• The British Government's rejection out-of-hand of the European proposal for longer lorries was right — but for the wrong...

• With close to 40 different manufacturers currently selling commercial vehicles in Britain how can anyone be expected to be...

a pay ca of 25% as the company's major shareholder, Rhymney Valley District Council, takes drastic action to try and turn the...

transport training with London and the South East lagging badly, says Road Transport and Industry Training Board...

vehicles with reversing bleepers, the Government decided last week. It is claimed that few accidents involve reversing vehicles.

has opened up discussions with the National Cold Storage Federation to form a joint forum for the controlledtemperature...

was offered a new method to help solve the nation's traffic problems — a fuel tax levied by the counties' highway authority...

• The Transport and Gene] Workers Union is poised to order its members to black ti handling and movement of radioactive...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union is standing firm with its demand for a 210 a week pay rise in England and Wales,...

• A magnificent collection of heavy haulage machinery was auctioned in County Durham last week, when Derek Pamaby decided to...

biggest management game and invites you to step into your boss' shoes and enter for a share in our £25,000 prize. Have you...

I Leyland Daf chief executive eorge Simpson is leaving the iglo-Dutch truck company to !come managing director of aver Group...

• Truckers faced with endless stretches of British roads offering no adequate truckstops have long known that we lag far...

• Supermarket giant Asda has awarded contracts to run three of its seven new food distribution centres. Glass Glover will...

roadside check have been found to be overloadedThe swoop, part of a seven-year study' into the affect of overloaded HGVs on...

• TIP has taken over Cetem/ ITR, the leading trailer rental company in the Netherlands, for 210.5 million. The deal, which...

Transport Manager of the Year award sponsored by Overdrive and Scania. He wins 22,500, and an expenses paid trip to Lappland to...

has called for tougher action against the industry's "cowboys" who flout rules on drivers' hours and maintenance. Speaking at...

a paper putting forward proposals for a "fairer" way of taxing HGVs moving across the Community. The paper, due to be discussed...

• As expected, the Government last week won House of Commons support in its battle with the EEC to keep longer lorries off...

• Warrington-based Carrier Transport Refrigeration has launched an aerodynamic trailer refrigeration unit called the...

• A low-profile weighpad, a pair of which can cope with axle weights of up to four tonnes, has been developed by PAT-CTI...

• Scania's latest and most powerful 350kW (470hp) turbocharged and charge-cooled 14-litre Vee-eight engine, fitt with...

• Leyland Bus, purchased b the Volvo Bus Corporation ea her this year, has entered int( a collaborative agreement wit] the...

• MAN Transport Consultancy claims its PC-operated fleet system has achieved 10-15% cost savings among German and Austrian...

• Operators have been snap ping up maximum-weight HGVs as fast as manufacturer can make them. New registra lions of...

trucks left the company's Wentworth Park preparation centre in South Yorkshire last week, bound for dealerships all over the...

I Next May's Tipcon show at arrogate should see the UK unch of MAN's F90-cabbed ight-tegger. The existing 213 and 243kW 185...

has taken delivery of a Leyland Freighter 17-16, equipped with a Hiab 070 4,000kg crane and fitted with a Southworth mid-axle...

I Goodyear has brought out vo new tyres for the light lick and van market, the G22 ad G46. The G22 has speciallytrengthened...

• TEC Transport Equipment and Components of Market Harborough has designed an elevating fifth-wheel coupler to help yard...

• Operator response to the new Optare Delta/Daf SB220 single-deck city bus, launched at last month's Birmingham Motor Show,...

• Many operators accused of running anti-competitive practices and of illegal fare-fixing schemes have called the claims...

• Passenger attitudes to bus deregulation have been surveyed by the Governmentfunded Transport and Road Research Laboratory....

• Plans for an employee share ownership scheme at Strathtay Bus Company are well under way with the majority of the 450...

• Eastbourne Buses has taken delivery of 12 Northerr Counties-bodied Leyland Olyr plans worth around 21 million They have a...

