engineer a merger between itself and the Road Haulage Association should come as neither a surprise nor a disappointment. It...

unusual or shocking in the reports which we carry in our international feature this week. Indeed, many will know tales of...

• Hauliers who lost lorries on the Herald of Free Enterprise could face crippling increases in motor insurance premiums next...

• The Road Haulage Association has flatly rejected a merger proposal from the Freight Transport Association. Within four days...

• Almost 50% more accidents happen on the clockwise carriageway of the M25 London orbital motorway than on the anti-clockwise...

meet yesterday (Wednesday 16 December) to try once again to reach agreement on permit numbers. The last meeting ran over time...

NEC International Motor Show in Birmingham, claiming that the cost is out of all proportion to the benefits to be derived. In...

• The new House of Commons all-party Transport Select Conunittee includes a transport consultant, a road safety expert, an...

• Operators who skimp on effective maintenance of their vehicle fleets are "not only endangering the life of the vehicle driver...

this week, selling a 1635S Powerliner 38-tonne tractor unit to Norman Bolton of Wigan. It is now 14 years since DaimlerBenz AG...

• Chaos reigned in Italy last week and at the beginning of this week customs officers staged a work-to-rule. When the dispute...

• London's local highway authorities will get more than £41 million next year (1988/89) to spend on improving key routes. The...

nowdefunct Dow Freight Services, which followed the decision by VAG to switch its Volkswagen spare parts distribution contract...

• A management buy-out at Craven Tasker, the up-for-sale semi-trailer manufacturer, has been thwarted, according to industry...

with stores group House of Fraser, worth between £500,000 and £1 million. The agreement, which covers 11 House of Fraser...

Germany by Edmunds Supplies of Sudbury in Suffolk, as the UK sole distributor, and not by Carrymaster as stated in our issue...

• Parcels carriers Sovereign Distribution and Atlas Express are merging with United Carriers in an internal shake-up of Bum!...

• Hygiene products manufacturer British Tissues has taken over the Morgan Group, a contract hire and haulage company of Craven...

safety division called Tanksafe. Its four staff will police Tankfreight depots and vehicles and offer an advice service to...

its first Mercedes tractive unit into service. The two-axle 1635 Powerliner will be used on Cave Wood's new Euro Sprint 24-hour...

• Citroen UK has added six new models to its front-wheeldrive C25 light CV range, including a 3.5-tonne GVW van and chassis...

• Carrymaster, the Doncaster-based semitrailer manufacturer and bodybuilder, plans to spend up to £6 million on a new insulated...

• Cummins could be spurred into producing a 350kW (470hp) version of its 14-litre Super E Series truck diesel engine following...

Courage Breweries has ordered 60 16-tonne 2-11 trucks with lowered brewery suspension for multidrop distribution. All have...

• Birmingham City Magistrates got tough on three hauliers and two drivers last week, fining them more than E7,000 on a...

• Harris Distribution has had its 69 vehicleand 34 trailerWest Midlands licence renewed without restrictions despite opposition...

and 27 trailers from Rotherham for only six months, because of complaints about noise from its refrigeration units. North...

• The biggest double-deck buses ever to run on British roads have been ordered by Scottish-based Stagecoach Holdings, one of...

of the "unreliable" one-person-operated system, according to a pressure group's report this week. The London Regional...

Transport. The new company will retain the Mair name and will operate as an independent subsidiary of GRT. The family firm is...

• Neoplan importer Carlton PSV is organising an intensive demonstration programme for the first right-hand-drive UK...

• Gardner is planning to increase its business in the bus and coach sector during 1988 with the launch of a new range of...

• PSV insurance specialist Chapman Stevens has opened a new northern area office at 2 Deans Court, Crown Square, Manchester....

• The Road Haulage Association has moved its western district offices from Redfield to new premises at Bristol. The full...

• Operators of skip-loaders and other waste collection vehicles in the West London area can now use a new disposal site at...

