• The Freight Transport Association's recent claim that moving up to 44 tonnes would reduce the number of top weight HGVs on...

the UK fell from 505,000 in 1989 to 482,000 in 1990, according to Department of Transport figures. Public transport vehicles...

goods needs to co-operate and communicate, according to a seminar run last week by the RHA and Suffolk police.

Mike Blunt has had to fly to Madrid this week to personally "validate" her husband's claim for compensation because the Spanish...

Council wants an industry-wide system of national vocational qualifications in place by the middle of next year.

effects of the Channel Tunnel on transport is being conducted on behalf of the European Commission.

addressing the ERIE conference in Telford today (9 May) on the subject of Vehicles on the Move — Safety and the Environment.

entire stock of tools worth £20,000 when burglars raided its factory at the weekend. Contact the firm on (0602) 603204.

• Emergency authorities were this week trying to find out how two road tank trailers containing poisonous gas were washed...

• The recession in the truck industry may be bottoming out, but it shows few signs of recovery, judging by the latest SMMT...

• Panic Link chairman Eric Norman has denied causing death by reckless driving at Leicester Crown Court. The case has been...

• Unit '91, the owner-drivers association founded by haulier Mike Pickering, received a boost at last weekend's Commercial...

• The European Commission has given the go-ahead to proposals to cut the sulphur content of dery to 0.2% by October 1994 and...

rise by 40% by the year 2000 — "an enormous increase when one considers the current saturation on our roads", according to...

• Standardisation of road-rail equipment throughout Europe has been called for in a report to Transport Commissioner Karel van...

• Owners of newly privatised bus companies have made millions of pounds by selling off bus stations and garages for shopping...

• Police are investigating a truck crash that left 10 people hurt in the centre of a busy market town last week. Police say...

• Hauliers should pay up to 55% more on vehicle excise duty to cover the damage their trucks cause to the environment, say...

/ Truck drivers who break down on motorways and use a cab phone to call a recovery firm direct without informing the police are...

/ The Freight Transport Association's policy makers have again spelled out their opposition to the retrofitting of top speed...

• Truck drivers will have to pay £11 more to renew their HGV licences from next February. The cost of a first provisional HGV...

• Trading standards officers are considering a probe into the standard of used commercial vehicles being sold by dealers. It...

• lledingham & District Omnibuses of Halstead, Essex, has acquired the four routes, 12 vehicles and contracts of W Norfolk and...

• UK international operators are to be forced to take part in Department of Transport surveys into overseas haulage. The DTp...

Commercial Motor Truckfest lived up to its name over the Bank Holiday weekend with another mind-boggling array of working...

Owner-driver Barry Jackson won top honours at Commercial Motor Truckfest for the third year running — and immediately announced...

• Barcelona is the last major West European show of the year and since Spain's provisional entry into the EC in 1987 its...

• Volvo Trucks (GB) has launched an FL7 6x2 rigid dustcart chassis aimed at the trade waste sector. Biffa Waste Services, which...

with the new 298kW (400hp) Perkins Tx400 Eagle engine ready by early autumn. It will be some months after that before hauliers...

before it takes a decision on whether to produce its bonneted NL10 for the UK market. Commercial Motor exclusively published...

for the introduction into the UK of its low-emission vee-six and vee-eight engines. The range was announced at the Hanover show...

• Detroit Diesel is talking to big fleet operators in a bid to generate sales of its new Series 60 engine to British truck...

• Leyland Daf is offering a civilian version of its 11.5-tonne 4x4 military-spec Roadrunner: it hopes to announce its first...

• Security company Armaguard has placed an order for 21 Leyland Daf high-roof 400 Series vans. The vehicles will be converted...

• Following moves by Renault to boost its UK residual values, Iveco Ford Truck has drawn up a programme to improve the price...

• Next-day parcels carrier Panic Link has launched a £1m bond fund which it claims makes it the only UK operator to offer its...

• TNT Contract Distribution has renewed its contract with baby food manufacturer Cow and Gate.

• Liverpool binmen, who are currently on an overtime ban, face losing up to £60 a week in bonus payments if they continue to...

• Parcelforce is expected to report a "substantial loss" when its first-year results are released in July, despite an...

favour of Stratford in East London, as the terminal site for its high-speed Channel Tunnel link. Transport Secretary Malcolm...

with Nurdin & Peacock to distribute its frozen food range. The operation, based at Perry Barry, Birmingham has created 35 new...

is addressing European logistics and marketing strategy at a one-day seminar in London on 22 May.

majority of exhibits in the "Catherine the Great: Treasures of Imperial Russia" exhibition which is currently being held in...

