P-WEIGHT articulated lorries still not paying their attriLed costs, according to Junior Rnsport Minister Kenneth irke. -le...

DRIVERS and vehicle owner; should check whether tax disc: on their vehicles need renewinc as from August 1, the Depart. ment of...

THE Transport Bill received ihe Royal Assent last week, before Parliament rose for the summei recess, and is now the Transpori...

LEADERS of the European Commission have adjourned until September a decision over new proposals for the weight of a future Euro...

THE EXISTING hgv testing system should be retained, according to the House of Commons all-party select committee on transport...

AT LEAST half of the Transport and General Workers Union's members on Tyneside could defy Union policy and buy shares in a...

VEHICLE operating costs creased by about 4.5 per c the three months to Jup according to the latest is the Freight Transport Ass...

TUTORY TRAINING arrangements should be retained for the age industry, according to the Manpower Services Commis, but it is in...

SOME of the tanks fitted to Texaco oil tanker lorries were defective and could seriously injure or kill a driver in a...

FOUR NEW road schemes, aimed at reducing the nuisance from lorry traffic, have been added to next year's road programme....

T OVERNITE recorded ther first this week with the ich of Exprestamps. stead of paying carriage in normal way, TNT Overnite...

ND's road haulage indusshould be liberalised along ish lines, according to a or report which also recomds an overhaul of the...

THE GOVERNMENT will start a gradual move towards roac equivalent tariff for Scottisf shipping services, starting ir April next...

MAGISTRATES in Chesterfielc have fined Derek Poole, tradinE as Erewash Garage, a recorc total of £3,930 and £100 cost: after he...

COMMERCIAL Motor's Lorry Driver of the Year Competition National Finals day will see 240 finalists competing in eight class...

AS LONG as an operator had the ability to maintain his vehicles it did not much matter where he carried out the operation. So...

THE THAMES Valley Polk anxious to trace a lorry who gave a lift to a teenag sometime after she tacked on the Berkshire at East...

ENGLISH and Welsh county councils want the Department of port to transfer responsibility for non-motorway trunk road them, and...

THE CHARGE for rem illegally parked vehicles is increased from August 17. The cost for removi vehicle from a motorway up from...

ANSPORT supervisor has been awarded over £2,800 in cornsation after a Leicester industrial Tribunal decided he had been irly...

;TRIBUTION companies and ed businesses have a chance show their wares in October the first Distribution Services OW. is...

by TLT TLT Distribution, part of Tate and Lyle, is to distribute Cinzano products throughout South Wales and South-west...

A STOKE-ON-TRENT operator could lose his good repute if pendi prosecutions are successful, West Midlands Traffic Commission'...

NEW ZEALAND Motor Bodi Palmerston North, New land, has recently complete first Plaxton Supreme bodied luxury coach on Bed YMT...

ENSIGN BUS of Purfleet in Essex has been appointed British agent for Italian Padane coachwork. At present only two...

RMER coach park operator and now independent coach operator n Simons has won his battle with London Transport to operate a...

THE National Bus Company in North-west England came under fire in the House of Lords last week when Labour transport spokesman...

INCREASED subsidies for bu and rail could result in a 20p i the pound rise in the rates i some major cities, British Roo...

with lifting first axle ' HIRTY-SIX Tidd Golden itrongboxes have been ordered oy Golden Wonder/HP Foods Ind built to the...

1LACKHAWK Automotive Ltd is one of the first companies to re ease information on its exhibits at the Garagequip garage...

FUEL SAVINGS of around 13 per cent have been claimed by Kn Brothers Ltd of Ashton-under-Lyne after fitting an air dell supplied...

DAF TRUCKS have made first bid for a share of the tonne artic market by Immo an FT2105DH vehicle bas the FT2100DHR driveline....

DISCUSSION on current problems facing the commercial vehicle dybuilding industry will be one of the features of the Vehicle...

)uthamoton in October. ah am Westcott was appointed nior vice-chairman, and is airman designate for 1982/83. d Reece and Colin...

Amalgamated Passenge Transport Ltd. Brian Harper chief engineer at Lincolnshire will also transfer to APT as it: new chief...

FIGURES released by the De partment of Transport relatin! to MoT failures for 1980 shov that 30,000 light commercia vehicles,...

SAF axles and air suspension equipment made by Otto Sauer of Keilberg, West Germany, will be available on the British market if...

AN ELECTRONIC system w switches off the engine as as the vehicle is stationar more than two seconds been introduced by Sculp...

E DISCUSSIONS on bposed EEC regulations and Armitage Report have centrated so heavily on hide weights that some ler aspects...

1AM SORRY that our recent survey of employment prospects should have caused the consternation it appears to have {CM, July 11)...

IT WAS good to see that the BRS Suretruck rental scheme has triggered other companies such as Transfleet to offer an improved...

WHAT A SHAME the important discussion about the CPC (CM July 18, pp4, 17) got bogged down into the mire of politics, helping...

OHN FARRANT, managing irector of Southern British oad Services, and his team are II out to sell satisfaction. They ave launched...

A YOUNG delivery driver in Yorkshire will not be making deliveries for the next 12 months. He had his licence suspended and was...

THE CARTOON in the June 27 issue of CM reminded W. G. Sexton of Crewe of the Australian bachelor sheep farmer who walked into a...

'MY DISLIKE of clichés and gobbledegook is shared by a merry wag who signs himself Albert J. Spagthorpe, managit director of...

FOR the avoidance of all doub as they say in the law when th are about to administer the verbal injection that complete...

3LASGOW bus engineer Jack :ross thought he would have a ook at that memorial to ;Iydeside engineering, the )ueen Mary, when he...

The evergreen Transit's got tough competition in the shape of M-B's 208 Bremen van and we road test both here. First, Bill...

Tim Blakemore concludes that the short wheelbase Bremen panel van can't be beat for toughness, paciness and drive appeal — and...

We have 75 years of axle experience that's ready to go to work in your trucks experience thats made us the number one producer...

Leasing is a growth industry and can release that all-important cashflow. But what of the cost? Is it really worth it in...

The national trucks committee of the Motor Agents' Association is there to see fair play all round and lays down stringent...

We like to remember our successes rather than our failures, so "warranty claims" don't rank top of some manufacturers' list: of...

He will examine such things as vehicle mileage, date of purchase, the type of fault and date of repair by the distributor....

. 19 - 81 CM Livery Competim begins with the light vehicle ass, which is for vehicles up to 5 tons gvw. Entry is now open. The...

No-nonsense textbook for the student %CADEMIC transport studies are ;till in their infancy; few colleges )ffering suitable...

JITH THE continued consolidaon of road transport, many eople in management are hayig to increase their workload 3used by...

WHEN searching for an answer in engineering textbooks it is usually necessary to read a whole chapter first. And when students...

CPC home study NEW this month is a CM Special Offer in conjunction with Ro Transport Correspondence Courses giving an...

VIOBILE loading platform anunced recently is designed eliminate the common probn of getting goods quickly d safely in and out...

BRICHEM-FM'S hard surface cleaner Speedclean has been chosen by the Ensign Bus Company in Grays, Essex, where it is being used...

STRAKER Office Supplies are marketing a pickup facility for the full range of Chartwell tachograph charts and accessories as...

AN ADVANCED design allvehicle washing machine introduced by AVW Wilconnatic — the National 11 — is of the drive-through type...

The latest BlOM is certainly innovative with its welded frame and allair suspension, but will it take off in the British...

UNTIL they saw press reports of the latest meeting, most operators were unaware that there now exists an Organisation of...

by Douglas Ainley THE LAW implies a term into the employment contracts of probationary employees which places on employers a...