)URING the recent Trades Union Congress the trade unions representing coal, steel and ail formed a "consortium," a fact which...

NEW ROAD systems and improvements to vehicles are now aiding the environmental acceptability of lorries in Britain and...

INTERNATIONAL drive heading for West Germar faced long delays at fronti crossing points this week as tl German lorry men's unit...

THE ROAD HAULAGE Association has gone back on itself and con out in favour of the EEC quota, system instead of a free mark...

A STRONG alliance between the major transport unions, forged at the recent Labour Party Conference in Brighton, could bring all...

EURO MP's are trying to modify the EEC commissions draft proposals which would allow foreign lorries to operate national...

EEC DRIVERS' hours are "absurdly complicated" and should be replaced by a simple maximum driving time of between nine and 10...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has launched one of its biggestever road safety campaigns to try and combat the 16 deaths and 200...

THE FREIGHT Transport Ass ciation is holding workshops conditions of carriage and e port finance in November. The conditions...

DAVE WETZEL, chair of I Greater London Council Trai port Committee, invited I Road Haulage Association discuss the effects of...

STAFFORDSHIRE HAULIER Philip Leo Taylor is to appeal against his three-year jail sentence imposed by Stoke-On-Trent Crown Court...

THE CENTRE for Physical Distribution Management has published its 1983/84 programme, offering briefing sessions in the latest...

TWO NEW depots worth £0.5m have recently been opened in Manchester by National Carriers Pardels, part of the National Freight...

INTERNATIONAL haulier Fen masters has set up a new di sion to handle its European a Scandinavian grou page traffic Ferrymasters...

FOLLOWING the introduction Charles Schiaffino's new da freight service betwel Ramsgate and Ostend (( October 8, 1983), Sally T...

)AD FREIGHT transport — and rticularly professional road 'Oars — can look forward to a ight future according to Road lulage...

ALTHOUGH distribution is currently being revolutionised, it nevertheless remains one of the few industries where the general...

IE HIGHLANDS and Islands evelopment Board is enruraging hauliers to instal Imputer terminals by offering .00 grants to help...

THE GREATER London Council has issued a warning that London will be overrun by motorways if the Government takes over control...

BRIAN FULLER has been made overseas operations director for Leyland Trucks, responsible for the sales and marketing of the...

JOHN ANDREWS has joined the Boughton Group of Companies at Amersham, As a director of Reynolds Boughton he will assume...

THE BOARD of the National Freight Consortium has made John Copland a director. John Copland is managing director of the NFC's...

JOHN LOCKWOOD has becom director and manager of Crave Tasker (Sheffield). He was fo merly works manager at Bon Cravens. George...

ANTHONY THATCHER, who t came managing director Dowty Group's electronics di. sion in July 1983, has joined t board of...

AN INTERNATIONAL conference to discuss the technical position of the tyre and wheel industries is to be held at Penns Hall...

DAIHATSU (UK) of Dover, which claims to have overcome the problems of fuel metering, combustion and engine weight inherent with...

RENAULT is to increase its Trafic and Master light commercial vehicle range. The Trafic line up now includes long wheelbased...

UNITED STATES Air Force has ordered Sherpa pick-ups worth rl .5m for its bases throughout the United Kingdom. The contract for...

LEYLAND TRUCKS engineering department has approved the ment of Edbro, Telehoist and K&J Withey three-way tipping boc on short...

MERCEDES-BENZ (UK) is encouraging its dealers to use specially equipped vans to supply Mercedes vehicle spare parts direct to...

DORMOBILE of Folkestone has extended its range of personnel carriers, using bodies from Talbot and Toyota. The Talbot Express...

A NEW SERIES of dock shelters developed by R. S. Stockvis and Sons of East Molesey, Surrey, avoids the construction of...

SURVEY & GENERAL Instrument Company of Fircroft Way, Edenbridge, Kent, is marketing an ingenious combined tape-measure and...

HE GOVERNMENT has proosed the abolition of all six letropolitan county councils nd the control of public transort to fail to...

ALTHOUGH car and commercial vehicle sales are climbing, those in the bus and coach sector continue to look bleak. Society of...

