'WHY DID Transport Secretary David Howell drop the paragraph referring to 38 tonnes from his speech at Brighton last Friday?...

INCREASE in the maximum gross weight of heavy lorries rt to be announced later this month by Transport SecreDavid Howell. Our...

ERATORS HAVE won a further concession from r the environmental 0-licence controls being nsport Bill. the Government included in...

TRANSPORT Under Secretary Lynda Chalker left Road Haulage Association conference delegates in no doubt that the Government will...

HOME SECRETARY William Whitelaw will open this year's Motor Show at noon on Friday next week, October 22. He will tour the...

THE EEC's tachograph industry, alarmed by reports that the European Commission may ease the tachograph regulations, has...

THE EEC Commission is proposing a modest 4.3 per cent increase in the number of road haulage licences next year authorised...

THE SOCIETY of Motor M facturers and Traders want Government to provide encouragement to veh manufacturers, and will submit a...

NO" DECISION on the rier lorry would be preferato the present indecision, chairman and managing :tor Peter Foden told a...

LY EIGHTEEN people, CM's reporter and two interlopers from Freight Transport Association included, braved the night air to md a...

TOWMASTER Transport, the transport division of Scotch Whisky distiller Arthur Bell and Sons, ,made a profit of £165,000 for the...

A CALL TO accelerate planned investment in transport facilities so as to stimulate economic growth was made by the incoming...

THE PROPOSED DAY of transport action by the Trades Union Congress in support of the health workers has been confirmed for...

ID Haulage Association director general Freddie Plaskett was ing this week to ask the Department of Transport to remove the...

E EFFECT of heavy lorries on ad maintenance is being Testigated by the National Asciation of Local Councils. A mrt on its...

ROAD HAULAGE Association members have been given until the end of next month to support Cargofax, a Prestel-based traffic...

AN EXPERIMENTAL one-year ban on through lorry traffic on the A45 in Cambridgeshire looks certain to start sometime next...

A HAULAGE and plant hire I pany which was part of th( candy collapsed T. E. .1( group in Shropshire has I ordered to pay £1,400...

IV ACTION areas are no substitute for a reduction in the no of lorry traffic, Transport 2000 has told the Department of sport....

4AX PROFITS for Mitchell :ts were slightly up, at '38m for the year ended June according to preliminary udited figures. This...

THE LONG-awaited by-pass at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gets under way this month following the acceptance by the County Council of...

Councils earlier this week Transport Under Secretary Reginald Eyre declared: 'There is no doubt that overloading is a serious...

THE OPERATOR'S point of view about lorry overloading was put to the council representatives attending the ACC seminar on...

the representa of over 40 "shire" county c cils, six metropolitan cou and 11 London boroughs. Speaking at the Associati(...

JOHN ELWIN has been appointed director of finance at Greater Manchester Transport. He qualified as a chartered accountant in...

FOLLOWING the formation of Fleetcare into a separate company within National Services, four senior changes have taken place at...

PRINCESS ANNE and Captain Mark Phillips were admitted to the livery of the Worshipful ■ Company of Carmen at London's Guildhall...

TANKFREIGHT, a National Freight Consortium subsidiary, has made George Macleod its sales development manager. He will be based...

LED FIELDHOUSE has left the idon subsidiary British Ropes ter 21 years as group traffic anager at Doncaster headradars. He...

NICK LESTER, Transport 2000's director since 1980, is widening his responsibilities from April next year when he takes on the...

A HIGHER-powered version of the Leyland TL 11 engine is now available for the Cruiser. The TL11B in the new 16.23 is rated at...

TECHNICAL HELP to Exporters (THE) is now offering small firms a free trial of its technical export enquiry service. Sponsored...

IN AN ATTEMPT to get a 22-tonne-plus payload/body allowance for an eight-wheeler, Leyland has introduced a new bogie for the...

A 16-TON Scania G2 operated by Sony UK has v the first prize for overall ciency awarded by the Brew Technical Advisory...

REPLACEMENT vehicle Jig bulbs must carry the "E" or "1 mark to indicate that thi conform to EEC design sta dards. DTp...

A COMPUTERISED anti-lock braking system which senses Inc vidual wheel slip will be featured on the Mercedes-Benz 1633S I the...

THE PARIS Show last week kswagen put an end to a 40r-old deign concept by reing its air-cooled power in the Transporter van it...

lamed the Unitruck, this ilti-purpose vehicle based on ; Range Rover chassis proles a load area for a modest yload of 560kg...

NORTHAMPTON-based coachbuilder Barham Bodies has completed an order for six refrigerated bodies for the Dawson Group, built to...

not necessarily lie with a continuously variable transmission, according to P. J. Ivens of Ford. Speaking at a conference...

SANDBACH ENGINEERING has plugged more of the gaps in its dealer network (CM, July 31). Darlaston Truck Centre is the latest...

AIR SUSPENSION is being adopted throughout Sony UK's distribution fleet to help provide a smoother ride for sensitive...

BEDFORD is set to become the first European manufacturer to offer an on-line-built, electrically powered, one-tonne panel van,...

IN AN attempt to increasi share of the tipper market, has extended its weight-sa principles from the ERF C-So tractive units to...

