WHAT HAS happened to the campaign to improve the image of the industry which was being organised by the Society of Motor...

YOU MAY have thought you detected evidence of Italian flair in the design of lveco's latest tractive units, the already highly...

By Alan Millar PRESSURE is growing on the Government any tax increases in the March 19 Budget. to exclude dery from Last...

THE FOREIGN Office is being pressed to help meat hauliers who are being refused authority to run direct from Spain into...

THE SALE of Norfolk Line, the trailer and ferry operator, was concluded last week. Unilever sold the company to Maersk Company,...

AS COURT proceedings in the lorry ban battle between the Greater London Council and the Government loomed closer this week, the...

THE EUROPEAN transport industry's fight to stop Switzerland's border taxes is likely to extend to a test court case. The...

AN ATTEMPT to reach an EEC deal on the thorny issue of drivers' hours is now expected to be made at the next meeting of Common...

A HAULIER due to appear at disciplinary proceedings before the West Midland Licensing Authority for the second time within...

THE END of the miners' strike on Tuesday meant that the Gloucestershire hauliers, George and Richard Read, had to delay their...

THE GOVERNMENT has planned to open 14 motorway service stations in England, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has told MPs. But...

FALLING export business plunged Bedford into deeper losses last year, with its loss ending 20 per cent higher than in 1983....

THE BRITISH Road Federation has produced a report, Forever Second Rate? — an analysis of long-term trends and needs in public...

IN AN attempt to prevent future public inquiries on environmental cases becoming a free-for-all general meeting for residents,...

TRANSFLEET Services, the specialist commercial vehicle contract hire company, has announced a £200,000 expansion programme in...

SERIOUS transport accidents at work will get greater attention from the Health and Safety Commission. HSC chairman Dr John...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's annual Yearbook has been redesigned for 1985. Insurance has been added to the range of...

MARKS and Spencer is testing Greater hush-kits on some of its heavy lorries. London Council-approved This emerged recently...

I3usinessmen to Brussels, holidaymakers to I long Kong, cargo to Capetown. Heathrow is full of 'em. Sure, they'll all get away...

GB Lubricants are a well-established Company with financial stability and a positive attitude to business development. The...

]DFORD Commercial Vehicles' rector of engineering and de n, Ian Ian McEwan, has been ap)inted director, operations ld...

THREE appointments to new positions have been announced by international haulier Ferrymasters following a reorganisation of the...

Pinder directs SPD special accounts IN A MOVE to develop key accounts and specialist activities SPD Group the national high...

FORMER Atlas Express group director Peter Walters has been appointed by Philips Electronics as director of physical...

FORMER National Bus Company chairman Lord Shepherd has been elected president of the EEC body which represents the public...

FAILURE to produce tachograph records and permitting drivers to exceed hours limits cost Lancashire tanker operator Seville...

GREATER Manchester County Council's transportation strategy committee has approved in principle a plan for a £20m by-pass...

ANOTHER operator to take early advantage of the recentlyopened border between Spain and Gibraltar is Brown Wharrier Transport,...

OVER 100 lorries and their drivers were subjected to a spotcheck of records on Wednesday last week at Scratchwood service area...

While the CBI's members lave notified it of average 3ettlements of 6,2 per cent beween November and January, he collective...

A FULL range of Volvo's own lubricants has been added to the parts division's customer support programme. Three types of...

FULL production of Alcan Bonallack Loadstar thin-walled refrigerated semi-trailers has begun at Alcan Transport Products'...

VW engine options curtainsider and a 2.1 litre fuel-injected petrol tions for the one-tonne payload With just 37kW (50hp) the...

DESPITE a European launch in Austria last week, Volkswagen has still to decide whether to import the 4X4 version of the...

By Alan Millar A COMPREHENSIVE route tendering arrangement, with operators paying county councils for the privilege of...

HEREFORD operator Stretton Coaches has withdrawn its deregulated Hereford city bus services in the face of overwhelming...

LONDON Regional Transport is expected to announce the results of its first batch of route tenders later this month. Eighteen...

STRATHCLYDE PTE has won its East Kilbride new town despite may shed jobs at its East Kilbrid The application was one of a...

JACK SEMPLE was allowed behind the scenes at Dover during his investigation of permit checks. His report (CM February 23) shows...

ALAN MILLAR'S otherwise admirable summary of the Transport Bill (CM, February 9) contained some misunderstandings which may...

YOUR issue of February 16 carried a letter from Les Wharton, managing director of Leyland Trucks, making a complaint about the...

I REFER to Jack Semple's report in last week's CM of a meeting of Volvo operators at Newmarket organised by Duffields,...

ALONG with such milestones as marriage and divorce, moving house is one of the more stressful times in life. Does this deter...

Removals-Storage Export Packing Free Estimates Shipping HARDMAN ROAO.OUNGSTON UPON THAMES TELEX MIPS 01-546 1001 fer them for...

Rearden-Cord would not want payment until after the move. As recommended by Normans I rang Meldrum's in Manchester for an...

2ATCH sight of Vanplan's latest design of furniture removal van In your rear-view mirror on the motorway and you might easily...

SINCE last September, when Volvo Trucks (GB) introduced guaranteed delivery within 48 hours of urgently needed parts in "a...

INCIDENTALLY, the free fitting of factory-reconditioned engines and gearboxes by Volvo dealers, which the maker introduced a...

CARLANN FIIL has style and subtlety. Where others might defy bailiffs with barricades, she opened the door to them. She...

A WALLET mysteriously appeared one morning on a desk in the Road Haulage Association's headquarters in Fulham. It had been...

Bullock-cart operators in the Far East will be gratified to learn that "certain neo-cryptoprotectionist trends evident in...

JOLODA, best known for its pallet skate system, is in the business of making the driver's life easier, and markets two other...

BRITISH ROADS are already inferior to those of many Continental countries, complains the British Road Federation, which has...

IVERPOOL is a city with a forlidable industrial relations reutation. Tales of past troubles 1 the docks and car factories nd of...

THE FACOM model 605B hacksaw has a pump action for cutting intricate shapes and holes in large panels. It is also possible to...

THE eight-tonne jacking beam introduced by Laycock Engineering is designed for use on a lift or across a pit. It has two...

CHUBB Fire Security has introduced a one kilo size HaIon extinguisher which can be kept in a glove compartment or fixed to a...

DESMO has announced its new line-up of roof racks for light commercial vehicles. The racks are backed with a comprehensive...

A BATTERY water dispensing station for forklift and electric vehicles where significant amounts of deionised water are...

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