coach operation in London. This is an important element of the national and London economy. Commendably, solutions to both...

ANOTHER busy issue is planned for next week with features from home and away. We've roadtested a Bedford 10tonner and will be...

by Jack Semple THEE TRANSPORT and General Workers Union's road haulage group has fixed its pay claim for t next year. The six...

A "PROMINENT" parcels carrier was due to introduce a booking-in charge from August 1 in an attempt to discourage delays at...

THE CM Save the Children Fund .appeal for drivers, mechanics and transport managers has met with an overwhelming response. At...

THE GOVERNMENT this week politely refused to take any further steps to block the night and weekend London lorry ban, due to...

THE JANUARY 1 target the revisions to EEC driv hours rules is unlikely to met. The inter-governmer working party which is try...

by Alan Millar THE LONDON ban will be remembered 100 years from now as one of the great steps forward for Londoners, Greater...

FREIGHTLINERS, t British Rail container si sidiary, is planning to fi i hack against hauliers in UK container market, inch ing...

NORTHERN'S plans to &late most of its Metro n area operations at the iber UK furniture facat Hoddesdon, Hertshire . ran into...

AN ANGLO-SCOTTISH and Continental haulier has paid £450,000 for MacBrayne Haulage,. the Scottish Transport Group's road haulage...

E CENTRAL Electricity crating Board has been !d to rethink its plan to up to 200 coal lorries a into Didcot power stain...

BRITISH hauliers made 45 per cent of journeys by powered vehicles to the Continent in the first quarter of this year. This...

MORE THAN 100,000 I goods vehicles arc estim to have failed the MoT last year, Transport Min Lynda Chalker has told M On a two...

rumpus TRANSPORT SECRETA Nicholas Ridley has prove a big row with his decisioi opt for the southern route the Okehampton...

A NEW i'2.5in Transcare pot dedicated to hanging g merit distribution for Ma and Spencer has been 'opei in Leicester....

A SENIOR Treasury ci servant is to succeed Sir Pe Lazarus as Permanent Sec tary at the Department Transport. Alan Bailey, the...

THERE is a printing error table four of the 1985/ Tables of Operating Cos The miles per week figu should read 400; 600; 81...

PAYMENT of nearly i:13in in EEC grants for major transport projects in Britain was approved in Brussels last week and most of...

FIRST of the Common Market proposals outlined in the EEC White Paper on easing frontier problems has been approved: the...

THE HUB, Lex Wilkinson's . computerised mechanical parcels sorting centre at Nuneaton, now has John Miles as its general...

PRODUCT and marketing manager for Renault Truck Industries is Michael Pullin. He has 17 years' experience of sales, marketing...

FIVE of National Holidays' senior staff, including general manager John King, are leaving to join rival coach holiday operator...

DENNIS EAGLE, the new company formed after the recent reorganisation of the vehicle division of Hestair, has appointed Jeremy...

KEITH DAVIE, form with Tate and Lyle and B Transhield, has joined Hat Transport as managing di tor. The firm runs 200 ion A...

A FORMER Freight Tr port Association presidi John Elliott, has been pointed as a member of National Dock Labour Bo; Mr Elliott...

E GREATER London, incil's permit application n is now available to rators who wish to be mpt from the night and !kend ban. 1p...

ONE COMPANY better placed than others to live with a London lorry ban is Guinness Brewing, which uses rail for 60 per cent of...

THE PROBLEM of heavy goods vehicle drivers losing their licences for private motoring offences is part of a road traffic law...

A WORKSHOP organisec the Freight Transport A dation to explain the C international ins ura convention to Irish hauli insurers...

RAD TRANSPORT Aberdeen has expanded light haulage and courier ! vice between Aberdel Peterhead and St Fergus meet the needs of...

THE GREATER London Council wants Transport Minister Lynda Chalker to delay the East London River Crossing public inquiry until...

by David Wilcox THE FIRST national motorway safety campaign started on Thursday this week and runs in the peak traffic period...

CENT operator has won appeal against a Deputy using Authority's refusal enew his licence on enviinental grounds, and the...

AN OPERATOR who failed to turn up to a public inquiry and had his licence revoked, has lost his appeal to the Transport...

ITTANY FERRIES has ayed plans to start a ght-only service between tsinouth and Cherbourg. 'In announcement last that a daily...

