• Fly-tipping is not a problem confined to a few cowboy operators running unmarked trucks in south-east London. Fly-tipping is...

J Tosch, has been appointed vicepresident of the Institute of the Motor Industry. • Tolls for the Dartford Tunnel will rise in...

• Cowboy operators are making a killing by illegally dumping builders' waste from London's booming Dockland construction sites...

• Everything goes by truck these days, it seems. . . even trains. This 24-metre steam engine, Port Line, was being taken to a...

Fashionflow, won the London Lorry Driver of the Year award, and Fashionflow also took the team prize at last week's finals at...

understand it," he says. "The problem is nobody looks at it in terms of small operators — but there is certainly a bad element...

• Bryan Colley has been named as the next director general of the Road Haulage Association to replace Freddie Plaskett. Colley...

• ANC's franchisees have put together a bid to buy the nationwide parcels company from its parent, British and Commonwealth...

• Dacia and Yugo are merging their UK operations following the acquisition of dominant stakes in Dacia Concessionaires and Yugo...

commercial vehicles, despite latest Department of Trade and Industry figures showing a fall in production during April. Taking...

• Theale-based Horseman Commercial is betting on the future of non-HGV artic units with this tractor/trailer combination,...

• The second freight ferry fire in a week broke out last Friday on P&O's cross-Channel European Trader. The vessel was sailing...

Prince Michael presents the award to Dick Harris, Avon Backstop's general manager. • The Avon Backstop reverse-braking device...

Roger Birch, warned last week that Britain would become increasingly clogged by traffic jams and plagued by deaths on the...

trading with Portugal is to be increased from 5,000 to 8,000 following a 50% growth in trade in the past year. Permits will...

• The Freight Transport Association has launched a "blueprint for action" to help hauliers prepare for the common marketplace...

• American truck drivers could face a ban on speed-trap detectors in their cabs following calls by road safety campaigners and...

the West Midlands, finking the M5 and M42 near Bromsgrove to the M54 north of Wolverhampton. The Government says that the...

• Iveco has developed a Cordirite ceramic regenerative exhaust system designed to cut diesel engine pollution levels. In...

• Russell Davies has put almost a hundred new tractor units on the road in recent months with 60 Iveco, 20 Volvo and 18 ERF...

• The Swedish Airforce is leasing a new rescue vehicle with a Scania chassis design. Specified for rescue work on airfields,...

• Intertube Systems of Plymouth has won a 260,000 order from the Royal Mail, to supply automatic chassis lubrication equipment...

• London Carriers has fitted VBG remote control coupling systems to six of its drawbars. The system allows the air and...

• Six new Fodens, worth a total of more than 200,000, have been purchased by Mitcham-based waste and haulage contractor, A & J...

Scotland has been bought by Nithsdale District Council, based in Dumfries. The six-wheel rigid has an Edbro tipping body for...

vehicles up to 3.5tonnes gross weight, is now available from Dalbar Automatic Controls of Salisbury. The device consists of an...

• Leicester-based Smith's Haulage has added an lveco Ford Cargo 2424 fitted with rubber suspension to its 60vehicle fleet. The...

• Twelve Leyland Daf 95.350s have gone to Sam Ostie and Sons of Kirby Stephen in Cumbria as part of the firm's annual...

• Despite maintenance problems, Bradford-based Rickaby and Lee had its licence increased from 30 vehicles and six trailers to...

a series of tachograph cases involving Lichfield-based Tanker Road Services and four of its company's drivers, be heard...

imposed on his company 0-licence because Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd decided last week that a series of...

• Ron Whittle, and 13 of his Go Whittle drivers, appeared at disciplinary proceedings last week before West Midland Traffic...

• West Midland Licensing AuthorityJohn Mervyn Pugh, has confirmed that it is his policy to be lenient with HGV drivers when...

• TNT is to take on 2,700 workers in the UK during the next 18 months, says managing director Alan Jones. Jobs are being...

record, when it sold 108 vans and trucks in its weekly CV sale. The Stoke-on-Trent branch's previous record was less than 100.

Park, Manchester, serving several large local fleet operators. The centre — the company's 95th in the UK — will have eight...

• Davies Turner is launching three services as part of its road groupage operations to and from Germany. The company links...

• Transfleet is buying 303 vehicles in an order worth £8.3 million. Added to a £6 million purchase in 1987, the deal doubles...

• Silcock Express has won a £1 million-a-year contract to carry trucks built at Leyland Daf's Leyland plant to dealers. The...

• BRS has won a £25 million distribution contract with high street shops group Storehouse. It will announce details next week....

1E 31 41100 • An in-cab computer, which allows truck drivers to receive written messages on the move, is being launched by...

• Freight and property group LEP increased pre-tax profits by 25% to £11.1 million in 1987, thanks partly to a strong...

