• This week Commercial Motor is accused of being: "Illinformed and biased'' and having an attitude problem "typical of the...

Roads and Traffic Minister Kenneth Carlisle calling for major changes to LGV driver training and testing. This follows a CM...

months of the year included Volvo F12s for possible fractured fuel pipes and Seddon Atkinson Stratos for engine crossmembers....

bought the Allison Transmission Division from GM — but the deal must be approved by the German and US governments.

International Freight Association expects to introduce its bonding scheme to safeguard hauliers against any of its 850...

General Workers Union and the United Road Transport Union have called on the DOT to allow LGV drivers who lose their licences...

• A French truck drivers' union is demanding the introduction of a single European LGV driving licence in a bid to standardise...

• A former Road Haulage Association chairman has resigned as boss of a road transport training firm after clashing with...

• Hauliers in the Scunthorpe area are to be urged to adopt a disc system to deter vehicle thefts. Scunthorpe crime prevention...

• In an effort to head off cuts in the Government's road building programme the Confederation of British industry has called...

• The transport of newspapers is expected to be investigated by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in a year-long probe into...

• Plans to introduce an axle surcharge on the cost of the annual test have been dropped as part of a Department of Transport...

• Operators face even tougher diesel smoke testing from 1 January 1996 when the European Commission's recommended limits come...

minute" before fitting speed limiters, predicts Lucas Kienzle managing director Fred Kay. Trucks over 16 tonnes will have to...

• Recovery operators are • being targeted by car thieves who tape contaminated syringes under the seats of abandoned vehicles...

soon have to wear seatbelts by law. The Government is to make it illegal for unrestrained children to sit in the front seat of...

has become the youngest ever chairman of the Brewery Transport Advisory Committe (BTAC). Woodyat, 36, has been with Parcelforce...

junctions 10 and 11 (Wisley and Chertsey) is scheduled to start in September and will last 13 weeks.

set up at the City of London Polytechnic; the first holder will be Professor James McConville.

a £500,000 12-month contract with Lion Foods to distribute Lion products from factories in Runcorn and Wrexham.

• About 550 drivers at Linkman Tankers have accepted a pay and conditions freeze until 1993, ending four months of negotiations...

• Three companies have emerged as front runners to buy British truck builder AWD, which went into receivership in early June —...

• A survey by Business Freight Management, a Financial Times newsletter, revealed surprising optimism among 50 haulage...

• Scania's range of low emission engines for the P93, P and R113 and R143 ranges are ready a year ahead of the Euro-1...

• Hersham Valves of Arundel, West Sussex has developed an engine retarder based on its variable pressure slide (VPS) exhaust...

• The first Iveco truck to run on natural gas has gone into service with Swedish National Rail. The 40-tonne GVW prototype...

• Two ERF E6.21 4x2 rigids have been built to 14-tonne specification for Alcoa, saving £.650 a year in road tax. Because they...

• For a sector worth no more than 800 vehicles a year, the UK ambulance market is courted by a surprising number of...

• Truck drivers are being given a say in the facilities on offer from a new Granada service area which is due to open on the...

• Andover Trailers and Czech engineering firm Transporta are to sign a £2,5m partnership deal. Transporta, formerly the...

• Transport companies will not have the money or the confidence to spend more on new light trucks for at least another year,...

• Tolls will rise for the Dartford tunnels and bridge next week. Two-axle commercial vehicles will be charged £1.50 each way;...

• Ely-based Forrest Gray (Transport) is expected to be sold soon following the receivership of its parent company Chequers...

• Some of the country's top parcels carriers met this week for urgent talks on the sale of the Post Office's parcels division,...

• Acclaim Parcel Express is looking for more licensees for its nationwide delivery service. Acclaim was set up at the beginning...

• Signs that the truck rental market may be recovering emerged in news of Dawsongroup's return to profits for the first half of...

market for a British haulier — one which is not too large but has a good network of contracts. The group says it has found that...

manager at Cambridge bodybuilder Wisbech Bulk Systems. He moves from rival EM Wilcox.

a battering. It has lost $115m (Z62m) after tax in the three months to the end of July.

in Birmingham. The site is the sixth in a network of specialist ERS centres offering refrigerated vehicles, service and advice....

6 .4 • Fines imposed on Lancashire haulier David Haworth and one of his drivers for using a vehicle with an insecure load,...

• King's Lynnbased Barry Burton (Transport) has had the authorisation on Is 0-licence cut from 26 vehicles and 37 trailers to...

• Gordon Millership, transport manager of Rowley Regis-based Millership Transport, was cleared of causing a driver to falsify...

