WE'RE LOOKING at Scotland next week. Our passenger editor has been to Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive, Jack Semple...

GLOOMY PROSPECTS for the road transport industry are contained in a newly published survey which suggests the post-recession...

ROAD HAULAGE'S share of the EEC's transport market will slip further this year while a higher percentage of the traffic will be...

DESPITE the atrocious British Bank Holiday weather an estimated 70,000 people flocked to the Commercial Motor-sponsored...

INTERNATIONAL operators emerged from the Easter holiday weekend uncertain of whether they will be hit by industrial action at...

THE END of a Ford sales incentive for Cargo models in February depressed new commercial vehicles sales over 3.5 tonnes last...

A LEADING Scottish haulier has won a National Coal Board contract to deliver house coal using road/rail containers....

SIX MAN tractive units fitted with pre-production versions of the new Eaton TS0 11612 Twin-Splitter gearbox (CM, July 21, 1984)...

DRIVERS are now entitled to £12.70 overnight tax-free subsistence payments, the Inland Revenue has told the Road Haulage...

PLANS for more unsigned overnight parking controls in Leicestershire have been dropped after Freight Transport Association...

TRANSPORT Minister Lynda Chalker has announced the timetable for the major repairs to the Severn Bridge. Contracts worth £18m...

BEDFORD ASTRA vans built between August and November 1984 are being recalled to rectify possible weak welds in their rear axle...

A DRIVER whose lorry fell down a quarry face and overturned has won a claim for damages, but the High Court has ruled that the...

BRITISH commercial vehicles above 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight carried 1,216m tonnes in 1982, according to the International...

THE SACKING of a lorry driver by Deans of Leeds without giving him an opportunity of saying anything in his defence led to the...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium's latest drive for more employee shareholders has attracted 40 per cent of the workforce at...

EP These are some of the 22 checklist questions included in the new free leaflet, called Danger! Transport at Work, produced...

DJS CONTRACTS has appointed Colin Harvey its contract hire sales executive. He will be responsible for sales in Hampshire,...

SALES engineer responsible for the north of England and Scotland for Thompson Tankers, the Bilston-based manufacturer of...

TWO sales consultants have been appointed by car and light van contract hire specialist Lex Vehicle Leasing. David Booth will...

ENGLAND'S Rugby Union coach Richard Greenwood is to join Foster Tachographs on May 1 as marketing manager (director designate)....

GENERAL MANAGER of the Cowies of Sunderland Ford truck dealership at North Hylton Road, lain Jane, has been appointed group...

THERE are fears in the tipper industry that the eight-wheeled rigid tipper is moving towards extinction as the 25 tonne...

A NEW TANKER cleaning station ton's western docks to service docks there and at Portsmouth. has been opened in Southamptankers...

THE ASSOCIATION for Distribution Development has launched a new training programme aimed at raising the management standards in...

TACHOGRAPH analysis is being used to assess the insurance premiums paid by hauliers in a new scheme launched by London brokers...

AROUND 800,000 tipper journeys power stations prevented power ers, it has been disclosed. At the height of the strike last...

A ROAD haulage firm involved in the transport of highly flammable fuels has been fined £150 for contravening safety...

A UK VERSION of the revised international standard requirements for freight container identification has been published by the...

TWO HAULAGE contractors — described by a Crown Court judge as the tip of a lorry hijacking iceberg — have been given suspended...

FRANK TINSDALE Ltd, the UK concessionaire for the Dutch specialist vehicle manufacturer' Terberg, has gone into liquidation....

THE SITE Equipment Demonstration — 85, the annual plantin-action show, will be held this year at a new venue Whipsnade,...

DITA SUPPLIES of Royston Barnsley is offering a pump seal service for road tankers handling a range of liquids and solids. A...

JENNINGS Coachwork of Crewe has produced a crew cab conversion for the Leyland Roadrunner. The 0.76m (30in) extension,...

A RANGE of "hi-tech" waste containers is being added this month by Mayfly Containers, of Clay Cross, Derbyshire, to its range...

THE CURRENT level of commercial vehicle taxation represents a terrible on-cost to our essential supplies, said Society of Motor...

THE new Alcan-bodied step-framed Schweppes urban delivery vehicle which made its public debut at the Crest Hotel Heathrow two...

THE GOVERNMENT has backtracked on its proposals to allow operators and other interested parties to make representations on...

THE RESULTS of London Buses' double-deckers are unlikely to vehicles orders have been placed According to LRT News, the staff...

A TOKEN-operated drinks dispenser has been launched by Eurobev, of Ashford, Kent. The unit, which costs £235 plus vat, is 15in...

THE GOVERNMENT has yet to be convinced that road speed limiters are the full answer to controlling the speed of coaches on...

A STAGECOACH driver has been convicted of driving carelessly following a fatal accident (CM, March 16). He was fined a total...

THIS YEAR will be the year of coach and car travel to mainland Europe, according to the Dover Harbour Board. Figures just...

CM endorses our correspondent's view: 'The ownerdrivers need help, not criticism. They need to be used, not abused; they want...

Noda is a good tip and the least drivers can do is ask for earnings forecasts to be provided in the way one French trailer...

on around it. Ten days before the Budget the pound stood at $1.06. Ten days after the Budget the pound had soared to $1.24. The...

of 14-litre engines at the same time as the 290hp (gross) charge-cooled version of the 10-litre LT10 engine was officially...

RHA director-general Freddie Plaskett (CM, March 16) thinks that coal hauliers' moderate charges during the miners' strike will...

THE article by Bill Brock entitled 'Mudwing alternative" (CM, March 2), and referring to spray suppression systems is...

WE ARE TRACING the history of the Society's Leyland fourton boxvan "Chivers". The registration number is CE 6065 and it was...

I WAS most interested in your piece (CM February 23) concerning Holywell-based Crosville drivers. I was called up at Holywell...

I NOTED with some surprise the implications contained in your feature on Peter Lane Transport (CM February 16) that the company...

One million gallons of diesel a year is big enough business to earn discounts from suppliers. Such is the buying power of...

TRAM fever is busting out all over Blackpool. The council is celebrating in a big way 100 years of electric traction, with 10...

COMPETITION from M25 is worrying British Rail, It has encouraged the board to seek to develop the West London line from...

AN INQUIRY among 2,700 workers in Italy and Holland by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working...

A THREE-WEEK transport survey with a different purpose has been successfully conducted in Leeds by the West Yorkshire Passenger...

COULD it be that Nicholas Ridley got the idea of deregulating the bus lines from a Communist, not a capitalist? I ask because...

A SUCCESSFUL racing-car designer has turned his hand to a reproduction 1920s-style 15cwt van with a bonnet and radiator:that...

WITH controversial machines already measuring drivers' intake of alcohol, speed on the road and hours at the wheel, it is a...

Our Canadian correspondent, Bill Crampton, has been sampling bus services down Mexico way, where passengers are requested to...