THE CONFEDERATION of British Industry seldom, if ever, makes a rash statement. Its latest survey, showing an increased pace of...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley has called on the Greater London Council to hold a public inquiry into its "stupid"...

A SECOND SEVERN crossing is now almost certain to be built following an announcement by Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley...

THE GOVERNMENT is set to reject pressure to allow heavy lorries to travel at 60mph on dual carriageways. As CM went to press,...

THE Road Haulage Association has scrapped the idea of restricting its Cargofax computer system to members. JACK SEMPLE...

BUXTED POULTRY is the latest contender in the chilled and frozen foods delivery market. It has established Buxted Distribution...

SHELVOKE DEMPSTER is the new name of the Letchworthbased Butterfield-Harvey subsidiary which as Shelvoke and Drewry was well...

LAST YEAR's growth of the commercial vehicle market was sustained last month, with the over-3.5 tonne sector leading the leap...

VOLUNTARY and joint committees taking control of road planning, highways and traffic management when the metropolitan...

DEVON and Cornwall hauliers and the Transport and General Workers Union have agreed a £5.60 flat increase in recommended...

THE LONG-AWAITED review of the public utilities Street Works Act 1950, which will include a careful look at the adequacy of...

London-based Davies Turner and an Italian company, Jacky Maeder, are running at least six groupage trailers a week between...

JOHN BAILEY, ERF's sales and marketing director, resigned from the company last week. Mr Bailey, who was a main board director...

SIR ARTHUR ARMITAGE, whose 1980 report on lorries, people and the environment paved the way for 38-tonne lorries last year, has...

MALCOLM PITCHER has been made marketing manager for the MAN and MAN-VW commercial vehicle range sold by the commercial vehicle...

PAUL DEAN has joined the Bus and Coach Council as economics executive. His main area of responsibility will include the...

on CHRIS WAWN as export sales manager. He joins from Dana where he was responsible for export sales. Mr Wawn will be based at...

THE MAN largely responsible for the setting up of the South Yorkshire Road Haulage Association has died. Eddie Shaw, who was...

TNT SAMEDAY has made Bill Chacksfield divisional general manager. His main responsibility will be the continued development of...

LORRY CONTROLS agreed by district councils are unlikely to be as effective as those agreed by single metropolitan counties, the...

CONSTRUCTION of Sally Line's second berth at Ramsgats finishes later this month and th* wrap-around breakwater beim built...

ACCESS EXEMPTIONS must be added to plans for a lorry ban in Canterbury, the Freight Transport Association has told the City...

ABELS DISTRIBUTION, part of the removals and storage group Abets of East Anglia, has won a contract worth between Elm and E2m....

UNFAIR DISMISSAL awards are among those employment lawrelated payments which have been increased this month. Redundancy...

A ROAD HAULAGE association application has been successful. Evidence of debts forcing two transport companies out of business...

THE MEADOWS forwarding group has teamed up with Dutch transport company Wim Bosman to improve trailer groupage and airfreight...

A HAULAGE contractor, five drivers, two fitters and a housewife are to face crown court proceedings over the theft of lorries...

AN URGENT review of signposting on the Al Berwick by-pass is being conducted following two fatal accidents on the recently...

national survey of distribution costs to provide a comparison with its first survey completed last year. The surveys will...

EACH of the 19 sliding-sided Localiners purchased by Canada Dry Rawlings from Boalloy of Congleton, built on Bedford TL chassis...

COCA-COLA Southern Bottlers at Sunbury-on-Thames, an enthusiastic advocate of the spine-back delivery vehicle chassis, now has...

SILICONE brake fluid manufactured by the American Dow Corning company has been introduced to the UK by Automec of Leighton...

LUCAS SERVICE UK has introduced an electrically operated crane specifically for lightweight pick-ups, dropside and flat-bed...

A LIGHTWEIGHT aluminium ca walk and steps, designed to f most makes of tractive unit has been introduced by Rui corn-based...

axle and suspension AT THE AMSTERDAM show which opened this week, Rubery Owen-Rockwell is displaying a new design of its...

built by Scania for SJ, the Swedish State Railways, at its Scania-Bilar subsidiary in central Sweden. The Motortralla 112, as...

annual hgv inspections. The Transfleet depot in Bannerley Road, Garretts Green Industrial Estate, Birmingham has begun to offer...

