'NDA CHALKER has been rewarded for her energy and enthusiasm while serving ider two Transport Secretaries. The change in her...

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board has confounded sceptics in the haulage industry by cutting the running costs of its...

FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS have been made to the M9/A9 trunk road between Stirling and Perth with the opening of a fivemile (8km)...

OPPOSING responses to the Department of Transport's proposals for a separate recovery vehicle taxation class have appeared with...

SHORTLY after the appointmei last week of Nicholas Ridley the new Secretary of State fi Transport, there was promotic too for...

THE ROAD Haulage Association has re-emphasised its view 1 down-licensing, after a paper recently compiled by. the Freig...

THE GOVERNMENT will step in to stop the Greater London Council imposing a blanket ban on heavy lorries. Transport Minister...

E ANNOUNCEMENT of plans for strengthening and repairing the al England-Wales Severn Bridge can be expected very shortly —...

FURTHER mass redundancies have been announced at MAN. The company is facing serious difficulties and board changes are also...

JAPANESE exports of light commercial vehicles to Britain and other EEC countries have not been "moderated" as promised under an...

FROM DECEMBER Seddon Atkinson 201 16-ton rigids will go into full production equipped with a more powerful engine. Installed...

IVECO (UK) is set for a E operating profit this year, a !yea° chief executive Alan Fa] London last week. "We have turned a E•...

DIESEL-ENGINED and fa wheel-drive cars are to be cluded in the fuel consumpi testing scheme run by the G ernment. Vehicles...

EXPERT EVIDENCE concerning the construction of the dynamic axle weighbridge at Wall in Staffordshire was called before...

FEARS that bridges in Cheshire may need strengthening to cope with 38-tonne lorries, were expressed at a meeting of Cheshire...

THE FREIGHT Transport As ciation is holding seminars vehicle operation in local g ernment and total distribut later this year....

THE Commercial Motor Lc Driver of the Year, Grah Smart, is currently study road transport in the Uni States, courtesy of Mich...

NEW-LOOK BRS Group, 'nod down from six to four ins, is expecting a £223m 3ver for the year to April , an £18m increase on the...

TWO SCOTTISH councils are conducting investigations into the possibility of providing improved lorry parking facilities in...

THE SERVICES of former Ti port Secretary David Ho+ helped establish new conti between Parliament and transport industry this...

DATES have been fixed for next five years for the R Haulage Association's Tip] Convention in Harrogate. Next year's runs from...

THE CONFEDERATION of Br Industry's national conferen to break with tradition this by moving from an English I tion to Glasgow....

STAVA GB, importer for the joslavian Yugo range of cars, Is a van model to its line-up three and five-door saloons d hatchback...

SSEX breakdown recovery npany G. W. and G. Bridges, rawley, has added an lveco ly van to its 10-strong pickup rt. he company...

CUMMINS main and big-end-bearing shells for the 14-litre NHC250 and NT/NTE engines are being sold at half the manufacturer's...

BUILDING BLOCK manufacturer Sage and Down has chosen a 6x4 Foden tractive unit with a tandem-axle York trailer in preference to...

BUILDER's merchant Cooper Clarke Group has added a 7.5tonne Dodge RG08 four-wheelrigid tipper with an Edbro tipping body to its...

A CONSULTANT eye surgeon, John Blake, at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, has called upon the British Government to withdraw its...

A FOLDING lorry-loading crane, designed to lift the heavier unit loads now being carried as a result of the 38-tonne-weight...

FIVE Volvo F1224 6x2 tractive units have entered service with the Leeds-based tanker specialist Smith and Robinson. Equipped to...

THE NEW front-wheel-drive sun Sunny 1.3 van incorpor many of the same mechal components used by its pr cessor, the 120Y van....

;0 UK is adding two models he end of the year to its Num-weight Z-range of mis cabs and vans, and inlucing its 6X2 twin-steer...

YORK will be showing a thinwalled version of its Thermovan refrigerated semi-trailer at the Scottish Show. This is the result...

