A S CAN BE SEEN from the papers presented at Commercial Motor's 1985 Fleet management Conference (extracts were printed in last...

THE THREAT of a lower speed limit for coaches and .a ban on their use of the fast lane of motorways resurfaced after 13 people...

A PENSION scheme for haulage drivers throughout Britain is to be launched by RUA Insurance Services, probably next month. It...

THE BUS and Coach Council has demanded an early meeting with Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley in an eleventh hour bid to...

TNT will launch its Supapost Service against the Post Office in the next three to four weeks. "We are really going to get...

THE GREATER L.oni. I on Council is now allowing both of the industry's trade ;tssociations to be represented on its lorry ban...

DAIMLER-BENZ is set to acquire a majority shareholding in AEG, the West (;erman company whose areas of activity include...

I FIE ROAD Haulage Association has welcomed the announcement of a Customs and Excise experiment clamp down on foreign vehicles...

HAULAGE unions were attacked by Road Haulage Association chairman Bert Neely at the Association's annual conference in Portugal...

HAULIERS should prepare for the next general election, RHA director-general Freddie .Plaskett said this week. Ile told...

THE ROAD Haulage Association plans to set up a benevolent fund for members and families who fall on hard times. An initial...

POST OFFICE exemptions to drivers' hours requirements will be removed — but private sector operators will have to wait for some...

Hauliers like Leyland speech A RARE standing ovation: greeted Robin Woolcock, operations director, UK, Leyland Trucks, after...

NEXT YEAR will be a good time for operators to buy used trucks and vans, says a review of business forecasts for the motor...

PROPOSALS from the Motor Agents Association and the National Tyre Distributors Association to increase the current minimum tyre...

scarTist I haulage drivers' go-it-alone claim this winter is for £10-a-week basic rate increase across the board, against the...

THE WINCHESTER, East Kent and Fulham branches of Pickfords Removals ltd have new managers. Arthur Butcher, who until recently...

THREE changes have been made at National Bus Company firms. Michael Holmes, general manager of East Midland Motor Services and...

A REORGANISATION within the engineering side of Hestair, has resulted in the following senior personnel moves. Jeremy Stoke,...

BRITISH drivers came seventh out of 12 teams participating in the Union Internationale des Chauffeurs Routiers {U1CR)...

GERRY FISHWICK has been promoted Seddon Atkinson parts sales and marketing manager from distribution development manager.....

COMPLAINTS about British livestock hauliers have led to the EEC Commission examining British laws dealing with the transport of...

STOKE-ON-TRENT magistrates have adjourned until December a case against Staffordshire Potatoes for allegedly operating after...

HARDWARE and garden products wholesaler Johnson Gibbons of Manchester has solved a distribution problem by using a drawbar...

ROAD TANKERS stopped in a police-check near Wetherby, North Yorkshire, last week, were largely complying with the 1981...

A TANKER driver who smashed through a railway level crossing while carrying 23,00(/ gallons of fuel oil was rapped by a judge...

THE METROPOLITAN Traffic Area has suddenly dropped its prosecution case against two operators who were alleged to be working...

DRIVERS who are members of the Transport and (;eneral Workers Union will have their cards renewed in January even if they arc...

THE SEA13OURNE European Express Parcels Group has opened its new North-eastern depot, which is located at Washington, County...

CONVICTIONS for a second axle overload on an articulated Outfit cost Wilsons Transport of Borou,L,dibridge and one of the...

OPPOSITION is growing to the oil companies' proposal to lower diesel fuel quality (CM, July .13 and August 3), and now...

IN ITS first full year of production, the LN2 range of Mercedes-Benz sixto 11tonners„ launched in the UK just before last...

CUMBRIAN haulier ticoft Stamper has put into service two 6x2 Foden tractive units, but this is not a sign of the Sandbach-based...

THE BREWERY Transport Advisory Committee has confirmed that this year's winner in the 38-tonne category of its Gordon Goddard...

ONCE the current Transport Bill receives the Royal Assent, the Department of Transport plans to issue a Code of Practice...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary Potteries Motor Traction, has established a new livery for its local bus fleet. The design...

LOCAL authorities and the police arc to be given the right to object to applications for PSV operators' licences. Agriculture...

