by Karen Miles • One of the UK's most established supermarket distribution contractors, WJ Sims, has put its multi-million...

• Volvo and Renault are at odds for the second time in a fortnight following the announcement that a full merger between the...

• The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association (VBRA1 is introducing an onnod inspection on its members from next year,...

transplive animals for the meeting of agricultural ministers next week (13 Dec).

er proportionate labour costs than their counterparts in France, Spain and the Netherlands, according to a recent Marketline...

The 7,900m 2 site will include parking for LGVs, along with warehouses and freight agents offices,

Transports in a joint venture clout r0 C1G_ operation. The new company is called TransManche Intermodal Logistics.

receiverships fell to their lowest level for four years. Figures from accountant Touche Ross show 58 hauliers have gone down...

IIII A decision is expected within days on the successful bidder for British Rail's parcels company Red Star. The announcement...

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers will pay motorway tolls within five years, raising an extra £200m a year for the Treasury, Transport...

B Registrations of trucks and artics over 3.5 tonnes hit 3,414 in November—up more than 26% on the November 1992 total of...

• Another attack on a Vehicle Inspectorate employee has brought further pledges from the Vito provide greater security for...

by David Harris • Hundreds of vehicle recovery firms face new restrictions on driving hours following allegations that some...

• The UK will receive more international haulage permits next year. Last year's quota was 99; this year's was increased to...

• Some 40 traction services firms working out of Portsmouth harbour are to meet to consider forming what they call an...

a break for the first time next May when the first of two new service stations opens. Currently under construction near...

to rise by nearly 2% above inflation following hauliers' first ever mass wage agreement over the £4-an hourmark for a 40-hour...

some of the wages slashed from its 20 drivers after management imposed a 7% pay cut last summer. The company will also...

subsidised accommodation arranged is the bait offered by a Leics agency in a race to find LGV drivers. "We have a shortfall of...

by Amanda Bradbury • Life is to be breathed back into the Road Haulage Association's haulier-led truck theft information...

• Up to 30 staff are to be made redundant by Taylor Barnard at the end of this month as it cuts costs by closing a Bedfordshire...

• Iveco has launched its flagship high-roof EuroClass HD coach. The 3.65m-high, 12mlong model tops the regularheight EuroClass...

by Brian Weatherley EXCLUSIVE • Iveco's top diesel engineer has revealed more details of the joint Iveco/Nissan diesel engine...

by Brian Weatherley • Renault plans to shave some weight off its top-ofthe-range Magnum tractor in the spring in a bid to make...

• Braking equipment manufacturer Midland Grau has carried out what it believes is the first retrofit of an anti-lock braking...

• The decision by the Volvo board not to proceed with the proposed Renault merger throws a number of joint truck projects into...

by Nicicy Clarke W hile there were no major surprises in Kenneth Clarke's first Budget last week— fears of a big rise in VED...

• The "modest" reduction of 2145m in the roads programme for the 1994-95 spend amounts to a cut of almost 7%. The fall from...

it The 3p/lit increase on the cost of derv, representing a massive 12% hike, is only the beginning of a long, steep rise in...

• The Chancellor said his priority this year "has been to help small businesses". He announced a package of measures designed...

become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

• A bid for a fivevehicle goods vehicle licence by M C Garages (Barnsley), trading as Majestic Transport and Majestic Coaches,...

' . Three drivers employed by Lancashire-based Rochdale Road Runners have been ordered to pay 2650 fines and costs for drivers...

• Droylesden, Manchester based waste disposal contractor G I Hadfield & Sons has been given a formal warning about...

• TNT Europe's Hornsey, London depot has had a condition imposed on its licence banning the use of a road at specific times The...

• Continuing maintenance problems have resulted in the nine-vehicle and two-trailer licence held by Jim Barrie (Plant Hire), of...

• The hearing of charges alleging that Coventry Express Services and some of its drivers have committed drivers' hours offences...

• The licence held by Juggernaut Transport has a/ been revoked at a Cambridge 11 public inquiry on the grounds that the...

• C McCallum & Son (Transport) did not act unfairly in sacking driver Anthony Wrigley, ruled a Manchester industrial tribunal....

ill Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Kirkcaldy-based Thomas Muir (Haulage) only being renewed for one year,...

AA However, a Man chester industrial tribunal ruled that the driver concerned, Anthony Harrison (no relation), was not...

Belgium's fifth annual trailer fair had plenty to attract international hauliers, despite the Continental recession. by Bryan...

If the Department of Transport is so keen to improve Britain's motorway network, why isn't it spending all the money it...

T hank goodness, is someone listening to us at last? I refer to the News Analysis (CM 18-24 November) on Michael Betts, the...

I n Commercial Motor 21-27 October it is wrongly stated that Silcock Express is Railfreight Distribution's preferred partner...

A /Er Agornbar's iViimpassioned and worthy plea (CM 11-18 November) would carry more weight if he did not quote the nonsense...

Erj of news reaches the Hawk from the pages of the Honiton Exmouth Weekly News. The 12 November issue told its readers, "The...

0 t's amazing what a pair of cod shades does for a guy London firm Visions sent me a pair of their tinted driving glasses to...

0 lona Richards, boss of the Lady Truckers Club, has been the victim of a hit and run lorry driver who sped away leaving her...

and Traffic Minister Robert Key, who recently waxed lyrical on the subject at a civil engineers seminar on "Good Looking...

of cyclists killed on the Capital's streets—and it puts most of the blame on to trucks. According to the unit's findings, 18...

of which are trucks of varying sizes.Traffic accidents peaked at nearly 700,000 in 1970, claiming 11,451 lives including 2,000...

Youngers' urban artic comprises a Renault M210.13/CT tractor—a lower powered version of the standard M230 Midlinerwith a...

weighing up the claims made by purveyors of computer packages. There is no substitute for track-record and when contemplating...

Sales of part-worn truck tyres has led to disagreements between tyre retailers and manufacturers—now an industry body has...

Liability for goods in transit overseas can be a grey area—consignors shouldn't assume the burden of responsibility lies with...

Drivers facing redundancy may have more rights than they think—employers could find that some "selfemployed" drivers will be...

I , ,ave just returned after nearly a month of I Continental driving and at last found time to browse through the issues of...