A BID by Clayton Jones Coach Services to expand the operation of a minibus service into Pontypridd on three days a week, after...

THE THREATENED loss of democratic control was the main issue at stake in Transport Secretary, Tom King's bid to take...

!AVE noticed a number of tides in Commercial Motor uly 23) regarding the new gislation on operators' ences. My company, may I...

IU MAY BE aware that in their sessment of the inlop/Sumitomo deal, the , nday Telegraph completely ate off the British tyre...

I am writing in reply to the "Financial Market" article printed in CM October 1. Please let us avoid the resurrection of the...

'SHOULD be grateful if you would allow me to correct three points arising from your report headed "Tanker exemption" in CM...

I ENJOY Commercial Motor, which I buy by subscription, and usually read it cover to cover. I have a suggestion, which I believe...

ING you a new word for the juage of the lorry. Even such iunch defender of the lorry's ge as The Hawk has to bow le inevitable...

- neone may listen 'OULD HAVE been easy for ioad Haulage Association Freight Transport Association to have "done a TUC" and...

RHA MEMBERS have a record of generosity to children's charities, which have benefited from annual contributions that might...

WHEN they are not uttering their esoteric brand of mumbojumbo, EEC officials can be plainly scathing. The European Commission's...

OUT OF EVIL came good for Mike Bletsoe-Brown when he had a car accident at the age of about 20. While many others might have...

The petrol-engined Astra is a light van that gives a strong performance, says Bryan Jarvis who has just taken it over our test...

tting 'the knowledge' is as portant for hauliers as ti-drivers. If you're ibitious the studies are II worth the sweat, learns...

jlas Ainley explains the ges proposed by the ;ervative Government to a workers' leaders more untable to their ibers...

the result of the ballot since the Government believes that no union would persist in calling for a strike if it was shown not...

vices are in a parlous te. Public operators often down their passengers. islation is suffocatingly lressive. Noel Millier ues...

ARE ROLL-ON/OFF ferry ser likely to expand and impro\ the Mediterranean and cc quently attract internatil operators from...

r-tightened spark plugs can ly damage a cylinder head, icularly on a vehicle fitted an aluminium alloy head. In )r to prevent...

lature failure of hgv ight bulbs can have serious equences for operators, ding accidents, police ecution and even MoT re....

Many operators consider radios and tape players in commercial vehicles an extravagant extra, but any device that improves the...

A clean, well prepared vehicle is a good advertisement for transport. Anglia Distribution Ltd, UK distributors for Italian...

Oil and diesel spillages can cause serious accidents, particularly in workshops. To reduce the risk of personal injury,...

Trailer electrical connections should have good resistance to weather conditions to be reliable. To help operators, Ross...

w trend in seminars may r been set by this group, :h held one on :inental operation ird a ro-ro ferry DS, the southern-based )...

month instead of my I Cross Channel page, Is Simon Greenly of the mental Freight Drivers' ,tam looking further I — down under...

by Douglas Ainley WHEN the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment, John Selwyn Gummer MP,...

by Robert Hughes MP TRANSPORT is not a frill to the economy or to people's daily lives. The Government needs to plan in order...

by Steve Abel IT WILL BE no surprise to anyone that crystal-ball gazing is a popular subject for road transport gatherings....

by Frank Woodward IFTY years since the words account" were first used - eference to transport by 5 and manufacturers. 932...

by Major-General John Carpenter THE Transport Act 1982 has created a good deal of comment from the road transport industry...

by Ron Hancock MY PHILOSOPHY on buying British is straightforward. We live in a free country, and as customers we can all take...

I WAS RECENTLY watching a trade union official from one of the railway unions being interviewed on television and the usual...

Volkswagen's new naturally aspirated six-cylinder diesel engine has livened up the LT no end, but fuel economy is unexceptional...

ay delivery services ated the Distribution Show at Wembley )ek. David Wilcox Df the exhibitors who had 3c1 their wares at the...

AIR PASSING through a turbocharger is heated in two ways: firstly by its close proximity to the exhaust side of the...