THIS WEEK we have issued an invitation to the new Secretary of State for Transport to meet the leaders of all sectors of road...

NOT SO many years ago the austere all-wheel drive vehicle was all that was available to cost-conscious farmers and the armed...

IANAGEMENT training courses in by the Road Transport Inistry Training Board's High Er11I Motec are being overhauled is year to...

SEDDON ATKINSON is moving another step closer to becoming a vehicle assembler rather than a manufacturer, with the announcement...

A CUMMINS 10-litre engine is being offered as an alternative to the updated International Harvester DT 466 power unit for...

THE ASSOCIATION of Vehicle Recovery Operators (Avro) has now taken the first positive step towards forming a professional...

DISCOUNTS and document ation facilities hitherto availabl to larger operators are now be ing offered to smaller con . panies...

AS MANY as 3,000 heavy lorrie would be taken out of Darlim ton, the British Road Federatio said this week in its written ev...

THE DEEP DIVISIONS between representatives on the Wood Inq Greater London have prevented being able to use the final report...

THERE are likely to be few weight restrictions imposed on in North Yorkshire on account of the 38 tonne lorry. Instead, any...

A NEW CONCEPT in transport marketing was introduced in Sweden last week. For four days the Swedish public were treated to a...

THE EEC Commission is examining the safety of roll-on/roll-off ferries following recent tragedies in the North Sea and Aegean,...

Fleetcare's new centre FLEETCARE has opened a new transport maintenance centre at Milton near Abingdon, Oxfordshire to add to...

ROAD ACCIDENTS in Scotland resulting in driver injuries fell three per cent in 1982 compared with 1981. A total of 20,850...

BELFAST CAR Ferries made a trading profit of £60,000 in its first year of operation between Liverpool and Belfast. This profit...

THE OVERALL winner at the Kent area heat of the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition was E. Jarvis of Shell UK Oil. But Mr...

TATE AND LYLE Transport wa right to insist on medical confir mation that a driver who hai been off work suffering fron vertigo...

)ISTRIBUTION managers have been appointed already to run the we major depots being built for Bar Delivery Services, the company...

-ONDON TRANSPORT has a low bus operations manager in Norman Cohen, general manager of Abbey District since LT formed its eight...

CAROLE GREGORY has succeeded John Webb as general manager of Tourmaster Coaches, the Dunstable-based subsidiary of...

THE SCOTTISH Transport Group has responded to one of the recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on its...

THE MOTOR Factors Association (MFA) and the Society of Motor Manfuacturers and Traders (SMMT) hosted the 1983 congress of...

CONCLUSIONS drawn by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from its inquiry into the car spares market have placed the law...

"WHEN THE recession arrived in 1980, many companies attempted to sell themselves out of trouble with disastrous effects". In...

"WE, THE COMPONENT manufacturers trade with vehicle assemblers, their spares divisions and wholesalers each under different...

NEW and improved range of aiding-side door van bodies for both rigid and articulated opera:ion allows fast loading and unoading...

ELECTRICAL retailer Rumbelows is now using liquefied petroleum gas in over 400 of its 1,150 vehicles. Its fleet includes Ford...

A NEW FLEET of 19 vehicles, based on the Bedford TL 860 with 5.18 (lift) insulated box bodies and Fetter refrigeration units,...

120-tonners DELIVERY of a 120-ton sevenaxle extendible semi low-loader completes an order by Trailer Supermarkets (Bawtry),...

ASSOCIATED Minibus Operators' (Amos) plans to run 400 minibuses on cross-London routes have been dismissed as a "folly" by...

A LABOUR-controlled Scottish council may take action against some independent companies which run commuter express services...

DNOON TRANSPORT loses CI for every mile its buses run despite 'cent improvements in both bus operating and engineering....

1 PROPERTY company has been Istablished by the Scottish 'ransport Group, mirroring a imilar pre-privatisation move oy the...

THE BUS: . The key to urban mobility is the title of the latest report in the Bus and Coach Council campaign to promote the...

Deal for Supabus SURREY coach operator Epsom Coaches has joined forces with French operator Cars Phoceens and launched a...

WHAT IS CLAIMED to be Britain's first all-hydraulic road vehicle suspension has been developed by Rydewell Suspensions....

FROM JUNE 1 several departments of the British Standards Institution, including the sales department, have been established in...

PERKINS Engines has produced Powerpart brand of diesel parts. The company analysed its complete range of gasket sets and found...

VOLUME PRODUCTION of the two-tonne capacity Renault TRM 2000 has now started al the Normandy, factory of Re , nau It Vehicules...

Rules of the road Be a smooth operator in Italy! Followers of this series will notice that some of the regulations are...

less than perfect Inditions, the isociation of Vehicle movery Operators' [hibition put on a .ave face and showed Ime...

STRUCK rental administrator ith a truck rental/contract hire ompany, Truxhire Services mited, I was surprised to see )ur...

AMON GREENLY'S Cross :hannel article about Western iermany (FRG) (CM, May 14) ontains three errors of fact vhich I am sure you...

I WAS SURPRISED to read in your edition of May 28 that Hugh Wilson, Director of BAR, had had difficulty in establishing the...

FURTHER to the report commissioned from Bristol Polytechnic into the stability problems of large artics, published in December...

I WOULD appreciate your readers' comments on our experience with an insurance company. In March 1981 one of our Leyland Reiver...

THERE HAS been high drama in municipal refuse collection, which I hope my friend Raymond Hunt, of Nupe, will forgive me for...

I WAS MORE than surprised to learn that one of the Freight Transport Association's member companies had up to 3,000 forklift...

TWO BRITISH army vehicles and their drivers took the ferry from Harwich to Gothenburg, Sweden, instead of to West Germany,...

THREE PRE-PRODUCTION models of the Leyland Electric Terrier have been bought by the Department of Industry to lend to operators...

MORE THAN 25,000 motor traders are being invited to enter a competition to find those who give customers the greatest...

customers ..." Note the assumption that motor traders are naturally benign and that their customers are human beings. Dolphins...

THE OLD RAILWAY practice of naming locomotives is spreading to buses, as I have already noted. London Country Bus Services is...

'MORE PAYLOAD than any yther 32-tonner on the market" s Ford's bold advertising claim or its Deutz-powered 3220 tracive unit....

Special Offer STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road...

Wiping your troubles away ROLLS of paper for wiping and cleaning tend to get scattered all over the workshop floor. It's not...

THERE'S no need now to throw away old or damaged webbing straps as a salvage and repair service for any make of webbing straps...

LOOSENING wheel nuts which have been set to the correct torque is often something of a problem, especially when they've been on...

AUTO-SMART are now able to supply Truckwash traffic film remover on draught direct from special containers carried in mobile...

MOVING relatively small but heavy loads from vehicle to customer is a physically demanding job, and expensive mechanical...

has become a familiar pastime on the commercial vehicle scene over the past few years. Although, on the surface, it appears...

Who do you turn to? INITIAL COST, we are told, should not be the main consideration when purchasing a new vehicle. However,...