• There is no logical justification for building roads in this country with private cash and then trying to recoup their...

• Restricting overnight driving to six nights in any fortnight — as Euro MPs have proposed this week — is a clumsy and...

• Within the next few weeks we will be publishing the first annual Commercial Motor Buyers Guide — the most comprehensive guide...

an Anglo-Irish 1 appeal to the Common Market Commission for extra 1 cash to improve the vital A5 trunk road link to North Wales...

in the North East. It is writing to all 0-licence applicants in the re g ion giving advice on how to set up a haulage business.

division in f September, confirms it is tendering for five local authority contracts worth up to El million each.

end :of the NEC motor show. Asda Stores wants 50 ,sleeper-cabbed 38-tonne 17.292 FThs, bringing Asda's F90 fleet to 58. a...

new book on eight British selfmade millionaires. In Entrepreneur, the former E300a-week bike courier tells of the difficulties...

El A bid to restrict the hours lorry drivers work at night is being made in the European Parliament. The MEP's transport...

The Government has slapped down demands for a stricter HGV driving test — and at the same time praised examiners for their...

tonnes apiece from Tilbury to Aerated Concrete's new plant in Linford.

acquisition of rival Rentco, has been valued in the City at more than £200 million.

Leading vehicle and axle anufacturers are expected to Id more fuel to the wheel nut introversy next week, by iallenging the...

The Government has again rejected calls for a change in the K's 70mph motorway speed limit. Tory MP, Greg Knight, asked...

I Four more haulage commies have been fined for Taking the London lorry ban. VW Buckle and Son of Bury t Edmunds and Mayhew...

• More cash is on the way for the Government's road building and improvement programme, along with a long-range review of the...

within the next few days. The allowance looks set to change from the current UK maximum of 2.58m to 2.6m, probably with effect...

• A lorry using the M25 every day wastes up to 90 hours a year in traffic jams, adding £1,000 to its annual running costs, says...

• TNT Express (UK) is one of 10 prominent companies recruited by the Confederation of British Industry to launch its "1992...

control drivers' hours, driver fatigue will cause a major accident, says United Road Transport Union general secretary Frank...

• Fruck thieves struck on the A2 on the night of 23/24 October. Their target was Osborne 'fraction's almost-new 6X2 Scania 143...

• The Government has beer urged again to come down off the fence and back the 40tonne limit by the Freight Transport...

• The London Lorry Ban should form the blueprint for truck bans in every major European city, claims Pete Broadbent, chairman...

IN Transport 2000, the national environmental transport campaign, is not bashing the road haulage industry, says new president...

• Renault has developed a 17tonne urban artic version of its Midliner, with a lower unladen kingpin height of 1,009mm, and...

vehicles and storage facilities is now available in the UK from VSR Engineering of Mullieirn, West Germany through its...

• Mendlesham, Suffolk-based Taylor-Barnard Transport Services says its move to pillarless curtainsided trailers has eliminated...

• Insulated panel manufacturer Concargo has fitted a computer design system which it says will develop a three-dimensional...

• The first two Seddon Atkinson Stratos on British roads have joined the fleet of British Nuclear Fuels Springfield, Works,...

Having doubled its UK out it from 34 to 68 trucks a day ithe past 12 months, Leyland laf has unveiled six new:hide...

the European truck market over 16 tonnes has peaked, and that today's over-stretched commercial vehicle factories will be...

II Truck rental and contracthire company Intertrail Rentals has announced plans to double its fleet to 1,400 vehicles, just a...

creating six new area offices, each headed by a general manager. It has also created the new post of director of UK operations....

distribute BP Ireland's lubricating oils throughout the Republic. BP's John Fitzpatrick says Blueflite beat four other bidders...

— is set to go into the black late next year, says commercial director Gordon Kelly. Owner Eagle Trust has pumped £18 million...

retailer Toys R Us for another five years. The contract is for 40 trailers and tractive units as they are needed.

of 50 Spanish Trabosa trailers for its Central European division; 30 Pacton tilts for its UK to France routes; and 4.0 York box...

• BRS Western has restructured its management organisation, increasing its administrative areas from four to six, giving...

• Skiploader hire and sale firm Trio Containers is to spend more than £10 million over the next 12 months on 500 17-tonne...

• Hino truck importer Harris UK has appointed four more dealers, bringing its network to 14. The latest is Dashbrook Southwest...

• Colectolease was launched in June as Britain's first refuse collection-vehicle contract-hire scheme by finance group High...

• Brittany Ferries' freight arm Truckline is spending £3.5 million on a computer system which will allow hauliers to book a...

most of chemicals giant ICI's distribution operations at Severnside and Haverton Hill is unlikely to be made before the end of...

its second acquisition in that country. Koos Roodenburg, who founded the company 12 years ago, will join United Transport...

• The launch of the new arms-length division of London Buses, Suttonbus, has been postponed in a last minute decision, due to a...

24 from London Regional Transport which runs from Hampstead to Pimlico via the West End.

adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland Malcolm Rifkind, for the forthcoming privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group.

The company will now be offering two types of travel service — standard service and super service. The super service will...

• Sussex coach operator Davie's of Rye has set up a north-eastern division with the take-over of Watsons Tours of Annfield...

• This year's Motor Show has been hailed as success by bus and coach manufacturers. In the order-book league Optare came first...

