• In the week of the general election we cannot resist drawing a parallel between the political parties and the subjects of our...

• Satisfying the customer better is what the revised cover date on this week's Commercial Motor is all about. By improving our...

• HGV driver training schools which offer to train drivers within less than the 15 days recommended by the RTITB have come in...

• Operators will have to contend with strike-bound ports, despite the end of the two-day civil servants' strike. That was the...

• The next Chancellor of the Exchequer should hit operators of heavy lorries by greatly increasing the excise duty for vehicles...

• Leyland Daf is maintaining its grip on the UK thick and artic sector above 3.5-tonnes ahead of Iveco Ford Truck, according to...

at US rival • TNT UK managing director Alan Jones has fired a salvo against Federal Express, claiming that the Americanowned...

• Road transport has tightened its grip on the distribution of newspapers with the news that Mirror Group's national papers...

• The TUC is planning an 18-month investigation into the safety of Britain's fleet vehicles, to examine why some companies'...

Around 190 drivers will be recruited for the work, and these are likely to include several Mirror Group drivers currently...

• Shell's attempt to stabilise the price of bulk diesel by not rescheduling prices at the start of every month appears to be...

• Road marking company Prismo has had two of its trucks, worth around £70,000, stolen from High Street, Oxted, Surrey during...

• Allied Aims has announced three major advances for its computerised Vehicle Cost Management System, and is promising a new...

• Salford Van Hire's ambitious plans in the contract hire sector look set to be backed by a 220 million investment in new...

• Scottish haulier Munro's Transport has bought seven Leyland roadtrain tractor units and 13 new trailers as part of its...

• Vehicle insurance rates could rise by as much as 20% during the next year, warns David Campbell, City commercial manager of...

• Nissan has given its second most popular commercial vehicle, the E23 Urvan, a facelift that includes more power for the...

• International Motors, the West Midlands importer of the lsuzu range, has confirmed that it intends to type-approve a...

• ERF has won its first order from the Ministry of Defence since the Second World War. Two 6x4 ERF El0 tractive units fitted...

• Rubery Owen-Rockwell's line-up at the TankCon exhibition next week will include its latest Flexair flexible-link air...

• Citroen's AX Enterprise hatchback van (CM 7 March) will be coming into the UK in October. Citroen also intends to extend its...

• Municipal and specialist ye. .r.le manufacturer Dennis Eagle is now fitting the latest Hendrickson Norde H/N tandem rear axle...

• One of the less-obvious Innovations on the new Pegaso Ironer (CM 9 May), which is the first vehicle to be fitted with the new...

MESSERVY Sir Godfrey Messervy is the new president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Chairman and chief...

TONY COOK Tony Cook has joined the Road Haulage Association's head office as executive officer. He will act as secretary for...

CONNAH/KAISER John Connah has been appointed managing director of Wincanton Contracts. Connah has been with Wincanton since...

BURRELL Malcolm Burrell has been appointed a director of the Chester-based consultancy company, Distribution Projects. He...

Melvyn Escritt has been appointed manager of the John Billows Volvo truck dealership in Bedford. Escritt's past employment...

Douglas Taylor as its new chairman and John Bailey as director, client services and business development. Taylor has been with...

ALAN GI LZEAN Alan Gilzean, the former Tottenham Hotspur, Dundee and Scottish International footballer, has joined Longton...

BRENNAN Paul Brennan has joined the sales staff of CB Cottingham, the North Humberside-based trailer manufacturer and...

MILLS Sealink has announced the appointment of John Mills as freight manager for its short sea routes from Dover and...

DUNFORD Mitchell Cotts has appointed Stephen Dunford as international and transportation director with responsibility for the...

• A Scottish appeal court has ruled that a former employee of TNT Roaclfreight (UK), who was charged with trying to sell the...

• Fenton magistrates have decided that Lancashire haulier J A Robinson and his driver James Heys were not to blame for defects...

• Father and son John and Andrew James lost their 0 licence when they were held to no longer meet the requirement to be of good...

