• Once upon a time, commercial vehicles got stolen because their loads were valuable. That still happens — but...

• The Government is being pressed by the RHA to temporarily remove the need for a customs stamp on T forms (transit forms) in...

• The Transport and General Workers Union is stepping up its fight against cabotage — which it claims could be implemented...

• Two men discovered with four stolen trucks, together worth over 2135,000, are in the dock at Maidstone Corwn Court this...

cabotage will also "allow unsafe vehicles and below-standard drivers", to operate in Britain. The union's Greater Manchester...

• Transfrigoroute's campaign against the pricing policies of the cross-Channel ferry companies (CM 31 January), has resulted...

• The French Government has agreed to compensate in full eight British hauliers whose vehicles and cargoes were damaged by...

• Crime is costing the road haulage industry a fortune in lost freight and stolen vehicles. Of the 577,000 thefts reported...

last month's Austrian Truck Grand Prix, held at the Osterreichring. In the up-to224kW class, Rod Chapman took the top spot in...

• Homespeed, the home delivery arm of Pickfords, is to close three of its branches and may make up to 200 of its staff...

• The withdrawal of Bedford from the UK heavy truck market late last year contributed to a 17% fall in the total number of...

• BRS Western's Kidderminster branch is to supply two Ford Cargo 0813s to window systems company Aluminium Window Systems in...

• Bristol-based parcels delivery company Interlink is forecasting a pre-tax profit of £4.5 million for the financial year,...

10 A new double-deck taillift enclosed within a van body's rear doors has been developed by Ross & Bonnyman. The first...

• ERF says it will be the first truck manufacturer to offer Eaton's SAMT (Semi Automated Mechanical Transmission) as a...

• Bodybuilder Marshall of Cambridge has been supplying bodies to Whitbread for 40 years. The latest batch comprises 42...

In 1985 when we launched the Citroen C15 Van, we were confident that it had all the design qualities for today's businessman....

• Operators who specify the 224kW-plus Gardner 6LYT engine in their new ERF, Foden or Seddon Atkinson are in for a shock when...

• Seddon Atkinson has dropped the 411 8 x 4 chassis from its latest rigid model lineup, leaving the Ctunmins LTA 10-290...

• The West Midlands Fire Service has retrofitted Tadchurch rubber suspension on the rear axles of its swapbody support...

• Shropshire lorry driver John Bright, convicted of the falsification of tachograph records at Shrewsbury Crown Court, has...

• Lorry driver John Faichen, who was transferred to a new depot by Renwicks Freight (Scotland) after his original depot had...

• Yorkshire haulier Fred Chappell has lost its bid in the High Court to claim over 214,000 damages from National Car Parks in...

• Little more than six months after Peugeot Talbot revealed its prototype tri-axle Express minibus at the 1986 Motor Show,...

• Following Transport Secretary John Moore's recent claim — slammed by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities — that...

• A revolutionary concept in PSV construction debuted last week at the UITP show in Lausaunne (see page 24). The DAB...

• Chester City Transport has bought three Northern Counties bodied Dodge '50' series minibuses to try on a variety of...

• Premier Travel Services is adding nearly 21 million worth of new coaches to its Cambridge-based fleet_ Ten new Volvos have...

iss roll out the bus news • Newly-independent Leyland Bus and Robin Hood Vehicle Builders represented British PSV...

COMPETITION • Entries are now open for the 1987 Commercial Motor Livery Competition. The competition is open to all...

• TB Turbos, the Lancasterbased turbocharger specialists, has appointed another firm of turbocharger experts in the south of...

• Question: what takes 3.2km of name tags, 8,181 litres of tea and coffee, 0.3 tonne of biscuits, and 4.5 tonnes of course...

• Peugeot Talbot will shortly be launching a big-volume parcel van version of its triaxle Express mini bus (see PSV News)...

• A new power take-off designed specifically for light vans and trucks up to 3.5tonnes GVW has been introduced by Winton...

SIR HOURS OF PROTEST • I have been driving trucks for 34 years, and all I've known throughout my working life is long hours....

Hard on the heels of Iveco Ford and the all-disc brake Cargo, Volvo has launched a UK range of FL4 7.5-tonne distribution...

A car version of Ford's long-awaited continuously variable transmission is now in production, and judging by our test drive it...

• Thirty-seven years old, and with an "appearance and principal design features. . that have remained unchanged" during that...

BY THE HAWK • You are, of course, all heartily sick of politics, so I'll keep my comments on the general election brief....

While many big own-account operators are moving out of owning and maintaining their trucks, Rowntree Mackintosh is moving...