/ Any campaign by any reputable body to advamx the cause of safe vehicle operation must be welcomed. Such a campaign launched...

• RHA chairman Glyn Samuel has called for a responsible attitude to wage bargaining in the corning round of wage negotiations....

• For the first time the road transport industry's two main associations, the FTA and the RHA, have joined together to launch a...

• Government proposals to take a small step towards harmonisation on lorry weights have been strongly criticised by Shadow...

• The long-running joint-venture talks between Dana of the USA and ZF (Zalmradfabrik Friedrichshafen) of West Germany, have...

• Fred Hope, inventor and managing director of Hope Technical Developments, is calling for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to...

• Plans for a new, privately financed four-lane motorway bridge which will double the traffic capacity of the Thames crossing...

transport taxes among EEC countries have ruled out an early end to motorway tolls in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. A...

• Leyland Vehicles — the Rover Group's beleaguered truck and bus subsidiary — celebrated the second anniversary of its...

• Labour's ruling national executive is all set to produce a new transport policy statement with plans to clamp down on...

• Transport manager of St Albans Sand and Gravel, Steve Richards, beat 28 other finalists to take the 22,500 first prize in the...

• Volvo Truck & Bus is looking for up to 15 more dealers to strengthen its servicing and parts network in time for the UK...

• The takeover of Crystal Truck Rentals by BRS Northern has been completed. Crystal's Hull and Stockton-onTees branches will...

• The National Freight Consortium has expanded its US business activities by taking an 85% controlling interest in an American...

• The Eurotunnel group has issued a preliminary prospectus detailing its plans to raise up to 25 billion to pay for the...

• Independent Express, the Northampton-based express carrier, has decided to "back Britain" with an order for 50 new Leyland...

• Operators transporting freight to and from Heathrow and Gatwick airports are likely to see their trade cut drastically from...

• A new contract, worth more than £2 million, has got the recent Flowers Distribution's move away from straightforward haulage...

• Leyland Parts has completed the final stage in the £17 million development programme at its Chorley parts headquarters with...

• ERF has produced a 16.26 tonne GCW factory-built dropframe chassis for distribution work. Its specification broadly follows...

• Cleanaway has become one of the first fleets to take advantage of the recent relaxation in Construction and Use regulations...

• Scania has broadened its L K range with the addition of twin-steer tractive units to complement its trailing axle models at...

• Renault Truck Industries' iew UK flagship — the 247kW :331hp) R340 Turboliner trac:ive unit — will be making its 3ritish...

• An add-on spray containment valance, enabling those many trailers already fitted with suitable flaps behind their wheels to...

• Avon-based Badgerline has become the second National Bus Company local subsidiary to be bought by its own management under...

• Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and Kirkby Central Group of Sheffield have formed a joint venture company called...

• Yorkshire Rider is the name of the new bus company which will take over the operations of the present Metrobus fleet —...

service with Birmingham coach operators Pattersons. The Leyland Cubbased vehicles are part of a 30-coach order, and will be...

WABCO anti-lock braking systems, chief engineer Clive Bryant of Ribble Bus Company says the vehicle's braking performance has...

nearly 200 post offices in West and North-West London in a joint experiment by London Regional Transport and the Post Office....

El Three licences held by a Leicestershire family have been prematurely terminated so as to expire on November 30 and a fourth...

IN One of the three operational vehicles of Worcestershire haulier Robert Davies, trading as W E Davies & Sons, has been...

• The margin of three vehicles to be acquired has been removed from the Ulicence held by Newport :haulage company Stephens...

N Coventry haulier Ashley Stevens has succeeded in winning authority for a change of operating centre despite objections from...

licence to P&H • The revocation of Hugh and Hazel Cole's PSV licence in January was declared invalid by John Moore the...

Evidence was given by a vehicle examiner that in July two immediate and three delayed prohibitions were imposed after an...

Silverstein said the firm had a bad history of vehicle maintenance. He found it astonishing that, after a public enquiry...

• Consideration of the renewal of the two-vehicle PSV operator's licence held by James Knight Coaches of Kilfyth was adjourned...

• The number of accidents ii waiving TR vehicles in Italy is rising at an annual rate of 6% with a series of motorway black...

to bring in stiff new penalties for HGV drivers found guilty of speeding, driving on banned days without permission or...

increased by 3.4% to 415 million tonnes in 1984, compared with the previous year, according to an EEC report on the inland...

• By 1990 it is expected that around half of the road transport in Brazil will use fuel distilled from sugar cane — an industry...

• The Ghanaian Government has decreed that no more complete buses can be imported into Ghana, in order to support local...

• From 1987, anti-locking systems will be compulsory in West Germany, but in order for this new ruling to be implemented...

the Spring for the European Economic Community, 75% of the inhabitants of the 12 EEC countries are in favour of free movement...

• Bill Barcas is the new manufacturing director of Tidd Strongbox trailer manufacturers and commercial vehicle bodybuilders of...

