• The letters page of The Times is a traditional forum for learned academic debate and argument, but one cannot help wonder how...

• Every artic plated at 26 tonnes GCW and above coming on to European roads after 1 October 1991 will have to be fitted with...

has won a multimillion pound distribution contract with Wiggins Teape Fine Papers. The deal will be centred on a dedicated...

• A minimum of 4,000 permits will be distributed under the EC's proposed pilot cabotage scheme which is now being discussed in...

changes in training procedures this Friday, when it reveals how its proposed Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) will be...

• An HGV driver will appear before St Albans magistrates court next week because the strap system securing his load failed....

• Demand for HGV annual tests is causing big backlogs are building up, and there is some confusion over the Vehicle...

• Freight Rover, has created 50 new jobs to help boost vehicle production from 436 a week to 525. More than £750,000 has been...

• The commercial vehicle sales boom has continued into 1989. February sales were 8.77% ahead of 1988 at 31,450 — and the...

generation 2.5 to 4.6tonne T1 van and chassis cab range. Changes to the drive line combine with an aerodynamic package to...

• Reefer operators must recognise that they can face legal action if a consumer dies of food poisoning caused by poor...

▪ UK truck registrations were up again in January, according to the latest Department of Transport statistics. Figures released...

• Transport Secretary Paul Channon will fight pressure from other European transport ministers to force Britain to accept...

• Stars from Britain's toprated television comedy series Bread will join top celebrities like Jimmy Saville, Geoff Capes,...

• The drive by the Licensing Authorities to regulate the industry is being hampered by the combination of continuing change and...

• Two new crew-cab conversions are now being offered by Wreckers International South West at Bristol. One is based on a...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) will have added two tractive units to its heavy truck line-up by the end of the autumn in the shape of the...

• Don-Bur and Harris Road Services have collaborated in the development of a new trailer, the Coilmaster, designed for the...

▪ Lada is introducing a L5-litre engined Samara van, the Samara 935. It joins the 1.3-litre Samara 425 van which was launched...

• Shelvoke Dempster has developed a 29m 3 capacity front end loader to supplement the 229mm-lower, 25.23m 3 model it introduced...

• Reebur Ambulance is to hand over its first front-line ambulance to Clywd Health Authority this week. One of an order for...

• A new Luton body kit suitable for the Ford Transit is being launched by Rochdale-based CVR. The new Rapid-Fit body is...

• Britain's army of small hauliers must start preparing now for the single European market (SEM) in 1992 — or risk losing...

• AJG Transport Services has taken delivery of the first of three new Mercedes-Benz Powerliner 2 1735s which will be used to...

• Transfleet has won a major five-year contract hire deal with Marley Extrusions for which it will supply over 2650,000 worth...

• Transport and distribution services group Hays, which bought specialist distributor Bucks last November, is considering a...

• Declining exports could force many hauliers who rely on international trade out of business during the next few years, warns...

• BRS Northern has won a £125,000 three-year contract hire deal with furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse. BRS will supply...

• Multicar Minitrucks is looking for a new dealer in Scotland to sell its twoand four-wheeldrive light diesel trucks. Current...

• Leigh Interests has won its second multi-million pound domestic refuse collection contract with East Staffordshire District...

• Malpractices by operators struggling in a cut-throat competitive environment have plagued the first full year of...

• Go-ahead Northern, which operates minibus services into the Metro Centre shopping complex in Duriston, is marketing its...

services has been "broadly maintained following deregulation," according to studies carried out by the Government's Transport...

• Grampian Transport has shed 28 staff within a month of its management-employee buyout. The 28, all supervisory and clerical...

• Westminster City Council and the Metropolitan Police are to crack down on illegallyparked coaches in the centre of London...

• Drawlane subsidiary North Western, which runs services in Merseyside and Greater Manchester, has moved its headquarters from...

• Reeve Burgess of Chesterfield has just completed the first bus version of its Harrier body on a Leyland Swift 4.44m-wheelbase...

• Scania-Bussar managing director Kurt Palmgren says Scania may set up a European base by 1992, either at its Netherlands truck...

• A payroll tax should be levied on employers to help pay for public transport, and a transport fund based on vehicle excise...

• Dormobile won a record 2750,000 of orders last month, to boost its order books to 22.7 million. More than 150 enquiries...

• The number of coaches passing through Dover fell by nearly 15% last year, from 2,798 in 1987 to 2,380, according to figures...

• January's PSV registrations were down 18% on January 1988. However, 1988 taken as a whole was a good year, with registrations...

• Scarboroughbased Ridge Car was given six months in which to prove it can operate its public service vehicles properly, when...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost five drivers of Manchesterbased N Collis Transport £770 in fines and costs, when...

• North Western Deputy Licensing Authority John Levin has restricted the operations of Widnes Plant Hire after more than 20...

farmyard in Australia has been swopped for a new MAN G90 7.5-tonner in one of the most extraordinary part-exchange deals in CV...

is 10 March. The money raised will help disadvantaged young people in the UK and famine victims in Africa. The road transport...

96 years old and have had 79 claim-free summers behind the wheel. George Preece of Hereford fits the bill and his latest...

