CABOTAGE CHAOS • After all the talking, the threats and the counter-threats, after union job-loss warnings and trade...

• Cabotage will finally get under way from 1 July next year with an initial 15,000 permits, each valid for two months. Despite...

• The Road Haulage Association's Green Code of Practice, published last week, has been generally welcomed by operators and...

• The four-way race to snap up Pegaso ended last Friday, when the Spanish Government accepted a £206 million bid by MAN and...

The 21.3m, two-tonne Christmas tree is a traditional present from the people of Oslo in thanks for Britain's assistance during...

ird clause, which will be mered if more than 30% of total cabotage operations concentrated in one coun, when the EC Commission...

• The Department of Transport is reconsidering its interpretation of the drivers hour's regulations. This follows the decision...

• Specialist bodybuilder CB Cottingham has gone into receivership. Receivers Ernst & Young hopes to sell the company as a going...

• Plans for a chain of 20 new UK truck stops have been launched by Norfolk House, the petrol station and sales promotion group,...

• Britain's trade deficit in commercial vehicles increased by almost 25% during the first nine months of the year — the value...

• The Oxford Bus Company, in its second year of operation since deregulation, has boosted its profits by 36% to 2919,000.

for some of the 25% fall in its interim pre-tax profits in the first half of this year.

ationally for heavy lorries the new year, paving the ay for further private en:rprise services to the aulage industry as the...

tuck inustry and start paying be er rates to attract school ..avers to the industry, cams David McLintock, resident of the...

1 Transport minister tobert Atkins says new :C-style HGV and PSV [riving licences will be inreduced from 1991.

UK Waste Control has con three local authority caste contracts, together earth 21.27m, with Tenring District, Three Rivers nd...

• The number of deaths on Britain's roads last year was 5,052 — the lowest since 1954. The number of HGV drivers and passengers...

• Imperial Tankers plans to merge with another UK tanker operator by 1990, and the strongest contender is thought to be Sadler...

• Drivers of vehicles carrying dangerous goods must hold a vocational training certificate valid for five years, say EC...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson will be the principal guest and speaker at the Road Haulage Association's Annual Dinner...

• The all-party Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry has slammed the Post Office's service, and reckons it is getting...

• Birmingham distribution company Abec Transmission Products has won a major contract with Rover Group to supply plant...

• European transport commissioner Karel Van Miert has rejected calls by the International Road Transport Union for restrictions...

• The Government has rejected a call to ban the Japanese-style green lights displayed on some lorry roofs. At Westminster last...

• European hauliers are reeling from last week's EC Commission proposal to limit the total load bed length of drawbars to 15.3...

• Operators working as sub-contractors for major civil engineering firms should have a standard national licence, says West...

• Hino importer Harris UK has confirmed that its new lightweight six-wheeler and 17tonner have won type approval, and it is...

• Land Rovers fitted with the new Gemini engine will take part in next year's Ministry of Defence contract trials. This will be...

• A range of four-wheel drive off-road vehicles from Mahindra & Mahindra of Bombay will go on sale in the UK early next year....

• Gigant Suspensions (UK) of Market Harborough, Leics has been appointed sole distributor for Hosta BV (Netherlands) power...

• A new type of all-altuninit demountable tank container, equipped with a pneumatic di charge system capable of working at...

been bought by its management team fc 218.5 million from Walker Greenbank. Italian vehicle washing specialist Ceccato has taken...

to specify asbestos-free brake linings. Abex will supply Volvo plants in Sweden, Belgium and Scotland. This follows recent...

built this year by its Northallerton factory to United Carriers International.

• Transfleet Services and Chart Distribution Services, which are jointly owned by Lex Services and Lombard North Central, are...

• APG Distribution, the Corby-based distribution division of the Allied Partnership Group, has bought Oughtred & Harrison...

• Railfreight Distribution has announced plans for a Spring launch of the UK's first highspeed intermodal freight service...

• Waltham Abbey, Essex based D H Sear Transport has gone into receivership, after the company's sole vehicle was stolen at the...

• TNT Parcels is on targel to boost its franchise network to 1,000 outlets within the next four years, says divisional general...

• Motor, leisure and investment group Gowrings has acquired contract hire and vehicle management company Fleetlease Holding for...

• Amtrak Express Parcels of Bristol will next Spring expand into Europe with its newly-formed company Amtrak European and is...

• Motorway Tyres has wor a 2150,000 contract with Scottish housing agency Scottish Homes, to supply tyres for SH's...

