IATIONALISATION of road haulage is back on the Labour arty's shopping list, and it says it will not compensate any hareholders...

RIVERS in the premixed 3ncrete industry will get a 7 percent rise on a guaranKid 44.5 hour week as the :suit of an agreement...

THE LOT of the owner driver has been improved, following an extension . of the British Association of Owner Drivers' membership...

THIS IS make or break week for Stonefield Vehicles, with Tozer, Kemsley and Millbourn's option on the company being due to run...

KENT COUNTY Council fears that a fixed cross-Channel link could harm local employment and the environment, and wants assurances...

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY assistance towards current advanced battery projects amounts to £3.03m, while £180,000 came from the...

A CALL for a general ban on the sale of tyre sealants has been turned down in the Commons. Junior Transport Minister Kenneth...

A LEAMINGTON-base company has just launche Britain's first ev€ commercially-accessible ir dustrial census which offal the...

comg ny's future this week, but s they are still at the planni stage. A spokesman told CM th they are still seeing supplit and...

5 THE GOVERNMENT prepares to crease the fee for a heavy goods hide driving test by 57 per cent, the eight Transport Association...

AYMENTS of compensaon to victims of hit and run rivers are to be upgraded ccording to Junior Transport linister Kenneth...

THE SCOTTISH Motor Trade Association has voiced concern at the Government's plans to hive off the heavy goods vehicle testing...

A one-day seminar for management on tachographs will be held on September 4, and a one day lorry-mounted crane course is...

down from the venerable ceiling in front of them . . . but bumps lay ahead. Or, to be strictly accurate, humps — those...

R1TAIN has an international obligation to recognise the eavy goods vehicle driving licences of 18 to 21 year olds, riving...

BETTER SECURITY, especially in tracing stolen vehicles and vehicles used in crimes, could come from a different and better...

THE TRANSPORT Minister has been urged to ensure that some of the leases for motorway service areas go to operators in France,...

RENAULT TRUCKS and Buses are now offering low cost finance with interest rates ranging from 3.5 per cent to 8.25 per cent flat...

A HARLOW-based haulier has been fined a total of £210 plus £20 costs for failing to ensure that a tachograph on a...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has considered the possibility of banning heavy vehicles from the right-hand lane of the M2 south...

THE SALE of the National Freight Corporation will take place in the first part of next year, hopes Transport Minister Norman...

ONE of the biggest transpoi clearing houses in Norther Germany, Logemann KG Bremen, is involved in ban! , ruptcy proceedings...

CURRIE MOTORS, Newpc Pagnell, are to handle z maintenance and servicing DAF lorries in the area. The facilities at Currie Moto...

"FRONTAL ATTACK" to eliminate the tiresome Customs rmalities that cause long queues of lorries at the EEC's ernal frontiers is...

THE steel strike alone earlier this year cost British Rail £30m in lost orders, and freight carryings are continuing to decline...

IRECT BAG is the name of a )w Post Office contract rvice said to make goods stribution easier and leaper. The service is aimed...

DESPITE an increased turnover, York Trailer Holdings Ltd made a pre-tax loss of £495,000 in the six months to June 30, 1980,...

TWO new mirrors, measuring 254 X 203mm (10 x Bin) and 305 X 210rnm (12 x 8,25in) increase the Bradford-based Astree Glass range...

BRITISH Gypsum and Christian Salvesen are to fit Quinton Hazell underriders to all their new vehicles. Several months of...

YORK Truck Equipment it helped Taurus . Bodies, ti Cheshire-base bodybuilders, to produce new ambulance type, 1 making an air...

AT A COST of over £40,00 Stormont Engineering Co Ltd Tonbridge, Kent, has installec Skonik chassis straightenii system. This...

HITE Motor Corporation, the American heavy vehicle nufacturer, has announced details of its right-hand drive, ward-control...

IE latest addition to the f-strong fleet of fdrochloric acid tankers )erated by Berk Spencer :ids Ltd from its Stratford,...

A SLEEPER conversion is now available from the Andover-based company Locomotors Ltd for the new Bedford TL model. Cab length...

