T HE SPRING and summer . motorway repair programme was announced by the Department of Transport last week. In her customary...

CONCERN is growing among many transport engineers over sharply increasing brake maintenance costs. Others are less than happy...

THE ROAD Haulage Association has renewed its demands for the closure of the two Motec training centres, which arc run by the...

THE DISTRIBUTION activities of the National Freight Consortium are to be reorganised later this year as a direct result of the...

THE GOVERNMENT is applying for planning clearance for a motorway service area on both sides of the M20 at West Kingsdown,...

CONSTRUCTIVE progress is being made on the roads programme, the Confederation of British Industry president Sir James Cleminson...

PROVISIONAL Department of Transport figures last week showed that in 1984 British hauliers carried only 43 per cent of the...

FEARS that the phasing out of capital allowances last month would cut demand for new lorries have proved groundless so far, but...

CONTRARY to the Transport Tribunal report "Repute appeal lost" on p6 of CM's May 4 issue, the South Wales coal haulier Herbert...

AS PART of a programme to establish new warehousing sites around London, McGregor Cory has acquired a new warehouse in...

HENI)RICKSON, the American lorry suspension manufacturer, has acquired :he Brooklands Aviation Group, which owns Norde...

[HE GOVERNMENT is to ry to reverse its embarrassing iefeat in the Lords last week when peers voted to set up mrategic highways...

SWEDISH manufacturers are likely to reap a better than average harvest from any upturn in the European truck market, according...

ROAD HAULAGE is unlikely to gain any real benefit as Southampton's container port recovers from the four months long dispute...

STRICTER and more precise Common Market rules on roadworthiness tests for cornmercial vehicles are being examined in Brussels...

SETTING EIRE to tachograph charts to prevent them being used against him has led to a Lancashire 'lorry driver being sent to...

JOHN FOX and Company Limited has asked that it be pointed out that the company has no connection whatever with the Fox Freight...

THERE was a 10.5 per cent increase in the number of lorries using Dover during this March, compared with last, the Board's...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's profit fell by over half to 00,762 in 1984 compared with 1983, its annual report shows....

contract hire company, as contracts sales manager for the Midlands, based in Birmingham. He is a graduate in business...

TANKFREIGHT, the National Freight Consortium's tanker haulage specialist, has recruited Paul Robinson to a new post, director...

AT twenty-three, Simon Lewis has become Wincanton Vehicle Rentals' youngest truck rental manager. He is based at the head...

LEX VEHICLE Leasing, the light van and car contract hire firm, has made Christopher Knapp its regional sales manager for...

MICHAEL MULLINS has been appointed assistant chief engineer for West Yorkshire Road Car, based at Harrogate. For the past five...

HELEN FERGUSON, a grandmother, has been made Kilmarnock area manager at Western Scottish, the Scottish Bus Group subsidiary....

THREE Adeline Engineers managers have left and set up their own company, MBL Transport Equipment, Nottingham. The new company...

THE VOLVO franchise in North-west England has been taken over by Terry Hardie, who was general manager, parts division at Volvo...

CYRIL ALDRIDGE has joined Daf main dealer North West Truck Engineering as manager of its Potteries branch, which was opened 18...

TOLI_S on estuarine crossings should be scrapped they are in a financial mess, and costly to industry and motorists, MPs were...

LORRIES should continue to use the M1 near Hemel Hempsted in July, despite expected delays caused by roadworks on a 200 yard...

WEST B OMWIC magistrates are considering whether they ought to deal with a charge involving a forged international journey...

DRIVERS' hours offences cost Lancashire haulier H. Nuttall and Sons Ltd and 13 of the company's drivers a total of .$:2,125 in...

ROAD HAULAGE Association national vice-chairman Roy Bowles has just been to Toronto and Los Angeles to emphasise the advantages...

ELAN, the courier service, has introduced a same-day service to companies which want to arrange emergency dispatches or...

FIVE MEN have been committed to Ipswich Crown Court for trial on charges of stealing and handling a trailerload of cigarettes...

USE OF premises as a haulage base in the days of carriers licensing did not qualify them as an "existing operating centre" for...

TIDD STRONGBOX, of 'Sandy, Bedfordshire, is now offering the Belgian-designed Bachomatic vertical roll-up curtainsider system...

LEYLAND has notified its dealers to recall about 700 Roadrunner models which are fitted with power assisted steering for the...

THE MOST POWERFUL model in Leyland's Constructor range — the 167kW(224hp) 24.23 had a quiet debut at the Tipcon exhibition last...

ALUVAN Italia has informed us that its Cargo Van body shown at the Turin Show (April 27) with the small Paggio articulated...

FIAT's Fiorino car-derived van has undergone a face-lift and now has a five-speed gearbox as standard. The new gearbox is...

THE HEALTH and Safety Commission's code of practice on the examination, testing and certification of the tanks and fittings of...

IVECO has revised the specifications of its top weight onroad tractive unit range, dropping Deutz air cooled engines entirely...

TECHNICAL Panel Industries of Braintree, Essex has developed a new, lightweight, composite glass reinforced plastic panel for...

"substantial" damages sum RUBERY OWEN-Rockwell says it has received "a substantial sum", the exact amount of which has not...

DAYTON-WALTHER, which claims to have 41 per cent of the fifth wheel market, is to introduce a bolted and bonded...

Following the success of recent light commercial vehicle sales, Car Auctions, the Stoke on Trent based National Freight company...

THE RESULTS of a fouryear West German research project into the influence of commercial vehicle design on road wear and damage...

by Tim Blakemore THE GIANT West German manufacturer of tippers and tipping gears, F. X. Meillcr of Munich, is aiming to step...

GARDNER has improved the standard warranty conditions on all its truck and bus diesel engines and introduced an extended...

THE MINERS' strike cost the Scottish Bus Group £1.5rn last year according to its parent Scottish Transport Group's annual...

MID GLAMORGAN County Council has put five former National Welsh routes out to competitive tender. The routes maintain the...

by Alan Millar A POWERFUL appeal for the National Bus Company to be privatised intact is contained in its annual report...

by Noel Millier OGLE DESIGN of Letchworth has built a lull-sized model of the "user Friendly" double-deck bus bein g developed...

THE LICENCE battle over stage services in Warwickshire between George Day's Heart of En g land companies and West Midlands PTE...

ALLEGATIONS that Edinbur g h coach operator Adamson and Low and a number of the company's drivers had committed hours and...

PREMIER Travel Services of Cambrid g e is developin g a new head q uarters complex close to the A45 trunk Histon interchan g e...

the UK 7.5 tonne market offer a choice of four and six-cylinder engines in their chassis. Mercedes-Benz is one of them with its...

PARTNERSHIP Providing a first-rate insurance advisory service for FTA members is the basis of an unusual partnership between a...

CM IS STREETS AHEAD MAY I say how much I like the newstyle Commercial Motor? In terms of general presentation, layout and...

T HOSE who predicted that the e xperiment with deregulated bus services in Hereford would change the face of Hereford and...

FINANCIAL HEALTH Sound control is essential for the good health of any business, argues senior accountant Graham Forder. He...

A word of warning for those readers feeling cheerful because spring seems at last to have arrived after a winter that kept...

LONGTERM PREMIUM COSTS Several changes benefit operators, says CM insurance expert John C. Vann, and they should take...

Bryan Jarvis visits a Suffolk haulage business which has grown by adapting to changing local conditions N a county famous for...

REPLACEMENTS The Midland Bank's small loan scheme was introduced last week after intensive market research into what small...

FIND FAVOUR Drivers and their employers are starting to acknowledge the benefits of salary agreements. Jack Semple reports V...