• Here we go again. First it was the farmers in France, then the senors in Spain. Now the Road Haulage Association is warning...

• British truckers going to Italy in the next fortnight could face chaos as bad as that seen in Spain last month as Italian...

• Volvo dealer Hartshorne Motor Services has bought Wolverhampton-based bodybuilder Transliner, which went into receivership...

• A free leaflet on transporting dangerous goods has been produced by the Health and Safety Executive. For copies phone 071-221...

for . a decision on the future of the Barrow testing station, which has been under threat of closure for nearly two years.

• Furious hauliers met last week at a packed creditors meeting following the surprise collapse of a West Country stone supplies...

• Hauliers have gone on strike at two Alfred McAlpine quarries in Wales over rates. The 35 owner-operators at the Torcoedfawr...

• Euro MPs have called for extra health protection for transport workers involved in the transport of nuclear material or...

• Huddersfield Polytechnic is to launch a part-time course in transport and distribution management for managers already in the...

• A plan to harmonise diesel excise duty at £180 is to be considered by EC finance ministers.

• Up to 2170m of EC cash will be spent on improving the Community's transport infrastructure in the run up to 1992.

• The House of Lords has ruled against the London boroughs' bid to take over parking enforcement, including wheel clamping.

of employment, so it's a double-edged sword. They lose potential work and they are owed money, resulting in financial...

again within the next few days unless there is a new development in the Gulf crisis, according to fuel analyst Oil Price...

• RI-IA members are reporting a wider acceptance of fuel surcharges by their customers as the Gulf crisis continues, says RHA...

warning to unions that high wage demands will lead to job losses.

• The FTA is now supporting the Government's experimental 'red route' scheme for London, following our report last week that...

• A public inquiry into the proposed Leeds lorry ban on the A642 has been postponed indefinitely. Both the police and...

• Daytime speeds averaged over 80krrith (50mph) on most stretches of the M25 between 1986 and 1988, a Government survey reveals.

• City Vehicle Engineering, the manufacturer of the Omni minibus, went into receivership last week, leaving over 80 staff...

• A new type of roller brake tester is to be installed at every vehicle test station in the UK at a cost of £5m. The...

• Commercial vehicle sales in October were 22% down on the same month last year. This is slightly less severe than the...

• Four lorry drivers are being prosecuted by West Midlands police for allegedly using in-cab phones while driving. The drivers...

• Events organiser Live Promotions is pressing ahead with plans for a London rival to the Birmingham Motor Show in 1992. The...

• Reefer operators took the initiative last week to set new industry standards ahead of European legislation and help price...

• John Ashmore, of North West Water has won Overdrive's Transport Manager of the Year award for the third successive year....

• The Road Haulage Association is helping police clamp down on truck thefts by speeding up the flow of information to the...

• If the EC Commission succeeds in gaining power to intervene if cabotage causes a slump in the industry, it will create a...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is investigating eight cases of wheel loss on ERFs fitted with 562 or S63 Kirkstall steered axles,...

• A buyer for the concession to sell Romanian Dacia vehicles in the UK is likely to be announced this week. It follows the move...

• Richard Mahan (below) has been promoted to sales and marketing director of AWD with a seat on the board. Halahan, who joined...

• Schmitz Trailers is to supply 1,000 swap bodies to rental company Grand Transport Systems, and it is hopeful that orders for...

• Brussels bureaucrats have been told not to report back to the EC Council of Ministers until they have come up with a...

Seddon Atkinson service 'staff have been on a tour of parent company Pegaso's Continental factories to improve their knowledge...

• Perkins still has not set a date for the launch of its uprated TX Eagle engine, the 298kW (400hp) 400Tx (CM 30 August-5...

• Luxembourg reefer bodybuilder Plasti-Baeten is setting up a sales and marketing company in the UK and plans to follow this...

• AWL) is to fit Lipe clutches as standard on its 7.5-tonners — they are the last of AWD's range to convert to clutches from...

