• Cecil Parkinson has only been Transport Secretary for a week, and already the "good ideas department" is in full flood....

• Trucks and coaches could be banned from toll roads built by private road contractors eager to make their motorways more...

• Department of Transport proposals to squeeze a fourth lane out of the existing threelane M25 motorway have been received with...

• TIP has won a multimillion-pound contract to supply parcels specialist ANC with 110 12.2m tandem axle ,Crane Fruehauf box van...

• Registrations of 38tonne artics fell by 11% during June, but in the 12 months to June, registrations of all HGVs rose 18%.

• At Eden District Council in Cumbria, the council's own workforce beat off bids from Sitaclean Technology and Biffa to win a...

hauliers to pay a fuel tax on diesel and petrol on the principle of "the polluter pays". Its latest report, Air and Pollution...

• P&O European Transport Services (POETS) has been restructured for the run-up to 1992 and the Single European Market.

• NEC firm Lynx Express Delivery Network has sealed a 000,000-a-year contract with Primary Print Group. Under the deal, Lynx...

• The receivers have been called in at computer and electronic equipment haulier Hemel International Transport (UK). The...

• Strathclyde Buses has bought 95 Alexander-bodied Volvo Citybuses — the operator's first on this scale since 1983 — is worth...

• Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel has placed an order for 252 railway wagons, designed to carry HGVs and their drivers, with...

• Sally UK Holdings says it might expand Red Funnel's road transport interests if its bid for the Isle of Wight ferry and...

• The road transport industry will have to wait until October to find out if the London lorry ban's insistence on air-brake...

• Special types vehicle braking standards are to be relaxed because current regulations cannot be met by existing braking...

• The Transport & General Workers Union's docks committee has voted to instruct its members ti abandon their official picket...

• The Department of Transport is backing a research project designed to keep key London routes clear for commercial vehicles....

• Theft is costing the road haulage industry millions of pounds a year and the problem is getting worse, according to the Road...

its centenary this week and Commercial Motor editor Brian Weatherley (left) has marked the event by presenting FTA...

/ All coaches and minibuses should be fitted with seat belts and they should be worn, new roads and traffic minister Robert...

insurance claims faster than the average insurance company, according to a survey of 16,000 drivers by the Consumers'...

during the past year revealed 470 goods vehicles were unfit to continue their journeys. Offences included overloading,...

only three out of 10 road signs, according to a Devon police road safety survey.

• Mercedes-Benz this week launches the 1726S tractive unit to replace its most popular 38-tonner, the 1625S. The new 197kW...

• German truck builder MAN is pushing ahead with its research into new technology. The company is testing F90 tractors fitted...

• Smith & Sons of Bletchington, the Oxfordshirebased quarry owner and aggregates distributor, has taken delivery of its first...

• A Steyr 19S31 tractive unit with the optional ZE 16150 gearbox and twin sleeper cab has joined the eight-vehicle fleet of...

• What is thought to be the last Watford-built Scammell Roadtrain to be registered has joined the fleet of Wimborne-based Don...

• Leyland Daf has won its first on-site repair and maintenance deal with Tesco's distribution base at Snodland. Under the...

• Rotterdam-based transport and shipping group IMOG has appointed Searite of Tilbury as UK agent for its European trailer...

• BRS Trailer Rental Southern has bought 50 European tilt trailers from West Germany as part of its preparation for the Single...

• Multifreight will be relaunched this month under the control of a new management team, with a new livery and an extended...

• Abbey Hill is taking delivery of 35 new Iveco Ford 190.36s as part of a fleet replacement programme.

• M R Haywood (Midlands), the Oldbury-based supplier of catering and baking products, has taken delivery of five Leyland Daf...

• Swan National, the TSB's vehicle rental, leasing and retailing group, has announced 'substantial progress' in all areas of...

• Avis Europe, the van and car leasing and rental group floated off three years ago from its US parent Avis Inc, may be bought...

• Parcels carrier Nexday has lined-up 28 budding entrepreneurs for the launch of its new franchise system. It aims to enlist...

/ Foden Trucks is spearheadrig a drive into Europe with he appointment of dealers in rance and Spain. In France, a dealership...

• North Scottish Volvo truck listributor James M Forbes Motors) has been taken over py the Town & County Motor j ffarage....

• The Scottish Transport Group's ferry subsidiary. Caledonian MacBrayne, is to remain in public ownership for the time being,...

• Transport rental firm Tiphook has signed two contracts with the Soviet Union's international road transport company. Tiphook,...

• Leyland Daf should be offering a 298kW (400hp) version of its premium 95 Series tractive unit in the UK by the middle of next...

• A wide-track trailer axle has been developed by Granning UK for car transport and low-loader operators. The axle has an...

• Southampton haulier British International is the first British operator to take delivery of an Iveco Ford 190.32 TEC tractive...

• Allport Freight division director Dave Worth (left) tool delivery of the Leyland Daf Runnerthon Roadrunner, fitted with a...

IN The Transport (Scotland) Bill has received royal assent, allowing the privatisation of the 11 Scottish Bus Group companies...

