Autootivc has taken over Volvo's UK component manufacturer, Farin g ton Components of Preston.

not having a positive transport policy. A draft statement on transport strate g y warns that Government ditherin g is dama g...

by the Inland Revenue to offer advice on PAYE, National Insurance, VAT, Excise Duties or Inland Customs en q uiries. Contact...

PE Blake of blame after a tankers spilt 0,5 lit of benzyl bromide on a ferry, puttin g ei g ht people in hospital.

from 1 July1996. Trucks up to 7.5 tonnes will pay ASch5,000 (£310); heavier vehicles will pay ASch13,000 (£812).

to switch fundin g from rood buildin g to other forms of transport and road maintenance.

as new Group Finance Director. He takes over from Trevor an who resi g ned following a re-or g anisation.

three years and sales are at a 15-mo nth low, says NatWest Small Business Research Trust.

By Lee Kimber • The Transport and General Workers Union is to campaign for a £5-an-hour minimum wage for LGV drivers in the...

to Aberdeen-based ARR Craib director Eddie Anderson. They should go for the hauliers who don't yet pay the going rates. "In...

Mike Beer Transport, "we don't seem to be taking a lot of notice of rates generally." Instead, he says, his drivers are paid...

III Jobcentres do not force unemployed truck drivers to work for poverty wages, says the Department of Employment, but it...

T he job's worth a Fiver!" As slogans go it's not a bad one. However, the Transport & General Workers Union's campaign for a...

by Lee Mather • Owner-drivers will be no longer be eligible for mortgage interest payments from the Government if they are...

• A bus company is collaborating with the port of Bristol in a bid to re-open a section of disused railway and transfer up to...

• The imposition of motorway tolls would be as unpopular as the poll tax and could lead to a campaign of major civil...

• Following increases in road freight, goods vehicles will produce up to 80% of all nitrogen oxide (N0x) from road traffic by...

• A truck driver told an industrial tribunal that he was sacked after refusing to drive a lorry with a faulty braking system....

• Receivers Coopers & Lybrand are waiting to hear how much they raised from a truck auction after the liquidation of one of...

• The row between the Transport & General Workers Union and Nottingham-based UCI Logistics escalated last week after the...

• English Heritage has attacked the Government for rejecting the proposed road tunnel extension of the A303 near Stonehenge for...

by Karen Miles • The family of a man killed when a wheel flew off a Littlewood's truck is threatening to sue the retailer after...

• A withering attack on the state of Britain's roads has been launched by the British Road Federation (BRF). In a new report,...

• Christian Salvesen has launched a multi-million-pound recycling service for Tesco in a move that will cut the number of...

• Drivers on cross-Channel work look set to benefit from the latest price war between operators—over duty free soles Eurotunnel...

by Colin Sowman. • The European Parliament has voted to speed up the implementation of emission limits on small diesel...

• EU moves to outlaw spurious brake linings have run into problems. ECE Regulation 90 is designed to ensure that all...

• Scottish operator MacGinty of Lochgilphead has taken delivery of a Foden 8x6 military chassis for use as a mobile crane...

• West Yorkshire bodybuilder Roco Bodies has doubled its production rapacity by opening a 1,300m 2 (14,000ft 2 ) factory in Low...

by Colin Sowman • Dennis Specialist Vehicles has won the chassis-cab contract arid John Dennis Coachbuilders will supply the...

by Bryan Jarvis • There's a new four-wheeldrive kid on the block these days in the shape of MAN's 155hp (114kW) L2000 4x4. Two...

of earth-moving and plant hire specialists D Morgan. The MANs join 21 others bought earlier this year. The vehicles are fitted...

mixer chassis, following an earlier delivery of 13. They will be fitted with Scania EK340 sandwich PTOs and Ritemixer or Hymix...

the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis-cab. Roof height is increased by 28.5in (725mm); the deflector is mounted with two bolts at...

Commercial Motor last week (CM 28 Sept-4 Oct), we implied (page 30) that the Volvo dealer in Maidstone was owned by the Dawson...

by Bill Brock. • Boalloy has opened a dedicated after sales, repairs, refurbishment and parts centre less than 10 miles from...

of the licence held by Ridgewood Roofing of East Kilbride. The company appeared before Scottish LA Michael Betts at a Glasgow...

has agreed to reduce the authorisation on the licence held by Stan Pugh Haulage, of Ross-on-Wye from five vehicles and five...

of the licence of Syd Smith Skip Hire, of Wallasey, being cut to expire in December 1996, two years early. North Western DLA...

for 10 vehicles and 10 trailers by Keen Heavy Haulage of Horton Heath, Wimborne, Dorset has been turned down.

as JA Trucking, of West Mailing, Kent, has been revoked at an Eastbourne disciplinary inquiry. Arnold was also disqualified...

• North Western LA Martin Albu has renewed the licence held by Merseyside heavy hauliers B&S Northover but he issued the...

• Adjourning consideration of disciplinary action against Dudley ownerdriver Derr'ck Landell, West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh...

• WS Hunts Transport's plan to vary the number of vehicles at its existing operating centre and to add a further operating...

• Lancashire operator Joyce Forshaw has be en called to an inquiry after operating for hire-or-reward under a restricted...

