• It's a pound to a centime that the mob of Marseilles dockers who attacked three UK truck drivers after they'd questioned if...

MI1113==. • Jailed truck driver Billy Daniels has sent Commerical Motor a letter protesting his innocence on drugs charges....

• A newspaper article warning of the danger of truck drivers falling asleep at the wheel because they have legally been on duty...

/ Car transporter Toleman Automotive was hit by strike action this week when union leaders accused it of breaking an agreement...

• Haulier Mick Blunt received almost £17,000 compensation this week for damage caused to his truck during the Spanish haulage...

• Tarmac Roadstone (Scotland) is facing demands for a rates increase from two dozen of its regular hauliers, many of them...

• Sales of trucks and artics last year were 34% down on 1990, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. A...

/ British hauliers trying to get into Czechoslovakia faced a New Year shock when they were refused entry. The Interior...

• Daf has reported a 2,600 sales slump in 1991 with production down 6,000 on the previous year. The Dutch truck manufacturer...

• BRS has started pay talks with the Transport and General Workers' Union but neither side would comment as CM went to press.

• Michael Howard, director of Scarborough-based Howards Transport Services, has been given a nine-month suspended jail sentence...

• Tibbett & Britten's Fashion Logistics has held on to its distribution contract with menswear retailer Horne Brothers, which...

• More of Britain's warehousing and distribution firms see rail as a viable alternative to road transport and many are...

celebrates its 10th anniversary on 3-4 May with a new competition: the Continental Truck of the Year Award. For full details...

face drug smuggling charges at Dover Magistrates' Court this week. Steven, who owns EJS Haulage, is being defended through the...

haulage divisions, one specialising in contract work and the other in general haulage, into a single company, Russell Davies...

Czechoslovakia's thirdbiggest truck builder, Avia. The country's other CV manufacturers, Liaz and Tatra, are also talking to...

of British beef for Russia were turned away from Hull docks last week as red tape in Moscow stalled efforts to ship the relief...

around 150 were transport and communication firms, according to City analyst KPMG Peat Marwick.

• Three British truck drivers have been threatened at gunpoint and beaten up by a mob of French dockers at Marseilles after...

• Road Haulage Association chairman Bobby Heaton has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's honours' list; John Harvey, chairman...

• Japanese truck builders will hit Europe with a vengeance after 1992, when pan-European Type Approval is achieved, warns a new...

• Duracell, the battery company, is to close its UK warehouse at Crawley, West Sussex, and move the operation to a...

• Readers of our Breakdown Test (CM 12-18 Dec 1991) will recall that we were unable to include full evaluations of Foden's...

• Sugar giant Tate and Lyle has taken delivery of two unusual Foden 3000 six-wheelers designed to avoid problems with...

• The new Renault Extras went on sale last week, with prices ranging from £5,560 (exVAT) to £6,475 (ex-VAT) for 575 models. The...

• Eaton Corporation and Lucas Industries have scrapped a plan to merge their global interests in braking and related systems...

• Northern supermarket chain Morrisons has come under renewed fire for delays in accepting deliveries: one haulier claims his...

• The United Road Transport Union has rejected the Federation of Bakers' offer of up to 4% to 500 bakery drivers, saying that...

• More than 400 drivers at Calor Gas and its sister company Calor Transport have agreed a pay deal which gives them a lump sum...

the first of 15 Boalloy Tautliners after winning a primary distribution contract with Coca-Cola Schweppes.

pre-tax profits when it reports today (9 January). Investment in the Cellnet mobile phone network and a slump in the parcels...

is teaming up with new partners Wim Bosman in the Netherlands and Belgium, and Anterist & Schneider near Cologne.

Tibbett & Britten in favour of Daly Transport Services and TNT Retail Express, for primary distribution and deliveries at its...

to Hoyer (UK), the German-owned tanker specialist which has won a forecourt delivery contract

/ Oldham-based haulier Brett Hampson, trading as B&J Transport, has received a warning for permitting drivers' hours and...

/ Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by J&J Jones of Llandudno Junction being cut from 19...

/ Manchester Crown Court has been asked to refer the interpretation of the 4hour driving rule to the European Court of Justice...

/ Convictions for vehicle excise duty offences have led to the revocation of J Aldridge Transport (Cornwall)'s 0-licence for 10...

EXCLUSIVE • Mannesman Kienzle has launched an ultra-slim new generation 1319 "flat" tachograph which takes up 60% less space...

viability of R12 refrigerant systems has prompted coolant manufacturers to step up their search for suitable alternatives. One...