Nin support I The employee co-operative iroposed by municipally-owned 3arrow Borough Transport has on the support of...

• The consumer report on deregulation from passenger group Buswatch has finally been published and, as expected, it has slammed...

• Yorkshire Rider's staff buyout was formerly signed and agreed last week — nearly two years after the formation of the comany...

Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley has launched the Coachwork Walker minibus conversion of the Talbot Express. The...

• Three offences against the new Hazchem regulations while carrying a 16-tonne container of sodium cyanide cost Samar Container...

• Driver John Mumford of Armthorpe in Doncaster lost his HGV licence last week when he and eight fellow Polypipe drivers...

vehicles and trailers was cut by one vehicle and trailer last week by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner....

• A company said not to have heeded warnings following previous drivers' hours offences was ordered to pay fines and costs of...

DANA SPICES UP • All engineering, sales and marketing of Dana's range of 6.5-11-tonne-capacity trailer axles will be handled...

Phone (0753) 69174.

re-located its Scottish operation with a move to the Leggetts Freightways premises at Fallside Road, Bothwell, Lanarkshire...

opened a 2750,000 office and works complex, becoming the first company to operate out of a new 260 million business park at...

as Community Transport Services, has moved to Highbank, Halton Street, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 2NY. Its phone numbers: 061-351...

shipping operation from its Felixstowe site to Parkeston Quay in Harwich. For more details ring Freightliner on 01-402 757L

LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND INDUSTRY STAYS • The World Automotive Digest 1988 is now available, priced at 2195. This cost is...

contained in Motor Industy of Great Britain 1988 — World Automotive Statistics, published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers...

monthly newsletter called 1992 — Single Market Monitor. The target audience is company directors and senior managers, and the...

• EW ORIGIN MARKING • New legislation requiring goods to be clearly marked with their country of origin has been announced by...

GOODBYE GREASY SPOON • Entrepreneur Andrew Wilson has secured 25 million to build a truckstop at West Thurrock, Essex, close to...

SPREADING TNE COMPUTER MESSAGE • The Computers In Distribution exhibition at Sandown Exhibition Centre, Esher, Surrey will be...

"Distribution: The competitive edge in 1993" will be held on 8/9 November at the National Exhibition Centre and concentrates on...

a heavy commercial vehicle sale at Stoke-on-Trent on 4 November. For details contact Ian Austin on 021-707 8557.

distribution and 1992 will take place in the Portman Intercontinental Hotel in London on 1/2 December. The conference will...

LOADSAHELP • JLM Communications is offering a service which enables a driver or operator to read and print out a list of loads...

Care Plan to administer a selection of extended warranty plans on its trucks. The package has been introduced to assist...

LOW PRICE OIL FROM DUCKNAMS • Duckhams has introduced a 20W-50 oil, positioned below QXR and Hypergrade in both specification...

• Graining has received over 25 firm orders for its Ford Transit rear air-suspension conversion, and a similar conversion on...

Transit can now be supplied by Bonwitco of Kingsbridge, Devon. The glass-fibre over-cab sleeper pod can be fitted in around...

• A new device, claimed to save fuel, has been put on sale in the UK by Carbonflo of Rugby. The catalytic tablets were...

• AP Lockheed has finally found a buyer for its Automatic Clutch and Throttle System, although it could soon have stiff...

in the UK by end of 1989. An examif the vehicle has idy been received in the for type-approval, but company is upgrading...

• Renault's managing director, Lot Caperan, has outlined some of his plans for the company's light CV range, which include...

• The long-awaited replacement to the Bedford CI' might take the form of a joint venture between IBC Vehicles and another light...

• A new lightweight tail-lift from Kirby Mellor and Wallis, can be used on vehicles as light as 3.5 tonnes, and has a facility...

We took five of the most hard-bitten, veteran truck drivers we could find round the spotless halls of this year's Motor Show to...

though a little overwhelming. They liked the wide variety of trucks on show, but became increasingly frustrated with locked...

proud to present his light van awards from this year's Motor Show. The first award goes to the most practical van at the show...

in that foreign tnickstop or hotel room with only the Bulgarian version of Jimmy Young on the radio or Eastenders in Serbo...

The latest, from battery and tyre supplier Motorway Tyres, shows models shot against the spectacular backdrop of the Arizona...

the National Traction Engine Trust magazine, is now out. Packed with pics of steamdriven commercial vehicles, many dating from...

haul gun carriages around the Alps. Its new job is to haul broken-down trucks around the north of England. C G Truck of...

With 1992 in mind France is investing in the future by offering intensive transport industry training courses to its...

• Following your most interesting and thoughtprovoking editorial comment and news article on the subject of bank guarantees...

Few truck operations polarise opinion as much as the transportation of nuclear fuel and waste. Tony Cox, of British Nuclear...

Is there a market for four-wheel-drive panei vans? We test Renault's two-litre 4 >< 4 diesel Trafic and put it through its...

The large number of new vehicles bowing in at the motor show tended to overshadow the component and accessory displays — but...

To help you and your vehicle make it through the cold months ahead, here are just a few examples of the numerous winter...

By J. W. White, Commercial Director; Interlube Systems Ltd, Plymouth. In today's transport environment of ever-rising vehicle...

Will you get caught out by the snow this winter? If you follow our routine checklist to prepare your vehicles for the onslaught...