to realise what was implied by the talks between Leyland and General Motors does not detract from the importance of what has...

E LONG EXPECTED of Leyland Trucks to eral Motors was elevated to the political stage this .k when Trade and Indus Secretary...

AN ELEVENTH-hour it tempt to block the London lorry ban failed last Friday, but the bill] was introduced with sparse signing...

RANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridy is to open the Swanley-Sevenoaks section I the M25 London ringway on February 19. The opening...

130TH main trade associations still oppose Department of Transport proposals for a streamlined fees structure for operator...

ITIE TRANSPORT Trihu li.is been asked for guidat 011 the weight Licensi Authorities should give local planning authoriti wishes...

MORE CUMMINS-powered vehicles than any other type were registered last year ill the 29 tonne-plus sector of' the UK truck...

.RCELS CARRIER TNT s secured the long-term nrract to deliver Rupert urdoch's newspapers from t Wapping, East London, jut works,...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium's car delivery company Cartransport is to expand its auction business. Its lone auction site...

THE GAP in the M20 between Maidstone and Ashford in Kent will be closed by the end of 1989, the Government has announced in the...

LEX SYSTEMLINE, the contract distribution subsidiary separated from the recently sold Lex Wilkinson parcels company, insists...

FTY-EIGHT Liverpool .uliers had signed £6 wage crease agreements with the ransport and General 'orkers' Union by Monday is...

CONTRARY to information given to CM earlier (see last week's issue), the winning truck entry in the Paris-Dakar rally was a...

CON I RMATION that General Motors is interested in buying Land Rover-Leyland (and more surprisingly that Ford might buy Austin...

BRS Western has made directors of two of its senior managers — Jeremy Coates, previously head of finance, and Stuart James,...

GENERAL sales manager for NFC Distribution Group is David Bell. He has been appointed to manage the group sales team...

THE N EV(/' company sec tary appointed by t National Freight Consortit is a former executive direci of The Bath and Portia...

FORMER marketing director of Rediffusion Cablevision, Ian Harkness, has joined the board of London Buses as marketing...

ME FREIGHT Transport Association's international executive Dave Green has been promoted to secretary of the association's...

IN' AN item on the retirement of Arthur Lainson as group chairman of Premier Travel (CM last week), we inadvertently published...

ALEXANDER WILL1NC chief engineer of Midla Scottish Omnibuses for • past eight years, died si denly last month. He leave: wife...

Kent 0-lic RAILERENT expects trailer mai rates to rise during )86. The company's managing rector, Mike Dibb, said last eek...

BRS SOU II lERN has lost an appeal against limits imposed On its Canterbury depot, but the Transport Tribunal has given...

KENT operator who anged operating centre here the new environmental les for operator licensing fre introduced, but did not form...

Ian limps into life THE GREATER London Council's night and weekend lorry ban limped into reality at 9pm last Friday, as...

Ltd last week after it failed to appear to answer 78 charges of permitting drivers to commit drivers' hours and tachograph...

has b< granted, despite allegatic that it operated outside ti: limits laid down in its licem North Eastern. Licensi Authority...

BR1T1S1 I TELECOM has introduced a customised computer network to manage the maintenance of its 60,000 commercial vehicles and...

VOLKSWAGEN'S 4x4 synchro version of its Transporter van range was launched in the UK last week, with VW admitting that it does...

tacho from LK LUCAS KIENZLE'S 1318 fully-automatic tachograph has become available as original equipment on some Volvo, Ford,...

'HIE CENTENARY celebrations held recently by Dailmler-Benz concentrated, somewhat naturally, on cars rather than commercial...

A THREE-year, 2.61nillioi collaborative research pro gramme involving Ford, Ley land, Perkins, Ricardo, BP Castrol and GKN has...

A SECONDHAND bus taminc threatens to make it more difficult for new operators to challenge established operators as...

AC, the Shannon Irish Re iblic has dezered a prototype rural bus the National Bus Cominy's Darlington subsidiary, nited...

DRIVERS employed by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company have gone on strike over company plans to introduce National Bus...

RENAULT Truck Industries now offers a full range of front-engined PSV chassis based on its Dodge Comniando trucks....

THE DRIVER of the hasten: Scottish 1VICW Metrolinei single-deck coach involved ir Britain's worst evel motorway accident on the...

DR[VERS' hours and records of fences have cost Derbyshire coach operator C. H. Redfern its managing director George Rawson, and...

/NI)ON Regional Trans. port's Chiswick bus engi. neering works has a doubtfu future once more. Its 7W-strong workforo rejected...

WEST YORKSHIRE Pas senger Transport Executiv , has launched its own sprim and summer extended tou programme operated under it...

High flyers NEW GENERAL and sales managers are now working from Marshall of Cambridge's Airport Garage truck and van...

Pre-test test PCS Commercial Vehicle Services of Ipswich is now offering a quick, pre• Department of Transport HGV test...

Planning success A 27-MINUTE video on planning for business success has been produced by the Midland Bank for customers and is...

Hazard law THE ROAD Haulage Association, Freight Transport Association and Kent Police are holding joint seminars to acquaint...

Run for Express NATIONAL Express would like to hear from operators who would like to run coaches on its regular services. Any...

NEW grade of petrol - larked Unleaded BS 7070 Premium" or "Regular" is kely soon to appear on ;ritish forecourts. EEC...

Refuse rides on SP811s IT JUST goes to show what sponsorship can do. SP Tyres UK's involvement in the Supercrew competition,...

AS if the recent bad weather was not enough to contend with, operators hoping for a smooth journey should also bear in mind the...

significant revisions to its topweight tractive units and put together a quartet of third generation, right-hand-drive models...

OVER the three days of clear frosty weather during our first test the 220-30 showed that it had power and pace to spare;...

the industry's two most prestigious competitions to co-operate in a single event. David lvison, chief executive of the...

Although international pressure mounts, the Swiss government shows no sign of giving way on its daily road tax on foreign...

A new EEC directive aimed at harmonising braking standards and equipment is causing some alarm, particularly where artics are...

GET THROUGH FAST Speedline Freight Express believes that it can beat air freight on Continental delivery as far as Rome. One...

As an operator, you'll be extremely grateful for the way we capitalise on the benefits of rubber as a shock absorber for...

The international road haulage permit system sometimes does exactly the opposite — it does not permit international road...

CHE Editorial (CM, _January 11) appears ritical of the Freight Transport kssociation's campaign for a 40-tonne naximum weight...

IT was with much interest that I read the letter "Was 38 tonnes really necessary?" front your correspondent, A. R. Goss (CM,...

any extra charges for services rendered; in fact most hauliers will consider themselves very lucky to have enough work to do...

CM January 17 referred to the promotion of Mr Reg Heath to chief executive of TKM Holdings. The report quite rightly pointed...

DEALERS can make more money by selling Transit vans than by flogging 38tonne artics. That's the essence of a message behind the...

[HE RENEWED campaign by the P'reight Transport Association for raising 4ross weights from 38 to 40 tonnes has 3rought this...