• Two NFC subsidiaries have combined to win a 21.2 million, two-year deal to distribute spares for Colt cars. Lynx and BRS...

• Crowthers Livestock laulage of Hereford has one into liquidation: its issets are being sold by lijuidator Eddie Hunt of...

a 2.70,000 threelay contract with Family tampers to deliver Christnas hampers throughout he UK.

of an ERF El0 carransporter to cope with a :0% increase in its car devery business. It transrafted 50,000 vehicles this rear.

▪ BRS Western has in rested £7 million on a new iranch at Swindon, which viii open next September. Ile site will offer contract...

▪ HDL Contract Hire ilans to expand its fleet rom 800 to more than L,000 vehicles by 1991, ays director and general nanager,...

• Bishop's Move Group has continued to expand outside the household and commercial removals markets by winning a contract with...

• GKN Axles' Salisbury division has won its largest contract to date, worth over ,217 million a year, to supply axles to IBC...

It has bought 12 vehicles for the work. Daily deliveries are made throughout the Midlands and southern UK, from Osram's...

• Mercedes-Benz will launch two 17-tonners at next year's Motor Show in October. In addition to a re-cabbed 1617, designated...

• Having won the £155 million contract to supply the British Army with 5,350 fourtonners, Leyland Daf is hoping to make inroads...

• Everest Double Glazing ha taken delivery of nine adapted Volkswagen LT35 diesel vans for use as installation vehicles. The...

• Leyland Daf is supplying six new drawbar vehicles to bed manufacturer Silentnight. Four of them are FA2100s which will go...

• Nissan Motor of Tokyo is to spend .E31 million in the next year buying land, buildings and equipment for Nissan European...

bought three AWE) TL13-16s to work on a new contract. They have Perkins-Phaser engines and 5.35m 3 Withey Maxilite dropside...

• Ryder has spent £10 million on a 685-vehicle replacement programme, with Iveco Ford, Leyland Daf, Mercedes-Benz and MAN. The...

• Leeds-based Amberley Travel, which was banned from operating buses on local services in September, is back on the road...

• Liverpool-based Amberline, now part of the National Express Holdings Group, has stepped up its local bus services in the city...

• A bus war is brewing in Hertfordshire between BTA Coaches and Sovereign Bus and Coach. Sovereign has launched 15 Mercedes...

• The row between the British Airports Authority and bus and coach operators at Gatwick and Heathrow airports has been settled,...

• AVE Berkhof has sold its first Berkhof coaches in the UK since it was appointed U distributor for the Belgian m que (CM 5-11...

• Oxford coach operator Pearce Private Hire has taken delivery of a Daf SB 2305 DHTD with Duple 320 SL bodywork. The 57seater...

• Harry Bkinclred's bus company, Docklands Transit, is launching a highfrequency hail-and-ride min: buse service in south-east...

I Glasgow could become le latest British city to opt a a light metro system to :ape with worsening traffic Dngestion....

Keighley and District, the ast Yorkshire addition to the 3 Holdings empire, has been mally launched with the ival of eight new...

• The Bus and Coach Council has rejected the Palmer report proposal to create a single Licensing Authority, saying it would...

• Commuter-coach operators are poised to capture a biggerthan-ever slice of the market from British Rail if current trends...

• Merseyside Transport is promoting environmental concern in Liverpool, with the launch of a Green advertising bus which spells...

() 5 . Three overloading convictions and a tachograph offence led to lgety Foods appearing bee North Eastern Deputy :ensing...

• It does not matter if the "use" of a site as an operating centre has been tindoned in planning terms — may not be abandoned...

• The vehicle authorisation on the PSV Oper ator's Licence held by Ben Johnson & Son (Haulage), of Brandesburton, Driffield,...

adjourned consideration of disciplinary action against the PSV Operator's Licence held by Coachlines UK of Kirkham for three...

• W L Bailey (Pontypoop's licence has been cut from 25 to 10 vehicles, and truncated so that it expires next January. South...

• Maintenace problems have led South Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Michael Turner to suspend the licence held by...

Hampton hi cut Ace Commercials (Northallertoas licence I expire at the end of October 1991. The company holds a licence for...

• Worries over congestion in the roads surrounding the Howden operating centre of Ringrose Howden Haulage have led to the...

Industry sources sug;t that the next genera1 of diesel engines from will be direct-injection agns. The company is nun to have...

Mazda is opening a new D centre near Frankfurt Vest Germany next year work on vehicles tailored he European market. company...

