THE BRITISH road passenger transport industry has much to be proud of. Comfortable coaches — some luxurious — realistic...

FIRST wage offers by hauliers in the current round have been le, but so too have the first hints of trouble ahead. - nployers...

BEDFORD is severing its ties with Vauxhall Motors, and will become an autonomous European commercial vehicle manufacturer...

TRANSPORT Secretary David Howell has repeated his call for local authorities to use their powers to control lorry movements and...

FROM LIGHT VANS to 38-tonne-gcw tractive units, in 1983 CM will be providing more useful information than ever on commercial...

THE COMMON MARKET r haulage quota system p British users at a disadvant because of the time wasted sea crossings, says Europ MP...

GOVERNMENT is set to clash with the Greater London Council r the Labour-controlled council's plans to ban 38-tonners from...

board structure. The new training point values were agreed by the finance and general purposes committee last week when it...

flilLS of the difficulties facing the Government over its plans to der heavy goods vehicle testing to the Lloyds Register...

THE LOBBYING power of MPs is being capitalised on by the British Road Federation, which is urging Yorkshire and Humberside MPs...

POSSIBILITY of further lorry jilt restrictions being imxi on bridges when the 38te lorry is introduced next looks unlikely,...

MAINTAIN freight capacity the Townsend Thoresen 1(stowe to Rotterdam ser, the my Syria is to be kept or an indefinite period....

A NORTHERN bypass for Stratford-upon-Avon could encourage more tourism as it would relieve the town of heavy through traffic,...

MEASURES to simplify the paperwork involved in removals between Common Market member states have been suggested by the EEC...

A TERMINAL at Royal Port! Dock, near Bristol, which take the largest car fords being developed by the Ye Somerset-based Abbey...

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE-based Containerised Waste has been taken over by Cleanaway, the specialist company owned jointly by GKN and...

E TEN MANAGERS who will the devolved National Bus mpany subsidiaries in South 1st England have been apinted. Vestern National...

RBO INTERNATIONAL, distrior of reconditioned turboIrgers, has taken on John eddon as Scottish regional Inager. ilr Sneddon,...

CHRIS CARR has become Original Equipment sales manager for the UK and Ireland at Dana Heavy Duty Division of Northampton. .Mr...

BRITISH RAIL London Midland region has introduced a new streamlined organisation to run its £130m annual freight business more...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium Property Group, set up to manage the NFC property on a commercial basis, under the managing...

KARRIER DEALERS will soon be selling the Renault Master range of 3.5-tonne-gvw vans and chassis cabs. Karrier Motors has...

AN IDEA to prevent corrosive damage on friends' cars has led Alex Jackson, director of Fleximarket, Ryton, Tyne and Wear to...

TEXACO's oil analysis serv Texchek, operates through Britain monitoring the condit of oil in vehicles and equipme Subscribers...

AVON has brought an old idea up to date with a new product from its industrial polymers division. The Avon Flexitank, on...

■ RICULTURAL tractor registrations in the first 11 months of this ir reached 24,000, already 4,000 above last year's total, and...

DESPITE the well-publicised problems of the company's American parent, sales staff on the International Harvester stand at...

SOUTHEND Borough Transport has ordered three Van Hool Astromega double-deck coaches for its Southend to London and Heathrow...

LEYLAND BUS celebrated launch of its Royal Tiger Royal Tiger Doyen coach Scotland with what was pr ably the year's biggest Scot...

ROAD SAFETY is one of main criteria in the driving tE of the Midland Internatio Coach Rally which is to be h at the Goodyear...

E EAST MIDLAND Traffic Commissioners have imposed licence iditions that will oblige five reluctant operators to co-operate er...

YET ANOTHER effort is being made to introduce one-man operated double-deckers to Dublin's city services, but there is no sign...

THE ANNOUNCEMENT of Bombardier Ireland's first bus export order is not expected now until after Christmas, and could be as late...

MIDLAND RED NORTH, has introduced a gift voucher scheme to encourage more Shropshire and South Staffordshire residents to use...

ORIGINALLY DEVISED by an American company to meet the demand for safe unloading of bulk semi-trailers working on refuse and...

THE LATEST ADDITION to the diesel anti-waxing market is this fuel heater from Desmo of Cradley Heath, Warley, West Midlands....

THE Retread Manufacturers sociation, in conjunction IA the Rubber and Plastics Proc sing Industry Training Boa has achieved...

THE CONFIRMATION of I higher weight limits has been greeted with unbouni enthusiasm from every quart In the opinion of Phil IN...

SCANIA is to offer a sleeper cab as an option on its P82 8x4 cha; unveiled at the Motor Show. Available on both wheelbase...

ME-STUDY packs are now liable as a CM/Road nsport Correspondence Jrses Special Offer to prepare the Royal Society of Arts ,...

A realistic policy blueprint remains a lonc way off. A special correspondent explain! how the traditional EEC negotiating game...

choose correctly • • • SPECIFYING VEHICLES must be an exact science. Spending up to 230,000 should exercise the mind and raise...

It all depends what we mean by fair competition — and what is meant by the public interest. What about fringe services? The...

That's the Leyland Cub midibus, which with Reeve Burgess bodywork Noel Millier feels will prove suitable for either town or...

There's a distinctly anorexic look at British fleets at the moment and with orders well down it's impossible to detect signs of...

ALBERT BOOTH, Labour's spokesman on transport, rose to rhetorical heights when, over his still-warm body, the House of Commons...

TIME-AND-MOTION officers in local government who devise refuse-collections schedules are often taken for a ride, says Maurice...

"I'LL NOT BE travelling by coach again in a hurry," said a Bedfordshire publican. Ironically, a coach driver's hurry is the...

GILTSPUR is to put the 9ft 9in cockleshell of that name in the International Boat Show at Earl's Court. It is the craft that...

THOSE WHO DROOL over trams may think £1.20 well spent on issue No 37 of Scottish Transport (Scottish Tramway Museum Society, PO...

JOLODA is one of the few companies that can truthfully boast an impressive track record. Others may have equally good or better...

Diesel fuel is produced by all refiners in Britain to the same industry-wide standard on "waxing", designed to minimise...

give more mpg is well known: optimum loads, routes and driving techniques; top-line mechanical condition; and deflectors in...

Most will probably have antifreeze in the engine as a year-round corrosion preventative. However, it is important to ensure...

The looks and performance of the Royal Tiger Doyen have found a firm supporter in Noel Milner and he foresees as a result an...

The Irish-built range of rear-engined buses and coaches has been in production for two years. Alan Millar reports from Dublin...

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley . . . and in France this concept is still ringing the bell. Brian Weatherley visits Nancy...

BUSES, by Alan Thomas, (Hamlyn, £8.95) is another for the stocking but this time has plenty of words. It takes an international...

BRITISH buses around the world by Mike Fenton (Patrick Stephens) offers a somewhat nostalgic pictorial look at British buses...

BUS enthusiasts are the easiest people to buy Christmas presents for; there is a neverending selection of books aimed...

THE Professional Drivers' Guide (Croner Publications; £3.30 including postage and packing) by B. A. Thompson, provides in plain...

by Graham Montgomerk Scania first seriously considered entering the eight-wheeler market about four years ago and is now...

Though rich in experience and resources, Northern Counties can foresee only grim times ahead for it is operating in a hostile...