VERS have started a backlash against employers' hard line on le negotiations. On Merseyside, they are imposing a 31mph ad...

ALL NATIONAL Freight Company subsidiaries will retain their present identities. NFC chairman Sir Robert Lawrence made this...

THE FIRST major attempt to merge Roadline UK and National Carriers activities has taken place following the establishment of...

MORE lorries will be able to use the A58 in West Yorkshire later this year when its five-ton unladen weight limit is changed to...

ERF (Holdings) Ltd made loss of £2.5m before tax fc 28 weeks ended Octob( compared with a net pro £1.7m for the same perk 1979....

JAMES DAVIS, a direct( Kleinwort, Benson Ltd, has elected president of the tered Institute of Transpo 1981/82 and will take...

LEX is countering the effects of the recession by closing its lingham, Glasgow and Dunstable trailer rental depots, reports E...

AS CM went to press on Tuesday, The Freight Transport Association reported no major problems being faced by operators at...

IGHT Transport Association ector general Hugh :herstone gave the Armitage tort his wholehearted 3ort this week when he (le at...

THE APPOINTMENT of the EEC's new Greek Commissioner, Georges Kontogeorgis, to take responsibility for the Common Market's...

)erbyshire haulier has been fined £100 after pleading guilty beBarnsley Magistrates on January 9, to using a vehicle with kes...

DESPITE English China Clays' declining sales, Heavy Transport (ECC) Ltd, is not being greatly affected and is only de-licensing...

iRSEYSIDE Chamber of Corn!me wants warehousing to be :hided from the enterprise ne which is planned for eke, near Liverpool. t...

ARRANGEMENTS for the allocation of a limited number of Wes1 German permits to operators who have not yet held a general quota...

AN INQUIRY began in Redhill Surrey, this week to considel the Government's decision no' to go ahead with the M23 Mit...

not high enough . A HAULAGE contractor who admitted changing the plates and documents on a lorry then putting it through a...

11ATIONAL CARRIERS have created three regions for their ion-parcels work, to handle acivities in England and Wales. Regional...

WEST of England road hauli , have rejected a new costi method, known as current ci accounting, which was p posed by the Weste...

THE BATTLE for control Giltspur has finally been won t Unigate, following acceptance I its offer from 89.5 per cent...

1ALGAMATED Anthracite ldings' proposed takeover bid the Renwick Group (CM, No- nber 1) has fallen through. 3y last week's...

THE driver of a furniture removal van sacked after he had disobeyed instructions to complete the work allocated to him for the...

A SERIES of tachograph teachins for drivers will be launched by the Freight Transport Association in March. They will be held...

THE Hazards of Road Traffic Law is the theme of a seminar to be held in London on Thursday, March 5 and speakers will be...

Scotland: Glasgow: The General Terminus Quay road is now closed until April while demolition work takes place. A diversion and...

Denis 011iver is Pickford Removals Ltd's new deputy managing director. Previously the company's operations director, Mr 011iver...

DNTRARY to our report in last week's CM, the latest version of the ummins V504 engine, announced at the Brussels Motor Show on...

AN OVERDRIVE unit for the Fon Transit will become a regulai production option later thi: year. Currently, the Laycock...

ANOTHER contender in the field of aerodynamic devices has beei introduced by Aerodyne Equipment of 30 Dudley Gardens, Harrow...

VAN has won an order for 1,500 wo-axie tippers for the state ransport enterprise of Iraq over he next 12 months. The West...

TNT Inter County Express has ordered 20 more Rolls-Royce diesel engines for its 65-strong fleet. This latest batch of Eagle...

REVISED HUBS, oil seals al bearings have been introduci to Bedford trucks and coach equipped with Bedford re axles. The...

iE Edbro Group's subsidiary mpany, Solid Waste Engi, ering Ltd of Walton Summit, imber Bridge, Preston, has en appointed a...

A REVISED clutch release bearing has been introduced on Vauxhall Chevette and Bedford Chevanne models from chassis no KX150228...

SAID to weigh less than 965kg (19cwt), the Wilcolite body in troduced by E. M. Wilcox col Peterborough is claimed to offer a...

