LEYLAND VEHICLES is staking its future on T45. For almost three years the vehicle has been all but ready for the road. There...

mulch set for March by Graham Montgomerie YLAND'S long-awaited heavy vehicle range for the Eighties curently known as T45 —...

E COMPANY that has ady been running a T45 art from Leyland itself cL has about 10 in its own L) is Texaco. pokesman for Texaco...

PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Transport Kenneth Clarke has said that although the Government hopes that local authorities will...

ROWNTREE Mackintosh Distribution managing director George Hill has won the 1979 Herbert Crow Medal and a Chartered Institute of...

Leyland Vehicles. As well as the assembly hall, a new parts building will be opened at Chorley and a new operator support...

By the middle of next year Avis hopes to have about 300 Mercedes-Benz 307 chassis with Silverdale bodies available throughout...

FOR THE FIRST time since 1971, own account haulage last year carried more goods than the hi-e and reward sector. Department of...

A NEW E600,000 freight co plex including a private I siding was opened by Young Transport Ltd, at ER leigh, Hampshire, on Tuesd...

CONSTRUCTION AND USE Regulations are to be changed to allow passenger vehicles not licensed as public service vehicles to be up...

HE TOTTING-UP procedure T motoring offences should ;cropped, says a study '01tp of Conservative MP's. The group was formed by...

As you know, since 1st January 1978, Road Haulage Operators must now satisfy requirements of 'professional competence'. What...

Shared resources multiply the benefits. Fiat, OM, Lancia, Unic and Magirus-Deut2 united to form Iveco. Together they...

kTIONAL CARRIERS is to re-organise its operations to . eamline its service and introduce a new specialist network for avy and...

PEUGEOT has introduced the 504 Commerciale pickup truck and chassis-cab in France. Outside coachbuilders will deliver anything...

TE AND LYLE Distribution o deliver beer and cider to licences and grocery stores irarkshire. ase products will be condated...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S Fleet Management Conference will feature a live demonstration of MercedesBenz's computerised commercial...

ESSENTIAL REPAIRS I remote Highland telephor services could be carried oi much more efficiently th winter with the aid of...

OVERDRIVE, the driving agancy, is to accept legal respo sibility for its drivers as from Monday, October 15. Up till now, the...

THE SOCIETY of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has ji; published a new book called Energy and the motor, industry which it...

MICH PRODUCTIVITY FEVER!" That's what a team of merican physical distribution management consultants were gin; some of...

Eric Pritchard has moved within the Lex Service Group to become contract services general manager for Wilkinson Transport, the...

DEPARTMENT of Transport road planners were accused of getting their priorities wrong for corrupt reasons at the inquiry into...

THE INTRODUCTION of tachographs into Britain's road haulage fleet is quite feasible within the Government's target of two...

A LORRY DEALER who believed that a commercial vehicl being driven for a pre-test examination did not need an excis licence was...

Ises his claim WER who left South Liverpool Transport after he was told he might be made redundant has lost his claim for a cy...

AN ACUTE shortage drivers is being blamed f poor services at National B Company subsidiary, Aid Valley, which operates in t,...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE has begun a new campaign designed to woo back car drivers to public transport. The £60,000 campaign involves...

"THE TIME is coming, I think, when it will be cheaper for the Central Regional Council to purchase private cars for the...

WEARSIDE busmen staged a protest over the lack of cab heating on some of the Northern vehicles in the Sunderland area — but the...

SEDDON ATKINSON's 400Series tractive unit range is to get a new single-reduction driving axle, which will be revealed for the...

CHRYSLER UK has advised operators of Dodge 100, 200 and 300-Series with full air spring brakes that brake actuators other than...

A MOBILE loading ram] manufactured by th■ Alusuisse Group of Zurich now being marketed in thi: country by the UK subsidiary...

ransmissions for longdi4t ance haulage will still be of co ventional design in 85 per ceint of vehicles and full a omatics will...

for therm( fan retroft DYNAIR FANS and Kysoi automatic radiator blinds ar( 'now specified as origina equipment on new vehicles...

THE BOOM in sales of commercial vehicles is shortly to come to an end, and sales figures are likely to fall back to last year's...

CM's Industrial Editor looks at the causes and effects of our poor industrial relations record and suggests a new approach...

suggesting that CPT or its president, Ian Cunningham, wishes to maintain the status quo on psv/ road service licensing. The...

SURELY the BAOD is dead? I went to the funeral in Coventry when Mike Wells, George Kelly and Harry Bolan were all but hanged by...

It is still my contention that the sheet is wiped clean at the end of each VAT period and that therefore the only actual cost...

THE following, an extract from the Memorandum of Agreement of the Eastern Area Joint Council for the Road Haulage (Hire and...

INDUSTRIAL GIPSIES — that is what Alex Kitson calls owner-drivers. "I am totally opposed to them and am pressing the union to...

THE Transport and General Workers Union and many others have put demands for a shorter working week on top of the bargaining...

THE EEC's attitude permeates most levels of British life in the late 70s and could in the future affect industrial relations in...

BUS AND COACH-operators — this is for you. Here is another opportunity to show your colours in our annual Livery Competition....

licles of the future will be rtrolled largely by electronics drivers will be mainly ornental, I gather from Martin Caserio,...

Nicholas Bennett, Leader of the Opposition in the London Borough of Lewisham, is campaigning for the return of free enterprise...

Edward Hirst, Northern manager of Commercial Motor, has a remarkable memory. Having read my piece about Leyland model names...

A Mercedes 450 S EL car proofed to withstand bombs, bullets, hijackers and kidnappers was auctioned by British Car Auctions at...

You, too, can be a" UFO, All you have to do to become an unrestrained flying object is not to wear a seat belt. The point is...

Alan Millar looks at some of the cases which have appeared before ne Industrial Tribunals and concludes wh a warning R CENT...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt explains ne provision of e employment protection laws currently in force, and shows ne individual how his...

Les Oldridge, T.Eng (CEI), MI, AM IRTE THE LAST article the types of every vehicles needed for ding different varieties of...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt explains the various aspects of employment protection legislation which the Government intends to change,...

The HGV Driver's Handbook by David P. Soya, is sponsored by Dodge and published at £2.25 paperback, £4.95 hardback, by Kogan...

The Continental Handbook is published at £4.50 by the Royal Automobile Club, 8385 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HW. ALL sorts of...

Motoring in Western Europe is published at £2.95 by the Automobile Association, and distributed by the Hutchinson Publishing...

Guy Buses in Camera is written by Jasper Pettie and published by Ian Allen at £4.95. THE LATEST in the series outlining the...

John Darker speaks to international Transport Workers Federation official Johann Haul and assesses the union's role as a...

John Darker describes the Central Arbitration Comm iffee and sketches in its complex relationship with the law \SK TEN PEOPLE...

to provide perfect seal between two )mponents to prevent gas, oil, ater or fuel leaking from beteen them. It is possible to...