On page 6 of this week's Commercial Motor there is an appeal for help. The story concerns a woman who was attacked and raped...

• Action by angry French farmers to stop British meat and livestock imports intensified this week with a threatened blockade of...

• Transport associations are urging the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the massive hike in diesel prices, following its...

• A breakthrough appears to have been made this week in Brussels to persuade Austria to ease the restrictions imposed on the...

• The worst is over for the John Dee Group, says group managing director, Andrew Cowie, who made 100 employees redundant and...

• Draft regulations for the introduction of minimum-weight test vehicles will be laid before Parliament within the next two...

• A haulier has hit back at local authority calls for a curfew on its trucks because of alleged complaints from locals....

• West Mercia police are clamping down on speeding truck drivers after a check last week found four out of 10 heavy goods...

• On Thursday 23 August at t.00hrs a woman was attacked and raped close to the M20 motorway in Kent. The 31-year-old woman's...

• Transfrigoroute, the international reefer operators' organisation, will formally adopt a code of conduct, written by its UK...

• I veco Ford has boosted its mid-range tractive units by uprating its six-cylinder 13.8 litre power unit. The engine changes,...

• Seddon Atkinson has completed the second stage of its product replacement programme for the nineties with the arrival of the...

British Salt • The most powerful version of the Perkins Tx Eagle engine range, the 298kW (400hp) 400Tx, is expected to be...

• Bulk powder tank manufacturer Metalair has designed a three-compartment semi-trailer for British Salt. The tri-axle carrier...

• MAN has revealed details of its uprated right-hand-drive 17-tonne M90 rigids, which are due to arrive in the UK by the start...

• East German manufacturer IFA has scrapped production of its W50 and W60 trucks fitted with Mercedes-Benz LN2 cabs. Demand has...

• Britain's second-biggest haulier, Transport Development Group, has quashed rumours of a takeover following last week's swoop...

• The slump in truck rental has left commercial vehicle rental and dealership outfit Dawsongroup almost 2500,000 in the red for...

• CGC Recovery Services wants a backer to invest £100,000 to help it expand its secondhand recovery vehicle sales business....

have gone into receivership, with boss Graham Davis hoping they can be sold as going concerns. Smethwick, West Midlandsbased...

• Intertrail Contracts has increased its share of the contract hire market with three new deals. The contracts follow last...

• Rowntree Distribution is changing its 73-strong vehicle trunking fleet back to all-ERF, after a five-year spell with Leyland...

• South Wales haulier Jeffrey Thomas is selling his 30-strong fleet and renting out his 2ha (five-acre) site for industrial...

• A third Scottish Bus Group company is set be sold to its management and employees, following the announcement that the...

• More bus pay agreements have been reached by London Buses subsidiaries. Metroline has settled on a 8.5% deal for its...

• Massive increases in diesel prices caused by the Gulf crisis are forcing bus and coach operators to push up fares, or face...

• A team of five employees plans to buy Sheffield operator SUT from South Yorkshire Transport, which has been told to sell its...

• Isle of Man Transport has introduced seven Northern Counties-bodied Leyland Olympians and is replacing secondhand buses which...

• The exceptionally hot weather has been causing bus drivers to demand lighter uniforms and the right to leave their company...

• Two new inidibus routes have been launched by London Buses subsidiary Metroline, linking Stanmore with Amos Grove, and...

• Wigan coach giant Shearings has responded to competition from Yorkshire Traction by introducing the first doubledeckers on...

• RIA (Immingham) unlawfully deducted 33 from the wages of a driver delayed on the Continent, a Hull industrial tribunal has...

pay fines and costs totalling £280 by Birkenhead magistrates after admitting eight overloading offences. The offences were...

• A farmer who has been operating one or two vehicles without authority for most of the 25 years he has been farming has been...

• North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu has refused a request from Preston Borough Council that he defer his decision...

• Brian Hamer, trading as Gwynedd Treated 'limber, has been given six months to put his vehicle maintenance in order by North...

• Thirty five coach drivers involved in falsifying tachograph charts while working for Raymond Ferris, trading as Ferris Coach...

• The nerve of some people. The other day I was browsing through my favourite transatlantic transport mag, Transport Topics the...

things people do when they see it," says John Wall as he pilots Black Beauty, his mighty Freightliner wrecker, through the...

• When Commercial Motor first revealed that Daf was developing an uprated version of its old 25(() tractor — called the 2700 —...

While Daf has obviously made a great deal of effort to improve its 8.25-litre engine it has been less than consistent in...

• A truck recovery outfit is to offer international hauliers the same breakdown service in Bucharest and Bilbao as they get in...

SIR refer to your recent Light Vehicles Special in which you state that "The Metro van was dropped when the new car was...

Chris Smith and Charles Kelly have joined the Bendix sales team. Smith becomes sales representative covering Leicester to...