CM HAS consistently urged successive Governments to spend money on the infrastructure. Our pleas and those of the British Road...

By Our Parliamentary Correspondent .ORRIES should be fitted with peed limiters and front underun bumpers, MPs have urged. The...

BEDFORD Commercial Vehicles is closing its 16-year old die making plant in Bedford as part of a review of its manufacturing...

MONEY continues to roll in for our Send a Spare Fund to buy parts for lorries helping in the Ethiopian famine relief effort. On...

HAULIERS in County Cleveland have been offered an olive branch from regional Transport and General Workers Union members who...

FOR THE first time in five years the volume of international goods being carried by rail in the EEC is growing at a faster rate...

THE FIRST signs of the Transport and General Workers Union's placid acceptance of £5.50 increases in basic haulage wage rates...

DOW FREIGHT Services, the Stockport company which has grown rapidly in car parts distribution, has won a Om contract from Fiat...

By Karen Mites THE FIRST dery price rise of the year has prompted the Road Haulage Association to call for hauliers to...

THE UK's second biggest trailer rental company has expanded into the truck rental business. Trailerent, part of the Mercantile...

CONTINUED increases in European hauliers' efficiency are likely to limit Daf Trucks' ability to take advantage of economic...

THE EEC COMMISSION has confirmed its commitment to liberalise the intra-Community transport market — and especially to the...

THE BATTLE for the hearts anc minds of London traders whc fear dire effects of the Greatel London Council's propose( night and...

REPCON, the Ocean Transpo and Trading group's contain( repair and refurbishment sut sidiary, has been sold to Rai head...

AVID WHITE, group managing director of the National Freight bnsortiumrs property group, is to take up the job of NFC deputy...

OUTH-EAST division director f the National Bus Company win Dalton has been appoinid as the NBC's executive vice lairman. Mr...

JAN SCHIPPER has joined European express deliveries operator Seabourne Express as general manager — Europe. This is a new...

FORMER Southampton depot manager for Bulwark Transport John Bowden has been promoted to the new post of director of operations....

ROBERT PHILIP, 68, formerly transport manager for Lawson of Dyce from 1958 until 1979 and North Scotland Division chairman of...

SIX DRIVERS working for Seville Tank Cleaning of Salford were fined a total of £930 with £210 costs last week after they...

THIS YEAR may not be too prosperous for road hauliers, according to the latest survey of leading employers carried out by...

BRS SOUTHERN has just won a contract to rationalise the non-ambulance transport side of the Lewisham and North Southwark...

THE FLAGSHIP of the NFC was National Freight Consortium chairman Sir Peter Thompson's name for a £12.5m BRS Western...

A NEW crescent-shaped road should be built across South London in addition to improving the South Circular Road, the London...

CAVE WOOD Transport, the Tozer Kemsley and Millbournowned international haulier, has signed a new co-operation agreement with a...

CROSS-Channel Sealink ferry services returned to normal working last week after the French seamen's union agreed to end its...

YORK TRUCK Equipment has begun full production of its latest Mk V Big D fifth wheel coupling, which was shown for the first...

DAIRY CREST Transport has begun operational trials with nine tandem axle curtainsider semi-trailers fitted with Maxaret MDR...

VAG HAS extended its commercial vehicle dealer network with new locations in Essex, East Sussex, Hampshire and Suffolk....

NOW THAT winter has onci more adopted its white mantle the fear of fuel waxing wil prey on many operator': minds. Sub-zero...

A SIMPLE STEP-by-step guidl on regrooving truck tyres ha been republished by Uniroyz Tyres. The 17-page manual detail the...

NEW TYRE regulations intrc duced on January 1 affect rE treaded lorry and car tyres a well as new car tyres. With certain...

By Tim Blakemare THE FUND established by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers for research into wheel and wheel fixing...

YORK has reached an agreement with the China National Automotive and Industry Corporation whereby York trailers, axles,...

THE MANAGING director of a leading supplier of corrosion protection for cars and commercial vehicles has called for the...

TYNE AND WEAR PTE is planning to scrap its entire fleet of Scania-powered Metropolitan double-deckers because of rust...

THE BUS and Coach Council has told the Department of Transport that it agrees with the objective of ensuring competition...

MAIDSTONE Borough Council is the only remaining municipal operator on the City Flyer coach service which used to operate...

HESTAIR Dennis has won an order to supply 70 vehicles for the Kowloon Motor Bus Company in Hong Kong. The order includes 50...

LRT in trouble POOR INSPECTION standards led to London Regional Transport's psv operator's licence being renewed for a...

LONDON Regional Transport's first annual business plan puts forward a move towards greater productivity with little change in...

FRANCE'S biennial international week of the bus and coach is being replaced this year by an International Week of Tourism by...

THE serious "pile-up" on the M25 prompts me to make the following suggestion: A few weeks previously I ran into slight mist...

DESPITE numerous examples to the contrary, I am still hopeful that the debate on the pros and cons of the Governments proposals...

THE FAULTS in heavy goods ' vehicle driving instruction system do not lie with the private driving school but with the...

GENTLE reader, prepare to be shocked. For this week I propose to defend Mr Nicholas Ridley. You will know that, to say the...

PUT a Talbot Express and a Fiat Ducato side by side, remove the badges, and it would be difficult to tell them apart. The...

move from its Bridgend premises or to expand on the existing site with a new workshop. It chose the latter. Tim Blakemore went...

Bill Brock compares the service hours requirements for some rigids and artics as specified by eight major manufacturers...

THE FACT that a privately entered Volvo F12 won the first British Truck Grand Prix at Donington last September does not make...

IS LORRY racing on an enclosed track more damaging to the public reputation of the road transport industry than a 7,500-mile...

ENVIRONMENTAL protection can be overdone. John Till, of Farnborough, Hampshire, certainly thinks so. He kept two preserved...

A FORD man who asked why many of the company's plants failed consistently to achieve their planned outputs got a straight...

TRANSPORT operators with trading interests in the Netherlands are being invited by the Netherland-British Chamber of Commerce...

IN THESE days of nasty knocking advertising, it is pleasant to meet someone who invites competitors to cash in on his company's...

1HE NATIONWIDE commercial breakdown recovery services will tell you that some lorries are rather better maintained than others....

AT THE END of Trucks in Camera: AEC (Ian Allen; £6.95) is a list of this company's commercial vehicle models, starting...

"TOWARDS the end of the last century, transportation, whether by ship or train, was thoroughly steam oriented; there had even...

ALL YOU ever wanted to know, but were too scared to ask ... is the sort of expression which comes to mind when reading Doug...

THE IMPENDING restructure of the Scottish Bus Group into 12 smaller subsidiaries will coincide with the elimination of two of...

most difficult part of their job in planning a new workshop will be persuading the managing director to agree to the proposed...