T HE Coroner's inquest into the death of a 22-year-old driver at Bideford last week raises a very important point. It is a...

THE SELF-DRIVE market has evolved into an important sector of the road transport industry and we're looking into some aspects...

Tribunal ruling for the TGWU branch The Liverpool TGWU has been told that if it fails to allow a driver to transfer to its...

by Jack Semple ONE of Britain's biggest driver agencies is blaming, a failure in communications for a tragic accident in which...

PAUL CARTER died when he drove his laden Mercedes 16-tonner down a one-in-five hill in fourth gear. Bideford coroner's court...

THE STRONG Liverpool branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union landed in trouble with the law this week. An...

SECURITY Express, the cash carrier — which includes the parcel companies Parceline and J. Brevitt — has been sold by De La Rue...

DRIVER agencies seem set to be accepted by the Transport and General Workers' Union for the first time. The policy change is to...

6pc in May . HEAVY lorry sales showed a marked increase in May, according to Society of Manufacturers and Traders figures....

THE GOVERNMENT'S move to raise the level of Severn Bridge tolls by 150 per cent could be facing a challenge from four South...

THE HM-U)-hit French lorry manufacturing industry, which has now been reduced to only one large undertaking, Renault Vehicles...

LEX WILKINSON starts its formal wage negotiations on Monday, June 17, and will look at a five item claim from the unions. The...

'I'HERE were 300 exhibitors at Sweden's second trucking festival — Lastbil 85 — in J6nk5ping last week. Lastbil is a combined...

MORE THAN 600 hauliers in Sweden enjoy the services of Bilspedition, a forwarding agency which has over 100 clearing houses in...

THERE have been teething problems over Wincanton Transport's taking over of Amoco's fleet, but the Transport and General...

OPPOSITION moves to set up strategic bodies in London and the Metropolitan counties to oversee planning highways and traffic...

THE NUMBER of casualties among Scottish road users fell in 1983 to the lowest level since 1959, according to a report by the...

THE CONSTRUCTION of the 7.5 mile long A48 Cross Hands-Llanddarog by-pass scheme has started. It is expected to take over two...

THE STUDY by the Meteorological office into possible fog traps on the M45 and M42 are expected to be completed by the end of...

TNT-IPEC, the European freight carrier, is now running regular services to Hungary. It offers daily scheduled departures,...

NEW head of Grampian region's transport is an Englishman who has been working in Glasgow for five years with Strathclyde...

CHAIRMAN of Associated British Ports Keith Stuart has been elected president of the Chartered Institute of Transport to take...

TWO SENIOR personnel have been appointed to new companies within the newly, formed NEC: Distribution„ Group, Dick Dun-an,...

LEX Wilkinson has promoted former regional manager David Burtenshaw to the newly-created position of company operations...

THE SALES staff of the Portuguese coach importer Salvador Gaetano (UK) has two additions. Alistair Wilson has joined die...

A MAN who helped about 700 East Anglian drivers to pass their heavy goods vehicle tests has retired. 'vim Atkinson who had been...

MANAGER at the Stoke branch of international freight forwarder IVleadowsfreight is David Cunningham. He has moved to Stoke from...

SEALINK British Ferries has announced changes in its reservation telephone numbers For two ro-ro services. From now on the...

A NEW freight-only service is to be started by Sealink British Ferries on the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire route. This week the...

THE DIRECTOR of a Felixstowe haulage company adnutted in court that he paid £150 to a man in a London pub for a vehicle excise...

TELEHOIST, the tipping gear and body maker, has supplied nearly 100 Leyland Clydesdale vehicles to West Africa. The vehicles...

INTERNATIONAL Road hauliers may now be looking more to Spain for traffic despite return load problems. Britain's manufactured...

WEST Midland operator LPK Upholstery is being prosecuted for a failure to notify the Licensing Authority of a change of...

SALARIES in distribution management rose last year by an average of 7.9 per cent. A survey of 270 companies carried out by...

MIXED reactions have greeted "I . ownsend Thorcsen's decision to "experimentally" end booking for its outward ferries from...

THE BRITISH Road Federation is again calling for the Government to allow local authorities to invest in their own highway...

IN RESPONSE to the very high levels of theft from lorries at the Port of Felixstowe (estimated to have cost over £2m in two...

TACHOGRAPH charts belonging to ARS Transport of Hereford appeared to show the company's managing director to have been driving...

THE GREATER London Council has said that if it is abolished there will be an end to accountable road building for Londoners....

INTERNATIONAL freight forwarder, the Lep Group, earned record profits during 1984. In the results announced last week Lep...

PRINCESS ANNE opened the World Freight exhibition in Brighton last week, acknowledging the importance of the freight transport...

gearbox study RENAULT and Rockwell International have agreed to begin a COTI TI1011 study into the feasibility of developing,...

SYSTEMATIC Micro of Ascot, Berkshire has developed a refined version of its Cool Cat 4000 vehicle body temperature electronic...

EATON officially launched its latest constant mesh gearbox, the Twin Splitter, last week, giving major fleet operators,...

DRIVERS and transport operators may be interested in Tachomate, an in-cab computer which monitors the tachograph over a 14-day...