- 061 - 4 Ihr.1 MA vehicle examiner denied that his colleagues had been targeting Irish vehicles when Northern Ireland...

• West Midlands haulier Alan Tomlinson, trading as A Tomlinson Haulage, has been ordered to repay £95.28 deducted from the...

severe warning about the maintenance of his vehicles from South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh. The LA renewed Rossini's two-vehicle...

£2,321 compensation to a driver, who was sacked after he failed to turn up for work on a Bank Holiday Monday. A Birmingham...

at Chester Crown Court on charges alleging 12 offences relating to the depositing of controlled waste on land when he did not...

William Taylor, trading as WA Taylor Transport of Liverpool, £125 in fines and costs. Macclesfield magistrates heard that...

caption to a legal story 'Road was in vicinity' said LA Brigadier Compton Boyd "cut Clive Carter's (0-licence) renewal by five...

• Northern Counties has been bought for £1.9m by a management-led employee buyout team which includes a finance director who...

• The Government has turned down a £28.1m management/employee buyout at Strathclyde's Buses. The deal was negotiated over the...

• Right-hand-drive Kassbohrer 300 Series are likely to be available for the 1994 coach season, a year earlier than the German...

Car Chair Vehicle Builders of Hailsham, East Sussex has produced its first coachbuilt mobility vehicle, a £35,000 coach on the...

• About 300 bus drivers at Harry Blundred's Hampshire-based operators Red and Blue Admiral voted in favour of industrial action...

• Last week Commercial Motor revealed that Perkins is to sell Gardner, the 124-year-old Manchester engine manufacturer it...

• Seddon Atkinson has appointed Thanet Commercials of Broadstairs as its parts and service main dealer for East Kent. The...

• Centurion Commercials, Scania's distributor for the Potteries area, has opened a depot at Telford. Contact (0908) 215380.

• Operators whose leased trucks are written off in crashes often lose out because the settlement from their insurer covers only...

• Alan Jones, managing director and chief executive of TNT Express (UK), will be talking to the Chartered Institute of...

MI Tank Europe 92, a conference on bulk distribution, will take place on 20-22 October in Antwerp, Belgium. Topics to be...

• The Institute of Logistics & Distribution Management has drawn up its autumn events list, which includes a conference on...

• Thule of Sweden has launched a high-roof carrier system, High Foot, to suit light commercial vehicles with roofs raised above...

• A range of roof bars designed to fit car-derived vans with gutterless roofs has been launched by Paddy Hopkirk. Models...

• Jubilee says that its new Pin-Puller will make pulling the fifth wheel easier, The Pin-Puller has a one metre reach and can...

• With legislation due next year on manual load handling at work, Multimedia Training has developed a new interactive video...

• West Herts Training, with P&O Roadways, is offering courses to help drivers of vehicles carrying dangerous loads stay within...

(0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401 115...

hat is claimed to be the only Kenworth Aardvark in Britain is up for sale for £38,000 complete with a Momma and Poppa living...

N agle-eyed reader might have spotted what seemed to be a blatant piece of driver's hours lawbreaking in our Law on the Wall...

ILI 'ye been poring over some back issues of CM and coming across various pronouncements by leading members of the transport...

were stealing to order when they took a Mercedes 814 From his firm's depot in the Holbrook area of the city. The white,...

drug and drink testing, according to a CM survey at one of Southern England's busiest truckstops. Random testing of HGV...

to the introduction of a new vehicle but this was how the Design Council summed up the C 40 cab used for the Leyland T45...

_ --- --.1 800 series engine came in as the most powerful of the five power options offered by Leyland Daf's 6x2 tractive unit,...

more acceptable by increasing the thickness of the insulation. While the engine provided plenty of go the brakes were less than...

As smoke regs get tighter hauliers will have to spend more time and money ensuring their trucks are green, clean and legal. •...

David Gill uses his ERF El 0 to haul concrete — and to win prizes for its pristine condition. He takes his trucks, and his...

Changes to EC legislation mean forward-control vans could soon be subject to crash-testing. CM witnessed a demonstration...

• I have just read Tom Llewellyn's contribution to Sound-off (CM 13-19 Aug). He echoes my feelings that it would be more...

• I have had my premises broken into and I have lost a tractive unit. I agree with Tom Llewellyn's Sound-off (CM 13-19 Aug)...

• The article concerning driver training, (CM 6-12 Aug) was interesting. Here's hoping that when Britain recovers from this...

• You expressed the view that the French government allowed the recent road blockades by French truck drivers (CM 30 July-5...

4 I am tired of meeting executives in the European and UK motor and transport industries who waste their precious time...