Readers will have noticed the new logo, improved paper and printing quality and greater use of colour. This development will...

No Ilse this century THE GLOOMIEST forecast yet about an increase in British lorry weights came last week when two senior EEC...

A LEADING environmental pressure group is trying to beef up the environmental operator licensing rules which, at present. have...

TIPPERMEN could gain more coal traffic when the Central Generating Electricity Board finishes reviewing its contract with...

SEDDON ATKINSON may soon offer the charge-cooled, 290hp version of Cummins 10-litre engine with the 301 eight-wheeler. At...

AR(..21-1 rivals I.eyland and Volvo began a new battle of words at the Tipcon show last week. Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) was...

BRITISH hauliers have been given an extra 4,000 permits for Italy and Germany, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has announced....

VOLVO TRUCKS is moving its emergency parts centre from Scotland to Warwickshire. The centre is being moved from Irvine, where...

GOVERNMENT proposals to put local authority vehicle maintenance ;Ind refuse collection out co competitive tender will not...

A DEFINITE date has now been set for the High Court battle between Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley, and the Greater London...

PLANS by the Northern Foods group subsidiary, NFT Distribution, to expand its operational fleet at its Chobham, Surrey, depot...

YUILL AND Dodds has wot its appeal against the ban b) Kilmarnock and Loudour District Council on use o specified roads within...

DAF TRUCKS remained one of only three European manufacturers which made a profit last year, even although it fell from £6. 25m...

DEFENCE SECRETARY Michael Heseltine is considering privatising some of the army's transport requirements. In the defence White...

FULL DETAILS of revision! to the ADR international carriage of dangerous goods regulations are now availablt and arc in...

THE NA I IONAL Moto Museum's new gallery de voted to commercial vehicle was officially opened las week by Transport Secretar...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's Tunbridge Wells headquarters are to be extended next year. The FTA has secured planning...

OBJECTIONS from local residents have meant that Lancashire haulier Willowbridge Transport Company must wait to see if it will...

TWO former National Freight Consortium management trainees have been named to head the management team at Tempco Union's...

JOANNA ABRAHAMS has joined the South Western Region of the Freight Transport Association as assistant secretary. Before joining...

FLOWERS Transport of York's senior managers have new responsibilities under a reorganisation announced last week. John...

MIKE STEPHENSON has become manager of the transport group of Allied Chemicals, based at Coventry. He joined Allied 17 years ago...

NEW general manager — sales, with the Containerbase group of inland clearance depots is John Sheldrake. 1 le is based in London...

THE CONTRACT distribution division of Lex Wilkinson, Systcmline, has been expanded with two new appointments. Stuart Koppert...

IN THE _EARLY years of a fixed link Channel crossing, operators would benefit from artificially low prices until the ferries...

A COST and price survey says that rates in the four-tosix ton, and 16-to-20 ton pay load ranges, will only rise roughly in line...

FOR THE users of transport road haulage will become comparatively cheaper in the next five years, according to a forecast made...

• A fleet chargecard that is restricted to fuel and oil purchases only... • That is backed by the world's leading energy...

FOREIGN businessmen are more business orientated and present a growing market for fast deliveries, a Dover area based courier...

A HAULAGE company has been given permission to use a Suffolk industrial estate, despite objections by the town council...

A PROTOTYPE non-hgv articulated unit has completed nearly a year's trials with Rawlings Canada Dry on urban delivery work in...

A FIFE haulier appeared at Kirkcaldy High Court on April 23 on charges alleging vat frauds totalling more than A:107,000....

BECAUSE he declared himself as the nominated transport manager to enable his son to obtain an operator's licence, Department of...

A COMPUTERISED control system to cut pallet losses was launched in London last week at the Warehouse '85 exhibition by Synergy...

PHARMACEUTICAL manufacturer the Wellcome Foundation has won the Centre for Physical Distribution Management's 1985 Award for...

by David Wilcox WHEREAS most elements of physical distribution became relatively cheaper in 1984, rising transport costs...

A SERIES of offences connected with the operation of an articulated outfit have cost Chingford, Essex-based haulier Albert...

TELEHOIST has introduced a small, low-cost tipping unit for vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes gvw. The Microtip was on display for the...