• South-West coach builder Vaile is poised for expansion following a large cash injection which has enabled it to target...

• Trailer builder York is setting up a pan-European breakdown recovery network for its customers. The service, launched today...

• As consumers switch from vinyl records to CDs and cassettes EMI has been forced to shut its 10,000m distribution hub at Hayes...

• Cleveland Transit has been bought by its management and workforce. Last week Langbaurgh, Middlesbrough and Stockton councils...

• Red Admiral, Harry Blundred's Portsmouth-based rural network, expects to take an an extra 40 drivers after it moves out of...

/ The Department of Transport is looking at a scheme which could empower local authorities to levy a tax on businesses to help...

• The DVLA is helping to insulate PCV driver training schools from the effect of a backlog of 14,000 PCV and LGV licence...

• Minibus specialist the Carlyle Group plans to move to modern premises on the outskirts of Birmingham by the end of the year....

authorities and operators to apply for Government Section 56 grants for congestionbusting projects put forward in a recent BCC...

• Overloading fines of £1,600 unposed on Scots haulier WH Malcolm by Leyland nagistrates have been cut to £1,000 on appeal to...

• Western Licensing Authority Major-General John Carpenter has granted a licence to Fastimport of Penzance, despite objections...

Mayor for overloading a 7.5-tormer has been quashed on appeal, but an appeal by driver David Cowley against his £200 fine was...

• Porthlevenbased Christopher Miners has been warned about permitting drivers' hours offences and failing to produce tachograph...

• The operations of three brothers were entwined to make it impossible to distinguish them and so to confuse the enforcement...

27.50 (inc P&P). It includes names and contact numbers of top transport lawyers and legal experts. Send cheques or postal...

• The tranquillity of Tranquil Place, Bodmin has been preserved by the refusal of Western LA MajorGeneral John Carpenter to...

• The wife of an operator who went bankrupt in 1988 has been told that she was lucky to get a licence after being convicted of...

• A new distribution centre in the port of Rotterdam has been set up by Wincanton Group's European division, Wincanton Europe...

• The price of the Citroen C25 panel van range has been increased by an average of 3.7%. Prices of the C15 light van range,...

II To offer extra summer freight capacity Truckline has added the 2,000-tonne Skarvoy to its PortsmouthCaen route. The ship...

• BSI approval for quality assurance is being sought by the freight division of

European Ferries P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) for its cross-Channel services. P&O claims to be the first ferry company...

• Sign UK '91, claimed to be the main event in the British sign industry calendar, is being held at the NEC, Birmingham on...

• The Automotive Trade Show will be held at the NEC, Birmingham on 22-25 September. Admission to trade visitors will be free....

• An intensive drive against owners of HGVs and other vehicles who evade road tax has been announced by Strathclyde Police and...

• An HGV driving school has been set up by Leyland-based Ben Transport Services. Contact (0772) 436626

• A multilingual version of the Roadrunner fleet management system has been developed by Road Tech computer Systems for...

• Armagard computer protection system is claimed to protect in-cab computers from shock, vibration, dust, low voltage, fluids...

electronics Two versions are available. One is for upgrading existing equipment; the other is a complete system, based on PCs...

• Tire-Mate deflating truck tyre alarms cost from £65 to £359. The system incorporates valve caps with a pressure sensor,...

• The crash barriers are being repaired on the M4 between junctions 34 and 37 (Miskin to Pyle) until 13 May. The outside lanes...

• Vehicles of more than three tonnes will be banned between junctions 23 and 24 on the M5 near Bridgwater, Somerset over the...

N nod to hear Prince Charles advocating better public transport and a move away from City "car culture" which he castigated as...

ob Mason, of the Grosvenor Youth Club in Cheltenham, is organising a sponsored truck pull on 21 September. Sponsors please...

ill and Rover gets another chance to prove its doughty metal when 37 of its 4x4s compete in the first Paris Moscow-Beijing...

The wittiest caption to this picture of a bus which was knocked over on Vauxhall Bridge will win a £5 gift voucher and a...

H ave Ranunculus Ophioglossifolius is not a rallying cry that springs easily to the lips — but nature lovers will be delighted...