• Two more companies are competing to provide local bu: services in Sheffield. The introduction of these two services brings...

Following BOVA's addition a Hungarian-bodied "budgetred" coach to its current Dgranune for certain western irkets, Neoplan, of...

• Yelloways has lost its contract to operate services between Halifax and Rochdale on behalf of the West Yorkshire Passenger...

• One of the biggest northern bus operators has been forced to deregister around 30 late night services because of a dispute....

Coach Rally which will x held in Southampton. Ills will be the 36th year of h e event which the orgafisers say should be one of...

ind administration staff, ,vhich will outline the corn)any's plans for the next ew years in the run up to leregulation.

• A Leyland Daf truck distributor is forming a company to import French Traitor trailers into the UK. Sherwood Trailers,...

• Big differences in the extent to which large and small distribution companies are ready for Europe's single market in 1992...

IN Volvo is to spend £16.5 million on a new parts centre for its recently-acquired Leyland Bus subsidiary. The depot, at...

• Contract hire, auction and distribution group Wincanton has upped profits 18% to 211.2 million in the year to 30 September....

• National Freight Consortium employee shareholders may be offered preferential High Street bank loans to buy extra shares...

• Andy Wood has been appointed development direct of NFC Contract Distribution with the job of doubling its U: business...

• British Rail, still reeling from the loss of its national newspaper distribution business this year, has appointed national...

Tankfreight has won a V_ aillion contract with industrial hemical manufacturer Mbright 'e Wilson of Widnes, Several 4her tanker...

months to September — from 22 million last year to 23.82 million this year — on the back of turnover up 30%, at 2138...

got off to a flying start — accounting for 10% of the company's total business in its first two weeks. haerlink says Datamail...

• Hestair's vehicle engineering division is to be bought out by its senior managers, led by division chairman Geoff...

• Truck dealership bosses have not enjoyed the same boost in earnings this year as their opposite numbers in car dealerships...

• The Inland Revenue is planning to crack down on companies which fail to pay corporation tax on time. The squeeze will come...

• The inability of leading Glasgow tipper operator Yuill and Dodds to curb large-scale and persistent speeding by its drivers...

• Clitheroe-based J H Myers and one of its drivers were given an absolute discharge for an overloading offence last week when...

Hire of Bromborough in the Win - al, have been granted a national licence for two vehicles for 12 months only by North Western...

• Overloading offences imx)sed on S J Bargh of Lanc,aser and two of its drivers were plashed last week when Mold :rown Court...

• A driver sacked by Carryfast for being off route without permission has been awarded 23,867.32 compensation for unfair...

fines and costs by the Bradford Magistrates, following an incident in which the handrail of a minibus had become loose and...

Tony Burns has driven Ryder through 98 acquisitions this decade already and made it one of the biggest and toughest trucking...

BIBBY GOES THE WOLVERTON WAY • Bibby Distribution Services, the warehousing and distribution division of Liverpoolbased...

LINE GROUP DIRECT LINK • Courier company Direct Link has opened two new offices in Newbury and Slough. For details contact...

KEEPING TABS ON FLEET COSTS • Central Tyre has launched the Tyrefax service designed to help fleet operators work out their...

HANDLING FACTS • Calor has produced a new free brochure on Liquefied Petroleum gas-powered fork-lift trucks. This Fork-I4...

SW GETS OFFICIAL APPROVAL • Stubs Welding's Warrington training centre has been approved as an official examination centre...

TORQUAY TASTER FOR COACH OPERATORS • Coach operators are invited to the Leisure and Conference centre in Torquay on 10-12...

• Details of next year's Freight and Transport Equipment and Services Exhibition have been released. The event will be held...

• The National Materials Handling Centre is holding a one-day conference on 1 December on distribution resource planning. The...

• The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association is in search of the most practical vehicle anti-theft device introduced...

• A Chartered Institute of Transport conference on managing transport in a commercia environment will take place at the...

