• Put your hand over your mouth, pinch your nose and try to breathe. Not easy is it? Now shift the analogy to Britain's roads....

• The trial of several former employees of Cranes and Commercials (Exports) of Southampton's Western Docks began last Monday at...

• Barriers to block nonEuropean-owned transport operations, such as Federal Express, TNT and Ryder, working throughout the...

• The row between the road transport industry and the Inland Revenue over sleeper-cab subsistence rates has finally been...

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has scaled down plans to improve Britain's road building programme, because insufficient...

• The NFC is to elect an employee-director to the board. 0-Licence slam • The Road Haulage Association and Freight Transport...

▪ Receivers Leonard Cur is will sell the remainder of Vlartintrux Felixstowe on November, with about HGVs and 100 trailers...

• The first seven Seddon Atkinson 4 x 2 Straw tractors to be ordered with the new Eagle 325TX engine have gone into service...

• Recovery men arranging a crisis meeting to campaign against the RAC's rates (CM 26 October-1 November) have dismissed an RAC...

• This year's Tokyo Motor Show featured the Daihatsu Hijet Durnbo which is described as a "minivan with a future". It offers a...

• The Confederation of British Industry wants the Government to spend £24 billion on the UK's transport infrastructure in...

• Whittle International Freight of Bamber Bridge, Preston has gone into receivership — but a new owner may be found by next...

• Commercial vehicle registrations fell to 26,173 last month — down 12.02% from October 1988. lveco Ford continues to lead the...

• The University of Newcastle has launched a .2100,000 study to determine regional variations in the road damage caused by HGVs...

in Luxembourg to avoid high wage costs and vehicle taxes. Major operators like LS Intertank and H P Ther kelsen have been...

▪ Bryan Wilson, the NFC's director of persom for over 10 years, has left the company to join the Eli zabeth Toogood Consultan....

I AWE) has developed a pair urban artics based on its TL gid. The 18 and 21-tonne VW 2.5m wheelbase models - e aimed at the...

• Besco has launched an aerodynamic body for the new Renault Midliner which, with a drag factor of 0.4, is claimed to save fuel...

I Mercedes-Benz is calling r longer drawbar combinams as a more practical way achieving the 120m 3 Philips mcept-type...

• Spotted in South London this week; arguably the world's ugliest small van, the Nissan S-Cargo, which is currently for sale...

• A bitter row over proposed wage cuts for HGV drivers has broken out between the National Union of Public Employees and Sutton...

• The 13 tanker companies within P&O Roadtanks are to be integrated from 1 January as part of a move by parent P&O European...

• An unpaid VAT bill, alleged to amount to E80,000, has forced County Durham haulier Dent's • Transport into receivership....

• Wincanton Vehicle Rental's public sector division has won the contract to supply vehicles and maintenance to the Oxford...

• Cartransport, part of NFC' Cartransport division, has changed its name to BRS Automotive. Managing director Alan Buckle aims...

• BOC Gases has started delivery of high-value gases to Franc and Italy in its new Leyland Daf FAR 95.350 drawbar unit. LI Four...

• Abbey Hill has been sold to one of Europe's largest vehicle transport companies, CausseWalon. Abbey Hill has a staff of 480,...

• Whale Tankers has won a £1.5 million contract to supply Severn Trent Water with up to 50 sludge tankers over the next five...

• French trailer manufacturer Trailor aims to boost its UK market share from 5% to 15% in the next 12 months. It will appoint...

• Scania plans to split its international marketing into two divisions at the beginning of next year: Truck Market Europe and...

Tankfreight has won a fouryear £3 million contract to run Oldbury-based Albright & Wilson's tanker operation. Albright's...

• West Midlands haulier Renwick Group is negotiating a joint venture contract with the "European division of a worldwide...

• Cologne-based food and drink importer Deventer GmbH & Co is looking for a "medium-sized" UK partner to supply haulage,...

• With 16.5-metre artics due to arrive on 1 January, longer wheelbase tractors are becoming the order of the day, most recently...

• Enviromentally-friendly sugar tankers have been produced for British Sugar by Seadyke Freight Systems, The Wilcox Group's...

IN Commercial Motor understands that Daf is currently working on an uprated version of its 8.25-litre-engined FT2500 DHS...

IN General Motors has named Ellesmere Port as a possible site fur a £100 million engine plant. Other contenders are in Austria...

• South Yorkshire Transport is the first of the former Passenger Transport Executive bus companies to be told to privatise or...

• City Vehicle Engineering now offers the Perkins 4/ 182 three-litre normallyaspirated diesel engine as an alternative to the...

• Competition between Blackburn Transport and Ribble Motor Services is set to end this month with a new cooperation deal....

• The first Northern Counties-bodied doubledeckers entering service with a Drawlane group subsidiary are 25 Volvo D10Ms for...

• Representatives of a Consumer Congress working party drafting its Passengers' Charter met Bus and Coach Council...

• • Loss-making Leicester City Bus is to close its Abbey Park garage and workshops and decentralise to four locations. This...

• Caledonian Express has teamed up with Northern Ireland Railways to provide a London to Belfast coach service. This follows...

