Tlw reason for the fatalities was given, quite simply, as excessive speed in fog. Earlier this week, no less than 120 vehicles...

NOW that it is clear that twin-steer tractive units for 38 tonnes GCW are here to stay, some manufacturers have begun to tailor...

POST OFFICE advertisements on television offering a substantial free test of its Royal Mail parcels service have "astonished"...

RENAULT Truck Industries' determination to increase the production and sales of its heavy coin inercial vehicles in Britain is...

THE COURT of Appeal has reserved judgment on whether the London lorry ban will go ahead as planned on December 16 — and...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S season of Roadshows got off to a flying start at the Dragonara Hotel, Leeds, last week. A small, but lively...

TRUCK RACING'S first full season ended in a frantic fiasco at Monza, Italy, last weekend, when the European Grand Prix was...

DERV PRICES rose again last week, but operators are probably paying only slightly more now than they were at the beginning of...

COMMERCIAL vehicle registrations last month were up by 27.4 per cent on September 1984, and over 3.5 tonnes the rise was by...

PARCELS CARRIER ANC is studying the feasibility of entering the contract hire market. A smaller company already in the market...

THREE Preston hauliers' leaving and when an empty joint bid to move to a new bulk trailer was entering the operating centre has...

MORE POWER station coal will go by road, if the Central Electricity Generating Board has its way. As a South Yorkshire council...

111L DEPARTMENT of Transport has been accused of making a mistake when it banned a haulier from pulling loaded and unloaded...

LES TAYLOR has been named managing director of the Wadham Stringer Group. Taylor joined the company in 1964 and became...

BOB ARNOLD has joined Lowfield Distribution as personnel manager. He was formerly with CPC United Kingdom as employee relations...

THE POST OFFICE has reorganised its transport control team to strengthen the Royal Mail operation involving 27,000 vehicles,...

RICHARD EVANS has joined the Transport Tribunal as full-time secretary. His move is in preparation for a greater number of...

ALAN SPILLETT is general manager, Midlands, for Wincanton Transport at its Darlaston depot. Spillett joined Wincanton 18...

H. WOODWARD AND SON has formed a subsidiary — Woodward's Contract Hire. Terry Rimington has joined as operations director...

THE PROPOSED Euroroute road/rail combined Channel bridge and tunnel could be closed to high-sided vehicles for six days a year,...

t. CSTOMS Dover will be a thing of the past by next summer, according to the HM C.:ustonis and Excise collector for 1)over....

RO-R0 trailer traffic returned ro Tilbury this week with the resumption of daily sailings to Zeebrugge by Searoads Ferries, a...

A NEW RO-R() service between Felixstowe and Emden, Northern Germany, has started with twice weekly sailings each way. It is...

HOVERSPEED has agreed discounted rates for light to medium sized commercials and cars with ROADS the haulier-owned co-operative...

A STUDY into \.va,■..s in which modern computer techniques can be used to improve road safety has been initiated by the EEC...

LEX WILKINSON is to expand its nominated carrier scheme with Coventry agricultural tractor maker Massey Ferguson. Such...

PROPOSED toll increases on the Humber Bridge will be insignificant to commercial vehicle operators, according to the Freight...

PARCELS CARRIER TNT is smarting from its lost chance of delivering Eddy Shah's new newspaper and Shah himself is setting up a...

THE LA . 1EST stage of a 1:21 million plan to upgrade Arg,y11 Stores' distribution network was completed last week when...

TRANSPORT 2000, the public transport pressure group, says National Bus Company. chairman Robert Brook and Transport Secretary...

1HE ESSEX-based Ensign Bus Company is to take over London Pride Sightseeing from Monday, October 28, and coinbine its...

OPTARE has delivered its first double-deck bus bodies to West Yorkshire PTE. The first three arc coachseated Leyland...

MUCH of East Sussex County Council's transport co-ordinating team has privatised itself and sold its services back to the...

DEREGULATION of the bus industry is to be delayed for a month or so, following pressure from local authorities and operators...

talks go on '[HE GOVERNMENT and the National Bus Company are still at loggerheads over what to do with the NBC's pension...

GREATER Manchester Transport has backed down from a licensing battle over plans by a minibus operator, Citibus Tours, to run...

THE FALL in new bus and coach registrations is now running at 25.5 per cent of last year's figures, according to the Society of...

