• Rising interest rates, customers paying less, slumping truck sales and transport firms going out of business. What, hauliers...

• Britain's road transport unions, meeting in Florence this week, pledged themselves to winning a 35-hour week for lorry...

• Securicor Group's halfyear results show a jump in profits to 218.8m for the six months ending March 1990, compared with...

• The London Boroughs Transport Committee has confirmed it is likely to appeal against the High Court's decision last week...

• Bill Morris, deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union has urged the transport industry to take on...

• A lorry ban could be considered as part of Humberside County Council's bid to relieve congestion in and around Hull. The...

• The Transport Development Group has bought a depot at Brighouse formerly owned by Rockwood Distribution Services, for an...

• Inter-City Trucks of Hythe, Kent, and Birmingham-based Ware Transport, part of WPS, are joining forces to form Genesis...

bought the design rights of Fire Trucks, the firefighter manufacturer which went into receivership in February (CM1-7 March).

• Hauliers' customers are being urged to pay surcharges to operators facing steep increases in fuel costs as the Iraq/Kuwait...

• A series of electronic warning signs designed to combat bridge bashing are being fitted to 24 of Britain's most potentially...

• The Transport Development Group turned in a mixed set of interim results to June 1990, with a disappointing performance from...

Edinburgh have killed 40% more people in the year to April than in the previous three years.

IN There could be fewer roadworks if councils, gas, electricity and water boards linked their computers and carried out work at...

• Truck driver Billy Daniels, jailed for 13 years for smuggling drugs in his lorry, is to try to appeal against conviction. So...

• A legal aid scheme to help lorry drivers working abroad is being considered by the International Transport Workers'...

Ei Press announcements by the Road Haulage Association are being considered to encourage customers to pay operators higher...

• A truck manufacturer's filter advertisements, which claim its parts go through more tests than any independentlysold filters,...

• Leading British trade unions have pledged to reduce lorry drivers' basic working week to 35 hours within the next four...

• More than 40% of coaches stopped at a check on the A2 in Kent on 28-29 July were found to have faults. Out of the 263 coaches...

• Daimler-Benz is forging on alone to take over Spanish truck maker Enasa following MAN's withdrawal from the deal (CM 19-25...

• Truck sales have plummetted by 16.3% to 176,027 during the first seven months of this year, compared to January to July last...

• The Royal Society of Arts is holding a series of meetings to explain the new Certificate of Professional Competence syllabus...

• Volvo has broken its inhouse engine policy for the first time by offering a Caterpillar diesel in one of its models sold in...

Motor Show in September — the E6 4x2 rigid; the ES8 6x4 tipper; the E10 4x2 tractive unit with 'IF Ecomid synchromesh gears:...

Leyland Dal has won Type Approval for its righthand-drive version of the Dutch-built 3200 tractive unit launched at the...

• Ford will launch a 4x4 version of the Transit in early 1992. The model will have its own gear system, not a version of the...

• Montracon has built a reduced-neck 13.6m tilt trailer, which it says increases capacity to 89.5cu m by raising the height to...

• Seddon Atkinson will fit ZF's 9-speed Ecomid gearbox to its new Strato-cabbed multiwheeler due to be launched at the Motor...

• Schmitz Trailers is on the verge of setting up a UK subsidiary to manufacture rigid bodies. The German company's UK sales arm...

• Perkins will be showing a prototype for the next generation of Gardner diesels at the Birmingham Motor Show in September. The...

• York subsidiary TEC has launched what it says is the first 10.5-tonne self-tracking trailer axle built in the UK. The axle...

• Mercedes-Benz looks set to provide one of the major attractions at the Birmingham Motor Show next month by unveiling its...

MA company which aims to sell advertising space on truck mudflaps, which it will pay hauliers to fit, now has 350 vehicles on...

waiting to sell its second Ultraliner in the UK after the US-built tractive unit gained Type Approval in April. So far, the...

MMitsubishi will launch an urban multi-drop vehicle, based on its 7.5-tonne L300, at the Motor Show. The company says customers...

• Bristol-based parcels company Transam has gone out of business, owing thousands of pounds, and putting more than 40...

• lveco Ford's North Devon dealership S&B Commercials has gone out of business. Ex-director Ian Blackmore has set up Square One...

• Neil Dockray of ScottishHydro Electric shows off one of the 850 vehicles Lex Van Contracts will phase in to the generating...

• TNT Premier Distribution, launched in June, has plucked three plum distribution contracts from ex-customers of fallen giant...

