APER Britain's motorway network serves the country well. There are exceptions north of Scotland and Cornwall could very well...

I Christmas issue is, unlike your stmas pudding, traditionally light. But the pudding it has enough spice to e it enjoyable....

A MOVE to increase the maximum permitted gross weight of drawbar outfits to 38 tonnes is beginning to gather momentum, writes...

ROLLS-ROYCE and Perkins Eng ownership, as Vickers is on the with Massey Ferguson. Vickers has been known to be interested in...

LIVERPOOL haulage driv have broken the £1100 barrier basic wage rates for 32.5-it ners and also are the first Britain to launch...

1INERS and engineers designing service areas and access roads ommercial vehicles may now have an easier task, thanks to a...

STAR BODIES, one of the National Freight Consortium's bodybuilding subsidiaries, is being kept as a going concern, but nearly...

THE GOVERNMENT has defended its handling of the Se vern Bridge problems and has emphasised its willingness to build a second...

AN INDUSTRY spokesman lashed out this week at "premature and doctrinaire" action by the Greater London Council in imposing a...

COMMERCIAL vehicle sales look set to equal those for 1980 this year, according to the latest figures published by the Society...

COMMERCIAL vehicle production is also increasing, according to the Department of Trade and Industry. DTI figures for November...

KING TRAILERS, the Mar Harborough based special trailer, transporter and pul utility equipment manufactui has bought the...

ANOTHER four miles of the h London orbital route w opened last week, with a I between the A3 and M3 n being in use. Opening...

BOTH of the main industry tri associations have had hour lc meetings with Transport Sec tary Nicholas Ridley, their fi since he...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company has appointed Roger Macy as financial executive and Melvyn Law as automotive electrical engineer. Mr...

TONY BALLANTYNE-EVANS, an executive director of Mitchell Cotts, has been elected to the London Regional Council of the...

COLIN COOK has become public relations manager for Karrier Motors, taking over from Ian Metcalfe who has joined Daf Trucks. Mr...

We record with regret the death of Fred Baker, of T. Baker and Sons (Transport), of Tipton, West Midlands. A member of the...

ROGER RANDALL has been made managing director of Wincanton Vehicle Rentals, based at its Brentford head office. His...

PETER ROTHERHAM has come fleet sales manager of newly-formed VAG (UK) c( mercial vehicle division. He will lead a new team ba...

LONDON TRANSPORT has made three senior staff changes M. Elms is schedules manager for London Buses following the rE ment of...

PUBLISHED every two months by the Institute of the Motor Industry, Fanshaws, Bricken don, Hertford SG13 8PQ, is a job placement...

IISTRATES at Lichfield, Staffordshire were to visit the site of lynamic axle weigher at Wall this week in a case where it is...

A NORTH Wales haulage firm lost an appeal at Shrewsbury Crown Court last month over an under weight lorry load of salt. D. H....

AN ANGLO-DUTCH deal has been secured to add additional load matching information to the Road Haulage Association's Cargofax...

LEX SPECIALIST Transport has bought Baileys of Westbury's magazine and periodical depot at Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire. The...

THE BRENNER pass route into Italy has proved expensive for some international drivers from Britain and other EEC countries who...

AN OPERATOR whose licence was revoked because his partner and Certificate of Professional Comperitance holder did not work...

GROWTH of lorry traffic throu Dover harbour is now running 13.47 per cent above last yeti level, according to figur published...

WORK could start next year the Efim widening of the Barg Bridge section of the M63 m the Manchester Ship Canal no Eccles. The...

ID and Motor Panels are two of the four joint winners of this r's Royal Society of Arts Presidential Award for Design...

A "MODEST RECOVERY" in commercial vehicle production in Europe in 1984 is forecast in the latest report from the DRI Europe...

GKN IS PLANNING to begin volume production of composite leaf springs in a little over one year from now, at a new factory to be...

nef BEDWAS BODYWORKS of Bedwas, Newport, Gwent, a member of the Securicor group of companies has opened a new factory in...

WESSEX PETROLEUM has bought a highly manoeuvrable tanker from Reynolds Boughton (Devon) to make deliveries on the Isle of...

cc off the Scammell produci line at Watford have been livered to Mayhew of Uckfi East Sussex. Together with new refri rated...

IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S gri distribution is attempting dispel clutch problems on two most recent Fodens in fleet by fitting them...

1ACH OPERATORS need not fear any reduction of the rtorway speed limit damaging the potential of their exIss services provided...

E BIG CRUNCH on new bus I coach sales is still some inths away, judging by the ciety of Motor Manufacturers I Traders figures...

operations into the stage carriage sector should have more opportunity in future although no more liberalisation of road...

CHARGES against Wallace Arnold Tours, alleging the operation of stage services without a road service licence because the...

ALL OF SCOTLAND'S regional councils have made a bid to gain bus operating powers, but the Government will almost certainly turn...

STRATHCLYDE PTE has been refused a licence for a weekend service into surrounding operators' territory. The Scottish Traffic...

PLYMOUTH City Transport is introducing a series of bus routes specifically for the disabled. The services will use a Leyland...

THE GOVERNMENT is col ering the case for making ID and lorry drivers wear belts, Transport Minister 1_ , Chalker told MPs. Mrs...

RIBBLE Motor Services has r signed vandal-proof glass forced plastic seats on som its buses by spraying them flock to make them...

DONE Commercial Motor our November 25 issue :re you focus on Foden :ks. try little publicity is given by r magazine to the...

IlLE sharing some of John tcher's views of the CPC (CM vember 19 1983) and his nparison with dear Barbara 3tle's TML, I must...

THE ALEX CAMERON lecture (CM November 12) may not mean much outside Institute of Road Transport Engineers circles but it is an...

WE ARE conducting a pilot study into the contribution made by owner-drivers of unit loads to the distribution of homogeneous...

IN HIS report of the RHA conference (CM December 3, page 18) Mike Rutherford says of the attendance by my former DTp colleagues...

4DON TRANSPORT promises imper fun Christmas with te video films for the price of Fit for all the family, they ict the daily...

ADERS are accustomed to ibying Members of -liament but the reverse )cess is less common. -haps one should not be . prised when...

THE NORTH WESTERN Tourist Board is promoting the attractions of the industrial north. A weekend in Wigan — "See the new Wigan...

TWENTY-TWO years is a long time to have held a public relations contract and there can't be much wrong with a man who has done...

THE ROAD Haulage Association touches a delicate spot when, in protesting that public accident costs should not be charged to...

WHEREAS the cross-ply tyre was fast running out of tread 25 years ago, Francois Michelin, head of the company bearing his name,...

The new improved Cruiser seems all the mid-range haulier could want for Christmas. Fuel economy has not been achieved at the...

jestion in Central Ion will be just as Nhen the M25 is plete, according to /lovement for Ion. Mike erford has been rig to the...

Who's Transport Secretary this month? Who's against quotas at present? What a year that was. And 1984 is likely` to be worse...

lew technology at French ransport Expo kNISPORT EXPO 84, to be I in Paris in May 1984, will be fifth of a series of specialist...

IN A FEW weeks' time the 1984 commercial motor show season will open with the Geneva Salon (January 20-29). This event will be...

Motorway service areas are not the inviting oases that they could be. Brian Weatherley analyses them and suggests ways they...

There has been a tremendous provement in parcels ervice standards over le past year or so, and David Wilcox looks at two of the...

Mark Vane Memorial Awards for 1983. Tom received his award for courage, but there were other entries on behalf of men who...

Be safe all year round THE TESTING and inspection of goods carrying vehicles is the main ingredient of many Regulations to...