BUS AND COACH registrations for December 1980 fell by over 100 compared with the figure for the same period in 1979. Though the...

LEN WRIGHT Travel has announced a full programme of extended tours, using its fleet of full executive coaches. Marketed as...

BUSLESS Guernsey may w have public transport again the near future. Since the Guernsey Railw Company stopped operatio last...

LONDON Country Bus Service's application to run Green Line .1 vices between London and Gatwick Airport has been approved the...

rfERE HAS been an overall deease of about 1,000 psv in serce in Britain, though, the availble seating capacity has larginally...

THE LAYING DOWN, in the middle of this month, of the first underframe for a Titan double-deck bus at the new manufacturing...

THE FIRST of a batch of Leylan National-bodied DAB-chassie articulated buses for British Ai ways have been assembled b Charles...

YORKSHIRE TRACTION is to fit its fleet of 98 Bristol deck buses with Fidus control systems. VRT double The new system combines...

ONE OF THE first casualties o the deregulated coach market Heyfordian Coaches, which have dropped their Banbury-Oxford. London...

RING a far-flung Christmas I , elled to Copenhagen, War', Vienna, Athens, Madrid I all stations east by courtesy )AF Trucks. I...

;PITE last year's appalling nmer more than 10,000 )ple travelled on tours rated by Cardiff Transport lartments convertible...

NEW WORLD record for panc kes has been set up in Holland i n a low-loading semi-trailer hauled by a DAF 2800 tractor owned by...

IN AN AGE of take-it-or-leave-it, when anything less than the brush-off seems like a favour, any example of genuine service...

REG SMITH, of Oldham, has been driving buses and coaches for 65 years but as a concession to advancing years he tells me he now...

WE ARE a small firm operating a VW LT35D diesel van. We had to opt for a small van because we prefer a diesel engine. After...

REPLY to a letter sent (CM vember 29) by Mr D. G. Bon-, regarding vibrations of his dford vehicle. I they have not already...

VING READ the two articles in rnmorcial Motor regarding laggie 'U' Turn" and "More uble with Maggie", 1 would 3 to add to this...

EFER to the small article (CM, lvember 22) which stated that gulations which came into . ce last March stated that all ✓ must...

.1 HAVE only just had a chance to read your November 29 issue and in particular found the article "Goodbye Southwark — Hello...

JUST to prove that there are not many things new under the sun, fuel-carrying flatbed drawbartrailers of the type made in...

AS AN owner-driver I have this funny thing about not getting "done" out of anything if I can help it. On a recent trip North,...

HAS ANYONE a picture of an early David Morgan van that he can lend me? 1 have written to this firm at Cardiff but they cannot...

Andy Thorns, in a frank face-to-face interview with lain Sherriff, tells (nearly) al you wanted to know about this company and...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt explains how this Ford service can ease operators' management pains and aid profitability WHEN a fleet...

Launching a new vehicle is no task for the faint-hearted and this company, with a healthy thirst for profits, has done it more...

It's a driver's vehicle with an excellent cal but drivers must take care not to over-re , and so return poor mpg figures. Story...

Steve Gray set out to visit a typical dealer, but found out that there is no such animal. This is how UBM serves operators 1E...

ALL OPERATORS needto hold a Certificate of Professional Competence — or have at least one of their staff pass the CPC...

That's exactly the question we'll be answering for you as we take the "new" light van on a long-term 25,000-mile test. This,...

Defined procedures are laid down for mounting all types of body and equipment, but only 125 firms are entitled to display the...

Armitage appreciates operators problems and is not deceived by the welter of propaganda pouring in from opponents of the heavy...

(HEN DAIMLER-BENZ introuced the successor to the ont-wheel drive L306 van — self with an impressive history F evolution going...

*HE PUBLIC transport undertakng in Winterthur, already using number of Volvo-based troleybuses, has recently added a lumber of...

ONE of the first vehicle order now being processed at the nev Sittingbourne, Kent, premises o Sparshatt's of Kent Ltd is to...

EVER SINCE DUKW's were first put on the road — and in the wate — during the Second World War, specialist builders have mad ,...

ERE IS never an ideal time to think the institutions and reisentative organisations of a je and relatively long estabIed...