News
Corgi exclusive George Best partnership
24 January 2012
Corgi has joined forces with Sandy Arthur Training Services and the George Best Foundation to create an exciting new and exclusive Corgi Club Members model; the Scania T Topline.
Transport Trust Awards 2012
20 January 2012.
Date Set for Kent Scammell Gathering
11 January 2012.
The date has now been set for the ever popular South of England Road Run.
DVLA to close licensing centres
3 January 2012.
It has been announced by the Roads Minister, Mike Penning, that 1200 staff at all 39 Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency centres in the UK will lose their jobs by 2013. Their role will supposedly be centralised at the HQ site in South Wales and make access to DVLA services 'easier and quicker'.
Monumental movers!
19 December 2011.
In the next issue of HC Ed Burrows has written a fantastic article on the German firm of Scheuerle, a company that's been going since the the 19th century.
Result of latest HC on-line poll
12 December 2011.
The result of our latest on-line poll is now in. We asked: Foreign-made lorries have dominated the British haulage industry for years. But which do you consider to be the best?
Wood you help?
5 December 2011.
Following the success of his book on wooden-bodied shooting brakes, Colin Peck, is now working on a new book looking at restoration techniques for wooden-framed and bodied trucks, buses and vans.
Historic Vehicles – MoT Exemption Review
23 November 2011.
From the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs
Earlier this month, the Department for Transport published a consultation on the possibility of exempting certain historic vehicles from statutory testing.
Antars on the move!
9 November 2011.
A couple of Thornycroft Antars have been on the move recently and were transported by David Couch on one of his firm’s heavy-haulage low-loader trailers.
Thinking bigger!
25 October 2011.
In the past if you had needed to transport massive loads to some of the most inhospitable places on earth you could rely on the creative Texan concern of RG LeTourneau.
Current Issue: March 2012
• BIG, BOLD & BEAUTIFUL
Dave Weedon's ex Sunter Atkinson 75 tonner
• TRANSPORT AT SMITHFIELD
• CANADIAN MILITARY PATTERN VEHICLES
• FORD THAMES 400E
• BILLY SMART FODEN
• INCORPORATING CLASSIC TRUCK
1989 Scania R113M
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 1 March 2012
