TRANSPORT needs more suppoit from the Government. And more support, in the short term, can aid our economic revival. Inaction...

IN ITS ANNUAL bid to dissuade the Government from imposing increased tax burdens on hauliers in the spring Budget, the Road...

ROADS managed by the Greater London Council should be transferred to the Department of Transport, and passenger transport...

IMPORTERS have increased their penetration of the United Kingdom commercial vehicle market, selling 34.2 per cent of the...

THE ANNUAL "haggling" over Common Market haulage quotas could be a thing of the past if EEC Transport Ministers agree to a...

programme, says the British Road Federation. Otherwise, Britain's big cities will continue to decline, states its report — Room...

A ROUTE has been selected for the new Chelmsford by-pass in Essex, while there also have been important road developments in...

HINO has now commented on reports that the agreement with ERF for 12-15 tonne gvw models to be assembled at Sandbach has been...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union has criticised the Government's privatisation plans and, in particular, has attacked...

BRITISH dery prices rose by 115 per cent in the five years to last month, according to the International Road Transport Union's...

THE TRANSPORT industry has entered the new year indulging in one of its favourite pastimes — opposing commercial vehicle...

OVER 60 manufacturers and suppliers have already taken space at the Commercial Motor Accessories and Components Exhibition in...

FIXED CALL-out charges now apply throughout the United Kingdom to Daf commercial vehicles owners. The rates for Dafaid's...

VAG'S attempts to regain lost business for MAN and Volkswagen commercials in the United Kingdom are being strengthened by...

ROBERT HUNTER has become chairman of the Atlas Express Group, taking over from Dick Farmer who becomes life president. At the...

LEX SERVICE has taken on two new non-executive directors to the board. Professor Rosenbloom has been a consultant for Lex for...

KARRIER MOTORS has made Bill GilIiham sales and service director. He will be responsible for all Karrier sales and service...

ARCHIE TURNER, Strathclyde PTE's corporate finance manager, has succeeded George Dow as honorary secretary of the Bus and Coach...

MARY BERG has become chief economist for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. She takes over from Wilfred Bucknall...

ANDREW GUEST has been made traffic manager of the National Bus Company subsidiary West Yorkshire Road Car. He succeeds Bob...

NEITHER a common EEC trans competition conditions should UNICE, the European employers' In a memorandum to EEC Transport...

MOVES TO CLAMP DOWN on overloading and the parking of heavy goods vehicles in residential areas have been proposed by the...

A BLITZ against thousands of overloaded lorries carrying grain from farms in Northumberland to ports has led to court...

THE HEALTH and Safety Executive has issued further certificates of exemption for the conveyance of dangerous substances by...

MATERIALS HANDLING exhibition Warehouse 84 takes place on March 5 to 7 in London. The exhibition has been designed to focus on...

FREIGHT FORWARDER Thomas Meadows has signed a major contract with the commercial vehicles division of Dial Contracts. It is for...

The idea is to levy a charge of DM60 (about £15) at the border on all vehicles — lorries, coaches and cars — entering the...

WASTE COLLECTION and disposal company Biffa Waste Services has bought two companies and provided a new service to cater for...

PICKFORDS Removals has Joined forces with Hong Kongbased shipper Swire Forwarding to form a new domestic and commercial...

NATIONAL Freight Consortium subsidiary Freight Computer Services is to supply a sister subsidiary with a £160,000 computer...

OVER FIFTY PER CENT of all unitised cargo shipped through NorthWest ports in 1982 passed through Fleetwood and Garston, ports...

A WHEEL-NUT locking device first marketed in Sweden a year ago (CM,May 14, 1983), has now been introduced to the UK by Hatcher...

THE NORTH-EASTERN Co-operative Society is fitting ultrasonic alarm systems supplied by Philips Service of Croydon, to its...

FOLLOWING its centre-spine chassis conversion on the Dodge G16 chassis cab, York Truck Equipment has also developed a...

RED FORGE, of Redditch Worcestershire, has introduced an axleload indicator suitable for light vehicles carrying up to a...

KENT-MOORE UK has added a remote optical tachometer to its Dieselcare Serviceaid range of engine service tools and equipment....

CALOR TRANSPORT now offers cleaning services for heavy goods vehicles at its Gorsey Lane, Widnes depot, including the purging...

ROCKWELL automatic slack adjusters for cam expanded brakes are now available in Europe. The slack adjusters are being...

