we have not seen since the freak boom year of 1979, has begun to spread through the European commercial vehicle and component...

• Britain's 2,700km of motorway are served by over 40 service areas, but what kind of service do they give? In next week's CM...

• Flanging garment carrier Tibbett and Britten is to be listed on the stockmarket within a month with the aim of raising around...

• Ford is strongly considering a massive swap from rail to road in the carriage of its car and truck components, but it is...

• Britain's independent parcels carriers are enjoying a bonanza — thanks to the postal dispute in Yorkshire which has severely...

• MAN's new truck range for the Nineties, launched this week, marks a big bid for freedom for the West German manufacturer. It...

f14"1"s ambition of becomIs big in transport at large . is in the parcels business us to be taking shape this k. trong rumours...

Brand Business, a food and k importer, has awarded a mai distribution contract to . field Distribution, using ibution centres...

Industry sources state that the TNT takeover of Abbey I fill is certain, and the price will probably be around 28 million....

• Lex Wilkinson's longpromised international parcels service started this week, the first major product of the company's...

truck racing: ETRO • The death of Italian driver Guido Dada in the Belgian Truck Grand Prix three weeks ago has jolted the...

• The Government will decide by the end of July which of eight bidders will get the contract to build the third Dartford...

• The first British truckstop to gain full approval from the Routiers Drivers Club is Truckers, on the A38 at Findern near...

• All new trucks introduced over the next five years will have asbestos-free brake linings as standard, according to Mintex...

• The latest attempt to produce a multi-modal road/rail freight vehicle is to be unveiled late this summer. Trailer Train,...

• An underfloor tail lift. which folds away automatically beneath the vehicle body when not in use, has been launched by Ross...

• Four new Deta heavy-d batteries have been launch in Britain this month throi the DJ Batteries distributo network. They are an...

• Landis. the Kent-based food sales and distribution com pany, is spending up to million on Perkins V8.640-engined Ford Cargo...

Foden is extending its use accar group resources by ring Kenworth heavy-duty 1 two-spring bogie suspens on S106 and 5108 multid...

rhe Automobile Associais evaluating a Leyland ghter 11,11 within its 700ng Relay recovery fleet. carries a standard cabmsion...

• Chassis Developments, the Leighton Buzzard-based conversion specialist, has obtained Type Approval for wheelbase extensions...

• Scammell, Leyland Trucks' specialist and military truck builder, reflects the company's strength in the design, development...

III Tarmac Roadstone's selection of drivers for redundancy on a quarry-by-quarry basis was fair, according to a Nottingham...

• Operator John Troup, whose operating base is Hurworth Moor Farm, Darlington, was represented by his lather, William Vasey...

• A lorry driver sacked after he deliberately took out a vehicle he was instructed he was not to take out has been awarded...

The limited company med to take over Robert idsay's See You Transport siness in Scunthorpe has en granted a licence by irth...

North Western deputy tensing Authority John Levin t week accused Parliament playing a dirty trick by noting people to complain...

• Yugoslav inflation, almost 80% at present, is increasing co-operation between Western motor manufacturers and their...

railerent hopes to raise 000 for African famine , f with the help of Britain's lc operators. II revenue earned over next year...

• Laws compelling operators to switch goods traffic from overcrowded roads to the railways or inland waterways are suggested in...

• Econofreight Heavy Transport, now part of joint Transport Development Group/BET-owned Econofreight United Transport, has just...

• The first Continental single-deck citybuses for Britain went into service in London last weekend. Scancoaches, the...

• Clwyd and Gwynedd County Councils have convinced North Western Traffic Commissioner Roy Hutchings that a proposed new bus...

• Wallace Arnold could be the first successful purchaser of a National Bus Company subsidiary. Its £2.8 million bid for the...

• London Regional Trar port's Bus Engineering (BEL) company is to clos its Aldenham bus works i Hertfordshire. Activities...

A new position of cuser service manager, with tall responsibility for pro: quality, has been created lestair Duple and Laurie...

The Peninsular and .ntal Steam Navigation npany (P&O), which retly acquired the deep-sea tamer shipping company, Iseas...

