T HERE'S a lot of fur flying in the tyre business again, this time over the relative merits and demerits of regrooving and...

BRITAIN'S most important motor show of the year opens next week in Glasgow. It will be the biggest Scottish Motor Show ever,...

COMMON SPEED hunt heavy goods vehicles on I EEC motorways and the Tapping of all quotas are o proposals being discussed...

HE EEC Commission ants to scrap all quotas in t e 1990s in two stages. Stage one: I lundreds and t ousands of bilateral...

Flex junk fuels debate The Campaign for Cross Channel Choice has been building up its stack of economic and social arguments...

MENU'. from a consultg engineer that the dynamic a le weighbridge on the A38 a Kennford, near Exeter, was t of specification....

WHILE the British and French governments decide whether to sanction the building of a fixed link across the Channel (CM,...

THE. DEPARTMENT of Transport is offering a limited number of permits to hauliers not currently holding allocations for France....

A ROADSIDE survey is to be carried out of heavy lorries and tankers drivers taking short cuts along residential Qucensferry...

Michelin regroove GLC is successful A MICHELIN technician last week successfully regrooved the XZT tyres that, according to...

FREIGHT Rover will shortly be completing an order for 50 specially uprated 2.5-litre diesel Sherpa chassis/cowls for the...

THE NIGHT-TIME and weekend lorry ban that was due to be imposed on London by the Greater London Council on December 16, has...

THE Routiers Drivers Club is threatening to boycott all Granada motorway service areas unless the company withdraws its...

THE PROSPECT of General Motors taking a majority share in Enasa, the Spanish state-owned parent of Seddon Atkinson, has ended....

COMMERCIAL vehicle registrations continue to run at a higher level than last year, according to the latest Society of Motor...

TO STRENGTHEN its after-sales support structure following the introduction of the new FL truck ranges, Volvo Trucks (Great...

are merged HEAVY HAULAGE companies Wynns and Sunters have this week been merged by their parent, United Transport...

HM CUSTOMS and Excise arc to go to the Divisional Court after Fleetwood magistrates upheld an appeal by Irish hauliers George...

ARCHBOLD Freightage has made two new appointments to its operational teams in Manchester and Leeds. Barry Hill has been...

AFTER 34 years with Don and Low, group sales export manager George Anderson has retired. Anderson had been involved in local...

'TERNATIONAL haulier & J. McIntosh Transport severed its connection th Felixstowe and Dover 3 switched to Dundee/Rotdam. A 1...

LONG-DISTANCE driver rith British Road Services — Simpson — failed in a claim it unfair dismissal at GlasDW, after service from...

NEW ONE-DAY courses in defensive driving are offered by health and safety consultancy Hinton and Higgs. The course includes...

OPERA I - ORS in remote Scottish islands are campaigning for a concession to permit them to have their vehicles tested before...

DOUBTS about the financial position of Devonair Transport Ltd trading as P. K. Transport Services of Brierley Hill has led to...

CALLS for Action to improve Britain's roads came last week by the Confederation for British Industry and the Freight Transport...

A SUFFOLK lorry driver, in debt by the rune of £17,000, put "ghost drivers" names on tachograph cards to try Co keep his...

THE OWNER of a Suffolk hulk grain haulage fleet has lost his home and office in a lire at his property in Calais Street,...

AN INSURANCE scheme to help drivers who lose their HGV licence on medical grounds was launched by the Clarkson Puckle Group...

ENVIRONMENTAL objections have lead to United Cooperatives being restricted to parking 12 vehicles at its depot purpose-built by...

SYSTEM UN E., the contract distribution arm of Lex Wilkinson, has increased business 400 per cent in three years and has now...

A LONG-DISTANCE driver who altered his tachograph and claimed expenses incorrectly, was deemed by an industrial tribunal to...

CHANCELLOR Nigel Lawson gave a 11125 million boost to the road-building programme over the next two years when he unveiled the...

G. A. STAMPER of Culgaith near Penrith is not the same operator as Geoff Stamper of Penrith. In CM October 26 we reported that...

VOLKSWAGEN's longawaited Polo light van has been shown to dealers and press in Britain, though it will not go on sale until...

THE CINNAMON') Group is expanding its vehicle fleet to meet a two-year excavating and filling contract. An initial purchase of...

Besco Bodies BESCO oodles has become the first vehicle body builder to receive the British Standards Institution's Quality...

servicing, could weaken the lower wishbones of the front axle on the LT 28, 31 and 35 models. In extreme cases VAG says the...

'ITIE FIRST Bedford TL tractive units to be powered by 130kW (175hp) Blue series engines have entered service on brewery...

DON-BUR has produced a lightweight version of its Slide-A-Side side access body which has an alloy section superstructure...

Wardle has moved to the Tadchurch suspension, which costs £2,850 more than the LRide when fated at Volvo's MVA (modified...

A WARNING that special care should be taken when inspecting semi-trailer king pins over five years old has been issued by...

STOKE-ON-TRENT body builder Whiteacres has produced a passenger-carrying compartment for the Automobile Association which can...

DI I ROEI Diesel Allison, the General Motors subsidiary is about to expand its range of automotive diesel engines down to the...

AN ENGINEER who was sacked by Kelvin Scottish Omnibuses of Glasgow after he was accused of threatening, swearing and...

KASSBOHRER has launched its Imperial double-deck coach on to the Australian coach market. The model is the first Setra and the...

HUNGARIAN bus manufacturer lkarus is continuing its plan to establish a British plant in a freeport. Senior lkartts officials...

SURREY County Council has received a report from transport consultants, Booz. Allen and Hamilton, outlining the likely...

THE METROPOLITAN Traffic Commissioners are seeking to sort out London's sightseeing tour terminals and expect to announce their...

LONDON BUSES has told staff at outlying garages that it needs to reduce significantly its unit costs if it is to win...

STAGECOACH is to fit Econocruise top-speed limiters to its fleet of 14 Neoplan Skyliner double-deck coaches used on express...

30-YEAR THROWBACK REGARDING the article (CM, October 26) "Important: Buy UK - , I must say that I would like, as a patriotic...

THIS is the first time in a long association with the media that I have written to protest about the reporting of one of my...

THE ARTICLE "Struggle for World Power (CM, October 5) made interesting reading on a subject where such comment is long overdue....

NOEL MILLIER'S article headed "Cumulo nimble bus" (CM, October 5) , refers to the Volvo City Bus, being used by London Regional...

THE REFERENCE to highly flammable adhesives in the article entitled "Coach crash prompts speed limit threat" (CM, October 26)...

BP TAKES A FLYER R OAD springs made of reinforced plastics or composites have now well and truly arrived on the transport...

relatively high speeds, the trend with .. maximum-weight tractive units runs in the opposite direction. Mercedes-Benz, Foden,...

T HERE is no shortage of small, specialist exhibitions and conferences, particularly, it seems, in the transport field. So why...

T OURISTS may fly in outer space before Napoleon's dream of a tunnel from France to Britain comes true. An Arnercan travel firm...

N EXT week the new Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre at Queens Dock, Glasgow, opens its doors for the 55th Scottish...

the French marker, it is very much die new boy when it comes to selling light commercial vehicles in Britain. Following the...

A rates war is breaking out among hauliers in Britain's oil capital. The reason is oil industry stability — now that...

Small independents can compete with nationalised operators in many parts of Britain provided they get their act together the...

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD? NEXT WEEK'S CM will report the outcome of the meeting of EEC Transport Ministers in Brussels a few...