4EXT WEDNESDAY the Greater London Council meets to take what could be a nomentous decision for the road transport industry. It...

LOCAL AUTHORITY skip lorries are the latest target for the Department of Transport in its efforts to clear up the confusion...

THERE IS no firm date yet t lifting the requirement for dri ers of 38-tonne lorries to oho; for authority to use unmanm level...

A DYNAMIC axle weighbridge now in operation at the Wal sey entrance to the Kingsw Tunnel under the Mersey. The weighbridge,...

ROAD HAULAGE flexibility has won it some business from rail freight, with Ford abandoning its use of trains to ship engines...

JSTRY pressure is building up for the Greater London Council elay any lorry ban plans when its transport committee meets week...

ND 0 European Transport ices (Poets), the road transdivision of P and 0, insed its pre-tax profits in the half of this year....

BRECKNELL WILLIS is to build 10 light vans which are to be evaluated as part of a hybrid vehicle programme part financed by the...

THE AGRICULTURAL lobby is campaigning busily to stop the Greater London Council from imposing heavy lorry bans. Submissions...

FORD recovered some of its former glory with its Cargo sales last month, scoring a six per cent leap in market share of the...

LEYLAND'S specialist and military vehicle builder Scammell was last week presented with the Queen's Award for Export...

PEHR GYLLENHAIVIMAR, chi man of Volvo, told a press ci ference in London this wi that prominent European dustrialists were...

THE BURDENS of road building delays continue to be imposed upon long-distance drivers, and the latest crop from the Department...

BRF director Kenneth Canni claimed that with the exceptit of the 20 miles stretch of ti M23 conditions on the road ha , become...

JOHN MACDIARM1D, of Skl has started a refrigerated trar port haulage business with eye-catching truck which h been covering the...

NO LESS a topic than the future for road transport is to be examined at next month's institute of Transport Administration...

UAL CONTROLS, enabling the thicle to be driven from either de of the cab, can now be )ecified as a factory fitted upon on the...

A NEW starter lockout, claimed to give complete protection to most types of starter installation, has been developed by Butec...

LIGHTWEIGHT components and attention to aerodynamic design are the main features of in' terest in the 1984 range of US trucks...

earlier this year have gone into service with Peterborough Heavy Haulage. More stringent control of axle loads on vehicles...

A MAJOR SURPRISE has been caused in the bus industry by former Shadow Transport Secretary Albert Booth's appointment as a...

JOHN KELLEND takes on an entirely new job in the SPD Group next week as its wine trade distribution business development...

WE RECORD with regret if death of Harold Goodwin at 85. Mr Goodwin trained as a cha tered engineer with Vickers an helped make...

ONE OF CM's best-known staff members, engineering editor Graham Montgomerie, is leaving on December 1 to join the Freight...

BARRIE POPLE has resigned from the board of PW International, the Guildford-based distribution management and industrial...

IF has drawn attention to the ngers of mixing wheel-stud nes for Kirkstall Forge and ton axles. Fitting a KF cone to an Eaton...

ERF's new 16-tonner, the M16, which was described in CM last week, is fitted with a newly developed, lightweight version of the...

AT A WET and windy Mira proving ground last Sunday the major fuel economy prizes in the trials organised jointly by the...

at the Birmingham Motor Show, Austin Rover has uprated its payload capacity by 24 per cent and improved the loading facility....

A FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE Datsun one-ton pick-up goes on sale this month. It takes the Z-Series 2.2-litre overhead camshaft engine...

mi based on a Leyland Constrm 24.21 lightweight 6x4 cha: equipped with a donkey-engi driven Stothert and Pitt TM mixer unit. In...

r DAY of the biggest bus undertakings may soon be over, Transt Secretary Tom King warned this week. He also put the future of...

'ICE-ADMIRAL newly-appointo judge the revived attempt 3 , stablish minibus services in Idon is under pressure from Greater...

PASSENGER Transport Executives and the National Bus Company would have a limited future of the Liberal Party came to power. In...

DEWSBURY Bus Station has been judged the country's bestkept bus and coach station. It beat 51 other bus stations in the first...

COACH SALES are the only sign of better times in the passenger vehicle market this year, with Society of Motor Manufacturers...

CLAIMS that an extension liberalised Scottish bus se' would cost British Rail nt £90,000 have been dismisse a Department of...

AN INDEPENDENT operator has been preferred to a Scottish Bus Group subsidiary for the operation of two new stage services on...

H REFERENCE to your article iintenance worry" (CM tember 3) I feel you are ving the wrong conclusions these figures. In my...

VE read your description passing of the old style cker", (CM, August 13). looting the usual stance of d-style recovery man — of...

I NOTICED in CM, August 20, under the heading "Police concern", a brief mention of a meeting to be held in September between...

A magnificent exhibition of the latest models does full justice to the importance of this unique event. Noel Millier...

Don't be left out in the cold. Be there to make your point and hear what others are thinking in the coach and travel world....

ETA CONFERENCE next k will no doubt have a lively Jssion of the Wood Inquiry's mmendations. The vigour not be at all damped...

Luxury is everywhere in this most impressive machine, and its semi-doubledeck allows a number of interior layouts. Noel Millier...

AS NEWS is received of the change-over in Halmstad, Sweden, from use of electronic guidance of buses approaching and leaving...

AT THIS WEEK's Frankfurt Motor Show the new range of Mercedes-Benz medium-weight commercials for the 12-15 tonne range and a...

ratrmyyrdupo Motor Panels' md talks about the latest lightweight and sound-deadening materials, and how he sees alternative...

and superb handling. Tim Blakemore reports THE 10 tonnes gvw market sector is one which seldom receives as much attention as it...

HOUGH the CBI's latest lomic survey claims that e is continuing to improve itly because of a consumer m, it is pessimistic...

F charity IRTY YEARS on the T.J.E. Jdie) Price, that vocal, longrving member of the former luth Wales area (now part of 3...

IT IS STRANGE that a trade union should have refused to help a lorry driver who was dismissed by Rank Hovis allegedly for...

AN ESSEX reader who describes himself as a saddened Leyland admirer has echoed my comments (August 20) on the apparent...

HISTORIC vehicle rallies, through constant repetition, are threatening to become a bore even to enthusiasts. An exception was a...

I RECOMMEND all who have responsibility for managing transport to obtain a copy of the Health and Safety Executive Report,...

EVER-GROWING selection loks of bus photographs has in again with the ication of Urban Buses in 980s (Ian Allan; £5.95) by n...

MARKET for new buses and ;hes in Britain has gone ugh many turns and twists the past 15 years, with mass ;lining by PTEs and...

AN ENTREPRENEUR with the memorable name of William Wallace Wallis — yes, it really was — has the distinction of being the...

THE RECENT SURGE of interest in mobile communications has caused more operators to contemplate the use of two-way radio....