CALL IT A DAY • Remember those ancient "light bulb" jokes? Try this one: How many High Court judges does it take to tell the...

• Another round in the fight between the transport industry and the London Boroughs Transport Committee seems certain following...

• Animal campaigners are to drive a truck from the Shetlands to Brussels to highlight what they say are the awful conditions...

• Many hauliers go out of business or are forced to slash rates because they are reluctant to make drivers redundant. So says...

• A dispute has broken out among northern tipper operators fighting to win better rates from Tarmac and other quarry owners....

• Hauliers going to Spain may have to wait weeks for an international permit, warns the International Road Freight Office,...

• Daf Finance has waived arrears owed by "Supergun" haulier Paul Ashwell on one of his two trucks. Ashwell's repayments on two...

• Iveco Ford has pulled out of the Birmingham Motor Show — but it still faces a bill of more than 2100,000 for late...

• Extra signs may be erected on trunk roads advertising truckstops. Permission for improved sign posting has been given by the...

• A growing number of hauliers in the construction industry are going under this year, warns Mick Binns of the National Owner...

• A truck driver's wife who claimed to have contracted lead poisoning after cleaning toxic waste from her husband's overalls,...

• Mercedes-Benz has developed an engine brake for its six and eight-cylinder veeconfiguration truck engines which makes it...

• a's first secondary gearbox-mounted retarder is now available in the UK. The "competitively priced" device, which was...

• Around 30 Yugo light trucks, which are still in stock after Yugo's plans for a commercial vehicle dealer network failed, are...

• As exclusively predicted by Commercial Motor (20-26 July 1989) Scania GB will launch a higher-powered 236kW (316hp)...

• A device which its supplier claims will make reversing a drawbar easier is being developed on the Continent. It is due to...

• A brewery is predicting an improved fuel consumption of 6.01it/100km (1.1mpg) on a Seddon Atkinson Strato which has had...

• Northern Irish trailer builder Montracon is taking over sister company Craven Tasker's Woodville factory near Burton on Trent...

• Troubled Harvest Group. run by former Young Entrepreneur of the Year Gary Rees, has a new owner. But Rees, who still works...

• Exel Logistics' transport contract with Coloroll subsidiary Denby is safe now that the tableware manufacturer has been sold...

• Track 29, British Rail's new overnight freight service, has named several hauliers who will operate as agents responsible for...

• Lex Services is the latest firm to feel the effects of high interest rates with half-year profits 27% down on last year....

• Pony Express is extending its same-day "desk-to-desk" parcels service to four more cities, undercutting current express...

• Sodexi, the giant European parcels venture which linked with WI'S in March, is to sign similar deals with TAT Express in...

• Capped London council Haringey is set to slash am from its transport costs and cut its vehicle fleet by a third. Transport...

• Drivers and hauliers are being asked to come up with ideas for a string of luxury truckstops which will open next year,...

• Scottish Bus Group made a Loss of £2.3m in 1989, compared with a £7. 8w profit the previous year. According to the Scottish...

• Tom Jowitt Travel, the Barnsley-based independent operator, is winding-up its bus operation and selling its vehicles and...

• Rainbow Bus Company is ceasing operation of all services on Saturday 4 August. It was set up in 1989 by Stuart Scott, a...

• Bus operators are stepping up measures to protect their drivers and conductors following a series of assaults on staff....

• Peugeot Talbot is negotiating the sale of its tri-axle welfare minibus business to TM) (West Bromwich) so that it can...

• Pay deals are being hammered out for operating staff in London Buses' subsidiary companies, with five agreements concluded to...

• South Yorkshire Transport is countering a strong challenge in Doncaster by hiring in a crew-operated Routemaster...

• GK Kinch, which sold its stage services in the Loughborough area to Midland Fox last year, is now building up services in...

• R&I Coaches, working under contract to London Transport, has introduced a fleet of Dennis Dart midibuses on a former London...

• Shell UK's dismissal of a tanker driver involved in a fatal accident has been held to be fair. The Leicester industrial...

• Selby magistrates have adjourned a case involving a wheel loss incident which resulted in Darlingtonbased G Stiller Transport...

• Tyne and Wear haulier Clinton Ervin, trading as Ervin Transport, of Woodley, was given an absolute discharge for an...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Homer has given notice that the Traffic Area is cracking down on the...

• 11 , Iachins Transport has been ordered to make a redundancy payment of £2,700 to its former Holbeach depot yard manager,...

/The PSV licence of Pencoed-based Morris Travel has been cut by South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh from 20...

• A bid for additional vehicles by Cross Keys-based Gerry Jones Transport Services has succeeded after its existing fleet was...

