WHILE the standing committee of the Automobile Association, The Royal Automobile Club and the Royal Scottish Automobile Club...

WE LOOK at some of those invaluable pieces of equipment that help you get the load onto and off the vehicle without incurring a...

INTENSE PRESSURE on Scottish haulier Yuill and Dodds was increased on Tuesday this week when it was left as the only haulier...

OBJECTIVE TESTS of spray suppression equipment are to be conducted next month by the Freight Transport Association to establish...

ROADLINE UK's drivers look set to cave in and accept the company's revised offer of a 3.25 per cent wage increase rising to 4.5...

THE DEPARTMENT of Health and Social Security has now ruled that drivers working for Kammac Trucking of Burscough, Lancashire,...

NEW COVENT GARDEN market leaders fear that long term plans to make the market London's main fresh produce centre are being...

A PENDING appeal against a three-year jail sentence and convictions for handling stolen vehicles and excise licences by...

SCOTTISH haulier Stewart Cameron (Drymen} Ltd and its sister companies in the North of England, F. L. Shuter of Widness and W....

DESPITE opposition from the Road Haulage Association, Thomas Edward Jones, former managing director of the Oswestry-based T. E....

THE NEED for tachograph charts to be numbered in sequence and recorded in a register looks like being one of British operators'...

THE THREAT of a night and weekend lorry ban in Greater London will creep closer next week when the Greater London Council...

EFFORTS are being made to increase the links between the Freight Transport Association and other trade associations which may...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE production in West Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Canada and Japan during 1984 is set to exceed production...

TWO NEW Seddon Atkinson distributorships have been appointed to cover Southern England and the North of Scotland. SA Trucks...

UBC is aiming to secure 10 per cent of the market with its service, and already it has secured a contract with Caterpillar...

TWO UNITED STATES West Coast companies have joined the Transport Development Group's growing activities there in a £3.6m deal....

A LONDON Borough is transferring its commercial vehicle maintenance to the private sector. From next month, a Sussex company,...

THE BRITISH Road Federation has urged the construction of the full interchange at the junction of the M42/M5. The interchange...

ABOUT 30 small hauliers in Scotland face closure because they have failed to gain professional qualifications over the past...

JAMES DAVIS has added a fourth directorship to his list of responsibilities in the transport field. With effect from May 1 he...

PRINCESS ANNE has extended her involvement in road transport. Already an honorary livery-' man of the Worshipful Company of...

A FULL list of divisional officers has been published by the Freight Transport Association following the divisions' recent...

container haulage £104,000. In 1982, there was Its turnover, thanks to a return to industrial peace on the railways, shot up...

MORE STUDIES are needed on the potential for converting railways in parts of London into roads, says the British Road...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport warns drivers about temporary closures of the southbound exit and northbound entry and exit slip...

CONTINUING growth in North Sea freight traffic has brought further expansion of the Exxtor ro-ro terminal at Immingham. An...

WILKINSON TRANSPORT drivers are the highest paid hire or reward heavy goods vehicle drivers in the business, according to the...

FOR ITS FOURTH trading year in succession, Peak Trailers of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, has increased its turnover, this...

A PAYLOAD of 25.5 tonnes is possible on a range of trailers just announced by Transport Engineering, the Accrington-based...

HOYNOR has used screwjacks to raise and lower forms on its new drawbar trailer car transporter. the upper plat Danfoss...

HENDERSON MOBILE has taken account of customer experience in a new range of high-specification of tail-lifts designed for...

£0.25m campaign STRATHCLYDE Regional Council keting campaign to promote its public over the next 12 months. The campaign will...

IN granting counter applications by Central Scottish and Strathclyde PTE for services into the Whitehills housing development...

DECISION has been reserved at the end of a two-day licensing battle over who is to provide night services between Glasgow and...

PEGASO coaches are coming to Britain. Months of speculation have been ended by an advertisement in last week's CMfor a bus and...

The Ogle commission should eventually result in a new body layout for the next-generation London bus, whatever chassis proves...

