road transport industry. On the one hand, many companies, manufacturers and operators alike, have begun to enjoy a marked...

• We concentrate on the future with a look at where today's truck technology is likely to lead; an examination of one company's...

• British Rail has suffered another major blow to its freight business following the news that Ford is finally switching the...

• Calls for a dramatic campaign of creating chaos on Britain's roads, to alert the public to its fight against the introduction...

• Moves to force local authorities to put more services out to competitive tender were approved this week by MPs. The Local...

of many company directors' lists of concerns, according to the Institute of Directors. In a survey of 200 company chairmen,...

• Members of the Civil and Public Servants' Association are being balloted this week to see if they support an escalation in...

reefer vehicles operating on international journeys, carrying frozen and deep frozen food, will go up by almost 11% from 21...

• In spite of earlier, doomladen prophecies, commercial vehicle sales during the first six months of 1987 have shown a marked...

/ Manual workers at Bedford's Luton van plant have voted tcy accept revised management proposals for new working practices at...

Two Volvo FL7 8 x 4 rigids with Rolonoff container handling equipment for the transportation of 30m 3 refuse skips are now in...

• New Transport Secretary Paul Channon is actively seeking proposals from developers of service areas on Britain's motorways...

of Transport asking for local maximum gross weight controls to be raised to 17 tonnes, in line with the increase in the twoaxle...

• Leyland Daf and MAN-VW are the beneficiaries of a 26.2 million investment in new vehicles by Transfleet, which is increasing...

• TNT is planning to enter the brewery transport field and is forming a separate division called TNT Brewery Distribution, with...

2 tractive units, together worth almost 2160,000, have been added to the United Biscuits Distribution Services fleet which...

• Car and commercial vehicle rental company, Thames Valley Rental, has completed a total fleet change to Audi, Volkswagen and...

• The decision by National Freight Consortium International Holdings (USA) to withdraw from the purchase of Four Winds...

• Job opportunities in the road transport industry over the next three months show a marked decline, judging by the latest...

• Federal Express Systemline, which won the parts delivery contract for car manufacturer Yugo earlier in the year, is now...

• Baby foods supplier Milupa is contracting out its warehousing and distribution business to NFC Distribution Group member SPD...

EXCLUSIVE II Motor Panels, the Coventry and Wigan-based commercial vehicle cab manufacturer, is aiming to become the largest...

decide to use Motor Panels Coventry to assemble its jointlydeveloped Cabtec cab (Commercial Motor 9 May) in the UK, which will...

• Mercedes-Benz is now building 8 x 4 chassis on its main truck production line at Worth in southern Germany. Although current...

• A decision on the future of the continuously variable transmission (CVT), developed by Leyland, but not included in the...

• As predicted by Commercial Motor (CM 21 February) York Trailer has moved into the rigid refrigerated body market, with a...

• Isuzu UK has confirmed that a right-hand-drive commercial van version of its 4X4 Trooper is now in production. Sales director...

we showed an inspection charge for Seddon Atkinson of 1180. Seddon Atkinson says its five-year warranty against cab corrosion...

• The use of "ghost drivers" cost Coventry-based Draycote Continental Transport, managing director Michael Kent and three...

• Gath Drums (Shipley) has been ordered to pay £1,174 compensation for unfair dismissal of lorry driver Kevin Porciecha after...

• A Leicestershire partnership will have to wait to see if it has won authority to use an operating centre it constructed on...

• Scottish-based Stephenson Bros (Avonbridge) faces charges of failing to ensure that a driver handed in tachograph charts...

whole of the route of a local service is to be challenged in the High Court by South Wales Transport. The company obtained an...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Chesterfield hauliers J. & M. Barnett being renewed for two years only...

triggered a horrific crash in which four people were killed in a collision between a bus and an artic unit. A police video...

• A Scania K92 is at the heart of a new multi-purpose city bus, called 'The Bus for Everyone', which is intended to be easier...

• Sandy Glennie is moving from his job as head of Volvo Bus (GB) to take on the role of managing director of marketing at...

concerning the sale of National Express, and there are six organisations left in the chase. These include parcels company TNT,...

by Salisbury-based Endless Holdings in the company's first entry into the bus and coach market. The sale, which is the 37th...

• The use of an unlicensed 12-seater mini-bus on a local service between Llanfilan and Oswestry has cost Michael Jones, trading...

• Northern Ireland-based Wright's of Ballymena has launched a new 33-seat midi coach body range based on the 7.5-tonne GVW...

• Northern Counties of Wigan is now offering a van-based welfare minibus alongside its range of fully coach-built PSV bodywork....

• Recently-privatised Leyland Bus has supplied some 21.35 million worth of new vehicles to operators at both ends of the...

• A year ago Ford of Europe let slip that it was considering moving the distribution of car and light van components between...

containerisation in this country, is to retire as director of sales at Freightliner. Church, 54, has worked since 1968 with...

three new leasing consultants. They are Huw Lewis, 26, Lesley Swallow, 29, and Simon Haggart, 25.

and mid and south Wales. Swallow will be responsible for the south and south west of England, and Haggart will be responsible...

Brian Pipkin as service manager. Pipkin, 49, was previously head of the engineering department of the West Midlands Fire...

