MANY more civil servants in the Department of Transport, long administrative delays, heavy reliance on consultants and less...

BRITISH importers are facing difficulties generated by a change in government policy. In his last Budget the Chancellor made...

WHAT could be construed as a genuine effort by BBC TV to correct wrong impressions of road transport formed after the Brass...

COMMONMarket experts are striving to patch up a new row which threatens to undermine the recent EEC deal — described as a...

The EEC commission has put forward amendments to one of its own proposals, presented to Common Market Transport Ministers a...

CLAIMS for redundancy payments by two directors of J. & N. Transport following the liquidation of the company, have been...

THOUGH a local council objection to an application by a Rugeley haulier to change his licence from a national to an...

SEVERAL problems, including some of the defendants temporarily being unavailable, means that the Metropolitan Traffic Area has...

THE London Amenity and Transport Association has pledged its full support to the campaign to stop the Government's proposals...

THE OPENING of the biggest ever Scottish Show will take place on Friday, November 15, 1985 in the new Scottish Exhibition...

DUE TO the industrial dispute involving the National Union of Journalists and Business Press International, publication of CM's...

THE WEST Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive has appointed a coaching manager to its operations section. He is David...

DAWSON WILLIAMS, takes over as regional engineering executive for the south region of National Bus Company, based at Oxford,...

KATHRYN WESTON has recently been appointed financial controller south for National Carriers Contract Services. The appointment...

TANKFREIGHT has appointed Patrick Healy as national accounts manager. Mr Healy joins Tankfreight after spending several years...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Mr M J Heath-Wise and Sir Phillip Lynch KCMG. Mike Heath-Wise (46) who was general manager...

Freight movements in the UK rose by an estimated 5.5 percent in volume terms, in 1983, according to a report published this...

TNT-IPEC, the European Express Freight System, is introducing two new services, TNT-IPEC Priority, and the Bullet Van service....

In the UK we are remarkably illinformed on the rudimentary principles of Freeport operation. This was the opinion expressed...

Speaking at the annual lunch of the National Association of Warehouse Keepers in London last week the chairman, Mr Richard,...

A Department of Transport vehicle examiner spent an inordinate amount of time examining a vehicle that was obviously not in use...

SCANIA has reorganised its bus producing company and introduced several additions to its model range. Scania Bussar of...

CHANGES are being made to Grampian Region's concessionary travel scheme for elderly and disabled. It came into operation last...

VOLVO has introduced its first ever complete bodied coach, the C1OM. The vehicle is significantly different from any other...

SECRETARY of State for Transport Nicholas Ridley has named the board members for London Regional Transport which took over the...

KENT ENGINEERING, one of the National Bus Company commercial engineering companies formed from the old overhaul works of the...

A HIGH-POWER 4x2 tractive unit with a comprehensive standard specification has been added to the MAN British range. The 19.361...

PROBLEMS in getting the coupling height right on tractive units have been solved with a selective assembly system devised by...

as well DAIHATSU UK has introduced a revised range of four wheel drive Fourtrak vehicles. They are available with petrol or...

BIG reductions in body damage are reported by Dairy Crest, a division of the Milk Marketing Board, following the introduction...

A DANISH built range of electric vehicles , including a pick-up with a payload of around 750kg, is being imported into the UK....

MARTINDALE Protection of North London has supplied the Post Office with respirator protection equipment for use by its workshop...

THE GKN engineering group has agreed to buy the Godfrey Holmes and Affiliated Factors, subsidiaries of Smith Industries....

FIRE SAFETY Equipment of Nottingham, which took over the design rights to Firefly fire fighting equipment from the Ladbroke...

THE standard engine for Volvo's new C1OM coach (pages 13 and 14) is a horizontal version of the TD101G, 10-litre unit which has...

I NOTICE with interest, in a recent issue of CM that Volvo have now produced a version of their Citybus with 86 seats and an...

ON A RECENT visit to London I travelled on a Volvo luxury coach with Van-Hool coachwork. An attractive lady courier was present...

I WAS interested to read your article headed "Overlength artics" last week, but I believe there are a few points that were not...

THE ARTICLE by D. Wilcox on demountable bodies in the June 30th issue which questions the legality of the Contar extending 'A'...

I HAVE just read your article about the new Scammell vehicles with the demountable body platforms the army is currently...

My suggestion many years ago that the cost of decorating ownaccount vehicles should be charged against advertising budgets...

They can't snooker a clever girl Does Mrs Thatcher know that many Conservative Clubs are among the prime offenders in sex...

Just as one swallow doesn't make a summer, one bus-stop sign doesn't make a bus service. If it did, Greater Manchester...

Bevan Funnell's interest in antiquity is not limited to the manufacture of English reproduction furniture. Appropriately it...

For many years I was opposed to car radio because I thought it encouraged thieves and was a distraction. I am now reconciled to...

Ford operators in Kent must be fighting to have their vehicles serviced by Haynes of Maidstone. The company has sponsored the...

Long before the birds have had a chance to mount their morning chorus at the Kings Ferry coach depot at Gillingham, the silence...

A look at some of the latest, for chickens and telephones for example Besco bodies for Southern BRS A NOVEL design of...

INCREASING interest in top hung sliding doors was also reflected recently in bodies put into service with Buxted Poultry. Made...

AN INCREASING demand for demountable body equipment for vehicles built to gross weights of 3.5 tonnes and 7.5 tonnes is...

Maximising load capacity is just as much a pre-occupation in the Netherlands as it is in Britain. A Dutch company that makes a...

Tim Blakemore finds a transport manager who is happy to trade-off payload for manoeuvrability and chassis strength DOUGLAS...

people and plant SINCE 1972 Europe has been gripped in the vice of recession. Recession has almost become an obsession halting...

OCTOBER is not likely to be an easy month for drivers bringing goods into Britain. Changes in the way vat is paid on imports...

ROUTIERS Drivers' Club have submitted a formal claim to the EEC Parliament for compensation for financial losses suffered by...

ROUTIERS Drivers' Club is looking for a regional manager. To cope with the extra workload created since it became the Routiers...

Improved fuel efficiency, cleaner exhaust and reduced noise levels are the major benefits achieved directly or indirectly by...

Let's have a clean up DEBIGUIP have recently introduced the PORTASHOT to their range of high pressure washers. It is a...

LOADS of up to 250 kg can be safely moved up or down stairs with a new S.R.450 stair robot. It is powered by rechargeable solid...

Another lift, the MWH Atlas range, incorporates two and three post lifts suitable for use with commercial vehicles and buses....

MISTAKES on paint spray jobs are both time-consuming and costly to rectify. To protect against the possibility of airentrained...

model No. BO 1 — which provides the garage workshop with a means of cleaning off swarf, oil and water. The gun has a...

Vehicle and trailer winches are available in three power ratings. The 33 series has a rated stall, single-line capacity of 3300...