IN Is it too easy to get into road haulage? The latest annual reports from the Licensing Authorities would seem to suggest that...

• Mersey Tunnel HGV tolls will be increased to 2180 in September. Light van tolls will be £1.20. • There were 5,400...

• Britain's lorry drivers were bracing themselves for a night on the docks as the National Union of Seamen began a nationwide...

• The Department of Transport has postponed its plan to set up a joint "Suspension Club" with CV manufacturers to look into...

the UK as there were in 1981, according to statistics published by Iveco Ford. Of the 1,138 dealers in 1981 only 577 remained...

• Johnston Engineering has won the 1988 British Design Award for its Johnston 600 Series suction sweeper, which was launched in...

• The road transport industry has reacted angrily to a move by European Community commissioners to clamp down on drivers'...

• New police powers are being sought to prosecute hauliers over drivers' hours offences. This is part of a motorway safety plan...

• A British lorry driver, facing jail in Hungary for driving away after knocking down and killing a local man, has had an...

• A crisis meeting between the Transport and General Workers Union and White Arrow Services bosses to decide the fate of a...

come to an early end now that Rupert Murdoch, new owner of the paper, has taken over the distribution arrangements. The...

• Local authority public transport are down by more than £100 million a year, including a saving of about £40 million from bus...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) plans to make the Daimler-Benz ASR anti-wheel-slip traction system standard on all 1989 modelyear...

Peterborough is to build a 375m 2 assembly plant in Holland in a bid to increase its Continental sales. As part of the...

• The new 242kW (325hp) version of Cummins' 10-litre straight-six L10 diesel engine will make its debut before the end of the...

• Warrington-based Edwards Transport has bought its first two ERF E6 rigids. The trucks have been converted to 21tanners with...

• Iveco Ford Truck plans to consolidate the market share improvement it made during 1987, says director of commercial...

in production and is available for engines developing torque of up to 1,815Nm. The new model's weight, size and gear ratios...

have prompted HC Wilson Transport of Elmeswell, Suffolk, to buy one of Nooteboorn's latest extendable, hydraulically-steered...

• Cummins sold more engines last year than in any year since it entered the UK market in 1956— and its sale of 9,747 units made...

• Management-owned Leyland Bus is to build a doubledeck body for its Olympian bus chassis at the company's Workington assembly...

• Clacton-based Chartercoach is to close down its Coastal Red subsidiary, which operates on the north east Essex coast....

• PSV coachbuilder Wadham Stringer is now offering its Wessex minibus body on the Mercedes 12 709, 809 and 811D chassis cowls....

coach parking • London urgently needs a permanent off-street coach park and a new coach station, claims London Tourist Board...

• The Scottish Bus Group is to be privatised as a single unit and plans for an employee buyout, which would lead to an...

a Volvo B1OM chassis, as part of an order for five NCbodied Volvo double-deckers for Derby City Transport. The Volvo body has...

• Another vehicle has been added to the fleet which the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service uses to transport nurses on blood...

• Lincolnshire Road Car has become the 59th National Bus Company operating subsidiary to be privatised. It has been bought for...

• The first UK Mini-bus Driver of the Year competition is to take place in conjunction with the Bus Driver of the Year...

Plaxtons Paramount 3200 and has ordered another which is due for delivery in August. The 3200 is based on a Daf DHTD chassis...

• British trailer maker Crane Fruehauf has merged with four other European subsidiaries owned by the American Fruehauf...

instead of buying their own vehicles, according to a survey carried out for TransfleetServices. Most managers questioned...

• Tibbett & Britten Group has won the contract to manage two of Woolworth's distribution centres at Radlett and Wanington. The...

• Magazine distributor Time Sensitive Deliveries is asking local-based hauliers to tender for regional contracts to deliver up...

UK over-3.5-tonne sector last year by selling 2,219 vehicles. The company says it made gains in most classes, notably with its...

• The National Freight Consortium has bought its third American company, Allied Van Lines, for $100 million (256.98 million)....

• Christian Salveson's hanging garment service, Salstream, is building a multimillion pound distribution centre in Leeds to...

• An ever-growing number of would be hauliers are applying for 0-licences — but many of them are failing to stay the course....

• No action has been taken against South Yorkshire Transport and private operator Mike Groves over an alleged incident in the...

• The number of vehicles authorised on the licence held by Kettlewell (Retford) has been reduced from 22 to 19. Eastern...

• Disciplinary proceedings involving George Hirst, trading as Badley Brothers of Holmfield, have been adjourned by North...

• Bedwas has revised its Ford Transit-based PV400 and PV300 parcels vans with a bigger recessed sliding driver's door, a...

• Will this be the replacement for the CF chassis cab to be produced by the Isuzu and Vauxhall combine, IBC? Spotted at the...

• The first left-hand-drive Austin Rover Maestro vans will be sold in Europe in June. Only the two-litre direct-injection...