COACH OPERATORS are now in an era of "survival of the fittest", Wallace Arnold operations director Geoffrey Steel said last...

FEARS that the National Bus Company and Scottish Bus Group are looking for ways of ending their closed shop agreements with the...

DEVON GENERAL is to go ahead with just half of a proposed minibus scheme in Exeter. The National Bus company originally wanted...

THE HORIZONTAL version of the Cummins 10-litre engine which is being developed by lkarus in Hungary, is expected to go into...

NEW BUS GRANT finally ends on March 31 and operators wishing to claim for new stage carriage vehicles should refer to...

DEPARTMENT of Transport examiners may be able to carry out West German Tempo 100 examination in Britain if an initiative by the...

THE GOVERNMENT'S "obsessive" concern with private enterprise has been criticised by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities...

TRANSPORT MINISTER Lynda Chalker has attacked the Greater London Council for under funding London transport. In a fierce...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE PTE is proposing to introduce a simplified fares structure to improve efficiency and speed up boarding times....

STUDENTS in the motor vehicle section of the Evesham College of Further Education have completely rebuilt the first Volvo 858...

TRIMDON Motor Services' Zebra Holidays company has placed an order for eight Kassbohrer Setra Imperial double-deck coaches....

MERCEDES-BENZ is to stop fitting ZF S 6-90 manual gearboxes to its 0303 coach range. Its own DB go 4/130 six-speed synchromesh...

Fleetline sale: big blunder. LONDON TRANSPORT's premature disposal of more than 2,000 seven-year-old Daimler Fleetline...

WE CONTINUE this series with more cases drawn from contact with members whose work takes them outside the United Kingdom. Next...

IN EARLY December (writes E. A. Major, GB2 58 5) I left from Turkey, between Erdine and Svilengrad at the Kapikule TIR border...

ROUTIERS member Mrs Mandy found out the hard way about French Custom Officials' tough approach last July. She was on her way to...

A period in the doldrums may soon be over for Bedford if Noel Millier's high opinion of the YNT 49-seater comes to be shared by...

D uring 1983 Plaxtons Paramount range was the best selling luxury coach bodywork in the U.K. In fact, public and private...

little in driver appeal. Brian Weatherley was impressed by its performance THE MOVE towards higher specification levels when...

WHILE ALL motor manufacturers are making their vehicles as "slippery" as possible to improve fuel consumption and performance,...

AS THE Beaujolais Noveau was beginning to gush across the Channel into Britain, a rather less exotic movement was taking place...

IF BUSES in the north are even more reliable in future, passengers will be indebted indirectly to the European Communities...

IS CONTROL of the number of taxis licensed necessary? If so, should it be extended equally to private-hire cars? G. A. Coe and...

EVEN IF there were no road traffic in London, the amount of space now classed as highways could not be reduced below 8 per...

How has the remarkable turn around in Freight Rover's fortunes come about? Tim Blakemore has been to the Common Lane plan to...

The idea is so simple it's surprising it's not been tried before but now you can spread all your insurance payments over the...

United Services Garage at Portsmouth specialises in 4x4 cross-country vehicles and Butser Turf makes good use of its Pathfinder...

THE WORM and sector steering gear, illustrated in Figure 1, is a development of the worm and wheel used on earlier designs. A...

MANY PEOPLE in transport must be updating their copy of The Transport Manager's Handbook by inserting bits torn from CM and...

NEARLY EVERY operator will have a definite vehicle replacement policy — say five years or 200,000 miles. Vehicle Replacement...

I AM WRITING you this letter to let you know the disgraceful way I have been treated by one of your advertisers, Avon...

MAY I MAKE an appeal on behalf of the Leicestershire Transport Society in your column? We are interested in acquiring for...

MR PHILLIPS (Dear Sir, January 14l, has very aptly shown up the fallacy that extra security is to be had from high intensity...

TOM CURRAN of Roadline won the 1983 Mark Vane Memorial Award. He received his award for courage, but there were other entries...