Haulage comes first WE DETECT little enthusiasm for the proposed transport strike on November 8. That does not mean it will...

MAINTENANCE costs are the highest factor in vehicle running costs and the labour element is the principal cost. Vehicle...

RTITB holds back WEEK's anticipated blood letting at the Road Transport IndusTraining Board failed to happen. It has postponed...

FREIGHT ROVER'S recent British Telecom order for 2,500 Sherpa chassis cabs (CMAugust 14) has been increased to 3,000 and more...

THIRTEEN BY-PASSES have been added to the English road programme for 1986 onwards, thus fulfilling Transport Secretary David...

NATIONAL FREIGHT Consortium ordinary shares have been revalued again, and are now worth twice their original value. The...

HAULAGE DRIVERS' Transport and General Workers Union branches were being sent a circular on Monday this week, urging them to...

BRITISH operators on inte tional work may not be abli take immediate advantage creased gross weight lin according to the...

THE EEC COMMISSION is now officially backing the plan I radical change in the system for fixing road haulage tariffs betv...

E COLT CAR Company, British it commercials, is considering emble some of the Mitsubishi 1 BLAKEMORE. decision is unlikely to...

EXPECTATIONS grew last week that David Howell's draft Coniction and Use amendments on lorry weights were about to be iented to...

ELECTRIC VEHICLE lobbyists have added their voice to the pressure for EEC tachograph regulation to be reduced in scope. In...

MAGIRUS-DEUTZ faces further closures, and there is now no hope of saving the last 1,800 jobs at the bus plant at Mainz after a...

USE OF FRASER Is spending und 000,000 on demount. drawbar vehicles as part of overhaul of its West Country trlbution system....

SIX HIRE or reward haulage wage claims had been submitted to the Road Haulage Association by the beginning of this week, all of...

BRITISH RAIL is investing £6.75m link freight wagons, and says this Speaking in London last week, BR freight director Henry...

CARGOFAX, the Road Haulage Association's viewdata load matching and information system, has started its six-week tour of...

THE GREATER London Council should abandon "ill conceived" suggestions about the introduction of supplementary vehicle licensing...

A FOREIGN vehicle check ried out by West Midland Tr, Area staff and the police Staffordshire last week led t , drivers being...

THE PROPOSED lorry ban on the A45 trunk road in Cambridgesl should be dropped, according to the Freight Transport Associati But...

LLO WING discussions with France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the partment of Transport has secured additional permits for...

h r o i b n a o r TOSHIBA (UK), the Japanese consumer, electrical and electronics company, has taken a 41,000sqft site on the...

THREE haulage companies in the West Midlands have been awarded the British Rail contract to deliver steel from BR's steel...

GHV: the results THE TRANSPORT and Road Research Laboratory has evaluated the data collected from the Oxfordshire haulage...

FORD'S Selectron hand-held micro-computer which holds data on vehicle specifications and is designed for dealer salesmen is on...

KING TRAILERS of Market borough, the trailer and tr porter manufacturer, annoui that it is to buy the bushi assets of R. A....

SUZUKI is launching a passenger version of its SJ410 light 4X4 range at the Motor Show. The three-model range (van, pick-up,...

ERF's new horizons ERF NEEDS to look beyond its present horizons and extend its range further down the weight scale according...

A 38-TONNE gcw tractive unit with a kerb weight of under five tons is possible, says Hank Kiefer of Sand bach Engineering. The...

LEX TILLOTSON, Manchester is to convert 13 Ford Transits and 19 Ford Escort vans belonging to Stockport Metropolitan Borough...

SMITHS INDUSTRIES has formed a new company to provide specialist sales and technical support in the market for auxiliary...

THE BRITISH Standards In tion has published a revisi B9 3911 "Lead-acid startei teries for internal combu engines Part...

THE ROCKWELL CVC drive — the result of a joint velopment between Rodl and Ivaco — is on schedul production in January according...

.1 LEWIS, general manager of Southampton City Transport has 3n elected president of the Bus and Coach Council. He succeeds vid...

of road materials, the riding quality of roads, and road surface drainage. In 1973 he left the TRRL and moved to the Building...

EST YORKSHIRE Passenger 3 nsport Executive director neral Robin Ward retires this 'ek, after eight years with the E. He is 51,...

POETS md SOUTH Wales Transport area manager (east) ROGER FRENCH is moving within National Bus next week to become assistant...

EIGHT independent part-time advisers are to assist in the management of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory. They will...

CHARLES EDEN has become branch manager for Whittle International Freight's new London operations and customer service centre at...

