T HE MOTORING public will remember Lynda Chalker as the Transport Minister who was so obviously concerned about road safety....

THE FIRST European commercial vehicle motor show of the year opened this week in Geneva. CM's team was there to pick out the...

F NATIONAL Freight tortium's troubled parcels ion could be plunged damaging industrial n against the proposals to the Roadline...

The (AC is refusing to delay again its night and weekend lorry ban, despite industry claims that signposting is running behind...

A new trade association. aimed exclusively at small operators, has been launched by a former RHA manager. It offers very low...

In an exclusive report from Africa, we find that Dafs Turbo-Twin is the leading . truck half-way through the Paris-Dakar rally. 6

The British Association of Removers has reshuffled staff following the departure of its director, Hugh Wilson. 10

The biggest-ever tachograph offences trial has begun in Preston 11

- nu: Bus and Coach Council has given the EEC an early warning on its views about letting foreign operators carry local traffic...

Volvo dealers are to sell Terberg off-road trucks and will provide a full parts service. 16

N.NSPORT MINISTER da Chalker (right), the ;est-serving member of Department of Transport 1, has been promoted to Foreign...

RENEWED REQUESTS to postpone the London lorry ban have been turned down by the Greater London Council, although the industry's...

Joint Steele DETAILS of the EEC Cc mission's two-stage plan creating a free road transF market in the EEC by 1' (CM, November...

LIVERPOOL hauliers, who are trying to ease the Transport and General Workers' Union's controls over working practices in the...

JOB PROSPECTS in road transport for the first quarter of this year show far less optimism than at this time last year,...

— Exclusive — by Alan Millar AMBITIOUS new trade :iation, aimed specifically I operators of one to five :les, is being...

JAPAN will continue to limit exports of light commercial vehicles to the EEC, although the voluntary restrictions introduced...

PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher and French President Mitterand will announce on Monday who has won the contest to build a...

'LLS on the Severn Bridge Id rise again, following Government's decision to cal against the High Court ng that last year's rise...

• in dash to Dakar DATELINE NIAMEY...JANUARY 13...ALLAN WINN REPORTS FROM NIGER AT THE half-way stage in the gruelling...

THE MUCH public Sikorsky/Fiat rescue bid Westland could result in Yeovil-based helicoi manufacturer sharing con site material...

IVECO Magirus, the German" arm of the In truck group, is back in black figures after mal losses for the past se years, and...

A NEW COMPANY which specialises in security of transport, careful handling of consignments and general freight and parcel...

THE Mll London to Cambridge motorway is finally getting a service area. The Department of Transport is now inviting tenders...

THE FOUR-mile £8 million Gatehouse of Fleet bypass on the A75 trunk road between Gretna and Stranraer, opens this week, three...

UNITED Transport International has appointed Dennis Kupchik as president of its US holding company, United Distribution Systems...

AFTER more than six years in senior transport engineering posts with Whitbread and Co, Andrew Davis has left to work as a...

BRITISH Association of Removers director Hugh Wilson has left the association "by mutual consent'', the association told CM...

SANDY STRACHAN been appointed mana director of the public port company which is t. over the assets of Taysid ional Council's...

REGIONAL manager for BRS Southern, Gordon Segger, has moved on to the board of the National Freight Consortium company as area...

REG HEATH has been appointed to the new post of chief executive of Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn (Holdings). Heath, who has been...

GEOFFREY SMI former group execut South East Region of National Bus Company, on January 7. He was 70. Smith joined Easi...

'EN-WEEK trial, reputed le the largest case involvthe falsification of tachoth records so far, of three !ctors and two traffic...

SWAINS of Stretton, the Shropshire international refrigerated transport operator, has bought its first new Leyland for more...

A GRAIVISBY haulier has been fined ‘:151I after admitting that a vehicle which demolished the front of a cottage had been used...

AFFIC eviiiiiners should better able to detect ofJers and enforce the law er March, their trade on, the Society of Civil ....

NORTHUMBERLAND County Council has moved for the second time to stop the National Coal Board from using large numbers of lorries...

NORTH EASTERN Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has adjourned consideration of a North Yorkshire tank haulier's renewal...

