IF rightly claims to be Britain's only independent vehicle manufacturer. To be able to ake such a claim speaks volumes for the...

BRITISH HAULIERS' pleas in Europe for more rigid controls on the growth of the industry appear to be falling on receptive ears....

A NEW UK-Continent freigt and trailer operator, Portbridg Transport International, has 134 gun operating from Ipswich. The...

BRITISH ROAD SERVICES' attempt to offer its drivers salaried status has been abandoned for the time being, but the company...

I A STRONG plea to drop any idea of introducing lorry bans across )ndon, Freight Transport Association director-general Hugh...

THE ENTIRE transport industry must adopt a unified public profile if it is to earn a better image with the public, Freight...

McCAIRNS (PMPA), the Irish assembler of Mitsubishi commercials, made a loss of IRE1.04m (E806,000) last year, on a turnover of...

1RMER world champion racing ver Jackie Stewart will open s year's Scottish Motor Show November 11, the last to be iged at...

BEDFORD has begun to offer a lower cost variant of its Astra van with a more basic vinyl trim, a low compression 1.3-litre...

LEYLAND'S warning that truck business is "literal fighting for survival" has had effect on the 6,000 mani workers at the...

REPORTS that Bedford may be on the point of taking over MA commercial vehicle business have effectively been denied by b...

ROAD HAULAGE Is the example which British Rail should follow for the future running of its freight service, the Freight...

WEEKLY light commercial ai tons are now being run on F days by British Car Auctiou Birmingham branch. Over 200 vans, mainly Fe...

NORMID PACKING has tended its activities by open a 53,000sqft factory and h security 3.5 acre site at Bilst In the West...

LONG-AWAITED road construction is expected to be approved for Edinburgh next month, following Liberal/SDP councillors' decision...

DATAPOST, the Post Off high-speed courier delivery vice, has added two African one Far East country to th countries it was...

:OTTISH commercial vehicle erators are upset that their tempts to gain an early adviry role in the running of statevned ferry...

BRITISH Road Services' assault on the own-account market has won it another £500,000 contract for the Eastern BRS company,...

SCICON, the computer services subsidiary of BP, has abandoned a route planning program based on Department of Transport data as...

joined the company last year, is now Daf Bus manager, succeeding Chris ThorneycroftSmith, who was also marketing manager of Daf...

A ROADLINE UK driver who saved his valuable load when attacked by would-be thieves has been rewarded by ttie National Freight...

STEVE ELLIS is the new tral manager with Potteries Mo. Traction, succeeding Trek Smallwood who is now coun bus manager with...

in 16-ton market new lightweight, two16 ton gvw rigid which has on sale since the end of has now been officialy un1, writes...

A COMPUTER-AIDED gear-shifting system will be exhibited on the Scania stand at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week. For use in...

MAN will exhibit new models in the medium weight range at the 50th Frankfurt Motor Show next week. A 12.170F was a surprise...

AT A COST of DM52m (C13m) MAN's new parts centre at Dachau will supply both domestic German and customers abroad from early...

ILVO BUS has modified its :cessful mid-engined B1OM 3ch chassis range for the 1984 ason. Three individual verns of the...

EXCELSIOR Holidays of Bournemouth has caused more turmoil in the crowded British coach market by ordering 20 Plaxtonbodied...

CARLTON PSV Sales has won its biggest single order for new Neoplan coaches to date. The order, for 15 Skyliner double-deck...

join the other metropolitan pasn defying Government guidelines MERSEYSIDE PTE looks set to senger transport undertakings i on...

LEYLAND BUS has launched the Tiger in Australia. It was introduced initially in 11m two-axle form with the 218bhp TL11 engine...

A BODY-ON version of MAN's SR280 coach will be 20 per cent cheaper than its more sophisticated integral stablemate, but it is...

LEYLAND will keep its opi open to meet the proposed noise regulations for buses coaches due in 1986 — if company's continuously...

Total Oil sub-division Totalheat. Based on 4.34m (171in) wheelbase Leyland 16-13 chassis, the vehicles are equipped with...

THAMES Water Authority has taken delivery of 18 Freight Rover Sherpas with bodies by Edbro of Bolton. Sixteen are fitted with a...

WREN the National Freight Consortium starts its next financial year on October 1, the reorganisation process which began a year...

E rail/coach fares comparison international services in CM, gust 6 was very misleading. or example, while you Tectly quoted our...

IAT's wrong with the road ilage industry today, with 10,000 firms folding since recession began? et me give you an example....

HAVING READ the comments of David Gill (CM, August 20) re garding Iveco/Magirus eightwheeled vehicles, I am concerned at his...

I HAVE READ with deep concern the article (CM August 20) which I understand is the result of an interview given by Patrick...

Managing Director Applied Water Energy Ltd 62 Saltoun Street, Glasgow • Mr Feeney misquotes our headline, which was not a...

IN A LETTER (Dear Sir, CM August 27) A. J. Beddard of B and W Commercials, of Walsall, wrote: "Isn't it about time that members...

TIONAL EXPRESS must be best thing that has happened ritish Rail — and the telling public — in a long e. Competition from...

lain anonymous — "lam no o," he said — was reading comments (August 13) on cidal cuts of more than 10 per it in haulage rates...

THE RECOMMENDATION by the working party on the reorganisation of the Road Haulage Association that the Northern district should...

THE ROAD Haulage Association is proud that the Government's proposal to increase speed limits for heavy goods vehicles is the...

WHEN it comes to selfprotection the French are hard to beat. A Briton who had been given 36 bottles of German wine in Bavaria...

Peter Foden talks frankly about the British independent's histor and place in the market both today and in the future FIFTY...

With this vehicle the San dbach firm is hoping to break into the volume 16-tonner market, a sector with which it is unfamiliar....

Three top men at ERF reflect on engineering milestones during their reign and speculate on future developments for 'the world's...

The Milk Marketing Board is one of ERF's top customers. Its fleet — Dairy Crest Transport — has more than 1,400 lorries, 150 of...

by Simon Greenly )UR TEAM of drivers are off slo later this month for the 'national Driving rnpionship, we thought that • was...

Sandbach firm sed the potential than 20 years ago naintains a twodialogue with Plastics. Brian therley reports 11V1ENSE...

This association protects the profitability of the Sandbach firm and its distributors, as the chairman explains to Tim...

'Be a little fish and keep swimming' is the philosophy of this ERF owner-driver. And very well it's served him, as Mike...

DURING the induction stroke of a four-stroke, naturally aspirated, compression ignition (diesel) engine, the inlet valve opens...

FOR MOST PEOPLE, September is the month that signifies the end of summer. Central heating systems are switched on, postholiday...