• Business is booming for Freight Rover, the Birmingham-based light vehicle manufacturer, which has just increased van...

profit into a £134,000 loss in the half year to March, with turnover dropping £214,000 to £3.46 million. The company blames...

run a joint trailer service from London to Frankfurt, starting on 1 June. They plan to extend collections and deliveries to...

• A trailer and load-handling equipment manufacturer, which struggled to survive after it was established two years ago, has...

• David Price Frozen Foods of North Shields has doubled its temperature-controlled distribution capacity by adding Ray Smith...

• Scotland's four municipal bus companies could be in line for privatisation following last week's Government decision to break...

• Portsmouth City Council voted to sell Portsmouth City Transport to its employees and Southampton City Bus last week, much to...

• Parkdale Holdings has sold Harrogate bus station to West Yorkshire Road Car Company for 22.48 million. The Leeds-based...

Sponsored by the Eutectic Castolin Institute of Feltham, the awards honour companies which have conserved materials and energy...

• Optare has finally announced its much-discussed Delta — a full-sized, singledeck city bus — but PSV operators will not be...

• East Yorkshire Motor Services has reintroduced crewoperated double-deckers to Hull. As part of a general reorganisation, the...

• Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive is to carry out an extensive two-year public transport study which will form the...

campaign, aimed at easing the chronic shortage of London bus drivers. At the moment London bus services depend on overtime and...

• An unscrupulous coach operator left a party of holidaymakers standing at the roadside in the middle of the night when he did...

• A haulier who spent 22,000 a month with a commercial garage having his vehicles maintained and serviced on contract, has...

Excelsior Coachways (Telford) was adjourned indefinitely by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh last week, when...

• A condition imposed on the licence of Norman Mager, of East Halton near Grimsby when local residents complained, has been...

• A skid-simulation system manufactured by Astatic Cars of Brands Hatch will be available on a Ford Transit in six weeks, and...

the unleaded petrol market. KB Garages, Darton, near Barnsley, is offering unleaded petrol from Hargreaves to its customers....

composite LiteRide springs from June this year. The epoxy-resin-based semielliptic leaf springs are also fitted to the Freight...

to its GMX exchange unit programme for Bedford vans. GMX exchange units are available through Vauxhall-Opel's network of...

plant in Spain are being revised at the request of Daimler-Benz in West Germany.

• Dacia Concessionaires has extended its warranty schemes on the Duster 4x4 and Shifter one-tonne pick-up range. In...

• This 6x6 Land Rover 110 conversion has been chosen by Hands-England Drilling as the base for its drilling rig, the Buffalo...

III With a race series of seven rounds this year, and at least 12 vehicles prepared for racing, the Uniroyal/Brands Hatch Ford...

• German company Tern Tec has developed a non-return petrol filler system that can be screwed in place of the existing petrol...

off-road device called the Bog-cog, is raising finance through a share issue to put it into production. The plastic Bog-cog...

• Diesel vans could become a thing of the past in Europe due to inadequate current particulate emission trap standards, warns...

NUMBER FOR urcs • In Commercial Motor 12-18 May, we reported on United Transport Contract Services' move, from Leicester and...

• EW GUEST RANGE • Guest Industrials, part of the Harris and Dixon Group, has launched a range of engineering products for...

STRIKE VICTUALS STRIKE BACK • A special strike insurance scheme has been launched to protect hauliers and other businessmen...

BUSINESS IN EUROPE WITH MIAS • A directory desinged to help business trade in the 1992 European market is available from PIMS...

TRUCKLINE TAKES MORE TO CAEN • From this week Tnickline, the Brittany Ferries Group freight company, increases the capacity on...

A13 TO M25 BYPASS • The Department of Transport has drafted proposals to bypass the A13 between Thames Avenue, Barking and the...

II London and the South East Ml. London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). Entry and exit slips at J4...

(CM 19-25 May) does not appear to have discussed very widely the reactions at the RHA dinner to the drivers' blockade at...

interest your article in Commercial Motor 17-23 March, concerning the Britannia Collectomatic chassis, under the heading...

the Cummins LTAA10-325 engine for its E10-325 tractive unit, it posed some interesting technical questions. Would the...

charge-cooling to extend the power range of its popular 10-litre engine. In the past three yeras the L10 range has become one...

The RAF base at Marham in Norfolk offers extraordinary services for a refuelling tanker, needing an extraordinary vehicle. We...

Any road accident involving an HGV is liable to be serious: if a petrol tanker is involved it could be a nightmare. The German...

When ICI decided to contract out its long-distance tanker operations, its manager Dennis Dixon tendered for some of the work....

Tanker hauliers appreciate the benefits of a clean vehicle — but lives could depend on their tanks being equally clean on the...

Tanker driver safety is an issue which the oil companies have been studying. Bottom-loading avoids many potential risks, but...

tankers that the move to bottom-loading at terminals is a safety "plus". It avoids the need for the driver or oil terminal...