for the lease, but denies that nts to close the site. However ,Irry giant wants to "improve standard" of the "smoky" eria. me...

ght thefts going to tender II Operators received formal notice this week of the multi-mil :e Truckwatch the directors to...

• Hauliers making regular runs to Austria are furious that the UK Government has run out of termination permits for that muntry...

by Karen Miles • The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency is about to give notice to thousands of operators of engineering...

• Hauliers owed money by freight forwarder JIF will soon know the chances of being paid following the company's attempt to file...

by Amanda Bradbury • Transport Secretary John MacGregor and a top EC official have hinted separately that the UK might...

• The campaign by 14 drivers made redundant when AAH Holdings took over Barnfather is set to continue this month as they...

• Gloucestershire council chiefs want a crisis meeting with the Department of Transport to discuss an influx of trucks in the...

by Brian Weatherley. • By 2000 heavy trucks will have electronically activated brakes, semi-active suspensions, driver safety...

• A total of 1.000 Mercedes LEV tractive units have been fitted with Webasto auxiliary cab heaters since they became standard...

• Production of the ERE EC range of rigids has started. iwo months after the tractive units were launched. The 4x2, 6x4 and 8x4...

• Linz displayed a new Steyrpowered 13-tonner at the Brno truck and bus show in Czechoslovakia. The 135kW (181hp) Steyr engine...

• The first Volvo FL1 0 Geartronic tractive units have gone into service with Asda, which will operate 50 Geartronics from its...

• Motor Panels has sigml: an exclusive licence agreement with Leyland Trucks Manufacturing to make the Leyland Trucks cab...

by Juliet Parish • A deadlock on regional wage negotiations between Road Haulage Association member hauliers and union chiefs...

• A £70,000-a-year national distribution contract is up for grabs from shock absorber manufacturer Woodhead. The Ossett-based...

• The prospect of extra work for parcels carriers looms as thousands of Royal Mail drivers conduct a strike ballot over the...

• Eighty drivers and warehouse staff at Birtley, Co Durham working on Wincanton's food distribution contracts were balloted...

• More jobs are to go within Carlsberg-Tetley's distribution operation as the brewery continues its cost-cutting exercise with...

by John Kendall • ERF Holdings lost £4.44m m the year ended April 1993 on a turnover of £112m, repre: ting a sharp downturn...

• Swingeing changes in the handling of insurance claims from the start of June could trier steep rise in commercial vehicle...

• An Operator, whose family used to run a haulage business which had its licence revoked, has succeeded in his hid for a...

• Haulier Neil Collis Transport of Manchester has been cleared of permitting drivers' hours offences by Rochdale magistrates....

• Evans Transport Services (Wolverhampton) unfairly dismissed a driver who refused to take a load to Scotland without giving...

• Canterbury Crown Court has cut fines imposed on Brian Yeardley Transport from £1,200 to £800 for two overloading offences....

• The first new model announced by Leyland Daf Vars since the management buyout :s a stripped-out version of the 2.2tonne GVW...

• Following the success Disccwery range—and a c sell it as the Honda Crossi Japan—Land Rover has duced two versions c...

• A British manufacturer claims to build the largest 3.5-tonne van on the market. Essex-based Fame Products has sold 10 of its...

• The new Fourtrak In dent, a facelifted versi Daihatsu's off-roader, w available in August. The t Commercial variant will Ix...

44 1 cs a nuisance, costs a small fortune, but I suppose it has to he done." This small business owner is talking about the...

still to have a monopoly: is there really any substitute for a Rolls-Royce? There's certainly no alternative to a Jumbo let, so...

T he Single European Market is now a realitybut a recent survey by the London Chamber of Commerce showed that more than half...

S orneone has it in for Barry Fisk. Eight vehicles in his family-run LGV training school, Wildern, have suffered repeated...

denies. He claims that he has lost some of his business with Ford at its Transit manufacturing plant in Sway - thling after...

C ompared with the current epidemic in lorry thefts, arson attacks on vehicles and premises are rare. But for the victims the...

had taken all the standard precautions to protect its warehouse in Tamworth with round-the-clock patrols, an alarm system and a...

slept out on an industrial estate near Tredegar in South Wales. his Renault Midliner 7.5-tonner was carrying a e mixed load of...

Dooner campaigning for better truckstop facilities was a rewarding consolation to read and I'd like to take my hat off to the...

another charade for whid no-one has been hung' g egulations can increase costs and may reduce risks. Increased costs can...