after pulling three people to safety from an exploding motorway cafe near Eynatten on the Belgian/German border, Alan Sharpe...

went into receivership on 26 May, has been bought by locally-based general haulier Norman Offer (Transport).

C has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list for services to the freight industry. Clark's presidency ended in...

turnover, for the year to the end of March 1995.

turn left through a red light at a junction in a bid to ease traffic flows. This is already allowed in the US.

Association of British Port's Port of Immingham on the Humber Estuary. The 40-acre Nordic terminal operates 20 sailings a week...

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers could save more than Lim a year and receive better enforcement if the Government accepts a...

• The campaign to allow sixaxle 44-tonners on UK roads received a boost this week with the release of figures proving that...

by Lee Kimber • Transport lawyers are urging operators to boycott threatening admission forms issued by Trading Standards...

figures slump by £50m • Drivers at transport group NFC face an anxious few months with hundreds of jobs due to go. New...

E sho uld be carved up into g i ht w ith fiefdoms" o six w th one king as head six w th one king as head of the realm. No, not...

by Patric Cunnane • Commercial Motor's campaign to regulate LGV driving schools has won Government backing for a voluntary...

• Shell drivers are being told to use "good manners" to fend off angry demonstrators complaining about the company's decision...

Tibbett & Britten is attempting to cut losses at its car transporter arm, Axial, by restructuring its major distribution...

by Lee Kimber • A Fishguard haulage company is trying to find the British driver who rescued one of its drivers when he was...

by Karen Miles • The campaign to ban bullbars reaches a key stage next month when the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee...

• Consignor liability should be considered as a means of reducing overloading, says North-East Traffic Commissioner Keith...

Truck dealers facing prosecution for not using tachograph charts may set up a fighting fund to challenge decisions against...

drawbar units will operate out of Ha'fords' West Midlands, Paisley and Silvertown depots.

and distribution for Manchesterbased power company --web . Shops in South Wales and the SouthWest will be supplied out of a...

to distribute for HMSO Office Supplies out of its Bristol Centre. Ryder will dedicate 40 new vehicles and 44 staff to the...

distribution for Italian confectioner Ferrero, which will involve 390 staff at sites in Rotherham, Scotland, Milton Keynes,...

to handle urgent deliveries for the British Printing Company. Collections can be made as late as 22:00hrs for a 09:00hrs delivery.

by Ian Wylie • The British Standards Institute is updating its wheel safety standard following a dramatic rise in the number of...

• A truck driver has been found guilty of speeding before a fatal accident on the A75 Stranraer-Dumfries road in March 1994,...

• "I've got a brand new Eddie Stobart song" is ringing out across the airwaves this week as veteran pop group the Wurzels pay...

• Foreign firms are lining up to take advantage of the British Rail privatisation—with US companies leading the way. The...

by Lee Kimber III Hauliers could pay up to £47m over the next three years because the Highways Agency is forcing abnormal loads...

• French proposals to use the same type of roalsigns all over Europe have been condemned as unnecessary, dangerous and...

• A major commercial vehicle manufacturer is negotiating to buy components using a novel auction method that could halve the...

mid-range nine and 16speed Ecomid gearboxes. As the medium-duty market is relatively small both companies expect savings from...

introduce a semiautomatic Transit to the range, even though the idea is well under development. Commercial vehicles manager...

• Iveco displayed its new generation of ultra-low-floor buses at the UITP City Transport 1 95 show in Paris. The CityClass was...

B irdman Bill Oddie soared into Torbay to open the Institute of Wastes Management's 98th annual show, writes Bryan Jarvis....

• A disciplinary hearing on the Scottish Traffic Area licence held by Rochesterbased Pall Mall Services Group has been...

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh renewed the licence for 15 vehicles and 20 trailers held by SW Pegg, of Burton upon Trent,...

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Seaham, Co Durham-based Murton Motors being cut to eight vehicles and...

• Bromley, Kent-based Ashvale Transport is appealing to the Transport Tribunal against the decision of the South Eastern &...

• A bid by Tipton-based Major Singh Kheela to change his operating centre was adjourned for him to take legal advice after West...

fl • Basingstoke magistrates fined Powys haulier John Lewis £750 after convicting him of using an artic which weighed more...

• The licence held by P and G Haulage, of Willenhall, has been cut so that it now expires at the end of the year because of...