SALES of Land Rover and Range Rover in Europe are up. During the first quarter of this year, Land Rover sold 1,097 vehicles on...

by Tim Blakemore SCANIA has entered the North American truck market, the largest in the world, with five tractive units from...

THE ELEVENTH edition of Autodata's Technical Data Manual has recently been published. It contains 600 pages of testing and...

ROAD TANKER exhibits at this year's annual conference of the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers included a 5,000-litre (1,100...

LIDS for tipper stability were At show at the George Ne/ilk Truck Equipment stand it Tipcon last weekend. One is a mobile or...

AS the Tipcon exhibition (see p26) opened last week, Avon Tyres and York were in dispute over who had the right to display the...

A NOVEL and inexpensive means of preventing empty tipper bodies from hinnicing and clattering, and thus reducing noise and...

VOLVO'S energy saving Citybus double-decker is to makeits public debut at an international exhibition later this month. The...

COACH dealer Kirkby of Anston near Sheffield is to hold a coach show between October and 3. A wide range of coach chassis,...

STRATHCLYDE PTE's demountable Dodge Commando bus-cum-lorry has failed to meet its efficiency targets after its first eight...

CHARGES involving a variety of alleged offences against two independent operators in the Hereford and Worcester trial area have...

DAF BUS has supplied its first vehicle to an operator in Australia. The bus is an 18m long Austral-bodied vehicle with an...

INCREASING Liberal and SDP Alliance influence at the Association of County COLIII(ids following last week's county council...

.LEYLAND BUS is emerging as the favourite in the race to win the world's biggest bus order this decade — for 4,500 buses and...

SAAB SCANIA of America has gained a foothold of reasonable dimension in the US mass transit market since it opened its assembly...

THE ASQUITH Motor Carriage Company of Great Yeldham, Essex, has built its first reproduction mini-bus. The Asquith Mascot is...

LEYLAND Bus is to mount a range of exhibits emphasising its capability to produce vehicles to meet any need worldwide. They...

IRISH bus maker GAC is hoping to break into the British bus market with its new rear engined lightweight rural bus. A...

A RANGE of disposable toilet seat covers is now available in Britain from Gran Pree of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. If...

YUGOSLAVIA is hoping to interest British coach operators and manufacturers to enter its fourth bi-enniai coach rally. The rally...

FAILURE to organise a proper preventive maintenance system has resulted in the operating licence of the Tilbury Coach and...

N the two years since 38-tonne i lorI ries first gained the freedom of Britain's roads, their potential as g -payload tippers...

F OR Tipcon chairman Roger Hobby, getting to the convention was as much of a strain as presiding over the business and social...

T HE one part of the Tipcom proceedings which achieved national media coverage had little direct relevance to the haulage...

I T has become customary for the business luncheon speaker at Tipcon to he an elder statesman from the world of politics. The...

T WO areas of future legislation dominated the first of last Saturday's business sessions. While discussions on possible future...

AND BULGING WALLETS Report by Bill Brock, photographs by Colin Sowman T HE RHA's tipper convention Tipcon held at Harrogate...

MANY congratulations to Live Promotions and to Commercial Motor for staging Truckfest 85. It was something for everyone to...

JANUS (CM April 20) reflects on just how to tackle the Government regarding the continuous over-taxation of lorries and berates...

WE WOULD LIKE to thank you for the excellent article on the Truckers Club ((CM, April 27). It's about time people noticed the...

F rankness is a trait that I admire in railway senior managers. Take, for instance, Colin Driver, Railfreight's new director:...

FLYING DUTCHMAN In spite of its small home-grown engine, Daf's four-axle tipper is no sluggard. Neither does the 30 tonner's...

N OW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the Certificate of Professional...

FOIDEN Gardner has responded to operators' demands for more power with its 12.7-litre 6LX1)T engine. On our test of Foden's...

UNUSUAL EIGHT-WHEELERS Weight rather than volume is the criterion for adhesive manufacturer F. Ball. Sticking to Seddon...

JETLINK TIGER Noel Millier starts to monitor the service life of a Berkhof bodied Leyland Tiger running in London Country's...

BUT REAL GROWTH There's nothing mythical about the solid business which NMI is securing with its Centaur and Minotaur bodies....