• It does not seem to ring true: 71.4% of hauliers do not think that the law is strong enough to deter cowboy operators — but...

El QUESTION: What has 280 pages, complete technical specs of every CV on the UK market, comprehensive listings of dealers,...

stake in Cummins Engines following a week of speculation on Wall Street about the diesel giant's future and a patchy profit...

members to report local haulage law breakers to their district office to help clamp down on "cowboy" operators. It says all...

acquired Belgian freight forwarder Transmarcom for an undisclosed sum. Transmarcom, which employs 112 people at its Antwerp...

Sword of Honour for safety of personnel, plant and machinery for the third time in four years.

260 Ti 1090 truck chassis cabs to Tanzania between March and June.

bus, taxi and train manufacturing businesses, according to the company's parent, the Laird Group.

at the bottom of Burnopfield Bank, trapping the driver for almost an hour as it hung over a 10-metre drop,

• More than seven out of 10 hauliers want tougher 0-licence laws to crack down on the industry's cowboy operators, and six out...

• New commercial vehicle registrations for 1988 are well on the way to smashing 1987's record levels, according to the latest...

• Brian Weatherley is the new editor of Commercial Motor magazine. Weatherley, 35, has been with us for 10 years and has been...

the Exchequer to .reduce corporate taxes and levies on the provision of services, and to increase funding for the transport...

vehicles than ever before, according to their report for the year to 31 March 1988. More than 228,000 HGVs were checked, and...

• Top of the transport awards in the New Year's Honours list was Len Harper, recently-retired national secretary for the Road...

• There was no return to work at RMC (North West) this week, as the company's 66 owner-drivers decided to continue their...

• The High Court has drawn a distinction between the tractor unit and the semi-trailer of an articulated outfit, by allowing an...

between Maidstone and Ashford in Kent in January, according to the Department of Transport. When completed, the 80.5Iun M20...

• Robin Woolcock is to take over from Richard Ide as commercial vehicle director of Volkswagen Audi Group (UK), sole importer...

• Gloomier job prospects in road transport are forecast for 1989 in the latest survey by Manpower, the parent company of the...

• Truck drivers in London are set to reject a Road Haulage Association pay offer of £8.50. Shop stewards from the Transport and...

• A West German plan to introduce road toll charges for local and foreign trucks weighing over 18 tonnes GVW may well be...

• The Department of Transport has added spray suppression kits to the vehicle equipment which comes under the scope of annual...

main thoroughfare, Princes Street, into a pedestrian precinct have been submitted to the Scottish Secretary — but the Freight...

Channel Tunnel workings on 22 December after an overheated cable snapped and started an electrical blaze.J E

• Bedwas Bodyworks says that it is the first armouredsecurity-vehicle manufacturer to win part-two-standard approval under the...

of 450 vehicles is a Foden 4000 Series 150-tonne Special Types, Category-Three heavy hauler. The 6x4 double-bunk sleeper-cab...

• A range of stillages designed for the safe transportation of materials in drums has been launched by Mid-Anglia Engineering,...

• Britain's first MercedesBenz 1735S Powerliner 2 has gone into service with specialist airfreight carrier Cranleigh Freight...

• Steyr Trucks — the only European truck builder to win a share of the development contract for a new generation of mid-range...

The 540 Turbodaily vans will be used as all-terrain personnel transporters.

/ Eastern National has placed its loss-making French coaching business Voyage National into receivership. National Express and...

• Darlington Transport, which is currently mounting an employee buyout bid, has announced a profit for the second year running...

• The Office of Fair Trading has asked the airport authority BAA, which owns Heathrow and Gatwick, to explain its huge proposed...

• The final examples of Leyland's short-lived answer to the Volvo Citybus MOM — the mid-engined Lion doubledecker — are in...

• London Buses is planning to introduce a network of highfrequency midibuses in the Uxbridge area. Five routes have been...

• BRS Northern is extending its reefer rental scheme, law'. tiled in April last year, with a second depot. Its Hull branch will...

Parceline's contract distribution venture hopes to launch it within the next six months. Ingilby Dickson says about 20...

• TNT is expanding its thirdparty commercial vehicle engineering service, Truckcare, into Europe. TNT Engineering, Truckcare's...

haulier Sadler Transport is unlikely to be known until the end of the month. Sadler executives, led by managing director Phil...

Office's monopoly was ended, says right-wing think tank Aims of Industry. The group says that any homes losing daily deliveries...

• More small firms are choosing hire as an alternative to other ways of acquiring trucks, says BRS Western, which made 67...

• Keighley-based Transmart Delivery Services, which had operated without a licence for more than 12 months, has been granted a...

• There has not been a bus war in South Wales since deregulation, said South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh at a...

Birmingham City Magistrates for a third time last week, to answer charges brought against the company under the new hazchem...