SCHOOL buses and buses for the elderly with space for paying passengers will be eligible For fuel rebates Agriculture Minister...

DAF BUS has introduced a three-axle version of its 3(X)0 series coach chassis — the SBR 30K). they are powered by a rear...

TWO of Britain's leading bus and coach builders Leyland and Plaxtons are mounting sales attacks on the mainland European...

JQNCKHEERE has established a new British • subsidiary company to take on sales and service for its products from Roeselare...

.LEYLAND BUS still hopes to supply. buses to Bangkok Mass Transit in Thailand despite a continuing saga of the deal being off,...

IRELAND's semi-stateown4 transport company, Coras'Iompair Eireann, is to lease 50 Cummins-engined coaches for next season....

A NEW advertising medium for public transport operators was launched this month when Britain's first public transport users'...

MARSHALL of Cambridge is testing the potential demand for the - reintroduction of the Bedford JJL midibus. The company has...

SEDDON ATKINSON is to show improved models for 1986 at the Scottish Motor Show next month. Drivers will benefit most from the...

A BOX TRAILER supplied by Andover Trailers incorporates a sliding roof so that Barlow Handling's tallest lift trucks can be...

PEM BODIES of Bournemouth, taken over by the Highshares group last year, has moved to larger purposebuilt premises on the...

iv co has added .f:4mi1lion worth of parts to its stocks at Winsford. r [he main 16,000m 2 stockholding facility at Winsford,...

SERVICE intervals on all Seddon Atkinson 301 and 401 models have been increased from four weeks or 6,000 miles to six weeks or...

BY USING lift-up pelmets and shallow cantrails, Lawrence David of Peterborough has solved an operator's problem of loading and...

ERF's new 6x2 CP-Series is lighter, cheaper and has better traction at low kingpin loads. Its ride is not too good, but its...

L ORR Y, bus and taxi drivers should surrender their licences if they experience anginal pain or have had inore than one heart...

"not entirely right," Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport Sir Peter Lazarus, told delegates when...

T I li-. NEW - tio strike type ot agreement has been greeted with enthusiasm by ACAS Arbitration Services General Conciliation...

R !CHARD GRAHAM, Ashridge Centre for Transport Management director, in his paper on training and retraining for in said their...

R ENOWN ED anti-lorry campaigner Nick Lester from the GLC Public Transport Campaign Unit entered the lions' den armed only with...

I) ELEGATES at the Fleet Management Conference had the opportunity to put their questions to some of the vehicle...

summing up brief because he did not want to spoil his record of having kept the Conference on schedule all day. He picked out...

Southend Transport has rebodied, re-engined and revamped an cx Midland Red Leyland Leopard. Noel Millicr takes it for a test...

new book on the subject of road safety should coincide with a time when Britain has 5een some of its worst motorway disasters...

THE Commercial Vehicle Bodybuilders and Repairers Guide (Kogan Page; E6.95) has been revised for its third edition. Part 1:...

THE I40-page Travellers' Guide . * the Disabled (AA; £.2.25 to non-members) lists, in county order, more than 300 hotels,...

EVERYTHING the truck driver needs to know in order to do his job efficiently (and legally!)" — that is the publisher's claim...

Interlube's automatic chassis lubrication has grown more sophisticated over the years. One operator's 16-year-old ERF with the...

AN ALTERNATIVE to speed limiter devices for light commercials has been developed by Torque Ltd of Rochdale. The Stanley Speed...

FOR FLEET operators wishing to apply liveries quickly to vehicles, Drax Plastics of Burgess Hill, West Sussex, offers a...

HATCHER Components' Airwing 2(100 cab-mounted wind deflector is now available with a built-in illuminated facia panel. The...

A NEW RANGE of wheel embellishers for large commercials is available from Auto Industries of Leeds. Made from high-quality...

SOUTHFIELDS, the commercial vehicle bodybuilder, is now offering the option of lockable over-centre end fastenings on its...

technology department will build up a national fleet cost database as PostOffice goes on computer care of Allied Lyons COST...

The 1635 and 1644 models provide an insight into Daimler-Benz heavy truck development over the next decade. There are three...