A lorry is not generally seen as a thing of beauty. As a practical load carrier, it has certain constraints put on it which...

NEXT week we take a look at the Midlands, often described as the heart of Britain's motor industry. Some truck manufacturers...

'ARC:ELS carrier TNT is liscussing the controversial iossibility of distributing riddy Shah's new national laily newspaper....

HE WORLD'S largest bus lanufacturer, [Icarus of lungary, has alarmed British ianufacturers by making >undings about building an...

Record year Last year was the busiest ever for lorries in Britain, DTp statistics reveal. 4 Residents fight back Transport...

RECORDS for road freight haulage in Britain were broken last year, figures from the Department of 'Transport reveal. They show...

unions to crisis parcels meeting TRADES UNION officials have been called to a meeting with the National Freight Consortium's...

SON AND FATHER Paul and John Davison of John Dee Transport, County Durham, netted an impressive first and second place in the...

N ENVIRONMENTAL - essure group has stepped up ; pressure for residents to be yen a right of appeal against IC grant of...

NOTHER big increase in e size of the EEC quota of ternational haulage permits permitting lorries to ierate anywhere inside the...

WINCANTON Chilled Distribution has linked with one of Europe's biggest fridge hauliers, French-owned Transports Frigorifiques...

TOYOTA will reinforce its UK light commercial vehicle range early in 1986 with the Lite-Ace compact van. The 1.86-tonne GVW...

FROM the start of 1986, all Nissan Patrol 4X4 models sold in Britain will be built by Motor lberica in Spain, rather than by...

A MAJOR publicity campaign — aimed partly at hauliers — over the Government's bus deregulation policy is to be mounted by the...

OPERATORS without exemption permits from the Greater London Council's lorry ban should make urgent applications, according to...

THE GOVERNMENT this week launched its hid to quash the High Court decision supporting the GLC heavy lorry ban. Robert...

INDEPENDENT Express has gained approval from its parent company, the Transport Development Group, for the development of a new...

HARRY COWANS, the former chairman of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee and Labour MP for Tyne Bridge, has died...

National Freight Consortium from Unilever earlier this year, is to have John Davies as its operations director. He will have...

ALAN LAW, the Transport ;Rid General Workers Union Midlands officer who dominated haulage industrial relations in the...

FERRYMASTERS has got new managing director, Jin Brooke. He moves from Ips wich-based P&O Roadway to Altrincham, Greater Man...

RALPH Roberts is leaving his post as regional chairman, Wales and the North Region National Bus Company to become deputy...

FLOWERS TRANSPOR1 the York subsidiary of th Transport Develop/nen Group, this week announce the appointment of a tie. managing...

HE AVERAGE salary for istribution executives in forrard looking firms is 16,315, according to a newly ublished survey....

- 111E NINTH edition of the 11a ndbook of hi ternationa Road Transport has just been published by the International Road...

SALES agreement to give auliers access to cellular teleornmunications has been greed with the Road Haulage (ssociation only...

GKN CI1LP, the pallet company, has renewed its appeal for industry to return its stray pallets. Its security manager, Alan...

A MAJOR Ulster haulage company escaped with a severe warning after its overloading record prompted Scottish Licensing Authority...

A YORK MP has launched a campaign against sugar beet lorries which he claims are posing a safety hazard on the roads. MP Conal...

SOUTHAMPTON Cit Council plans to introduce ii all-day Sunday and overnigI7 street parking ban for vehick over 3.5 tonnes GVW by...

THAME, Oxfordshire trader say they arc suffering ove double yellow lines in th Park Street shopping are: which have affected de...

SCORES of West German traffic policemen are being questioned about a giant extortion racket practised along the motorways in...

SEALINK UK has set out its plans for 15.186 on the Cherbourg and Channel Islands routes from Portsmouth and Weymouth. Although...

A LOCAL council is considering using planning legislation to control a haulier's depot, following the renewal of the haulier's...