SENIOR engineers from Europe's second largest truck manufacturer, Iveco, are calling for all the implications of the proposed...

TURBOCHARGERS and fuel injection equipment have been added to Lucas CAV's bolt-on replacement scheme and augments the recently...

PACKAGE CONTROL of Crowthorne, Berkshire, has dropped the name Load-Lok used on its range of security and handling equipment....

BY USING Modular Distribution Systems' electro-hydraulic ISO container transfer equipment, Slington of Reading has been able to...

BENDIX, Crane Frucha Leyland Trucks and Rena Vehicules Industriels are 1 latest vehicle and compom manufacturers to agree...

A BRITISH STANDAR BS AU 201 Relays and Fla: ers, has been introduced overcome the problems of terchangeability. Part One,...

(area Miles E HAULIER which conrs it best to co-operate h the Greater London incil over its controversial y ban is Byron...

THE CHANGE in the balance of power of the English and Welsh shire counties has swung the Association of County Councils against...

ALDER VALLEY is blaming a forthcoming fares increase on the recent rises in the price of derv. In a message aimed at local...

THE REINCARNATED Willowbrook coachbuilding business has launched the first coach body from its new premises in Loughborough,...

KING'S LYNN indepen George Dack, tradirq Dack's Coaches, has \ authority to continue op( ing six vehicles from its d at...

THE GREATER Lou Council is expected to forward proposals in autumn for increasing f ties for on-street cc parking, Transport...

RISES in London Buses' running costs have begun to speed-up again, after slowing down between 1982 and 1983. London Regional...

TWO WEST Midlands PTE bus garages are to close over the next year as part of an efficiency drive. WMPTE announced last...

TRATHENS of Plymouth has added four Daf MB200 DKFL coaches to its fleet. The coaches have Caetano Algarve coachwork fitted...

TWO WOMEN have been told by a court they will be arrested if they go within 200 yards of any station on Tyneside's entire Metro...

EASTERN National has replaced some rural bus services in the Colchester area with a public car service.

by Brian Weatherley BY LAUNCHING its 700Series light van, Subaru has become the fourth Japanese light commercial vehicle...

FULL PRODUCTION of GKN's composite commercial vehicle leaf springs has begun on target at the company's Telford, Shropshire,...

BOALLOY is about to begin production of a range of lightweight sliding-side bodies specifically for vehicles o13.5 tonnes...

DIESEL-engined versions of the Nissan Urvan and Cabstar are now available in the UK. . The diesel Cabstar is Offered either as...

TOYOTA is hoping to launch a new light commercial model into the UK by early 1986. Few details have been released, although CM...

NISSAN EBRO'S Spanishbuilt JY275 Trade forwardcontrol van goes on sale in Britain next month — almost a year after it was first...

SALES of four-wheel-drive vehicles in Britain are expected to riseby over 20 per cent in 1985, according to Toyota GB....

VEHICLE accessory supplier Crown Cariec of Birmingham has launched a new range of heavy-duty crash bars for four-wheel-drive...

• THE SIGNIFICANT SIX THIRTY matters on which the Road Haulage Association has lobbied the Government were listed at the...

LORRY PARKING W HAT are the prospects for overnight lorry parks? This month a. man from outside the transport business has...

WAS interested in Mr Norriss's letter CM, July 13) about his position as an winer-driver and his reasons for not oining the...

relating to transport matters when the more obvious information routes may not be open to him. Readers' views would be most...

be our practice to reply to a letter written in the style which Mr Norriss chooses to use (CM, July 13) but he does ask one...

\WESTING \T GROWTH tE we truly climbing out of the momic doldrums? Investors in lustry (3i), which claims to be the nid's...

Noel Millier sampled two Royal Tiger Doyen integrals on the way to the Semaine Internationale du Tourisme en Autocar — a new...

Having taken delivery of the Reebur-bodied Mercedes-Benz 310 minicoach, Noel Millier went to look for the heaviest urban...

OR THE sake of a quarter square mile out of 365sq miles of Dartmoor National Park — a sacrifice that the official inquiry into...

IN A TIGER Memories of driving coach excursions were rekindled for Noel Millier when he took the wheel for a day trip to...

HE EURORANSPORT OTE CONTEST ERE are varied views about the new C drivers' hours rules slowly . .7.rging from Brussels. But...