• Commercial Motor has obtained pictures of Eurotunnel's new prototype Channel Tunnel railfreight wagons. They are the final...

• Boalloy has built five Tautliner semi-trailers with a Ushape rail that enables the curtains to be pulled around the front of...

• Wincanton Engineering has built five milk tankers for the Dairy Corporation of Kampala in Uganda: two 24-tonners and three...

• Scania is raising its profile in the contract-hire market with the formation of a Scaliaowned stand alone contracthire and...

Scania, which has offered contract hire for about five years under the Lifeline scheme, intends to quash the 'DIY' label with a...

• Fish distributor Charles Alexander Transport has linked up with Grimsby-based Link Fish to provide a national nextday...

• llanson Transport has won a five-year £2. 5m contract to supply KeyMetzeler of Macclesfield with nine tractive units, 14...

• The Lep Group has announced an agreement in principle to acquire Transportgruppen of Denmark — one of that country's leading...

• Exel Logistics — Temperature Controlled Services has acquired the assets of Nisa Chill, the chilled distribution service of...

• A month-long pay dispute at Toleman Automotive's Halewood depot in Liverpool is over with workers lending' the...

• The ailing British truck market has forced Iveco Ford, one of the UK's leading truck manufacturers, to bring its Langley...

• NFC companies BRS and Pickfords are to meet transport unions on 28 November to discuss this year's pay round. They are...

• Wilson Truck Services, the Bingley, West Yorkshire-based bodybuilder, has gone into voluntary receivership. Its factory is to...

• Securicor Omega Express has opened depots in Glasgow and Belfast. The Scottish site will operate 100 vehicles and will employ...

• Federal Express Systemline has won a six-year/ 22m contract to distribute products nationwide for Japanese audio and video...

• Robinson Trucks, the East Anglian Scania distributor, has been sold to Scania after chairman Chris Robinson, was injured in a...

• Drivers jobs are at risk at Liverpool City Council which is facing a multi-million-pound deficit and must report by 16...

• depot at Swindon • Roads and Traffic Minister Christopher Chope has officially opened BRS's new £7m depot at Swindon which...

• TIP's truck and trailer rental division CSL has won a contract to supply Asda's regional distribution centre with more than...

• The Bus and Coach Council's plans to beat traffic congestion does not go far enough, according to an environmental transport...

• Wakefield-based West Riding Group and Pontefract independent South Yorkshire Road Transport are refusing to follow Yorkshire...

• Yorkshire Rider has taken on five Scania N1131)Rs fitted with Northern Counties double-decker bodywork.

• Huyton-based independent Liverbus in Merseyside is expanding ' into coach operation. It is adding a Volvo BlOM and a Leyland...

• A fire at Midland Scottish Omnibus's (Than depot has destroyed two buses and damaged six more.

• London Transport is sponsoring Professor Andrew Evans for an initial five years to take the university chair of transport...

• Southampton Citybus has taken over the two remaining parts of the Bus Engineering Group which went into receivership about...

• Go-Ahead Northern is promoting staff internally to head the five subsidiary companies it plans to form in January 1991 (CM...

II Kidderminster-based coach operator Go Whittle is increasing the size of its fleet by 50% with the purchase of Narburgh...

• Walter Alexander has started building double-deckers for the first time since 1976 at its recently expanded Belfast factory,...

• National Express subsidiary Crosville Wales has closed Rhyl bus station and three smaller garages after a disappointing...

• Reeve Burgess has postponed the launch of its lowfloor midibus body on the Dennis Dart chassis until December — two months...

• How safe is your business from the consequences of breach of health and safety legislation? Delegates at a seminar were asked...

• London tipper operator William Gamble has had his licence revoked by Metropolitan Licens'ng Authority AirVice Marshal Ronald...