• In a fresh challenge to Lothian Region Transport in Edinburgh, tour operator Guide Friday has launched a halfhourly service...

• The Department of Transport is reviewing the 1984 regulations which allow three children to sit on a double school bus seat....

• Iveco Finance has launched a flexible vehicle funding package designed for bus operators, with a choice of hire or lease...

• Dukes Transport (Craigavon) was granted an absolute discharge for a second-axle overload, after Daventry Magistrates heard...

III South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has revoked the five-vehicle licence held by Bryan Harris, trading as...

• A 2750 fine imposed on 'NJ Riding of Longridge, Preston, by the Halesowen Magistrates, for exceeding the permitted weight of...

• South Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Michael Turner has banned bus operator Alder Valley from registering any further...

• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner has granted Earthstrip (York) permission to triple its fleet, at a...

Lamb kin, trading as Lambkin Coaches, has been banned from operating any local services by South Eastern Traffic Commissioner...

• Craven alp Arms-based Crowthers Livestock Haul age, which appealed against the revocatio of its licence, has been ordere to...

In the first of a new series on significant trucks from the past 30 years, we turn the spotlight on the F88 which provided the...

CALLING CORNWALL • BRS Western has opened a branch in St Austell, Cornwall, offering services including truck rental, trailer...

LILLE SUITS TRUCKERS • Protective clothing manufacturer Lille of Telford has launched a range of drivers' suits, costing...

EXPANDING NETWORK • Lucas Kienzle Instruments has appointed five more tachograph, and speed limiter installation and...

QUALITY STREET • The Road Transport Industry Training Board (RTITB) is running a series of one-day seminars on quality...

WAREHOUSE WONDERS • Andersen Consulting and BR Industrial (a division of the Institute For International Research) are to run...

TALKING MONEY • Waste management vehicle specialist Trio Containers has developed a new package of leasing options for...

SEAUNK ADDS EXTRA NEWHAVEN SAILING n • Sealink Dieppe Ferries has added an extra RO-RO freighter to its NewhavenDieppe service....

THREE SLIPS SHUT El Three slip roads at the M4 interchange with the A329 (M) at Winnersh (junction 10) will be closed until 2...

DANGER GUIDE • A new edition of the International Road Transport Union's booklet, Dangerous Goods by Road — A Guide to ADR is...

the lead free petrol campaign — the latest missive contains a picture of Environment Minister Virginia Bottomley (wife of...

Motor Industry Research Association's annual lunch; guest speaker, the Right Honourable Cecil Parkinson MP — he of the smooth,...

a letter from Edric Goulding of Gouldings of Nallsworth. He and his family have been reading Commercial Motor since 1919 and...

have seen City dealers climbing over each other to apply for shares in the privatisation of Jaguar Cars. It was not an edifying...

granted that its shape has been designed to improve its overall performance. Yet it was not until the early 'eighties that the...

The Scottish Show falls at the end of the season, so it is short of launches, and a number of CV manufacturers are staying...

NOUGH Volvo's mighty F16 has elbowed the Fl 2 out of the limelight — but after three days on the road with the Fl 2-400, we...

air in the main assembly hall. A florid man, his face matching the colour of his tee-shirt and Volvo coat, is having an argu...

°Hi s IN In the 1970s, long before the current fashion for minibuses and midibuses, operators in Britain dabbled with...

OPTIONS Scottish bulk haulage operator Sandy McCracken has established a nationwide business which stays competitive by...

giving the oil companies the kind of exacting service that their mighty spending power allows them to demand. • The winner of...

RENTAL VIEW • Vehicles of 3.5 tonnes upward are hired in many cases to firms which have no Operator's Licence and which often...

■ RUCE/PROSSER 'oden Trucks has made Brian turgess general plant superinendent, responsible for assem,ly plant operations....

Jean Healey as manager of its Birmingham branch, responsi)le for personnel, finance, xlministration and customer services....

branch. He is responsible for Hyundai sales through its 200 dealers. He was previously fleet sales manager of Evans Halshaw in...

SHAW-DAVIES/SWANN After 30 years with Michelin, technical liaison manager Tony Shaw-Davies has retired to move to the West...

manager is Paul Griffiths. He joined the company from Superdrive subsidiary Auto Safety Centres of Manchester where he was...

His brief is to develop the ground service for the introduction of two new ferries, and to extend Dover's computer system. He...

He will set up a marketing department, select a national sales force and motivate and train them. He previously worked at the...

the Nationwide Independent Windscreen Association, has joined National Windscreens as fleet sales manager for north-west England.

sales manager of London and the Home Counties for NCS Truck Equipment.

company Vakuum Vu lk as sales manager fleets, after 24 years with Michelin. His brief is to develop sales with large fleet...

has named Ron Jesson as northern European marketing manager of its UK sales and marketing division in Southport, Merseyside....

He has worked at the company for more than five years in original equipment and most recently in the aftermarket division,...

He joined Mack in 1967 as assistant to the vice-president of sales and was elected vicepresident of marketing distribution in...

• Small companies will be hardest hit by the skill shortage currently facing the road transport industry. They are most likely...