of transport politicians, commercial vehicle manufacturers, and operators has been thrown into sharp relief at this week's Road...

the spotlight has fallen on MAN's new F90 truck range in recent weeks, CM has taken a closer look at one of its current...

• The Department of Transport has drawn-up plans for the allocation of multi-lateral EEC permits for 1987 (CM October 25)....

reports that its Lincoln factory is to close in 12 to months time with a loss of up to 700 jobs. According to local...

import flood? • By the end of 1986 Britain will be a net importer of heavy trucks, according to Robin Woo!cock, Leyland...

• Isolls on the Severn Bridge look set to increase following the Government's appeal court victory allowing it to reimpose...

• Union representatives in the West Midlands are seeking a five-hour cut in the working week as part of their annual pay claim...

Common Market cash for the completion of the M20 and the A120 link to the East coast ports is being blocked by the European...

• The Government has formally protested to the French authorities about changes in their Customs procedures which are seen as a...

IN Dover should upgrade its facilities for Customs inspection of deep frozen goods or stop handling refrigerated traffic,...

orders for more than 1,000 Sherpa public service vehicles, all based on the newly introduced Sherpa 385 chassis cowl. The...

• A new company has plans to set up a network of 14 American-style truck stops in the UK. The first will be at West Thurrock,...

• A warning of 'potentially very dangerous' counterfeit wheel nuts and bolts on sale in Europe has been issued by Rubery...

220.38 twin steer tractive unit which will be put into operation as a heavy recovery vehicle. With chassis extension and...

• Besco Bodies has followed the recent example of a number of CV bodybuilders and produced its own streamlined Luton body for...

• The demand for Americanbuilt Harsh underbody tipping gear is increasing according to UK distributor Rigid Tipping Gears of...

• Craven Tasker has won a major order from Ind Coope Burton Brewery for 25 specially developed trailers. The trailers are...

• The 50,000th Ford Cargo to be sold in the UK was handed over to British Telecom last week. Since the model was introduced in...

• Whitbread has added the latest Cargo model, the Cummins LTA 10-290 powered 3828 tractive unit, to its fleet of over 160...

• One of the few remaining chemical companies still running its own transport, Carless Solvents is investing over £200,000 in...

• Rentco Nationwide, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation, has won a £2.5 million deal to supply the parcels...

• British Gas North Western 's centralising its stores and streamlining its distribution of gas appliances, spare parts, meters...

• Sywell-based M & B Transport (Northampton) has been acquired for around £500,000 by Chamberlain Phipps, the multi-national...

• Rail freight grants from the Government have stopped over two million lorry journeys since 1979 according to Minister for...

in a two-way link for road transport between Scandinavia and South Wales and the west of England. Mercury International...

• The National Freight Consortium has finally unveiled its profit sharing scheme — which it says could result in middle...

• As part of a planned investment programme worth more than £500,000, Russell Davies Haulage is currently taking delivery of...

• The switch to distribution from straightforward haulage is already paying dividends at Flowers Distribution. The company's...

The 12.2m, 38-tonne trailers, will be used for carrying bagged powder throughout the UK. Sam Ostle says, "It is the EA2...

• Fines and costs of £4.144 have been imposed on two hauliers and three drivers in related cases brought by the police and the...

• Bury based Vagsped Limited has lost its international licence after failing to meet a three month deadline to obtain a new...

• Local residents have failed to prevent the continued use of an operating centre they thought had been abandoned two years ago...

• No action has been taken against a licence of Macclesfield hauliers F. Swain & Sons by North Western Licensing Authority Roy...

Though Butlers (Manchester), trading as Sleepline Beds, failed to turn up at a Blackburn public enquiry, North Western deputy...

IN Maintenance problems have lead to the authorisation of 39 vehicles and 63 trailers on the licence of Sheffield hauliers R....

• The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland has been asked to step in and sort out Glasgow's "bus war". Strathclyde Regional...

• Driving regulation conditions prohibiting the use of eight streets in Barrow-in-Furness by public service vehicles have been...

Saturday, November 15 to coordinate its activities. Representatives from unions and transport users groups will be meeting to...

• Cheltenham and Gloucester Omnibus has become the fourth National Bus Company subsidiary to be purchased by its own management...

• The Labour Party has unveiled its plans to unravel the 1985 Transport Act after the next General Election. Speaking at the...

• London Regional Transport is extending its use of one person operated buses to 78% of London routes, in a bid to minimise...

• A decision on the siting of the new London Coach terminal is expected very soon, now London Regional Transport has completed...

• Driver commentaries on sightseeing tours may soon be a thing of the past as traffic areas throughout the country start to...

• Bus deregulation has brought several independent operators into areas of Derbyshire previously served by National Bus...

Italy's road hauliers say tough new government measures to deal with speeding offences, overloading and tampering with...

The Brazilians have been experimenting with alternative fuels for some time, including ethanol from sugar cane which has proved...

The 750, 000th Karnaz truck has roiled off the assembly lines at the Kama association plant in the Soviet Union. The plant was...

General Motors has joined the growing list of corporations to pull out of South Africa in protest at the apartheid regime. GM...

In 1985 the volume of traffic handled by the nine European "piggy-back" transport companies increased by 13%. The major company...

