SCOTTISH hauliers have done it again. They are the first to reach a wage agreement with the Transport and General Workers Union...

LONDON POLICE are investigating the affairs of a company which has been trying to recruit British One of the directors of the...

THANK YOU CM readers, your response to our "Send a Spare" Ethiopian appeal has been immediate and generous. Our appeal to...

THERE IS NO PLAN for a massive don, Transport Secretary Nicholas He was attempting to refute Greater London Council claims to...

HAULIERS will be called in very soon to move millions of tonnes of coal from pit heads to power stations, National Coal Board...

FREIGHTPOINT, the distribution service launched by British Rail subsidiary Freightliner in April last year, has since recorded...

THE UK's second combined public works and international construction equipment exhibition, ICE 84, was officially opened on...

SEVERAL Japanese van importers and distributors are still smarting from an advertisement for the Volkswagen Transporter which...

THE IMPORTANCE of ensuring that tippers engaged in heavy work receive more preventive maintenance than other vehicles was...

SEVERAL new ideas for spray suppression are still being discussed, even although the Department of Transport has decided the...

BOB BECKHAM, former managing director of SPD Distribution and Freight Transport Association president from 1974 to 1976, died...

THE VARIETY Club of Great Britain has elected John Ratcliff, chairman of the Ratcliff Group which manufactures commercial...

KENNETH HOLT, who was formerly Greater Manchester Transport's west area general manager, has died aged 62. He was with...

JAMES WEST, one of Fife's best 73. Mr West was born and brought up in Dunfermline, where he joined his father's firm, David...

GRADUATE of BRS Northern's management development programme, Mike Wilcock, has been appointed manager of its Humberside branch....

UNILEVER's last remaining British transport company looks poised to be sold soon. Norfolk Line, the Dutch-based unaccompanied...

A NEW five-vehicle licence was granted to Bailey Brothers of Walsall by West Midlands Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson...

A SERIES of convictions which against Leamington Spa haulier his 10-vehicle licence being cut next May instead of in 1988. Mr...

TOWNSEND Thoresen's crossChannel freight capacity will be increased substantially by June 1986 when four of its vessels are...

OWING to a printer's error in last week's issue, pages 51 and 52 were transposed. Similarly, two errors appeared in the same...

FOUR MORE exemption certificates have been issued by the Health and Safety Executive, one of them the first to be issued under...

from the requirements of Regulation Seven if they have been tested and plated in accordance with the European ADR convention,...

LEYLAND Trucks and Lucas Electrical were joint runners-up in this year's Willis Faber Manufacturing Effectiveness award (CM,...

THE diesel engine manufacturing business continues to suffer from a 30 per cent worldwide over capacity according to Ray...

A robot assembly line for cylinder heads, which costs around Elm is in the final stage of commissioning. An automated component...

ASSOCIATED DAIRIES has specified the Maxaret MDR microprocessor controlled antiskid braking system for a current order for 24...

THROUGH a series of "content" conferences, arranged in conjunction with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Daf...

LEYLAND Trucks has introduced a new extended warranty scheme, called Warrantyplus. It covers parts and labour costs on engine,...

ISAAC AGNEW Distribution, has been appointed MAN-VW truck distributor and dealer for Northern Ireland. Its sales, service and...

LIVESTOCK transporter Peter Gilder and Sons asked Reid Brothers Truck Fabrications of Cradley Heath to convert its Scania 112...

STRONG OPPOSITION from the Bus and Coach Council and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has failed to stop...

PUBLIC bus services Strathclyde are heading for "disaster", with wholesale redundancies under the Government's privatisation...

SURREY-based Tillingbourne Bus Company general manager Barry King and traffic manager George Burnett — themselves poised to...

BUSINESS Press International in conjunction with CM is sponsoring the first ever International Bus and Coach Exhibition at...

The modifications were carried out as a result of findings by a working party consisting of operator officials and trade union...

AGENCY and voluntary transport resources in the Penwith District Council area of Cornwall are to be the subject of an action...

POWER TRAIN Engineering of Wolverhampton and Commercial Vehicle Components of Sittingbourne has been ordered to pay £1,407.14...

VOLVO HAS redesigned its service guide for coach drivers this year. The standard book format has been replaced by a new-look...

THE purchase of SPD by the National Freight consortium has not been the only significant change in the third party distribution...

GOLDEN handshakes of up to £33,155 are being given to the Greater London Council's six Labour appointees whose fiveyear...

TWO French lorry drivers delivering Beaujolais Nouveau to Britain looked on the wine when it was red and arrived in Dover...

DAYS OF one-eyed "Diddlers',. steam wagons and petroldriven lorries are recalled in the latest publication to exploit the...

DUNLOP, a co-sponsor of the dustmen's derby, is making another appeal to Britain's sporting instincts. The 1985 calender...

THE PIRELLI calendar, first created in 1964, suspended in 1974 when ideas ran out and revived last year, concentrates on a...

ALL POWER to the elbows of two former Scottish miners who have used their generous redundancy payments from the National Coal...

BEN (the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund) is campaigning for the right to recover vat that some local authorities and...

I CONSIDER your reply to Mr Geekie's letter (CM, November 17) arrogant in its style, and inaccurate in content. It is obvious...

CAN ANYONE answer four questions? The first is: why, after I legally spend £400 on taking my Class 1 hgv driving test — and...

I HAVE just finished reading the article by transport consultant Terry Palmer (CM, November 17), and I feel that I must write...

DRUMMONDS GREW BY THINKING SMALL GENERAL HAULAGE in the West of Scotland has taken a hammering over the past five years with...

COMPETITIVE tendering to get the best value for money in rural bus services is in the news at the moment. It is a lynchpin of...

If you've seen the TV commercial for the Roadrunner you'll know Leyland have proved that their new 7.5 tonne truck can take a...

FEW Scottish farmers are becoming grain mountain millionaires. True, the dazzling yellow oil rape has made an appearance in...

just a little bit odd, and even more snooty than those from Edinburgh. They say in Scotland, "It takes a long spoon to sup with...

HINDSIGHT makes it very easy for an uncharitable observer to heap scorn on countless bad decisions taken in the past by...

Hand washing by robots AN AUTOMATIC programmable chassis washing system designed for easy installation, operation and...

WIPAC has _redesigned its UniLite lamp range to give a greater spread of light 'at front and side. The lamps have...

THE MINIMIG 180C is a low cost, compact, semi-automatic welding machine from Lincoln Electric. It joins and repairs sheet steel...

IN NORTH America, Ford and other truck makers have beaten off competition from the Japanese and have carved out a slice of a...