• The flourishing one-tonnepickup market is set to be joined by another contender next year, from the Polish manufacturer FSO....

Supplies of Extra vans will be affected by the closure ie Billancourt production t, says Renault. That fac, which produces all...

• Daihatsu has expanded its range of Fourtrak 4x4 commercial vehicles with a pair of turbo-diesels. The new variants are long...

• Ford is working on a series of major developments to its 2.5-litre direct-injection diesel used in the Transit. The moves,...

• Volkswagen is throwing down the gauntlet to the market leaders from Bedford, Ford and Austin Rover with its new Caddy van,...

• A Ford Transit 160 will a County 4x4 conversion being used by the MidGlamorgan Fire Service for fire-fighting in adverse...

• Suzuki has introduced a police version of its Vitara 4x4 leisure vehicle. It is being evaluated by the Wilt shire police to...

Garfield, has started to assume a sinister aspect. Silver Shield, the national windscreen replacement company, reported a...

a trenchcoat, collar turned up, dark glasses and snap-brim fedora taking covert photos of unsuspecting dustmen and their...

Ml. . .), the Department of Transport has just announced it is to plant 90,000 trees and shrubs on motorways and trunk roads in...

full of buses, just think for a moment that for many people in the world the arrival of a bi in their village would be the...

was hailed as a hero last week when his 23,000-litre tanker exploded after a collision outside Oldbury oil terminal, West...

for the Children in Need appeal — on a 13.1m Tautliner semi-trailer. Boalloy, which provided the curtain and signvvriting free,...

need one? A masked raider with imitation gun hopped on a passing number 4 after holding up the staff of a Glasgow shop and...

THE NEAT IS ON • The Morley Group has been appointed as a dealer for Webasto cab heaters and airconditioning systems. Contract...

Contact Whitecraigs Motor Company, 2 Cambuslea, Ayr, Ayrshire KA8 9HT, phone (0292) 266146.

Contact Gigant at 10 Gardiner Street, Market Harborough, I.eicestershire LE16 9QW, or phone (0858) 34813.

FREIGHT 2000 • The Freight 20(X) exhibition will be held at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on 10-12...

• The 1990 RAI Commercial Motor Show will he held at the RAI International Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam on 8-17 February. It...

Chartered Institute of Transport is hosting a talk, Truck Operation in the United Kingdom and Europe for the 1990s, to be given...

be held in Brussels at the Palais de Congres on 31 January and 1 February. Entitled Euro Modal '90, it is being organised by...

the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, is holding a seminar on the impact of emissions legislation on the fleet operator....

SERVICES EMERGENCY COVER • King Trailers of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, has set up a new emergency breakdown service....

International Express INFO IN TRANSIT • International courier specialist TNT Skypak has released a new transit and tariff guide...

the Lloyds Bank Small Busines. Guide is now available at 211.99. The publication includes a pull-out business plan, cashflow...

BLOWING HOT AND COLD • Webasto Heating has launched a new range of CN PSV air-conditioning equipment. The units start . 3,000...

TRAINING SAFETY ON TAPE • A new video, A Time to Act, is now available which explains the Control of Substances Hazardous to...

public . elations in transport and listribution to its range of raining courses. The first :ourse will be held at the...

from 50p to £1 )1" cars and vans, and from 21 a £2 for trucks and coaches. 'he discount for books of 50 ouchers for cars and...

will increase - orn 1 January by 5p to 50p w cars and most trucks. Four le vehicles vehicles will now be iarged 10p more; the...

December on le M25 between ill :hertsey) and J13 (Staines). raffle will be restricted to the ard shoulders in both rections...

M5 West Midlands: Lane closures on both carriageways at Jl (West Bromwich). Southbound entry and northbound exit slips closed....

M3 Hampshire: Outside lane closures, J4-J8 (Farnborough/ A303). M27 Hampshire: Contratiow, 38410 (Hedge End/Fareham). M27...

closures on Nene Valley Way, Northampton. A47 West Midlands: Birmingham, diversions on High Street, Saltley. A45 West...

M63 Gtr Manchester: Contraflow, 3348 (BartonA6144M). Slip road closures at 33. M61 Gtr Manchester: Inside lane closed...

M5 Devon: Contraflow. J30431 (Exeter/A30). M4 Gwent: Lane closures, J24J27. M4 Gwent: Lane closures, J28 J29A (Tredegar...

M74 Strathclyde: Restrictions at j6 (Hamilton). M8 Strathclyde: Eastbound exit slip road closed at J13 (Provan) M8 Lothian:...