GREY GREEN Coaches has created a new position of traffic manager, which has been filled by operations manager John Card. He...

Eyre on a bus tour NO FURTHER CLUES about the content of the Government's forthcoming fares control Bill emerged last week...

BOMBARDIER (Ireland), company set up to supply Cc lompair Eireann, the Irish rep lic's transport company, wit range of...

LVO BUS has won two ordso far for its underfloor-ened Ailsa Citybus doubleker, and it is working on is for a high-speed coach...

exander/M-B link N"twing NATIONAL BUS wants the disabled and elderly to have the maximum possible use of its re gular bus and...

LINCOLN CITY Transport's recent fares battle with Lincolnshire Road Car appears to have paid dividends, even although it has...

PIE fears loss DECISION has been reserved on plans by Bennett's of Kilwinning to expand the operation of its seven-month-old...

A NEW EXPERIMENTAL lane is to be opened on the A radial route in Leeds. It speed up the journey times. proposed bus lane will...

TRICENTROL COACHES I changed its name to Tourma: Coaches and its parent c( pany, the Tricentrol Tra Group has become Leisurerr...

HONG KONG'S largest franchised bus operator, the Kowloon Mo Bus Company, has ordered 100 British double-deck buses delivery...

4NSPORT SECRETARY David Nell had another opportunity r week to end the suspense the heavy lorry issue, and anince his 38-tonne...

THE SHOW worth it for the perator of vehicles below the .5 tonnes gross vehicle weight Ireshold? As there are some enuinely new...

k SMALL BUT significant imirovement in trade and a subsepent movement of goods is low beginning to show and this vas reflected...

MUST at last put pen to paper ) protest at misleading omments in the press and Isewhere. The latest utterance from a adly...

VHATEVER WE MAY have :xpected from the debate at the "ory party's annual conference heavy lorries, there must urely now be some...

I AM NOT SURPRISED at the comments of Mr Witcher (CM September 11). No wonder the RHA is not loved by all hauliers. They never...

I HAVE JUST seen your issue of October 2 and would be grateful if you would note that the equipment described in a caption as a...

I WAS VERY interested to see the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition featured recently on BBC's television programme "Top...

WE ARE concerned about the heading and the implication of your article headed 'Detroit is bombed out' (CM, October 16). To put...

/EN WITHOUT Leyland Bus exbiting, the evidence of the low is that we are very defitely in the age of the coach. itain is...

HE FAILURE of David Howell, - ransport Secretary, to innounce his decision on lorry vei g hts at the Conservative 'arty...

THE YEAR of indecision — that is the best description of 1982, with the Motor Show taking place amid optimistic signs of a...

EFORE the expected threeuarter of a million visitors oured into the NEC Motor how and covered everything in ght with seven...

'HE 25 to 29-seat sector of the oath market is one that is often eglected by manufacturers. It is ominated by midi coaches...

The luggage accommodation offered by the coach is generous in relation to its seating capacity, with a large conventional rear...

HE VOLKSWAGEN Transporter us, despite its name, is actually lore of a car than a bus. It only as eight seats and is not...

awkward for small people but access to the saloon through a nearside sliding door is easy. Loading luggage into the Bus is no...

NEIL GARDINER'S personal and working life over the past 14 months defies the old adage that a change is as good as a rest....

rus for longer than the originally planned three years could be due to the way the vehicle has performed. "It's a very good...

Diesel fuel is produced by all refiners in Britain to the same industry-wide standard on "waxing", designed to minimise...

What needs to be done to cut vehicle fuel consumption and give more mpg is well known: optimum loads, routes and driving...

With cold weather coming, operators will be checking on antifreeze. Most will probably have antifreeze in the engine as a...

VIE-STUDY packs are now fable as a CM/Road asport Correspondence rses Special Offer to prepare he Royal Society of Arts...

THE COMMITMENT given by brake manufacturers in research, development and production of components and systems can be wasted...

EGRAL or conventional? I is one of the major gues s raised by the diversity of ;hes on show at the NEC. ) concepts have a lot...

FEW COULD LOOK at the range of coaches on show at Birmingham without being impressed. But how practical will they prove in the...

THE THREE BEST entries in the fifth BP Build-a-Car competition for young people are on display at the Show. A small,...

; ALWAYS been the aim of acturers and distributors to anticipate the customquirements and nowhere more apparent than in the of...

1CKS of the World Highways ndford Press, £4.95) edited 1rthur Ingram, offers value noney considering its size, printing and...

THE CONCEPT of frustration — whereby a contract terminates automatically — has been applied to employment contracts when...