I would like to hear from any drivers who, within the last two years, have been prosecuted or paid a fixed penalty fine for...

int rowsing through the shelves in my local newsagents today I saw a magazine among the transport mags which appeared to have...

annual banger race when 170 old vehicles spend a day being thrashed to death in a series of gruelling events, culminating in a...

5 imiing time to tramp round the shops in the run-up to Christmas is not easy for many hauliers who are away a lot....

could acid a new Scania to the Host in time for the Christmas rush. The Irish Road Haulage Association is running a raffle...

El gly they may be but the Green Goddess fire vehicles returned to active service during the long-hot summer to combat sporadic...

D outh Shields driver David Boyle won the National Lorry Driver of the Year finals earlier this month but far from earning...

Mercedes' new Sprinter has a hard act to follow—the old Ti Transporter was well loved by big fleets and rental companies for...

Times are hard. You need a new truck But in today's economic climate it's hard to see where the money's going to come from....

a) All entrants in the Commercial Motor/Iveco Ford "Win a EuroTech" competition must be in possession of a current Operators...

After years of Gallic indifference, the French have suddenly found an appetite for food produced in Britainpizzas and curries...

has 56 depots in France. FOUNDED: Euroventure dates from 1992. TFE was founded in 1975 in Normandy. PROPRIETOR: Pierre Foumier,...

It's common knowledge around the haulage industry that LAs are taking an increasingly dim view of speeding and drivers' hours...

T here will hardly be any operator or goods vehicle driver who has not had a vehicle weighed on a dynamic-axle weighbridge....

I f an operator experiences a problem with an agency driver in fulfiling the terms of his employment, the fact he is employed...

I t doesn't matter if they're behind the wheel of a 38-tonner or the family saloon car; some drivers seem to be addicted to...

T he High Court has confirmed the considerable commercial benefit given to goods vehicle operators in the recovery of their...

f a summons against you contains a mistake, can this result in your acquittal? Suppose your name has been misspelt, the vehicle...

Safety on managing vehicle safety at the work place. They are aimed at safety in the transport industry which apparently is the...

training are to be introduced through the EU which will carry severe disciplinary action if breached.

they pick up six or more penalty points within two years of passing their test. They will revert to learner status.

taxation classes and vehicle excuse duty exemptions, re-defining the definitions of vehicles which are exempt. Full details are...

Talk of clutches and operators think of a simple device that lives between engine and gearbox and wears out too quickly. There...

Number-cruncher Stephen Curtis, heading the team charged with sorting out the 0-licensing system describes the UK's Traffic...

1 Three options to tackle inconsistency arising from seven different traffic commissioners: • "Enhance the role" of the senior...

• Changes to remove inconsistency should save money, claims Curtis. He says the Treasury should save £3.5m a year and transport...

The workshop side of the HGV industry is pretty conservative. Perhaps it would be unfair to say that it's set in its ways, but...

it Texaco claims that 'significant' maintenance savings await operators who choose its new Long Life Coolant (for details write...

• AE Smith & Son of Kettering has become the importer and distributor of Tekimex modular racking systems. They can be tailored...

maintenance of 8,000 CVs and 11,000 items of plant operated by British Gas TransCo.

claim to offer 98% parts availability across its range of silencers and fittings for the whole UK HGV and PCV market.

service to LGV/PCV operators in the West Country. Contact (01934) 750770.

truck centre in the UK. MAN Scotland, at Bellshill, Lanarkshire, will cost am and should open by the end of the year.

management system from Chevin Computer Systems, to help control of its demonstrator fleet.

NFC subsidiaries Exel Logistics and BRS under which all 3,000plus trucks and trailers operating From their depots in north-west...

• New regulations covering the disposal of solvents and oils could lead to increased costs and more paperwork for workshops,...

• Aldridge-based transport services group S Jones has launched a Truck Engineering Division to extend its services into the...

• Autosmart has added another 20 vehicles to its fleet of mobile showroom sales vans. The design of the walk-in boxes has been...

• Crosland Filters has recently installed a £250,000 test system comprising an air filter test rig and a vibration test rig for...

• Camshaft manufacturer Weyburn-Bartel of Elstead, Surrey has won AE Auto Parts' Supplier of the Year award in the engine...

Commenting on the job, Resin Surfaces director John Waterhouse says: "The concrete at Shearings was specially prepared to...

• Michael Braithwaite from Penrith, Cumbria is the UK's Truck Tyre Fitter of the Year for 1995. The competition, organised by...

NAS launched the TRUCKMASTER commercial vehicle management package in August. How good is the system in practice? 0 ne of the...

Oil depends for its effectiveness on physical and chemical condition. Can additional filtration lengthen its life? 0 il...

We examine the latest development trends and buying pointers to consider when choosin9 new welding kit. A lthough gas welding...

• Dibo Cleaning Systems has introduced a steam cleaner called IBH Hot 100. The maker has made extensive use of stainless steel...

• CompAir Broom Wade has launched the Cyclone Series of oilinjected rotary air compressors. There are six basic models in the...

away each year due to damage caused by poorly regulated alternators. The new Adverc Alternator Charge Controller will ensure...

• Bandag has introduced a dedicated trailer tyre, the BTR (E), into the range of precure contour treads for its 'like new'...

6 efrigerated hauliers face increased duties of core and reporting as a result of legislation in recent years including the...