• Commercial Motor celebrated its 81st birthday just two weeks ago. In its time as the oldest-established commercial vehicles...

• Job prospects in transport are among the worst in Britain's service industries according to employment agency Manpower in its...

• In the wake of the failed GM bid for Land RoverLeyland, the BL board has written to Lonrho and Schroder Ventures — which is...

• The Road Haulage Association's national council last week voted massively to stay in Joint Industrial Councils. This...

Two new delivery services , being launched by iependent Express, the insport Development oup's overnight parcels Intercity...

• Hopes are growing that the Government is prepared to give the go-ahead for a second Severn crossing. Welsh Secretary...

• Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottomley says the Government will continue to operate existing legislation governing the...

The removal of 115km of indon's roads from the night d weekend lorry ban this .tek will cause operators :onvenience and...

• Bradford-based Rickaby and Lee is developing its breakbulk distribution business with the acquisition of SS Vanlines from...

• European governments are being approached by the international Routiers organisation with . proposals for improving the...

• The backlog of motorway and trunk road maintenance should be cleared by the midNineties, Junior Transport Minister Peter...

tree hauliers have been n on by the Central tricity Generating Board !cure road transport ;rtise if rail fails to supply to...

• Renault Vehicules Industriels — Renault's truck building subsidiary — is still having money troubles. It returned a loss of...

• Drive-axle air suspension designed and built by a subsidiary of Terberg Benschop, the Dutch special vehicle builder, will...

• Tidd Strongbox has used Contar close-coupled drawba assembly to build a high cub, drawbar outfit to carry potat crisps for...

• Midland Tankers, the road tanker division of Hartford Motors (Oxford), has converted a Ford Cargo distribution tanker for...

Ip to 80 tonnes Andover Trailers has a new age of drop-frame low iders with trailer gross .ights from 36 to 80 tonnes. The...

• A third, lifting axle fitted by Andover Trailers is now available as an option on Seddon Allen Municipal refuse collection...

• A self-supporting moveable bulkhead has been developed by Lawrence David specially for bodies with full side access. Unlike...

• Extraordinary precautions taken to prevent overloading helped a leading North Wales haulier escape with only a warning when...

III An express parcels carrier roust wait to learn ii it can move into the former Roadline UK depot at Willenhall. Walsall...

MI A Berkshire firm has been fined 2200 by a Newcastle court after a container of ammonia fell from the back of a lorry causing...

• overnight controls have been placed on a Liverpool wholesale fruit and vegetable merchant's depot, following representations...

nvironment Secretary neth Baker has turned n a Greater London icil proposal to build an ss road into a site being :loped as a...

• A Parliamentary question about signposting on the M62 near Wakefield has been tabled by Labour MP David Marshall, who is...

• Heart of England Tours proprietor George Day made a strong attack on the conduct of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners...

• Coach operators should pay for the space they use when parking, a new Department of Transport Department report recommends....

• Greater London operators registered 570 commercial bus services in time for the February 28 deadline. That is only about a...

Sn a move to strengthen its tract hire business BRS stern has set up a new team which will centrate on this work. :he team is...

A former UK sales inager for Dodge Trucks has en appointed chief ecutive and director of ire (1980), the petrol and ,?.ls...

sightseeing manager of its National Crusader division. He will be responsible for the operation, planning and control of London...

In 1983, Bang & Olufsen UK signed the contract that would commit BRS Western, Gloucester branch, to the operation and...

reight Rover is to develop int-line Sherpa ambulance ered by a turbocharged charge-cooled version of 2.5-litre Land Rover el...

• A small refrigerated body suitable for the Bedford Rascal and Suzuki Super Carry micro pick-up is now being offered by I). A....

PAO Preparations has ipleted its turbocharging relopment work for igeot Talbot on the 2.5e diesel engined Talbot Ness van....

NI Light Vehicle bodybuilder Walkers has revised its small steel dropside builders' and general-purpose truck body to fit the...

• Annual sales of 400 vehicles a year are being predicted by Volkswagen and Optare, the Leeds coachbuilder, for the City Pacer...

• Seat Concessionaires (UK) has confirmed that it will be bringing Spanish-built Seat car derived-vans and pick-ups into the UK...

LABEL YOUR SHOES The Asbestos Products (Safely) Regulations 1985 came into force on March 20. They affect operators who keep...

UGHT VWs UP Volkswagen's light commercial vehicle prices went up on February 19 as a result of the strength of the Deutchmark...

TEST FEES RISE IIGV and PSV annual rest fees went up this week although the Department of Transport emphasies that the...

LOOK OUT FOR HP A word of warning to readers contemplating the purchase of a used vehicle. Ensure that there are no outstanding...

DANGEROUS GOODS A series of two-day seminars for operators of vehicles carrying dangerous goods in drums and packages approve ,...

COLT FORTIFIED BY SHOGUN NETWORK The Colt Car Company, importer of the Mitsubishi L300 van, has formed a new finance company to...

NETWORK NAMED The dealer network appointed to sell and service Optare Cii Pacer 25 minibuses (CM, Apr 5) has been named by...

NCH LINK FOR TIM tew name, TIM Jaeger, is on to appear on some hograph fitting and bration centres. aeger, the French...

PLANNING PERMISSION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES You are a small haulage company and you want to errect a canopy over a beading bay. Do...

DIAGNOSTIC TALK The first exhibition and conference devoted to diagnostic engineers takes place in September. Diagnostic...

I SUPPORT all that D. R. Price says (CM, March 15) regarding Texaco's disposal of its own vehicles and transfer of its...

I read your editorial in your edition of March 8, and wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed. A commercial vehicle...

I read the David Wilcox report (CM, March 15) on counterfeiting with great interest and applaud the Society of Motor...

argument. But my spy in Brussels tells me of a jocular exchange he overheard. Civil servants were clearing the ground before...

Volvo's new 16-tonne FL6 has plenty of power, a high payload and driver appeal ... but it can be thirsty • Last autumn Volvo...

Four light 4x4s — from Japan, West Germany and Romania — do battle, on and off the road. Does our own (still) Land Rover have...

year's Brewery Transport Advisory Committee seminar heard some of the answers Nhether they concern fork lift trucks, ipany...

ON ITS TANK In a year of running mainly between London's major airports our Jetlink 747 Tiger has covered over 230,000km —...

• London Country took delivery of B102 KPH on December 5, 1984. During its first month in service, before CM began monitoring...