T HE FIRST International Bus and Coach Exhibition at Earls Court finishes today (September 14), but its significance will...

THE FRANKFURT Show, which opened on Thursday, is specially important this year. Many vehicle and component manufacturers are...

TRADE ASSOCIATION hints that hauliers should raise their rates once the Greater London night and weekend lorry ban starts in...

SCOTLAND's troubled Joint Industrial Council for haulage may have been saved this week by a compromise formula which in effect...

THE STRONGEST sign - ■ , er of importers' growing share of the British truck market has come with figures which put...

VOLKSWAGEN president Carl Hahn said this week that his company will take over the Spanish light van, and car builder SEAT "as...

SCANIA and Bosch have jointly developed an electronically controlled air braking system, the ELB, launched at Frankfurt this...

MERCEDES-BEN2 offering its Electro-Pneun Shift (EPS) gearcha system as standard on ins 1644 and 1635 models p18). EPS differs...

MAN has confirmed will replace its current ag cabs next year — and the cab will fit on a new rang chassis. MAN is currently...

A SECOND generation of Motor Panels' Herni-"fech cab was unveiled at the Frankfurt Show this week. The front incorporates a...

ULIERS in North-west ;land outside Merseyside to be asked whether or they want to salvage any lective forum between rnselves...

DCOT power station's ming authority, the Vale White Horse, has now foray agreed to allow coal ics to feed the station. but it...

THE CONSULTANCY running the Government's preliminary studies on how to solve lorry-induced environmental problems is due to...

DAIRY CREST Foods opens its new distribution depot at Bellshill near Glasgow next month. Over the next two years, with the...

POLICE forces at three major English ports have warned backload agencies to look out for a team of bogus hauliers who have...

A BOGLIS Automobile Association inspector has stolen an trout a Grea,tcr London dealer arid is liteiy to turn up itRairl.. ....

THE CALL to scrap tolls has been heightened by the AA. It has sent Scottish Secretary George Younger a protest birthday card to...

FORD has finally shown Japanese hand with the lair of the Econovan (CM I\ 25), built by Mazda, at week's Frankfurt Show. The...

EIEATONS, the St I le based haulier and warelu ing firm and member of 60-strong Transport Assc tion, has started a si promotion...

A TWO-DAY conferenc• warehouse software and studies is to be held on days next January at Fond Cumberland Hotel. The National...

DENNIS Specialist Vehicles, the new company formed to build fire engine, bus and coach chassis at Guildford fo]lowing the...

COUNCILLOR Ian Cramond, convenor of the Lothian Regional Council transport committee, died on August 27. He was 48.

THE NEWLY-created job of sales and marketing director with Bucks Transport has been assigned to Paul Carvell. He joins the...

NEW director of Genera] Motors' Service Parts Opera tions — UK is Roy Rogers. He succeeds William Werner, who returns to the...

THE TRUCK rental company of Wincanton has two new appointees. David Kempster has joined as national accounts director...

PORTSMOUTH vehicle body builder Victory Bodies has appointed Tony Niblett as area sales manager. He will cover the central Home...

THE BOARD has been named of Ensor Motors, the North-west Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle distributor which has been reformed...

ARCHBOLD GROUP appointed Steven Berm( truck sales executive bas its Morley headquarters. sales area is Bradford Keighley....

AFTER 38 years' se Charles Oliver has red' managing director of haulage company Beck Pollitzer of Dartford. Hc be retained as a...

TERRY SKIBA, a t, examiner with the I N west section of the Metr tan Traffic Area, is one volunteers going to the this week to...

y our Brussels orrespondent HE EEC's new Euro passDrt is causing problems for ternational lorry drivers at onticrs where...

t.F TRUCKS has fiirsaken Id in favour of rail for the livery of vehicles to its Dttish and Northern Ireland tiers. It has...

DUNDEE FERRIES has commissioned its second rollon/roll-off vessel on the Rotterdam-Dundee run and has taken an option on a...

TRAFFIC through Dover has increased 10 per cent in the first seven months of this year, says the Dover Harbour Board. Compared...

itself in Darlington THE ROAD Haulage Association's North-Eastern district office has moved from Leeds to Darlington, nearer...

WHEN STOPPED in a weight check, the son of the managing director of an international haulier snatched the plating certificate...

TRUCKFEST '86 — the truck festival presented by Live Promotions in association with Commercial Motor — is being held at the...

OVER 340 delegates have already registered for the CM Fleet Management Conference at London's Royal Lancastel Hotel on October...

BAILEYS of Westbury ha fought off the imposition c environmental controls o operations from its Rochdal depot (CM, August 31)....

'‘NSPORT operators are ng over £.70,000 daily le they wait for the M25 idon ringway between lions Eight and 10 to n, according...

;OCIATED British Ports o spend 12 million deping at the port of Ayr, he Clyde coast. he new development will rove coal...

