HE TIME HAS COME for road transport operators to advertise heir services. They cannot afford to sit around any longer. "hey...

THE NEW director general fo transport at the EEC Commis sion in Brussels is John Steel4 British Civil Servant with wick...

TWENTY NINE Tyneside hauliers have now agreed £83 for 40 hours wage agreements with the Transport and General Workers Union,...

HERE IS little likelihood of the Certificate of Professional Compeence standards being tightened in the foreseeable future,...

CUMBRIA County Council's controversial plans for fines of up to £200 against operators which are suspected of being likely to...

BRITISH AIRWAYS have soug authority for an inland clearan depot at Cardiff, and are activ pursuing the possibility of ent ing...

NEW BANKING services launched by the Midland Bank are aimed primarily at helping small family businesses, such af. many engaged...

FORD has overcome one hurdle in its plan to close its Amsterdam factory (CM, May 2), but another has been put up in its place....

NSPORT MANAGEMENT will have to be convinced that they e lost traffic because their managers are insufficiently trained to it....

E AMOUNT of money needed winter roads maintenance inot be budgeted, according the British Road Federation, I there should be a...

AROUND 50 drivers a night are using Penrith's new Truck Stop lorry park at junction 40 on the M6. The park, which opened on...

IF DRIVERS of large and slow vehicles on single carriageway roads do not pull in to allow others to pass, they may be forced to...

SEVEN COMPUTER companies are taking part in an exhibition to be held at the Freight Transport Association's conference in...

A LORRY driver was dismissed because of his accident record, not because of redundancy, a Lincoln industrial tribunal has...

BRITAIN'S leading motoring organisations have called for the removal of tolls on the Humber Bridge, saying that rural users...

LORRY traffic through Dover f by seven per cent last May, there was a huge increase unaccompanied trailer traffic. The number...

AS EXPECTED, the Greater I don Council has suspended plan for a lorry ban in a' square mile area of North Ld don (CM, July 4)....

Ws South African company is become the first cv builder fit the Atlantis ADE 407T die The Atlantis, built entirely in e Cape to...

EFFORTS should be directed t wards the establishment o worldwide regulations fo goods vehicles, according to Society of Motor...

A9: There are delays at Clachnaharry Road, Inverness due to undabout construction. A77: A 12 tons axle limit and 50 ton gross...

A1 (M): Contraflow traffic will be in operation until mid-November n a 5.6-mile section from north of the Blind Lane...

A45: There will be single-lane, alternate-way working at Fiore, klorthamptonshire (between M1 junction 16 and the A5 at Weedon)...

A2: There are numerous roadworks between Bexleyheath anc Dover. Operators should allow an extra hour for journeys to thE...

A31: Delays are likely at the Wimbourne by-pass in Dorset. A338: There is major road reconstruction in Bournemouth, A4042:...

Because of holiday traffic congestion, the French authorities havE banned goods vehicles exceeding six tonnes gross on certain...

result of abstraction would still be effective out of term when the Finglands' service would not be available to the public....

N application by Cumbria ounty Council for a shared ire-car service to operate in art of the county has been aproved by...

THE SECOND ScotMAP packag of service revisions to be mad by a Scottish Bus Group Co pany — this time Eastern Sco tish — is...

acceptable to both operators — some journeys have been cut and others have been retimed. Stonier maintained that there were...

SITE adjoining the Buchanan us Station in the heart of Glasow has been earmarked by lasgow District Council to be Bveloped as a...

THE DRAMATIC drop in the number of new psv registrations this year is showing little signs of recovery despite the start of the...

FARE collection experiments are to begin on South Yorkshire PTE's articulated bus fleet. Two vehicles are operating on...

CROSVILLE and Halton District Council's transport department have objected to a private coach firm's plan for a "dial-a-ride"...

AY SMITH Demountables Ltd 1st week demonstrated for the rst time in the United Kingdom he top of the range Klaus Kranlobil KM32...

ATLASAIR has now extended its existing fleet of Mercedes-Ben L407D vans with two 7.5 tonne (7.38 tons) gvw LP809 vans, on based...

on ERF A STAINLESS steel Coleman tank//bitumen distributor tan with a 13,000 litre (3,000 g capacity is said to be the first...

HE WORDS "Type approval" ave become as emotive within e road transport industry as ggernaut is outside it. Some anufacturers...

DME comment is necessary on 3rt of your article Is the Worst ahind Our Trailer Makers? (CM, Ane 13). According to Jim Keirle,...

HERE was a comment in (CM, une 20) about the recall of the , odge 50-Series which involved change of a bolt in the steering...

AS manufacturers of lightweight articulated units — up to 7.5 tonnes gvw — we are becoming increasingly frustrated by the...

I READ with interest first G. A. Morgan's letter {CM, June 20) concerning impartiality of reports and then your road test on...

LIKE Mr Hedgcock (CM, June 13) I also have had problems with Michelin radial tyres blowing out. Three new tyres blew on an...

IN REPLY to J. E. Eastman's I ter (CM, June 13) DIY Standard Are They Safe?, statistical perhaps there is no eviden that DIY...

V1RS Indira Gandhi's son, Rajiv, Nho recently entered politics, as described by a BBC reporter 3s an experienced commercial...

WAS impressed by two axamples of Teutonic efficiency, forethought and care for the staff at the new MAN-VW headquarters. Just...

AS I sipped a case of champagne on DAF Trucks' motor cruiser at the Henley Royal Regatta I recalled a provincial newspaper...

INEVITABLY, a bus in the special Royal Wedding livery was included in a display at a "free family fun day" at London...

THE EEC is not, I suspect, the favourite institution of John Wells, national secretary of the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of...

NEW dimension was added to e British 3.5-tonne van market May this year when Renault troduced its Master range — ew not...

The East Midlands often tends to be overshadowed by its Western neighbour. Graham Montgomerie redresses the balance as he...

ard 16-ton rigids with the wide ed floor being able to cope with lost sizes of skip up to ten tons pa city. York is the only...

When BFI's superdept at Castle Doningto fell foul of the economic climate, its facilities were thrown open to anyone wh wanted...

A Gilt-edged asset? With its modern Hinckley warehouse, Giltspur Bullens took a lot of the hard work out of Beekay Bauknecht's...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the C/I4Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

Applebys of Lincolnshire provide an object lesson in this with a thriving operation, enterprising excursions and many marketing...

here routine servicing is car3c1 out. Where possible, Applebys try keep the same driver with the ime coach. With bus grant...

The other half of the B-Series being Cummins' latest and lightest 14-litre engine, the best match so far on speed and fuel...

it make more impac on Government? We speak to CIT preside Sir James Duncan IN PREVIOUS articles in this series I have...

ORDS did not completely fail ransport Secretary Norman owler in his welcome for the id by senior management to iuy the National...

first group distribution and engineering director. He is performing both roles pending the appointment of a successor. Mr...

by Douglas Ainley THE Protective Period (PP) usually begins on the date on which the first of the dismissals to which the...