LOST AND FOUND • On Wednesday of last week, 22 November, the road transport industry took another hammering from the national...

were burned to death on Monday when they were trapped in their vehicle after a multiple pile-up in thick fog near Leicester.

passed a resolution protesting against new Austrian rules on CV motorway noise. Quality scheme • A commercial vehicle quality...

• The Palmer review of Traffic Area Offices has been hammered by the Traffic Commissioners, traffic area office clerks and a...

• Trucks could be stranded on either side of the Menai Straits during windy conditions, following a Welsh Office decision to...

• The Department of Transport has denied a report that the government has rescheduled the deregulation of London Buses until...

The Freight Transport isociation is urging its memrs to apply for London lorry n exemption permits. This lows its victory over...

• In the run up to 1992 UK hauliers are to be offered more, cheaper European permits. The cost of a 1990 annual permit has...

• The Road Haulage Association's Green code of practice is due to be approved within the next couple of weeks. It is designed...

• Eric Brown, directorgeneral of the National Association of Warehouse Keepers, has denied he is losing members despite the...

• Hauliers face severe delivery restrictions in London following proposals to introduce no-stop "red routes" in the city. The...

• Advances in CV braking technology must be monitored to avoid the risk of incompatible systems, says the European Transport...

• Nearly two thirds of the commercial vehicles stopped by the Metropolitan police in a blitz last week on London's Blackwall...

Al and MI is planned to run south and east of Leeds. 1 is described as the first "Green motorway". Higher limits • Alan...

• The National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors has launched a new code of conduct. It is designed to improve...

• Transport officials from 20 industrialised nations met in Paris last week to discuss road transport in the environment. They...

• EC trade ministers have decided to scrap frontier trar notes from 1 July 1990, in lin with a European Commission proposal...

IP Agency Card offers your drivers cash-free fuel nationwide, gives lrm control and acts as a powerful fleet management tool,...

by choice. They probably expend more energy avoiding the law than they would if they just followed it. On these I intend to be...

IN Volkswagen is set to become the first light commercial importer to offer exhaust catalysts as options on its KX van range...

• Torotrak Holdings, the company developing the Leyland/Perbury continuously variable transmission system (CVT), claims to have...

• A draft code 01 practice We design and construction t vacuum-insulated road tankei used to carry deeply refriger ated...

ERF is stepping up attack on the 17nne market with a w high-powered rigid sed on the £8. The Sandbach-based inufacturer...

• Whale Tankers has won orders for two of its most advanced combination jetting and gully emptying units from major French...

• Boalloy has introduced an off-the-peg service for operators needing quick delivery of Tautliner curtainsided semitrailers....

• MAN chief executive Wilfried Lochte has confirmed that his company is joining with Daimler-Benz to bid for Spanish truck...

Oakley Coachbuilders of Herts, has built a threersebox demonstrator on a Pm-wheelbase AWD TL 8-14 issis cab. The 7.5-tonne kley...

to come to Britain, which debuted at Tipcon, has gone into service with Cheshire haulier R G and M E Street & Son of Cranage....

Rockwood Holdings is to three former Bees' insport depots. This follows ff cuts earlier in the year en Rockwood made 200...

• Parcels courier Business Post plans to set up a franchise network in Europe next year, once it has completed its UK...

Lynx Delivery Network ns to increase out-of-hour iveries to avoid urban igestion. it is encouraging customers provide lockable...

• Federal Express Honk )elivery has won a contract tc deliver catalogue company Freemans' orders throughout London. It has 18...

• Traffic congestion on the M4 has forced haulier T I) Williams out of its Port Talbot depot, with seven redundancies....

distribution contrad • Thermalite has abandoned its in-house transport operation and awarded a multi-millionpound distribution...

• International Freight forwarding and transport specialists, MAT Transport and Harry W Hamacher Spediteur GmbH have formed a...

• Adamson Modular Systems has been renamed Tiphook Modular Systems, completing its integration into the Tiphook group, which...

• Container operator International Ferry Freight has won the BS5750 quality standard for all IFF service throughout Europe,...

• The Government's furniture, transport and fire safety division, Crown Suppliers, will be sold next year.

• Dutch manufacturers Daf and Bova are to set up a jointly-owned company called United Bus, which is set to launch an...

• South Yorkshire Transport took over another Sheffield independent operator last weekend — its fourth in two months. The...

• Blackburn-based East Lai cashire Coachbuilders has re. introduced a low-height doub deck body to its range. The first models...

• Distinctive markings for school coaches are being con: dered by the Department of Transport. Consultation proposals are being...

• Western Scottish marketing officer Dave Granger has resigned, to set up a new bus company to operate local services in...

• Rapsons Coaches of Alness, Scotland has taken delivery of three new Volvo-bodied coaches, including a Van Hool Alizee...

• The Government should be putting more of its money where its mouth is, says the Bus and Coach Council, by tackling problems...

• The Ecobus, claimed to I the first Green PSV of its type, has gone into experimental service in Florenc Italy. Built by...

• Lancashire municipal Preston Bus has increased its single-decker fleet with the purchase of its second batch of Leyland...

2 . London haulier William Daniels has lost his international licence for four ides and two trailers, and been disqualified...

IN A bid for a new 12-vehicle licence by Tapstone, of Stable Way, London W10, has been turned down by Metropolitan Licensing...

• Phillips Tankers (Bulk Powders) Manchester, its managing director Peter Phillips and director Neil Lightfoot have all been...

• Leigh Magistrates have ordered driver David Morgan, who withdrew his appeal against the revocation of his HGV driving...

• Running a business would be much easier if the supplier could rely on customers paying their bills on time. Cash flow is the...

BUSINESS MOVES MOTORWAY'S SERVICES • Motorway Tyres has opened a 465m 4 depot at Leith in Edinburgh. From January, the...

BY THE HAWK • Get 6-7 May down in your diaries as next year's most important show date — that's when Commercial Motor's hugely...

• The Channel Tunnel is due to open for business in about 40 months, but details of the facilities and rates hauliers can...

• "If the Channel Tunnel is like the Dartford Tunnel where all you have to do is pay by credit card and drive through, we'll...

MI The Japanese economic miracle has taken a few knocks of late. A succession of disgraced Prime Ministers has had an effect,...

aspects of their forward-control layout; criticism that stems largely from the work done by Volkswagen and the German TIN...

Despite the increase in torque, the Toyota's engine is not over-endowed with pulling power at the bottom end. When the van is...

As we have said before, the secret of good handling is suspension travel; the more you have the better it gets. This is because...

that the rear wheels can lift under hard concerning. The front anti-roll bar manfully attempts to limit this characteristic,...

• International haulier Framptons might not seem an obvious target for Channel Tunnel freight bosses. Based in Shepton Mallet,...

It began going to Spain, now its biggest market, in 1981, and set up an office in Poole for customs clearance. Framptons...

• The newspapers served up a potent mixture of chunnel doom and gloom: banks were calling for the construction consortium to be...

• Speed limiters will save coach operators cash without wrecking their schedules, say those who decided to fit limiters four...

SIR • visited the Scottish Motor Show on 16 November with my two sons aged 17 and 14. We approached the Volvo stand and my...

• FERRYMASTIRS BYFORD/GILL Ferrymasters has named Ken Byford as fleet engineer for its central European division at Ipswich....