DUNNING, SPENCER Geoff Dunning is the new North Eastern District manager for the RHA, and will take over from the current...

has led to the appointment of William Lock as group managing director. Lock was previously the company's marketing director. He...

newly appointed centre manager for Batchelor Foods Peterborough distribution depot operated by NFC Contract Distribution....

SECURITY BOX • A secure box designed especially for pick-up trucks has been launched by Surreybased Hillyard Associates. The...

ELECTRONIC WEIGHBRIDGE • A multi-axle electronic weighbridge complete with printer and memory is now available from Griffith...

years old this year. As a constantly updated guide to read transport law, Croner's has proved invaluable for large numbers of...

• The latest technical handbook from Retford-based Northern Rubber Company (0777 70631) outlines the range of progressive rate...

• HM Customs and Excise has issued a new series of short information sheets for small businesses dealing with the cash...

unusual step of issuing a leaflet warning drivers of major roadworks on the M2 between junction 5 and 7. The leaflet explains...

SIDE PANELS • Dewsbury-based Libra Graphics has launched a range of flexible magnetic sign panels which can be screen printed...

YTE DAGENHAM DEPOT • York Transport Engineering will be opening a new branch site at Chequers Lane, Dagenham, East London on 1...

SMALL BUT FIRST • TNT Ipec is offering truck companies a new service for delivering small packages to the continent in a...

The guaranteed service can be reached by a Freefone call to Motorway Tyres. Six specially equipped radiocontrolled vans will be...

MORE CENTRES • The Road Transport Industry Training Board has approved four more training centres under the National (Hazardous...

• EP Business Consultants plans a series of 2-day training courses on the transportation of dangerous substances in packages...

• Whittle International is gearing-up its services to Turkey to take up demand caused by the liquidation of Dow Freight...

someone to take up thi lease of a 7,500 m 2 high-security warehouse on the Pensnett Trading Estate close to Dudley in the West...

• Merseyside Police and the Department of Transport are planning a campaign against motor tax dodgers in the Merseyside region,...

guides to company car tax has just been published. Tolley's Company Car Tax Guide 1987/88 is presented in the same format as...

• Your "Wider repfers" story (CM, 18-25 June) says that EC Directive 85/3 "sets a maximum limit of 2.5m for all HGVs". This is...

• I write in connection with the articles in News Headlines (CM, 11-18 June) where the time limit set by the RTITB for HGV...

• The article by Brian Weatherley (CM, 25 June) was very timely. It summarised very well how the UK was losing out to its...

In the issue of Commercial Motor Workshop published in April, you ran an article on noise. In the article you show two...

June which states that there will be no improvement in the coldflow performance of diesel fuel for the coming winter may prompt...

BY THE HAWK • Three National Express coaches — services 750, 751 and 752 — leave London every morning at 9.00am sharp. The...

at the wheel spells trouble. In this case, however, the four behind the wheel are members of the successful management team who...

exactly what they think about its services — and it won't cost the travellers a penny. The Falkirk-based Midland Scottish...

relation) managing director, Chris Wright, who was supervising the Freightliners auction of surplus vehides held recently in...

FINE FINIS Leyland's Royal Tiger Doyen is set to recover the ground it lost at the start of its career by offering a high class...

Like all rear-engined coaches the RTD has plenty of luggage space between the axles. Access to the engine is also good with...

On the road the coach gives a high level of passenger comfort. It is quiet with only minimal wind noise. The body is also...

tricky problem of achieving a balance between conflicting international standards. Allan Winn outlines some of the solutions...

What should the truck dealership of the future look like, where should it be and how should it sell its services? Lancaster...

Dealerships have been closing down at the rate of 20 a month in the past year. Some have gone forever, and some have turned...

The total number of CV dealerships in the UK has been declining for years, but this year sees the biggest drop so far. • If...

• For the second year running our annual guide has been affected by the merger of two truck manufacturers. Last year lveco...

Page 2 While accepting an operators explanation that two very bad roads had caused problems with a vehicle, the South Eastern...

Clayton Jones Transport Services; Clayton Jones Coach Tours; Shamrock Private Hire Services (Newport) IN The Transport...

III The Isle of Mann's Tynwald island parliament has decided that trucks registered there must be used mainly on the island,...

J M Grossman (Ropsley Haulage, of Grantham) • No action was taken against the licence held by J M Grossrnith, trading as...

• The June Legal Bulletin reported a county court case in which the judge found that an agent who had engaged an employee on...

Tribunal offers Easyway advice Ni As a result of complaints from both sides in a dispute, the North Western Traffic...

Greenlands Transport of Hereford • Because a licence held in the South Wales Traffic Area by Hereford based Greenlands...

Alistair Anderson vJ W Filshill of Paisley • Although holding that a driver sacked by W Filshill Ltd, of Paisley, had...

Richard Tighe (R Tighe Transport of Brierley Hill) EConvictions have led to the licence held by Brierley Hill haulier Richard...

• The recent decision of the Transport Tribunal ordering Devon hauliers Roy and Mary Jury to pay the costs of representors,...

P C and K W L Rimell of Kempsey MWorcestershire hauliers P C and K W L Rirnell have succeeded in obtaining the unrestricted...

• Was a Scottish breakdown vehicle still exempt from European Economic community tachograph law while being used for...