• In move which would have been unheard of even 10 years ago, Road Haulage Association director-general Freddie Plaskett has...

• Freightliner, British Rail's road/rail container carrier, has appointed Oliver Potter to its board as a non-executive...

• Ford has extended its light van range with the addition of a West German-built dual-purpose model based on the topselling...

• Essex-based Rydgeway Vehicle Mouldings of Basildon, is now producing glass-fibre Hi-Top roof mouldings for the latest Ford...

• The Department of Iran port is considering raising th current MoT test fee for ligl commercial vehicles and can with an...

• The first production 7.5 name GVW Electric Roadrunner has been bought by Southern Electricity. The 3.25m wheelbase chassis...

Following the collapse of eral export orders, British • Auctions is about to hold biggest-ever auction of t-for-export Land...

A scheme to rectify thanical faults in light ides, devised and rated successfully over the t four years by Nottinghame Police,...

• Perkins Engines has won a major export order to supply the same 67kW (90hp) T4.38 turbocharged four-cylinder engine used in...

Fiat has confirmed that the acement to its current ino van will be based on top-selling Lino hatchback. roduction of the Uno...

• Body conversion specialist Adaptabodies of Liverpool, has launched a tuck-away recovery spectacle frame which is capable of...

• Walker, the light vehicle bodybuilder, is now producing a personnel carrier conversion based on the recentlylaunched Bedford...

a new depot at Halesowen industrial park near Birmingham. A fleet of up to 40 vehicles, ranging from 3.5-tonne GVW vans to...

• Foden Trucks' finance subsidiary — Paccar Financial — has reintroduced its Flex-Plan financing scheme first launched last...

acquired the design, manufacturing and marketing rights of the Cobridge range of road sweepers from Cobridge Engineers of...

and exhibition — Electrafleet '86 — is being held at the Birmingham Metropole Hotel on September 10 and 11. The EVA says the...

scrutiny in the second of Motor Transport's transport management conferences. The two, one-day conferences with mini...

• Industrial Machinery Supplies — the sole UK agent for SAF truck and trailer air suspensions — is currently offering a...

holding one-day seminar on June 17 for those students sitting th Royal Society of Arts Natior Freight CPC examination or June...

• A new information bookli for vehicle engineers could soon become a "bible" for operators, according to the Freight Transport...

lookin at ways to speed the handlin of written representation planning appeals. The written method is in ded as a quicker,...

like the normal ding matter for a truck cab, the TCP Phrasebook and ide to Holiday Health is one the more useful little...

by BT Rotic offers hand pallet trucks less than £4 a week includmaintenance. The BT ad Pallet Truck User's Club ,vides a new...

the acceptance of a £361,137 tender from A McFadden for a road drainage improvement scheme near the A470 Cardiff to Glan Conwy...

latest basemodel Escort Combi vans — launched this week (CM Light Vehicle News page 18). The 1,300cc Petrol Combi costs £4,682...

III As the holiday period draws ever onward, the amount of traffic on the nation's motorways increases, exacerbating the...

The engineers put the human factor before consideration of 40 tonnes, spray and errant wheels, and were told to learn to use...

• The first thing that strikes you about a new, F90-cabbed 362 or 332 MAN is that, superficially, it looks decidedly similar to...

House buying, conveyancing and removals are invariably associated, so why not combine them under one roof? Richard Scrase looks...

Sharp brakes and a bouncy ride mar the aftraction of Leyland's Freighter as a pantechnicon chassis, but Vanplan's body has much...

Two attempts by small removals companies to capture some of Pickfords' markets are examined by David Wilcox A survey conducted...

Marsden is convinced that new methods of GRP moulding cannot match traditional hand-laid techniques for building pantechnicon...

of or read Maurice Saunders' book Stories of Round Timber Haulage, which has been recently reprinted to meet demand. While the...

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job and he'll tell you — by weight, of course. But what about volume? you ask — and you're likely to get the raspberry in...

SPARKLE Nissan's compact van is competent in most areas and reasonably priced, but its engine does little to further the cause...