• Practical Used Car Rental of Birmingham, which provides used cars and light vans for rental, is planning to open new outlets...

• Nissan's range of one-tonne pickups is now available with a new diesel engine, and the four-wheel-drive versions also get...

• A computer-based vehicle monitoring system is now available for the fleet management of light commercials and passenger cars....

SPANISH FLYER • Lorry drivers going into Spain through Irun face long delays at customs, warns the International Road Transport...

on its newly relaunched Pembroke-Rosslare service. B&I had originally intended to operate one sailing a day in each direction...

PAINT SPREADING • Vehicle paint refinishers Berger, Herberts Standox, Superfleet and Viton have five new UK stockists. In Scot...

PAGING PRICES • Air Call Communications has introduced a new pricing policy for subscribers using radio pagers in more than one...

CPL EXEMPTIONS • An exemption certificate under the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations...

HIGH SPOT • A new truckstop and autoport has opened at Tarbes on the French side of the Spanish border in the Pyrenees. The...

BARS TO DRAWBARS? • The Transport Studies Group is holding a one-day conference on 30 March called The Drawbar Revolution. The...

CLASSIFY CORRECTLY • A notice explaining the importance of classifying goods correctly has been published by HM Customs and...

REFUNDS AND RATES International hauliers baffled by VAT reimbursement procedure can now buy a 52page brochure telling them what...

IVIECO FORD TRUCK • Iveco Ford Truck has launched an extended warranty package called Road Cover Assurance which, combined with...

INCO-MOL • BMV Industries, the Derby municipal vehicles maker, is now trading as Inco-Mol. The company was bought by IncoMol,...

CHOCKS AWAY • R E Tyre and Rubber is marketing a range of studded wheel chocks, designed to give a better hold in ice. The...

LIFTING GUIDANCE NOTE FROM HSI • The Health and Safety Executive has issued a revised guidance note on the use of cable laid...

WINCANTON TRANSFLORA ▪ Wincanton Distribution Ser vices has set up a new company for the delivery of cut flowers and pot plants...

EXTRA BOOTH FOR SEVERN • An additional toll booth is to be built on the westbound carriageway of the M4 at the Severn Bridge...

• London and the South East M1 London: J4, LC (Edgeware). M2 Kent: J4, CF. M4 London: J4, LC EB CC 21:30-06:00, D. LC. M10...

Turner had "joined with Christ" reached the Hawk's intray this week, he thought it was either an obituary, thundering...

has been keeping a high profile for Labatt's, the Canadian brewery since 1948, despite a ban on beer advertising. Its striking...

and greasy fry-ups in many of America's truckstops. These highway cses, so long the haven for toughtalkitf, hard livin'...

When did you last see a tipper so cared for that it wore personalised number plates? Day Aggregates has a fleet of them, whose...

Following the reorganisation of LRT, Maidstone-based Borolline has snapped up some prime routes in the Kent corner of London. •...

Leyland Bus has responded to the demand for more power by treating its Tiger coaches to Cummins L10 horizontal engines. We...

It is now a year since Ian McKinnon's management team bought Leyland Bus from Rover Group. We examine the company's progress as...

weeks, I have read with great interest the various discussions made on the salaries paid to attract people into the transport...

concern and to inform you (if you don't already know) of serious loopholes in the HGV driving and tachograph laws which you may...

column over a quiet lunchtime sandwich we were quite amused to read the small item about the blood tanker (Bird's Eye View, CM...

in the Wheels and Tyres Supplement (CM 21-27 January) "No wheels on my wagon", I refer to the booklet The Lost Wheels Mystery,...

manager (Scotland) of Ford dealer Laidlaw Group and will be based in Coatbridge. She joined the company three years ago as a...

manager of Aquilla Plastics, which supplies self-adhesive products to the motor industry.

the founders of Bristol parcels carrier Interlink Express, has won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year award for the...

managing director of Microsystem of Poole, the world's largest manufacturer of electronic bus ticketing machines and taxi...

the Bristol-based truck air brake component manufacturer Bendix, has retired after 31 years with the company. He joined Bendix...

four management appointments. Chris Hyde becomes sales manager for the north of England, and Mike Phillips takes on a similar...

appointments to its fleet and commercial operation. Rex Martin becomes sales director; Alan Maguire becomes operations director...

UK sales director Peter Johnson has left to join a Coventry chemicals firm. Kevin Morley, Austin Rover's director of marketing,...

has been corporate communications adviser to Leyland Daf, has joined the company full time as communications director. Hayes...

of Transfleet Services on 1 February. He previously worked for Transport Development Group, where he held several management...

sales manager of truck equipment firm NCS, taking responsibility for the concrete equipment division. Zielonko has worked in...

Peter Lane Transport as business development executive. The company has also promoted Rebecca Jenkins to be director of sales...