• Squeeze someone hard enough and sooner or later they'll yell "enough!". That certainly seems to be the case with the...

• More than 80 tippermen have stopped work at two RMC quarries in Derbyshire in a bid to secure a 20% rate increase. The...

• Roads and Traffic Minister Christopher Chope has again ruled out a national register of HGV training schools. At the opening...

• Haulage costs have risen by 6.5% since the Gulf crisis began, according to the Road Haulage Association. It says fuel has...

• A woman truck driver who was driven out of her job because of sexual harassment from her transport manager has been awarded...

and Bonnyman, and components company Pesca Engineering, has made a 2200,000 pre-tax loss in the first half of the year compared...

plans to expand its ownership of two railheads to at least six in the next couple of months.

trucks, will come into service in 1992, and will make the crossing from Poole to Cherbourg in four hours.

11 million tonnes in 1989 — the first reduction since 1981 according to the Department of Transport's annual report: Transport...

London Lorry Ban on 12 October, completing the ring of inner London boroughs backing the ban. The organisers hope that...

Holes and Eldon Hill quarries which produce tarmacadam and limestone aggregates, follows months of discontent over the rates...

• Part of a hazardous waste consignment dumped at an Essex haulier's yard (CM 20-26 September) has been moved by German...

• Police are hunting a thief who drove a trailer loaded with £24,000 worth of coffee out of BRS Western's Banbury depot. Using...

at the European Distribution Show in London on Tuesday this week, has been called off at a few days' notice. Instead, the...

• Renault is to make up to 100 staff redundant at its Dunstable plant by Christmas. The move follows 300 job cuts last...

• Wolverhampton bodybuilder Transliner has gone into receivership and is looking for a buyer. It blames a fall in truck sales...

• The RSPCA has moved a step closer to winning a ban on the export of live sheep to France with its High Court victory last...

• Work has been picking up for owner-operators in Cornwall and small areas of the West Midlands over the past month, according...

• The Government should introduce a licensing system which ensures freight forwarders are of good financial repute, and will...

• Environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth has called on European Commissioners to impose tough new anti-pollution...

a move by Brussels to harmonise dery excise duty at about £180 per 1,000 litres. The ministers meet again later this month.

in which each manufacturer will take a 45% stake in the other's commercial vehicle operation — was finalised Last week.

began are "indefensible", says EC Energy Commissioner Antonio Cardoso e Cunha. Environment , Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana...

• Iveco Ford Truck is merging its dealers' parts and service operations under a new "aftersales" banner, and is also...

• Danish horticultural haulier Gasa Odense has launched "Europe's most sophisticated flower transport vehicle" (CM 27...

• A Bedford waste haulier has bought the first 6x4 Mercedes tractive unit in the UK. And although Mercedes estimates it will...

• Granning Airglide has produced a lighter drop-centre axle to suit most trucks. The Granning 200 FDC has a 17min-thick tube...

• ERF is fitting the Econoc The system chosen by ERF niise EMA Speed Control Sysis the top-speed control, which tem to its...

new version of its vehicle-mounted rotating billboard system (CM 22-28 February) based on the Iveco Ford Cargo. The system uses...

• Volvo Trucks has finally revised the long-serving interiors of its F10, F12 and F16 heavy tractors and has adopted a heated...

• Trailer manufacturer Boalloy's parent Marling Industries has formed a joint venture with German builder Schmitz to build...

• Following the adoption of Grau DGX anti-lock braking equipment as standard on all its new Daf-powered Series 80 (Roadtrain)...

• Multidrive's latest ERF 10 x6 twin-steer derivative of its range of articulating, all-terrain vehicles is to enter service...

IN Commercial Motor has obtained the first photographs of the Renault Midliner fourdoor crew cab: although it was announced at...

• Mystery surrounds the loss of a plum £4m BRS Midlands distribution contract with CMB Foodcan. Braunstone, to Carlisle...

• Philips Petroleum has awarded a distribution contract to four tanker companies, thought to be worth around £500,000 to each...

• The slump in the tipper market has forced yet another long-established operator to sell vehicles and cut jobs. County Durham...

• Ryder Truck Rental has won a £2m contract to supply Budgens Stores with 59 tractor units and 128 trailers on contract-hire....

• Preston-based removals firm Brewer & Turnbull is expanding its network of 25 franchisees, following an increase in business...

• Transfleet has won a £1.5m contract hire deal with London-based Hunter Building Products for eight Leyland Daf 2300 drawbars...

• A total of 15 ANC franchises are up for grabs from Kent to Scotland, and industry sources say that none of the depots is...

• Securicor Express Parcels Is changing its name to Securicor Omega Express in a Um facelift that will take two years to...

balance because of the stagnant high street retail market — 1,000 jobs are being cut by clothing and home goods chain Laura...

for 10 established carriers with about four vans to join its national network of 40 operators. The four-month-old firm, based...

and Poland in a joint venture with local firms, and it is looking at Bulgaria, Romania and Albania for more deals which it...

has reached its goal of 32 agents. The latest additions are: Winter of Evanton, Inverness; MS Freight of Newcastle; Kenley...