• A short, 14-tonne two axled drawbar trailer built by Andover Trailers is enabling Inverness contractor Grey Plant Hire to...

• An extending 28m trailer has been built by NBT of Gronningen in the Netherlands to transport wings for Saab's new 2000...

• Boalloy has fitted 7.62m Tautliner curtain-sided bodies to nine Leyland Daf FA-180 rigid chassis with Hydris tuck-under...

• Dennis is believed to have been approached by a used PCV dealer interested in selling its Javelin coach chassis with Spanish...

Stuart Johnson about increasing its 50% stake in the Worksop-based dealer, which lost over £470,000 in the year to September 1990.

Garage in March. It hopes to re-deploy its 250 drivers at other London Buses subsidiaries.

Middlesex-based Hamilton of Uxbridge went to Yugoslavia to order four 49-seat and one 37-seat Farnos Charismas, worth around...

• National Welsh, one of Wales's leading bus and coach operators, called in the receiver last week with debts of nearly £5m....

• FSV Dormobile plans to recruit up to 50 extra staff by the middle of the year, if it is successful in buying part of the...

royal, and most of the attention will inevitably he focussed on the two giants, Iveco Ford and Leyland Daf. Leyland Daf...

to the green bandwagon with the publication of an environmental code of conduct. It includes practical ways of reducing...

1 ast week we reported that the Lane Group of Bristol had funded the planting of trees in the Brazilian rainforest instead of...

rivers in Northumbria could be forgiven for thinking they'd celebrated a tad too much over the festive season when they came...

firuckstop operators fed up with the UK climate may be interested in a business opportunity Stateside where the Pig Hip...

ri t comes to something when the up-market press loses confidence in the Government: even the Financial Times expects Labour...

U t's hard to imagine one of our dear old Routemaster buses having its seats replaced by couches and operating as a brothel —...

proves there is life after administration. Since administrators were called in to the second largest UK bus bodybuilder last...

had to wait four tense months before buying Flowers of York. Now they are confident of making the new Flowers bloom. • Last...

In a recent edition of CM it was reported that the North Eastern Licencing Authority had "extended" the interim licence of a...

In Commercial Motor (17-23 Oct 1991) it was reported that a haulier had been prosecuted for being overloaded because his...

have heard that some extra rules were made last year about a haulier losing his good repute through convictions for some...

• Seddon Atkinson parts and service is now available from Gloucester-based garage and tachograph agent Betacar, trading as...

• King has appointed the Colin Hutton Group of Glasgow as its agent in Scotland for its range of trailers from 500kg to 200...

• The Institute of Petroleum is holding a one-day seminar on lubricating oils at London's Cavendish Centre on 10 March....

• On 23 January Eurotunnel will host a meeting of French hauliers and the Road Haulage Association's international group....

• Owner Operators UK will hold a meeting at the Forte Crest Hotel, Swindon, at 10:30hrs on Sunday (12 January). Non-members...

• The 10th Commercial Motor Truckfest 1992 will take place on 3-4 May at the East of England Showground, Peterborough. This...

• More than 400 road safety experts are listed in Eurotoho, a computer-based guide which aims to promote the transfer of road...

• RI Transkill training courses for light CV mechanics are now available, following an agreement between the RTITB and the...

• Nominations for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year close at the end of January. Past winners include Ann Gloag,...

• Leyland Daf has stretched its VOR order deadline to 18:00hrs for all parts, with delivery to dealers guaranteed by 09:30hrs...

• The Holts Auto Ioniser is said to reduce hayfever and respiratory problems brought on by pollen, smoke and dust by "releasing...

• A computerised routeing and scheduling system from MicroAnalytics of the US is now being sold in the UK by Kingswood of...

• Rakavan Systems has produced a brochure for its light CV Vanmate racking. The company was set up 18 months ago to market...

• New lane restrictions on the A580 East Lancs Road will cause delays for the next six months says the Department of Transport....

restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

• I would like to pass some comments on Mr Tonge's letter (CM 1248 Dec 1991) which may help him feel more comfortable when...

Further to the letter in Commercial Motor from A Tonge of Nuneaton about cargo restraint, or lack of it, particularly in...

• There seem to have been more than enough instances reported lately in your columns of companies going into receivership, only...

• In your news item "F'12s to get Jake Brake" (CM 5-11 Dec 1991), it was stated that Volvo Trucks had approved the retrofit of...