N loomy predictions from Dark Skies, a pro-darkness lobby which claims that the Department of Transport's plan to illuminate...

c - 1 potted in the latest Wavelength, P&O's in-house journal: "New plan to fight crime by Sterling". What have they been up to?

H windon motorist Cyril Price has been fined £32 for speeding in his company car. Nothing unusual about that you may say —...

to users of its bodies on other chassis. It has much to commend it to operators and passengers alike. • Van Hool is unusual in...

I am an HGV licence holder but I also drive minibuses at the weekends for a charity — the vehicles vary from eight to...

We operate several pickup trucks plated for 3.5 tonnes which are sometimes used to draw a trailer carrying construction...

• As a former owner-driver now involved in the enforcement of the bridge restrictions within Surrey, I find it disconcerting to...

• I was watching the BBC's Look East programme a few weeks ago when the subject of HGVs came up. The Department of Transport...

11 Jonathan Lawton demonstrates an interesting double-standard in his article "Telephone bookings" (CM 14-20 Feb). On the one...

• The heavy recovery specialist is considered as a necessary evil and it could be that hauliers and coach operators envy us...

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• Alastair MacDiarmid has become UK commercial sales manager at National Car Auctions. He is now responsible for truck and van...

Roy Fitch has filled the newly created position of commercial vehicle operations manager at Citroen UK's sales division in...

small and medium-sized transport companies. If you have taken on a transport manager/engineer, sales person or depot manager,...

C atherine Ragobert takes over as finance and administration director of Renault Truck Industries this month and joins the...

a Th Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness has finally been published. It may not hold too many surprises, but should at last...

• Multi-franchise service dealers could be on the way, according to Garet Rhys, professor of motor industry economics at...

• Six months after Shell Care advised Denby Transport not to replace the engines in three D - registered tractive units — even...

• Bosch's research director, Dr Otto Holzinger, has told Workshop in an exclusive interview that multiplexing will appear on...

• The recent spate of motorway accidents has prompted BBC Television's Top Gear programme to highlight the fire risk associated...

• Leyland Daf has discovered that its dealers' workshops and parts departments are open nearly 20 hours longer than its...

• In the autumn Monroe is to launch a range of shock absorbers for vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. The traditional oil-filled shocks...

• Lucas is offering VIP tickets to the British Grand Prix as competition prizes. Everyone who buys sets of brake pads and shoes...

• lveco Ford's Service Technician of the Year is Terry Lee, who works for Quicics Trucks in Manchester. Lee scored over 80% of...

• Bandag has set up a computerised tyre casing tracking system called FleetPlan. The service is available to national fleets...

• Rubery Owen-Rockwell has extended its training programme to include one and two-day courses on the TE 9000 axle. Fees are £35...

• The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness has finally been published by the Department of Transport. It covers many aspects of...

• Mintex Don has introduced a range of six asbestos-free brake linings for trucks, trailers, buses and coaches. Each of these...

• Truck and trailer spares distributor Tnicldine is launching a computerised system to monitor the cost-per-mile of vehicle...

price. To find out how the various brands shape up Workshop put A...1 them to the test. A. . II fitters have favourite...

Motor Show last September. Born out of the Leyland Oaf merger, it comprises the Leyland T45 Roadtrain cab and chassis with the...

E POWER Re-engining a truck is an uncommon event, but it can give a useful extension to its working life. T hanks to the...

exhibition purposes it found the ideal candidate powering an ERF 16-tonner operated by Plumb Center's Worcester depot. The...

• ICI Autocolour is replacing its market-leading Turbo brand twopack paint with Turbo Plus. The new paint is claimed to last up...

• Sparfax has launched a shatterproof mirror designed for maximum-weight I ICVs. The TM100's lens measures 380 x 180mm and fits...

• Wilcomatic's new Monarch Combi is a traditional three-roller vehicle wash with an additional high-pressure washing arch, When...

• A combined coolant and cab heater is now available from AVP. Diesel or petrol fired versions of the 9kW unit pre-heat the...

• An electronic timer which controls automatic lubrication on trailers is being marketed by Denco. The timer is powered through...

• Checkpoint makes loosewheel studs easy to detect, says its manufacturer, Business Lines. Bright yellow pointers are fitted...

• Glass Medic is a new windscreen repair service offered by Autoglass and Bridgewater Windscreens. It uses a polymer resin...