• A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, but the lack of it can be positively explosive. So when a police force is caught...

• Police who wrote to a coach operator demanding tachograph charts by post have been accused of acting illegally by a transport...

• British hauliers are expected to be fitting 60mph speed limiters to new trucks next summer, despite last month's decision by...

• Hampshire police carrying out spot checks on trucks travelling from ports at Portsmouth and Poole found that more than half...

Commercial vehicle production rose by more than 17% to 27,751 in November, compared with 23,657 the same time last year,...

• The transport industry has welcomed the Government's decision to reveal its controversial plans to privatise British Rail....

result of a consensus. UK Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind could not make the meeting because of an IRA bomb scare. But the...

to bad debts, according to Owner Operators UK, nor is "disruptive action". Instead 00UK's Rob McHugh (above), responding to...

• An owner-driver was tied up in his cab for eight hours, while two hijackers stole his £140,000 load of whisky. Michael...

• One in 15 0-licence applications are now opposed on environmental grounds, compared with one in 100 before 1984 when...

• London-based haulier Robin Brown of Eurospeed is still holding the valuable cargo of textile beams he impounded four months...

• Brian Honey, transport engineering manager for the plant and transport division of ECC International, will now have a little...

• Jailed owner-driver Billy Daniels has lost his bid to have his drug smuggling conviction overturned — but the Court of Appeal...

• UK hauliers carried 25% more goods to the Continent during 1990 than in 1989 and the number of journeys made rose by 14%,...

• UK hauliers will not have to fit standard Euro-style number plates. Euro MPs have been told that despite moves towards a...

• David Gill is to head Leyland Dafs merged truck and van sales and marketing operation: he is currently managing director of...

• Mercedes is due to launch the first of its new generation LEV (Low Emissions Vehicle) range in the UK by early April. First...

• PPG Fabrications of Thorney near Peterborough is collaborating with Northern Irelandbased SDC Trailers to build eight 10.5...

• The Ministry of Defence has ordered four six-stall horseboxes from Jennings Coachwork of Crewe for use by the Army and Navy....

as a municipal vehicle in this country will be delivered to Bedfordshire County Council next week (8 Jan). The 24-tonne FS271...

• The first Seddon Atkinson Stratos to be fitted with the 306kW (410hp) 14-litre Cummins Super E410 engine are now with...

• UK production of commercial vehicles in November was 17.3% up on the same month of 1990: a 61% increase in exports helped...

• The Thatcham branch of Scania-owned distributor Southway Commercials was due to close as CM went to press. Scania blames a...

• Despite continuing losses Parcelforce expects to break even when full-year results for the Post Office are announced this...

• Securicor Omega Express' 3,000-strong vehicle fleet helped Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody secure the Christmas number one spot by...

• A haulage firm which was kept waiting to unload for more than 14 hours by a supermarket chain is threatening to take legal...

• NFC, the UK's largest transport operator, remains deeply pessimistic about the UK economy despite producing full-year profits...

• Brough haulier TH Freeman & Son, and driver Barry Fogg, were not to blame for an incident in which the twin nearside trailer...

DIRECTORY iii Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses,...

IN The duration of the licence held by Jason F-scott, trading as JE Transport of Sully, South Glamorgan, has been cut to expire...

• W Pickup, trading as Top Gear Transport, has been granted an increase in its 0licence authority to 20 vehicles and 36...

sale continues sale continues • Disposal of the bus operations of tours giant Shearings continues this month with the sale of...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has issued its second overloading warning to coach drivers returning from the Continent. Out of 75...

• Plaxton Coach & Bus ended 1991 with a batch of new orders, worth around £5m, for a mixture of Pointers, Excaliburs and...

• Dennis Dart buses have been involved in several accidents at London Transport subsidiary bus depots at Sutton, Merton and...

• Rover has stopped production of the Metro van, although it has enough vehicles in stock to satisfy fleet orders until May;...

• Mid Essex Fabrications has produced a tipper conversion based on the Vauxhall Brava. The original Brava pickup body is...

• Two dual-compartment insulated Ford Transit 120 vans are being operated by Driffield, East Yorkshire-based butcher The Old...

• A new light CV has been promised by Nissan Motor (GB), the UK importer for Nissan vehicles, which took over from Nissan UK on...

Dec 1991), we quoted the body volume DIN standard measurement as 2.5e. We understand that the figures quoted for the other vans...

• Transit production at Southampton is to be drastically cut because of falling CV sales. Production will not re-start after...

• Toyota has launched two LCV-based fridge conversions, based on the Hilux pickup and the Hiace panel van. The Hilux conversion...

la he CM office has been choc-a-bloc with Christmas cards from our adoring readers over the past few weeks — with one notable...

fil hree Lancashire lads aim to set a trucking record by spending inure than two years travelling the world in a converted...

ri n a recent story (CM 12-18 Dec) the Hawk reported that the Post Office occasionally delivers heffers to farmers — this...

A reliable workhorse A reliable workhorse makes sense; that's why London's bus managers are hanging on to 500 Routemaster...

ith speed regulations at the forefront of transport news it is unsettling to learn of misunderstandings at the sharp end. A...

f i A 'chain tells the Hawk that its relaunched I Spy book series has been a great success. I Spy Trucks Ai Working Vehicles...

• ERF's position as Britain's leading independent truck maker owes much to a decision taken in the mid-eighties to upgrade the...

Rockwell driveline must deserve a second look. Combine that with reasonable spares prices and a long service life and its no...

O NS IS TE IC Recent Crown Court judgements of falsification of tachograph charges have treated the same offences in different...

GARRY TURVEY — director-general of the Freight Transport Association: "I'd like the DTp to introduce a 44-tonne limit in...

drove his Scania 112 into a layby near Como, north of Milan. He needed to rest before embarking on the final leg of his...

• I am writing to you in the hope that you may publish some of the facts involving one of our drivers, Mr E Beardsley, known to...

• While I admire the fact that you and your magazine are at least attempting to do something positive with regard to the...

R oger Phillips, former head of Daf Trucks (GB) and Leyland Daf, is understood to be considering other business opportunities...