Mick Philliskirk takes great pride in the appearance of his truck even though most of its time is spent deep in the forest...

this country, so it can be very difficult for operators to keep abreast of the law. Frequent changes to regulations covering...

Q Recently the FTA came to analyse our tacho charts and told us to mark a line on the charts to show starting and finishing...

Q I have recently passed my CPC and hope in the near future to own and operate my own vehicle. I have HGV 1. Could you put me...

Q I was recently told by the police that I had exceeded my total number of driving hours in my six days. I had driven for...

Q My employers operate a night trunking run and we always have two drivers. On a journey to Cornwall my mate was watching TV...

CI In February I purchased a secondhand 3k tonne tractor unit from a dealer. It had low mileage on it and before I made th...

Early this year I was E unfortunate enough to nage some cars on the deck of my transporter lie negotiating the Dart1 Tunnel....

Q We attended a Public Inquiry recently because we had incurred a number of GV9s and defect notices over a short period. The...

Q I recently left one company which I had only been driving for for two weeks. I was starting work with another company...

Q You recently published the answer to the query on the heights of telephone lines but could you please tell us of the...

QUALITY When we tested a Bedford Astra ax in 1985 we wer: _

impressed; a bigger engine has made it better in perform. and general driveability. But the opposition has improved and the...

The world of hire and reward is full of pitfalls for the but Phil Noel is offering prospective owner-operators insight into the...

IN Tommy Longstaff used to have a safe, steady job as a fitter with a successful Volvo dealership in the north-east of England....

"The Spetisbury Affair" (CM 23-29 November), where it states that to build a road on top of a disused railway above a village...

S Jones Transport Service Group (CM 23-29 November) regarding the number of "cowboy" training companies. Many of these...

Workshop (CM 5-11 October) you reported briefly that John Prescott, the Labour Shadow Transport Secretary, had stated that...

13 and 14 November I saw six accidents within a 30-mile radius of Leeds. In a showroom it may look very nice to see rear fog...

London uses, taking over from Clive odson who became managing rector earlier this year. Pangbourne joins from Lonin Regional...

of dditch-based, Chart Dis)ution Services, a member the Lex Services Group. Longstaff joined Chart in 36 to set up the contract...

rental manager for BRS Southern. He also joins the company's management committee. The former company truck rental manager's...

Ackers Jarrett, the West Midlands-based commercial vehicle contract hire and rental services group, is John Sudbury, who joins...

Factors' new general manager of its commercial vehicle spares operation in Colnbrook. He has 20 years' experience in parts,...

Simon Hope is promoted to manager of NCA Haydock, responsible for all operations and sales. He joined the NCA Group in March...

He was previously general manager — management services, with the Construction Industry Training Board.

operations manager of Lynx Express's Leyland branch, to branch manager at Dundee. He joined the company in 1985, as a sales...

He joined from Leaderflush Doors, a subsidiary of Whitecroft plc, where he was administration manager for five years. Neil...

• NFC Car Auctions of Stoke — now known as BRS Car Auctions — is clearly placed for expansion, says commercial sales manager...

• The auction of heavy commercial vehicles and plant in the Midlands has developed to such an extent that Central Motor...

• A new sale has been added to the Colchester Car Auction programme following an increase in commercial vehicle business. From...

• MAJOR CHANGES in the current tyre laws are to be announced soon following European Community Council Directive 89/459 of 18...

• More than E.3 million has been invested by Camford Design in its new research and development centre in Bedford now opened....

• 'FCS TRANSPORT, a division of The Crown Suppliers has now closed its "Unleaded Hot-line". Most questions, says David...

ianufacturers • CRITICISM of vehicle manufacturers voiced by Belgian operator Paul Spaenjers at the two-day London conference...

• GRAU exhibited its portable electronic fault diagnosis unit for its latest Category One anti-lock braking system, Skidchek...

• IMI has sold its wholly owned subsidiary, IMI Radiators, to Nippondenso of Japan for approximately £25 million in cash...

• A SERIES of fatal accidents and serious injury accidents arising from the uncontrolled release of petrol when removing the...

• MICHELIN Technical Department has issued an updated guide to regrooving and repattenaing. Regrooving, it explains, involves...

• THOUSANDS of garages could be in for a shock next year when they discover that their burglar alarm is no longer acceptable to...

• WORKSHOPS in or around major cities must be manned round the clock in order to make an adequate return on current real estate...

