• Right from the beginning, there has been unease in many quarters over the effects of deregulation in the bus industry: now it...

• As exclusively predicted by Commercial Motor (19-25 May) Reynolds Boughton has won the British Army's twotonne contract. The...

year for the first time in eight years, a Department of Transport report reveals this week. The 2% increase to 444,000, comes...

its Constructor range following a long series of complaints that the chassis have been cracking while carrying loads well...

• The London Boroughs Transport Committee seems to be stalling over controversial plans to force hauliers using the capital to...

• Massive EEC financial help for improving road and rail links with the Channel Tunnel was proposed last week by the EEC...

• HCV, for years the UK's sole Hino truck distributor, has gone into receivership — but a new owner for the Warringtonbased...

• Independent Manchester bus firm Bee Line Buzz is to be sold as part of owner BET's plans to get rid of its passenger...

• A coach operator whose reputation was damaged because of delays in granting him licences for extra vehicles was subject to...

• Britain's removals companies are supporting moves to lower the HGV driving limit from 7.5 tonnes to 3.5 tonnes. Bert...

the Brit-, ish Government has accepted 36-tonne GVW drawbars. A Dip spokesman said this week that rumours about the four-axle...

you could enter Professional Driver '88 — the driving competition sponsored by Scania, Overdrive, The UK Truckers Association...

• Out-of-work transport manager Alan Sherwood (left) has applied for 1,620 jobs in the past three years. Sherwood, of Forfar,...

and ZF by developing a micro-processorcontrolled Easy Gear Shift (EGS) system. It has been fitted to selected versions of the...

• Stuntman Steve Murty narrowly escaped death this weekend at Brands Hatch when his Skytr-ain truck flipped over during a...

• Confidence and business prospects for the haulage industry are good at the moment and, according to the latest quarterly Road...

• All three contenders for the MoD's 4-tonne medium mobility contract attended the Army's BAEE display at Aldershot last...

6><2/4R 38-tanner (CM 1622 June 1988), we wrongly suggested that its 39.1 litres/1001(in (7.2mpg) overall fuel consumption was...

With a height of 1.3m the van offers 2.4m 3 capacity and a 490kg payload. The cab area is identical to the passenger vehicle's...

transporters to its military truck range, with a choice of the Kenworth all-steel C500B bonnetted cab or Foden's GRP composite...

• AWE) pulled out all the stops to ensure that its two new military logistics vehicles, a 120-tonne GCW 6x6 tank transporter...

• Volvo has decided to pull its unpopular FL4 model out of the UK market before the end of this year and replace it with the...

been launched by Ray Smith Demountables. The scheme checks the condition of the chassis, rear hitch, body, underrun and...

4000 Series eight-leggers on the road, as part of a 57-vehicle fleet. Unlike the other Gardner-powered trucks in the fleet, the...

The vehicles will be based at the company's depots in Newton Abbott and Milton Keynes and are fitted with Ro-Hill aluminium...

• Record damages of almost £1 million (with costs) have been awarded to the widow whose 38-year-old husband was killed when his...

• Three hauliers, who had a contract to carry salt for a local council, have been cleared of overloading after magistrates...

to overloading the front axle of his vehicle, was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £360 when he failed to appear before...

• A Welsh haulier, who started in business with the help of the Government's Enterprise Scheme and then almost lost his licence...

• Tyre manufacturer and distributor Continental Uniroyal Products is leasing three MAN 8.150E-based 7.5-tonne boxvans which...

to distribute to Argyll Stores-owned Presto supermarkets in the North East. As part of the six-year contract hire, BRS has...

with Westbury-based gas installation contractor Avon Lippiatt Hobbs. It will buy and hire back 20 7.5-and 16-tonne cranes. 0...

deliver Osram/GEC goods to wholesalers and retailers in south and east Yorkshire and north and south Humberside, using two...

is to acquire the other 50% of Australian transport group Ipec which it does not already own.

• Bulwell-based haulier Marshall's is buying 10 38-tonne Renault R340 tractor units, two G170 17-tonne curtainsiders and three...

• Paisley-based McKelvie Transport is supplying 13 Iveco Ford trucks with 52 trailers to Scottish timber and builders merchant...

• British truck manufacturer ERF has announced pre-tax profits of 25.606 million for the year to 2 April — an increase of...

Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes, has bought six Mercedes-Benz 1625 tractor units. They were supplied by MercedesBenz Car and...

Mercedes 307D van for its Mayne Express service, launched officially last week by lan Webber, managing director of Australian...

500 trucks and 280 trailers to Volvo subsidiary Ailsa Truck Finance in a 222 million lease-back deal, as predicted by...

• Vehicle weighing products manufacturer Central Weighing has been acquired by the Australian electronics group BWD...