THE BROOKLANDS group of companies which includes Norde Suspensions, and Norde Retarding Systems (UK franchise holder for Jacobs...

SHELL is hoping for a better response from transport operators to its Energy Award competition in 1984 than last year, the...

THE FIRST Rockwell-designed metric single-reduction drive axles to be built at the Cameri, Italian plant owned jointly by Iveco...

CHLORIDE TECHNICAL of Swinton, Manchester, the technology centre for the Chloride group, has been awarded three contracts worth...

THE DISTRICT auditor is carrying out an investigation into the 1982/83 accounts of Hull City Transport, and, in particular, its...

MIDLAND RED NORTH'S Shrewsbury-based Hotspur coaching operation, captured a 70 per cent share of the excursion market in less...

LONDON TRANSPORT has set up joint management and union working parties to look at ways of making its Chiswick and Aldenham bus...

STOKE-based National Bus subsidiary Potteries Motor Traction has taken over the running of a taxi company, City Radio Cabs....

COMMERCIAL MOTOR is considering running a one-day coach drivers' training session at its Sutton offices in February. The...

GROUP FARES on Strathclyde PTE's Easterhouse Microbus services were withdrawn after December 31, following the PTE's acceptance...

INCREASED private enterprise operation of public transport and an overhaul of labour relations could be on the cards for the...

STAGECOACH, the Perth-based express coach operator which has developed fast on deregulated routes to and within Scotland, has...

SURREY County Council has confirmed that it is to appoint an independent consultant to look at the proposal drawn up by three...

WEST GERMAN-based coach operator Wahl International has joined forces with American General Automotive International...

THE COWIE GROUP's coaching profits fell last year to one third of the 1981/82 figure, partly because of normal working by...

IT WAS, I suppose, inevitable that entertainers should attract more popular attention in the New Year's Honours List than a man...

BEHIND many political campaigns for social or industrial improvement lie Parliamentary lobbies skilfully created by commercial...

IF THE West Midland Passenger Transport Executive's star apprentices represent the general level of engineering skill in the...

I HOPE BBC Panorama viewers did not think the man who dismissed the death of an Asian family as "one of the things that happen"...

A subdivision that supplies axles and suspensions to competitors as well as the parent company is the subject of Graham...

OUR LIFE would be boring if we all would have the same meaning about the actual problems, Thus I am glad to discuss with you...

CONGRATULATIONS on a firstrate magazine with one exception! It was heartening to read the letter of Adrian Hall (Dear Sir,...

ANY WELL-RUN outfit keeps its vehicles regularly serviced and roadworthy. Unless short of work this is a necessity in order to...

IF I MIGHT add to the comments by Mr Eastman on the subject of high-intensity rear lights, which are proving to be yet another...

YOU MUST be joking? Sand bach Services (M6 south bound) 197.8p for a gallon of diesel (CM, December 17.) It's only 168.5p at...

The Leyland Freighter 14.14 is well suited to both highways and byways and has the kind of looks that appeal. Bill Brock has...

Oil choice — best left to the experts in the opinion of Castrol's technical manager, automotive IF CHOOSING lubricants,...

Poised to acquire the Oldham firm, Spain's Enasa has some ambitious plans in store, Tim Blakemore considers whether they will...

those for 1980, the year that the recession began to hit sales, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders....

NORTON SEALANTS has introduced a general purpose, butyl-based sealant designed for transport application, and in particular...

THE EXTRACTION of poisonous carbon monoxide exhaust from working areas is a legal requirement as set out in the Factories Act...

COLINDALE Equipment has added a new air-pressureoperated wedge-type jack to its range of garage equipment. The multi-purpose...

THIS MONTH we concentrate on Rules of the Road in Austria — all the most up-to-date information to speed you through with...

SPECIAL STEERING problems arise with rigid eight-wheeled vehicles with twin steering, where the wheels on both front axles...

BART H. VANDERVEEN has been involved in the military vehicle scene since the Second World War, when as a youngster in Holland...

ALL the pictures in the Halcyon Days of Buses (Ian Allan; £5.95) were taken from the Charles F. Klapper collection of the...

IN the final analysis, a company's most important asset is the customer. 0 Customers are people. We should think of them, not...

ANOTHER BOOK that is a little offbeat for us, yet may have its admirers among holders of Flicences, is Farm Tractors (Warne's...