III The Commission of the European Communities has decided to increase the UK quota of European Community Multilateral permits...

• Fleetdrive, the Bristolbased contract hire company, is now offering accident management as part of all its basic contracts,...

• Trimoco Vehicle Leasing is including a winter care kit in all its car-derived vans and light commercials supplied to contract...

be held at the Wynyard Hall Conference Centre, Stocktonon-Tees, Cleveland, on 1/2 June. Enquiries to Inspector Dave Hunter,...

• The Road Haulage Association will be holding its 1989 TankCon show at the Park Hall Hotel leisure and conference centre, near...

• Keeping track of all the different commercial vehicles currently available can be a daunting task for fleet engineers and...

Transport is changing the rules for calculating the weights of buses and coaches next year. The changes will affect vehicles...

of minor revisions to its ferry sailings over the Christmas period. On its Harwich/Hook of Holland route, the Koningen Beatrix...

Association has reminded its importing member companies that, with effect from 1 January 1988, it is necessary for every...

The Head Hunters (CM, Nov 26-2 Dec). Another sector of British industry whining that there are too few good managers asking for...

Nov-2 Dec 'recruitment, where have all the managers gone?' made me see red. I, like many other people in various professions,...

I was especially attracted to your survey on the systems of assistance as practised by manufacturers, and I notice with great...

Moore — (CM Nov 5-11.) I fully endorse his plea for reprints of your early special and show numbers. There does seem to be a...

reader remembers the Forrest light van or better still if they can recall driving one? It was a curious little "friction disc"...

Mercedes-Benz is working hard to overcome the scepticism of operators towards electronic systems in commercial vehicles. We...

BY THE HAWK • Brother Stephen Geddes who gave up a haulage business, a luxury home and a Jaguar XIS for a life of chastity and...

When I broke the good news to Interface the reaction was one of puzzlement. "It's not that tacky, is it?", asked the...

The folklore of international haulage has provided enough material for a television series and at least Iwo books, with its...

Italy has the worst reputation in the EEC for border and customs delays, compounded by corrupt officials on the look out for a...

when it was announced earlier this year. True, the engines were based on the two-yearold ATi units, but even they had new...

Even among the current crop of new and updated cabs, the jointly-developed Daf/ Enasa Cabtec cab is outstanding. At the moment...

is one of the tallest around, and although it has nicely radiussed edges and a clean outline, it is still vaguely reminiscent...

for Newcastle Polytechnic's top student in transport and distribution management, has been won jointly by Helen Dent of Bishop...

executive with Yorkshire Rider, and will be responsible for engineering standards on the company's 100strong fleet of buses,...

associate at the UK branch of American productivity engineers Eric C Baum. The company offers productivity improvement schemes...

made a number of changes within its main board. Chris Cole becomes business development director. He has been with the company...

Leeds, has promoted Bob Reed from sales manager to the post of general manager.

Hobson has switched to Carlton PSV where he is the new fleet sales manager. Hobson will be responsible for promoting sales of...

Grindrod as group manufacturing director. He will have responsibility for die production of the company's air braking systems...

sales and marketing director of workshop tools specialist James Neill Holdings. Promoted from the role of sales and marketing...

manager at UYC, the food industry service company. Prober( joins UYC from Unichem, where he was fleet administration manager....

Colne, Lancashire, has appointed David Barratt fleet sales manager. Barratt is a chartered engineer. Lional Mumford becomes...

director of vehicle delivery company Silcock Express. Pound has been with the company for 10 years and was previously director...

Trailer Rental as development director. He will be responsible for seeking new applications for the company's trailer rental...

control manager with Don-Bur (Bodies and Trailers). He has been with the company for over two years, firstly as stores and...

and supplier development with Vauxhall Motors. He joined the company as a student in 1946, and has held several senior...

its area sales manager for central England. He will be based at the company's headquarters in Warwick. Before joining Volvo,...