• National Carriers Contract Services has won a three-year 27 million distribution contract with high street television stores...

• The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is investigating alleged anti-competitive practices by two northern bus...

buses says it will be "restructuring into a dozen or so operating units which will trade as seperate companies with a view to...

buses from both sic of the Leyland Volvo bu: combine. The new sing1( deckers are 15 Leyland Lynxes with Cummins L engines and...

• Essex County Council one of a small number of 1 authorities encouraging Su mer Sunday bus travel wit low-price "go-anywhere"...

Kent, now runs three types of double-deckers — 11 Optare-bodied Olympians, two Alexander-bodied Scania 112s and a lone Volvo...

Stocktonon-Tees High Street, now that Cleveland County Council has gone ahead with a traffic regulation order to ban bus...

• Three MBEs went to the PSV industry in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Russell Richardson, the managing director of Leeds-based...

• One of Britain's biggest private bus operators, Drawlane, has ordered 17 Dennis Dominators for three of its subsidiaries....

• London Buses subsidiary London Coaches, is now based at the Wandsworth Garage next to Wandsworth Bridge. London Coaches has...

• Buses and coaches carrying staff and airline passengers to BAA airports are to be heavily charged for permission to gain...

• For overloading their truck, running it without an operator's licence, and paying the wrong rate of excise duty, Michael and...

• Two South Wales coach operators and eight of their drivers have denied allegations involving the falsification of tachograph...

• Because Mercedes-Benz neglected to put a manufacturer's plate on a new coach supplied to G B Hirst Travel International of...

PTS EXPANDS • Leeds-based Planned Transport Services has opened an office and warehouse site in Pepper Road, Leeds and a new...

CUSTOM CLEARANCE IN MIDDLESBROUGH • Harbour Shipping has extended its custom clearance service to the new freight-only ports of...

KEYPAD MOBILE RADIO • A Band III keypad mobile radio is now available from Philips Telecom. The TSM3OD is used with standard...

HULL CAFE GUIDE ▪ Humberside County Council has produced a guide to lorry and driver facilities in the area, listing cafes,...

IMPA FORK TRUCK SEMINARS • The Institute of Materials Management is planning to hold five one-day seminars to discuss the HSE...

A FLEXIBLE FRIEND • Rigid-framed freight containers, which can be folded down for stacking, are now available from Compacto...

waived from 1 July. The waiver will apply only to consignments of free circulation status goods, with a value of less than...

North Notts Area transport operations of British Coal, Central Motor Auctions is holding a sale of surplus vehicles and plant....

Engineers will hold its Scottish national lecture and display at the Crest Hotel at Erskine Bridge, near Glasgow, on the 7/8...

the Al and A66 at Scotch Corner has now been opened. It will be used regularly by the Dip's traffic examiners, police, vehicle...

• London and the South East M1 London: Contraflow between junctions 4 and 5 (Edgware/Harrow). Entry and exit slips at junction...

in their bids to be the number one express service they go to any lengths to assure prompt delivery. Take note of TNT Contract...

able to get his car into a road test. My colleagues and I have been bored to death with stories of the winter redbuild, Weber...

addressed the NCCSsponsored "Distribution Forum" last week, and told the assembled "opinion formers" that he intends to...

for the more obscure. The firm collected a mind-boggling 105,613 knitted squares from 800 points in Britain during four days in...

Londonarea haulier McGovern Bros had Britain's first MAN 8x4 recovery wagon. Wrong. Tommy Yuill, of Hamiliton-based tipper...

very pertinent points in your Comment column "Undue Optimism" and in your piece "Damp reply to wet speed limit" (Commerical...

• I have just read the article in Commercial Motor (9-15 June) "Driver shortage hits one in two". I am a 44-year-old HGV 1...

to the local police, appeared before Bury St Edmunds court on 9 June for the breaking in and theft of CBs from lorries in the...

year I wrote to your colunm giving my views on the standard of Class 1 drivers applying for work, and their unsuitability, due...

have tested at the new 17-tonne weight limit. Unlike most other manufacturers Mercedes-Benz has chosen to retain the original...

Trans Euro Worldwide Movers is entrusted by its clients to transport fragile valuables all over Europe. The company has now...

When it comes to road transport a company vehicle is frequently the first line of contact with a potential customer, and a...

Bert Waddington bought his first removals company 14 years ago. Now he is president of the British Association of Removers and...

Hundreds of young HGV drivers cannot get jobs because they have insufficient experience, yet Britain's transport industry is...

• Over the years Scania and Commercial Motor have together put an exceptionally wide ranging series of papers in front of...

sales director for Staff Reinforcement, the specialist supplier of drivers and warehousemen. The former sales manager entered...