Who runs the country? That is the question on many lips today During his term of office, the Prime Minister has abdicated much...

THE JAPANESE light commercial vehicle boom in this country seems to have subsided. Registrations of Japanese vans and pick-ups...

BRITISH Road Services has applied to the Prices Commission to raise its rates by 20 per cent — despite not knowing the outcome...

THE GOVERNMENT is to fund a trial traffic information broadcasting system costing 085,000. If the trial is successful, it...

TIGHTER NOISE controls on heavy goods vehicle may come sooner than expected, now that Foden's QHV (see CM, February 9) has...

Emigrants whose removals contractors go bankrupt before they have delivered the furniture overseas are protected by a new...

CLAIMS that European driving hours were a main cause of the recent drivers' dispute were dismissed in the Commons last week by...

A SUGGESTION that the] were special roads for hely% lorries in Europe was scotch, by the Government last week Lord O'Hagan had...

AN ADDITIONAL 5,000 permits are available this year for British hauliers making journeys finishing in West Germany. Announcing...

SOME OF the E2b shortfall inspending for the current year disclosed in the recent Government expenditure paper could be used to...

THE EEC Commission's proposals about vehicles permitted to circulate freely within the EEC will probably be considered by the...

INDIVIDUAL MPs have managed to bring about important changes in the law by getting their own Private Bills through Parliament —...

kULIER Norman Lunt has appealed at a public inquiry to be owed to build a garage at his premises in South Street, Thatto , ath....

ERSEYSIDE Chamber of )mmerce and Industry is or.nising a conference on road eight transport at the lelphi Hotel, Liverpool on...

FRAIKIN SA, one of Europe's largest truck rental and contract hire companies, has now opened its new British subsidiary,...

GREATER Manchester detectives are investigating a series of acts of sabotage on a paper firm's lorry fleet. In the past three...

DAF has appointed a new main dealer for the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire area. Based at Alfreton Road, Underwood,...

AMPLE off-street lorry parking space is available in the London borough of Southwark, reports the borough council. The Rolls...

FOR the first time ever foreign motor vehicles are to be assembled in China. Harpers International has announced that it is to...

TWO OVERLOADING offences on meat consignments from the Continent resulted in a public warning for a South Wales operator. C....

THE FIRST eight-wheel rigid 30-ton Bedford TM has been built by means of a fourth-axle conversion. The conversion work was...

THE FIRM of Alec Ay Transport Ltd, Fraserburg haulage contractors, is st off the road, despite tt nationally-agreed wage deg...

etS RUBBISH piles up in the streets and dustment continue their month-long strike, there have been several initiatives, 3ublic...

THE RISKS involved in the passage of road tankers through built-up areas are under discussion on a local basis, with a view to...

WALTER Alexander's pre-tax profits for the half year to September 20 1978 were 5.7 per cent up on the corresponding period of...

They are at Warrington and Burnley, and mean that North Western BRS rental service now covers all industrial Lancashire,...

Services at home and abroad who are engaged in driving duties or could be diverted to this task, said Dr John Gilbert, Minister...

Stating this in the House of Commons Les Huckfield Under Secretary for Industry added that a pilot production of battery...

"CAN you help us?" This was a question put by some operators to the Foster Committee on Operators' Licensing, Professor...

AN AMERICAN turbocharger replacement parts manufacturer has set up a company in the UK. Called Toto-Master, the company...

IN ORDER to reduce the number of accidents with timber pallets, the Health and Safety Executive has published a guide called...

SCANIA has concluded an agreement with the Moroccan company, Cogespar SA, for the formation of a joint company, Scania Maroc...

'HE DODGE 300-Series range will be increased by three new nodels and two new engine options from June onwards. All the...

k NEW SEMI-TRAILER tanker with extra safety features has ntered service with Rechem/Biffa, the waste disposal cornany. Made by...

EPCO, the transport service equipment manufacturer, has announced that it is to exhibit its products at Autovak, the garage...

A NEW 45-TON dumper from the Kockums range, the 445, has been introduced by the Construction Equipment Division of Thos W....

A NOVEL heavy haulage trailer combining a low load bed and the ability to lift the payload of 30-34 tonnes to a height of...

