• Ask 100 long-distance drivers if they would rather sleep in a bed, or sleep in their cabs and pocket their overnight...

• Drivers are to get a 9.3% increase in their overnight subsistence tax-free payments, taking the allowance to 218.15. Where...

• Speed limiters become mandatory from next year on new HGVs — but many technical and operational details have still to be...

• The London Boroughs Transport Committee is starting to prosecute permit holders who deviate from trunk routes for "routeing...

• Drivers who break down on the motorway can expect to pay recovery costs more frequently as police enforce the national...

If retrofitting of limiters is ruled out many operators in the PSV industry will be annoyed — PSV operators have had to fit...

• Britain could be in the running to land one of the key transport jobs in the European Commission. Eduardo Pena, the...

• Croydon own Court s quashed ri 2800 fine posed on Advanced Fuels by local magistrates following a lost wheels CI ha a . ir...

• The Road Haulage Association regions' annual round of wage bargaining is drawing to a close with three more regions signing...

• European Commissioners are negotiating a 5% rise in Yugoslavian transit permits for EC hauliers — but Greece wants a larger...

• Hauliers whose schedules have been devastated by the Arctic weather conditions are welcoming the temporary relaxation of the...

/ Commercial vehicle sales in the first month of 1991 were down 30% on January last year, according to the latest figures from...

• An employee buyout at West Midlands Travel will "definitely go ahead", according to boss Don Colston. Too tight • Squeezing...

• British bus operators are being invited to tender for bus routes in Copenhagen, Denmark 30% of which must be privatised by 1...

• An Essex-based training school is going ahead with its threat to issue a High Court writ against the Driving Standards Agency...

• Scania's new 373kW (500hp) contender, the R143.500, complete with the Swedish manufacturer's latest GRS 900 gearbox, hits...

helps draymen • Railfreight is reporting "reasonably astounding" results from its initial two-month trial of Detroit Diesel's...

• An aerodynamic Leyland Daf Freighter 16.17, which achieved 20% fuel savings for Exel Logistics, lost 3% efficiency when the...

Bifsped of Basildon has put one of the first MAN M90 17tonners with the new 6.87-litre engine into service. The power unit,...

Derek Payne of Cornish Brewery in Redruth is hoping to design an air suspension system with which the floor height of the truck...

• Andover Trailers has come up with a rear ramp system that can be widened hydraulically by 600mm. This allows wide plant to be...

• J&J Conversions of Andover has designed a 20tonne underlift for recovery vehicles. A prototype, being run by Kenfield Motors...

• Companies switching freight from road to rail will soon qualify for an increased subsidy from 38p to 50p a mile — but an...

• Rubery Owen-Rockwell Ireland has completed a 25m order for running gear on 1,000 trailers bound for Russia. The company...

• US engine giant Cummins has reported $137.7m (269.9in) losses for 1990, and it is laying off 600 workers at its Shotts and...

• Peter Lane Transport has won a 12-month/2500,000 northern area distribution contract for pharmaceuticals company Warner...

• Securiguard's communictions division, which includes the City Link parcels business and five smaller same-day delivery...

• MFI has laid off 120 workers at its Northampton distribution centre, but says that transport jobs are not at risk. The...

• Wolverhampton-based Relief Driver Services is setting up a nationwide network of 25 franchised depots. The move comes the...

into "serious negotiations" with up to five parties who are interested in buying sections of the group, following hundreds of...

• Parcels company ANC Holdings has bought out three of its franchisees in an out-ofcourt settlement reached minutes before the...

• BRS has signed a new contract with soft furnishings manufacturer Beauvale Furnishings. The nationwide justin-time operation,...

• Tankfreight has won a £1m-plus contract with BP to distribute wholesale lubricants and special products from Wales to the...

• Walter Carefoot & Sons (Transport) has been given an absolute discharge after admitting exceeding the permitted weight of the...

• Wood Fabrications (Darwen), which admitted using a truck in a dangerous condition after a demountable body came off one of...

• Westbourne Motors of St Austell has had its 0-licence revoked due to persistent maintenance problems. The company appeared...

alp shire-based haulier who was death by reckless driving has escaped having his 0-licence revoked. North Western Licensing...

• East Londonbased haulier Whites Transport has had its licence cut from 11 vehicles and trailers to just four vehicles,...

16P ist Longbones transport special Haulage has got off with a warning after appearing at disciplinary proceedings following a...

• A pressure group is calling on the Government to improve pay and conditions for coach drivers — some of whom earn only 22 an...

• Transport Minister Roger Freeman is setting up a working party to combat congestion, following a Bus and Coach Council report...

• Fife Scottish Omnibuses has been put on the market this week, as part of the Scottish Bus Group privatisation programme. The...

• London Buses plans to save about 23m a year by cutting its annual distance by 2%; it currently stands at 256 million km....

SCHIPOL START • Sussex-based haulier JJ Adam has opened an air freight office at Amsterdam's Schipol airport. It will be run...

