• "We have to be frank: we have misjudged the number of lorries using motorways. It is these lorries which actually chew the...

• Has Land Rover lost an .85 million order to supply long-wheelbase 110 models to the Swiss Army? Confusion currently surrounds...

to cabotage? • By next year British hauliers could be competing with foreign operators for domestic work if new European...

• Talks on the proposed management buyout at Special Trucks — formerly the old Scammell Motors Plant at Watford — are still...

the Transport and General Workers Union to refuse to deliver to army bases if they are worried by Provisional IRA death...

si The long-running dispute over diesel fuel quality and its cold-flow performance looks set to continue, despite a last minute...

• Taking trucks through the Dartford Tunnel could be costing the transport industry as much as £20,000 an hour. A truck with...

IN Lorry-mounted mobile roadworks signs are set to replace up to a million traffic cones on Britain's motorways. The system...

• From 31 December next year, all motor insurance policies will have to cover liability for damage to property. The extension...

• Proposals to introduce radical changes in the way hauliers pay for training will not be included in a Road Transport Industry...

a fatal accident in New Hall Lane, Preston, near the junction with Scotforth Road. A 50-year-old man is believed to have fallen...

rose by 4,100 in July, up 5% from July 1986. New registrations of maximum-weight articulated vehicles also rose, by 31%...

• National Freight Consortium member BRS has revised its strategy for the development of its proposed Servicentre third-party...

• Onward Transport has won the contract to distribute 'New York Seltzer', the latest soft drink to arrive in the UK. Onward...

sale of its five engineering businesses, Wincanton Engineering, Wincanton Electrical Services, Giltspur Technologies, Giltspur...

• Peter Lane Group, the Bristol-based transport and distribution specialist has set up its own temporary drivers agency called...

• The Channel tunnel project has taken a substantial step forward with the securing of £5 billion worth of bank loans and...

• South London-based tipping operator George Killoughery has added its first two Mercedes-Benz 3025 eightleggers to its fleet...

hire deal to supply picture frame manufacturers Friarage Arts of Richmond with a 7.5-tonne GVW Ford Cargo. • Motor distributor...

• MAN is gearing up for the start of 17-tonne operations on two axles, which becomes legal from April next year. It has...

• Leyland Daf has revised its plans for building right-handdrive Dutch-origin vehicles at the Leyland Assembly Plant (LAP) at...

the Eaton Corporation in America for the Eaton Axle and Brake Division to market Haldex Automatic Brake Adjusters in the USA....

• During July more than 30% of all heavy trucks above 29 tonnes sold in the UK were fitted with Cummins engines, according to...

• A new smooth-sided tipping semi-trailer currently under development by Don-Bur will, it is claimed, offer fuel and weight...

its press guide to the forthcoming Frankfurt Motor Show is the latest 0303 integral coach (see page 21) which will be offered...

overfill protection system for road tankers that can be used at terminals with modern gantries — or with the most basic filling...

If every piece of mechanical equipment was as good, we'd have no worries." That is Ron Sinclair's comment on the ZF Ecosplit...

• French lorry driver Gene Blaize of St Brieuc has been fined .25,650 with £175 costs and disqualified from driving for 12...

• Arnpthill-magistrates have fined Scottish-based hauliers Stephenson Brothers (Avonbridge) £1,000 for failing to ensure that a...

companies and three of their directors are so serious that Grimsby magistrates have sent them for trial at the Crown Court....

• A Nottingham Industrial Tribunal has rejected a claim that Les Wilson Haulage sexually discriminated against Pauline Palmer...

• Isle of Man haulier Manx Seaferry Freight has been given an absolute discharge, but ordered to pay prosecution costs of 2120,...

• The minibus body boom continues with the launch of yet another modular body range — the Routernaker — from Dormobile of...

• Daimler-Benz has revised the engine and driveline of its 52-seater Mercedes 0303 integral coach. From now on all 0303s built...

• Hungarian PSV producer Drams is to develop a range of buses for Britain and Ireland under an exclusive five-year deal with...

• The sale of West Yorkshire Road Car has now been completed, making this the 44th National Bus Company operating subsidiary to...

• New registrations of public transport vehicles during July fell by 22% compared with the same month last year. The good news...

• London busmen staged unofficial strikes last Thursday during the funeral of a colleague killed in a knife attack. Conductor...

• The proposed sale of Victoria Coach station has been halted by Transport Minister David Mitchell. He has told National Bus...

• The new Leyland Daf is impressive to look at, and impressive in the quality of its construction: the early examples of the...

• A week after the launch of the new MAN-VW 7.5-tonne truck range (CM 25 August-2 September), Volkswagen has released details...

• Austin Rover has received orders for over 500 car-derived vans worth over £3 million at showroom prices. Most of the vehicles...

• Longdon Truck Equipment is now offering a lightweight heavy-duty cantilever tail-lift suitable for 3.5-tonnes GVW vans and...