• John Reynolds has taken over at the top of GKN Vandervell, the Maidenhead-based engine bearing manufacturers, as director and...

• Two senior appointments have been made by garage group Paul Huxford, whose head office is at Fareham, Hants. Terry Fisher...

North Devon (Red Bus) with effect from October 1. His previous job was as marketing manager of Luton & District Transport.

been appointed sales representative for the SCAPA Engineering range of tipping gears. Operating from the company's Blackburn...

Keith Cadby has been promoted to the position of commercial manager. South. Paul Kavanagh takes over as representative for Tyne...

of Bromley, has made Martin Gaines its southern regional manager. Previously he was eastern regional manager. This is a...

industry, Norman Cale takes over as manager of the Queenborough depot of Cartransport. the NFC car delivery firm. Cale started...

• Citroen's Italian-built onetonne panel van — the C25 — will be seen for the first time in Britain at the Birmingham Motor...

• A pre-production light vehicle power take-off designed for the Ford Transit, and Freight Rover Sherpa range will be on...

• After what must have seemed like an eternity to many light van operators, Austin Rover has finally launched a diesel version...

With its more fuel-efficient direct-injection design, Austin Rover and Perkins claim that the jointly-developed Prima MDi...

for the future • This unusual Ford Transit van with 4x4 capabilities and anti-lock braking is the latest proposed design study...

Lynton's well-known lightweight articulated vehicle, the Minitran, is to be uprated to include airpressure braking in all...

Japanese yen. Mazda has increased its prices, with effect from October 1. These are the new prices of the van and pick-up...

we test the new dieselengined Austin Maestro van. The prices (excluding VAT) are as follows, together with the petrol model...

Hoare has moved its Manchester Airport office from the old cargo complex in building 217 to the recently-opened Cargo Centre at...

additive, has moved to a new address in Doncaster. It is now at Franchise House, Kelham Street Industrial Estate, Doncaster DN1...

Transnet' is a transport re search and development organisation funded through the London Boroughs Grants scheme. Its...

Scotland comes from the Newmaines branch of the Motor Auction Group. Ian Irvine, the group's managing director in Scotland,...

came into operation this week (October Fixed penalties were previously confined to parking misdemeanours but now apply to many...

Auctions' Preston branch are now being held weekly instead of fortnightly. This reflects the strength of interest shown in van...

published a new edition of its booklet Vehicle Leasing — the Benefits and Pitfalls. The 30-page booklet uses simple language to...

there is a book that has just been published that may help you. It is called Getting to Yes (Negotiating Agreements Without...

Ipswich to Harwich for its UK-Denmark ferry service. The new Harwich-Esbjerg route has daily sailings. Fen-ymasters' address...

for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, has moved from its premises at Underwood, Nottinghamshire. The new...

to offer Volvo trucks in the UK, John Billows, has established a new Volvo dealership in Kempston, near Bedford. Billows says...

this week at the Wembley Conference Centre, London. Its opening hours are 10am-6pm on Wednesday, October 8, and Thursday,...

has picked the theme "What Industry Requires from Further Education" for its education conference this year. It is at Sandwell...

• A milestone in Britain's motorway network is reached this month when the London orbital M25 is completed. The Department of...

the A13 in East London to investigate how best to handle the traffic that uses this busy corridor. The section in question is...

a £165 million tunnel that will carry the A55 Chester-Bangor road under the River Conway Estuary near Llandudno, North Wales....

Junction 11 on the M1 is open this week. Unfortunately it continues to remain shut, and the AA have virtually advised drivers...

Slip road restrictions at Junction 8 (Hemel Hempstead), and lane closures between Junctions 8 and 9 (Harpenden) will cause...

Major work between Junctions 5 and 7 (Sittingbourne and Faversham) continues until December. M4 London There will be a...

operate on the eastbound carriageway while resurfacing work is carried out. MS Hereford and Worcester The last week of the...

23) David Wilcox writes about my design for the M C W Metroliner: "The rear view looks spectacular although one suspects that a...

Your 'Comment' on the Gordon Goddard Fuel Economy Trial staged ty the Brewery Transport Advisory Committee and the IRTE was...

With reference to the road test on the Renault 290 (CM, August 23), I would point out that all Eminox exhaust systems are not...

names, one of my simple pleasures is to catch up on my Commercial Motor reading. This enjoyment was deeply marred by the...

N • BED OF ROSES In 1 981 Neil Gardiner won a six-wheel Magirus tipper and set up in business. Now, five years on we find out...

General Motors may be pulling out of truck manufacturing but Paccar aims to break into new markets. • As America's most...

Will the deregulation of British bus services lead to chaos, as some observers fear — or to a new age of profitable efficiency?...

British civil sevant John Steele leaves Brussels this month after almost five years as the EEC Commission's Director General of...

In spite of some niggling faults with its new Austin-Rover Perkins MDi diesel engine, the Maestro 500 City Diesel could well...

BY THE HAWK • When National Freight Consortium chairman Sir Peter Thompson moved house recently, he got Pickfords — an NFC...