HE FORD Motor Company pushed up its commercial vehicle ;ales to a record level in the first six months of 1980 despite he...

FODENS HAVE called in the receiver and the jobs of its remaining 1900 employees are at great risk. Their only real hope lies in...

4INISTER of Transport Norman Fowler today announced vhich local vehicle licensing offices will be kept open ollowing his recent...

THE LT40 petrol-engined high-roof van has been tested over CM's light van route. Plated at 3.5 tonnes gvw, giving a maximum...

THE FIRST of National Carriers computerised parcels depots was opened in Birmingham last week by Under Secretary for State...

DURING the current financial year the Greater London Council expects to provide London Transport with £57m in revenue support...

EXPORTS of commercial vehicles to EEC countries since 1979 have balanced imports — but in numbers only. The value of the...

THE Road Haulage Associ tion has sent a telex to tl United Road Transport Uni( and the Transport ar General Workers' Unit...

THE 65,354 registered a: unemployed in May who las . worked in transport an communication was thi highest total over the last...

not easy 'HE new bus grant of 50 per cent made luying new vehicles an artificially :heap option, and tended to distort udgment...

Assistance should be channelled through local authorities, who had power to 'make grants to bus operators and their expenditure...

HE Essex Demolition Conractors had its appeal against 'evocation set aside this meek because its solicitor did iot have...

THE M58 link between Aintree, near Liverpool, and Skelmersdale will open for traffic on August 22, following completion of work...

FROM the occasional, and probably untypical, glimpses one has on television of youngsters in the streets of Ulster, it seems...

NDUSTRIAL tribunals, particularly those for unfair disnissal, are making trades unionists increasingly disillusioned t was...

PIOBIL drivers have settled for a new basic rate of £105 per reek, putting them ahead of other tanker drivers, most of rhom are...

1NDER-RUN bumpers are to be made compulsory, according ) Minister of Transport Norman Fowler. He told more than 200 operators...

SUBJECT to the approval of the full county council, Merseyside Highways and Tunnels Committee has decided to recommend that the...

ENTRIES are now open for our light vehicle livery competition. This class is for vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes gvw or passenger...

WHILE self-criticism is essential, negative criticism does no good at all, according the Transport Minister. Speaking last...

THE LAST set of results from CM's Lorry Driver of the Year regional heates have now arrived. In Hampshire, the class winners...

THE CM 75th anniversary HOOD transport study award scheme — co-sponsored by DAF, P & 0, NCL, Renault, Intertruck and...

TWO new services have been countrywide operation. Called - One-way Rental"' and - Off-peak Package," they are designed to...

WILKINSON Transport Ltd i now offering overnight trun links between any of its 1 nationwide depots. Customers served b...

A HAULAGE company which sacked its founder was acting fairly, according to a Birmingham industrial Tribunal. The Tribunal was...

THE LARGEST construction company in the UK, George Wimpey Ltd, is convinced that a twin tunnel across the channel makes far...

THE FACT that land adjacent to the premises of Bradford operator Dennis Moorhouse was scheduled for residential development was...

NATIONAL Bus Compan: subsidiary Hants and Dorse has joined forces with smal independent Bournemoutl tour operator Wesse:...

COACH operator members of the Coach and Independent Bu Section (CIBS) of the Confederation of British Roat Passenger Transport...

r HE ROW is over between independent stage-carriage 3perators and Potteries Motor Traction Co Ltd. The two parties were at...

_OUGHBOROUGH coach lealer W. S. Yeates Ltd eported a £968,000 profit or the six months ending 30 ‘pril 1980. Despite the...

FOR BUS workers campaigning against faulty buses, the Health and Safety at Work Act is a powerful weapon, according to the...

HARWIN Coachbuilders of Merseyside has moved from premises in Formby to a new factory in Strand Road, Bootle. Production of...

SCOTTISH and Newcastle Breweries, one of the larges . fleet car operators in the North of England, hal switched to diesel. The...