SOME of Britain's best known operators of high specification coaches have established a commercially oriented Guild of British...

11513 SALES of Long Whatton, Loughborough, is UK sales agent for West German Drognniller integral coaches. 1)513 has ordered a...

CLAYTON JONES of Pontypridd has deferred the introduction of minibus services in the South Wales town because 'FaIT Ely Borough...

FREIGHT ROVER is currently evaluating the joint Austin Rover-Perkins twolitre direct-injection diesel engine, which is to be...

THE INSTITUTE of Road Transport Engineers last week celebrated its 40th anniversary. Speaking at a lunch in London, former...

by Tim Blakemore WHITBREAD has offered to put its controversial 38-tonne tractive unit from the Gordon Goddard fuel economy...

SOUND Attenuators of Colchester is ready to offer a stake in its subsidiary company, Contranoise, in return for further funding...

THE MERCEDES-Benz 16 17CK with Atlas skip loader described in CM last week has not been sold to Harvey's as we reported. It is...

MERCEDES-BENZ will introduce three new 13-tonne rigids and a 30-tonne eightwheeler chassis into the UK next month in time for...

YORK TRUCK EQUIPMENT is now offering an all-makes trailer maintenance scheme called Transplan which is designed to reduce...

RATCL1FF Tail Lifts has introduced a 'Quiet Kit' option for operators who want to reduce the noise of their tail-lifts.

TRANSMOD Engineering of Corby has devised a Fastfit bolt-on spray suppression system which is to be marketed through Monsanto...

THE OPTION of a glass reinforced plastic Truckman Top, produced by Walkers of Watford, is now available on Dacia Duster 4x4 and...

NISSAN and Mitsubishi will be launching new pickups in 1986. The Nissan models will be introduced around July and will replace...

for distribution work ONE OF the most sophisticated new semi-trailers in the country was a major attraction at the...

of running on alternate years and is to he held again in 1986. It will be run alongside a new show aimed at the shipping and...

A COMPUTERISED traffic planning aid to replace traditional pigeon-holing has been introduced. It is called Swift and comes...

A NEW CANTILEVER taillift that can descend vertically and then tuck tinder the chassis has been introduced by Joloda Loading...

SiDEGUARDS that hinge up to give better access to chassis-mounted components are now standard Fitments on Lawrence David...

AS ONE whose transport responsibilities do not extend beyond the byways of Dorset 1 have not lived with the frustrations...

I FEEL the remarks by Bird's-Eye View on farcical marshalling at the Brewery Transport Advisory Committee fuel economy trial at...

I MUST point out a number of errors in your Frankfurt Show report of the Ford Econovan (CM, September 21). While it is true...

CAN I say well done to Mr Bill Daniel for his bid to convert fellow hauliers to buy British? (CM, October 5). But Bill himself...

time you see a lorry, smile at the driver. It will be a nice change for him." The letter was from Frank Lewsey, known to many...

Sally Line man asked a Euroroute Channel link man last week how unaccompanied freight would he moved. The answer, quite...

Africa, passed through London last week on their way to compete in the driving championships run by the Union Internationale...

this winter yet? If you have, you're out of date. What you should have put in, according to the British Standards Institution,...

Foden's S104T fitted with Gardner's 15.5-litre engine combines light weight with hill-climbing ability of a high order and...

SELF-HELP is a common thread running through the topics covered at this week's CM Fleet Management Conference held in London on...

F OPERATORS settle out of court / their environmental differences with residents and planning authorities opposed to operator...

Richard Graham A S THE TRANSPORT industry becomes more customer conscious and cost conscious, the management and specification...

Dennis Boyd Ai ULTI-EMPLOYER wage bargaining is likely to survive in labour intensive, small firmdominated and highly...

Since the American Paccar corporation rescued Foden from receivership in 1980, the Sandbach company has specialised in building...

A strong reputation for small diesel engines has helped Peugeot Talbot to become the top importer of light commercial vehicles....

Productivity is up with new-generation buses and better facilities for passengers. This is one PTE, writes Noel Miflier , that...

In less than two years Land Rover has undergone a major programme of rationalisation which has helped it to convert losses into...

The latest Maxarct anti-lock braking system is hardly state-of-the-art. But that is quite intentional. Tim Blakemore explains...

ROAD I Iaulage Association delegates setting out for the Algarve this weekend for next week's Conference — French air traffic...

N OW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the Certificate of Professional...