GARRETT Automotive Products has established a turbocharger parts distribution company — Garrett Turbo Service — near...

COSWORTH Engineering of Northampton has developed a new foam air filter suitable for bus and lorry diesel engines, which...

RENAULT Truck Industries' revised G260 4x2 and 6x2 tractive unit range has gone full production at Dunstablc. All G260 models...

NORTH WALES bodybuilder ffor Williams Trailers of Corwen has introduced a lightweight, alloy panelled loadbed canopy for the...

SCANIA has increased its UK sales and service network to 36 locations. Unit Commercials has opened a branch at Yeovil and a...

ELMA (Engine Laboratory Modernisation and Automation), a .E.14rn computerised laboratory for engine testing of lubricating oils...

THE first of 12 Ford Cargo 2420 6x4 truck mixers has entered service with the Premix division of ARC for operation in southern...

THE WEIGHT threshold at which Special Types of trailer are exempt from the legal requirement to have anti-spray equipment has...

A NEW light van developed jointly by Daimler-Benz and Mitsubishi is planned for production in Spain from the end of 1987. It...

BERAL, the West German manufacturer of friction materials, has been taken over by the British Turner and Newall group, which...

MERCEDES is developing a . 16-speed version of its latest KG4 gearbox which is now being used on 1617 and 2421 models. The new...

A COACH operator fined for using a video screen on one of its coaches has lost an appeal against the conviction in the High...

BUS AND COACH registrations remain significantly down on last year as the uncertainty caused by changing industry ground rules...

THE GOVERNMENT is worried that the Transport 13ill will run into serious trouble when it goes to the House of Lords. The...

MUNICIPAL bus undertakings should set up "ghost" companies in advance of the Transport Bill requirement for them to do so, it...

LEYLAND Bus has won a £16m order from London Buses for 260 double-deckers to be delivered next year. The buses arc to be...

THE GOVERNMENT is to rush through emergency legislation banning the carriage of alcohol on coaches to football grounds. Prime...

IN the article entitled 'Come on Down' CM, June 1, Bob Greenwood mentioned a few large parcels carriers who are not members of...

I REFER to your issue of week-ending June 1, 1985 and the article on page 35. The caption accompanying the headline and the...

I AM a small operator who has held an 0-licence for five years. It is about to be renewed, or at least I am applying for...

WIT11 reference to CM's report of Truckfest '85 (CM, April 20), and particularly the reference to the MAN tractive unit of...

IN LONDON For an area where there is so much haulage activity, the South East is particularly badly off for lorry parking...

AND LOOKING BACK What does a prosperous southern haulier make of the present scene? Karen Miles interviews two directors who...

FRONT NEW FIRM Firms who were advised on trailer engineering by Len Fuller and Cliff Goddard of Andover Trailers suggested...

FRONT RUNNERS? Once bus operation becomes &restricted there will probably be an upsurge in demand for minibuses. Noel Millicr...

less lavish, but in many respects equally impressive. The non-psv 12-seater Trafic was fitted with a three-speed fully...

FORCE IN THE MR MARKET Crane Fruehauf has anticipated a ballooning UK market for air suspensions by developing a system using...

George Bailey, a telephone lineman working in Hertfordshire, would probably have become only the fourth person ever to qualify...

with Mazda cars and trucks," stands to win £250 in a competition sponsored by Mazda Cars (UK). There are second and third...

a rustic note during a weekend rave-up from July 19-21 by the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society at Thornes Park, Wakefield....

so successful that it is to be repeated over the weekend of July 13-14 at Brookhouses. It will be backed by supporting events,...

London Symphony Orchestra is to play Schubert, Mozart and Strauss in the delightful floodlit grounds of Lynwood, Snnninghill,...

exploit the pulling power of the heavy brigade at athletic and other meetings, British Rail Provincial Services arc cultivating...

and not because to do so might be regarded as ostentatious. This advice conies from J. Visbeen, a Dutch operator of some 50...

in the flowers that bloom in the spring — and in the summer, too, for that matter. Channel Express, the Guernsey airline is, I...

Metalock repairs return components to their original strength — sometimes even stronger. The worldwide Metalock organisation...

It's the name for Blue Circle's green fields developernent for a strategically sited distribution centre in Kent with its own...

LONDON? With large gaps still to be filled in London's M25 orbital motorway, planning routes is a nightmare. jack Semple...

HGV DRIVING TESTS Instructor Frank Lewsey suggests a three-part test and a certificate to prove that the candidate has...

OPERATORS ARE BLUE Despite relaxation of restrictions on private operation in London, independent coach and bus companies are...

REFORM IS A FAIR BET Drivers face unfair rail competition, risks from 'immoral' finance firms, and employ questionable...

FOR SMALL FIRMS AROUND half the hauliers at the Road Haulage Association's conference in Malta last winter had no idea that,...

BUSINESS JAPAN NISSAN has brought out a Japanese language textbook designed for foreigners. Unlike conventional textbooks,...

FOR A SHIFT TO CONTRACT HIRE Peter Bowden tells Jack Semple how BFI Group came to be one of Britain's largest private hauliers...