• At last weekend's Commercial Motor Truckfest, this magazine gave its annual award for the best-kept working truck present...

• May is the month when many operators thoughts turn to tippers, and in particular to the RHA's annual tipper show and...

III Ford has added a higherpowered Curnmins-engined model to its 24.4-tonne GVW Cargo three-axle truck and tipper chassis...

• Traffic examiners throughout the country have been told that they must check the speed traces as well as other details on...

• Seddon Atkinson is replacing its 201 16-tonner in July with a new range which can carry more payload than its predecessor and...

• The Post Office's decision to place the first tachograph retrofitting contract for its parcels trucks with Lucas Kienzle has...

the Road Haulage . ociation's increased ling activities helped it ieve a 31% increase in )rofit last year. :s overall profit...

• Iveco has transformed its financial performance over the past year to turn a loss of over 2600 per vehicle sold into a profit...

• Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley may, once again, be taken to court over the London lorry ban. He is threatened with...

• MPs should be given the chance to discuss the latest EEC proposals for cabotage — the creation of more freedom for...

• Appeals have been lodged by the two directors and the former general manager of Charter Roadways Ltd, who along with the...

• More new rural road pecially by-passes, may in future be built as dual car geways, Transport Secrei Nicholas Ridley has...

• Lucas Girling and Echlin the giant American component-manufacturing corporation, have formed a European joint venture company...

• In a dawn operation at Ipswich thieves have escaped with a 12m trailer loaded with paper goods after hitching it up to their...

• Transport Secretar3 cholas Ridley is set to overturn the decision by Civil Aviation Authority t( allow British Caledonian...

• Ford is developing a high powered Cargo tractive unit for operation at 38 tonnes. Since early 1985, it has offered the Cargo...

• Operational costs savings of 15% are being claimed by Alex Hawkridge, managing director of the Toleman Group, for his...

• The Kent-based Hot Group and Eaton are to foi new company to make and power steering pumps for world automotive industry....

• Specialist truck equip builder NCS of Chesterfiel, has added the TM300 3m 3 to its existing range of 1.5 2m 3 truck mixer...

Doting, South LondonBlox Services last week ited a main dealer for lit and Dodge Trucks, ien celebrated the apnent with the...

• Reversing a drawbar trailer in congested areas need not be time and fuelconsuming with a steel-bodied Wilson Double-Deck...

• A spring-loaded retractable stop for semi-trailers fitted with SAF air suspension is being sold by Industrial Machinery...

• Wolverhampton-based Spicer Clutch and Power Products — the distributor of Chelsea power take-off — has made revisions to its...

• The Bus and Coach Council has re-launched its driving standards code of conduct as the main part of a major safety orientated...

• Financial problems have led to old-established Norfolk operators Alan and Lucy Carter, trading as Carters Coaches of...

• East Midlands independent coach operator members of the Bus and Coach Council have expressed unanimous opposition to...

IN National Express has tamed its own operator licer and is setting up a small operating fleet of four coach to supplement the...

• Harpenden, Hertfords independent Brian Murray, trading as Travel Britain Co Hire, has been given six months by Metropolitan...

;owbridge, South Glamornagistrates have ordered J Meeks and 25 of its rs to pay £2,045 in fines :osts after convicting of a...

• Hernway Nightfreight Central have been granted authority to move into the former Roadline UK depot at Willenhall, despite...

• A Cheshire-based international haulier has been told to rethink its plans to have a North Wales depot licensed as its UK...

• A Blackpool lorry driver involved in a crash in which a toddler died and the parents and another child were injured tried to...

MI A million purpose-built Kelloggs warehousing and distribution complex at Trafford Park, Manchester was officially opened...

Vice chairmen of the ight Transport Association a been announced folng the appointment of art Phillips as its presit (CM, May...

1 the board Bus driver George Baird take a seat on the board othian Region Transport, new company formed to over the operating...

Sales director of North t Ford main dealer Patter;, Ashley Winter, has a voted on to the national acil of the Motor Agents'...

Bath2, West Lothian has died in pital. He was 72. His er, James, and brother in, were also haulage tractors for 53 years. He is...

• A management team has been appointed by specialist distribution company Bucks to take it into the next century. Four of the...

• A life-long Foden manager, Roy Caddy, moved last week to become marketing manager with Seddon Atkinson. He reports to...