WINDFOIL of East Dereham, Norfolk, claims to have built the f all-plastic mobile outside-broadcast television studio. The body...

YORK TRAILER last week chose Paris, rather than Birmingham as the shop window for its product range. The centre piece of its...

ITISH manufacturers have rted to fight back against the ady flow,of foreign coaches to the market. Public unveilof Leyland's...

ISH SEMI-STATE transport ■ mpany Coras lompair Eireann 1E) is to standardise on the tw Cummins 10-litre engine r its new fleet...

At a meeting of representatives from the metropolitan counties, the AMA voted to elect a "steering group" to have an oversight...

MAXWELL BROCKHOUSE Bus Transmissions of Loughborough says 24 double-deck buses fitted with Maxwell automatic gearboxes are now...

by 580 LONDON TRANSPORT'S bus fleet has been cut by 580 buses, following the service changes introduced on September 4. Among...

have been fined a total of £3,000 by Tavistock magistrates for permitting their drivers to work excessive hours. Michael and...

A HERTFORDSHIRE Coui Council experiment reduc and simplifying bus fares in Albans has been successful attracting more...

ALDER VALLEY is overcoming driver problems encountered by crews driving older vehicles in the fleet without pewer-steering by...

THE FOLLOWING events are scheduled for the rest of October. 19 IRTE has four sessions organised for today. The first is a talk...

M THE DAY he emerged as er of the Consortium which itually bought the National ght Company from the Govnent, there was little...

HELP US REGULATE. That was Transport Under-Secretary Lynda Chalker's message to the conference when she spoke at the business...

THE GOVERNMENT is failing miserably by not providing the industry with the White Paper recommendations on heavier lorries, 10...

THE QUEST for regeneration of the RHA began as delegates left Torquay with director-general Freddie Plaskett's closing address...

JLAGE operators really do it to buy and take advantage Icreased gross weight limits. urprised? Well, word was zing round high...

diminishes the higher the increased weights go. For instance, 28 per cent said they would switch to 40-tonners only when...

NOTHING enlivens a conference so much as a good blast of controversy, and the Torquay air was heated by irreconcilable views on...

and must have curved roofs to clear tunnel and bridge profiles. As an example of the difficulties ahead of such a plan, he said...

SYNDICATE sessions have become a popular feature at recent conferences as they give small groups of delegates an opportunity to...

'lust lorry bans get bigger nd 'better'? The FTA's Hugh eatherstone and Richard 'urner have been looking for way out of the...

They can improve operating efficiency but given the extra costs involved do not help the Wincanton bottom line, says David...

[he Employment Bill means that where employees are on Arike and some came back Lo work, employers, in general, will be entitled...

Freddie Plaskett looks forward to expanding services for RHA members — the first to start within a few weeks. The industry, he...

What is most important when designing a new vehicle range? An inside view from Peter Nevin of Ford, who emphasises the benefits...

Only independents offer a complete range of superior engines, argues Roger Wilsdon of Cummins. Buyers of 'integrated' vehicles...

Operators' experience is a vital factor taken into account in suspension specs, says Norde's Bill Johnson, who puts forward a...

Dr Jarrett of Lucas focuses the spotlight from his side of the industry. One mod calls for another, he says, and bolt-on...

We analyse a selection of the new and updated commercials that will be on display at Birmingham when one of the world's finest...

SINCE something like another century was to pass before the internal combustion engine first spluttered into life, Edmund Burke...

THE 1982 MOTOR SHOW is being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. This location should deter no one for there...

British industry is providing the models for viable public transport services and responding to the overseas challenge BUS ....

A look at some of the equipment, accessories and parts on exhibition at this year's Show Autogem is using the Show for the...

WE WISH TO register a complaint to the Department of Transport on behalf of prospective hgv drivers, many of whom are...

Engineers from three sectors of the industry get together with our technical department to discuss type approval and conclude...

INCE AGAIN John Weinthal nd his team in the SMMT press nd public relations department ave done a great service to perators as...

SALES-PROMOTION gimmicks are by no means limited to bus operators. Those adopted by Motor Show exhibitors are, it seems,...

I HAVE commented before on . the varied uses to which retired buses are put but I was surprised that 150 are run by the...

IT IS DIFFICULT to square the nasty show of temper at the TUC conference with the decision of a 'Transport and General Workers'...

A HISTORY of Scammell rigid eight-wheelers, to which I referred in the September 25 issue, attributes the company's survival...

SUCCESS can be a doubleedged sword; it invites imitators. Perkins is having this problem with spurious spare parts, many from...

THE ONLY SURE WAY to gain your Certificate of Professional Competence is to set aside a period of time in which to study the...

ALWAYS seeking to improve standards, CM launched a competition for its advertisers. The panel of experts who judged the entries...

by Arthur Beckenham HE VARIOUS studies in which au have enrolled will, if you poly yourself, yield benefits to ou in the long...

EXPORTS WERE the only thing that prevented a severe sales slump, said Daimler Benz in its annual report for 1981. And MAN...

ire now ready . Jr 1982/83 Tables of )erating Costs provide lerators with a guide their costs and assist em to quote realistic...

. . was the main theme at the Institute of Transport Administration's annual conference, and much interesting ground was...