• Maybe it was the thought of an election in the air. Or maybe, just for once, we witnessed the spectacle of a Chancellor of...

to truck drivers carrying dangerous substances should be operational by the end of the month. Drivers must have the documents...

BUDGET '92 • Chancellor Norman Lamont has frozen vehicle excise duty (YE 1)) for trucks and increased dery duty in line with...

• The Transport Development Group boosted its full-year pre-tax profits by £700,000 to £38.9m following restructuring in...

• Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has announced 24 new road schemes costing £24m, and warned that key road plans are...

• Bicester-based Swift Services and one of its drivers have escaped with an absolute discharge after a wheel loss incident....

The Road Haulage Association says it is "not unhappy" with the Budget. It welcomes the moves on the UBR and the freeze on VED,...

o HGV vehicle excise duty frozen; light goods vehicles pay 210 more. 1:1 Duty on diesel to rise in line with inflation. 1:1...

• West country recovery systems maker Brimec has called in the receiver leaving 50 employees facing an uncertain future at...

lili Truck drivers are the worst speeding offenders on nonmotorway roads, according to Department of Transport figures...

• There was mayhem outside a Lancashire police station this week when a tanker delivering fuel fell through the road and had...

• HGV traffic in central London has been cut by a fifth since the M25 opened, according to the Department of Transport....

• A group of international hauliers is calling for a powerful lobby to be set up in Brussels to fight for the road transport...

• Drivers of overloaded trucks are more likely to be caught after the Vehicle Inspectorate starts using a sensor detection...

• The number of trucks sold in the UK in the first two months of the year is 16.1% down on the same period last year. Sales...

/Vol v o Trucks has launched lowheight versions of its FL10, F10 and F12 tractive units for operations up to 38 tonnes GCW. The...

• An experimental automaticguided vehicle for intermodal terminals and ports is being developed by Daimler-Benz. The...

• An opening roof system for glass-carrying trucks and trailers has won a British design award from the Design Council....

• Trailer builder Fruehauf will have three trailers on show at Tipcon with safety features which are now standard fittings on...

Last September Volvo strengthened its medium and heavy truck line-up with a gaggle of uprated low emission engines and a new...

• Operators planning to buy road transport companies in mainland Europe were given encouragement this week as the Lep Group...

• The new owner of Tiger Rail will be revealed in the next few days by the receiver. Several companies have shown an...

/ The severity of the recession was underlined last week when vehicle rental group TLS Range reported a pre-tax loss of...

/ Allegations that an Iveco Ford dealer charged a haulier for parts that were never fitted to a vehicle, were made last week at...

/ In a move to enter the contract distribution market Europa European Express has taken on a warehouse and is about to start...

/ Truck drivers will be offered their own restaurant, showers, vehicle repair centre and parking at the M25 Clacket Lane...

• Angry Cornish hauliers are banding together to fight predicted increases in tipping rates at landfill sites after...

▪ British Gas Northern contractor Kenton Utilities has bought 30 Mercedes-Benz 208D vans from County Durham-based dealer Bell...

• TNT Contract Distribution lias drawn up a "hit list" of 40 construction companies which it believes could reduce their...

• Five oil companies have come together to offer a European card system which will corner 3,000 service stations in 16...

• Shell UK has bought 46 Foden 4000 Series 6x2 tractors. Shell UK project engineer Stephen Aggett says: "We accepted the...

• Truck driver Peter Barton was given an absolute discharge by Stockport magistrates after they accepted that an unknown...

• St Mellons, South Glamorgan-based Mark Cutter has had his bid to change his operating centre adjourned after wrongly...

/ A sheep haulier whose 10 vehicle licence was revoked for bad maintenance has had his appeal dismissed by the Transport...

Transport has been given a final warning about its vehicle maintenance by North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu. The...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses,...

/Bennett Hambro Transport, of Urmston, Manchester, has been cleared by Ebbw Vale magistrates of using a vehicle without a...

• West Midlands Travel has had prohibition notices issued against 50 of its buses in Vehicle Inspectorate spot checks over...

• The European Commission has stepped in to end a four-year battle over Cliff's Coaches plan to operate a joint service with...

• London bus operator GreyGreen helped its parent T Cowie boost pre-tax profits by 61% to £18.2m last year by increasing its...

has gone into voluntary liquidation. Liquidator Latham Crossley & Davis of Sunderland is looking for a buyer for the 10-vehicle...

