• This week the Road Transport (Commercial) division of the Transport & General Workers Union reaffirmed its opposition to...

• The signing of the agreement between General Motors and union officials at the Bedford van plant in Luton has been delayed....

hits TGWU • The commercial road transport group of the Transport & General Workers Union is maintaining its opposition to the...

• Latest Department of Transport figures reveal that traffic levels on sections of the M25 are more than 40% above the DTp's...

• ARC reports that the wrangle between its Premix ready-mixed concrete company in Kent and the owner drivers employed by Premix...

• Labour's chief transport spokesman Bob Hughes is to continue in his post, at the request of Labour leader Neil Kinnock. In...

• Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) recorded a 43% leap in its pre-tax profits last year to 24.86 million, and despite problems with...

/ British hauliers are regaining their share of the cross-Channel freight market, judging by the latest figures from the...

• The campaign by six of Britain's motoring organisations including the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport...

• The old Scammell Motors Plant has been renamed Special Trucks Limited by its owners, the Rover Group. The Watford factory was...

• Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) has successfully completed performance testing of its first FL6 water tender for a fire brigade....

• Nissan has facelifted its 3. 3-tonne GVW Cabstar chassis cab, which also gains a more powerful diesel engine, less than a...

• Leeds-based refrigerated vehicle specialist GRP Massey is now offering a controlledtemperature body conversion, based on the...

• Iveco Ford Truck's 6x2 Cargo tractive unit, currently under development and revealed exclusively by Commercial Motor (CM 16...

• The prototype of a novel trailer loading device has just gone into service with the northern division of the Bass brewery....

• Minilink, the containerised distribution system operated by British Rail subsidiary Speedlink between London and Glasgow, is...

• A Manchester haulage firm started by three redundant drivers with a 220,000 overdraft fifteen months ago now operates 12...

• Trials of British Telecom's world-first satellite racliopaging service are to start at the end of the year, enabling long...

• Trailer and container rental specialist Tiphook plans a 236 million rights issue. This is its second issue in less than a...

• GDL, the recently-formed confectionery and allied grocery products distribution arm of the National Freight Consortium, is to...

• Pitt & Scott, the NFC removals subsidiary which specialises in the transportation of fine arts and antiques, is repainting...

• Lancashire hauliers Pelters Haulage, and one of its drivers, have been given an absolute discharge after being convicted of...

• The licence of Lancashire haulier James Heaton, trading as Viking Transport of Longton, has been revoked by acting North...

• Continuing losses of around £3.5 million a year at London Regional Transport Bus Engineering (BEL) has prompted LRT to sell...

• Deregulation of London's buses could begin this autumn, warns the Capital Transport Campaign (CTA). CTA plans to fight the...

• A tightening up of safety standards in British coaches has been announced by Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottornley. New...

• Leyland Bus aims to increase the sale of its midengined Lion double-decker bus chassis, which could represent up to 30% of...

• Graham Morris, Freight Rover's new managing director, has a problem. Only eight weeks into his tenure of office, he feels...

• "Anybody who puts a 30-year-old vehicle on the road has got to be slightly loopy." So says Ian Glass, director of...

SIR • Following your recent Scania roadtest (CM 25 June-1 July), regarding inaccessible adjustment levers on Bostrom's...

• The Roadrunner, launched in September 1984, has been a phenomenal success for Leyland in terms of sales and image and now is...

• Unrelenting customer demand for greater efficiency and flexibility is encouraging CV manufacturers to take a fresh look at...

• For too long, fuel-management systems have been synonymous with security and nothing else. Until now, hauliers have installed...

• Car enthusiasts who believe that CV technology is always at least one step behind the state-of-the-art in their own field may...

BY THE HAWK • Are Americans more religious than the British? Certainly their politicians and other public figures, in...