week for the Department of Transport's credibility. In our May Legal Bulletin, published with CM last week, we threw what light...

• Will the 17th annual IRTE display live up to its promise of being the best so far? We will tell you, in a full report from...

• The VI billion channel tunnel project came within a hair's breadth of disaster this week as protesters narrowly failed to get...

• For the first time, the EEC Commission proposed legislation last week to reduce the level of emissions from diesel engined...

• The Highway Code should warn drivers about the dangers of strong winds for high-sided vehicles, the Freight Transport...

• Declining North Sea oil trade and intense competition has forced United Heavy Transport and Econofreight Transport to merge...

• The Department of Transport has asked operators for a detailed case in favour of increased weight limits for rigid lorries...

3ritish Rail is losing its 513 m a year Post Office parcontract to the PO's own of vehicles, it was aled last week. Us major...

• Shares in National Freight Consortium, worth in February 1982, are now worth £27 according to their latest revaluation....

/ Volvo Truck Corporation expects to increase its profit in 1986, as well as its export sales. This year, it aims to produce...

• From September 29 the Post Office and all other private sector parcels carriers will be exempt from the new EEC drivers'...

• Leyland Trucks is detemined to improve upon its poor performance in the UK heavy tractive unit market, sales and marketing...

• Massey Ferguson, Per Engine's Canadian-owned parent company, has chang( its name to the Varity Corporation to give it a title...

• The newest recruit to the British vehicle manufacturing industry, BL's new full-time chairman and chief executive, Graham...

• The new cheaper heavy goods vehicle driver test will come into force on July 1, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has...

• Iveco UK has bowed to the common parlance of the truck industry by naming its new eight-wheel tipper, the 300.25, as the New...

• Final type approval paperwork on the new Hino SH283 tractive unit (CM. April. 19) has still to be completed, but a...

Coventry, is one of the winners of the Royal Society of Arts' automotive design competition. His was one of the winning designs...

• Leyland Trucks' succes to its 98-Series diesel engin( as reported in last week's issue, is the Leyland 300-Serk based on the...

Volvo has commissioned a 60 million (g15 million) ad:ed air-flow wind tunnel at iothenburg truck and car t. The new test...

• The Maclift Leader skip handling unit designed for twoaxle rigid chassis of up to 16 tonnes incorporates a new stabilising...

• The Government has decided not to change the 1983 regulations on tyre tread depth, Junior Transport Minister Peter Buttomley...

• Road Haulage Association ' opposition has led to West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson's refusal of a bid for a new...

• Cheshire police have been ordered to pay £509.35 of the defence costs of a lorry driver cleared by the Runcorn magistrates of...

Despite environmental 7esentations from a family ig close to BRS Northern's corn depot, the company won unrestricted authority...

Running vehicles on interonal haulage without paying and at the wrong rate of y cost Eastern European .ight Ltd a total of...

• BET-owned United Transport Tankers has unveiled a tough new strategy to increase its share of the tanker market. By early...

• Woking District Council is planning to replace more than 50% of its vehicle fleet with vehicles supplied on contract hire by...

• Management teams Bees Transport and Carpet Express are believed to be preparing buy-outs from thei: present company, Lex...

Green from Manchester-based Harris Road Services is not the company's managing din tor. Ken Broster is Barri managing director,...

• A new 12-month truck rental service has been launched in South East England by BRS Truck Rental. It is called Contract 12....

• Seddon Atkinson's largest order for eight-wheelers in re cent years has been supplied to Redland Roof Tiles. It is for...

Eurotunnel — as the Chan1 Tunnel is now known — minated an afternoon at the i-Ro '86 Conference in the vedish port of...

I Townsend Thoresen has impleted the first stage of a .5 million plan to double the eight carrying capacity of two its...

• A self-commissioned study by Transport Development Group company Tuffnells Parcels Express shows that its Premium Express...

• Five arrests and 34 dismissals followed the National Pallet Day held on March 6 this year, when representatives from 21...

several new Transits exhibited at Warwick and represented a combined effort. Whitacres of Stoke-on-Trent built the crew cab...

Autosteer Control of Yeadon, West Yorkshire to give cordless switching for all winching operations. The system, compatible...

• There was something for everyone at last week's Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators annual conference and exhibition at...

Kent, has only the second of Roger Dyson's Enforcer 15 recovery installations. To accommodate it, the chassis has been...

• Land Rover's One-1 Towlift recovery model has been developed by its specia vehicle branch and equipped by Bristol-based...

I Four management buy-out - oposals to take over ational Bus Company subsiaries are at an advanced age, Transport Secretary...

• The Scottish Bus Group made a 26.1 million profit last year, 2300,000 more than the target agreed with the Scottish Office....

.ondon Buses' Birmingham-London express coach service went Ito service last week. The Cummins L10-engined coaches which ave...

radios, driver screens, videos and alarms to protect their crews from the growing incidence of violent assaults. A...

• iwo local authorities have tailed in their attempts to block new bus services by using the limited objection powers of the...

M Hugh Stewart, the Road Haulage Association's executive officer responsible for commercial and international affairs, died...

• Ford of Britain has appointed two men to replace chairman and managing director, Sam Toy at the head of the company. Derek...

