and its present Government need is an industrial strategy. It is not needed to control manufacturing industry, or to put...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR has always been Britain's foremost commercial vehicles magazine, and recent research has confirmed the fact...

FE FUTURE of the British ck manufacturing industry been thrown into total array by the collapse of ;otiations last weekend he...

'IL SPARK of success for id Rover-Leyland amid the tes of the failed GM takeel was Monday's revelation at it has signed an...

THE NINE-WEEK Cake tachograph records conspiracy trial ended on Monday with jail sentences being served on four of the five...

A 26 PER CENT increase in new truck sales in 1985 helped Lex Service's transport division to record much healthier profit...

THE A74 and M74 in Southern Scotland became littered with overturned trucks and vans last week as westerly Winds reaching...

THE MAJOR oil compan have dashed Chancellor of I Exchequer Nigel Lawsoi post-Budget hopes that tE would absorb the increw tax...

FRESH court battle is nit to break out over the ore of the Greater London uncel's night and weekend ry ban. ['his has been...

TERNATIONAL haulier IG Freight Services, in junction with the Birmingt Post, has launched an ard to find the best mplcs of...

A NEWARK, Nottinghamshire, operator is offering a £500 reward for information leading to the recovery of a rare MAN tractive...

BRIT1511 refrigerated lorry operators are being offered a possible increase in width limits, but it is less of a concession...

THE NEXT registration year, beginning on August 1, when D suffixes are introduced, is to last for 14 months. In response to...

VOLVO has officially opened its new truck and bus parts facility in Warwick. Volvo Parts Division president Sven Kall opened...

THE ARBITRATION service, ACAS, has been called in to settle the case of a TNT driver who was dismissed after he refused to...

VOLVO'S 1-10 1 beaten British and European competitors to be selected as the best 38 tonner for a Bass Group subsidiary....

A TRANSPORT Tribunal judge last week warned a haulier that his operating licence could he removed if he failed to comply with a...

COMMERCIAL MO TC Truckfest — the trucking festh at Peterborough . 's East of Et land Showground — is breaki records already,...

GRANVILLE CAWTHERLEY is the new general manager at the Manchester branch of Derwent Vehicles, the Mercedes-Benz truck dealer....

LEYLAND TRUCKS has recruited Tim Campbell as an additional national fleet sales manager. Ten years' experience in the truck...

SAM TOY, Ford of Britain's chairman for the past fiveand-a-half years, takes over the presidency of the Society of Motor...

KEN SUTTON, West Midlands PTE's operations director for the past nine years, is joining the list of prominent busmen bowing out...

ISTEL, developer of computer systems for the motor industry, has made Alastair McGill general manager of its motor trades...

THE NEW Railfreight finance and resources manager is Ian Brown. He takes over from Derek Finch who is retiring. Brown joined...

FERGUS SMITH is the n operations development in agcr at Lowfield Distribut based in Daventry. He joined Lowfield in 1( as a...

WE RECORD with rei the death of John Tibh■ the founder of the Tibl and Britten Group, on Ma 14. He was originally an in...

ARONOR, the French eight depot chain, is aiming to open the first Lase of a commercial develintent and truckstop at...

111k plan to locate a major lorry park at Mosscnd, in Lanarkshire, has raised a storm of protest locally, compelling Motherwell...

J NORMAN and Son of Gretna has been given the goahead for a lorry park at the Balcrow greyhound stadium car park at Gretna to...

THE PROVISION of parking facilities for lorries and coaches waiting to pass through Customs controls before using the Channel...

'II I E TRA N SPORT Tribunal has rejected an appeal by three haulage companies against the decision (CM. October 19) by the...

AN APPEAL against the sl pension of a Notringhi company's operator's licet was rejected at the Tramp Tribunal last week. The...

. _.ANS by a Lancashire Wier Thomas I farwood and ■ ias to take over the depot of Aton Transport and Tradg Company have...

THE HARBOURNE Group has accepted restrictions on operations from its Welling-. borough depot in order to appease residents....

AN EDINBURGH lorry driver has been awarded 121,638 by an industrial tribunal. Robert MacAndrew was sacked after a complaint by...

being used by a Transport Development Group company on an overnight trunking contract with a textiles company. McKelvie...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has urged operators and drivers of lorries to take greater responsibility as leaders in the...

OIL THIRD Road Haula Association Tanker cony( tion and exhibition will to place at the Norbreck Cas Hotel and the Norcalym ,...

TWO OF BRITAIN'S potato crisp manufacturers are using Volvo FL6 trucks to renew their delivery fleets. Golden Wonder has been...

tKINS ENGINES has sted over £30 million on !loping a new range of k engines. he Phaser four-stroke, .d-cooled in-line range of...

LLOWING the introducof sleeper cab converis on the Volvo FL range n Windloil (CM, March , Frank Guy of Clay iss, Derbyshire is...

A UNIQUE fullyequipped mobile operating theatre/ambulance has been introduced by the Frankfurt Fire Brigade as part of a...

EEC standards governi emissions from diesel 4.11 gir vehicles "take no account health or environmental i plications" and arc...

ESSEX milk and dairy t duct distributor G. R. Tan of Siblc Hedingham has ceived its third Isokarno t4 perature controlled 13(...

DRINKS served on international tourist coaches may be sold tax free under plans hs the EEC Commission to put road travel on an...

WADHAM IRINGER Coachbuilders is to launch a new version of its established Vanguard single-deck bus body at the British Coach...

The vehicles join 14 Mercedes-Benz powered Skyliners in the fleet, which is owned by Carlton PSV, the Neoplan importer. Both...

LOT1 1IA N Region Transport and Eastern Scottish Omnibuses have registered competing plans for commuter and cross-city services...

LONDON one-perso operated bus drivers fi quently suffer from fatigi related complaints, accordi to a report recently comm...

DAF Diesel has appoin LRT Bus Engineering (BE London Regional Transpo engineering wing, at conversion agent. BEL has ready...

- HOUGH he has revoked seven vehicle PSV rator's licence of Euro lemy Coaches of Croy, Metropolitan Traffic maissioner Air-Vice...

EXPECTED the Irish Relic Government has pub.td a Bill to split Coras pair Eireann (CIE) into a ling company with three rating...

NDON-based SSS Interonal has started operating Lew regular coach service Ti London to the Basque on of Northern Spain. SS is...

LONDON BUSES has still to decide whether to place any bus orders for next year, but is keeping its options open. Normally, it...