• This week Commercial Motor attended a conference to record the progress of Car Crime Prevention Year 1992, along with dozens...

by Alan Millar • Hauliers who persistently overload could see their trucks banned from the roads under a new penalty points...

Explosives now provides information on legislation introduced since 1987, such as the Control of Explosives Regulations 1991....

• Hauliers will win a bigger share of the freight market after British Rail is privatised, Labour transport spokesman Peter...

• A farmer's plans for a 280vehicle truckstop on the MI in Leicestershire were dashed last week, three months after the...

/ Shadow transport spokesman John Prescott looks set to campaign for tougher enforcement in the road transport industry...

• Cross-Channel ferry companies have stuck by their decision to impose currency surcharges of up to 10%, despite complaints to...

/ Hauliers who want to replate their trucks to take advantage of the heavier weights to be introduced next January should...

engineering executive this week. He was fleet engineer with Redland Roof Tiles. Slow limit • Strathclyde Regional Council has...

by Karen Miles • Parcelforce staff said this week that its new owner will face legal action if it attempts to reduce the level...

• Traffic congestion is causing dangerous levels of pollution outside and inside vehicles, according to research compiled by...

• West Midlands Travel had its 0-licence curtailed last week after a public inquiry heard that 108 of the bus company's...

• Scania launched an environment-friendly city bus at last week's Bus-RAI show in Maastricht, Netherlands along with a new...

• Arnhem has placed an order with Van Hool for its experimental Duo-mode trolleybus. Arnhem is the only Dutch city to operate...

• Nissan Motor will launch its all-new Cabstar 3.3-tonner in the spring of 1993. The stylish new chassis-cab looks rather like...

taken delivery of an ERF E6.21 17-tonner for transporting museum vehicles around Europe. It is fitted with a hydraulically...

pantechnicon in the UK. Based on a P93ML 17-tonne chassis, the Scania has a Marsden Vanplan body with top sleeper pod. It joins...

• Carosseriefabriek Veth of Arnhem has departed from traditional construction methods and materials in its new Multiliner...

• Edbro is developing an underfloor tipping gear system which is on target for launch next year. The company is saying little...

by John Kendall • Volvo has announced an 8x4 FL7/10 tipper chassis with a 6.47m outer axle spread which is ready for 32-tonne...

• An Austrian bodybuilder with an established range of small buses and coaches on Mercedes-Benz chassis has added a VW-derived...

• ERF has secured a £2.8m order for 69 trucks from BOC Distribution Services. The 63 Cummins-powered tractor units and six...

Carnforth and Bridgend this week after winning two major contracts in the areas which will be serviced by 14 new drivers....

by Karen Miles • The business bought from the troubled operator Barnfather by AAH Holdings took a battering last week as...

• HGV licence applications and registrations were disrupted by a one-day strike at Swansea's Driver and Vehicle Licensing...

• About 40 Derbyshire-based owner-drivers' livelihoods are hanging in the balance following a warning from Tarmac Quarry...

by Ian Reeves • Union bosses fear that 50 jobs will go at William Jackson's Hull distribution centre following the grocery and...

• Franchise parcels operator Panic Link has won a 12-month £150,000 contract to deliver supplies to the 600 branches of the...

• Rising diesel prices are adding hundreds of pounds a week to hauliers' fuel bills and losing them valuable contracts as...

• Drivers hours and tachograph offences have cost Knottingleybased Harrison Commercial (Sales) and six of the company's drivers...

• Local residents have succeeded in getting environmental conditions imposed on operations from Lliw Valley Borough Council's...

• The partners st„ of Cleckheaton based TKS warned about allowing someone else to use their Operator's Licence, when they...

• Failing to produce tachograph records to the police and DOT traffic examiners has cost Newport-based Cardiff Transport £1,475...

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

• Fines totalling £14,500 imposed on London Rearers of Wix in Essex for permitting drivers hours offences, have been halved on...

Parkhouse Fuels, of Newcastle, Staffs, has been reduced from eight vehicles and trailers to five vehicles and three trailers by...

• ERF has manufactured vehicles in the UK for 60 years and is now about to take on the continentals on their own turf. It has...

and some minor snags marring our time with an otherwise excellent van. T yre wear was the greatest concern at the end of the...

• "A dinosaur which had its day," Just one of the epitaphs which industry spokesmen have read over the grave of the stillborn...

oming soon from America is a radio security system that can be hidden in up to 40 locations inside a car and transmits a...

A tipper operator stopped by police in London was found to have no 0-licence. His excuse? The vehicle was for personal use, to...

ii he Eberspacher/ CM Stay Cool competition has been won by David Hope, boss of David Hope Haulage, Uckfield, Sussex. The...

U ed up with your friends with irritatingly out-of-focus home videos? Why not try some wacky selections from Vintage Videos of...

Ifil wo weeks ago the Hawk promised to keep you informed of the progress of the Bosnia appeal in which Red Star is providing...

The blue and white vehicle, painted with the name Whalleys, was stolen during the evening of 9 September from Castill Laithe...

• The Institute of Materials Management is organising a one-day seminar and exhibition to examine the implications of the...

• EP Training Services will be running a five-day CPC national freight course at a new venue in Southampton. The course begins...

• The Motor Industry Research Association has published a report on the future of electric vehicles. It provides a detailed...

• BOC has introduced a range of environmentally acceptable refrigerants, designed to replace the harmful CFCs which will be...

• Major roadworks on the M62 in Greater Manchester will continue until December. Junctions 13, 14 and 15 will suffer various...

• For the latest information on the roadworks and road restrictions nationwide contact one of the AA Hotline numbers listed below.

one in three vehicles had dangerous defects. We join the enforcers on patrol. • Since the beginning of June the Metropolitan...

kit (21,790), measuring fifth wheel package (21,180), seat belts (£185), Philips stereo radio/cassette and six-disc CD...

El Three hi-tech research projects involving large numbers of organisations and transport operators from countries inside and...

Is it right to say a vehicle can stop on a motorway to permit a person to recover an object that has fallen on the motorway and...

• I plan to start an LGV driving school with an artic. I am not sure which type of Operator's Licence I would need. An...

12 We have an Operator's Licence for 4 1 vehicles in one Traffic Area and wish to base 10 of those vehicles in another traffic...

• It's more than two years since the UK Food Hygiene Regulations were put in place, governing temperature requirements for food...

Ni John Kendall's article on trailer axle alignment (Hold The Line, CM 15-21 Oct), raised an interesting subject that is all...

• I am deeply disappointed to find that the apathy of manufacturers has led to the scrapping of next year's CV show at the...

where we could all gain by putting on weight' 4 T he 44-tonne maximum vehicle weight is vital to industry for 1993 but are...