• Banff-based Andrew Watson's licence has been cut from four vehicles and five trailers to one vehicle and one trailer by...

• Falsifying a tachograph chart and taking insufficient daily rest, cost Inverurie lorry driver Ronald Watson £440 in fines and...

• Birmingham based City Waste's licence authorisation has increased from 15 vehicles and 15 trailers to 25 vehicles and 10...

I do not envy Mr Higgs, the director general of the Fertiliser Manufacturers Association in his dutiful attempt to defend the...

I refer to the recent article regarding headboards on semi-trailers and I find it most disturbing that neither United Road...

5 Ins column is not usually in the business of promoting cricket matches, normally concentrating on the sound of diesel engines...

r, rivers with experience Li of the Blackwall Tunnel know that what goes down doesn't neccesarily come up. The northbound...

y good pal Martyn Barrett from Southampton writes to update me on the goings on at the Volvo Truck Club. Seems the members have...

umour has it Naomi Campbell turned down an offer to model the Maestro portable eye and face wash judging by this "in-your-face"...

0 am sure readers of this estimable organ need no encouragement to visit the annual Foden gathering this coming weekend, 24/25...

• Places on Superfast Ferries' new service between Patras in Greece and Ancona in Northern Italy can be reserved when operators

book a cross-Channel passage on P&O's ships. The reservations must be made one week before departure. Contact P&O European...

• The Abbey Group of Consultancies is a consultancy service formed by five independent companies to offer a full range of...

• Emery Expedite has been set up in Kansas City, Missouri to offer high-speed door-to-door deliveries throughout the US....

• Pirelli is guaranteeing a collection and delivery service of less than one week for customer-owned tyres scheduled for...

• Thirty six seminar programmes are to be presented at the Autotech Congress and Exhibition to be held at the Birmingham NEC on...

• The Freight Logistics Exhibition is a new exhibition for all disciplines in logistics. It will run in alternate years to...

• The launch of Hella's 1995/96 battery catalogue ties in with a 63% discount and an extended 90-day credit scheme on wet and...

• Crawford's Directory of City Connections includes information on nearly 2,000 stock market companies, 1,400 private companies...

• Longdon Truck Equipment is supplying Zepro aluminium column lifts suitable for 3.5 and 7.5 tonne GVW trucks at £2,000 for a...

• A four-way photo-beam system from Prokam Security Systems offers greater security against false alarms by triggering when...

• Scania has introduced a range of security packages for old and new models. Included is an alarm system, incorporating an...

• Simplair has introduced a high grade aluminium tubing system for compressed air pipework which is corrosion Hollow Bar system...

▪ Fina's Diesel Euro Service card will be replaced by a new card, Fina Eurotraffic. from 1 July. Fina syas the new card has a...

• Jamont UK's Spray Soap System is said to reduce soap usage by 50% by dispensing a concentrated soap film over the user's...

• Timax Exhaust Systems has launched Truckmaster Direct, a high-speed delivery and technical advice system for its Truckmaster...

• Jungheinreich is selling a light duty, fully automated stacker crane for a price comparable with a conventional manually...

• OTC is supplying certificates with its oil filter crushers on which the crushing power and amount of oil extracted from the...

• Expect delays for up to six months while strengthening work is carried out on Atcham bridge. One-way working will cause...

• Work has begun on the southern extension to the A568 Widnes eastern bypass. The one-mile dual carriageway extension will...

10 June and although the police were called immediately, they were unable to trace the vehicle. It has a red cab with a black...

o aero kits save you money? Last year CM came up with some definitive answers when we took an MAN 38-tonne tractor around the...

services director for the NFC's Exel Logistics and BRS fleets, which include some 1,600 7.5-tonners. Most run at the top...

Throughout the pages of Fleet Focus we shall be looking at the one crucial, but often undermanaged, issue that concerns all...

To buy or not to buy? That is the question for truck operators. Future developments in contract hire might change the options,...

• Many sectors within the road transport industry still prefer to provide their own finance and own the asset, as a recent...

With seemingly no end in sight to the freefall in UK house prices and 1.2 million householders in negative equity, removal...

the right image can make the difference that clinches a deal in the first place. M any people were shocked when BT spent tens...

i I 'm constantly staggered by the way hauliers allow their drivers to abandon valuable trailers in out-of-the-way loybys or...