For a long time operators asked the Ministry to run courses on vehicle preparation. Now, since the Vehicle Inspectorate became...

So many trucks need minor rectification before they can pass the annual test. Colin Sowman visits BRS Southern, where they....

After our long spell of mild weather, don't forget the commonsense checks that take a short time but may avert failures. We've...

/ The Renault Master was introduced in 1981, and caused quite a stir among British van buyers at the time. Apart from its...

• Stuart Bates, 45, takes the newly created post at Bainbridge Silencers of sales manager, Tirnax shock absorbers, working...

business in the UK, is retiring at the end of December. He is succeeded by Phil Pirret, 15 years with the group and latterly...

company's dealer network — 57 main dealers, 65 light truck, parts and service — is staying open longer, thereby offering...

Jones, 44, general manager of Charles Clark Shrewsbury, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry....

division of Applied Chemicals as divisional manager with responsibility for the entire UK operation. She began her career in...

as product manager for Mann filters, First Line filters and water pumps. Hearn was formerly manager for Autela Oxford. Phil...

• In a year when rising interest rates have damped expansion plans for many companies, Motalink remains committed to a policy...

Association as support services executive after working for two years at the Leeds Chamber of Commerce. He will also be...

Auto Equipment has restructured its UK sales staff with Brian Chums and Martin Sparks respectively sales manager north and...

Wheelforce's distributors' list this quarter, shooting up from bottom of the league two years ago. "It hasn't been easy," says...

preparation controller in the service and parts department from Sauer Sundstrand (Hydraulics), Swindon, where he was purchasing...

• More than 300 fitters from 60 companies have attended training courses for workshop engineers introduced this year by Rubery...

• Over 26,000 trucks, vans and public service vehicles are subject to the latest safety recalls issued by the Vehicle...

Draining a sump need not involve getting yourself and the floor covered in oil. The Fumoto valve can make the whole business...

• Many museum and art gallery conservators now insist that their carriers are fitted with air suspension. That's why specialist...

• Microphax has designed its model 901 microfilm reader for parts outlets viewing the jumbo-size microfiche used for manuals...

/ Multi-environment lubricant from Norway for commercial vehicles and buses to lubricate and inhibit corrosion from —18° to...

• In the first of a series of collaborative ventures between the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Assosication and VAG Training a...

• In 1974 when the Government first applied value-added tax to petrol and the M23 reached Pease Pottage, Collins brought road...

• Sewells International Training and Consultancy is running four-day courses on bodyshop management and marketing at £595 plus...

• Korody-Colyer has updated and revised its replacement parts catalogue for Cummins 855 cubic inch diesel engines. The new...

Try thread locks • An innovative threadlocking device designed, developed and manufactured by Heal's Engineering, has, says...

• Vice-Glove, a vice-liner . rom Filtermist International, is :laimed to have a wide range pf uses in both the workshop Ind the...

• Peacock & Archer, remanufacturer of commercial vehicle steering equipment, has designed and built its own unique testing...

• GP Cyanoacrylate Adhesive, a superglue from Dunlop Adhesives, bonds in seconds to form a fast and permanent clear drying bond...

• Apex Storage Systems has issued a brochure summarising its equipment and services. The brochure, Apex Has the Answer, covers:...

• Herberts Vehicle Refinishes has launched another comprehensive, full-colour Stand° Thek brochure following its guide to...

• Stanadyne Diesel Systems has an easy-to-use diesel engine timing kit for use by service technicians. The kit incorporates...

• PPG Auto-Refinish has produced a range of products sporting the PPG logo, from leisurewear to handy bodyshop items like a...

• Sachs Automatic Components has launched an aftermarket shock absorber package including over 200 new references in a new...

• Sykes-Pickavant has introduced a range of new sockets manufactured in chrome vanadium steel. The new sockets are clearly...

• Ultra-Violet Products is marketing a product to detect leaks in any closed liquid system within minutes using the properties...

• When spot-welding automatic panels it is important to ensure that even the curved parts make good contact and that the welded...

• Lucas Automotive's electronic ignition module analyser is a hand held tester to indicate in a matter of seconds whether a...

• The Filtermist Tliminatoi filtration system is said to bi the first low-cost alternative ti refrigerant dryers that guaran...

• Hammer-damage to tyr beads has been eliminate( claims BandagR, with it Bandag-Gaither lightweigh bead saver kit, consisting...

• Microfonic of Great Yai mouth, Norfolk, has extende the guarantee period on it range of ultrasonic leak detec . ing equipment...