concerts to raise money for famine relief in Africa, Commercial Motor has announced this week its further involvement with the...

is the prime month for the dreaded surface-dressing of roads, when the chippings begin to fly. It is all good business for the...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR is to assist the Save the Children Fund to staff road transport operations in the famine stricken areas of...

THE GOVERNMENT is to provide the Save the Children Fund with another 40 lorries worth £1.6m for famine relief work in the...

by Karen Miles OPERATORS lace more uncertainty over the Greater London Council's proposed lorry ban — despite a High Court...

FORD is to cease mai Luring its own truck over the next two years the loss of 470 job oppo tics at its British plants. It...

PERKINS wants voluntary redundancies at the former Rolls-Royce diesel engine Shrewsbury factory. The news comes only a...

TIIE, LEGAL challenge to the Government over its raising of the Severn Bridge tolls by 150 per cent has begun. Gwent County...

lack Semple TAIN's big three tachoph suppliers — Lucas nzle, Yeeder-Root and ;er — have misled Governit-approved fitting...

THE CLIMBING pound brought a . 6.8p per gallon reduction in the price of retail dery last week, but the Road Haulage...

A DEPUTY Licensing Authority has been criticised for not giving a Leicester operator a chance of making representations about...

lITED Transport Tankers ,et to buy Harsreaves nsport, the bulk haulage 1, for £3.55m. Completion he deal is expected in the t...

STOLEN LOADS from Felixstowe worth up to Om were broken down, or "slanghtered", at the South London depot of Fyffes, the banana...

THE NETHERLANDS g , eminent has revised its cc mercial vehicle width la. which now. allow vehicles to 2,6m (8.5ft) wide operate...

THE DATES of the Sc tish Motor Show have b changed to run from Novt ber 21 to December 1. 7 Queen opens the Scottish hibition...

THE BRITISH Road F eration wants the A564 Sto Derby link, the All/A Newmarket-Great Yarmo. road, the A27/A295 Hava Folkestone...

A t7. 123m contract has b awarded by Tayside Regic Council for the construct of a new A94 trunk road passing Forfar. The 4.8-n...

THE THIRD edition of Ci book of Certificate of Pro] sional Competence yuest and answer book is now sale, price £2.51) includ...

GOOD.'HUMOUR, good. weather and a glut of C.-registered lorries ready to go on the road from August I were at the Great...

TRANSPORT Minister Lynda • Chalker has praised construction firm Balfour Beatty for completing the Ml roadworks at Junction 8...

PAUL WALMSLEY, truck merchandising manager with Ford of Britain, has died after a long illness. He was 50. Mr Walmsley had...

AN AIR Vice-Marshall has been appointed chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Metropolitan...

THE REORGANISATION of Northern General Transport into five new districts has been followed by the appointment of new managers...

THREE Pickfords managers are moving to take up posts at new branches. A man with nearly a quarter of a century's experience in...

DIRECT-to-home delivery manager in the distribution department of Hotpoint, Andrew Hayward has joined his father and brother in...

A FORMER Eccles Tram manager, Joffre Trott has been appointed tram manager by freezer ct specialist Iceland Fr( Foods. Mr...

A 23-YEAR-OLD grad has just become the youn branch manager to be app ted by National Carriers eels Division. Jeremy Hawkins...

ITED Transport Internaal, British Electric Tracn's transport and ribution holding group, sold Keith and Boyle, its...

MSGATE handled almost per cent more freight durthe first five months of year, compared with the responding period in 1984,...

X MAGAZINE Distribus has won a new distribua contract for a Sunday gazine. [he company, along with regional firms, Procters...

RESIDENTS have cramped plans by BRS Southern to move its Canterbury depot. BRS applied to take over the depot in Roper Road,...

AA/I-3RS RESCUE, the national breakdown and recovery service run for commercial vehicle operators by the Automobile Association...

POOR NORFOLK roads have been used to justify the opening of Britain's first raillinked grain storage and handling complex near...

INTERLEASING, the contract hire and fleet management company run jointly by the Cowie group and Forward Trust, is now wholly...

FORGING an international journey record so that it ap peared falsely that a• French journey permit had been used led to Centre...

THE first of a fleet of mu tankers have been supplied I a novel waste oil collecti service operated under licensing agreement...

ORKNEY Sea Link has a proved plans for a year-roui link from Orkney to t Scottish mainland to run E tween Burwick in Orkn and...

A DRIVER said to be "green as grass" when he entered a partnership with another driver to carry out international haulage was...

DULAR TRAINING, could eventually end entice training, was bed by the Road TransIndustry Training Board ndon last week. urses...