Liverpool this week — a baby girl born in the cab of his Renault G290. Holdsworth picked up the hitch-hiking mother on a trip...

bit longer than Ben Johnson kept his", said a triumphant Professor Garel Rhys, when he steamed home with the Institute of the...

week at an incident on the M6. A despatch rider from Pony Express dropped thousands of surgical needles onto the motorway over...

SHATTERING SERVICE • litional Windscreens is expanding into Scotland by opening fitting centres at Aberdeen, Inverness and...

FTA HANDLING WITH CARE • The Freight Transport Association has formed a dangerous goods panel, comprising members who transport...

RUBERY OWENROCKWELL • Rubery Owen-Rockwell is introducing a two-year parts and labour guarantee for its trailer running gear...

REVIEW OF EXPORTS • Customs and Excise is reviewing export procedures as part of a programme designed to minimise...

RNA'S YES AGM • The annual general meeting of the Road Haulage Association's Young Executive Section takes place on 17, 18, 19...

ESOP EXPLAINED • • Busways Travel Services has produced a video explaining ESOPs. Entitled Minding Your Own Business — the ESOP...

ON THE BUSES • University College, London, and London Regional Transport are joining forces to offer a two-day course on public...

CASHLESS FACILITIES • The Roads Credit Card introduced by Road Operators Associated Delivery Services, now offers credit...

IN-CAB DESK / For drivers forced to do a lot of paperwork in their cabs, Peterborough-based Boxer Marketing has introduced...

Mll London: Lane closures between 35/6 (LoughtoreM25). M25 Surrey: Contraflow at 113 (Staines) ill (ChertseY). M3 Hampshire:...

• A company which committed 77 offences while operating under an interim licence was described as extraordinarily lucky by...

• Road crash victim Pamela Bullard has won £250,000 compensation for injuries she suffered when her pedal cycle was in...

• Cadzow Plant Hire has lost an appeal to Northampton Crown Court against a conviction on two axle overloading offences, for...

the Worcester-based Swanbrook associate S N Jones has been cut by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh to expire...

fined 240 with £20 costs at Wetherby magistrates last week for overloading a second axle. Company owner Paul Boitoult told the...

been charged with smuggling drugs, following a search of his vehicle by Customs officers at Dover docks. Daniels was remanded...

But today's sleeper-cabs are designed to give them the comfort they need for maximum efficiency — and safety. We booked into...

We compare two cabs which are not just separated by 16 years, but by two different philosophies toward driver comfort • "More...

Today's trucks are not just for driving in. Accessory manufacturers want you to feel warmer, safer and entertained. • Not so...

As customers of Henry Ford discovered, the economics of mass production can often limit the choice for the consumer. Indeed, if...

CROPP Alan Cropp has become managing director of the contract services division of Bees Security Distribution, at Hinckley. He...

Alan Dawson has joined Toyota (GB) as personnel director, reporting to managing director Alan Marsh. Previously with Redland...

Heinrich Schallenherg, former president of the International Road Transport Union, Geneva, died on 21 February, at the age of...

Volkswagen, Swindon, sees the appointment of Chris Duddridge as product sales trainer. He joined from Ken ning Leaseline,...

FISHER/VVARD/YOUNG/ BARTLEET The committee of the East Midlands division of the Freight Transport Association has elected the...

supervisor at its Leafield, Cor sham head office. Reporting to marketing development manager, David Flint, he will coordinate...

KELLY TIP Europe has named Mike Kelly as sales director of newly formed TIP Tanker Rental. He joins the company from XTRA...

FITZGERALD/PALMER/ EVERETT SEAT UK has made Paul Fitzgerald finance director, Adrian Palmer sales and marketing director, and...

New sales and marketing director at Swan National Rentals is Jeffrey Johnson. He has previously worked at Ford, British...

The Bristol-based transport computer company IES (UK), has appointed Barry Lenton sales manager, primarily responsible for the...

Simon Cooper is the new national accounts manager of fork-lift hire company, Harvey Plant. His brief is to maintain existing...

Abbey Hill Vehicle Services • CAR TRANSPORTER operator Abbey Hill Vehicle Services was given an absolute discharge, after...

Coventry-based Sean McKenna • COVENTRY-BASED Sean McKenna has been granted a new international licence for 18 vehicles and 16...

Introductory Guide by Clifford Chance ▪ THE European Commission has proposed the creation of a new form of company, the...

• THE LICENCE held by West Midland haulier Victor Harding had been in real jeopardy. The only thing that had protected it from...

II A CASE OF IMPORTANCE to the owners of semi-trailers that are hauled by somebody else's tractive unit, was decided in the...

4,, The Transport Tribunal's judgment in " the comparatively early environmental Appeal 1985 W17 (Surrey Heath Borough Council...

The question of 'special consideration' II MY previous article (Legal Bulletin, December '88) dealt with the principle of "no...

Operators react at new attack on 0-licences • THE TACHOGRAPH'S ability to record speed is causing increasing problems....

Lawyers for Enterprise scheme • MORE THAN 2,000 solicitors from all over England and Wales have joined the Lawyers for...

11 A COMPANY which neither owns any vehicles, nor proposes to keep any vehicles belonging to it at its operating centre, was...

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