GERING A GRIP • With Britain's icy weather just around the corner, Tanfield has launched its vehicle snowgrips which come...

• Leicester-based Conveyors International has launched a telescopic rail for transferring hanging garment trolleys between...

normally of the highest standard and, therefore, I was surprised to see on page 12 of your Show Number (20-26 October 1988)...

Joseph, Director of Transport 2000, that "transport costs are marginal for most businesses" (CM 3-9 November) is extraordinary....

Transport Committee, claims (CM 39 November) to sympathise with an FTA viewpoint that separate lorry bans in different areas...

readers that Professional Road Transport Studies is changing its trading name to National Training. We expect the change to...

various articles which have appeared in Commercial Motor showing conversions carried out on new vehicles. We are constantly...

batches of production processed charts highlights a particular problem in certain makes of charts. The tachograph is the most...

In the run up to deregulation of the PSV industry, critics were worried that safety standards would drop in the new...

Being stranded in a truck ii freezing temperatures? Or reading 500 words abot a new diesel fuel? Reading any advertisement...

Eddie Brzozowski runs his own haulage company which won this year's Commercial Motor Award for Small Fleets in Bandag Drive for...

• "Safe driving isn't really about savings that you can measure in any obvious way. It's more of a philosophy — a state of...

CONVENTIONALLY In the first of two stateside reports, we take a look at the latest Volvo GM Class 8 "conventionals" and see...

Under legislation introduced in March all suppliers and manufacturers are now liable to prosecution if the goods they supply...

Drawing upon a great tradition of truck engineering Unipower not only turns out spares for several former Scammells, but also...

Whatever happened to the immaculate and impressive lines of Jim Cleary's expensive, pinstriped suits? They have been replaced,...

Steyr-Daimler-Puch first announced its ntions of breaking into Britain's heavy ds vehicle market at the Geneva or show in...

• No other manufacturer combines European and American truck engineering practices — and well-proven truck technology with...

Hardly a week goes by at Commercial Motor without some dubious press release landing on our desks claiming that X's truck is...

• The appearance of Leyland Dais Roadtrain 20.35 twin-steer tractive unit with its Perkins Eagle 800 and distinctive...

III Last year Christmas arrived early for Scania customers, in the form of the revised 3-Series heavy truck range. Among...

It began with tangled suzie hoses which partially closed an air line tap during fullturn manoeuvering, thus restricting the air...

to see who can produce the vehicle with the greatest engine output, then Scalia could well have been the catalyst for it....

I The debate about wheel nut fastenigs looks set to run for some considerbile time yet. The preliminary findings f research...

• The Washmaster vehicle washer from Smith Bros & Webb is a second generation development of its predecessor — the Strong...

• The new Cibie Turini rally lamp from Va.lco Distribution is available in five beam patterns: fog; drive; virage/converging;...

• From Holts comes the black box rust control, as used in the USA, which works primarily through cathodic protection,...

• Sikkens paint manufacture] Akzo has updated its Painlirq of Plastics Parts literature an( introduced new products tc...

• Tyres and vehicles can be tested under one roof in consistent, controlled laboratory conditions on exact replicas of road...

• Ingersoll-Rand Sales Co and Bendix have agreed on the distribution of Ingeroll-Rand air starters in the UK. The deal brings...

1988 increased to £51.95 million against £44.56 million previously. More than 1,500 dealerships across 44 franchises use the...

• Henlys of Northampton has spent £50,000 on expanding its Bodycare Centre just two and a half years after opening it. Two...

• Loughborough-based IMS (Industrial Machinery Supplies) is introducing additional and more comprehensive on-site training...

• The heavy goods vehicle testing station at Kilmarnock has been closed by the Vehicle Inspectorate because of subsidence....

• In response to greatly increased use of its driveline and steering technology in the UK, ZF Gears is expanding its...

• The Institute of the Motor Industry and the British importer of Audi Volkswagen have joined forces to set new standards for...

