ROADS TO RUIN We try to sympathise with the Department of Transport, really we do. But the new House of Commons Transport...

• Hauliers in Northern Ireland will be eligible for a total of just 50 cabotage permits — Southern Ireland is to get nearly...

• Renault Truck's factory at Dunstable will close if improvements are not made in the next year, warns RVI president and...

• A Crown Court judge has ruled that a Lancashire haulier, whose wellmaintained trailer shed two wheels, one of which hit an...

• Some of the HOVs, trailers and PSVs sold after April 1992 will have to be fitted with antilock brake systems, says Transport...

ses of up to £8m. This follows losses of St 5m in 1988, S3. 1m in 1987 and £10. 8m in 1986. Capron insists that the new...

• Several NFC companies have concluded pay negotiations, with drivers' wages set to rise by up to 8.8%: E BRS's 4,000 drivers...

• Labour has condemned the Government's road building plans for London as an "appalling waste of public money" and says the...

• This year's Commercial Motor Truckfest will see the UK debut of Le Looping Camion, a French somersaulting truck sponsored by...

• Leyland Daf has told its dealers to go for the BS5750 quality mark — it aims to be the first manufacturer with its entire...

• More than 80% of the trucks using Dover's RO-RO services are articulated, according to the latest Government survey. Only a...

• Christian Salvesen has paid £1.44 million for Australian mobile power generator specialist Generator Rentals, which has two...

• Leyland Bus managing director John Arkell is leaving at the beginning of April and will be replaced by the current director...

• Volkswagen has opened 97 van centres in the UK, and plans to have another 33 up and running by the end of the year, to...

• A possible brake problem on the Iveco Ford Cargo, affecting almost 100,000 trucks in the UK, heads the latest list of vehicle...

• Leyland Daf has won a Ministry of Defence contract to supply 173 refuellers to the Forces, making it the sole supplier of...

• On show at this year's Tipcon will be the latest revisions to Neville Charrold's tipper trailer range, with new versions of...

• Windsor-based flower distributor FlowerFlow has added a further 10 Leyland Daf Roadrunner 8.15s to its fleet following a...

• David MacKrill Engineering has developed container cleansing vehicle called the MacKlean for municipal waste disposal...

• Northampton-based Wright Hire Trucks has taken delivery of five Mercedes-Benz vee six engined 1733S tractors for spot hire....

Production switch • Production of Cornet and F1700 trucks has been switched to the main Leyland Daf plant at Leyland. The...

I Exeter-based Renwicks Freight (South-West) has taken delivery of five Leyland Daf FA 1900 DNS trucks for its fiveyear...

• West Midlands parcels carrier Nightshift Express is looking for operators to join its network of regional depots. The...

• Hays Specialist Distribution has won a contract to distribute furniture for Marks & Spencer's home delivery service. The...

• General haulier Rochdale Freighter Service has closed down, following the loss of two major contracts at the end of last...

• A co-operative of ownerdrivers is being formed in West Yorkshire to compete against major hauliers for international work....

• Tankfreight is hoping to clinch a major European distribution deal with oil giant Elf. The contract, based in France, will...

• Tolernan, the Brentwoodbased vehicle distributor, has agreed to buy Hell Spedition of Essen, West Germany for an undisclosed...

• Hunter Distribution is withdrawing from retail contract distribution to concentrate on produce and food manufacturing...

• Transfleet Services has signed an 18-vehicle contract hire deal with wines and spirits merchant Thresher. The vehicles will...

• Bus operators challenging Devon General's supremacy in Exeter received a blow last week when the High Court overturned the...

• Ageing bus fleets look set to become the norm for the next three years as demand for new buses drops, according to the...

• Southport independent operator ABC Travel of Formby has expanded southwards with the capture of a threeyear contract to run...

• National Express Holdings' subsidiary Crosville Wales of Llandudno has taken delivery of four Volvo Expressliner coaches to...

• Driffield & District, a Humberside independent trading as Revill Coaches, has called in the receiver. The company operated 17...

• Docklands Transit minibuses has launched a 10-minute service in London. Called the D11, it links the Isle of Dogs with the...

el At least 15 York bus drivers face redundancy next month, unless the city and county councils dip into their pockets to...

• York City independent operator Reynard Pullman plans a major assault on York City services, following the sale of its...

• As drivers brace themselves for huge traffic jams and load restrictions at roadworks on the MI and M25 this week, the road...

• Cheshire bulk haulier Stanley Fernyhough has pleaded not guilty before Mold Crown Court to 19 counts of conspiring with...

• A total of 39 drivers employed by Federal Express were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £2,880, after they admitted a...

II Maintenance problems said to be caused by the takeover of Nationwide Coaches by Carnwath-based Wilsons Coaches, have led to...

• "He's suave, full of humour, has a distracting hyena-type laugh and supports Bedford Town and Watford, which shows that he's...

• It was an emotional NFC conference in Blackpool last week, with chairman Sir Peter Thompson looking almost tearful on several...

SPROUTS GREENS Transport 2000, the environmental pressure group which campaigns for higher taxes on trucks to force freight on...

• Linda Turvey's ambition of becoming an overnight truck driver took a big step nearer fruition when she won a free HGV class...

• Too many hauliers buy their first truck and go into business without making a financial plan. As a result, they do not know...

II For most people, the mention of a place in the country conjures images of a weekend retreat by the sea. HGV drivers know...

FROM HOME When we arranged to meet Graham Cordiner at Bothwell services on the M74, we asked how we would recognise his...

to cover the strips, and finally came up with the conical design. Because the gap between the slats is constant, anything that...

SIR PROMOTION QUEST I Some time ago I wrote to Commercial Motor about the difficulty in progressing from driver to management....

• The bus and coach industry has only itself to blame for the acute skills and manpower shortages it is suffering, according to...