THE OUTSPOKEN attack by Freight Transport Association president Ron Hutchings last Monday on the Greater London Council's plan...

WE'RE reporting from Tipcon next week. We'll have several pages of photos from the Road Haulage Association tipper show, and a...

Fines for each overloading conviction are £400 (formerly £200) for the hgv owner and E200 (£100) for the hgv driver, plus E20...

BRITAIN'S top policeman hit out this week at lorry operators who pay piece work incentives to their drivers. Metropolitan...

REGULATIONS which will allow drivers to use traffic cones, warning lamps, traffic pyramids and warning triangles in the event...

MOTOR WE ARE to introduce changes in Commercial Motor from next week's issue. We are now able to provide you, our readers and...

EVERY TIME a driver uses an estuarine toll crossing it can cost his company around three times the original toll price, and...

TAYSIDE Regional Council's roads committee wants drivers of heavy goods vehicles fitted with sleeper cabs to be urged to use...

MAJOR customers of road hauliers must pay higher rates, Road Haulage Association national chairman Bert Neely said last week,...

LEX SERVICE has combined its seven independent transport business units into one High Wycombe-based transportation group. •...

A DEPUTY Licensing Authority was wrong to place too much weight on residents' evidence at an environmental hearing, the...

AN OPERATOR has won his licence application, despite the imposition of conditions, in the face of an attack by angry residents...

A SOUTH WALES coal haulier who argued that a Deputy Licensing Authority was wrong to find him of bad repute and without...

AN OPERATOR accused of unlawfully bearing an operator's licence disc in his two vehicles' windows, is to face trial at the...

ROAD HAULAGE Association opposition has led to the withdrawal of a new licence application by R. S. Mason (Services) of...

TWO LIQUIDATED Fox Freight clearing houses owed hauliers E245,667, creditors meeting in Glasgow have learnt. The deficiency in...

GROUP managing director of British Road Services Geoff Pygall has been elected to the executive board of the Road Haulage...

BRS group subsidiaries BRS Northern and BRS Midlands have appointed new branch managers. The Tameside, Runcorn and Carlisle...

EXCESSIVE hours and the falsification of tachograph charts led to Geoffrey Rayner Transport of Draylesden and 16 of the...

A FELIXSTOWE haulage firm has been fined £280 and four of its drivers ordered to pay £1,000 in fines and costs for tachograph...

WHILE overall standards may have raced ahead at motorway service stations, the quality of their fast food has lagged behind,...

A MERCEDES-BENZ dealer in central Scotland is offering free meals to drivers in an attempt to interest them in its range of...

signs to be placed on by-passes to direct drivers into communities with catering, accommodation and parking facilities....

LENIENCY towards companies whose goods are stolen during transit through member states of the EEC could lead to the growth of a...

AGREEMENT on a single document for goods traffic between member states is merely the start of simplifying Customs procedures,...

IRISH lorries are so overloaded that the country ought to adopt the EEC's 40-tonne weight directive today, according to the...

GRAIN and livestock haulier F and F Moffat of Cornhill, Northumberland has sold oui to Redpath Brothers of Waller which will...

SEVERAL new types of air suspension will be displayed at the Institute of Road Transport Engineers exhibition at Solihull on...

SCANIA'S 6X2 P92 38 tonne gcw tractive unit will be available here in the autumn. A pre-production vehicle, built for British...

The conference will be held on September 11 and 12 at the I Mech Fs Birdcage Walk, London headquarters.

Each side has a single reinforced curtain which, suspended from the roof, is raisec by electric power in concertina fashion by...

SOUTH FIELDS Coachworks of Loughborough is to exhibit its new Concertina-door body at the Institute of Road Transport...

THE GEEST group has replaced 22 of its 110-strong Crane Fruehauf semi-trailer fleet with full temperature control vans to meet...

A VENTURE capital organisation, English and Caledonian Investments, has put up a total of £330,000 in equity and loan finance...

LONDON COUNTRY has mounted a major advertising campaign for its Green Line coach services in and around Britain's capital. A...

REED EXHIBITIONS, which is organising the CM-sponsored International Bus and Coach Exhibition at London's Earls Court from...

