Speed Limited Dates

• Draft regulations for coach speed limiters are now being circulated among the industry, Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottomley has announced. The technical standard has now......

Mep Warns On Hijacking

• Tougher security to protect lorries on dangerous routes where hijacking and attacks are common are being demanded in a report to the European Parliament. This follows recent......

Erload Fears Weighed

• The Department of Transport is expected to announce during this week that 17-tonne GVW two-axle rigids will be allowed on UK roads, probably from April 1, 1988 — but hauliers......

• A Management Team Led By John Midlane Has Made

an agreed offer for Rentco International, the European trailer rental subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation. Details of the sale are still being negotiated and Rentco (UK)......

Record Year For Daf Trucks

• Dafs newly-published annual report for 1986 shows that the last pre-Leyland Daf year was a record one for the Dutch company. Net profit was up 66% on 1985, from HFL20.4 to......