• The writing is on the wall — the question is, are we prepared to read it? Hauliers can always count on the odd moan about...

• UK hauliers could be hit by a crippling European tax of £300 on every truck they run if the European Commission implements...

• Birmingham-bound truck drivers using the new M40 from the Channel ports face a 320km (199 mile) journey without service...

• Bromley Council has completed its consultation of the 27 London boroughs not party to its campaign to revoke the London Lorry...

Foden, is seeking UK Type Approval for its cab-over K100E. It might also build Kenworths at Sandbach to avoid import tax....

• Compulsory speed limiters on trucks could be injminent. A plan to introduce limiters on HGVs is about to be submitted to the...

• An employers' offer of 7.6% over nine months (equivalent to 5.7% a year) is being recommended by unions to drivers in the...

• Iveco Ford is cutting its workforce by nearly 10%, making 170 staff redundant: 100 jobs will go at the Langley plant. The...

• A former haulier who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for drug smuggling has lost his bid to rejoin the industry. Brent...

• Diesel prices averaging at 43.5pilit are likely to fall by a couple of pence by next week, says Oil Price Assessment. London...

• British T1R truckers are defying Government advice by making the potentially hazardous trip to the Gulf. Maidstone-based...

• A i'500 reward is on offer for information leading to the recovery of a MAN 33.32 F90 eightwheel tipper which was stolen from...

• Crane Fruehauf employed 300 at its Dereham factory before current layoffs were made — not 60, as reported last week. Acting...

from March will have to answer questions on management and marketing techniques, dangerous goods and food stuffs, and...

• The John Dee Group, which has been in receivership since 3 January (CM 10-16 January), has made more than a quarter of its...

• Distribution industry troubleshooter David Wilcock has been appointed managing director of Toleman Automotive, the car...

• The Transport Development Group has merged two of its subsidiaries, Beck and Pollitzer and S and H Distribution, to form the...

• Renault and Volvo have completed their share swap, taking a 45% stake in each other's truck manufacturing activity. Softly...

• Manchester-based rentals company TLS Range has bought out Interleasing's fleets from its Wolverhampton and Manchester sites....

• Parcels firm ANC has taken over the control of five of its franchised depots. ANC is not saying what went wrong at the...

ili Central Trailer Rentco, part of Tiphook, has won a Lim contract with Lyons Tetley to supply and maintain 52 ctutainsiders...

• Truck rental specialist the Wil!hire Group, rescued from receivership by Willcliffe Holdings last October (CM 25-31 October...

• If you are an unemployed HGV driver, titter or transport manager, your chances of finding a job in the immediate future could...

• A new network of express parcel carriers wants to recruit 13 more owner-operators. The European Distribution Consortium was...

• Devon-based specialist builder Reynolds Boughton has won a E, 5m order with an Eastern European authority for airfield crash...

• Wincanton Group has set up a joint venture agreement with Polish trading house Pallas for temperature-controlled distribution...

• Dutch truck manufacturer Daf has been talking about its future engine plans which could Lead to radical changes to its...

• Oxfordshire-based Supergas has put the first Leyland Daf Series 50 Freighter into service. Excalibur's 100th • Fire engine...

• The Ford Escort van has finally gone on sale in the UK, following its Motor Show debut last September. Initial impressions of...

• Foden and engine maker Caterpillar say that head gasket and cooling problems in 3306Bpowered vehicles have been cured with...

• AWD has delivered a large fleet of 38-tonne tankers to the British armed forces in the Gulf. Ministry of Defence...

• A London local authority has reported more than 40 bus operators to the Bus and Coach Council after their drivers were...

• Plaxton has won a major order for its new . single-deck all-aluminium city bus body, two months before it is due to reach the...

• C-Line, an off shoot of the Bee Line Buzz Company, has started operating services in the Cheshire region together with...

& Coach had delivered its first Leylandbodied Lynx II. It was actually the first with a Volvo engine — every Lynx produced...

