THE REPORT this week from Manpower that 32 per cent of transport operators in the haulage sector will be increasing their...

ON May 1 it becomes legal to operate at 38 tonnes gross combination weight in the United Kingdom, and we shall be monitoring...

IOVERNMENT is taking a fresh look at the basis for its vehicle duty calculations, but it is not certain that this will stop er...

rRONIC aids rather than a e in the enforcement rewill help reduce prosecuDf operators of overloaded S, Transport Secretary...

A HIGHER STANDARD of vision is required for a revised and simplified form for medical tests on applicants for heavy goods...

THE EEC's compromise proposals for 40 tonne lorries came under fire at the April session of the European Parliament in...

THE NEW OWNER of Southampton-based E. F. Phillips and Sons (Transport) may put the company up for sale as its activities do not...

ALL FOUR functional directors at the Road Transport Industry Training Board have had their contracts terminated as part of a...

FLEETCARE, the National Carriers maintenance and service pany, has opened its first franchise for Bedford commercials, more...

NEARLY one in five of the transport employers conte in the latest employer survE Manpower, the temporary ployment agency, reps...

UND 70 miles of English Drways will be renewed this at a cost of €75m. r operators preparing their as to take account of these...

THE WOOD REPORT on the possible effects of a series of lorry bans in London has been delayed again, and the Greater London...

PROPOSALS for a second plate to be fitted to vehicles operating according to Construction and Use Regulations and Special Types...

FEES FOR ADR (dangerous goods) and TIR certificates are to jump by about 200 per cent from the beginning of next month, the...

THERE ARE only two weeks left before the closing date on Class 1 of this year's International Livery Competition. This class is...

INER London council is trying to discourage heavy lorry traffic entering its territory and plans to install a weighbridge in...

-LORRY park has been apKI for one year on a 3.5-acre it Heathhall, Dumfries. is to be operated by erston Market Enterprises...

CORAS lompair Eireann, Ireland's semi-state transport company, has entered the international freight forwarding business with...

CONTAINER TRAFFIC through the Port of Felixstowe in 1982 rose to a new record of 427,780 boxes, 19 per cent up on the previous...

A TWO-YEAR campaign by the West German Transport Workers' Union for an end to long-distance lorry drivers having to load and...

THE REQUIREMENT that the holder of an operator's licence must employ a full-time transport manager with a Certificate of...

DONALD LAUDER was dismissed from his position as production manager with LEP Transport, East Kilbride, after allegations that...

MITCHELL CUTTS Internatio Freight has moved into one pot at Rainham, Essex, to ca for all import and export traffi Premises...

FOUR LONDON RAIL rou which could be converted ii relief roads have been identif by the British Road Federatioi The BRF, which...

GBRIDGE Shipping has ed a 16,000sqft bonded ?house at Tilson Road, lenshawe, close to the M56 M63 and about one mile Manchester...

AN APPEAL by a county council to have an operator's licence revoked on mainly environmental grounds has been dismissed by the...

AFTER a 5.6 per cent fall in production last year, West Germany's bus and lorry makers expect a slight improvement in 1983,...

FORD now sees the composite leaf spring as being more competitive on price with the steel type than had previously been...

THE SERVICES of the Lucas Materials Evaluation Group are r available to interested organisations outside Lucas Industries. The...

LAYCOCK Garage Equipmen Sheffield has received an or from the Department of Trg port for a further 12 of its Tr Checkwear units...

IUR (JON) CRABTREE, West Midland Licensing Authority and ic Commissioners' chairman since 1966, moved this week to be id...

RECORD with regret the of Samuel Jones, chairof S. Jones transport sergroup for almost 50 years. • Jones took the Aldridge, :...

LEX WILKINSON has made two additions to its sales and marketing team. Grahame Skey has become marketing manager and will be...

MAN-VW has reduced its psv sales force to a single sales manager based at Swindon, but says it is not pulling out of the...

DORMOBILE of Folkestone h introduced a new psv convo sion of the Freight Rover Sheri 250 van. Marketed as the Couri FR945, the...

FOLLOWING discussions between the French Ministry of Transp and British Department of Transport, at which representatives the...

)SE look will be taken at the track record of former Hong Kong 3ort commissioner Tony Shepherd, if he should appeal against...

E and the Moseley group are using this weekend's Brighton 1 Rally to launch a new low-floor integral luxury coach — the Duple...

A SCOTTISH Bus Group subsidiary has been called to a public inquiry next month when the Traffic Commissioners will consider...

TOYOTA has restyled its Hi-Ace van range and improved its performance by fitting a more powerful petrol engine with a diesel...

RAY SMITH Demountables of Botolph Bridge, Peterborough reduced the body height of its Seven Five demountables syster 51mm (21n)...

DON INTERNATIONAL of 1.1( ham Vale, Manchester has cently introduced two ii brake lining materials that n EEC brake...

WADHAM Stringer (Victory] Portsmouth is producing grp/ply box vans and persor carriers for the London Fire gade. The Ray Smith...

iwoULD like to correct the somewhat misleading and inaccurate picture (CM March 12, "Forklift horror") given of the proposed...

I WOULD LIKE to make several comments on the article by Janus (CM March 19). Firstly, farming income in the UK did indeed rise...

I FEEL that I really must write t register my complaint about ti almost hysterical political ramblings of The Hawk. Over past...

RVI surprised by being the first to fit mediumweight lorries with ventilated disc brakes on the front axle. lveco chose to...

WE ARE LOOKING for a good Samaritan. The person we are looking for is one who has shown care, courtesy or courage in the...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's annual conference in Spain in November will register two "firsts." It will be the first to be...

"CUT COSTS and become more competitive," chants the Government with evangelical fervour. So it imposes swingeing increases in...

SOMEONE in the EEC thought it would be a good idea to buy a Citroen estate car to lug paper backwards and forwards between...

THE GREATER London Council is asking Londoners and others various questions about the future of London Transport. One is:...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association deserves 97 marks out of 100 for its comprehensil survey of town-centre traffic restrictions....

"WHAT the public doesn't realise is that this is like a modern-day form of slavery," said a Rover employee who, festering in...

Pay less for lubrication Three steps to help cut operating costs. Save on each barrel of oil you buy. If you use enough...

More than 80 suppliers will be displaying their wares at CM's first-ever accessories and components exhibition. Their range of...

lveco's 190-38 tractive unit looks ideal for heavy-duty work. Bill Brock examined it before it went on display at the Turin...

WHEN A WHEEL on a motor vehicle meets a sudden bump in the road the wheel has to follow the contour of the bump and must rise...

ormany holds Europe's gest exhibition of vehicles d machinery for the nstruction industry; many the manufacturers are at esent...

and reveals that the vaE majority of work is for tri-axles rather thal tandems AFTER the doldrums of the past three years the...

If you've not been examining your drivers' tachograph charts as closely as you know you should, then this expanding firm could...

IE CMSpecial Offer homeicly course for the Certificate Professional Competence in lad Haulage (International) is w available to...