• Parcels company Interlink has named the partner for its Benelux venture (CM 19 July) and unveiled ambitious European...

• Hereford-based haulier Rotherwas Transport, which runs contracts for Metalbox and the British Steel Corporation, has gone...

contract it has won with the Northern Regional Health Authority for the contract-hire of welfare vehicles.

• Ernst & Young, the receiver for Coloroll, has disposed of two more of the group's businesses — five have now been sold since...

• BRS is conducting two pilot studies in Oxford and Swindon in preparation for the launch of a nationwide temporary HGV driver...

• FedEx has moved to quash rumours that jobs will go as part of a re-organisation which has led to the creation of 12 regional...

• South Yorkshire Transport has been told to sell off its lowcost subsidiary SUT by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission....

• A fleet of 14 Dennis Darts, worth 254,000 each, have joined R&1 Tours to operate two newly acquired London Regional...

• Tayside Buses escaped with a warning from the Scottish Traffic Commissioner after 48 of the company's 135-strong fleet were...

• Go-Ahead Northern, which threatened to axe 350 jobs unless staff accepted local pay and condition negotiations, has clinched...

close a contraflow bus lane where 10 people have died since 1973. It says the lane, in London's Piccadilly, is used by five...

• Midlands-based operator PMT is replacing its doubledeckers with 20 full size singledeck buses. The £1.5m deal is the second...

buyout rejected • Municipal operator Lincoln City Transport could soon be on the open market after the city council rejected a...

taken delivery of a Scania N113CRB Alexander-bodied singledecker. It cost about 279,000 and will operate out of the Swadlincote...

• A Daf bus distributor and a Hungarian bus manufacturer have launched a steel-bodied, low-decked single-decker based on the...

• More than eight out of 10 people believe coaches are safe, according to a Mori poll which was taken before a series of coach...

IE • A Binning I ham industrial tribunal has re'used to award compensation to a lorry driver, despite deciding he had been...

• Maintenance problems with hired vehicles brought Nicholas Ward, trading as Wards Transport Management, of Chester, before...

• In cutting the duration of the licence held by Huddersfield based JJ Mulligan Builders, so that it now expires next...

• A missing fire extinguisher on a minibus operated by Manchesterbased Bee Line Buzz, cost the company 2100 in fines and costs...

based Pi Weir Si. Co was warned about its mainte nance standards when it appeared at disciplinary proceedings before Scottish...

• Marypurt owner-driver Carl Gainford has been jailed for eight years after admitting smuggling £1.5m worth of cannabis. At...

111 Drivers' hours offences cost Haddow Holdings, trading as Kestrel Tex tiles, and two of the company's drivers a total of...

• Caerphillybased Casten Coaches was said to have been "within a whisker" of losing its sixvehicle licence, when South Wales...

MA Birmingham industrial tribunal has decided that Coloroll Carpets was wrong to sack a driver who drove his vehicle down a...

FODEN TRUCKS • lioden Trucks has moved its head office to the same site as its engineering centre and vehicle assembly plant at...

and depot at 15 Colville Court, Winick Quay, Warrington, Cheshire WA2 8QR. Contact (0908) 678979.

JOINT VENTURE • Southern Vectis has been appointed truck service dealer for Iveco Ford in conjunction with Ilendy Trucks'...

ERF ENTHUSIASTS • The ERF Vehicles Society holds its next gathering on 1516 September at Tunstall Hall Farm on the A53 Market...

drivers' annual charity event, will be held on 15-16 September at the American Theme Park, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It runs in 10...

and international Certificate of Professional Competence exams are being run by EP Training Services at centres in Surrey and...

at the Joseph Priestley Institute, Morley, Leeds on 14 September. Exams are scheduled for June next year. Contact (0532) 533749.

is included in the five-day national CPC training package offered by Liquids Powder & Gas Transport, which starts on 3...

LEGAL EAGLES • Transport lawyers Ward & Associates of Fareham, Hants, has launched a business services division, headed by CM...

The scheme offers two levels of cover for vehicles up to five years old, plus optional benefits including a replacement...

INTERTRUCK INTERPRINT • Intel - truck, Dana's truck and trailer parts operation, has launched a new catalogue featuring...

edition of an international transport study by Rex Faulks. Published by McGraw Hill, it costs 212.95. Contact (0628) 23432.