EUROWAYS Express Coaches has introduced a new daily coach service between London and Amsterdam. The service, which is operated...

WEST MIDLAND Passenger Transport Executive has introduced a series of special services for the disabled in Coventry and...

BUS WASHING machine manufacturer AVW-Wilcomatic has developed a scanning system to overcome the damage caused when bus drivers...

A ROLLS-ROYCE engine was on public display on a Perkins stand for the first time at last week's Tipcon exhibition at...

SEVERAL manufacturers of spray suppression materials (CM, April 14) are busily preparing themselves for the E40mworth of...

VOLVO was one of the few manufacturers at Tipcon last week to find any encouragement in this year's first quarter registration...

COACH PASSENGERS have been travelling miles to sample Judy Walsh's pork pies. And Tina Abrokwa's cheese and pickle sandwiches...

I Unease over 0-licences I TWO SUBJECTS guaranteed to generate strong concern at present, not least among tipper operators,...

MANAGEMENT of Foden Trucks was in evidence in the conference hall when Joseph Dunn, senior vice-president of Foden's parent...

ROAD TAX, already touched upon by Joseph Dunn and Lord Lucas, came back into focus on Saturday morning, when Birmingham...

AFTER AN HOUR of Dr Hibbs' theories of future taxation, hiciuliers were brought literally to earth by a paper Tipping the...

on lorries demands a new approach to the haulage industry's publicity aims, Road Haulage Association directorgeneral Freddie...

RELIABILITY is the key to successful public transport, so it is not surprising that British Electric Traction's public...

RATIONALISATION seems to be the name of the game in the commercial vehicle manufacturing industry at present. There is General...

YOU WOULD have to be one of the legendary three wise monkeys not to be aware of the recent fuss about the Ministry of...

READERS of Cross Channel in March will recall the dilemma posed to many drivers who received the Fr2,000 (£168) government...

ROUTIERS Drivers Club will be sending the British team of drivers to the 11th International Driving Championship which will be...

VOLVO'S truck and bus building and assembly plant built at Irvine on the west coast of Scotland in 1972 was aimed at the...

IT WAS unfortunate that the National Freight Consortium should be holding a board meeting on the day when its chairman and...

LIFE ON THE buses has changed. Just because an Irish Sunday newspaper published a saucy story about alleged goings-on between...

"SPURIOUSER and spuriouser," Pretty Polly might have said if Lewis Carroll had written Perkins in Plunder/and, a moral tale in...

TO SATISFY the acquisitive instincts of those who hanker after something for nothing, millions of French mixer glasses are...

At last there's a healthier look THE EXTENT to which the road transport industry is affected by politics and legislators is...

IN THOSE HALCYON days of 1979 when British commercial vehicle registrations were reaching an all-time high, imported vans,...

THE MARK Vane Memorial Award was the project launched last year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road...

DETERMINED to make up for time — and opportunities — lost in Europe over the last few years, Leyland's new Continental...

Polishing the lorry's image WHY IS IT that numerous coaches of sizeable proportions are now so popular with the public, while...

THERE seem to be so many things to read in the transport business that I often don't get to read an interesting item in a...

EVERY EVENING before retiring to bed, thousands of Vietnamese Boat People and Chinese put out their bucket-loads of sewage,...

BIG CHANGES have taken place over the past ten years in the standards of establishments catering for drivers. Gone are the days...

HIGH MAINTENANCE costs often deter many owners of cars and light vans from having regular work carried out on their vehicles....

AS IT ACCELERATES in the fast lane of politics towards full or partial privatisation, it is worth remembering that the National...

CONTAINER facilities, rollon/roll-off, vehicle import and export, and general cargo arrangements are among services described...

NIGERIAN operators know what they like and they like what they know. As a result, most of the vehicles sold now are pretty much...

DOUGLAS KANE has introduced an advanced range of Klann shock-absorber spring compressors, including the KL0014 Universal Spring...