BRITISH hauliers' hopes that a tax would be levied on Swiss vehicles coming to Britain have been dashed by Transport Secretary...

by Tim Blakemore COMPULSORY fitment of front under-run bumpers to new vehicles has been brought one step nearer with the joint...

THIS YEAR'S Institut' Road Transport Engin( Brewery Transport Adv Committee fuel econ. trials ( CM, June 8) hay tracted several...

MERCEDES-BENZ engineers in Berlin have begun to use what they believe is the most advanced driving simulator anywhere. Like...

EIvICO of Margate, Kent has produced a new man lid for petroleum tankers. It has a new pressure, vacuum breathing vent that...

CRANE FRUEHAUF has supplied a custom-built GLZ drawbar system to Plane Trucking, a haulage company which specialises in running...

MACHINS, a Lincolnshirebased operator, is coming clean since taking delivery of the largest single brush portable vehicle wash...

AMONG the vehicles a Electrafleet 85 show month was this film looking Ford Escort van. its conventional internal bustion engine...

A HAND-CRANKED weather-proofed sliding roof cover for truck bodies has been developed by Lawrence David of Peterborough,...

LOWING trials of a of six uprated selfg versions of the Ross Bonnyman one tonne ::olumn tail-lift, 40 more oing into service...

by Brian Weatherley THE FIRST factoryconverted Leyland Roadtrain tractive unit with an airsuspended drive axle is about to...

THFIELD'S prototype ss curtainsider is unsing evaluation trials Scottish and Newcastle Breweries alongside a preproduction York...

PURPOSE TANKER ed upon the successful designs by Butterfield of Shipley, now ntegral part of Charles Roberts Engineering Ltd.,...

TI IF DATE of bus deregulation is likely to remain unchanged despite last-minute talks over suggestions that the transitional...

THE GOVERNMENT is to have a re-think over the question of the "financial standing'' of people planning to become bus...

PLAXTONS and Volvo Bus (GB) are jointly developing a four-metre high double-deck coach with a seating capacity of at least 75....

IN A MOVE being interpreted as a stage towards the privatisation and break-up of the National Bus Company, the company has...

Peter Stonham 'BRAIN-DRAIN" of ain's best public transport .1-ts could follow bus delation and the break-up ,ublicly owned...

OPTARE, the Leeds bodybuilding company formed to take over, the Charles Roe factory from Leyland Bus (CM, June 8), has formed a...

FOR THE FIRST time since 1961 Cairo will have a private bus operator. The city administration has issued a licence for the El...

E WEST Midlands PTE led bus route has attracted ier cent extra traffic in its six months of operation. TMPTE planning and...

TESTING of Britain's first new generation trolleybus has begun on a one-mile wired system at Doncaster racecourse. South...

using videos illegally . SOUTH WALES Transport was fined £200 last week by Avon North magistrates after it admitted using...

TECHNICAL tests for b and coaches and skill tests drivers are to be include' the eighth International and Coach week being -...

NEOPLAN agent Carlton PSV Sales has bought the old established operation of Yelloway Motor Services of Rochdale and already the...

NEOPLAN has updated its 12-year-61d coach range to give it what it calls a Jubilee look. The front end has been tidied up to...

IN CARLISLE Jack Semple looks at the northern picture: firms, owner-drivers, associations, pay and rates. Hauliers, he...

EDDIE STOBART Ltd is a recent success story in Carlisle haulage, with a fleet now of 22 hardworking artics and one...

r OFFER civil servants space to your idea that increased fuel duty d replace all other vehicle taxes July 13). Sadly, serving...

THE recent repair ofjunction 8 sector of the M1 provided a certain measure of publicity, which in some ways was of great...

PEUGEOT If you can live with the bodyshapc and payload limitations of hatchback-derived vans, the commercial version of...

EURO TYRE BUSINESS Since it took over the tyre manufacturing interests of Dunlop, Sumitomo has invested heavily in European...

OF UP-MARKET TOUR A Embattled luxury coach tour operator Trevor Carnell tells Noel Millier about the problems of selling his...

N OW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the Certificate of Prossional...

NOT ON ROADS! H OW does the North compare with the South when it comes to roads? Favourably, according to Transport Secretary...

T HERE is never a shortage of heroes, it seems, although most of those so designated more often than not are the last people to...

Jack Semple talks to a North-East truck dealer who is modifying his business to get the advantage of contract hire companies ....

i LTHOUGH the World Exposition at Vancouver, ada (known as Expo 86), is not to eld until May 2-October 16 next , more than...

VIAY I argued that the - ertiment's vulnerability on nployrnent gave the road haulage [stry an opportunity to press for a...