• Change has been constant at Lowfield Distribution over the past two years, a culture which chairman John Toyne is eager to...

• Now Ford has released photos of the new Escort car models, speculation has increased on the styling of the van versions. Like...

• Locomotors Ambitron division has sold its first van-based radio outside broadcast vehicle. Based on a Transit 190 High Roof,...

• Tipmaster has launched a tail-lift for one-tonne pickup trucks. The Tommy Lift weighs 136kg and will lift a 400kg load. With...

• SEAT is working on three conversions based on the Terra van. The three models, which will make their debut at the Birmingham...

• Suzuki has launched a longwheelbase version of the SJ413. At 2,375mm the wheelbase is 345mm longer than the standard SJ413,...

• As winner of a Testers' Choice award for the past two years (in petrol and diesel form respectively), the Ford P100 obviously...

• How rude those paparazzi from the national newspapers are compared with the gentlemen and lady scribes of the trade press....

IMENNE • If a recent report is to be believed, the proposed EC changes to driver licensing will mean a shift from 7.5 to...

• Sending their 23 drivers on a defensive driving course has saved hauliers Des and Paul Ponsonby 27,000 on their annual...

NI Fraser Dryburgh (above) and business partner Paul Beresford left RoSPA to set up their own defensive driving training school...

• How long should a firm hang on to its trucks? Its a perennial question and depends on all sorts of factors. But one answer...

w i n • If a vehicle consists of a tractor and trailer from different manufacturers there is a chance that their braking...

SAD REMINDER • Your recent editiorial "Knights of the road" prompted me to put pen to paper (CM 10-25 July). On 10 July 1989...

• An inquest has been held into the death of John Hogg, who was killed when the rim of a split wheel blew off. Hogg was...

in In the fiercely competitive market of vehicle maintenance the workshop manager must look for every conceivable way of...

• A report in the Federation of Engine Remanufacturer's newsletter has highlighted problems with corrosion in cylinder blocks...

• The proposed testing of carbon monoxide (CO) exhaust emissions in the MoT test has been attacked as "a cynical publicity...

EHartshorne Motor Services of Walsall has invested /120,000 in a Blackhawk Power Cage, an HGV truck and trailer chassis...

• The Environmental Protection Bill will make businesses responsible for the legal disposal of all waste they produce,...

• The first prize in ERF's 1990 Workshop Team of the Year competition has gone to three technicians from its Perris and Kearon...

• Philip John Street, trading as Vange Service Station of High Road, Vange, Essex has been fined £22,500 for seven counts of...

• Fitter Michael Shields, an authorised vehicle examiner, has been given a suspended threemonth sentence and fined i1100 with...

• The latest hand-operated displacement pump from Ernest H Hill has been given a Design council award. The Hill Model 950 pump...

• Volvo Trucks is replacing its Action Volvo emergency roadside assistance scheme with a new helpline. Called Action Service...

• Duckhams is to launch a new oil aimed at the van user which is suitable for both petrol and diesel engines. The oil called...

C amberley Auto Factors' 20 car spares outlets confine their business to relatively small geographical areas, enabling short...

4 T g here are no spurious products — just good and bad products." This remark attributed to Joe Lewis, chairman of Unipart...

Pegaso Troner TX tractor, launched at the Paris Motor Show in 1988. Sharing its basic cab with ENASA stablemates...

releasing a catches at each end. Oil and filters are changed at each service so there is no need for checks at this stage. The...

p roduct liability is not a new phenomenon. In the Codes of Hummurabi, King of Babylon, between the years 1,792-1,750 BC a...

• The Macnaught Mini-Lube is • a portable greasing system that is now available from Redashe. It is a cheaper alternative to...

• The Foster Fire-Ban is designed to instantly cut the power from a vehicle's battery in the event of an impact above 35km/h...

• Handy Bundler is a new system from Ele-Pro for securing items like wiring and air pipes, where plastic ties are normally...

• The MGA 1200 Modular Gas Analyser from Sun Electric is capable of testing engines with complex management systems and...

• The ON Car decoker from Forte Lubricants is claimed to _ reduce the time taken for a decoke by 70% which is not surprising,...

• A twin dispensing system for body filler paste and hardener called U-POL has been developed by W David and Sons. The...

• Flashbacks can occur without warning on oxy-fuel gas welding and cutting systems causing damage to equipment or even gas...

• .11B Weld is a cold welding mixture of fine steel in an epoxy liquid for use by engine rebuilders and in machine shops. It is...

• Powersafe is a 240-volt extension cable set in permanent coils similar to a suzi or an airline. Its outer coating is said to...

• German battery manufacturer Hoppecke has expanded its range of heavy-duty starter batteries to cover British made trucks....