IE ROAD Haulage Association wants "a real part" in a monitoring d supervising scheme to control heavy goods vehicle test...

;SO brought tears to , erators' eyes last week when announced a 3.1p per gallon :Tease in the price of dery to . ge fleet...

BRITAIN is not being flooded with Hino lorry chassis, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders director Anthony Fraser...

NORTH-EAST ENGLAND drivers may take industrial action next month against any operator which refuses to concede their claim for...

fIN ALL-OUT civil servants' strike was "on the cards" earlier this week which could cripple the activities of traffic area...

Fleetwood: Class A: L. Crawford, Post Office; Class B: J. Lewis, Express Dairies; Class C: D. Plank, Express Dairies; Class D:...

COMMERCIAL vehicle sales the United Kingdom hit thi lowest May level for 22 yez last month, with a 29 per ce fall from 1980's...

THE Government will continu to explore the scope for furthe exemptions from the tech( graph regulations, promise Transport...

E GOVERNMENT will try to publish the maximum information aut the Armitage Report, including objections. - ransport Secretary...

E WEST MIDLANDS may still have a new inland freight complex, s one on an 80-acre site near Coventry. tanning permission for a...

THE GOVERNMENT has turned down the idea of a national policy restricting heavy lorries to major roads and special routes to...

IPC Business Press Editorial Awards Scheme. An eminent panel of judges has placed us second to Flight international in the main...

LINCOLNSHIRE removals contractor has lost his operator's ence because he does not possess a certificate of professional...

IANSPORT and General orkers' Union officials meet Road Haulage Association in d-Wales later this month to cuss breaches of wage...

PROVISIONAL figures show that road freight declined by eight per cent from 1979 to 1980. Reporting this in the House of...

SCOTTISH hauliers look like giving cautious support to a proposal that operators on offshore islands be exempted from vat on...

HE CASE for approval of the krmitage Report has not been noperly explained either to MPs ar the public, a CM-sponsored orum...

BRS has introduced Transcard, credit card for operators to hi services like maintenanc breakdown recovery and rent vehicles....

DAVIES TURNER qnd Austri freight forwarder Gebrud Weiss have signed a joint agr rnent for a trailer service tween Britain and...

LANS PROMOTIONS Ltd of aildford has developed a heme called distribution ecutive time-sharing which ows companies to hire...

A COMPANY which took over from a firm which went into liquidation in February has been granted a new standard national licence...

THE FIRST-EVER temperature controlled storage and distribution vehicles and equipment exhibition was held at the National...

40THER importer is aiming to join the ranks on the British light mmercial market early next year, reports STEVE GRAY. This...

IICE REDUCTIONS of up to 40 cent have been made by ddon Atkinson on Eaton/Ful. reconditioned gearboxes. The price reductions,...

BEDFORD has introduced turbocharged versions of its Red Series 3.6 and 5.4-litre diesel engines as options on its TK and TL...

AAZDA Car Imports (GB) imited has introduced two verIons of its B1800 one-ton pickup. One is priced at £3,099 plus 'at which...

CUMMINS has launched a new turbocharged version of its 14litre family of engines. Designated the NT 250, it develops 186kW (25...

REF ENGINEERING Ltd of Yeadon, Leeds is to supply Leyland Zimbabwe with Autosteer air powered steering equipment for the latest...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Norman Fowler hopes to make a statement "in due course" on an independent appraisal of the financial effect...

THE SCOTTISH Traffic Commissioners have granted major Glasgow area service revisions to two Scottish Bus Group companies in a...

MOSELEY has extended i range of coach bodies import( into Britain with the introdu tion of a new Caetano 18-seat on Fiat 60F10...

LONDON TRANSPORT's decision to give its entire 1982 double-de( bus order to Leyland could force Metro-Cammell Weyrnann to a)...

THE GOVERNMENT was last week pressed to recommend a passenger transport authority for Greater London, but Transport Secretary,...

OTTISH minibus operator John Menzies has lost an appeal painst a Scottish Traffic Commissioners' decision to refuse remai of a...

tANSPORT SECRETARY, Noran Fowler, pledged that he Quid take up any cases of local ithorities not prepared to ow facilities in...

STRATHCLYDE PTE has no copyright over the Transcard name for its season tickets, and can do nothing to prevent BRS from using...

IN ANTICIPATION of the expected flood of coaches to London for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the...

\ICE AGAIN the public are iing tempted to carry out pairs on their vehicles by the I-Y magazines (recently Ivertised on the...

YOUR COMPREHENSIVE article (CM May 231 on the Fruehauf GLZ drawbar outfit was most interesting, and shows a big step forward...

MAY I pass on a word of warning to all those motorists who might be gullible and possibly foolish enough to believe all they...

IN REPLY to S. Holmes (CM, May 16) and J. Hamilton (CM, April 4) you are too young and I am too old at 49. Made redundant...

BETWEEN the two Great World Wars, my father, Leonard Weaver, pioneered the commercial use of passenger vehicles, later to be...

he remains of the National reight Corporation were quietly isposed of in the presence of Press in the Edwardian plendour of...

We have stripped ourselves lown to a lean and hungry ondition," said Sir Robert, lthough, L was pleased to ibserve, he showed...

The Freight Transport Association's formal submission to the Rayner inquiry into future standards of road snow clearance,...

Dick Ross, whose splendid photographs have adorned Commercial Motor for 34 years, retired in a blaze of glory that he found...

A 1943 Canadian Ford V8 Bator gun tractor that had served all over the North African desert and Europe was being used as...

New 1628S is a good all-rounder but needs just a bit more torque, says Tim Blakemore. Pictures by Brian Weatherley (1/E BEGAN...

Can we expect a European trailer soon? Will braking be improved? What are the materials of the future? These and other...

T HE NEW Seddon Atkinson 401 is based on one of the most successful British trucks ever produced. But in developing our new...

lain Sherriff digs into the hauliers' goldmine of Australia and discovers we could learn much from the Aussies' hard-nosed...

Robert Lee wins the CM/Intertruck award for a thesis on servicing artic fleets. Isolate your cost centres, he argues, but...

The new Maxwell gearbox (CM June 6) designed for buses is an excellent design. There is potential here for a lorry gearbox in...

There's something of an air of mystery encircling the Crown Agents, but one of their activities is running a specialist vehicle...

pition, 6 E-TIMING THE ignition on an 'gine presents a problem to e inexperienced apprentice Jt if the job is carried out...

Jehicle tests, 1 HE TESTING OF motor ahicles, which may be required y law, can be divided into two road categories, Routine...

ROADLINE UK's first woman branch manager is Sue Rodgers, who has taken charge of the 33 vehicles and 45 staff at the company's...

Scotland A77: A 12 tons axle limit and 50 ton gross vehicle weight limit polies at the Water of Girvan bridge Until December...

Redundancies, 3 by Douglas Ainley EMPLOYERS who fail to observe he statutory consultation reluirements when making...

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