• "Hello is that Commercial Motor? I did some work for a freight forwarder recently and now he won't pay me ... can you help?"...

• A scheme to protect hauliers from bankruptcy if freight forwarders go out of business could be launched next year. The...

task of delivering Trafalgar Square's giant Christmas tree this week. The 22m-high, two-tonne tree, a gift from Norway, was...

Channel Tunnel visit for 150 potential customers last week. It was RFD's first major event to sell rail-based through services...

hauliers who cannot afford to repay them in the long term, says Renault Truck Industries managing director Bernard Momin.

deals on the Continent including one with computer manufacturer Apple in the Netherlands. The NFC company expects to make...

CPC(UK) scooped the best livery and top designer awards in this year's CM/ ICI Autocolor livery competition (see pages 34-39)....

• EC transport ministers were this week meeting to discuss proposals for a maximum 48hour working week which now appear to...

have built up sufficient contracts, you face severe problems," he says. He advises hauliers to fix return loads before...

a nuclear weapon, broke down on the M25 near Kings Langley, Herts, last Sunday night, causing 32km traffic jams. Armed soldiers...

goods should be carried by rail instead of road, because truck transport is too cheap, are "simplistic and misconceived",...

• Danskin Distribution, of Cupar, Fife, has crashed into receivership blaming a batch of Leyland Dafs for its failure. The...

50 — me up at Seddon qkinson's Oldham factory iefore being delivered to toyal Mail Parcelforce in ime for the Christmas ush....

following the collapse of protracted merger talks. A predicted loss for Pirelli of more than £300m in 1991 is blamed. IIC...

• Police are urging truck drivers to be on their guard against violent robbery after a driver was left paralysed from the neck...

sink coach trips sink coach trips • The cost of many international haulage permits is being halved from 1 January. The price...

NI Many of today's trucks are draughty, uncomfortable and have poor visibility, with manufacturers viewing driver comfort and...

tankers for BP • BP Oil UK has ordered a further six 32,000 litre Thompson Tanker High Stability white spirit tankers to join...

• E&R Trailers and Nene Trailer Services have each added unusual designs to their ranges. NTS has matched a tandem axled...

• Seddon Atkinson plans to extend the appeal of its Strato tractive units and multi-wheelers next May by offering an...

EXCLUSIVE • By the middle of next year Volvo F12 truck operators will be able to fit their tractive units with the legendary...

• Hyde Heath, Chesham-based Heath Transport has taken delivery of the first 1717K Mercedes to be fitted with Telehoist's new...

• Land Rover Parts has reintroduced Series Ill chassis outriggers to its genuine parts range for 88in and 109in models built...

• Swedish firm Inter Forward is reorganising its three UK distribution companies, with a planned loss of 200 jobs and closure...

• Ferry operators' freight rates go up by £1 a metre from January and hauliers say they will find it difficult to pass the...

• Parcelforce directors have approved a plan for the business up to 1997 — but first it requires Government approval. This...

• A new European law could flood the market with Japanese vehicles, including commercials, according to a report published this...

• The Transport Development Group is shutting the only lossmaking part of its storage subsidiary, Charles Alexander & Partners...

• Removals company Bullens, bought last week by NFC removals division Hoults Removals, has had its London head office staff...

• Nottingham-based British Gypsum is expected to contract out all its lime products distribution to a third party, to be named...

• Daf has announced yet more job losses in the UK and on the Continent, More than a tenth of the workforce, about 1,600 jobs,...

• Econofreight Heavy Transport and one of its drivers were given absolute discharges after admitting using a vehicle with...

• Hudsons of Dudley escaped with a warning about the maintenance of its 14 vehicles and 10 trailers, after agreeing at a...

• South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh renewed the licence of Cimla-based Brian Alexander for the full five years,...

• Failing to produce tachograph records and permitting a driver to take insufficient daily rest have cost Coggeshall,...

• CM can supply a series of 'Law on the Wall' charts. Each poster covers a separate area of transport law: weights and...

/ Hygienic Pullet Deliveries has won authority for a new operating centre and two extra vehicles — but West Midland Deputy...

• A Bradford skip hire firm was not guilty of running a dangerous vehicle even though both its nearside wheels came off, the...

• Northern Counties, the Wigan-based bodybuilder, which called in the administrators last May, is recruiting about 50 staff to...

• ERF has developed a new 4x2 mid-engined bus chassis for South Africa. It suits bodywork of approximately 12m and is powered...

• Optare plans to launch a revamped version of the five-yearold Metrorider on the Continent next year. The most significant...

• The Court of Appeal has ruled that Sheffield-based South Yorkshire Transport can retain ownership of four rival firms it...

• Stagecoach Holdings has bought a controlling interest in the former United Transport Group's Kenya Bus Services. KBS runs...

last week when he marched out of the Hilton in a huff, and the day after, when the event was mentioned in the House of Commons,...

• East Anglian van rental company Wil!hire is to replace its 50-strong SWB Transit fleet with Volkswagen Transporters. And...

• Rotalok (Europe) is to launch two anti-roll back devices at the beginning of January. Aimed mainly at heavy trucks, the type...

• Two payloads, four new engines and a host of minor changes are included in the revised Renault Extra range, available in the...

• Land Rover has launched a range of Defender 130 dropside and tipper models built by its Special Vehicle Operations division...

4x2 tractive unit early in 1988, 12 months after was introduced. We liked the power and high level of torque supplied by the...

YOUR t R 5 / Too many operators are spending too little time on their liveries, and the gap between the good and the bad (and...

Judges on Wincanton Our Class Two winner was a classic example of the same livery working better on a different kind of...

The champion in Class One proved conclusively that it doesn't take much to turn a near miss into an outright winner. Last year...

As usual this class attracted the largest number of entries, although the quality of those entries varied immensely. So when...

Trucking. It had survived the onslaught of the recession and was just recovering from the effects of the Gulf War when tragedy...

suggested in the article on agency drivers (CM 24-30 Oct), I believe there needs to be a more comprehensive approach, and...

company, and Abets, the furniture distribution company, by Hays Specialist Distribution, new appointments have been made in...