• Following maintenance problems at the Hereford depot of GB Liners the company's West Midland licence has been renewed for...

• Just five months after its management buy-out Leyland Bus has signed a 12-year collaborative contract with the German gearbox...

• Badgerline, the first NBC operating subsidiary to be privatised, has spent over million on a new depot at Weston-super-Mare...

• DSB Sales of Loughborough is marketing a new coach-built 19-seater minibus called the Sprinter which is based on the...

win a ride-on part in Dallas • London Regional Transport's international transport consultancy, London Transport...

• LJ=11 Distribution Services II Silver Roadways, the general road haulage and bulk tanker division of Tate & Lyle...

• London and the South-East M2/A2 Kent Contraflow at Cobham. M20 Kent Contraflow between Junctions 7 and 8 (Maidstone/A20)....

SIR CPC REPORT INACCURATE • Frank Lewsey's "potted history" of the CPC system (CM, May 30) needs correction on two points. In...

The Mercedes-Benz 811D is a 7.5-tonne oad carrier with the • racticalit of a van. Does the result make sense on cit streets?...

• Tuffnells has decided to challenge the conventional wisdom which underpins the whole of the modern parcels delivery market....

seller for the company. Deputy managing director Paul Gregory reckons Premium Express is a "unique selling proposition" for...

• This week marks the official opening of the newest hub centre for parcels delivery in the country. Parceline, which before...

• Delivering parcels is big business: Securicor, a company not normally noted for outlandish or reckless claims, reckons that...

BY THE HAWK • One Department of Transport civil servant is taking an especial interest in which party wins the general...

• Iveco Ford chairman Felice Cantarocco has a nice way of describing his company. "We are a baby, but people should not forget...

• A new Turbostar model, a Daily van with increased load volume, and new high-capacity integral vans to replace the Z range are...

of Iveco Ford profits • With booming sales and a 225 million cash injection from its shareholders to reinstate equity levels...

a keen interest in the recentlylaunched Iveco Ford TurboStar range according to David Nurton, group truck sales manager of...

service in the UK is now running with Scottish-operator Lovie of New Pitsligo. The 300.25 eightlegger is powered by the 188kW...

• Iveco Ford operator William West and Company (Ilkeston), has won a contract from Trent Regional Health Authority to...

• A new low power version of the Cargo 1615 tipper is now available. Designated the Iveco Ford Cargo 1613, the new vehicle is...

• The new Zeta Iveco Ford integral vans were first displayed publicly at the Brussels show earlier this year. Among the changes...

• The Iveco Ford Cargo has become the first 7.5-tonner on the British market to have disc brakes on all four wheels, beating...

• Right-had-drive versions of the Maxi Turbo Daily vans, which were unveiled at the Turin show last month, will go on sale in...

• Iveco has opened two new service centres in the USSR, to support the 2,600 Iveco trucks travelling through the country each...

• Most of the major commercial vehicle manufacturers are squaring up to do battle in the lucrative 7.5 tonne commercial vehicle...

• Billingshurst-based Kingston Plant Hire is boosting its fleet of 28 Iveco Ford Cargo road-sweepers with the purchase of three...

• Fourteen months ago, the two companies which now make up Iveco Ford Truck had a combined share of the over3.5 tonne market in...

BRINGI NG IT HOM • GUS Transport buys trucks, vans and components like it buys the goods which go into the company's range of...

• There have been many milestones in the six-year career of Iveco Ford Truck's highly-successful Cargo range — but none with...

• Pirelli's busiest tyre distribution depot uses nothing but Iveco Ford Cargos. More than half-a-million tyres flow through the...

• Iveco Ford's adoption of disc brakes as standard equipment on all Cargo models up to 7.5-tonnes GVW signals a significant and...

• Anyone who uses the M4 motorway between London and Reading should be in no doubt about where Cargo trucks are built. The...

• Like Frank Bruno Trimoco is a heavyweight, training hard to stay light on its feet. It is one of 52 'extra heavy truck'...