NYLOY 150 roller shutters, made by Dover Roller Shuttee Ltd of Denton, near Manchester, have been used to enclos the Wilsdens...

RAY SMITH Demountables Ltd, one of the leading manufacturers of swop-body systems, is now marketing in this country the Klaus...

DAVCO Instrumentation & Security Co Ltd have installed a fully automatic selfpowered alarm system in a Tautliner for Crokerton...

THE acquisition of a new Gloster Saro Javelin firecrash tender contributed in uprating Cardiff Wales Airport to category eight...

FOLLOWING Craven Taskers (Woodville) Ltd's launch of a comprehensive range of Task curtainsiders for trailer bodies, the...

DERIVED directly from the Renault 4F6 Fourgonnette petrol-engined van, the new 4F6A has won an award in an international...

A NEW SERIES of conveyor-elevators for vehicle loading and unloading has been launched by Sovex Marshall of Nottingham. The...

OVER 70 presentations on all aspects of electric vehicles will be given at the "Drive Electric '80" conference at Wembley,...

THE NEW Mitsubishi L30( panel van, now on self through the Colt dealei network, is claimed by thc company to be the first pane...

"Sir Arthur must sometimes feel like the sorcerer's apprentice. . . He has started something he does not know how to stop" ONE...

AS we are again jointly organising the South Yorkshire Transport Rally, now in its sixth year, we wish to stress that although...

I HAVE READ your Editorial on Citizens Band radio with dismay. You seem to suggest that its introduction in the United Kingdom,...

MAY I inquire whether any of your older readers could enlighten me with certain details relevant to the enclosed photograph....

REGARDING the letter from K L. Townsend of Birmingharr (CM, June 21) : If Mr Townsend has as mud [ntegrity and is as highly res...

Many still think - wice before buying retreads, so Steve Gray put some leading guestions to a panel of Retread Manufacturer...

If you're thinking of buying retread Brian Chalmers-Hunt assures yo( the're as good as nen THE British Rubber Manufacturers...

FREIGHT FORWARDERS at their professional best fulfil a demanding role in international trade, linking exporters with customers,...

.,.in a few years from now. psv operators May find this is the wisest stategy, says Noel WHEN it comes to tyres many bus and...

Edited by John Durant Twenty years of lorries THE LATEST book by Nick Baldwin is Trucks of the Sixties and Seventies. It comes...

The qualifying heats are over and, as Alan Millar reports, this year's finals are all set to be another outstanding success...

Tim Blakemore takes -- )e 504 pickup over our new light van route and finds it rugged with remarkably temperate drinking...

:ONSTRUCTION sites in the ■ lack Forest area of Southern lermany are dependent on and and ballast supplies rom the Rhine Valley...

JVHILE the EEC debates the viability of wider vehicles, Swedish transport interests, including the TFK Transport Research Group...

AUTOMECItANIKA 80 — the big biennial trade show held at Frankfurt — will be support by over 1200 companies, an increase of 18...

THE FIRST Scandinavian facility of its kind — a freight "hotel" offering short-term warehousing and ancillary services — is now...

SOON there will be more veteran vehicle rallies than bingo sessions. The latest addition to the nostalgic calendar is a run...

THE 19-year-old daughter of a rose grower has won a silver rose bowl and a cheque for £120 as apprentice of the year with the...

THE National Freight Corporation's twentieth hero to receive the chairman's award for valour took on four armed robbers and was...

THE 1936 Diamond-T longwheelbase three-tonner was so far ahead of its time in driver comfort and ease of maintenance that other...

WHAT would the railways do without road transport? The replica of Stephenson's Rocket had lift-off (the rails) just before the...

DETROIT Diesel Allison Divisior of General Corporation, which i! developing a gas turbine fo heavy lorries and buses, is tc...

OUTHERN British Road Serces has named one of its )ungest executives as manager I its Dunstable depot.. He is Les eaumont who...

Tyres account for 15 per cent of running costs, so DunlopS free tyre record system must make sense, as Bill Brock reports THE...