• Cumberland Motor Services last week introduced four Leyland Lynxes on local routes in Barrow. Since Barrow Borough Transport...

• Reading Transport has bought a Scania K113CRB Elite with Van Hool Alizee H bodywork from Worksop based Stuart Johnson. The...

• Lincolnshire Road Car is closing its South Lincolnshire operations this month. The company, a former National Bus Company...

Optare has acquired the manufacturing and marketing rights of MCW's loss-making Metrorider range, including the 6-seaters and...

• London Dial-a-Ride has called for increased cash to improve its transport services for disabled Londoners. Dave Wetzel,...

buses fitted with soot filters on trial in the Netherlands, in preparation for forthcoming vehicle emission legislation. The...

registered Dennis Dennis Falcon single-deck chassis fitted with East Lancashire bodywork. The two-doored 44seaters, with ....

• The threat of special driving tests for volunteer drivers of minibuses has receded with the news that a draft European...

• A French lorry driver was ordered to pay fines and costs of £400, when he appeared before the Daventry Magistrates following...

• Three drivers employed by Skelmersdalebased MAP Refrigerated Distributors were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £755...

rill • The dangers for operators in lig" acquiring vehicles before being granted licence authority were illustrated when...

• A bid for a new licence by Pontypridd Tool & Van Hire was adjourned by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh,...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority John Hampton has reserved decision on an application by Doncaster Metropolitan...

• A continued disciplinary inquiry at which Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd (pictured below), was to...

• Twelve drivers employed by Cheshire haulier Stanley Fernyhough have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £11,000,...

• Metropolitan Licensing Authority Ronald Ashford revoked the licence of William F Leane (Plant Hire) of Stanley Gardens,...

the 14-vehicle licence held by Stuarts Bus & Coach Co when it appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Western Traffic...

• Maintenance problems have led to the 12vehicle PSV operators licence held by Huddersfieldbased K Line Travel being reduced to...

• As one of the leading UK manufacturers of dynamic axle weighbridges, Central Weighing was represented at the recent Fleet...

• There's a nasty buzz in the air surrounding the industry — the imminent arrival of the road speed limiter. If this does ever...

crept Into your piece about Peter Bottomley enjoying the quiet life with Perkins (CM 20-26 July). The noise reduction numbers...

enough Ladas — Ed", let me refer to Joseph Green's comments under "Eastern Promise" in your issue 13-19 July. Unwittingly, he...

• Critics of the Government's transport policies can expect a rough ride from the new Department of Transport team under...

• Ford is to step up its attack on the light commercial market this autumn. With the P100 turbo-diesel pickup now on sale,...

the twostage injection versions of Perkins' Prima two-litre direct-injection diesel engine in its Maestro van. The two-stage...

• The invasion of Europe by Japanese car and light commercial manufacturers looks set to change up a gear. In recent months...

• Land Rover's much publicised engine problems could come to an end later this year, when it unveils a brand new diesel...

• Renault is joining Citroen by developing a high-payload version of its high-cube carderived van. As Commercial Motor has been...

Longman was travelling north on the M1 in his automatic car with the cruise control set at 70mph (112krn/h). To his horror,...

Due to heavy roadworks on the Al: Western approaches to Vienna. It is suggested traffic use the A21 south of the city if at all...

done it no harm, with excellent fuel consumption, good performance and a solid finish. • It was a cold, sceptical world that...

for employers who do not have the time or expertise to search for the perfect candidate. Now Campbell Automotive Recruitment is...

Road transport companies, large and small, have been warned to plan now for what could be a recruitment crisis in the 1990s,...

Like a heavyweight boxing champion corning out of a mid-career lull, Renault's British truck operation is in training for its...

• BARRY HAULIERS Helen and Jeffrey McCarthy, trading as JEM Transport, were warned that their practice of parking vehicles in...

Beckside Haulage of Brighouse, Yorks • THE REVOCATION of the operatoes licence of Beckside Haulage Ltd by the North Eastern...

Margaret Howell of St Leonards Herefordshire • AN UNSATISFACTORY maintenance investigation has led to the duration of the...

I G Lee v Highfield Plant Hire • A DRIVER who wrote to his employers, Highfield Plant Hire Ltd, terminating his employment...

Aslam Transport of Sheffield • ALTHOUGH the only person making representations on environmental grounds, against a new licence...

John Durant summarises The Vehicle Repair Challenge. II A MODEL CONTRACT specification document including sample forms and...

by Tim Keeley Mr Keeley is tax consultant to Aaron & Partners, solicitors, Foregate Street, Chester PROBES INTO HAULAGE •...

• THE CONCEPT of "constructive dismissal", that is the entitlement of an employee to resign because of the conduct of his...

II WEST YORKSHIRE haulier Peter Glover has been given a month in which to seek a new licence, by the North Eastern LA Frederick...

by Jonathan Lawton CONTRACTS • THIS SEEMS to have been a busy month in the haulage world. A number of different events have...

John Durant reports MT conference EUROPE BREAKTHROUGH? In AN IMPORTANT breakthrough may be effected as regards carrying goods...