excluded from the transport law iflaking process in Europe. The politicians and bureaucrats have had it all their own way, hut...

OUR Christmas issue, being the last one of this year, has a retrospective theme. We've a roadtest of a vehicle which has not...

NEGOTIATIONS over the planned merger of the National Freight Consortium's loss-making parcels subsidiaries, Roadline UK and...

THE NA . I JONAL Bus Company is to be broken up as much as possible for privatisation, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has...

THE GOVERNMEN I has easily cleared the first hurdle in its plans to build a fixed link across the Channel. The Commons debate...

performance standard THE POSSIBILITY of higher power-to-weight ratios being laid down for lorries was raised this week by...

OPERATORS will only ,gain from a fixed Channel link if there are ''absolute minimum" delays at the terminals, the Freight...

THE FIRST v.4L;e settlements of the winter have been agreed by hauliers and drivers in Eastern and Southern England, but...

SOCIETY of Motor Manufacturers and Traders forecasts of 56,000 trucks over 3.5 tonnes being registered this year look certain...

THE l'Rfikil IT I ransport Association has recommended wide-ranging changes affecting operators And drivers in its...

VOLVO Truck Corporation estimates it will deliver slightly fewer trucks this year than its record year of 1984 when the total...

THE THREE CM Truckstop '85 winners celebrated their success last week with a three-day visit to Sweden as guests of Scania....

PICKFORDS REMOVALS is setting up a company in Madrid to service its growing business to Spain. Pickfords Espana starts...

INDUSTRY has met again with Transport Minister Lynda Chalker in an attempt to stop the Greater London Council's lorry ban. The...

THE ROUTLERS Drivers Club is continuing the drive towards higher standards of food and accommodation for drivers by launching...

'ERANSFLEET Truck Rentals has updated its fleet with 100 new vehicles worth more than ,E2 million. They range Irons vans to...

BRITISH Car Auctions has recorded pre-tax profits for 1985 of £10.1 million, 12 per cent up on last year's total. Turnover was...

TWO SENIOR appointments have been made by NW, Parcels Group. Nick Prior takes on the job of head of management services; Geoff...

NEW managing director of the Transport. Storage and Distribution Division of Longton Industrial Holdings is George Metcalfe. He...

CRANE Fruehauf has appointed David Lees as national accounts sales manager. Lees will be based at CF's head office in Dereham...

KEN MACIVER, who resigned suddenly from the managing directorship of Leyland Bus in February, is back in the automotive...

If IL LAST Commerical Motor Roadshow of 1985 saw a major discussion on the pending Greater London Council lorry ban. The...

STEPHEN HALL has joined HT Storage and Distribution as contracts manager. He is based at the company's headquarters in Westbury...

Conrad Downton CONRAD Michael Downton, managing director and proprietor of C. M. Downton Haulage Contractors, of Frampton on...

A CONSULTANT'S gloomy review of contract distribution was rebuffed by National Freight Consortium chairman Sir Peter Thompson...

BRS SOUTHERN'S failure to answer charges that it had permitted one of its drivers to exceed his duty time on 12 occasions has...

FROM January I the price of a six-monthly entry permit to London's New Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market will increase...

A SELF-EMPLOYED Montrose haulage contractor has been warned by Sheriff Bogie at Stonchaven Sheriff Court that if he is caught...

one for 1.:20 a day from a 'Litanies Valley firm which claims to be the first company to make a day-hire offer. Vodarent...

A PLAN to ban lorries from an area on the Suffolk and Essex border has been shelved temporarily. Members of Essex County...

T1PHOOK, the group which includes Central Trailer Rental, announced a 53 per cent rise in its pre-tax profits this week and...

LAWLS TRANSPORT, an agricultural haulier based in Reading has sold off its assets in 600 lots at a Thimbley and Shorland...

OF FIFTY truck operators using either the Dartford or Blackwall Thames tunnels who replied to a questionnaire, only two said...

SEDDON ATKINSON has appointed Millward Motor Engineers of West Bromwich to he its distributor from January 1. Millward is...

• TOYOTA has revised and cut its Hi-Ace light commercial line-up for 1986. From January, only three models will be offered:...

halves is being sold by Whale Tankers of Solihull for snow, rubble or leaf clearance. The main hydraulicallyoperated frame of...

LOCOMOTORS, the Andover-based body builder has developed an extra-low version of its Lowrider cab conversion. The latest...

LUCAS CAV is sending fleet operators books of vouchers worth £110 which can be cashed in at any Lucas CAV UK agent giving off...

SA F, the West German axle and suspension manufacturer, has introduced the RS9042, .1 new nine-tonne trailer axle which is 10...

DAF has developed an electronic onboard "service recorder" which could replace the tachograph, but which records a lot more...