INTERNATIONAL remt Abels of East Anglia has quired Fahies Removals Colchester. It operates from a 1,401 warehouse in Comme...

THE READING-based in national remover Robert I vall has bought Southampi based Interspan to strengt its hold on the Spanish...

IAULIER, who together his driving examiner was convicted last May iaking a false statement to in an operator's licence, to wait...

A LEEDS operator's hid for 16 additional vehicles and a change of operating centre,. strongly opposed by the Road llaulage...

ITED Transport Tankers, BET Group's British road ker subsidiary, has exJed further by taking over Batley, West Yorkshireed...

FREIGHT FORWARDLR Switch International of Andover has extended its Netherlands! West German operation by adding a high load...

1iRITAIN's bus and coach operators appealed this week for full consultation by the EEC before it goes ahead with plans to give...

A WARNING of In action against the operator's licence lid( Centaur Overland Trayi Sidcup was given whetcompany appeared last •...

MORE details of Hungarian giant lkarus's bid for British bus and coach body sales have emerged with news that Kirkby Central...

NAGERS of most onal Bus Company bus • ating and engineering panics are interested in nising buy-outs of their iesses, but the...

AN UNLICENSI.D coach company employed by the Home Office to transport prisoners around London was fined in court last week....

BUS OPERATORS in the area around Milton Keynes have joined together to compete against the National Bus Company subsidiary...

Y of Oxford Motor Ser; has had to increase the On its successful LonOxford CityLink coach ices to cope with in;IA fuel duty...

ERBERG off-road trucks are now being sold in the UK through the Volvo truck distributor network. The Dutch specialist vehicle...

FORD is claiming a in the European motor ind with a new body inspe system at its Southan plant that uses five tele% cameras...

TI1E NEW Chelsea 230 Series power-take-off manufactured by Spicer Power Products Division, Wolverhampton, provides drive...

SEDDON ATKINSON has introduced a lighter weight 6x2 rigid chassis, which saves 44 per cent in vehicle excise duty, for...

ZOBABLY says a great deal about kpartment of Transport's lowly in politicians and the public's • iousness that Lynda Chalker's...

MR McKENZIE's letter on cracked windscreens (CM, January 4) highlights a quite wide misunderstanding of the legal position On...

GOOD used vans are always in demand at commercial vehicle auctions. For those operators looking to buy a second-hand light...

the GLC's ban on heavy lorries comes into effect at the end of this month? Karen Miles details the changes ) AVE WETZEL, the...

T HE PHRASE "hush kit" which has become so familiar since the GLC first began talking about its lorry ban proposals is...

MICHAEL Heseltine's public disagreement with Margaret Thatcher and the rest of the Cabinet over the future of Westland...

The "transport specialists" from that number of European countries who comprise the 'Truck of the Year jury have just given...

MAN's British spec 16.280 HOCL coach chassis is powerful and responsive and CM is the first trade journal to appraise it on the...

OR TRADING ESTATES? A Lill( )UGH environmental objections to lorries grab the headlines, coach operators must be increasingly...

Last year was not as bad as had been feared by most commercial vehicle manufacturers, although Sweden's traditionally strong...

When MPs decided on Monday by a large majority to make the compulsory wearing of seats belts permanent, they were able to do so...

[ HE MOTOR Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) Regulations 1982 applies in general to any vehicle that 1st by law have seat belts...

Today's speed limiters are far more subtle than the governors of old. Noel Millier and Bill Brock look at some of the new...

THE LIVES of 50 cyclists, motor-cyclists and pedestrians can be saved each year by the fitment of effective sideguards to...

Vehicles required by law to have sideguards are: • Trucks plated for over 3.5 tonnes GVW manufactured on or after Octoher 1,...

:ed is the number one choice because cheap and easily worked. Hollow section with the minimum legal ht of lOomm is strong but...

SIDEGUARDS do help to reduce accident injuries but they are nowhere near as good as they could be. This is the broad conclusion...

ONLY two other European countries make sideguards a compulsory fitment for home registered vehicles — France and the...

Only two months remain before a new standard governing spray suppression comes into force — a standard which may be overturned...

Nissan UK's latest Spanish-built panel van lacks the sophistication of many of its competitors, as well as the payload, power...