• A former transport manager with Frigoscandia has been appointed to the new position of development director-Europe by TIP...

in Chairman and managing director of the Fandstan Electric Group of Companies, Lord Tanlaw, has been elected as president of...

• Mazda Cars is launching a diesel version of its B2000 one-tonne pick-up. The new B2200 diesel model, which goes on sale on...

• Following its record sales year in 1985, Freight Rover has launched a 2400,000 sales promotion campaign over the next three...

• Production of American Motors' (AMC) four-wheeldrive Jeep models at its Peking plant has been halted by repayment problems...

Following the news that : plans to launch a 3.5ne GVW Ducato model in UK next year fitted with same 8kW (92hp) 2.5-litre...

• Bedford has reaffirmed its commitment to the electric panel van market with the news that from mid-October it will start...

Andover-based bodybuilder vson-Garner is now Ting a tipping conversion the recently-launched Bed1 Rascal micro pick-up. t has...

Exhibition for Suppliers of the Vehicle Industry, runs from May 27-30 in Geneva. The British Overseas Trade Board and the...

• Timed to coincide with SITEV is the Financial Times motor conference. This year's conference, to be held in Geneva on May 28...

operations research, entitled "Computer scheduling of buses and crews" is being held at Leeds University from June 30 to July...

Technology and Automation, the European forum dealing with the application of electronics and computers in the automotive...

is to hold its fifth annual conference in Nottingham's Royal Hotel on June 4. This year's theme will be the "Design of small...

The site, close to the M6, has a 10-bay workshop and a parts stock intended to offer 94% availability. Two shifts ensure that...

been signed up for the Shrewsbury area. M J Parry and Sons of Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury operates a depot equipped with...

SEA CHANGES • Sealink Dieppe Ferries has moved to Newhaven and all freight reservations are now handled by that office. Phone:...

■ elopment of the Truckline ferry service occurs next month when the second of its stretched ro-ro ferries re-enters service....

repair syster for concrete floors which ha) become worn or eroded, par ticularly by fork lift or pallet trucks. It is called...

Companies concerned ut the credit rating of their nts can buy peace of mind nigh a new telephoneed credit checking service...

LD SEALS At a recent London ninar on controlled ternature transport (CM April Frank Cornock of Birds Wall's and...

DRIVERS CAUSE DELAYS I/ According to Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottomley, the worst delays at motorway road works are...

Kim Rolfe made Truckfest history weekend by beating 500 or so men ake the top award for the Commercial or Best Kept Working...

• Truckfest may be primarily a drivers' event, but it has also came of age as a trade show and many of the exhibitors report...

F2f. Ranger XLT pick-up, used its 283kW (380hp) Ford V8 engine and 66X43X1 earthmoving lyres to do its worst to fah Vauxhall...

Maidstone, won the Volvo Springball Trophy for the best performance in what its sponsor says i the truck equivalent of an...

At last — a diesel-engined chassis cab with performance approaching petrol models, but with diesel economy. We test three...

my colleagues had the temerity to suggest that the main beam warning lamp on the Volvo 14.6 we recently tested was too dim....

carry no report this week of the May 6 meeting of the Community's transport ministers. The reason is simple. It did not...

recipe for success. (Ask David Howell, among many others). But there are a few exceptions to that rule. Among this select band...

ability to remateriafise anywhere in time and space and its interior volume that belies its external dimensions, to have had no...

who watched National Freight's Sir Peter Thompson and Kellogg's Ross Buckland open BRS Northern's warehouse in Manchester last...

with a difference. Says Truck and Bus magazine: "Truck racing is even more spectacular at night and we would like to se. more...

speaking at TipCon next week. Since 1981 Helen Jenkinson, one of John Steele's aides, has been at the centre of the discussions...

ERF's new tractive unit outpaces many of its rivals and is particularly pleasant to drive thanks to its Cummins/Eaton/Rockwell...

Since having had a letter lished recently concerning orting a tractor unit and the 'yrs at Dover (at that time , as about eight...

My company, R and G pson Limited, has held a tribution contract with xas Homecare since that many started its central tribution...

Blakemore's report on the recent Institute of Refrigeration/Institution of Mechanical Engineers London Seminar (Commercial...

Gilbert of Voith Engineering for providing the opportunity to expand on my article "Synthetic Solutions" (CM, March 22). In...

AND ROLL We report on a highly successful London-Brighton vintage CV run — from the cab of one of the winning entries •...