• The only assembler of Hino trucks in the UK and Ireland is poised to announce plans for a £20 million Hino distribution and...

• Travelling on London's buses is becoming increasingly dangerous now that the Government has stopped revenue support to London...

• Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottomley has called on hauliers to take an active part in training HGV drivers. Speaking at...

• Germany has refused to co-operate with Britain by allowing more British hauliers on its roads. The Germans will not move on...

• The Government plans to spend 23 billion on Britain's roads over the next three years — but hauliers' and other road-users'...

• Newly-re-elected miners' leader Arthur Scargill has slammed his defeated rival for the NUM presidency, John Walsh, for using...

• A graduate joining the transport industry is likely to earn more than his counterparts in engineering, banking, and...

• Wandsworth Borough Council has bought four Seddon Atkinson 2-11 gutter snowploughs. They are fitted with low-profile 11/70...

• The Crown Suppliers has taken delivery of a 6x4 Seddon Atkinson 3-11 tractive unit which will be used for road maintenance...

• Welford Truck Bodies of Warley, West Midlands has developed a pneumatic pile driving rig for placing posts and columns. It is...

• Last autumn Volvo updated its F10, FL10 and F12 heavy truck drive lines, adding a new F16 flagship to the range (CM 22-28...

• Hendrickson International Corporation has bought the US and Canadian trailer air suspension manufacturer Turner Suspension...

• Leyland Dal's latest and lightest eight-wheeler can now be specified with a special wheel pack option to further increase...

• Shanks & McEwan (Southern) has bought two Foden 4350 6x4 tractor units from Forden Commercials for its south-east England...

• Deregulation has been an "undoubted success", former National Bus Company chairman Robert Brook told the Chartered Institute...

• Bus passengers are deserting their local bus services, according to statistics in the Government's white paper on Public...

• City Vehicle Engineering, a new company founded by four former Midlands public transport executives, aims to build 500...

• Carlyle has sold its PSV parts operation to Busparts, a member of the Frontsource group. Frontsource acquired London Buses'...

• Northern Counties, the Wigan-based bus builder, has launched a revised Dodgebased mini-bus, after an earlier design was...

• Manchester-based Salford Van Hire, which set up a contract hire division three years ago, completed 1987 with a record 2,000...

• Britain's Band III private mobile radio users have attacked Home Office plans to reallocate some of their radio frequencies...

ixed bag from Storehouse • High Street retail giant Storehouse is on the brink of awarding 27 million of distribution...

• The bulk liquid tanker operator and haulier City Transport has bought Bristol-based parcels carrier Premier Transport. City...

• Volvo Trucks recorded its best ever sales and production performance last year with just over 6,000 new registrations at...

• North Shields haulier Carlton Cooper, trading as Percy Main Transport, has been ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty...

• A Lancashire haulier won defence costs last week when Stafford Magistrates accepted that a tractive unit towing a disabled...

• Stanley and Graham Reeves, trading as Stan Reeves and Son of Wein, have been given an absolute discharge by Ludlow...

• Michael Grufferty's 0-licence (for Stella Mans Brothers Coaches) has been renewed for one year only by North Eastern Traffic...

• Road haulage now accounts for almost half of all freight movement within the European Community, according to the latest...

BY THE HAWK • Schoolboy Francis Nock thought it a bit fishy when a jobsworth bus driver demanded a 12p fare for his new pet —...

• As industry pundits line Freight Rover up with its competitors for possible mergers, and discuss the final specification for...

job as the release is just inside the door, but the mechanism slides smoothly, and looks as though it will last the distance....

• Business in drawbars is booming. After several years in the trough of a depression, the drawbar market is reaching new peaks....

• From the profusion of recovery vehicles on the forecourt of his small garage premises in Skegness, it is immediately apparent...

PROFILE "We have to decide which vehicles to tax," he says. "With three sets of trade plates we used to be covered for most...