey Rodek has taken a leave of absence as vice-president (financial planning and control)...

County Councils' executive council has elected John Chatfield as its chairman for this year. Bill Dixon Smith, Josie...

division (fleet sector) of the Securicor Group, as financial controller responsible for strategic development and...

Dave Bone is the new managing director of container operator Seawheel, having worked at the group for 20 years. A director of...

Paul Graham has been appointed systems support manager, responsible for warehousing and management information systems. Prior...

Graham Corbett, former financial adviser to the cochairmen of Eurotunnel has become finance director. Michael Butcher, is the...

Truck Rental's new purchasing director. He joins the company from George Hopton & Company, a subsidiary of Mallinson Denny...

I FOR A SINGLE market — we need single Whole Vehicle Approval :heme, Renault Truck's, R T Browne tplained to the Franco British...

• When the Channel tunnel comes on stream, will we still be servicing as many trucks to roll-on/off to Dunkirk (ro-ro freight...

• A THREE-PHASE safety and development programme conceived by SP Tyres UK at the Motor Industry Research Association centre...

AFTER 15 marketing semirs, Herberts Vehicle Reshes has introduced its panIropean Security Through ecialists programme to the C....

THE IMMENSITY of the anges necessary in the reglions to make a single Euroan Market feasible is such a they will not be...

• A NEW brake fault finding and repair course has been launched by Lloyds British Training Services following demand from...

• ROCHDALE-based extrusion manufacturer Gardiner Qualitube says its investment programme has put it at the forefront of polymer...

• A SYSTEM to turn potentially harmful paint sludge into non-toxic, re-usable powder has been launched by Haden Drysys...

The FTA's workshop audit safety service is an impressive scheme, writes John Durant, that can do much else besides improve...

Dave Furlong explains recycling gives economic plus points to the raw material supplier and the next purchaser • Despite all...

The same types of accidents cause deaths in the workshop every year, while new materials create fresh problems. We talk to the...

• Management was at fault in 60% of fatal accidents in the transport industry between 1978 and 1980 and the new Control Of...

A selection of pictures from unidentified workshops • This extraction from an FTA workshop safety audit comes from other...

Air brake system defects are the major cause of HGV annual test and roadside test failures. Vehicle Inspectorate figures...

While it's much easier to plan a greenfields site, advice is available, writes Phil Reed, on how to get around problems arising...

vehicle market in 1986, many fitters and operators alike mourned the passing of a simple, workmanlike range of trucks. While...

New names and a larger number of trade visitors were attracted to the Federation of Engine Remanufacturers exhibition at...

Colin Sowman meets Robert Gerrard — the former small workshop manager who now runs GME Springs with the help of a 10-year plan...

• A cream called "pr88 the Invisible Glove", marketed by Elton Systems, is applied before work begins, and because substances...

• A pneumatic cartridge gun launched by 3M Automotive Trades is suitable for standard 310m1 cartridges, including the newly...

• Stoneguard 2000, a selfadhesive polyurethane film developed by Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire-based Fasson as a stone...

• When replacing body panels on vehicles or trailers, proper sealing procedures are vital for adequate waterproofing. It is the...

sealed, a lever at the side of the canister pressed and, depending on the selected flow rate, the nozzle is moved slowly along...

• For generations sockets with traditional teeth have exerted drive pressure on the six corners of the nut. What, asks Richmond...

• By providing a tubular frame with trunnions, Power Blast has produced a shotblast machine to pivot about its centre of...

• Lightweight construction, long-range capacity and competitive pricing are features of the new aluminium catwalk fuel tank...

• Glasurit has launched Profit Centre, an IBM-compatible computer system, that has a range of bodyshop business features for...

• CRANE FRUEHAUF's new central parts distribution warehouse at Dereham, Norfolk, providing replacement parts for its national...

• A NEW DRIVE-in repair and maintenance service for Bedford light commercials and Vauxhall cars will be available from some...

• BRS ENGINEERING opens its £500,000 plus service centre at Reading on July 10. "It's the most up to date and best equipped in...

• BAINBRIDGE Silencers has completed a £250,000 extension to its technical centre at Clifton Road, Blackpool, built in 1982 at...

• THE MOTOR Transport division of the British Airports Authority is now offering its service at Heathrow to thirdparty...

• THOMPSON Spares and Service, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thompsons (UK), based in Croydon, Surrey, is operating in what it...