• Manufacture of catalyti( converters has commenced al the 24.5 million factory of T] Cheswick Silencers at Preston....

• Nixon has introduced a range of high-pressure portable washers that it claims are among the most powerful available on the...

• Increased engine performance and protection are among the benefits offered by its new PetrolMax, claims Notts, which adds...

• Airborne mist and metal particles generated by a grinding process have been filtered with such efficiency through...

H & L Appleby has found that while in four years no anti-lock braking system repairs have been required, a certain amount of...

New year: new regs • Regulations coming into force from New Year's Day allowing increased weights on three-axle...

Alex Price award from Volvo for the best dealership out of 22 in the regional competition for outstanding customer service....

• All buses and coaches at West Midlands Travel are repainted every three years. The First stage is removing old paint work...

• A new solvent from ICI Chlor-Chemicals removes all traces of water from component parts, without staining. Arklone A-MD...

• Nederman's overhead exhaust rail system allows vehicles to be driven within the workshop while having their exhaust fumes...

• A compact waterless skin cleansing and wiping system has been introduced by the Commercial Business of Scott. The concept...

• Gunson has produced a short instructional video, intended as a companion to its four-gas infra-red exhaust gas analyser....

• Cable Brite is an aerosolbased chain and cable lubricant from Dennagien that will penetrate hard-to-reach areas and keep...

A workshop manager or fitter must bear in mind a number of points in relation to his selection of a cylinder-head gasket —...

This South West firm is caring for a growing market in Britain for rebuilt vehicles; it first realigns the chassis and checks...

Before making the decision to recondition, Percy Snow satisfies himself that the damaged vehicle has not suffered any major...

Rugged ex-ministry Bedford M-types are converted for a variety of tasks in civilian life • Specialisation has been the key...

Given the rough ride they get on today's crumbling roads, it is surprising that steel springs do not break more often. Peter...

• Alongside the glamour and bright lights of the new vehicles, this year's Birmingham Motor Show also contained plenty of...

range of automotive refinishing products known as GKN Masterfinish. The products, all 110 of them, cover each stage of the...

• Sykes-Pickavant, manufacturer of tools for the automotive and industrial trade, was recently named Best Garage Product in...

• Facom tools, the UK subsidiary of the French hand tool and garage equipment manufacturer, showed a selection of its large...

• Recent news on the FKI Bradbury stand was its acquisition of the Psimat vehicle washing operation, with Brad bury planning...

• Another new product for commercial vehicle workshops was the BM 15000 brake tester, made by the Danish company BM...

• Souriau is now marketing a range of lubrication equipment manufactured by Istobal — a Spanish company with, it says, an...

The European Commission is working on plans to bring in uniform testing for exhaust emissions and braking, the European...

• Philip Stockton, chairman of The Runneymede Group, explaining why it bought camshaft manufacturer Zephyr Cams of Lowestoft,...

at Sachs Automotive Components, Newhaven, East Sussex, as a result of the successful launching by Sachs of the Original...

• Rodney Deslandes, 47, who joined Hometune in 1987, is now director and general manager. Previously he held a variety of...

paints and coatings, has appointed Joe Hughes as sales director of the company, following the acquisition by TRI-Spray earlier...

• Safety-Kleen UK has announced the successful commencement of its expansion into Europe and Ireland. At the same time, CR...

• Bruce Main has been appointed to the new position of general manager of PCL Cygnus, the Sheffield-based manufacturer of...

in to Bath Panel Beating Comany, one of the oldest motor body repairers in the West Country, with backing from 3i, and...

• The Solvents Business of ICI Chemicals & Polymers has been recognised as a supplier of engineering solvents under the BS...

• Souriau has introduced a "high-tech" automatic battery charger — the 2844 — to supplement its range of garage servicing...

• Sikkens Paints manufacturer Akzo has launched a customised repair system for individual bodyshops (Shoptalk, Workshop,...