• London-based Bucks has appointed three new people to its management team. Corbett Ross is its warehouse development manager...

• Derek Fisher, has been :ippointed to the board of Robert Home Paper company after a year with the company. His career in...

• David Monaghan heading the new National BuE subsidiary company which is taking over the Northumbriar operations of United...

VW BRAKE PROBLEM • Volkswagen is recalling Volkswagen Caddy pick-ups sold in the UK because of a potential brake problem. It...

EXTRA BRANCH • Ryder Truck Rental last week opened a new branch in Bristol, supplementing the nearby one at Avonmouth. The...

NOISE RESTRICTIONS • New legislation to limit the amount of noise in workshops and factories came a step nearer last week when...

DANGEROUS AIR CARGO • The Freight Transport As:..ociation takes its training activities one step further next month when it...

LONGLIFE GROOVES • Uniroyal Tyres has introduced a new tubeless monoply tyre for steered axles. It claims it will give up to...

BUS AND COACH SHOW • The second bus and coach show to be held at the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam is to take place from...

• The fourth Distribution Services Show is taking place at Wembley Conference Centre on October 8-11. Up to 150 exhibitors are...

▪ Britain's Best Kept Bus and Coach Competition 1986 is being sponsored by the National Bus Company with the support of the...

• "Keep London Moving — a Capital Programme" is the title for a one-day conference about London's transport needs. It is being...

• Nothing breeds succes like success. Working on YIN belief, management consultants to the motor industry, Sewells...

DIESEL PICK-UPS • Mazda's B2200 diesel on tonne pick-up (CM light vehicle news May 10) went o sale last week. Price for th...

KEEPING TRACKS • A vehicle performanc monitoring system, first devised for the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, i now...

Group, s opened a Mercedes-Benz ick and car dealership in wthampton. T'ne company previously erated a franchise in the w n...

MOTORWAY LIGHTS • The first set of traffic lights on a motorway in this country were due to come into operation this week....

Council is to have a rapid beneficial effect on London's traffic bottlenecks. Movement for London, the pressure group...

The following major roadworks could cause delays to operators and drivers, and should be borne in mind when route planning....

• Lorries carryin g hazardous substances will have to conform to nationally defined "safe" routes if a scheme before the Welsh...

MIThe Government announced on April 24 that plans to sell Land Rover and other parts of the British Leyland commercial vehicles...

MA proud still-British (government plots permitting) Leyland, which celebrates its 90th birthday this month, is bouncing back,...

MSurveys of 160 British haulage companies show average profit margins still well below 5%. Commercial Motor, May 3. MEduardo...

• United Parcels has made a belated entry into the next-day parcels market with a unique system of demountable drawbar truckin...

• Revived interest in bio g as as a road vehicle fuel, is reported on in the March/April edition of Transport Management, the...

Double standards • in Scandinavia The Danish road haulage association has written to Norway's Prime Minister Kaare Minch...

Market shares: SMMT survey • Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders figuers show that Leyland and MercedesBenz are...

Fortunes changing in South Africa ▪ the South African market sector 15,001 to 17,501kg, which covers the main bus market,...

event is the best way forward for both companies, according to Ford of Britain chairman Sam Toy. • Ford has lost some of the...

New design van for US Post MI Delivery vehicles with all-aluminium bodies to save weight and resist corrosion being delivered...

• While Transport Express is a factual resume, compiled by John Durant, of transport news at home and abroad, opinion is...

World's longest, fastest busway • What it calls the world's longest and fastest busway was opening in Adelaide, South...

Unsatisfactory compromise E Yet again it appears that the Government is going to saddle British haulage with an unsatisfactory...

Diesel Range Rover introduced E United Kingdom light van registrations last month were down by a percentage of 1.3, but for...

▪ June dates for your diary 5 South of England Show, Ardingley (June 5 to 7) SEAS; tel 0444 89245 10 Institute of Waste...

One of the best at its weight IlLeyland Roadrunner 8.10 The British have a peculiar knack for self criticism which frequently...

E The March edition of the Swedish journE TIA, issued by the Truckers Internatiom Association, prints its final item in Englisl...

Crowded as ever, Harrogate's exhibition centre was a popular venue for Tipcon visitors • Harrogate's exhibition centre was as...

Concessions to farmers, calls for 40 tonners and warnings of higher oil prices were but some of the topics discussed by the...

Bedford's 6x4 112440, first saw the light of day in 1983. Only recently have sales be.un to take off In recent months much...

A novel permanently-engaged trailer axle drive system has received the 'thumbs up' from a major trailer manufacturer There...

AND CHEFS The only difference between the Bedford Rascal and Suzuki Super Carry microvans is the badge. But the performances...

BY THE HAWK 11 The Faroe Islands are only 300km north of Scotland, and if hey cannot properly be ermed remote, they have...

diverting via the M62, I have discovered why. The liartshead Moor services, between junctions 25 and 26, operated by Welcome...

New models from ERF, lveco, Leyland and Seddon Atkinson are the eye-catchers and among the record number of exhibits is a new...

• Close co-operation between vehicle operators and equipment manufacturers is probably more in evidence in the car and truck...