Turnover for the commercial vehicle sector in West Germany totalled 31,000DM in 1985. Truck manufacturers accounted for 20% of...

Rhineland police noticed an increase in the number of faulty vehicles when they analysed the results of recent checks on...

In the first half of 1986, MAN sold and delivered 425 vehicles in France, 120 more than in the same period for 1985. The...

Because standard bus capacities of 100 or 155 have become inadequate in several French cities, Renault and Heuliez Bus are...

The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Conferences are to introduce phase two of the restructured UK inland haulage tariff from November...

• GLYN; SAMUEL, the chairman of the Road Haulage Association and formerly chairman of Flowers Transport, has been appointed a...

• The Vehicle Refinish division of Berger Industrial Coatings has announced the appointment of Bill Atkinson as consultant to...

• Ron Irons has been appointed Group Managing Director (designate) of the BRS Group. He will succeed Geoff Pygall who will be...

• Sandy Anderson has been appointed to the Board of Transport International Pool and Director, South UK, of TIP Trailer Rental...

• Christopher Sturman has been appointed to the new position of Distribution Development Manager of Wincanton Transport. As a...

• Michael Parker is the new Director of Marketing at London Transport International, the consultancy arm of London Regional...

• Overnight delivery specialist, Elan International, has appointed Gareth Towers as UK Marketing Manager. Towers' arrival at...

has been strengthened by the appointment of a Group Production Director, Andrew Jubb, who joins the company after extensive...

• RHA chairman Glyn Samuel opened this year's RHA national conference with a fiery keynote speech in which he lambasted the oil...

El Transport Minister Peter Bottomley sparked off a furious debate on race relations in the transport industry when he...

legislation, proposed by the TUC and the Labour Party, were spelled out to hauliers by Sir Patrick Lowry, Chairman of ACAS....

to read in your Comment column (CM 18 October) that there is a requirement for a separate commercial show with just trade...

• In your reports of roadworks I rarely see the M62 mentioned. There has been major work going for the last few weeks over a...

SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER • Whatever potential changes in transport regulations are discussed,...

SPRAY AGAIN • Clarification is needed about the changes to the spray Legislation, as mentioned in Operators Handbook, October...

packages' by road is about to change. In the Spring of 1987 the Road Traffic (Carriage of Dangerous Substances in Packages,...

GOOD VIBRATIONS • Regular readers may recall that our long term test Bedford CF2 suffered from particularly bad vibrations from...

• Important advice for truck operators has been issued by Rugby-based air brake system manufacturer Clayton Dewandre in a drive...

has developed a cost effective, life long solution to the problem of container baseframe corrosion. During a normal life...

VAT GUIDE • HM Customs and Excise has published two new booklets dealing with VAT matters. The first, called "Motoring...

RNA MEETING • The next meeting of the Road Haulage Association international group will be on March 11-12 at the Dormy House...

PARKING PROTECTION MA new security system designed to protect lorries and their cargos while parked up overnight, is now...

WEIGHBRIDGE • A new privately-owned weighbridge that is also open for public use has opened in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. It...

SMT IN SCOTLAND • The Scottish Bedford dealership SMT is shutting its Aberdeen truck branch on Aliens Industrial Estate,...

BODYSHOP COURSES • Courses covering all aspects of the bodyshop operation are now available from ICI Autocolor at Slough....

The newly published "Guide to Estimating" is free to Berger Standox users, but are not otherwise freely available.

LEADED OR UNLEADED • The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has produced a 52 page pack about leaded and unleaded fuels in...

statistical bulletin giving results on traffic levels at selected sites in London. The survey concentrated on the inner London...

MINIMUM WINTER TEMPERATURES • Now that the clocks have been put back timely thoughts turn to precautions that may be taken to...

Many winter problems can be avoided by careful basic maintenance, driver training and closer co-operation with fuel suppliers...

Despite a minor traffic accident, our long-term test vehicle goes from strength to strength, in fuel economy at least • It is...

With deregulation now in full swing, bus operators need versatile and adaptable vehicles. The Optimo goes some way towards...

Freight Rover's new DI diesel-powered Sherpa promises to scale new heights of fuel economy, but it is not the van for a driver...

his family cringes at the thought of what he might bring back as a souvenir. Last time Derek took time off he came home with a...

enforcement officer? I ask because a recent decision by Marsham Street will soon give rise to lots of changes. In the past...

Bus Company timetable clerk discovered recently when Blackwood (Gwent) magistrates sent him down recently for two months for...

round-Britain, Economy Drive earlier this year, Gordon Roberts of SGB Imports won two tickets to Lapland via Concorde. Our...

riders) using Brown Group International's latest Scania horsebox, seen here at the recent Horse of the Year show....

• "Cabotage is irrelevant to a common transport policy; the necessary harinonisation of taxes and other costs is impossible;...

• EEC Transport Commissioner Stanley Clinton Davis has turned down the idea of Common Market legislation to control the...

of the Road Haulage Association's International Group showed, at a recent meeting, that they are still bitterly divided on the...

transport infrastructure projects in non-member states if doing so would improve transit within the Community. This was one of...

Ministers is expected to meet to discuss a proposal to raised the duty-free allowance for fuel in HGV fuel tanks to 600...

26) coaches and all other vehicles will be tabled by the Brussels Commission within the next six weeks — but a decision won't...