ID industry is faced with the possibility of European Commission interference in its activities. This time, the EEC has decided...

ZITIS1 I operators could he - ed with a colossal penalty having been Europe's first fit spray suppression equipin to their...

E. I) DON ATKINSON mid he one of the next lanufacturers to enter the I ght van market. It has been looking for me time of ways...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport is launching a publicity blitz to remind operators and local authorities what steps they are going...

THIS WIN . ' ER's road haulage wage settlements now look more likely to end up at around E6 more on basic pay for 40 hours,...

BEDFORD'S chief executive and general manager, J. T. Battenberg Ill (picture), is leaving Britain to become product manager of...

UN1GATE'S transport operations show reduced operating profits in the half year results to September 30, announced last week....

11'EED LIMITERS would be *pointless and wasteful" on brrics, Freight Transport As:ociation president Dennis Hutchings warned...

. IllE NUMBER of heavy goods vehicles involved in motorway accidents is proportionately extremely high, Transpi)rt Minister...

A NEW EEC body has been established so that the haulage industry and trades unions have a bigger say when the EEC Commission...

LIVERPOOL Containerbase will close in the New Year, it was announced last week. Present throughputs already amount to less...

LOAD a hull with cows for the safety of hauliers, says the Road Haulage Association's livestock carriers' group. In a letter...

111E EEC COMMISSION is trying to reach a formal agreement with vehicle manufacturers to prevent them from using any advertising...

TI IL BRITISH road transport industry is taking its fight against the London lorry ban to Europe. Freight Transport...

CHANNEL EXPRESSWAY, the Sealink British Ferries scheme for a Channel tunnel, has become £450 million more expensive while still...

• Duncan said last week. He was speaking at the Freight Transport Association's Scottish regional dinner in Glasgow, and...

TRAILER maker Crane Fruehauf has thrown down a challenge on tipper stability to manufiicturers of rigid lorries, but its offer...

THE I EASIBILITY study into a possible second Severn crossing is on target for completion by next August, Junior Transport...

GUIDELINES are to be issued shortly for investors keen to build a third crossing at the Dartford tunnel, a potential bottleneck...

Horace Christian HORACE CRAVEN CHRISTIAN, a trustee of the Boston haulage and warehousing firm W. H. Christian Exors, has...

ONE TIME Leicester City footballer Ian King has been promoted to the Leicester branch of BRS Midlands as contract sales...

THE MANAGEMENT team at Norwich-based Freight Bonallack has been announced following acquisition of the business from British...

SOUTHERN engineer with SPD, Mike Hamilton, has been appointed chief engineer for the recently formed NFC Distribution Group....

FORMER director of the British Road Federation David Gent has been appointed a main board member of the Road Transport...

SENIOR sales personnel have been appointed by Northampton Mercedes-Benz dealer, Kingsthorpe Garage. John Reynolds joins as new...

CONTAINERS group Tiphook, which recently took over Aberdeen-based Grampian Containers, has brought in Robert Walker as managing...

by a special correspondent DAIRY CREST Foods is to try to persuade NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority John Levin to...

RESIDENTS have lodged strong objections to a Beverley. Humberside haulier's application for an international licence for 14...

WAYS ot minimising congestion and delays, when work on the widening of the M63 between Eccles and Stretford starts early next...

A COUNCIL has over-ruled complaints that a sophisticated . alarm system at a haulage yard is causing more problems than vandals...

POLICE have so far found no trace of a lorry and its £65,000 load of whisky destined for France. The Daf truck was hijacked...

CHRISTIAN Salvesen is considering developing a large chill store to serve the New Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market in...

A WEST MIDLANDS lorry 4:river has been found guilty cf falsifying tachograph charts Li order to claim a night out lowance to...

A SOUTII YOl). KSlllIth hatifier has been Cound guilty of permitting seven I its drivers to take insufficient rest and to...

FOLLOWING the Russell Davies Group's acquisition of — ank Container Services UK ,a new company. Tank Container Services, has...

TWO ALUMINIUM alloy tipping trailers which can double as coil carriers have been built by E. M. Wilcox of Peterborough for...

FENDLEY INDUSTRIES the Peterlee, County Durham four-wheel-drive specialist, is selling a US-built compressed air dryer called...

JOST (GB) of ileywood, Greater Manchester has developed a landing leg installation for semi-trailers equipped with air...

SCHENK, the UK subsidiary of Carl Schenk of Darmstadt, West Germany, has purchased the factory testing systems activities of...

ECONOCRUISE has extended its truck road speed limiter range, with a new unit based on its Electric Motor Actuator (EMA) light...

NATIONAL Bus Company managers have been invited to say whether they would like to buy their companies and several have already...

LEYLAND BUS is meeting new competition fiat its much threatened Thai bus deal. The current rehashed Leyland Bus Company/MVA...

THE EIGHT-VEH1CLE PSV operator's licence held by Felixstowe Omnibuses has been revoked by the Eastern Traffic Commissioners....

EVIDENCE that eight of the 12 vehicles operated by George Day's Heart of England Tours are now in a satisfactory condition has...

MANAGEMENT at Devon Conversions, the Exeterbased minibus conversion and motor caravan maker, is attempting a rescue of the...

SOUTI I YORKS! TIRE Transport has introduced Britain's first articulated coaches on an inter-urban semi-express route linking...

AMID the high-tech glitter of the Tokyo Motor Show (CAI November 23), there were light commercial exhibits which could well...

FREIGHT ROVER's annual turnover has gone above 1:100 million for the first time. Last year, thc BE Sherpa van company recorded...

A SPECIAL limited edition of the Korean-built Hyundai Pony pick-up has been introduced by Hyundai Car distributors. The...

Ford tests composites in Europe FORD is carrying out development trials on its commercial vehicles fitted with GKN composite...

FOLLOWING the successful setting up of assembly plants in Europe by Japanese manufacturers Mitsubishi, Toyota and Nissan, Fuji...

A LIMITED SLIP differential is now available for the Ford P100 pick-up. The conventional disc/ clutch unit is supplied as a...

THREE NEW pick-up canopies have been launched in the UK by light vehicle specialists Walkers of Watic3rd and Bryan Lupton...

WHILE it may he true that the financial funding not just for trucks and engines, but many other British products may he...

IN •n-iis morning's paper I again read that the price of Dery is being raised by more than 7p per gallon and that this is the...

WITH Energy Conservation Year announced for 1986, could I appeal for your magazine to support two causes which I consider would...

REFER to page one of your publication week ending November 23 and ask if there is a competition for printing pictures hack to...

I REFER to a piece which appeared in the November 9 edition of Commerical Motor. I would point out that Maureen Harrison was a...

DEN IS QUIN, director-general of the Bus and Coach Council, is vexed with the European Economic Community. He describes the...

The Mercedes-Benz L608D is one of the most popular chassis for midibus conversion. It is a worthy workhorse rather than a...

I T 'FAKES a lot to disturb the composure of DA Trucks (GB) managing director Roger Phillips. But just for a moment, at a Daf...

The new Transport Act is about to rock the bus industry to its foundations. Noel Millier looks at what lies ahead A T LAST, it...

THE OTHER TRANSPORT MINISTERS TRANSPORT Ministers meeting in Brussels last month (CM, November 23) increased Britain's share...

p UBLIC spending cuts, recession, the control of local authority spending and uncertainty about forthcoming fundamental change...

Most exhibitors still want a separate commercial vehicle show. That apart, most reactions to the new venue were favourable so...