THE CONSULTATIVE document issued by the Department of Transport concerning the restructuring of Traffic Areas is unlikely to...

iDICAL proposals to reduce the number of traffic areas and save tween £120,000 and £150,000 a year have been announced by the...

THE NATIONAL Freight Company, in its first full year of operation, made an operating profit of £9.7m on a turnover of £438m for...

MOBIL tanker drivers have calmed the oil industry by accepting their eight per cent wage offer, which increases basic pay to...

DRIVERS and operators have found that the tachograph was not as bad as they feared, and operators in particular are fast...

HESTAIR DENNIS and Hestair Eagle made a £2.4m profit before interest for the year ended January 1982. This is a 12.5 per cent...

MANUFACTURERS will h many months to wait before mend for new commer vehicles picks up, according survey published by ICC E ness...

IT VAN users could benefit, as and Mergers Commission IV1MC investigation found 22 manufacturers together plied at least a...

THE GOVERNMENT is committed to building new roads to boost industrial recovery, Transport Under Secretary Lynda Chalker told...

INE-WEEK dispute between rdeen haulage firm T and M o and drivers of the Transand General Workers Union NS no signs of being...

PERSISTENT rumours are circulating in Brussels that the EEC transport commissioner, the Greek member Giorgios Kontogeorgis will...

vehicle on a ig journey because he was unhappy about the steering was rarded £1,141 compensation for unfair dismissal by a...

REGIONAL Finals of the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition have been taking place and the following are last weekend's...

Vehicle Observer Corps for South Wales, with John Evans (Transport) Ltd, of Newport, acting as Corps leader. Details of any...

ROAD Haulage Association's Express Parcels functional group has chosen a new logo. It is part of a comprehensive programme...

A LORRY driver who was sacked by North West Aggregates after the engine of his vehicle blew up has been awarded £3,175...

AVIS Truck Rental has invested Lim in new Ford Transit vans and has made them additionally available from the more important...

THE Pictorial History of British Road Services will be published on June 17. It portrays the eventful 35-year history of BRS....

TO COMBAT illegal overn parking of heavy lorries in t dential areas, Merseys County Council is to appoii special officer to...

THE Professional Drivers surance scheme, started in 19 now includes special terms private car insurance. A discount of 25 per...

WIER lorries are justified on retary Reginald Eyre told the ng recess. rst, in order to achieve essary environmental imvements...

A NEW specialist North of Scotland parcel delivery service has been established by Graham Beggs Radio and TV, a 13vehicle fleet...

MITCHELL Cotts Transport Services has acquired the whole of the issued capital of E, A. Hellmuth Ltd from Great Gardens of...

A GANG OF FOUR, Vic Waters of Michelin, Cyril Dixon of Goodyear, Jack East of Pirelli, and Ken Lowery of Uni-Royal Englebert...

SEA CONTAINERS has provided four Tamplin Tip-Kits for handling containerised coal exports from Tilmanstone Colliery, near...

THE Tyre Manufacturers Con ence has announced changet its Panel Scheme for tyre exi ination, and says these are tended to...

BP OIL, a major supplier of liquid petroleum gas, is well set to meet an increase in future demand. Last year consumption in...

HAMECH LTD of Staines, Middlesex, has added a second generation of microprocessor-controlled reach trucks to its range of fork...

SPICER Power Products, of 1 cecourse Road, Wolverhan ton, has incorporated a valve into its range of hydraL gear pumps. This...

URTEEN MONTHS after the roduction of the KB26 pick-up the UK. Bedford is launching Kir-wheel drive version called 1(841. It is...

GREATER Manchester Council's lobbying for powers to give cheap fares to the unemployed has prompted Alf Morris, the shadow...

LONDON TRANSPORT's Harrow Weald garage was victorious at the annual Southend Historic Transport Rally last weekend when its...

FARES on Lothian Region Transport buses in Edinburgh raised substantially for the first time since 1976. are to be The...

LONDON TRANSPORT has gun preparing for next monti service cuts, and has written prospective buyers offering sale a number of...

HESTAIR DENNIS has appointed Stanley Johnson Sales Ltd, of Oldham, as distributor for its range of coach and bus chassis...

MAXWELL Bus Transmissions is among ten finalists out of over 900 entries for the 1982/83 Prince of Wales Award for industrial...

THE MONOPOLIES and Mergers Commission inquiry into put sector bus operators is expected to publish its report in July August....

UND 50 of the 80 vehicles owned by the Prospect Coach Group, re, were either derelict or out of use, the West Midland Traffic...

NOX LTD of Lincoln has inluced a range of modified exSt systems for such British ; types as the Leyland ional, Leopard, and...

THE GOVERNMENT could soon come under pressure to ensure that regional council subisidies towards the Scottish Bus Group are...

SEVEN operators are to carry out in-service trials with the latest electric vehicle designed and manufactured by Crompton...

THERE is no need for operators to worry about graded fuels for the foresee future according to Ken BI more, fuels quality...

CRAVEN TASKER has released more details of its new Tasklift low loader (CM June 5). Produced in two forms for 42 and 48 tons...

PERKINS which, as I recalled on April 24, took six world diesel speed records in 1935, is still ahead of the field in some...

A BY-ELECTION is apparently the best method of speeding up road works. The late Richard Crossman's diary revealed that he and...

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is expected to generate much specious heat this summer over the right of employees to information and...

NATIONAL CARRIERS is working hard to supplement its transport income by revenue from poster advertising at 80 branches and on...

REBECCA LANE, Miss Catering Princess of Bristol for 1981, celebrated her 21st birthday by qualifying for a class 3 hgv licence...

IF Sir Peter Masefield, London Transport's chairman, did not know what his political boss, Dave Wetzel, thought of him, a...

THE CM May 8 issue featuring recovery makes interesting reading. With all that pushbutton expensive hardware the mind boggles...

I WOULD LIKE to draw your attention and that of your readers to an error in the content of an advertisement appearing in...

ALTHOUGH not privileged to attend the RHA Tipcon '82, I have endeavoured through the channels of the technical press to follow...

AS ORGANISER of this and every previous Tipcon, I was most disappointed to note the negative comments which you have chosen to...

THE MEWINGS — I think that the current description of a hawk's vocal expression — of your resident bird of prey ha‘ enlivened...

A speaker at the CM/Scania Energy Conference summed up the concern of all fleet managers — how can we increase profits by wise...

NOT surprisingly, from such a high-powered audience, the questions came thick and fast. They were controlled very ably by the...

this way' — has hindered the application oi composite materials. An exception to the inertia is Rubery Owen-Rockwell, which is...

Reconditioners are growing despite harsh economic climate. By Steve Gray THE FEDERATION of Engine Remanufacturers (FER) has...

HAVING dealt with compressors in the last article, we can now consider how the air is stored. Air reservoirs on motor vehicles...

'HE re-routeing this month of nterurban bus services between \msterdam and Lelystad over a aewly completed highway in the...

With a distribution fleet of 600 vehicles, Geest has a strong interest in fuel conservation. To cut down its bills, it has been...

Graham Montgomerie goes into the background and the why's and wherefore's of lpg — a fuel that is making the grade across the...

Delegates can put in written questions in advance at this year's Fleet Management Conference. 'What future has the RHA?"l;...