• When the proposed Single European Market arrives in 1992, hauliers will be in the front line. It is the road transport...

• UK road deaths fell by 5.6% last year to around 5,000 killed — the lowest figure for 35 years. In 1987 5,300 people died on...

• In the first major survey of British hauliers' preparations for the 1992 Single European Market (SEM), Commercial Motor has...

• Metro-Cammell Weymann, the bus building arm of Laird Group is "neither confirming nor denying" rumours that Plaxtons has...

• Brewery distribution will change if the Government's plan to force the "big six" brewers to sell 22,000 of their 34,000 pubs...

• Transport Secretary Paul Channon has called on LRT's new chairman Wilfred Newton to "complete the restructuring of London...

• Southfields, the Loughborough-based curtain-sider body and trailer manufacturer, has linked up with Manton International of...

• This year's Commercial Motor Truckfest (30 April-1 May) is on course to attract a record-breaking entry of the best trucks in...

• Following a sustained campaign by Transfrigoroute, Dover's Eastern Docks now has a temperaturecontrolled inspection room...

• The first of two Britishbuilt Garwood Type FEL compactor bulk waste vehicles to be supplied to the Belgian subsidiary of...

• Local authorities have given a guarded welcome to the road safety proposals contained in the latest Department of Transport...

• The Transport and General Workers Union has launched a campaign to halt its membership decline, including a week's intensive...

• The Government has announced new controls over the transport of explosives after a van belonging to ICI subsidiary Nobel...

• The Autoguide navigation system is causing concern at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities. It says local authorities...

• Brands Hatch will host the Mobil Truck Superprix on 1516 April. A record entry of over 60 teams will contest this first event...

• The Welsh Development Agency has invested £220,000 in haulier Tommy Williams to help him expand his international operation...

vehicle, there's no doubt it represents a sizeable investment. Of course, investments such as this are usually budgeted for...

• Caterpillar has stepped up its assault on the UK truck engine market by supplying its air-to-air after-cooled (ATAAC)...

• Ford's new Fiesta van will go on sale on 13 April, just over two months after the new passenger car version was announced. It...

technology are being used by Cardiff-based JR Supplies in its Loadmaker insulated bulkheads. The company says the new...

• Vehicle seating manufacturer Bostrom reported pre-tax profits of 22.12 million on a 222.26 million turnover in 1988. BRS...

• York Transport Engineering is closing its Corby depot because "it no longer has a srategically or geographically important...

• Contract distribution group Tibbett and Britten has revealed plans to spend more than 25 million on new vehicles during 1989,...

• Booker, the distribution, agricultural and health products company, increased profits by 214 million to 278 million in 1988....

• Trailer rental group TIP Europe is looking to expand its trailer rental fleet from 16,000 to 17,500 within the next six...

• Meachers Group has bought freight forwarding firm Oast (Agencies) in Southampton and will open five more distribution centres...

• International haulier Swains of Stretton is pulling out of three-day distribution in the face of fierce competition from...

• New parcels company FRX International of Hounslow, Middx, claims its prices are 10% lower than any other parcels company. It...

• While Brussels Eurocrats discuss an 18.35m drawbar "short" limit, one Dutch haulier is proposing an overall train length of...

• Tony Thompson and Crane Fruehauf have designed a new trailer system for collecting waste paper, which enables full skips to...

• Charnwood Borough Council has taken delivery of two Clover Road Master refuse collectors, based on the Iveco Ford Cargo 2424...

• The row over who should pay for modifications to 2,500 Mark II diesel-engined Land Rovers supplied to the army (CM 21-27 July...

Tipcon exhibition at Harrogate. The 2435S twinsteer 6x2 tractor launched last autumn will be displayed alongside its 4x 2...

Cox rates budgetary control as one of his top priorities. Steve Squire, Trunking/Tanking Customer Service Manager, does too....

• Harry Blundred marked the launch of Transit Holdings' Docklands minibus service last week with call for total PSV...

over by Lincolnshire Road Car company, leaving most buses in the Newark area under the control of the two companies' owner,...

• Brazil took the lion's share of Scania's 3,704 bus sales in 1988, buying 1,267 vehicles compared with 915 the previous year....

• A new London tnidibus service called "Fulham Hoppa", running between Putney Pier and Chelsea Harbour, will be launched on 1...

• Competition will be hotting up in Burnley next month, when municipally-owned Burnley and Pendle begins to collaborate with...

• National Express has unveiled the Expressliner Plaxtons Volvo coach — its standard vehicle for the 1990s. All National...

• Contracts for the operation of six bus services have been awarded by London Regional Transport following competitive...

• West Midlands PTE will cut its annual £5.6 million subsidy for non-commercial bus routes by £980,000 next year as changes are...

• A Labour government would radically alter the course of public transport policy in Britain, says Shadow Secretary of State...

• Rhymney Valley's battle of the buses is over, with the sale of Council-owned Inter Valley Link to National Welsh for a figure...

• A haulage company has been successfully sued for breach of contract following an incident when robbers armed with a sawn-off...

the duration of the 14vehicle PSV 0-licence owned by Sealandair (Coaching) of West Bromwich. The company appeared at...

• Using PSVs without an 0licence or insurance cost Droveridge and its transport manager John Buxton 2885 in fines and costs,...

backed the view of Lancashire police that at any given time a driver has to have had 45 minutes' break in any period of 41/2...

whiplash injury in a motorway accident, is suing a company for the alleged negligence of its employee. In a High Court writ...