UK-BASED haulage and freight firms now have easier access to France and the Netherlands following an extension of the toll-free...

HIAB-FOCO is to introduce progressively six general-purpose and four forestry loaders through its UK distributor George Cohen...

JOSHUA Tetley's twin-steer 17-tonne GVWEreighter, built by Leyland's special vehicle operation centre and bodied by Don-BurC114...

LAND ROVER'S in-line litre Four-cylinder petrol gine was replaced at the of August by a 2.5-litre I which becomes stand. across...

LAWRENCE DAVID, the Peterborough body builder has developed better motors and a special cant-rail for its Roller-Sider...

1E. PROPOSED coach roof ength legislation and other :asures in the Department Transport's coach safety elcage look like...

kSSI3OHRER is to offer c Cummins LIO engine as option in its Setra 215 ach range to make it appeal British nationalised...

HESTAIR DUPLE has chosen the CM-sponsored International Bus and Coach Show at Earls Court to reveal its all-new coach range....

LEYLAND Bus has broken into the North American market. San Francisco-based sightseeing company Grayline, a subsidiary of...

YELLOW FRONTS, traditional open-platform buses and minibuses form part of the Scottish Bus Group's developing plans for...

TRANSPORT Secretar Nicholas Ridley has given tl go-ahead to a Glasgow-Ai drie commuter coach servic despite allegations that...

DUNLOP is claiming a world lead with its development of a microprocessor-based electronic levelling system for air...

Noel Millier DFORD is considering retiching its JJL rnidibus, t displayed at the 1978 )tor Show but which never ched...

VERCAPACITY in the bus coach manufacturing instry and a lack of orders ve caused the United EngiNing Industries Group to se...

BRITISH AIRWAYS has ordered 14 Dodge Commando G10 29-seater crew buses fitted with Wadham Stringer Vanguard coachwork....

PULLMAN Executive Coaches' London to County Cork express service has been suspended after three months' operation. Loadings...

DAF is to supply 140 bus chassis to Morocco. They will be supplied completely knocked down to Moroccan bodybuilder...

TWO VEHICLES have been suspended from Blue Bus Services (Rugeley) Ltd's PSV operator's licence for three months. The West...

THE SECOND round of London Regional Transport route tenders has attracted a larger number of potential operators. So far, 23...

THE CAMPAIGN by the Institute of Road 'Transport Engineers (IRTE) for more research into why wheels and their fixings fail has...

THE TWO new MercedesBenz 14.6-litre vee eight engine variants which make their debut this week at Frankfurt (CM, August 24) are...

MERCEDES is to intro& two new 13-tonners at tl year's Scottish motor show November. They use the recently intt duced LN2 cab...

LUCAS CAV has launcl the 1)-Wax, a new diesel f heater which uses a Texas struments heating element. It went on public (lisp]...

LIKE your correspondent Mr Goss (CM August 17), I, too, have not many good words to say for British Leyland or its agents. I...

DON'T the people with a vested interest in the fitting of front under-run guards realise what a golden opportunity they are...

I NOTE from Plaxtons' letter (CM, August 31) that there are three lift-up roofs and two lots of tinted side windows in the...

A GREAT DEAL has been said about clearances at Dover; I thought it would relate my personal experience. I purchased a tractor...

BEFORE the Greater London Council spend vast amounts of their ratepayers money on printing application forms fi exemption from...

HAVING delighted in the fact that Dave Goddard achieved the best ever result by a British Telecom driver in th LIDoY...

4 AVING been tempted by the hardware on display at Leyland's operator seminar in irch, the Site Equipment .monstration in...

As well as serving refreshments, hostesses can play an important public relations role for coach operators, as Karen Miles...

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

A FORM of torture new to me is being promoted by Honda. It is the International Ride and Tie Competition in which teams, each...

How ready will coach builders be when new ECE and Department of Transport coach safety proposals take effect? David Wilcox...

SURVIVAL This one-year-old firm, formed from Leyland's Charles Roe workforce, has passed important milestones with the...

HE Purite battery water dispensing ation has been developed for Derators needing significant amounts of ittery water. When...

11TH the latest range of model 500 ockgrip pliers from Facom, the user in adjust the jaw opening, clamp and !lease with one...

SHOWERIGHT, a new approach to hygiene from Novalon International, is a disposable, impregnated cloth — useful for overnights...

KENT-MOORE UK's K M4058 pressure timing tool enables diesel engineers to time engines fitted with inline fuel injection pumps,...

IN-VEHICLE phone answering and recording machines from Elcorn Systems for use with radio phones are available from a...

PORTABENCH is a lightweight steel and plywood work bench designed for the mobile mechanic. It fits most 760kg to two-tonne...

STAGECOACH PIONEER A Portuguese coachbuilder using a Swedish chassis is first off the mark in launching a new product for the...