While the campaign to improve the image of road transport is not yet actively in the public eye, things are happening. The...

What have we planned for next week's issue? Plenty is the answer. It is intended that we should be looking in depth at...

THE ROAD Haulage Association will not publish a guide book on the new Operators' Licence Regulations. The RHA says it was...

A NEW bus guidance system, developed by Mercedes, for use in narrow city centres is being tried as an experiment in Fuerth,...

THE changes the Greater London Council has made to the experimental scheme at the junction of the A4 with Northend Road are...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company made an operating profit of &Pm in 1983 according to its annual report published this week. This is an...

A NEW Mercedes 814, 7.5-tonner will soon be on its way to the Himalayas. The vehicle has been given to the Austrian Karakorum...

A MERSEYSIDE company that is selling off the majority of its fleet to meet debts was successful in obtaining a renewal of its...

MAY was a bumper month for operator licence applications, with some area offices reporting their highest monthly total for more...

THE RHA has welcomed the detailed examination of the EEC social legislation undertaken by the House of Lords Select Committee...

Two eliminating rounds of the 1984 CM Lorry Driver of the Year Competition were held last Sunday. Sixteen more drivers have...

ORGANISERS of the first international Autobus RAI have announced that the event will be 25 per cent larger than orginally...

WEST MIDLANDS Consumer Services Department is increasing its efforts to damp down on overloaded lorries with the use of new...

Last year, the Department set up a "dynamic" axle weighbridge system, the first of its kind in the West Midlands, to be...

According to the West Midlands County Council the annual bill for road repair and maintenance is £1.4 billion and the bill for...

On Wednesday June 6 there were more than D-Day veterans in France. That was the day when senior executives of eight of Europe's...

THE FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION has asked the De. partment of Transport tc confirm that the forthcoming study into a second...

A HIGH COURT injunctio served last week under the En ployment Act 1980 remove pickets from a jointly-ownel BRS/WHITBREAD depot...

THE shareholders of the employee-owned National Freight Consortium plc have chosen Mr Harry Batty, 53, of Westbury-onTrym,...

SECURICOR GROUP plc has formed a new holding company, Securicor Motor Holdings Ltd incorporating their motor division...

SUCCESSOR to John Bannister, manager of the International Road Freight Office, is Phyllis Thompson. Miss Thompson takes up the...

WINCANTON Vehicle Rentals has appointed two new rnanagers at its Darlaston depot. Mark De'Ath becomes regional manager Midland...

MR B. H. SMITH has been appointed to the board of directors of Kenning Motor Group. Mr Smith joined Kennings in 1948 and was...

WITH A BRIEF to develop sales in the Paisley area, Ken Allan has been appointed by Express Surefreight of Aberdeen to manage...

PHIL WICKENS has retired from the post of Group Technical Executive of the United Transport Gr.oup after 38 years in the road...

MR ROY BREWERTON, general sales manager of Laycock Engineering Ltd of Sheffield, is the new president of the Garage Equipment...

WE record with regret the death of Mr Massimo Moro, managing director of Pirelli Ltd. Mr Moro, 45, had recently undergone two...

Big noises meet at Med E Conference IN HIS keynote address to an Institution of Mechanical Engineers conference in London last...

THE INSTITUTE of Road Transport Engineers has published a useful, detailed guide to sideguards and rear underrun bumpers. The...

LORRY DRIVERS could soon find themselves having to learn how to operate a computer as an every day part of their working life....

IG Metall THE first real effect on UK commercial vehicle manufacturers of the five week old West German engineering workers'...

Encapsulation 1990 THE CONSENSUS among European vehicle manufacturers is that engine encapsulation will be the only way to...

GENERAL MOTORS has formed a new organisation called International Export Sales Organisation which will take responsibility for...

ASSEMBLY of Kenworth C500 6x4 rigids will begin at Foden's Sandbach plant later this year, probably in September. Paccar, the...

DON International says it has become increasingly aware recently of a growing volume of friction material on offer in the UK,...

WRECKERS International has added to its equipment the DP Planetary range of hydraulic winches. Capacities range from 11,000lb...

SCANIA (Great Britain) has opened a parts distribution centre adjacent to its Milton Keynes headquarters. Hitherto, all Scania...

Two from lveco TWO NEW models at 13.3 tonnes gvw have been added to lveco's middleweight range. Available with wheelbases of...

Make no mistake, Statutory Instrument 1981 No.1509 is important to every operator of a waste -disposal tanker. But if you...

Space and power from Land Rover LAND ROVER has updated its shorter model with an 11 per cent wider track, lengthened the...

TRANSL1FT Freight of Knottingley, has added two 6 x 4 Foden S106T, Rolls-Royce (Perkins Shrewsbury) 2 9 0 L Eagle powered,...

SHUNTMASTER manufacturer, Lyka Ltd of Preston, Lancs, has developed a novel system to ensure that the batteries of its...

LONDON TRANSPORT has taken delivery of its first ever British Volvo double-deck buses which are also its first-ever vehicles...

1RITISH Car Parking, which ,pecialises in off-airport car larking at London's Gatwick airion, is launching a new coachrig...

DECISION has been reserved by the Scottish Traffic Commis sioners on a licensing battle over who should provide services to the...

INTERNATIONAL publishing company Jane has published the third edition of Jane's Urban Transport Systems. The new guide gives...

PRIVATE talks between senior members of Conservative-led Cardiff City Council and National Bus Company subsidiary National...

After several years in which legislation overtook innovation and nothing qualified for the prestigious Don Safety Trophy, 1983...

Jean Denton, managing director of Herondrive and a noted rally and race driver, who made the presentations, is an invigorating...

The Magical Mystery Tour coach that appeared in a Beatles film of that name has been saved for posterity. The beaten-up...

Leyland Vehicles may have lost £70m last year but the Roadtrain is no sluggard and was winner in the class up to 350bhp in the...

The Liverpool Festival could mark the start of successful careers as travel couriers for 19 young unemployed Merseysiders who...

If as a child I had tried to run away from home I should have been eating my meals standing for some weeks. But times have...

AN lveco 38-tonne tractor was offered by Car Care Plan as a prize for holing in one at the 145yd 14th hole in the company's...

Noel Millier found the Renault Master Atlas welfare coach comfortable with few faults. His senior citizen passengers were...

THE DELIVERY I WAS WAITING at the delivery address in Grassington at 8.00 the following morning. I had paid extra for two of...

Cowboys' unfair advantage WITH REFERENCE to the letter from Mr Mann (CM, May 26), there is no indication as to how Mr Mann...

is making headway . THE 'AMERICAN PIE' has seemed an attractive proposition to a number of European manufacturers and for good...

CM April 28) has already attracted a lot of attention. Deservedly so, for it is the world's first production engine of its...

TWO vehicles, a 6 x 6 and 8 x 6, form the basis of a total transport system to supply forward areas with military stores of all...

How do YOUR costs compare? CM's ANNUAL Tables of Operating Costs is probably the most widely read publication of its type in...

THE MARK Vane Memorial Award is the project launched last year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road...

Thanks to the recent European election campaign almost everyone will know of the very limited powers of MEPs. Outside the...

TORBAY in June is an attractive venue for any type of conference. For those who spend most of the year supervising the...