THE 21st Fleet Management Conference was declared "the best yet" by delegates last Thursday. This may have been immediate post...

THE INDUSTRY has won major concessions from the Government in the final version of its anti-spray regulations which become...

CUMMINS is believed to be negotiating the purchase of the Cummins Diesel Sales and Service company in the UK from its parent,...

By Karen Miles FIVE main high street retailers have joined forces to oppose the Greater London Council's proposed night and...

THE UNITED Road Transport Union wants to re-establish collective wage agreements for haulage drivers in North-West England. It...

YESTERDAY (Friday) was the last day to place objections about the proposed lorry ban to the Greater London Council's transport...

LOSSES at Renault Vehicules lndustriels are worsening, according to the French Stateowned company's latest financial results....

THE GOVERNMENT'S hopes of shifting millions of tons of coal from strike-bound pit heads could be undermined by Labourcontrolled...

A TRADES UNION backlash looks possible if the National Freight Consortium goes ahead with its tentative plans to buy the SPD...

THE GOVERNMENT has called for the views of industry on EEC proposals to extend compulsory motor insurance to cover liability...

MISUSE of trade plates cost a vehicle recovery firm £225 in this week. fines breakdown vehicle. Mainline Vehicle Dismantlers...

By Our Irish THE IRISH Road Haulage Association has described its Government's plans to abolish the road freight and parcels...

SOME international hauliers think wrongly that they are unable to transfer permits to another haulier on a temporary basis....

TWO APPROVED codes of practice for dangerous substances packaging and labelling have been published by the Health and Safety...

FORMER operations director of Wallace Arnold Tours, Geoffrey Steel, has joined Yelloway Motor Services of Rochdale in the new...

THE BOARD of the National Bus Company has a new parttime member. Clive Ho!lick, group managing director of Mills and Allen...

NEW managing director of Tankfreight, which is a company in the National Services Group, is David Brown. He was previously...

A RECENT appointment to Hinckley-based Carpet Express, the specialist carpet and floorcoverings distribution company, is Ian...

FOLLOWING the recent promotion of Roger Phillips from sales director to managing director of Daf Trucks (GB), Ian Jones will be...

RON SIBLEY, transport manager of DCL Food Group, has been promoted to the new position of transport director. Mr Sibley joined...

A PERIOD of a week between the end of a lorry driver's employment with Coventry Continentale Transport and the start of his...

MPs INVESTIGATING the future of toll charges on estuarine bridge and tunnel crossings should also look at the anomaly of...

DRIVERS of 38-tonners will still need to obtain phone permission to cross railway level crossings until the end of this year....

A LORRY driver who insisted that in 16 years nothing had happened when he was driving reels of paper between Montrose and...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has published the first edition of the British Shippers' Council shipping office handbook....

THE ROAD Haulage Council of the Road Transport Industry Training Board has re-emphasised its commitment to encouraging the...

BRITISH road users are getting "a less fair deal than those in most other countries," claims Royal Automobile Club chairman...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has relaunched Fleetcover and Thrucover, its insurance services. Working with the Clarkson...

FOLLOWING a study into light commercial vehicle operating conditions, Freight Rover has revised its 0-series 1.7 and 2litre...

NBC's alternative privatisation plan NATIONAL Bus Company management has put an alternative privatisation plan to Transport...

IRELAND's semi-state transport company, Cores lompair Eireann, is to be divided into three subsidiary companies, one for Dublin...

BUS AND COACH Training, the training arm of the Bus and Coach Council, is to run a series of short industry training courses...

SUBURBAN Britain could lose some of its bus services if the White Paper proposals on bus liberalisation are not modified,...

Clash over route EASTERN Scottish and Lothian Region Transport have been criticised by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners for...

THE SCOTTISH Bus Group's localised company structure (CM, September 15), with four new operating companies has been...

TAKEN as a package, the Buses White Paper will sweep away a multitude of tradition bus industry practices and bring innovation,...

FINES and costs of 0,240 have been imposed on a long-established Cornish coach operator which is engaged on international...

Grave warnings from TIR chief RUSS PETERS' exposure of the lack of enforcement of permit controls on Continental hauliers...

THE 21st Fleet Management Conference, held at The Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, last week, was opened by Sir Peter Masefield....

OPERATORS face very considerable problems with the 1982 Transport Act's environmental controls on operating centres in the...

DAVE WETZEL, the Greater London Council's transport chair, left his casual lumberjack shirt at home for the Fleet Management...

GARRY TURVEY had the task of following the openly and proudly controversial Dave Wetzel, but he was not overshadowed. He was...

HEALTH and education have far greater Government expenditure than transport because their pressure groups are stronger — to...

Although only art hour was allotted for the FMC manufacturers' panel, a lot of ground was covered. Guaranteed parts delivery,...

of the FMC, summing up, thanked the speakers and said that transport was a flexible, resourceful industry, yet it was still...

I KNOW that CM is read in Agriculture House, headquarters of the National Farmers' Union. In the past my envious references to...

WHICH way distribution? Nobody, of course, can answer that question with absolute certainty, but if you can present well...

REFERENCE to problems with anti-lock braking systems in your "Engineer's Notebook" series recently are hardly surprising. These...

I AM an owner-driver running a Mercedes 1617 rigid. In April of this year I suffered a mild heart attack and have been off the...

on letters published (for instance omitting the street name and house number) these must be given to us in order to establish...

trust that you are now well on the way to recovery. We have obtained the following advice: The law concerning the illnesses...

Noel Miller appraised the Laser 2 and Caribbean 2 with the aid of a party of pensioners; some preferred the luxury body, others...

"So what's in it for me?" This is one question likely to be on the lips of light vehicle operators considering a visit to the...

Most commercial vehicle interests at the Motor Show will be attracted by the lighter end of the market. As more lightand...

Contrary to popular belief, lack of finance is not the main reason for small business failures. According to Brian Warnes,...

Few motor shows anywhere will have seen as much innovation in commercial vehicle transmissions as is evident at Birmingham this...

If the livery is right, it will enhance any vehicle. By David Wilcox THE Commercial Motor Livery Competition went - open" for...

Several genuinely new engines at the NEC set the scene for a right royal battle for UK market share among the three major...

for the next CPC Exam NOW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the...

IT WILL almost be worthwhile to visit the Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre just to ride on the new Maglev passenger...

THE MALE chauvinist who tried to persuade me that Eve was created from the jaw bone of an ass should remember that road...

THE LATEST horror stories about inferior replacement parts come from Clayton Dewandre. They concern brake compressors which,...

A POLTERGEIST took possession of a fork-lift truck and got a London vegetablemarket porter the sack. The mischievous truck's...

DO YOU nurture a secret desire to sponsor nuts and bolts (£1 each), readymix (£5 a foot), fishplates (£8 each), sleepers (£10...

BACK in 1914, as a war that was to reshape the world was beginning, 12 cottages were built in Barnet, Herts, to house hauliers'...

DO YOU REMEMBER F. Gordon Crosby's superb paintings and drawings of racing cars hurtling around Brooklands and raising clouds...

SINCE the maximum legal weight limit of the heaviest articulated vehicles was increased in May, 1983, there has been a steady...

bodies on display . Bodybuilders and trailer manufacturers are among the most innovative when it comes to anticipating the...

AE Group: Stand 651. Designs, develops and manufactures bearings, pistons and rings, cylinder valve-train parts, springs and...