SORRY if we confused you last week with the caption to one of the photographs of the Save the Children Fund convoy on page 10....

GOVERNMEN . 1 statistics just published show that Labour councils' fares policies have been arresting the decline in bus use....

ALDER VALLEY, formed out of two National Bus Company subsidiaries 14 years ago, is splitting in two again ready for...

REED EXHIBITIONS is offering this year's International Bus and Coach Show exhibitors a 10 per cent discount if they book space...

ROESELARE SALES, the sole UK concessionaire fbr Belgian Jonckheere coachwork, has gone into voluntary liquidation. The...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company is to submit its proposals on privatisation to Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley by the end of the...

ENSIGN BUS, the Essex dealer, has set up a joint sales company with National Bus and has taken over the Culture Bus tourist...

THE METROPOLITAN Traffic Commissioners' chairman has questioned whether a leading tourist coach operator has sufficient finance...

RESTRICTIONS on Darlington's municipal buses operating more than a mile beyond the borough boundary have been lifted. The...

COACH DEALER Stuart Johnson, of Harthill, near Sheffield has rebodied two 1977 llm Leyland Leopard coaches with Duple Dominant...

THE FIRST Atlas skip loader to be sold in Britain has gone into service with Harvey's Waste Disposal, of High Wycombe,...

DAVID MACKRILL En{ riming of Bury St Edmund Suffolk, has produced a ne skip unit, the Maclift Lead( suitable for 3.4m to 4...

the Frankfurt Show (CM, September 21) goes on sale in Britain on November 1. D-Wax heater for November launch It replaces the...

A FREE five-year unlimit mileage warranty is beii offered on Perkins (Rol Royce) Eagle Li diesel An introductory offer Perkins'...

RENAULT Truck Industr is to fit ZF S5-24/3 five-spe synchromesh gearboxes standard on all Dodge Series models powered by t...

ANIA'S stand at next onth's Scottish Motor Show ill include an addition to the 2 P-cabbed range, and a ilkW version of the...

THERMOVAN of High Wycombe is to continue as UK supplier of French KlegCfrance insulated bodywork for rigid vehicles....

GHT VEHK:LE operators South Wales and the West England as well as the nth-West Midlands and (Aland who arc considering pitching...

BCT EQUIPMENT of Kidderminster has added a lightweight parcel lift DLIOPL to its range of tail-lifts suitable for standard vans...

THE HRS'1 overseas order for Merryweather's latest turntable ladder equipment, the XRL 30, has come front Japanese fire engine...

to its range of commercial vehicles arketed in Britain by introducing a :sel engine option for Cabstar and rvan models. The...

When you operate vehicles which are fitted with ZF gearboxes, you come to rely on — even take for granted — the fine handling...

I T APPEARS that senior executives at Daimler-Benz are thick-skinned — thicker-skinned, indeed, than some of their products....

giant state-owned vehicle builder lost a staggering FFr 12.5billion (£.1.04 billion). Yet despite its parent company's...

TIDY DISC STORAGE TACHODISC of Bacup. Lancashire has introduced a new Driver Pak tachograph disc storage system specifically...

SECOMAK Air Products has developed an exhaust gas extraction fan system for vehicle workshops where engines have to he left...

shared by the winners of the 1985 Commercial Motor Livery Competition. This year the competition was split into four classes:...

— between the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association which limits the...

WHAT TO BUY WHERE, WHY AND WHEN With so many light van models available from so many manufacturers, the prospective buyer has...

N Ow is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the Certificate of Professional...

DISTRIBUTION CONCEPT . . . IN MOST developed countries the costs of distribution are steadily growing and account for an...

THE LATEST in Ian Allan's series of Buses in Camera books covers NorthWest England, and in his introduction John Robinson says...

THE 35th edition of the ABC Freight Guide 1985 - 86 (Kogan Page; £12.50) contains more than 500 pages of information...