manufacturer, last week's European Transport Maintenance Council gathering in Hamburg was a very worthy and earnest affair. The...

• Harry Munt, whose haulage company H and M Light Transport of Puckeridge in Hertfordshire is fighting a battle with the...

• County Councils have accepted proposals by the Department of Transport to raise weight limits on twoaxle rigid vehicles to...

• A number of Department of Transport traffic examiners are voicing concern over what they see as a possible extension of the...

in Latest figures from the International Road Transport Union show that the cost of diesel in Britain has almost doubled in the...

• British hauliers who have had their trucks attacked and loads destroyed by French farmers are still waiting for compensation....

II Freight Transport Association president Stuart Phillips has warned members that the Government is turning the tolls screw...

• The new computerised freight clearance system, Direct Trader Input — DTI — has been Named by hauliers for the scenes of chaos...

• A nationwide chain of up to 130 road transport computer centres is being set up through the country's Information Technology...

it holds with Netlon by painting two of its 12m dryfreight trailers with the Netlon Spray Suppression logo. The mobile...

AS TRUSTED WITH GOLD BULLION, INTENSIVE CAR PATIENTS AND MRS. PROWSES KETTLE. The Ford Transit is the overwhelming choice of...

• Following Ow recent amalgamation of RTZ Cement's four member companies into Castle Cement, the combined group has now gained...

• A month after the launch of Mastertank — the demountable tank transportation service — joint partners Freightliner and Tank...

• British trailer manufacturers and body builders have taken the major share of the orders for 700 semi-trailers, worth over...

• Evesham-based United Parcel Services has acquired the distribution business and operating base of BT Transport Services...

• Roger Dowsett, managing director of Dow Freight Services, has hit out at unfair competition to British haulage firms provided...

• Pontypridd-based furniture manufacturer, Cambria Mobel, has signed a £300,000 four-year contract hire agreement with Rentco...

• Vehicle Systems Engineering (Suspensions) of Barking in Essex has developed a scaled-down version of its Silentride air...

The tractive units are modified Scania 6x4 R142Es with fourth, air-suspended single-wheeled axles supplied by SAF, the German...

• Bandag is planning to introduce low rolling resistance retreads to Europe next year. They will be similar to the Fuel Mixer...

/ Load security — always a headache for the general haulier — can now be made easier with the introduction of the Easi-Track...

• A new, lightweight, 42.3m 3 capacity tri-axle tipping semitrailer, with a kerbweight of around 5,000kg, is now being offered...

• Using two different drawbar configurations has allowed BICC to streamline its distribution in the South of England. BICC has...

• ,Shropshire operators G G Crowther & Sons, Crowthers Animal Livestock Haulage and Lionel Burgoyne trading as W Burgoyne &...

IN Liverpool Stipendiary magistrate George Wooton has found an operator guilty of 'using' a vehicle which had been hired and...

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Northern Ireland operators Montgomery Transport, its associated company Gaskells...

• A driver who walked out, claiming he had been wrongly accused of stealing diesel fuel, has failed in a claim for compensation...

• "rhe international licence held by Derbyshire hauliers David Mellor has been renewed without restriction by Eastern Licensing...

• The duration of the eight vehicle licence held by W Outram & Sons of Sheffield is being cut so that it expires at the end of...

drivers were cleared of an alleged 1.46% axle overload after Huddersfield magistrates were told that the overloading had been...

• Essex haulier Derek Lodge trading as Tiptree Union Haulage has had his licence renewed for 12 vehicles and 10 trailers with a...

• The driver of the Eastern Scottish coach which crashed into a traffic queue on the M6 in October last year, killing 13 people...

Metro in Newcastle and the newly privatised Busways Travel Service. Metro's bosses claim a new Faresaver ticket issued by...

its chest over sales of the new MCW Metro Rider, which was launched at last month's Motor Show. At the time of the show, MCW...

• Glasgow's deregulation bus troubles seem set to continue — at least in the short term — following the decision last week by...

• There has been a massive slump in registered bus route mileage in Wales with a cut of one-third, making Wales the worst-hit...

KF Cars goes for Dodges • Reeve Burgess has sold two 15-seat coaches, based on the Dodge 50 Series, to KF Cars of Crawley. The...

• As CM went to press, a sixth National Bus Company subsidiary looked set to go independent through a management-led buyout. A...

• Essex coaching independents Tellyn Motor Services have succeeded in a claim against Arlington Motor Company involving the...

• Leicester Citybus has added four new double deckers based on Scania N112DR chassis to its fleet. The new vehicles are powered...

and clutch linings will no longer be available for sale in Sweden after 1989. The same ban will be introduced in 1988 for cars...

to be 'computer-controlled' if West German research in this field is anything to go by. Both German vehicle manufacturers and...

systems used by transport operators in the Netherlands, the Transportplan system is reputed to be user-friendly. It is very...