PROBLEMS for tt Passenger Transpo Executives are now wide pread and, contrary to pop lar belief, are not restricted1 London the...

TRANSPORT Minister No man Fotvler has dismiss€ appeals by Scottish Bt. Group subsidiary Alexanct (Northern), and Wats°. Tours...

DESPITE not being a name normally associated with bus chassis, ERF in South Africa is supplying a fleet of locallybodied ERF...

THE GOVERNMENT is considering a minimum safety standard for coach bodies and hopes to make a decision later this year....

IN SPITE OF the current market slump, Leyland Vehicles al keeping most of their workforce on full time. Of the total 23,000 LV...

THE LAST bonneted HI_ typi cab from Scania has left thi assembly line at the Oskar shamn factory to be replace' .after the...

GOWRINGS Engineering Ltd of Winchester has designed a body that can be used to lift, carry and off-load heavy plant. The...

PETER REDFERN, managing director of Quinton HazeII, commenting on the Minister of Transport's intention to legislate for...

GARDNER managing director Brian Davies ha: commented on the curreni Fodens situation: 'Our association with Fodens goes back...

'ROGRESS is being made owards adopting a set of ,tandards aimed at allowing an nterchange of bodies between lemountable systems...

BEFORE Mr Ashwell starts making such stupid comments as - drivers are no more than modern-day gipsies (July 12, p3), he wants...

I SINCERELY hope that you are able to make public our very strong view that the AA report on tyre sealants is totally...

WITH reference to your road test on the Dodge G 26P articulated vehicle (CM, July 12), we wish to make the following comments....

I AM an owner-driver of a tippe engaged mainly on tarmacadarr work, and I would like to hea from QH and Crane Fruehau Ltd,...

the 1100-20 or 12H 22.5 tyri is needed to plate a two-axli artic or rigid at 16 tons gvw In fact in the UK the 16PE 1000-20 or...

limiting factor. Dodge says the G26P, although rated at 26 tons gvw, is aimed at the 24-ton section of the market. Many of the...

IF LETTERS were sorted by the Post Office as efficiently as parcels are by National Carriers at Lawley Street, Birmingham,...

WHILE most manufacturers are battening down the hatches, ERF has shown great courage in opening a new £1.5m engineering...

CHAMPAGNE in paper cups helped a coachload of Scottish holidaymakers to forget the British summer when Bernard Cotter, of...

THE omnipotent Jim fixed the launch of Townsend Thorsen's third new ferry ship, Pride of Free Enterprise (8200 tons), in...

THE BEAUTY of the English countryside has to compete with television for the attention of the West Indies cricket team on its...

DURHAM police have been testing the new DATAC speedchecking system, which its manufacturer, Fidus Controls Ltd, claims is...

'm unificent "Municipal" is one thing local councils can't afford to be, so to find out how tight finances have affected...

Two Volvos, an MCW, and a Dennis Dominator are undergoing the third degree in an effort to find - ne most cosi effective way of...

They must find ways of cuttind back, but some schemes can create more problems than ey solve. as Brian Chalmers-Hunt reports...

IF YOU WORK in the road transport industry the chances are that you or some of your staff work shifts. It may well not be...

ENTREPRENEURIAL activity to introduce new methods of pro viding rural public transport is to be expressly encouraged by the New...

Faith, hope and charity 'The details in Norman Fowler's White Paper do not even fulfil the BRF's own restricted priorities.'...

system for a fleet of articulated vehicles with particular emphasis on ensuring adequate maintenance for the trailers. The...

for use in conjunction with the proposed scheme to ensure adequate control. The scheme should be adaptable to all types of...

design and development of the commercial vehicle in the next 25 years. The thesis will look at the design of commercial...

To examine the development of European road transport against the present situation where there are differences of policy in...

The author should consider the warehousing , and distribution functions as an extension of the production line, and design a...

and six copies of the entry. They should be typewritten to 50 characters and double spaced. The thesis should be of...

The development of the diesel engine, its components, the case for and against alternative fuels. The thesis will trace the...

MANN and Son (International) Ltd has appointed Mike Gray to the main board as group operations director. He will be responsible...