\V. R. BETTS has replaced its 12.2m reefer used for fruit deliveries to London with a drawbar outfit mounted on an ERE....

SCANIA (ireat Britain) has reprinted all its specification sheets to show maximum power and torque ratings to the EEC 80/1269...

I HE GOVERNMENT is to set up an advanced technology support scheme to small companies engaged in research in die motor...

MRTIELIN has developed an on-board tyre pressure monitoring system for light vans and cars. Signals from temperature and...

ALL 6,000 PSV operator licence holders in Britain will receive a Department of Transport Information pack to help them prepare...

1)EREK RANDALL, former director of the recently failed Derek Randall Enterprises. was remanded in custody List week by Acton...

II IL first private shortdistance commuter bus service in Tayside is being run by Davidson Travel between Forfar and Dundee....

LONDON BUSES' Abbey District is to evaluate a Northern Counties-bodied Dennis Domino midi bus fir three months. The vehicle...

THE PROSPECT of large scale disruption of Dublin city bus services looked close again this week as Coras loinpair Eireann,...

THE 1983 Transport Act means that eight-seat minibuses and cars will be able to be licensed as taxis and used to carry...

THE BUS and Coach Council has improved the protection offered by its own members' bonded coach holiday scheme, in the face of...

VOYAGE NATIONAL, the National Bus Company's French coach subsidiary, has applied to the West German authorities for regular...

HE RTFORDSH IR El County Council has put the First of its services out to competitive tender in response to the Transport Act....

Capital Transport, a Greater London Council-funded pressure group, haS stepped up an anti-one person bus campaign in response...

ENSIGNBUS of Purflect has strengthened its hold on the London sightseeing tours market by taking over Ebdons Coaches' London...

NBC Computer Services, the National Bus Company's computer company, has been bought out by its staff and manageinent. The...

by Brian Weatherley WHEN J. T. Battenberg 111 — Bedford's former general manager — gets on the plane that will take him back...

Disquiet is shared by Europe's haulage industry about the EEC's failure to make any real headway on technical harmonisation for...

Whether you are buying a standard product or think you want something special, there is more to buying a curtainsided...

BACKWARDS LAST YEAR 274 lorries, 451 light goods vehicles and 40 buses and coaches were involved in accidents while...

REAR underrun bumpers are mandatory on trailers with an intladen weight more than 1,020kg (one ton) manufactured on or after...

J T HAS BEEN a good year fin reversing alarms or "bleepers". Thanks to an amendment to the Construction and Use Regulations, on...

To build a new maximum-weight tanker semi-trailer Metalair linked up by satellite to the computer of one of the world's major...

Can tipping semi-trailers be as safe as rigids? Jack Semple looks at the latest tests and developments to persuade operators...

THE "BASH the Heavy Lorry Brigade" is at it again — see CM November 23. It appears that MP Robert Key may well be vote...

FIFTY years ago, the urban speed limit was introduced and to it was ascribed a fall in the accident rate. Twenty years ago,...

I READ with dismay in Cl.! November 30 the letter from Stephen 1). James of Roman City Limited, Bath. I would like to ask him...

YOUR issue of November 16 made reference to a proposed boycott at Granada Services called by Routiers Drivers' Club who were...

shins, this time by taxi owners charging separate fares to parties sharing cabs. A scheme drawn up by the Department of...

Wharton, managing director, has nude it plain that the Albion axle plant at Scotstoun, Glasgow, will continue only as long as...

8 in FIertfordshire last summer, confounding all doom-laden forecasts of crippling delays to traffic. has set a standard by...

or Fodens more than 23 years ago for the Conseil, County Durham haulage . firm of Sid& C. Cook, one of ywirionner colleagues...

he returned from a visit to America and was asked about delicate economic situation that had arisen in Britain. His reply...

The work will be done by franchised garages and the railways hope to make I:1.2 million out of the deal over the next five...

March, TNT Overnice hopes to raise thousands of pounds for Mencap, which cares for the mentally handicapped. Brian Rix, who...

trailer T HE TURBOCHARGED and intercooled engine and driveline of Dais new top of the range tractive unit — the FT3600 DKZ —...

within two years of launching it in 1982, three months ago 13edford introduced yet another car derived van model — the...

Compared with the Astra Van, which is still available to operators less worried about maximum cube and cargo capacity, the...

III the Sallie issue as we reported the Astramax launch (CM. August 31) we roadtested the live-speed. 1.6-litre diesel Astra...

Astra Van have the same interior layout, with the excellent curved dashboard ensuring nothing is out of reach. The instruments...

single-leaf springs at the rear and polyurethane helper springs (on a tubular beam axle) in place of the Astra Van's normal...

points of the Astra Van and answered them with the Astramax. It has the same stylish interior and comfortable ride, but with...

CHANGES in accounting practice as much as reduction in capital allowances are likely to have a significant impact on truck...

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