°THING would help hauliers more than an Armitage Inquiry riding in support of 40-tonne or heavier lorries, Road aulage...

Fit those tachos now OPERATORS should take advantage of tachographs now and not wait until 1982, Lucas Kienzle general manager...

A £4.5m Freightliner port terminal is being considered for Felixstowe. If approved, the terminal will be built at the new...

MANCHESTER Industrial Tribunal says it was fair for an employer to dismiss a tanker driver whose lorry collided with trying to...

A HEALTH and safety at work consulting service has been set up by former Government factory inspectors to help small firms....

THE Freight Transpoi Association has introduced ferry discount servic claimed to bring substantii savings to small operatoi who...

A NEW Leyland distributor I opened at Hoddesdon, HE fordshire, with a full-line L land lorry franchise and a She main...

DRIVER who had been off work sick since 1976 was not Ititled to a redundancy payment when his employer ceased trade last year,...

FREIGHT TRANSPORT companies and export/ import offices are making departmental cost savings of more than 60 per cent by using...

AS PART of London Transport's new marketing initiative, Mike Parker has been named as market development officer in the group...

CENTAUR ELECTRONICS of Oldham have produced what they claim is the first lorry wash to offer total electronic security and...

THIEF-PROOF automatil locking is said to be a featur of a hydraulic tail lift no available for vans from Edbr Ltd, Bolton....

SINCE 1977, five Ant thr( wheel vans belonging North Bedfordshire Borou Council have turned over. In the latest incident,...

curtainided bodies for rigid truck chassis to supplement its xisting series of curtainsided trailers. The bodies are available...

Trailers go Dutch NOOTEBOOM Trailers BV, one of the largest semitrailer producers in the Netherlands, has appointed a British...

A CONTRACT to build the first prototype trolleybus in Britain for many years, has been won by Guest 80 Limited of Chippenhann...

TRICENTROL COACHES have applied for a thrice-weekly express service from Derby to Paris with a £41 excursion return fare. The...

VEST DUNBARTONSHIRE'S new look bus service began on ionday this week, despite last minute hitches before the cottish Traffic...

LONDON COUNTRY is taking on British Rail by introducing a new Green Line fast commuter service between Guildford and Central...

method to spraying in situ because of the possibility of cavities forming in the insulation. All four edges of the panel are...

HARLEM-WILCOMATIC of Leicester has introduced a new heavy duty engine starter/battery charger. The HW 3384 produces 300amps at...

NORDE Suspension of No thampton has converted Leyland Clydesdale to rubb suspension for Kern Tran port Ltd, a subsidiary of Ca...

THE RELEVANCE of ergonom to transport problems is I theme of an international ci ference to be held in Swam on September 8-12....

IDUSTRIAL Training Boards e not the most popular of idies just now. The Road Hauge Association has fired its Lind of torpedos...

SIR Peter Masefield has crashlanded on 55 Broadway, Westminster, but his long experience in air transport should equip him...

VOLVO has a fine record of labour relations in Scotland. Only two of the 460 employees at the Irvine plant had left this year,...

EAVESDROPPERS, it is said, seldom hear good of themselves, but Jock McBean, a Scottish haulier, was able to solve a British...

I REMEMBER when buses hi informative destination boan that were manhandled in place, yet conductors did n wilt. It seems that...

HOW, you may ask, did an • metre Venetian gondola corm be auctioned at the World W Fair? Was it in defiance of campaign: "Don't...

1NUS has made a welcome ference (Topic, CM, August 2) the BRF's evidence on the iads White Paper to the Corn )ns Transport...

WHILE I was in the USA visiting a friend, we were on the freeway coming towards New York, a shattering plea for help came over...

MAY WE, through your columns seek support for a proposal designed to aid young schoolleavers? Over two million people are...

I READ with amusement the news item Act Aids Busmen (CM, July 19). I say with amusement because the report quoted The Record,...

MOST cars sold in Britain are registered by companies, that is, they are fleet cars. But until recently many car manufacturers...

FLEET-CAR buyers have traditionally looked to conven tional designs which are also British made. Their rationale is that...

first introduced. A higher roof line, which some feel makes it look ugly, and larger rear tail lights are some of the changes....

Granada is 2.8 litre (a German engine) and the biggest Leyland a 2.2 litre (Princess). The only remaining 3 litre left, as far...

A ROBUST HGV workhorse with the crew-cab comfort of a luxury coach is the special combination pioneered and refined by the...

in entering our light vehicle livery competition, win first prize, and the dairymen's orange and brown livery bring a hint of...

VOLKSWAGEN has dual representation in the UK. Its organisation at Milton Keynes handles the sales and promotion of its van and...

At last som( ••:)od news, but only if you "aerate aVolvo. Some have been reduced by as much as 40% and the average...

could. be an ev bigger m You're out in the middle of nowhere when one of your hoses bursts. It's not exactlywhat your...

TARVIN TRAILERS of Chester are convinced that they have the best solution for improving the carrying capacity of a light van...

THIS SUNDAY is the big day for nearly 300 lorry drivers; the 1980 finals of the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year...

programme shows quite a sprinkling if companies that are new to LDoY so there could be a dark horse among the drivers who could...

Barrister/haulier Douglas Ainley sorts out Act from fiction ONE OF the Act's main targets is excessive union power which, for...

'Traces of the old animosity have survived. The N FC is accepted as part of the industry . . . but it is also the symbol of a...

DIAGNOSTIC is a term which has been misinterpreted by the CV industry in recent years, as it has tended to become associated...

CM'S 1980 Conference BOOKINGS are now being accepted for the 1980 Fleet Management Conference. The date is October 9; the place...