• Coach drivers who park illegally or cause disruption in central London are Likely to be reported to their employers....

• Reading Transport's new managing director Rod Wilson plans to increase the company's coach tour programme by at least 50% by...

• Chippenham-based indepen. dent Overland and County has gone into receivership, less • than six months after launching a...

• A blueprint for a tram service which will run from Wood Green to Muswell Hill, via Alexandra Palace, has been drawn-up by...

• The t Drive Group is selling part of its bus operations so that it can buy out Q Drive shares belonging to Club Cantabrica...

• The last bus conductor in South Wales, John Smith of Swansea, has retired. He was the only conductor to avoid the switch to...

• A new AMI-bodied bus based based on a Renault chassis and designed for up to 33 seats is being developed by PMT Engineering,...

• United Bus is aiming for a 15%. share of the European bus and coach market by 1994, said managing director Wolf Winer at the...

• Another Scottish Bus Group company has been put up for sale. Northern Scottish, the group's Aberdeen-based subsidiary, which...

• Go-Ahead Northern's plans to diversify could be at the expense of its existing bus services, warns the Transport and General...

• Jim Begg, managing director of Midland Bluebird, has taken early retirement after 20 years at the Falkirk-based company and...

• 'Four giant Wallace Arnold of Leeds has placed its biggest order to date for new replacement coaches. It will take delivery...

• Mark Cutter, of Greenacre Farm, Peterston, St Brides, Glamorgan will have to wait to see what disciplinary action South Wales...

• Gwent-based JM Vokes has been warned that any further vehicle prohibition notices over the next two years could lead to the...

• Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall has renewed John and Stuart Beaty's international licence for 14 vehicles...

• leVarley magistrates heard how tipper driver Roger Jones collided with a fully-laden petrol tanker, while reversing his...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority John Hampton has granted permission to Lancashire fuel distributor Samuel Cooke to...

• A driver is . entitled to take part of his daily rest period before starting a journey, Eccles magistrates have ruled. The...

• At its first appearance at Birmingham Portugese manufacturer UMM announced additions to its range of 4x4 vehicles. The new...

Escorts and Orions, including vans, built between December 1986 and January 1988 to check the insulation of a wire connected to...

Royal Mail for 1,228 200 Series vans fitted with sliding cab doors. A mix of roller shutters and conventional hinged doors have...

• Ford is investing £194m in its Halewood, Merseyside plants — £24m is being spent on the transmission plant with £170m for the...

several light commercial manufacturers to display refrigerated conversions at the Birmingham Motor Show, including Seat,...

• Scheduled to make an appearance, but not on display at Birmingham, was the new VW Polo van. Like its hatchback stablemate, it...

• Appearing at the Motor Show for the first time was chassis builder AL-KO. The company, which supplies chassis for the...

• The Zag, Ford's Fiestabased concept van designed by Ghia of Turin, is to be fitted with an Orbital engine. The vehicle, which...

• After nearly 10 years in production, right-hand-drive Renault Trafics are finally to be fitted with a side sliding door -but...

• As reported in our first Motor Show number (CM 2026 September), Leyland Daf has announced a package of changes for the 200...

• As revealed in Commercial Motor (CM 27 September-3 October), FSO has launched a dropside pickup based on the Polonez...

• Lex Van Contracts has released its contract-hire market share figures for January to July. The results show that the Transit...

Readers who saw the piece might be justified in thinking that an otherwise respectable Sunday newspaper was not taking the good...

keep up the Knights of the Road ethic (CM 30 August-5 September) I am indebted to Andrew Newdick of HMF Truck Equipment who...

Paignton Zoo, Devon, where Judy the giraffe from Blackpool Zoo has finally met her lanky hunk, Danny (CM 27 September-3...

sweet, says the poet — but then he did not have to fork out £80,000 over a 10-month period and quiz customer panels throughout...

in the capital, is considering redecorating its exempt-vehicle plates with laurel, to stress the "Green-ness" of the schemes,...

our priorities wrong? We should be encouraging people to stop and help someone in trouble, not frighten them off with fines....

Securicor and Omega emerged clear favourites — hence Securicor Omega Express. The Hawk is sure it was worth £80,000, but if...

five celebrities who changed their names and became international successes. A CM polo shirt will be sent to the first reader...

old adage given a new twist by a tail of ruff justice emerging from Bulldog International Transport of Andover, Hants. While...

flashed to millions of people during peak-time television? Most operators would dismiss this as a pipe-dream, but many fail to...

A survey conducted in 1982 concluded that more than 90% of the public said they would notice a truck if it was marked with...

Is anyone going to read the entire message and take it in? The Loughborough report advises operators to identify the brand...

panel of judges in the Commercial Motor ICI Autocolor Livery Competition seek to answer that question when they plough through...

the Renault AE has either been visiting relations off-planet or is dead. Following the ballyhoo over Renault's futuristic...

MI Despite the gloom, there is finally a glimmer of hope on the transport industry's jobs front. But, according to the latest...