• The Christmas Season Is Here Once Again And The Hawk Is...

XP Express Parcels has sent me a `wacko' festive invitation to a lunch at School Dinners restaurant, where the waitresses dress as schoolgirls. "You can even attend in short......

• Cr West Of Allen Road, Rainham, Essex Has Sent

in an entry to the "Routemaster" competition (CM 15-21 November) specifying that the manufacturer of the first bus on the road was AEC of Park Royal, London; its first route the......

• Driver Phillip Whitehouse Of West Midlands-based Grd...

a lucky escape when a steel girder shot off his load and went through his front and rear screens before jamming in the road and shooting back through the roof of his cab. The......

• Hauliers Who Find Themselves Up On Overloading Charges...

Huddersfield magistrates are unlikely to be shown much mercy. One of the town's JPs Bruce Briggs, has announced that he is "absolutely fed up with roadworks on the M62" which......

• Many Of You Will Be Wondering Why This Beer

wagon from bygone days has a generously sized reproduction of Nelson's Column implanted in the middle of its tank — and a tree attached to its tail. The Hawk does not expect you......

• Calendar Publisher Eversheds Has Conducted A Survey...

bad news for Sexist Sids. "Most haulage contractors and freight distributors would rather gaze at squirrels and birds than pin-up girls," says Eversheds, explaining that animal......

• Cm Recently Reported That Volvo And Renault Are To

merge (CM 15-21 November), creating the world's biggest truck maker . with a 25% share of the EC market. What new name will this mega-giant adopt? Why Volvault, of course,......