Belgian system of on-the-spot fines for foreign drivers who infringe Belgian traffic laws is not anti-European and has thus...

by freight transport firms in the EEC countries excluding Spain and Portugal is expected to be around 478.8 million tonnes, a...

Last year the Czechs started a big trolleybus production scheme, which will supply 30 major towns with trolleybus systems. In...

motor oil with the consent of its British partner Castro!, which is supplying small quantities of additive. Hung - aroPress No 19

The Municipal Precision Mechanical Company of Budapest has started regular production of a novel type of electronic ignition...

of the Kymax road speed governors and alarm and shutdown units have been fitted in Saudi Arabian bus company Neoplans as part...

three of its big trucking subsidiaries through a public stock offering. St Johnsbury Trucking, Jones Truck Lines and Milne...

republic of Byelorussia of the new MAZ64-22 high-capacity truck. It is capable of carrying 35 tons of freight 1,000 km, without...

is to acquire the majority interest in the Dunlop Tire Corporation of Buffalo, USA. Gregory Wand, director of sales and...

• Ron Whittle, FCIT mlyr, has been elected president of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the worldwide association...

• York Group has appointed Graham Lee as group sales promotion manager. He will be responsible for sales promotion activity,...

• Pickfords removals has appointed William Burden as manager of its Bedford branch. Twenty-nine-year-old Burden started his...

• Norman Cohen has been appointed operations director of London Buses, replacing Marcus Smih who retired on November 14. •...

• It is with regret that CM records the death of Renault chairman Georges Besse who was murdered close to his home in Paris...

WINTER PREPARATION • With winter only a snowfall away, The Freight Transport Association has produced a handy 10-page guide on...

DERV SURVEY • Next month, the technical committee of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is once again conducting a...

MARSDEN BUY-OUT • Marsden (Coachbuilders) has acquired the assets of Vanplan and is now operating as Marsden Vanplan. The new...

HAZFREIGHT COURSES • Batley-based Liquids Powders & Gas Transport has published the dates for its 1987 spring Hazfreight...

With a few exceptions, any company or individual acting as the principal to a full Community Transit Movement must be covered...

UBM VAN AND TRUCK • Avonmouth-based Iveco Ford dealer UBM Ford (Trucks) is launching a van and truck rental service. The new...

ETMC OIL SEAL CODE • The European Transport Maintenance Council (ETMC) has launched its new recommended code of maintenance...

REDBRIDGE CHANGES • Redbridge Borough Council in London has opened a new lorry park at 409 High Road, Ilford, to replace the...

HAZCHEM MARKINGS • Hazcheni Signs of Edgware has produced a vehicle marking system and an information clipboard for drivers in...

• Even though the advent of winter means that the number of road repair projects being carried out will decline there are still...

• About six years ago I wrote to another magazine and said then that I believed that the diesel engine would level Out at about...

concern expressed by Mr CB Ward of Ward Associates at the apparent anomaly created by recent changes in the definition of...

a Frenchoperated lorry. I thought it might be of interest to you to have details of the incident bearing in mind the recent...

SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER • Whatever potential changes in transport regulations are discussed,...

CM investigates the problems faced by tipper operators looking for legal dumps in the crowded South East. • Next Easter...

IVIAINTAINANCE? JUST LIKE SEX! • Truck maintenance is like having sex, said the conference paper prepared by Norfolk...

at representing its own interests." He wants to see that change. • According to Frank Lerno, chairman of the European...

le Bass distribution project manager Alan Barker told the trailers and bodies group session at Hamburg that the transport...

IN The diesel engine of the future is going to benefit from a delayed or retarded injection system, argued Peter Wright,...

• A series of talks on new concepts in the transport maintenance field included a look at SKF's simple two-piece hub unit for...

on his first day at the wheel of his new boss's artic, neglected to apply the handbrake when picking up a load. Milner bravely...

will be in the process of organising your personalised Christmas cards for despatch to business contacts. You may care to note...

one of Leyland's new '300' series-engined Roadrunners, but judging by the comments of Leyland Truck Distributors' Association...

Continent will be pleased to hear that next year every EEC border crossing is to be graced by a sign, telling lost travellers...

just the job for a four-wheel-drive vehicle we have on test. So our youngest road tester loaded the vehicle with grandmother,...

industry with teddy bears. Yet following last week's tale of Lex Wilkinson and the talking transatlantic teddies comes news of...

not the noble moose but the common or garden household tabby. More accurately, tabbies for its the plural that's at the nub of...

There is a small but steady demand for crew-cabbed pickups offering some offroad capability. Volkswagen aims to grab its share...