CROSS-CHANNEL freight traffic has fallen by as much as ten per cent on some routes over the past year. The freight director of...

IGHT CHECKS, closer scrutiny of motorway-bound lorries, wd brighter Operator licences are on the way now that ansport Minister...

ERF's plans for a new mediumweight lorry factory at Wrexham in North Wales have been suspended as a result of the recession....

HINO's long-anticipated assault on the British market is coming next month. The Dublin-based Harris enterprise has leased a...

MAKE DO AND MEND is the theme of a nine-point survival plan which Road Haulage Association national chairman Ken Rogers is...

COMMERCIAL VEHICL sales last month were dom by around a fifth, compart with July 1979, and this reflected by growing shop time...

INTERNATIONAL HAR VERSTER, Seddon Atkinson's US parent company, has announced an 8.8 per cent reduction in net income during...

■ ULAGE stands to gain as much as any other industry from Government's proposed enterprise zones (EZs) in dossed areas, but...

AS CM went to press earlier this week ferry operators were using ports in Belgium and the Netherlands to avoid French ports...

THE UNITED Road Transport Union is keeping its powder dry and will not announce a wage claim for its North-west drivers until...

H. AND A. SWIFT Ltd has changed its name to Swift Transport Services Ltd_ The company operate a fleet of 90 vehicles between...

RAN SPORT 2000 has accused Transport Minister Norman DwIer of paying too much attention to road haulage interests !hen framing...

A CONFERENCE called The Computer in Distribution Planning will be held in London on October 1 and 2 covering such subjects as...

'HEN he arrived for work it January, a driver with :ottish and Newcastle Beer oduction was told by a perior, he was unfit for...

IRISH SEA ro-ro operator Par dor° has moved Lindsey Doe kin to the newly created post c operations projects managel with...

MITHS INDUSTRIES Vehicle Heater Company has had a timer Tyne and Wear PTE 1969 Leyland Panther bus )nverted into a mobile...

REATER overall articulated tiler strength and a harderearing floor are two of the Inefits of a new diagonally d board system...

THE Lincolnshire Area Health Authority is using a unique vehicle for moving patients in new larger orthopaedic beds which are...

bodybuilder, There are no bottom tracks on the design, called Slidex, which the company says makes jamming or the build-up of...

THE Littlewoods Organist lion has equipped eleven di livery vehicles with convei tional Ratcliff tail lifts eac with an extra...

A POTTERIES safety clothing company is marketing a road cone kit for lorry cabs. Safety Aids last week launched a Cone-Kit...

TRICO-FOLBERTH Ltd has introduced a remote-control air tank draining system for commercial vehicles. It consists of pneumatic...

COOKS (Road Transport Engineering) Ltd of Rainham, Essex, has become UK agents for this Edscha, German-made sliding roof for...

SODRY panels made by Concargo, the container and vehicle ■ ody panel makers, based in Weston-super-Mare, have been sod to build...

A RELATIVELY small and independent British oil company has developed a new crankcase oil to the SF specification ratified in...

THE SECOND international conference on Present and Future Markets for Copper organised by Copper Development Association and...

IN REACTION to the bans on unlicensed express coaches operating between Athens and London, a tour operator and several...

authorities in the countries through which the service passes_ Lefstathe Fetsis, the driver of a coach stopped last Friday...

OXFORDSHIRE County Council will decide later this month whether it will subsidise a six-month trial for a luxury executive...

PLANS for unconventional bus services in Dunbartonshire look like being implemented next month when Garelochhead Coach Services...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE rural stage carriage operator Swanbrook Coaches has enlisted the help of the local communities it serves in...

NEW REGULATIONS aimed at amending conditions of fit ness and use of new psv's come into force on August 26. The Public Service...

Overall sales dropped only from 529 to 524, with British builders selling 509 (against 512), and importers 15 (against 17)....

EUROPEAN Ferries' Town;end Thoresen Holidays has nnounced a new range of vinter coach holidays. The programme includes yeekend...

WEST MIDLANDS Traffic Commissioners have warned that the days of coachmen operating from front gardens and keeping vehicles on...

METROPOLITAN Police have advised that coaches attending the Bob Hope Classic International Golf Tournament at the RAC Country...

TO BE FACED with the chairmanship of London Transport at 66 might seem more of a punishment than a challenge, even if there is...

SINCE "cabbing it" is back in vogue again, Mr Swingler (CM August 2) may be interested in one professional driver's views on...

IT IS OFTEN argued that the whole range of distribution salaries compares unfavourably with other functions. Whilst subscibing...

THROUGH YOUR trade paper I would like to know from your readers if they have any Volvo 290F88 that have reached or passed...

ABOUT THREE WEEKS after CM published a list of all the trailer makers in the UK, we found we needed an additional extendable...

I FOUND CM's article (June 14) on the Volvo flywheel bus interesting. I was intrigued to read that this development which...

NOTHING sparks off the wanderlust in me more than the sight of an artic bearing Continental lettering heading towards one of...

DON'T LOOK NOW, but something has come down. The charge made by the Customs Task Force for turning out a container selected at...

A YOUNG ARTIST, Thomas Eisl, wants to stage a six-month exhibition in London's Smithfield Market of photographs of vehicles and...

THREE MEN who will take part in the final of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition at Cranfield on September 7 will, says a...

MARCUS FOX, MP, who enlivens the Department of the Environment by waging war on chiming ice-cream vans, was born about 1900...

VIEWING THE new town o Milton Keynes from the train, found no hint of a public relE tions officer's "oriental my tery" other...

ANY MAN who believes that woman's place is in the kitchE should meet Mrs Daphr Bampton, who confesses: "IV real love is for...

A LORRY DRIVER waiting at Dover has a better chance of catching a boat to the Continent within a few minutes than a commuter at...

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS are only 12 miles from the French coast at their nearest point, yet their transport-distribution industry...

So I told him 'You might be the boss' I said but I'm the one who's got to drive YER LORRY'. 'Do you know' I said 'We can both...

-IIS YEAR coach operators are )le to choose from a wide giety of ferry operators plying ie English Channel routes. ew deals and...

THE HISTORY of the international road haulage permit in the United Kingdom has been short but varied. Far from being...

doesn't reach a burning aeroplane within three minutes there's little point in it going at all — the plane will be burnt out !...

Third in our series by Douglas Ainley sorting out Act from fiction AT FIRST GLANCE the haulage industry and the maternity...

THE ISLE OF WIGHT is only 23 miles from east to west, and 13 miles from north to south. With a population of 101,000, it relies...

ROFESSIONAL drivers :overing substantial mileages ire almost certain at some time o exceed a speed limit. As /elides become...

LEGENDARY production figures in the psv sector and a high standing in the quality rating of East Bloc commercial vehicles have...

MOTORWAY construction in the Austrian mountains usually requires massive preliminary muck-shifting and this is reflected in the...

WHO besides the British and French rail authorites really wants a Channel tunnel? Would not the money be better spent on...

IMPRESSIVE — a word not to be taken lightly when it's applied to the Freightliner network. Today it comprises 25 terminals...

IN THE last article (August 9) the electrical units of potential difference (volts), current flow (amperes) and resistance...