SHORT STORY • Swansea-based Short Bros (Plant) has been appointed South Wales dealer for Palfinger Cranes. Contact (0792)...

TRANSPORTER TARIFF I The basic price for the new 1,000kg VW Transporter van will be £9,274 for the 2.0-litre petrol-engined...

TACHO MEET I The Tachograph Analysis Association's next meeting will be on 21 February at the M6 control centre, Perry Bar,...

AU REVOIR FRANGLAIS • Topik francais is a new French language teaching system, which uses a cassette/ booklet to teach...

TANK CLEAN UP • Tankclean, a division of bulk haulier Tankfreight, has published a pocket-size multilingual guide on its...

• Longton Storage & Transport at Bridgeman Street, Bolton, now operates under a Customs and Excise licence to store duty-free...

GUIDING STEPS • Britax has launched an 869 Step Lamp, designed to mount in a flat surface and suitable for bus entrance steps,...

lorry in Chester, loaded with more than 15 tonnes of prime manure. The Hawk would advise the boys in blue to quiz anyone with...

Bob Stroud of Bucksbum, Aberdeen, who both knew that Thomas Allen was the original distributor of Guinness from its Park Royal...

the novel traffic-busting idea of skateboarding along the hard shoulder of the M27 in Hampshire. The nippy nutter spotted the...

over the M1 in Leicestershire between junctions 23 and 24 have been built too short because of subsequent plans to add a fourth...

Several lorry drivers have recently been charged by the police for using cab phones while driving. Transport lawyer Jonathan...

The revised Ford Escort van benefits from a new family of petrol and diesel engines, an updated interior and bigger body. But...

On 1 April the entire HGV and PSV driver licensing system will be renovated. We've done our best to translate the ministry...

There is controversy about whether North London's Red Route scheme actually relieves traffic congestion. CM finds out how it...

He succeeds David Bell, the founder of the company, who sold out to the Birch Group in 1988. Bell will stay on as a...

She joins from London Country (NW) Greenline where she was business manager. • RHA JONES Tony Jones, operations director of...

• Moving 26m long A340 Airbus wings, the largest ever built at British Aerospace's Chester plant, to Manchester airport called...

• Metalair has developed a new road/rail pressurised tank container and won an order from Scandinavian Rail Cargc BV for 25 of...

• Hawson-Garner has begun bodying Ford Transit 3.5 tonne chassis for the MoD. The order, worth around £1 million is for a...

• An unusual continuous hinge from Cheltenham-based lndalex has been adopted by Boalloy as a standard fitting for the side...

• Ingimex has appointed Herentals, Belgium-based BTT Truck NV as its Benelux agent for its Formula One aluminium dropside...

• RTZ has added two latestdesign Boalloy Tautliner model 270 trailers to its small fleet. These provide full side access via...

• BP has invested £1/2 million in five ERF E14-32TT-drawn NE! Thompson Tankers 32,000-litre artic combinations for its London...

• Kassbohrer's latest tipping/ pressure discharge tanker makes full use of the longer 13.6m semi-trailer lengths enabling...

• Whale Tankers has supplied over £1 million of vacuum tanker equipment on mainly Seddon Atkinson and Volvo chassis, to North...

It's business as usual in Europe despite the UK recession and bodybuilders at the Brussels Show exhibited innovations in both...

• Grimsby council has added ten Jack Allen refuse collectors to its fleet of municipal vehicles, eight on Phaser-engined...

southern England has been acquired by the Dutch Grasso group member Grenco Matal of Camberley, MI Ama-Lift Holland BV of...

• LEP Swift, LEP International's UK distribution arm has invested nearly £1.3 million in 40 rigid curtainsiders (28 Volvo FL617...

• An order from Harris distribution for 32 demountable 7.62m Palletmaster bodies on Ray Smith frames includes DonBur's latest...

• Smiths Crisps has taken delivery of 22 high-volume Tidd-bodied Fiat Ducato delivery vans with twin-axled, 4.725m wheelbase...

• An enclosed 18m drawbar :ar transporter outfit costing n excess of £100,000 has been )uilt for Abbey Hill by Floynor...

I Leeds-based Roberts fransporters, part of the 7 irsteel group and sister !ompany of Charles Roberts Engineering has designed...

and Billingham-based Transport and Trailer Engineering have entered into a joint manufacturing, sales and service agreement....

• MSM Engineering Services has supplied Sports Car Breakers of Newbridge Midlothian with an AWD TL-1316-based five small car...

• Cee-Jay System of Alresford, Hants has become the UK agent for Fiault (France) recovery equipment which ranges from multi...

• Registrations of tipper chassis are more depressed than in any other sector of what is an acutely suffering truck market. The...

MUCK Body type in fleets This month we look at private contractors involved in waste collection, a sector which sees its...

When money is tight refurbishing will often provide a bodybuilder with welcome income. We ask manufacturers how much the...

Despite its relative complexity air suspension is growing in popularity. We look at some of the latest developments. • There...