• Drivers at National Welsh have accepted a cut in wages and holiday entitlement as part of a survival package put forward by...

• London Buses is investing nearly ,2900,000 on centre-door safety mechanisms following seven serious accidents involving...

• Consistent problems over loose wheelnuts and defective tyres have led to loton Plant Hire of Bulwell, Notts having its...

• South Milford-based haulier Eamon Williams and three of his staff have been accused of a series of drivers' hours and...

its licence authorisation from eight to 16 vehicles has been rejected by Eastern LA Brigadier Compton Boyd at a Nottingham...

Swires' site • Prestonbased haulier William Swires has had time restrictions imposed on an operating centre which has been...

• An ownerdriver has been convicted of driving without due care and atten tion after his vehicle toppled over on a bend —...

• 'Staffordshirebased haulier Robert Sellars and seven of his drivers have been ordered to pay £2,015 in fines and costs for...

• Belfast-based Dragon Shipping has had the duration of its licence cut to expire in December after a report on one of its...

• Thanks to one of CM's younger readers, 10-year-old Emile Sercombe of Greenwich, for sending in this cartoon. He says he wants...

competition (CM 20 December-2 January). Die-cast Routemaster model buses mounted on wooden plinths with a desk pen are on their...

Club: a planned Christmas party was abandoned because of inclement weather. Two guests did turn up, but they were both male...

on angling holidays, failed to get any response to its recent appeal for help in getting a diesel minibus (CM 3-9 January). FAA...

collectors. Three die-cast Lledo model vintage trucks are on offer from Tyreservices of Wolverhampton. Finished in red and blue...

giving journalists sensible tokens of their esteem at press launches, given that everybody is a bit strapped for cash right...

operators, but doubling vehicles as car transporters is just not on. However, such unlikely combinations occur when the...

KENNING IN READING • Van rental firm Kenning has opened a branch in Gosbrook Road, Reading. It is open 08:00-18:00hrs Monday to...

COACHING METHODS • The Bus and Coach Council is holding its annual coaching conference at the Tower Hotel, London on 2 March....

GUIDING LIGHT A 1991 coaching venues and excursions guide, aimed at coach operators drawing up itineraries for the coming year,...

LEARNER DRIVERS • UK Truck Training of Bolton is offering 20 unemployed people places on HGV and Certificate of Professional...

PLAXTON PARTS WITH SERVICE • Bus and coach manufacturer Plaxton is offering 25,000 worth of free parts and service on 88 used...

SIMPLY RED 1111 Nlitech Instruments has launched the Therrnogarde temperature monitor, which transmits and stores data from a...

RESERVE DELAYS • Work begins on 28 January to fit central reserve fencing on the A21 Tonbridge bypass. The dual carriageway...

Hauling abroad can present an operator with a host of problems. CM looks at two firms who are there to help. • Operators who...

Today's coach passengers are looking for more than just a ride from A to B. The Daf SB2305 is a competitive product in a...

the haulage trend with a cornucopia of vehicular innovation. Naturally CM's technical team was on hand to sort the wheat from...

on Christmas Day if they want, but we can't do that on the Continent' Mike Pickering has begun the unenviable task of getting...

largest drawbar fleets in Britain. Now it wants small hauliers and owner-operators to share in its success. Westermann (UK)...

Bodybuilder Marshall has chosen Brian Gamble to lead its commercial body design team based at Cambridge. Gamble served his...

Tommy Svensson becomes director of the chassis division. He comes from Volvo in Sweden. Rodney Swarbrick has been made a...

He was sales and marketing manger of logistics consultancy, PE International.

European operations manager at Harris Distributions, with a brief to develop business in France. Frend has been with Harris, a...

Carmichael Fire, manufacturer of fire fighting and specialist emergency vehicles, has promoted three of its managers to board...

Colin Thompson joins as traffic operations director, and James Carney becomes financial director, he was financial controller...

two executives to its projects team: David Grattan joins from United Carriers where he was projects manager; and Simon Banner...