NEXT WEEKEND could see a deterioration in the public image of road transport. While the Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

A NEW FORCE could be created in the distribution business if the National Freight Consortium's plans for its first major...

EARLIER this week operators faced another increase in the price of diesel. Commercial dery has risen by 1.2p a litre (5.5p a...

Compensation THE FRENCH Government has agreed to pay compensation to British and Continental drivers who were caught up in the...

A LICENSING AUTHORITY has been criticised by the Transport Tribunal for his handling of a public inquiry at which he refused an...

THE NORTH Lincolnshire Health Authority has received a report advising it on how to control and reduce its current Elm annual...

THE LATEST battle in the fight for a common transport policy within the EEC drew to a close this week. The EEC's Court of...

THE FIRST of the coming winter's road haulage wage claims have been lodged. They come as tax-free subsistence levels have been...

OVER 1,000 allegations concerning the falsification of tachograph records against Lancashire haulier Charter Roadways, two...

PARCELS CARRIER Lex Wilkinson thls week entered the home delivery market with the launch of its new Homeline service. It is a...

at the Crown Court, saying that it was an extremely serious matter involving a large number of offences and that investigations...

PATCHING of the asphalt road surface on the Severn Bridge has started and will carry on every weekend until October 8. The work...

DIABETIC LORRY driver Alfred Eddie of Fraserburgh has had his Class One hgv driving licence revoked by Scottish Licensing...

THE METROPOLITAN Traffic Area is pressing for the prosecution of two companies which it alleges worked together on an illegal...

FERRYMASTERS is increasing its presence in the West German market with a move to a new depot near Mannheim. Previously, the...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport, which is responsible for the provision of emergency phones and roadside signals on motorways in...

JAMES MOFFAT and Sons of Cardenden, Fife, has been refused a haulage depot at Donibristle Industrial Estate, near Dunfermline,...

DR RICHARD HINSLEY is now the new assistant director of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory at Crowthorne, Berkshire....

FOUR National Bus Company subsidiaries have gained managers. Southern National, based at Taunton, has Ian Barwell as its new...

SILCOCK Express Holdings, the new company formed by a management buy-out (CM, September 15) has just announced four main...

BRS promotions BRITISH Road Services has promoted two men to branch manager level at their BRS Midlands branches of Bromford...

MANCHESTER-based Salford Van Hire has appointed Neville Hodkin as contract director. He is responsible for developing both...

TWO OPERATORS have had conditions restricting the use of their joint operating centre in a Roman town imposed on their licences...

A MAJOR new materials handling exhibition will be held in Manchester next year. Materials Handling News is organising Storage...

TRADE plate regulations have been amended to make it easier for operators recovering scrap vehicles. Vehicles with trade...

BRS WESTERN and Lex Wilkinson both report increased business for their contract-hire activities. Two Bridgwater, Somerset-area...

TWENTY-EIGHT vehicles in four weight categories from 14.5 tonnes to 38 tonnes competed on Sunday at the Motor Industry Research...

Renault research RVI's electronically controlled mechanical transmission (CM June 30) is now at an advanced development stage,...

A CHASSIS-MOUNTED lowprofile cantiliver (Ipc) tail lift which allows the loading platform to remain completely level when it is...

INSPITE of a "good show" in 1982, Southfields coachworks has joined the growing number of commerical vehicle bodybuilders not...

AN UNUSUAL way of transferring containers — with T-Lift equipment, mounted on a conventional semi-trailer — has been...

SCANTRUCK, the world's largest Scania distributor, has opened a new branch at Colnbrook to serve West London and the Home...

Forces' freight SEDDON ATKINSON has received an order to supply 55 401 4X2 tractive units to the Ministry of Defence for...

DAYTON-WALTHER has added semi and fully automatic hydraulic landing legs to its range of truck and trailer equipment. It is...

Dutch debut for new coaches for UK SEVERAL NEW coach models destined for the British market were announced at the RN Bus and...

PRIVATE operators planning to take over any of London Regional Transport's bus routes could be subject to quality controls by...

MEMBERS of the Transport and General Workers Union have pleaded for extra running time on a bus route operated by the Al...

A STRIKE at Plaxton's Scarborough works has stopped production of coaches for the British market, but the company is pressing...

THE BUS AND COACH Council is operator's test case appeal against a on one of its coaches. supporting an independent fine for...

Separate Show THIS YEAR'S British International Motor Show at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre may be the last to...

Mercs aim at UK DAIMLER-BENZ has invested over DMBOm (£20m) in a new coach and bus manufacturing plant at its Mannheim works...

ENVIRONMENTAL, traffic and safety problems are resulting from the rise in coach traffic in London, according to Greater London...

LEYLAND BUS and Coach dealer, the Arlington Motor Company, has established a new bus and coach service centre in Mollinson...

THE ENTRY by Lex Wilkinson this week into the home delivery market is a significant move for a carrier that had always aimed at...

YOUR EDITORIAL, "Wanted: good home for CM LDoY", (CM, September 8) will stimulate plenty of thought, but it is successful...

ALONG with advertising executives and public relations officers, tutors of courses and seminars for business and industry come...

WHEN Peter Goble decided that he wanted to go into transport management he discovered that time served as a driver and...

at last begun to settle for the Road Transport Industry Training Board. According to Chris Hodgson, the board's chief training...

a major conurbation such as the South Yorkshire Metropolitan area, which covers Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster?...

IT IS probably dangerous to mention it, but has anyone else noticed how other industries and professions have joined, if not...

The NAT Holidays md employs an ex-army master driver to see that standards are maintained on shuttles to the sun. Noel Millier...

It was awarded to Tom Curran of Roadline for an act of outstanding bravery, but other people who displayed great care or...

LAST WEEK could prove to be a very important one for the Union Internationale des Chauffeurs Routiers, the professional...

IN part one (CM September 25) of this feature on anti-lock braking, we looked in general at some of the problems which have had...

Sir Peter cases the joint "WE HAVE no intention of leaping over fences into unfamiliar territory," said Sir Peter Thompson,...

a ride in a guard's brake van hauled by the 0-4-0 steam locomotive, Birkenhead, as a part of a E3.50 outing to the London...

JUBILEES, silver, golden and diamond, proliferate like the greetings cards that celebrate every kind of event from a broken leg...

HAULIERS cannot afford to be smug over the railways' loss of the mineral traffic for which they are peculiarly suited and on...

ONE of two cardinal sins of motorway driving, which have been highlighted by AA traffic officers, often leads to the other....

REGULAR RADIO reports of peak-hour traffic chaos caused by broken-down lorries becomes slightly less demoralising when one...