II According to the director general of the EC transport directorate: "The UK attitude to transport policy is negative ... if...

355kW (476hp) in 190.48 and 260.48 TurboStar chassis, is being uprated to 380kW (510hp) for the EuroStar when it supersedes the...

Standing down • Jim Lockhart has retired from the board of Transport Development Group after 34 years with the company. Tunnel...

accidents involving goods vehicles in the second quarter of this year has risen to 73.

to retro-fit existing LGVs with anti-pollution equipment — but there are no plans to help hauliers pay for any modifications.

drivers at Castle Cement continue to defy their employer's call to end industrial action or face the sack.

• Municipal Mutual Insurance, which cover 85% of council fleets, has resumed "full payment of claims", says chief executive...

• The design of tankers carrying inflammable liquids will be influenced by the accident in August in which a Linkman Tankers...

• The French Government has caved into hauliers' demands for changes to its driver licence endorsement scheme. When the scheme...

• Vehicles carrying dangerous goods through Tyne and Wear are to be directed along nominated "safety routes". Recommendations...

• Truck manufacturers had some cause for celebration this week with sales up on last year, according to figures from the...

/ The Vehicle Inspectorate has ordered a study of projected enforcement costs in a move that could bail out three overspending...

/ The Road Haulage Association is calling for the permitted gross weight of five-axled drawbar rigs in the UK to be increased...

• British hauliers should develop Continental partnerships, Central Trailer Rentco boss Richard Osborne told the RHA...

Derek Hall, managing director of Garphyttan, has died aged 54, after 12 years as boss of the County Durham-based compnonents...

and the Institute of Materials Management will merge next year to form a body with 12,000 members.

• East Preston-based charity Britpol Health Care Foundation needs another 38-tonner for a convoy to Bosnia on 17 October. Phone...

• Marshall Group chairman Michael Marshall, visited AWD last week, fuelling speculation that Marshall Group will buy the...

• The 30 staff made redundant from the RTITB Services company last month are pursuing a case for unfair dismissal.

• Germany's plan to impose a £3,500 tax on hauliers using its roads will be squashed by the European Court of Justice, the...

• British industry has thrown its weight behind the campaign for higher CV weight limits. A survey published this week reveals...

• European hauliers are expected to reap a bonus worth £500m a year in savings from the abolition of customs red tape when the...

Standard features on the Seddon include tinted windows, electric nearside door window, roof hatch, heated rear view mirrors,...

• BRS is pulling out of commercial LGV driver training and streamlining its engineering operation in a bid to cut costs. The...

• A year after Leyland Daf set up its approved used vehicle programme the man in charge of the scheme says it has helped boost...

• Eurotunnel plans to subcontract a local haulier to handle the unaccompanied trailers which will be carried through the...

• The scramble by local authorities to obtain vehicle insurance after Municipal Mutual Insurance's suspension of business last...

• Business information company Dun & Bradstreet fore.casts no let-up in the level of failures among transport companies. It...

• Fear that outside contractors may be invited to bid for work in the gas and chemical industries is spurring TGWU drivers to...

• A major shake-up is to take place in Iveco Ford Truck's dealer network with many dealers set to lose their heavy truck...

• Seven drivers face committal proceedings before West Derbyshire Magistrates tomorrow (9 October) for allegedly falsifying...

1 • Gwent haulier Robert Nurmi is responsible for the condition of trailers he hires from the Irish Republic, said South Wales...

• Carlisle Crown Court has rejected an appeal by Ingle ton haulier Thomas Lishman against a £100 fine for using a vehicle with...

• Hull-based IJ Blakey Transport Co has been ordered to pay £2,650 compen sation to driver Colin Taylor after he was sacked for...

• West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has warned Kid derminster-based Derek Dixon about the maintenance of his...

• Manchesterbased Alpha Brick Transport and one of its drivers were given absolute discharges after Rochdale magistrates...

Blueline banned • Western Traffic Commissioner Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford has revoked the eight-vehicle licence held by...

• A battery powered urban bus that has proved a success in Germany is on its way to the UK. Rotherham-based Carlton PSV,...

citybus with bodywork from Dutch builder Duvedec, but it does not plan to bring the 23-seater to the UK. It features ZF's TA...

largest bus companies, Red and White, has been curtailed by South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh to expire next...

of its first 9m US-built Blue Bird dual-purpose vehicle (CM 3-9 September). Shearings buys • Wigan-based coach operator...

Blundreci has ordered 55 Iveco Ford 5912 29-seaters for his Exeter-based operation Devon General.

• The Paris Show is Renault's home ground, so it was the obvious place to launch its new range of multi-mded tipper chassis....

• Cummins Engines is to launch UK development trials with low-noise versions of its 5.9 and 8.3-litre B and C Series engines...

• In our recent Law on the Wall chart on drivers records, in the section on tachograph accuracy we quoted a tolerance for speed...

• Bensons Crisps has taken delivery of 21 Leyland Daf 45 Series 7.5-tonners to replace a fleet of 3,5-tonne Ford Transits. They...

weigher to its on-vehicle weighing systems. The system is guaranteed for a minimum of 18 months and costs from £995 (ex-VAT)....

• A pneumatic-lift coupling designed for yard shunting has been developed by ML Douglas Equipment of Cheltenham. The raising...