• Schmitz Thermostar is looking for up to six UK bodybuilders and/or repair shops to act as sales and assembly agents for its...

• The Jack Allen group, which sells and services US-designed/ Scottish-built Colectomatic refuse systems, is re-organising...

• Anglesey-based Hydraroll has developed a Trailer Skate vehicle loading system for use with a range of accumulation...

• Severn Trent subsidiaries LI Biffa Waste Services is taking Biffa Environmental and Biffa Waste Services are adding some of...

• St Edmunds Dairies of Bury St Edmunds has taken the first of Osborne Motor Bodies' new Safeload-Major range of insulated,...

• Tiltec of Barking, has received orders for 16 of its new 13.2m Loadfast curtained semitrailer design from the newstrade....

Axle action • Granning has transferred production of its axles from Ripponden, West Yorkshire to Dromone in Ireland. The...

• The Institute of Grocery Distribution is holding a conference, Gaining the Competitive Edge in Europe, on 9 April at the...

• A conference entitled Logistics and the Environment will be held on 20-21 May by the Cranfield Institute of Technology at...

• The first scheduled freight ferry service out of Invergordon in Easter Ross to Kirkwall on the Orkney islands starts this...

• A package designed to help employers avoid the pitfalls of recruiting and training staff has been developed by Bus and...

• PHH AllStar has launched a fuel credit card aimed at hauliers who want to avoid paying in advance when bulk buying. PHH has...

• Trailer manufacturers which use BPW axles can now calculate brake requirements for any of their products using a computer...

Hazard a course ni Draft guidelines have been published to help training companies obtain approval for their hazardous goods...

Home from home • A range of top loading refrigerator and freezer units designed to fit inside a truck cab is available from...

• A semi-permaneni axle weighbridge which can be bolted to the road surface is available from Axtec. The platform height is...

Stemco has introduced a vertical stack exhaust system for medium to heavy trucks, starting from £332 (ex-VAT). It is available...

Tunnel trouble MI The Blackwall Tunnel will be closed to southbound traffic for maintenance for three nights in March. HGVs...

cars." When Terry Savage from the Union of Shop and Distributive Allied Workers 'sounded off' in our pages recently, his...

section of road. To make an objective assessment of the forces throwing the driver about we recorded the forces at the driver's...

The Iveco Ford 220.36, with its rumbling 13.8-litre six is the loudest by a comfortable margin. With its warm plastic cab the...

as the El0 and E14 models, using SMC plastic exterior panels on a steel frame and with a foam lining. Although there are no...

a somewhat brighter deck-chair-like covering for its seat, bunk and door lining) the cab of the Iveco Ford 220.36 is quite well...

to be a common sight on the road. The fleet-orientated 17.322 uses the narrower F-type sleeper. At first sight the cab looks...

the new interior design, particularly on the topof-the-range G340Ti, has given it an up-todate feel. The dashboard layout in...

with, say, a premium Stratocruiser, but its mixture of grey and blue trim looks neat and modern. Although the bulky plastic...

other vehicles, and thus only needs two wide steps to climb aboard. The high engine cowl makes cross-cab movement especially...

The cost of commercial vehicle theft has doubled over the past three years. In many cases there is little the victims can do to...

H hese pictures are from Men and Trucks, a large format paperback produced by Iveco Ford, detailing in a series of colour...

fi he wonders of genetic engineering seem to have developed with incredible success at Newcastle-based Mercedes-Benz dealer,...

GV drivers no longer want to be known as truckers because they are fed up with their cowboy image, according to a survey by...

ow apt that one of the Archers should present Commercial Motor Truckfest '91 with the Hereward Radio Award for programme of the...

I have worked as a self-employed commercial vehicle fitter for 20 years. One of my customers, a truck operator, has sent me an...

We deliver caravans nationwide and have to employ a driver's mate because the loads are over 3.5m wide, but he is not a...

ife is tough for Jack Duckworth — no, not the TV barman in Coronation Street, but a veteran international owner-driver who...

• In response to the article headed "URTU fights revocations" which appeared in Commercial Motor (13-19 Feb), I would like to...

• I recently had a telephone call from Lv Shipping's Middlesbrough office — I had not heard of this company before. The job...

iii I would like the opportunity to correct an innaccurate statement in your report about Volvo Bus's plans for the Olympian...

object to paying vehicle excise duty • in this country and road tolls abroad, when foreign hauliers can come here free of...