A NEW number plate attachment for trailers has been produced by Slater Brothers, a small Herefordshire-based company. The...

A LANCASHIRE company has taken delivery of the unusual combination of a six-wheeler skip loader pulling a drawbar trailer, on...

A NEW RANGE of three-wheel battery-electric counterbalance fork-lift trucks has been announced by Montgomerie Reid. Designated...

MERSEYSIDE PTE has successfully fitted part of its fleet of Bristol VRT double buses with gear-change overspeed protecdon...

INITIAL public reaction to the first double-decker bus ever to enter service in Bangkok, Thailand seems to be favourable, to...

DERBY'S bus services are to be co-ordinated following an agreement between Derby City Council and Trent Motor Traction Company...

BURTON-ON-TRENT is the latest area to get a Midland Red brand name for the company's revised operations. From Saturday,...

Manchester buys new generation NEW GENERATION doubledeckers play a small, but significant role in Greater Manchester...

SCOTTISH Bus Group is seeking a nine per cent fares rise, its first increase since last April. Although last year's 15 per...

LEICESTER is to be the venue for the second of the Coach and Independent Bus Sector of the Confederation of British Road...

BUS OPERATORS in many parts of the country have been hit by the current wave of industrial unrest and dwindling supplies of...

THE OPERATOR of coaches on airport diversion work should be the holder of the road service licence and not the ground handling...

CLVVYD County Council is prepared to launch special minibus services to and from Hawarden Airport if improved air services to...

DAIMLER-BENZ and the Austrian four-wheel-drive specialist Steyr-Daimler-Puch have joined forces to introduce a range of...

ihould go A CM STAFF survey into the cost of abolishing vehicle excise duty in favour of increased fuel tax reveals that it...

THE TRANSPORT Association comes high on my list of organisations that deserve to be better known. In such a varied industry as...

From the place that claims to do today what the rest of the country will do tomorrow comes a modest contribution to the English...

If you have a weight problem, follow the example of 19st 4Ib Peter Bull, a Ford sales planner at Warley. He planned to sell his...

Did you notice how many of the heroic lorry-driver pickets could afford to smoke cigarettes at about 50p a packet? Did you,...

John V. C. Butcher, who lives in Nlarsham Street, Westminster, hard by the Department of Transport, is a brave man. In August,...

By far the youngest speaker I can remember in the past 15 years at a North-western section dinner, Ian Morgan, who is Ribble's...

Blockaded farmers who had to use their own tractors and trailers to trundle beet long distances to sugar factories might have...

The service stations catering specially for lorry drivers, of which more than 400 are planned by Les Routiers in France...

The cult of the theatrical apology for imperfect service or goods is growing. I suspect strong competition among culprits to...

THE CO-OPERATION programme between Fiat and Peugeot-Citroen for the design and construction of a new one-tonner, first revealed...

THE GROWING volume of commercial traffic between the German side of Lake Constance and the upper Rhine region east of Lorrach...

THE DEVELOPMENT of the Belgian motorway network has made this small country an important crossroads. Many big-name hauliers...

FRANCE is to revise the c and u rules for bulk tankers carrying hazardous liquid and gaseous cargo. This includes a ban on...

by Graham Montgomene by Graham Montgomene CM's Engineering Editor examines in detail the methods adopted by Foden and...

After reading your reports on the road test of the Volvo Fl 2 (CM, February 12) I would like to give you my comments. I drive...

After reading that Leyland Vehicles are investigating a manually-geared model in the present range to cater for AEC Reliance...

Most of us in transport thought that when the UK joined the EEC. it would mean that each country would be single and...

The disasters of 1975 highlighted the coach insurance market's weakness, and many firms found their premiums doubled within a...

John Darker reports on a haulier who forged a good working relationship wn one big client THERE ARE no easy prescriptions for...

'The media have an easier task in presenting the union's case, FIRST CASUALTY in an industrial dispute is the truth. Neither...

CM argues that Prof Foster's proposals simply are not practicd THE REPORT by the independent committee of inquiry set up by...

Standard fleet Bedford stretch MANY COACH operators prefer to have cheaper light to middleweight coaches as the backbone of...

Leyland marketing Leyland Vehicles, the organisation set up to manage sales service and worldwide marketing of Leyland...