• Two similar cases, which argued that dynamic weighbridge test certificates are defective because they do not disclose the...

of VAG to oversee the entire Volkswagen, Audi and MAN operation in Britain. He tells us about his hopes and plans for the...

11 Ask Richard Ide, the man who recently stepped up from his job as director of MAN-VW to become managing director of VAG, when...

• Sir Alastair Pugh, newly-elected president of the Chartered Institute of Transport reveals how he plans to successfully lobby...

• More than seven out of ten truck operators do not think that the law is strong enough to deter "cowboy" hauliers — so the...

Any light commercial vehicle not fitted with a Perkins Prima engine is heading towards a dead end. Prima 65 is the world's...

• UK trailer maker York is offering a light reefer conversion based on a panel van. The conversion involves the addition of a...

• Ford has finally confirmed the existance of a replacement Fiesta. It will appear in the spring, with a car-derived-van...

will be offered as a standard feature on all electrically-powered multi-line vehicle systems. The MX pump is electrically...

of the light truck market with its new dropside body, built entirely of anodised aluminium alloy. The dropside body, which is...

• Government stability tests on Japanese four-wheel-drive leisure vehicles show they are more likely to roll over than normal...

• The first aerodynamicallystyled Besco Luton van body mounted on a 3.5-tonne Ford Transit chassis has entered service with...

• Autocatalyst specialist Johnson Matthey has signed an agreement with the Orbital Engine Company of Western Australia for the...

"Stop the Rot" (CM 8-14 December). The rot we should stop is talking about the RTITB as if it did any good for hauliers. Your...

A Commercial vehicles attract enthusiasts as keen as any. When Derek Parnaby ' s fleet came under the hammer there was no...

RELOCATED IN REDDITCH • Vale() Distribution (UK) has moved to Redditch. The new base is at Unit 17, Oxleasow Road, East Moons...

MOVERS ON THE MOVE • The British Association of Removers has moved to offices in North Harrow after 16 years in central...

GLORIOUS GLASGOW • Foden Trucks' main Scottish dealer, Beaverbank Motor Company, has opened a new depot in Nitshill, Glasgow,...

HANDLING LOADS AT WORK • The Institute of Materials Management has organised a conference to discuss the Health and Safety...

DAIHATSU RAISES THE STAKES • Daihatsu has increased the prices of its commercial vehicles by an average of 2.4% with effect...

NO LOOKING BACK WITH BRIGADE • The Health and Safety Executive is conducting research into commercial vehicle reversing safety...

• RAND NEW JERSEY • A new ferry route to Jersey and Guernsey is being launched this month. Mainland Market Deliveries and...

TRAINING TO SELL • Transport Consultancy Services now offers sales training courses for CV distributors and contract hire...

HAZARDOUS CONTROLS • New Health and Safety Commission regulations designed to protect the health of people at work have been...

VAT PUBUCATIONS III Leaflet 700/42/88 Serious Misdirection Penally explains the operation of the penalty that came into effect...

TANKFREIGHT IS TOPS AGAIN • Tankfreight is one of 31 companies worldwide to win the British Safety Council's Sword of Honour....

WORKING ON THE M20 MISSING LINK • Work is to begin this month on the first of two major contracts to complete the M20 motorway...

• London and the South East M25 Surrey: Contraflow between junctions 12 and 13 (M3/Staines). M20 Kent: The lane restrictions...

Should you take notice of all those fancy diesel fuel adverts, or just buy the cheapest you can find? Are all brands of diesel...

We observed last year that there appeared to be an inverse relationship between CFPP performance and cetane index: the fuels...

• Britain's tanker hauliers are looking for a larger share of the oil distribution market in 1989. With oil companies looking...

Bunkering is undergoing a revolution. New technology is having its effect, and new players are entering the game — even the...

Running costs are a very important consideration for all transport managers. Which vehicles are the most costeffective? Which...

"Miracle" fuel-saving brews appear monthly, but few appear with the incredible story attached to Carbonflo. We aim to test this...

FL 11111 Bedford hoses to re.ain lost market share b offerin• many different options on its Midi ran•e. The 4WD version is an...

all fronts. Just take a flick through past copies of Commercial Motor and you will read of unprovoked attacks, night curfews,...

which appeared the other day ? No ? Well, here is a small reminder to jog the memory and encourage a few more Leyland Oaf...

has sent me a copy of its latest catalogue. Amid the interesting technical information, presented with admirable Teutonic...

can now reveal that a wowing number of the nation's hauliers are said to be supplementing their drivers' overnight allowances...

Indian truck driver describing his reasons for leaving his previous job in the US Army: "The trouble was, there were too many...

the Road Haulage Association who retired from the Transport Development Group last August, has been appointed deputy chairman...