• The Queen's Flight has taken delivery of five modified Scania P93-based Carmichael fire tenders. The 4x4s double as support...

• Caterpillar is redesigning its 14-litre 3406 diesel, currently fitted by Foden, to take it into the 500hp (373kW) class. The...

• The International Public Transport Expo '93 will be held on 4-6 October next year at the New Orleans Convention Centre, USA,...

Combined stage • lntermodal 92, will feature a presentation by the Dutch transport research institute of its study into a...

• The Road Haulage Association's International Group Autumn conference next week will tackle such wide-ranging subjects as drug...

• Routel has extended its load matching telephone service, Load Call, It now offers dedicated lines for France, Italy, Spain...

Routel plans to develop the service further by allowing hauliers who have identified a load on the Route] Teleroute computer...

• Holders of Shell's fuel card system, Euroshell, can now use it to pay tolls at the Sainte Marie aux Mines tunnel, as well as...

• An on-board data logging system which enables transport managers to analyse drivers hours, reefer temperatures and fuel used...

• Roadworks have begun on a 4km stretch of the A21 Tonbridge bypass between the Medway Viaduct and Stocks Green Road in Kent....

• Drivers are warned of closures on the A39 between St Kew Highway and Ball, east of Wadebridge in Cornwall, during early...

hadow Transport Secretary John Prescott was on rollicking good form during a knockabout speech at last week's Labour Pary...

ith the Government preparing to slash the £9.8m paid each year to the Royals through the Civil List, times are about to get...

• Those operators lucky enough to survive the recent embattled years in the transport industry would probably doubt Pam...

Rail has a fleet of tractive units which ranks among the largest in the UK? Among Raillreight's 300 attics are ERFs, Seddon...

• Owner-drivers have an independent streak. They are neither employers nor employees, and the nature of the job means they are...

ON TEST 1 t conjures images of Camberwick Green and Postman Pat. It's the standard postal delivery van in the US: the ugly...

but it will take more than a split French vote and the doughty Danes to stop the Single Market becoming reality on 1 January...

There's some interesting small print on the facing page a list of improvements we've made to our LEV (Low Emission Vehicle)...

NEWSPAPERS IN TNT and Exel Logistics have cornered more than 90% of the national newspaper distribution business since...

is quite a nbmodous step for anAoft] to tinge nntractors in such a imlYnss' back-up resources tends to be overplayed: "We...

IN I read with interest the article regarding the new Euro Rules on lifting (CM 17-23 Sept). Acco has been aware of these...

, A t some time most hauliers will deliver to Exel Logistics depots. I hope that they don't encounter the problems I have,...

• No sooner has the smoke test hit the statute book than it is being discredited — even by the Department of Transport....

• A major inspection td 1,76z 4 truck tyres has concluded that 704 of vehicles run with overinflated tyres. Furthermore,...

• Dutch exhaust manufacturer Dinex is setting up a wholly-owned UK distributor to take over the business from its current...

• In the first month of computerised smoke testing there appears to be no dramatic increase in the number of vehicles failing...

• Associations involved in the supply and use of vehicle spares have joined forces to oppose the EC green paper on industrial...

• Kwik-Fit's profits have fallen by Vim for the six months up to August. Chairman Tom Farmer is blaming the recession and...

• Talbot Diesels of Glasgow has been named as ZF's service dealer in Scotland. The appointment comes after Talbot acquired the...

II Paint manufacturer HMG has published an updated leaflet on commercial vehicle refinishing. Copies are available from HMG on...

• Rozone has produced a free 36-page handbook explaining the new diesel smoke regulations called Environmental Control . thr...

• The dates for Autotech 93, the biennial automotive technology exhibition and conference at Birmingham's NEC, are 16-19 November.

• Brityrex 93, the tyre industry's exhibition, is to be held from 16-18 February 1993 at the Harrogate Exhibition Centre.

• Locktite has published a booklet explaining the applications of products in its new maintenance, repairs and overhauls range...

• A device which prevents tyres coming off the rim following a blow-out is being demonstrated in the UK. The Tyron system uses...

• Pagid, the German brake lining manufacturer, is looking to increase its share of the truck aftermarket by helping operators...

T orque settings seem to be the answer to every prob' Nil in CV maintenance. From wheel loss to leaking head gaskets and...

A U right-hand drive Leyland Daf 17-tonners are manufactured at its Lancashire factory, from the lighter 50-Series to the more...

Automechanika, the aftermarkets bi-annual showpiece, had something for everyone. 1 'I here were over 2,800 trade stands at...

W hen you decide to invest in a Mercedes-Benz truck or van you do so on the basis of sound business principles. You need a...

I n this first of our new series of product evaluations we look at a system designed to trace a variety of leaks, whether of...

• Spray booth manufacturer Spraybake has launched an upgrading service to allow its older booths to comply with the...

• With Ford phas - eing out the Dover engine used in the D-Series and Cargo ranges, Hendy Lennox has signed a deal to import...

• Lionsave is a temporary windscreen patch stop dirt front building up in the damaged area and preventing a permanent repair....

• Caledonia Business Systems has developed a computer software package for CV maintenance. Heavy Mech allows fleet details and...

• A range of anti-spray flaps and mudwings has been introduced by Dana Intertruck. The company says its Austi range passes BSAU...

• Nederman's Weldomatic is designed to avoid the blind petiod after positioning a welding electrode when the mask is raised...