FIFTY WAYS TO FIND THE LOUVRE • Autoroute Plus (France) is a computer program which plans the quickest, shortest or cheapest...

latest software routeplanner from Arden Micro Systems. It picks out the quickest, cheapest or shortest route to anywhere in the...

and 951, are available from Pesca Engineering. The company says months of research has created a product that fastens curtains...

Shot Blast Primer is suitable for chassis and its flow can be improved by thinning with 10% Shot Blast Thinner. Contact...

dashboard-mounted drinks holder priced at £1.99. It can hold seven different types of drink containers including cans, bottles,...

STIRLING OCCASION • Ile new Department of Transport enforcement check site on the A9 Stirling-Doune road, is now open. Contact...

legal-eagle friend of his who is amazed at the frank and free chats some drivers indulge in over their CBs. He'd been in touch...

and his fledglings, we can't be everywhere and see everything all the time, and we lose sleep over delicious titbits of stories...

where an Irish senator and a German inventor have come together to produce an engine which runs on vegetable oil. Senator...

Diesel is hard to come by in Turkey, at least for cash, he told me. The trick is to have a pair of shiny shoes, preferably with...

On close inspection they revealed someone who was obviously very keen on speeding and had never heard of drivers' hours. And...

The Perkins Eagle Tx gives Foden's S104 4350 tractor a relaxed driving style in a quiet, well-appointed cab. Our first test rig...

STOP THE ROT Everyone pays lip service to maintaining sensible rates and avoiding price wars, but international haulier Peter...

F ER It may only be rock 'n' roll, but Edwin Shirley Trucking likes it and is making a name for itself taking rock tours round...

past 10 years. He has also worked in HGV/PSV engineering, law and transport design. Ward and Associates is based at Fareham,...

OVER-ZEALOUS EXAMINER Q We had applied to vary our Operators Licence by the addition of four vehicles, and on 11 May a vehicle...

IN THE CAB Tachograph evidence has helped drivers keep out of trouble, out of court and even out of jail. Two accident...

Accountants are not always hauliers' favourite people. They have a reputation for being aloof, impractical and expensive,...

safety and congestion and harmony between HGVs and cars on our motorways? I would like to suggest that the answer is to...

the articles about congestion and the ideas dating back to 1929 for building roads over railways (CM 26 July-1 August)....

Having just read with interest the buying guide checklist in your Light Vehicles Special 2 supplement (CM 26 July1 August) it...

a companion of the Institute of Management in recognition of his achievements in the industry over 25 years. He succeeded his...

chair of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities highways committee, assisted by new vice-chair Harry Stachini from...

as contract services manager of its Gateway operation in Huntingdon which runs 48 vehicles and 82 trailers. He joins after...

George Henderson & Partners has appointed Pamela Jones in Weybridge and Valerie Dixon and Neil Ewart in Manchester as regional...

has appointed three regional directors: Keith Bayley takes control of the northern region. He will be based at Bredbury,...

its contract with Freemans for the North London area. Carl Short is contract manager, supported by Phil Jones as operations...

PSV distributor, dealer and hirer Hughes Daf has appointed Clive Lambert-Beeson as bus sales manager for the UK. He was bus...

cost accounting manager to finance director. He has spent all his working life at Edbro, beginning as an apprentice.

VL Bus & Coach as sales manager. He will be supported by two area managers.

Haulage to take up the post of transport manager at 21st Century Logistics, West Drayton, Middlesex, part of the Dodds Group.

Paul Arthur, formerly manager of Pickfords' Chester branch, has been appointed product development manager for the North-West....

area fleet manager for United Carriers, responsible for running the company's eight northern depots from the Bury site. Group...

KIERAN Eugene Kieran has been appointed to the new post of international marketing manager at fork-lift truck manufacturer...

distribution director of Bass Brewers North, where he will be responsible for 19 depots in the North and Midlands which run 750...

Lynx has appointed David Griffiths as regional manager, South-East following the retirement of Reg Donkin after 50 years'...

contracts administration officer at the vehicle and contract hire specialist, the Burnt Tree Group. He has been with the firm...

Wood as company secretary. He has been with the company 10 years; he started in the accounts department.

CLEMENTS Elizabeth Clements joins British Aggregate Construction Material Industries as press and information officer. A...

firm Abal Engineering as managing director from Bolton Brady. He succeeds Brian Ness who has been promoted to chairman....

officer for the Alder Valley bus company, has died at the age of 67.

small to medium transport companies. If you have taken on a transport manager, supervisor, salesperson or foreman, please write...

• Transport firms are beginning to retrain unemployed workers in a scheme devised by the Industrial Society to counteract skill...