AT A HEARING at Perth Sheriff's court this week, Perthbased Stagecoach was given permission to withdraw a plea of guilty to a...

TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley has branded Labour's charter for transport as a "manifesto for disaster". Commenting on...

Company of Huddersfield for its use of the names Albion and AEC, which are both Leyland registered names, on its range of coach...

THE EEC may intervene in the Government's deregulation plans to allay fears that safety standards might fall. EEC transport...

minibuses CITY OF OXFORD Motor Services is the latest National Bus subsidiary to convert a low frequency conventional bus...

LONDON Buses has won maintenance contracts for coach operators which involve the parking, refuelling and cleaning of vehicles....

A TWO-MONTH study has been commissioned into the development of a bus/rail interchange on the site of Sheffield's Pond Street...

TAYSIDE Regional Council says its policy of giving smaller bus and coach operators an increasing role in rural areas has meant...

FROMCO Trailers of Arundel, West Sussex has developed a special coach recovery 'trailer with a deck height of only 660.4mmI2ft...

THE LAUNCH next week of the short-wheelbase Land Rover Ninety equipped for the first time with the 3.5 litre V8 petrol engine...

a version of its award winning Walkervan Luton body for the Bedford CF2 350 chassis cab. A 2.56m (8ft bin) long Walkervan body...

AUSTIN ROVER is to follow Ford's and Bedford's example and offer a 1.6 litre petrol engine in its Maestro van range in the...

A LOW kerbweight version of gined panel van — the LT Fleet, To reduce the standard LT28's 1,620kg (32cwt) kerbweight to below...

TIPMASTER, the light vehicle tipping gear and body specialist, is offering a new generation of tipping bodies for Freight Rover...

FOLLOWING TESTS carried out by Department of Transport engineers into the braking performance of the Toyota Space Cruiser...

CHINA is to begin building the iveco Daily range of light commercials under licence. The vehicles will be produced by the...

THE LETTER from Janus (CM, April 13) must have raised a belly-laugh all the way from the quarries and motorways of Britain and...

THE HAWK quite rightly pointed out (CM, April 16) that whilst the LDoY was running under CM sponsorship it culminated each year...

I AM SURPRISED that The Hawk claims to be able to "spot a rat" when his Bird's-eye View (CM, April 6) is so jaundiced. To...

EVERYONE seems to be rushing into going computerised. I have looked at almost all the systems that are being offered to the...

good reason, as Bryan Jarvis discovered when he tested it on and off the road SINCE it introduced the Constructor in 1981 as a...

show this, but full pressure stops on the dry MIRA test track at 20, 30 and 40mph were quite impressive and a great confidence...

OLITICS and transport are losely intertwined. So the ndustry should be alert for )pportunities to exploit a )olitical...

"NEWS from Lex Wilkinson" trumpeted a press notice issued in April. It told how Homeline delivered an unspecified number of...

WOULD a licensing system for football grounds similar to that governing road haulage help to prevent soccer hooliganism? lain...

PIRELLI'S conversion of a loss of £25m in 1981-82 to a profit of £4.6m in 1984 is a tribute to the new realism in trade unions...

READERS, including one with a gossamer skin, have been giving me a stimulating amount of stick. I might have saved two of them...

THE ROLE of London Transport in wartime can be seen at an exhibition — London Transport at War (May 3 till November 27) — at...

I CAN find nothing particularly interesting among the commercial vehicles entered for the Sandwell Historic Vehicle Parade and...

crack-down on file overloade rs High technology is aiding traffic examiners in their efforts to curtail vehicle overloading....

IT'S BAROMETER time for hauliers again — in other words the Transport Development Group has published its annual report for...

Less weight and easy fitting of Rubery OwenRockwell's latest Indair should increase the popularity of this novel independent...

IN the last five articles I have examined the various ways in which technology can help us to run our fleet. These include...

Parts control: maintenance scheduling (costing). Maintenance: scheduling and costing. Vehicle costing: overall package....

TODAY the argument is about bus licensing. Twenty years ago the limelight was on the lorry licensing system. For the Geddes...

GERMAN legislation now allows eight-wheelers to be operated at 30 tonnes gross vehicle weight. This type of vehicle is becoming...