• Lesley and Ann Dean, trading as Three M's Transport, has been granted a new two-year six-vehicle international licence by...

granted an in'crease in vehicle authorisa4ion led to Solihull ownerdriver Brian Andrews, trading as B Andrews Haulage,...

WHEN ROADS RUN OUT • Angloco, the Batley-based supplier and manufacturer of fire-fighting vehicles, has been appointed sole UK...

TOTAL QUALITY • Coopers & Lybrand is holding a "Total quality" conference on 4-5 May at the Cavendish conference centre in...

BRITAX GOODIES • Britax has published its 1989 catalogue detailing its truck and bus lamps, mirrors and wiper equipment. Free...

NON-SLIP STENCILS • Fasson UK is marketing self-adhesive, non-slip vinyl stencils for vehicle liveries. Marketed as FasCal...

Department of Transport has warned motorists of delays on the western section of the M25 between junctions 11 and 13 for the...

Mll London: Lane closures boil carriageways between 35/6 (Loughton/M25). M25 Surrey: Contraflow at ,J113 (Staines) and ill...

subject of the Mercedes-Benz electropneumatic shift (EPS) gearbox. The UK operation has pinned its colours to the box, and has...

Probably rather more than the national average revealed by Roads and Traffic minister Peter Bottomley in the Commons last...

G Corke (CM 2-8 March) about AEC fitting automatic gearboxes, he is probably referring to the AEC vee-eightpowered Mandator...

unsolicited accolade which Lombard has received in the article "Making the Most of Their Money" in Commercial Motor's finance...

changing its body no less than five times to suit each operator's business. Penman Engineering will be fitting a sliding side...

Ford's best-selling Transit family has been delivered of a new baby — a clean-burn 2.5-litre diesel engine designed to meet...

Commercial Motor and Castrol are offering one lucky reader the chance to prepare for the challenge of 1992 with a free...

Ted Carroll has left a secure job after 23 years to take up the challenge offered by running his own transport business with a...

Northern supermarket group Morrisons is defying the trend to third-party distribution. The fast-growing Bradford chain believes...

Two weeks ago, the first British artics rolled into the Armenian capital Yerevan, loaded with relief supplies for that...

Stagecoach was founded in 1980 with two secondhand coaches. Now, it is one of the biggest private bus companies in Britain. The...

to concentrate on marketing Tankfix, the national engineering network for workshops and all types of third-party commercial...

• While we are particularly concerned with the components and service side of the industry serving road haulage, the health of...

• The European Community is introducing mandatory anti-lock braking for artics plated at 26 tonnes gross combination weight and...

• Britool is launching 10 mobile showrooms on the road each month until a fleet of 300 vehicles is built up to sell its own...

• In the automotive components market, "Small is not beautiful," the Financial Times Motor Conference, held with the Single...

I Interface Technologies launched two new Nuion products at Autopartac, which attracted a large number of trade-only visitors...

• Small operators may find that their washing requirements are met by the just hunched KEW-Hobby domestic pressure washer,...

• British Car Auctions has changed it name to ADT Auctions. The BCA Group merged with ADT in 1987. ADT mainly operates security...

years With a little care in their upkeep, power take-offs should provide many years of reliable service IN Because of their...

• There is a greater likelihood of trouble with a power take-off either when it has been removed from the transmission, or when...

the hole with a rag, and clean off the mating face. The studs should then be inserted to the shoulder of their threads, and...

The tipper market is booming at the moment. We look at the services offered by the many tipping gear manufacturers, as well as...

Propshafts take quite a beating, particularly in off-road use. We visit a company experienced in their maintenance, repair and...

working off-road for a substantial part of its day, is an especially arduous one. It therefore follows that the demands on a...

• Air brake equipment manufacturer Bendix is stepping up its battle against spurious or "pirate" reconditioners of its...

• Bodyshop managers face important changes in health and safety practices that, despite widespread uncertainty as to the...

• Refurbishment plans for many MotorWay depots are placing them firmly in the 21st Century, says the company, Almost all traces...

• As trailers have become increasingly more complex, it has become increasingly difficult for workshop fitters to keep pace...

at Oldham-based Cunbar, is the first woman to win the City and Guilds London Institute's silver medal for vehicle painting....

• With the introduction of roll-on/roll-off hook-type equipment that is able to lift up converted rope-type of dinosaurtype...

• The only reservation Arnold Parker, chairman of the Factoring Services Group, has about the introduction of the Single...

The message is that Dermaglen's aerosol-applied chain and cable lubricant Cable Brite lasted about two weeks on the outer...

• Richard Shepherd, MP for Aldridge and Brownhills, cut the first turf of the 22 million truck centre being built by the S...

Arnold Parker, chairman of the Factoring Services Group, says getting the buying advantages enjoyed by the national chains has...

For Trucks, Vans, Coaches and Minibuses I f you're looking to install additional heating into your commercial vehicles, take a...

• The Autopartac exhibition, held in Olympia 2, London, was a busy show attended by trade-only visitors. Interface Technologies...

• When the West Midlands Centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry held a seminar on "The challenge of aftersales into the...

is anti-foam, protecting the environment. Comma Turbo 90 • M & F Components introduced a range of ignition leads under its...

• Halton Transport of Widnes in Cheshire has chosen Mainlycke Tork wipers to replace its previous supply of laundered cloths....

• The Petrosonic tank gauging system from Autovend records fuel levels in bulk storage tanks, meaning that daily fuel movements...

• When Hertfordshire-based 1MC (Engineers) updated its Monaflex tyre repair system, it turned to Controls & Automation to...

• Deb, the manufacturer of Swarfega, has relaunched its protective and aftercare creams for the automotive industry. Deb...