He is backed up by four vicepresidents representing the four sectors of the Council. Stuart Appleby, of R. W. Appleby,...

WESTERN SMT traffic manager Alan Wilson moves next month to become the Scottish Bus Group's express and tours manager,...

Mr Chapman is general r ager of Ribble Motor Serv, part of the National Bus C pany, and heads a section c prising nearly 1,000...

DOWNARD-Pickfords, National Freight Consortit Australian removals, stor and distribution company, taken on two new non-exect....

CHRIS STEVENSON, last year's winner of the CM-sponsored Young Lorry Driver of the Year competition, has won the International...

H MORE and more British stered coaches running on tie services to the South of ice, it was appropriate that a than the normal...

NATIONAL BUS values "close and harmonious" relationships with most municipal operators, its deputy chairman Robert Brook said...

it was claimed before Darlington magistrates when Martindale Coaches of Ferryhill, a director of the company, and one of its...

result of public ti port reorganisation under Government's plan to abc metropolitan counties and GLC, claims ClIr Kei Coombes,...

WITH BUS FARES frozen fo past 18 months and likely t main so until at least April press routes increased, ser sustained and...

A BID to sell Lothian Region's Edinburgh coach fleet will be part of the Lothian Tory administration's budget policy for next...

E ROUND-TABLE of six lineers (CM, August 27) made excellent case for ifessional co-ordination of the prts of all concerned to...

MMERCIAL MOTOR'S Coach r 83 is proof that the coaching ustry is in good shape and dy for the future. For those ders who were...

IT WAS RECENTLY reported in the Press that Philip Taylor, trading as Taylors Transport of Tamworth Road, Litchfield, who was...

:PERIENCED an rehensive twitch when I rd that a financial leech had sn over from Tom Kin g as nsport Secretary. Nicholas ley...

)SE who believe that a fernment Minister could not )ersuaded to attend an RHA ual conference abroad were rkin g , "told you...

ANYONE who says the Talbot Motor Company's Michael Jud g e is the bi gg est g asba g in the Midlands is bein g beastly. True,...

IT IS A PITY that in an ima g inative report on railway revival, the Adam Smith Institute, an independent public policy...

TOWNSEND THORESEN marked its 100,000th ferry crossin g between Zeebru gg e and Dover with a bottle of champa g ne and a carria...

I description and driving wessions of the new le-bodied range. By Tim kemore IGHT ROVER's Sherpa range /ens and chassis cabs...

The new cloth-covered seats are the most comfortable I have experienced in a vehicle of this kind, while their dark grey colour...

;pecially for trailer iufacturers and uerters when it comes to isuring response time. A II Essex company of ineering...

Three years go CM looked at the case history of an operator with 500 vehicles (CMJuly 19, 1983). We now take another look and...

iham Montgomerie sums the current brake pineering thinking. And, he says, our drivers n't all soon become disc keys. Drums will...

Our engineering editor learns about Mintex's efforts to find a safe replacement material for brake linings ASBESTOS features in...

IRBOCHARGERS run at very ) h speeds — 80,000 rpm is not common, and the exhaust tine may have to cope with nperatures as high...

Why don't rental fleets go for this diesel CF? It's a mystery to Bryan Jarvis, who recorded good journey times on our light van...

/I Lockpanel comes a er toolbox, priced at £67.50 ding VAT. The three ers are mounted on baling runners for easy .1ment even...

,IR FILTER designed to ove spray painting quality moving condensate from les has been introduced by iAir Ltd. en when wall air...

A SEVERE WINTER with freezing temperatures can create many problems for operators, not least diesel fuel waxing causing blocked...

SNOW and ice around loading bays and transport yards is a real safety hazard, not only for vehicles but also personnel. To keep...

EUROPAT has updated its Vizibleed one-man brake and clutch bleeding kit. Each pack contains two brake bleeders enabling brakes...

FRIDGE OPERATORS using dual-mode diesel/electric refrigeration units on trailers and vehicles often have to rely on remotely...