• The first Mercedes-Benz Ti 'Bremen' vans and chassis cabs to be fitted with an optional anti-lock braking system (ABS) make...

• In response to the success of Japanese leisure 4x4s in the UK market, Land Rover has produced a one-off version of the short...

we ran a story on the Africar. Africar International has since pointed out that the vehicle is designed around a plywood...

• Leyland Daf will have to make a decision soon over the make-up of the project to replace the long-serving Freight Rover...

GRAMPIAN TRANSPORT • Grampian Regional Council's Public Transport Unit has moved to Woodhill House, Westburn Road, Aberdeen,...

YTE FOR FLEXOUNK • Dunlop has appointed York Transport's Engineering Centres as approved installers of its Flexolink air...

AUSTIN ROVER VANS • Austin Rover has increased the price of its Metro and Maestro car-derived vans by an average of 2.3%. The...

FLEET KLEAN MACHINE • MAC Machines and Chemicals of Henley-onThames, Oxfordshire, has developed a cabinet-based pressure washer...

WC WITH EPT • E P Training of Esher, Surrey is running intensive CPC study courses leading up to the RSA Examination on 2...

LIABILITY SEMINARS • One-day seminars designed to make the retail motor industry aware of product liability are being held by...

HOVERSPEED AGENT IN BELGIUM • Cross-channel hovercraft operator Hoverspeed has appointed Antwerp-based De Keyser Thornton (DKT)...

N EW PALM RESTRAINTS • Apex Load Control of Croydon, Surrey has added three new products to its load restraint equipment range,...

a subsidiary of the Central Motor Auctions Group but is now a branch, operating as Central Motor Auctions, Bradford. By...

• There are plenty of reference books around for road hauliers, but surprisingly few for PSV operators, even since the advent...

Ml! Essex: SB LC, J6-7, CF. M27 Hants: CF, J3-4. M27 Hants; J5 (Stoneham Interchange below motorway) LR, LD. M4 Thames...

MI Leics: CF, J23-24. M5 West Midlands: LC J1-2, SB entry SR at11 and Northbound entry SR at J2 C. M5 Hereford/Worcs: LR NB...

M62 Greater Manchester: LC EB J2122. M62 Humberside: WB exit SR C J37, D. M62-M6 IC Cheshire: CF. M62-M18 Humberside: CF....

M5 Somerset: NB and SB LC, J21-22 and J25-26. A40 Dyfed: Haverford West, LD. A40 Glos: TTL on Cheltenham Rd. A30 Dorset: RW,...

M8 Strathclyde: J8-11 and, J27-29, LC, D, LD. W of J5 NB and SB, LR. M8 Lothian: J3-4, CF. M9 Lothian: J2-3, CF. M9 Central:...

• I read, with interest, the comment on 6 August which expressed surprise at the fact that so few vehicle bodybuilders in this...

the hands of British truckers cheaper than anyone else. The idea behind the cost-cutting is simplicity itself. secondhand...

Renault's Trafic Ti 300 is a vehicle of extremes. lts handling and suspension are excellent: yet its driving position and fuel...

Swedish money is helping the E & J Meeks empire to expand — the company's latest acquisition, Sam Longson of Chapel-en-le-Frith...

simple (the arrival of the press release, with perhaps a photograph and a vague promise of a vehicle to try at some...

I really wish it were otherwise. The reason is, you see, I ventured forth across the Channel last week, using the...

Leyland Daf is pinning its hopes on the new 95 Series. Though not revolutionary, it represents a fundamental change to the...

Bedford's 1.6-litre petrol-engined Astramax has benefitted from a number of engine improvements that have improved its economy...

Jim Verdin, previously general manager for NCCS's Curry's operations at Newark and Winchester, has been promoted to general...

board of the Manchester-based Harper group of companies. He retains the title of sales and marketing director, which he held...

36-yearold Steve Tremble, who was previously general sales and marketing manager. Tremble has also worked for Lucas Girling and...

at Volvo Trucks's West London distributor Heathrow Commercials. He will be responsible for all aspects of the distributorship's...

Barlow its regional sales manager to co-ordinate its operations throughout the midlands. Barlow, 42, has been with Fleetdrive...

builders Northern Counties as director of production and engineering, a newly-created position. He was previously works...

of Longton Trucks and Longjease Contracts of Stoke-on-Trent, is the new managing director of Greenhous Midlands. His career...

Kay as general manager. Kay, who has worked for the company for two-and-a-half years, will be responsible for the management of...

at BRS Northern's Lowfields Road branch in Leeds. Formerly manager of the company's York branch, he has been in BRS management...

Oxlade has been with the company since 1972, holding various jobs including regional sales manager and UK sales manager.

Murdo Morrison, aged 23, who joins the magazine from a journalism course at University College, Cardiff. A native of Lewis in...