MI So the Department of Transport is proposing to impose compulsory speed Limits in motorway contraflows, to encourage...

• A police squad set up to investigate truck thefts says it has made "considerable dents" in nationwide crime ring. So far 10...

• Transport Secretary Paul Channon has announced that he is planning to crack down on Britain's tachograph system and introduce...

• The Freight Transport Association has criticised the Department of Transport for refusing to help local authorities change...

A safety review has shown that driver error is the most common cause of motorway accidents causing 250 deaths and more than...

• Lorry drivers are bracing themselves for hours of misery at Dover this Easter weekend as striking seamen prepare to disrupt...

• A third of Britain's coaches are running over the legal load weight, according to the results of a roadside weight check in...

• Hauliers might find it easier to travel through non-European Community transit countries following talks between the...

• Britain's hauliers are joining ever-lengthening queues to replace their vehicles, and manufacturers are being blamed for...

• The wife of a British haulier jailed in Gayo, Hungary is appealing to international lorry drivers to visit him with food and...

• Econofreight United Transport has smashed the world record for the heaviest load moved on land. The Middlesbrough-based heavy...

• Wilcox is introducing a fiveyear guarantee on its 55m 3 triaxle tipping trailer, covering the all-alloy body, its chassis and...

• Stoke-on-Trent trailer manufacturer and bodybuilder Don-Bur has reacted angrily to a mistaken report that it has been ordered...

• AWD, the privately-owned truck builder borne out of the ashes of Bedford Trucks, has received a major order worth E50 million...

• The first tanker to be fitted with Drum Engineering's AD Pack modular discharge system for combined hose and bulk deliveries...

• A High Court injunction has this week barred National Welsh bus crews in the Rhondda valley from operating a free bus...

• Specialist advice has been published this week on how bus design can be improved to help elderly and disabled bus...

chassis in '88 • Despite speculation that it could be selling Bedforddesigned bus and coach chassis in the UK from the end of...

operations sold • Two more National Bus Company operations were sold off this week. Badgerline of Weston-superMare has taken...

• The Department of Transport has been advised to "deregulate and not just reregulate" the UK's bus services. Devon General's...

• Renault Truck Industries is once again examining the possibility of bringing French-built Renault buses and coaches into the...

• Postplan, the central London parcels carrier, which last month vowed to bust the Post Office's letters monopoly with a 225...

• The recent strike at Renault Truck Industries' Dunstable assembly plant lost the company eight days' full production, worth...

• Road transport firms are not looking before leaping into third party brewery distribution to pubs. Untrained employees are...

• Retailer Wm Morrison is centralising its frozen food deliveries in a £7 million contract with Alpine Refrigerated...

• TIP Eurqpe, market leader in trailer rental, made pre-tax profits of £3.8 million in the six months to 31 January, up from...

• Richmond Menzies, the Kilmarnock family haulier which specialises in cigarette, spirits and high-value goods distribution,...

• Tibbett and Britten Group has announced 1987 pre-tax profits of £4.73 million — up 40% over the previous year. Turnover rose...

• Six of these ERF 4x2 tractor units — with curtain-sided trailers at 32.5 tonnes GVW — have entered service with magazine...

• Despite allowing international haulier Adrian Taylor to change his operating centre, subject to a number of environmental...

• E & E Transport failed to notify its drivers in writing that the cost of repairing vehicles damaged through carelessness or...

• A Nottingham-based coach operator has lost his PSV licence after Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd...

• Rotherham coach operator Harold Medlock could lose his licence at the end of April after failing to appear before a public...

• The licence held by Wishaw-based Scotmove has been renewed for 12 months only by Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority Alex...

• A race relations row has broken out at the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, with the bus group losing an appeal...

vibration research engineer, I am particulalry interested in your Roadtest in-cab noise results. We at Perkins Engineering...

• There is a slow but positive move in the most conservative sector of the industry towards a tapered-body bulk tipper, to...

• Consumer safety legislation has made it much easier for somebody injured by a piece of machinery such as a motor vehicle to...

• Bodybuilders exist in a fast-changing market where the most successful adapt quickly to changing demands. The latest market...

• The man at the weighbridge hit the nail smack on the head: "Do they still call these parcel vans?" he asked, eyeing up our...

an average of 14.941it/1001cm (18.91mpg). Although Commercial Motor has not put that many high-roof parcels vans, or Lutons,...

• When GRP Cooltrucks acquired Massey International in October 1986 many in the bodybuilding industry were sceptical about the...

pany, GRP Coupe Forge, specialises in the production of one-piece fibreglass enclosures, including high roof conversions which...

Not only light but very, very strong. Roughly every ten seconds somewhere in the world a big commercial jet lands its several...

• By now all of the major chassis manufacturers have revised their maximumweight 4x2 rigid models to meet the new 17-tonne...

R17N13, R17P16 and R17P18s all have design weights of 17 tonnes, incorporating a front axle plated weight of 6,610kg. The...

• How would you like to have the use of a brand new 7.5-tonner for a year — for free? Commercial Motor, Leyland Daf and Boafloy...

BY THE HAWK It had been sponsored by Capital Radio and driven for seven days and nights by a willing band of volunteers from...

in Tyre failures on Britain's motorways are costing hauliers many millions of pounds a year. That is evident from the Transport...

• Heavy goods vehicles are about three times more likely to stop on Britain's motorway hardshoulders than are light goods...

• Vehicles in road accidents can be decontaminated against the AIDS virus with a power washer before mechanics begin work....

• Fuel injection equipment (FIE) components have to be made to very close dimensional limits and of the right material if...

• A new series of portable testers for hydraulic systems is introduced by Webster Instruments, Series 2 HT testers measure...

• An ultrasonic intrusion detection system from Autoroofs has a microprocessor which discriminates againsts false alarms. The...

• The GMX Exchange Unit programme for Bedford and Vauxhall-Opel vehicles has been expanded to include a range of carburettors,...

is available from Harboran Automotive and Industrial Power Tools for 269.50. The kit consists of a 1/2-inch square drive...

• Its new "Turbo Laser" system has doubled the cleaning power of its Gerni 150 coldwater, high-pressure cleaner, says the...

• High resistance to oils, combined with increased dexterity, make the Duras°lve range of gloves from Marigold ideal for use on...

• • Mobil-Oil Switzerland has developed a miniature supervisory and control computer for the maintenance engineer and it is...

I From Castrol comes Dynamax GFE, a friction modified, semi-synthetic 10W/30 crankcase oil for petrol and mixed petrol/ diesel...

• Speed limiters become a mandatory fitting next year on new coaches going into service from the beginning of April....

• Only since 1984 have motorists had a legal right to see better in wet conditions. Then anti-spray legislation for new...

• "It takes more expertise and skill to recondition a body rather than build a new one," comments Jan Filippini, director and...

• As the likelihood of compulsory ABS (anti-lock braking system) draws nearer for most categories of heavy goods and passenger...

• Pennine Automation (PAL) had the answer when Leedsbased Drum Instrumentation needed a precision control sys tern for the...

• Comma has launched a Super-Brake Fluid, with an advanced DOT 4 formula. It is suitable for drum, disc and tandem-brake and...

There are two fastenings for the front grille, one on each side, which look very similar to bonnet catches on a car, and...

line of Leyland rigid eights which received an injection in the 1950s in the shape of the Scammell Routeman. Little is now left...

• Roy Appleton of TB Turbo claims that fitting a turbocharer to a small diesel engine will raise its performance to the level...