THE ANNOUNCEMENT on Monday that there is to be a General Election on June 9 will inevitably lead to all manner of promises, née...

ENGINEERING features strongly in next week's CM, and for any operator in the market for new equipment our May 21 edition is a...

IER tax rates on heavier lorries announced in the March Budget o go ahead despite the shortened Finance Act which was being ed...

CAMPAIGN for road trans, initiated by CM, took her step forward this week n the steering group apted a working party to dea...

DRAFT REGULATIONS on the environmental conditions to be attached to operators' licences were published last week, and have...

LEYLAND TRUCKS management this week accused 1,300 of its hourly-paid workers at the Albion axle plant in Glasgow of striking...

GREATER discipline should be introduced into the British international road haulage industry, and many more checks should be...

TRANSPORT business is growing slowly, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Freight Transport...

GEARBOX MANUFACTURIP and axle assembly operatio presently carried out at Lut , are to be relocated at Karr Motors' Dodge...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium Property Group has sold its largest site, at Temple Meads, Bristol, but still retains a 55 per...

:ONFRONTATION between MAN-VW and the Campaign for lear Disarmament has arisen over the transport of Cruise siles. ND has...

NLOP'S automotive engiring division has sold its caret business to Anti Skid rtrols Ltd, a subsidiary of PCB rtrols. Another...

THE HIGH level of seat belt wearing since it became compulsory on January 31 has been maintained, according to estimates from...

under way last weekend ready for the finals at Cranfield, Bedfordshire on Sunday, September 18. Readers who want more details...

OPERATORS using 38-tonne lorries in the London Borough of Ealing are still prohibited from using the Canal Bridge section of...

IAULAGE COMPANY was 1 E500 on Monday for incorstorage of the hazardous nicals which caught fire in a 2r conflagration at...

DISTRIBUTION has won a itract to distribute tbread's take-home range of e, spirit and beer products lughout Britain. will...

entered the competitive same-day doorto-door market with Citispeed, running in themain cities in the country. It is using...

F. W. WOOLWORTH and Blue Circle Industries are this year's winners of the Centre for Physical Distribution Management's awards...

A SAVING of £0.25m has resulted from the first year of Lincolnshire County Council's centralised transport organisation, county...

SOUTH WALES employers pulled out of the joint industrial council there last week and were accused by one union official of...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium is about to launch into the car auction business with a newly formed division, Carauctions,...

CARGOFAX, the Road Haul Association's electronic tri exchange and informal system, may soon be linkec to Northern Ireland and...

EUROPEAN MPs launchei campaign this month tougher measures to pre , cruelty to horses being take be slaughtered. The European...

MPUTERS and automation are set to become a standard part of r distribution scene in the not too distant future, reports DAVID...

E FIRST annual report of As:kited British Ports, for 1982, ifirms the group's strong revery compared with the evious year....

THE IRISH Road Haulage Association has demanded that the maximum gross vehicle weight should be increased to 38 tonnes in line...

SIMON ENGINEERING of Dudley has developed a stabilising system for mobile hydraulic platforms. The Simjax is claimed to be...

A SWEDISH company, Agora, has begun to manufacture a wheelnut locking device called the Rollock for which it claims to have...

A SINGLE ram front-end b seal tipping hoist for ei wheelers is being added to Edbro range of tipping eq ment. Edbro has...

OUR PROSPERITY depends enterprise, good managem and manufacturing expert said the Duke of Edinburgh he presented the Design...

TWO NEW standards dealing with towing the British Standard Automobile series. have been published BS AU 187 specification for...

ECTIONS have taken place in the Freight Transport Association's uth-Eastern Region and the following members have been cted:...

He joined the company at Ward End, Birmingham in 1949 when it was called Nuffield Metal Products. He became manufacturing...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Leon Van Hool, managing director of Van Hoot coach builders, John Niblock, former National...

The power-pressure washers manufacturer has taken on Mr Fenwick to coordinate sales strategies with its newly-structured...

LEYLAND BUS manufacturing engineering manager Peter Middleton has succeeded Peter Bloor as plant director at the company's...

THE ROLES of the traffic commissioners and the National Bus Company were challenged last week when the Association of County...

The names are designed to give the buses and the services they provide a link with the areas in which they operate. The first...

WESTERN NATIONAL is ir ducing three totally sepa identities for the different pects of its operations. All normal bus...

iRESFORD Motors has won appeal against a controverI . decision by the West Midds Traffic Commissioners to tech conditions to...

THE IMPORTANCE of coach drivers always keeping their previous two days' tachograph charts with them was highlighted last week...

ENGINEERS at the Department of Transport Control and Communications division in Bristol have developed a talking bus stop....

AUTOSENSE Equipment of Bicester has won a West contract for a portable engine-test computer system. German Valued at nearly...

THE 6x6 Scammell 526 is a surprisingly easy vehicle to drive in spite of its apparent size, writes GRAHAM MONTGOMERIE. Last...

DAVIES MAGNET Work Thundridge, Ware in H fordshire has developed a 1 wheel automatic coupling fc titillated vehicles with tr...

The mecca next week for those in the chilled and frozen food business is Wembley Conference Centre where the 1983 Temperature...

TONY FLEMING, born in Walsall, aged 33 and with a wife and two children, is the manager of the CFDC premises in Dover Eastern...

Liles of e road IS WEEK in Rules of the Road, concentrate on up to date )rmation to get you in, ough and out of West rmany...

:CORD TRANSPORT Perissaas (ATP) is the European Ireement which governs the ternational carriage of perishde foodstuffs, and it...

railELUT 1=3 crj 01 col by Graham Montgomerie A refrigeration system powered by the rea axle of the trailer has been developed...

YELLOW FEVER is gripping the capital, with a plan to double the number of traffic wardens to 4,000 and put them under the...

WHATEVER one calls a tipping gear that depresses instead of elevates that was Edbro about three years ago when Geoff Buckley...

EATON CORPORATION'S annual report is a reminder that the American commercialvehicle market is suffering as badly as the...

SOME YEARS ago the Road Haulage Association producer series of posters for display or members' vehicles to show th approximate...

I take eat exception to the article by yan Jarvis on pa g e 54 of CM, )ril 30. The headline and the whole ne of the feature...

IVER THE past few months I aye read with some interest the arious points put forward for and a g ainst the 38-tonne lorry....

I HAVE just read with interest the article by Frank Woodward on duel credit cards; While our Keyfuels system does not exactly...

THE DENNIS Delta 1618 road test report (CM, March 5) fell short of your usual standards of accuracy by includin g in the...

At £76,000 this German coach is not one for the impulse buyer, but even the more cautious are likely to be tempted by the clean...

A FLAT BATTERY can catch you out at any time, winter or summer. Now Wodan Electrical Products has three battery chargers in its...

KEEPING TOOLS safe and in good condition should be made easier by the introduction of the Jacobs' Auto-craft range of...

A RANGE of mobile pressure-fed dry abrasive blast cleaners now available from the Euroblast Division of Guyson International is...

Not all refrigerated vehicles are maximum. weight artics. Here, David Wilcox looks at the operation and conversion of a...

General haulage is low on this company's priority list, and as Mike Rutherford has been finding out, contract hire/fleet...

Lincolnshire has reorganised its internal transport without handing over any of its services to the private sector. Alan Millar...

On-board toilets are becoming a standard fitting on long-journey work and passengers are also coming to expect drinkdispensing...

ispension, 2 E STEEL leaf spring, first used horse drawn vehicles is )bably still the most popular re despite the advantages...