Act on report THE revelations in the Transport and Road Research Laboratory report on accident causes merit immediate...

When the opportunity arises we profile vehicle manufacturing companies. Next week we carry an interview with one European...

A NATIONWIDE investigation has been carried out by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory into accidents involving goods...

ERF Holdings is back in profit. A net loss of £1.56 million in 1982/83 has been turned into a net profit of £677,000 for the...

ANTI-SKID Controls of Coventry, the manufacturer of Maxaret anti-lock systems, is aiming to make fitment of these systems...

A REPORT out this week states that, in the light of this year's budget, contract hire rather than purchase or leasing may now...

FERRYMASTERS' Groupage Division has introudced a twice-weekly Danish express service in both directions. Doorto-door transit...

PHOENIX Coachlines Ltd., one of the companies controlled by Wakefield businessman Harry Tranter, has lost its bid to obtain a...

THE APPEAL by C. Cooper Transport, against the decision of the North Western Traffic Area Licensing Authority to refuse them a...

THE appeal by D. W. Briggs (Plant Hire) Ltd against a decision by the North Western Traffic Area licensing Authority has been...

THE SECRETARY of State for Transport has dismissed an appeal by the Western SMT against a decision of the Traffic Commissioners...

NATIONAL Freight Consortium (NFC) and Union International have merged their subsidiaries Tempco International and the Union...

THE Wolverhampton LDoY centre has produced yet another eight finalists for the CM LDoY to be held at Cranfield on September 9....

CARL F. LEVY has been appointed chairman of Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Ltd. The appointment follows the purchase of Seddon...

John Dean replaces John Elliott JOHN DEAN of the British Steel Corporation has been elected new Chairman of the British...

JOHN ENDFIELD and Colin Newbould have recently been appointed southern region contract managers by Wincanton Vehicle Rentals....

LEX Wilkinson, has appointed Brian Grant as General Manager of its Oxford depot. Mr Grant started his career on a management...

IF THE Government's proposals for highways and traffic management after the abolition of the Metropolitan Counties and the GLC...

NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Secretary of State for Transport, welcomed the recent CBI and BRF reports as serious contributions to the...

says latest survey The survey shows that the rate of improvement in prospects, which usually occurs in the third quarter of...

THE CONSENSUS reached on May 10 between the Ministers of Transport of the ten Member States of the EEC on seven important...

SPEAKING at the British Road Federation's annual general meeting last Thursday, Tony de Boer, BRF's Chairman, described...

JOHN BULL Tyres of Chesterfield has pioneered a new method of tyre deliveries with the introduction of specially designed...

THE LATEST issue (No 14) of "Dunlop Usercare" — now available — advises the conditions of the Motor Vehicles (Variations Of...

A NEW £25,000 tyre retreading plant has opened at BRS Midlands' Northampton branch. BRS Midlands will use it to remould tyres...

TO CUT delivery time in busy high streets to a minimum. Edinburgh-based food supplier, Real Foods, has had its latest...

RENAULT Truck Industries is opening its first new commercial vehicle main dealership since the company changed its name from...

BRISTOL Tachograph Analysis has introduced a new tachograph analysis service run on a newly-installed microcomputer with custom...

parts service REPLACEMENT and remanufactured truck components at trade prices are now available through a new parts programme...

THE first steps towards substituting bus services for rail services in remote rural areas have been taken by the Government....

"IMPROVED quality of service for passengers on London Transport during 1983 went hand in hand with improved financial...

UNITED Transport International, the overseas transport arm of the London-based BET group, is reducing its shareholding in its...

EXPERIENCE in command and senior responsibilities in the forces will be used to benefit the Bus and Coach Council independent...

TYNE and Wear Passenger Transport Executive and London Transport are co-operating in the operation of the first, Passenger...

SPECIAL busways along the middle of several main roads in Edinburgh have been suggested as part of an idea to provide miles of...

VAN HOOL is launching an addition to its current T8 range of coaches at the RAI bus and coach show in Amsterdam. The Van Hool...

DESPITE 370,000 jobless in Greater London, London Buses is finding it difficult to recruit enough bus drivers to fill present...

minds of personnel and engineering managers in the industry. All the signs are that the problem will get a lot worse before any...

THE MARK Vane Memorial Award is the project launched year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road accident...

They don't miss a trick in Tunbridge Wells, as the Freight Transport Association has shown in launching regular meetings to...

At the present rate, the Institution of Municipal Engineers estimates that it will take 110 years to resurface the nation's...

Thirty years ago I was alarmed by the spectacle of vehicles in the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition sliding with all wheels...

Drivers employed by Holland's largest haulage company, Van Gend en Loos, spend a fifth of their time fuming at frontier...

An important new transport museum is planned to be built at Low Moor, Bradford, and the Spen Valley railway line is to be...

If animals object to walking up a ramp into a vehicle, the vehicle must be brought down to their level. By putting that theory...

The danger that many cyclists present to drivers as well as to themselves is emphasised by recent studies by the Transport and...

THERE WAS no complete answer to achieving total economy in transport operations, "there was no technological fix," said William...

AS A LONG established licensed express operator Premier probably had more to lose than others when Norman Fowler's 1980...

SEVEN-HUNDRED delegates attended Ro-Ro '84, the Seventh International Conference on Marine Transport Using Rollon/roll-off...

A BRITISH stand which made an impact in the exhibition hall was that of the Dartford International Ferry Terminal a company...

FRENCH efforts for the improved lashing of vehicles were described by Francois Robin, chairman of the French Standardisation...

"THERE Is No Alternative!" The Prime Minister's standard response to criticism of her Government's economic policy led to the...

IN YOUR account of David Wilcox's interview with my Director-General, John Cameron (2nd June edition), he reports that John...

I NOTICED with interest your recent reference to what you call 'The Famous Sheffield Step'. It reminded me of things in the...

LAURENCE Gold seems to complain in his letter (CM June 16) that selling M.A.N.-VW trucks threatens British jobs and that this...

WITH REFERENCE to both Mr A. G. McHarg's and Mr John W. B. Clark's comments in Commercial Motor, on the 26th May and 23rd June...

IN recent months there have been a number of thefts of both diesel and heating fuel from bulk storage tanks in the South Hants...

Working in close conjunction with Land Rover for example, CSC (Specialised Vehicles) Ltd, of Milton Keynes has developed a...

1=1 0 fwgai)fx:Yr Diesel Reference IT IS twenty-two years since the last-edition of C. C. Pounder's "Diesel Engine...

FTA Director-General Garry Turvey has expressed sympathy with the Licensing Authorities and their staffs for having to...

THE ARGUMENT between truck manufacturers over whether it is best to make their own major components or buy them in will linger...