• Five men have appeared before Manchester Crown Court accused of corruption and defrauding Freightliners. Terence Bevington...

causing the death of two people by reckless driving, following a multi-vehicle pile up on the A5043 Northwich Road, Knutsford....

• The PSV 0-licence held by Robert and Sandra Paine, trading as R E Stothard & Son, of Pickering, has been revoked by North...

• Two axle overloading offences have led South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh to renew the licence held by Jean...

happened into the workshops of Kentbased garage FJ Jarvis where I discovered a vintage RollsRoyce in the process of being...

ELT MOVES • Birmingham AWD and Vauxhall van dealer Elt Bros has moved to new premises in the city's Amington Road. Contact...

PIRTEK EXPANDS • Hydraulic equipment group Pirtek is setting up a 70-strong network of distributors in Britain. Five...

new £3.5m depot near Wigan. It replaces an existing site in the town. The new address is Lockett Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield,...

handle all of Red Star's US-bound consignments. It used to use a network of agents in the US. In return, Red Star will handle...

a depot and workshop in Barry, South Glamorgan. Situated at the town's docks, it employs 14 and has a fleet of 650 trailers.

TELMA% FIVE • Retarder manufacturer Telma has appointed five Volvo, Scania and MercedesBenz dealers to sell its products. They...

TYRE TWO • Tyre distributor Central Tyre has added dealers in Portsmouth and Doncaster to its 100-strong network. Contact...

RENAULT RISE • Renault is increasing the price of some of its light commercials. The Extra goes up by 2.5% and the Trafic and...

DISTRIBUTION DATE • The 1991 Logistics and Distribution Exhibition takes place at the NEC Birmingham on 18-20 June. It will be...

formers into careers in distribution is expected to attract over 300 students from schools in Yorkshire and Humberside. The...

Transport within the European Community is the theme of the Engineering Council's Yorkshire regional association's lecture in...

for traffic management is the subject of a conference in London later this month. It is being held by the National Economic...

its annual conference in Vienna on 25-27 November. Topics include pollution and safety; education and training; and electronics...

Show is being held in Rotterdam on 13-15 November. Sponsored by Transfrigoroute, it includes an exhibition and conference....

the West and the emerging capitalist countries of the former Communist bloc is being held in Paris on 6-7 December. It is being...

LICENSING GUIDE • An A4-size booklet on the driver licensing changes which take place from June 1991 is available free from...

a booklet listing the public weighbridges in their area. West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and Isle of Wight...

A DATE FOR CPC • Entries for next month's Certificate of Professional Competence RSA exam at EP Training Services must be sent...

SECONDS HELPING • Trailer rental company TIP is marketing its used trailer sales service using a 'hotline' to its trailer sales...

CUSHION THAT PAIN • Autoroofs has come up with a heated cushion seat to help drivers who suffer from back pain. The seat...

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST M4 London: J4B (M25) outside lane closed each way. M4 London: Overnight eastbound closed...

centre or on the centre lane of a motorway, the picture is becoming iilarmingly common. Traffic. All around you,...

• "Anyone who goes to Iraq and says they're not frightened is either a lunatic or a liar. You're on edge the whole time — you...

Car transporting is a big-money operation. But interest rates, wage demands and rates cutting are giving companies, even the...

including BRS Automotive. However. BRS is putting a lot of effort into Toyota and I think it is well placed. "Lead times are...

Tommy Gibb runs one of the best known refrigerated transport fleets in the UK — Thomas Gibb (Fraserburgh). It is very much a...

RESPONSE Cummins has revamped its well-liked 10 and 14-litre diesel engines to respond to legislative requirements, tough...

El Injector operation, as in Cummins' familiar PT fuel system, is actuated via pushrods and rockers from the engine camshaft....

SIR FED UP WITH CRINCISM • I am fed up with people criticising unlicensed operators in your magazine, such as JB of...

David Burton is the new group sales manager of Stokeon-Trent-based trailer and body builder Don-Bur. He is the son of founder...