Closure Risk

• Bodybuilder Besco, which went into receivership in November, will trade at least until the middle of the month, says receiver Nick Godden.......

Euro Licences

• A new licensing system for HGV and PSV drivers will be introduced under regulations laid before Parliament last week. Under the new rules, vocational driving licences will......

Transport Honours

• Tiphook boss Robert Montague has been awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List. MBEs were given to the RHA's international expert Robert Duffy, and to FTA secretary John......

Rhais Expands

• Road Haulage Association Insurance Services has appointed its first representative in South Wales. He is Glyn Edwards who will be based in Cardiff.......

Permits Bonus

• The European Commission is planning an extra share-out of international haulage permits following German unification. Brussels wants to give 330 extra permits to Germany,......

Barrow Testing

• The Vehicle Inspectorate has confirmed that HGV testing will continue in the Barrow area under a new agreement made with Stagecoach.......

Acid Charge

• OB Transport of North Road, Ellesmere Port faces prosecution following an acid spillage on the M1 on 23 October 1990.......

Prepare For Tougher • Business Will Be Even Tougher For

hauliers in 1991 than it was last year, 50% of operators say in a survey. An exclusive Commercial Motor poll of 200 owner-operators and big fleet owners reveals that a further......

Hauliers' Hazard Aid

• Hazardous goods hauliers could soon become part of a scheme designed to help the emergency services cope with tanker and other chemical accidents. The Chem Safe Scheme, run by......

Hartwell Is Set To Sell

• Truckrent is on the verge ot selling its contract hire business which went on the market in October (CM 11-17 October 1990). Truckrent says it wants to concentrate on its core......

Big Export Deals For Awd And Erf

• ERF and AWD have scooped major truck orders from Zimbabwe worth a combined £70.5m. Dunstable-based AWD is to supply 2,000 Perkins-powered 13-tonne TL rigids worth .246m, in......

Vca Finds Fault With Cv Firms

• A total of four CV manufacturers were found to have broken their Type Approval status in the year to April 1990, according to the Vehicle Certification Agency. But few of......