EEC counterparts of "inching" its way towards metrication. For 20 years, the same could be said of the entire community's...

WAS there ever a time when more interest was shown in light vehicles? In the up to 7.5-tonne sector, 27 manufacturers from...

ctivities in Britain and Rest period argument :urope. 4 holds up hours deal by our Brussels correspondent AN EEC DEAL on...

OPERATORS should enjoy a summer and autumn of dery price stability, the major oil companies told CM. A spokesman from one...

EUROPEAN MPs won a partial victory last week in their historic legal battle at the European Court of Justice aimed at spurring...

byJackSemple THE WORLD'S biggest express parcels carrier is stepping up its activities in Britain and Europe, in a move which...

TALKS continue next week to try to avert strike action by Lex Wilkinson's workforce, following the parcels company's demand...

BRITISH lorries are by E the most heavily taxed i Europe, according to figura just published by the Roa Haulage Association....

DRR1ES and coaches crossg the Severn Bridge will ive to pay El a time from ne 23, Transport Minister ynda Chalker has...

iwer weights? )AD-USE pricing for lors is advocated by Stephen iwclen in Transport Reform: anging the Rules, published the...

DAF TRUCKS is to revise its 16-ton gvw rigid range in 1985 to make it more attractive to UK operators, although any plans to...

SHADOW Transport Secretary Gwyneth Dunwoody has protested angrily to the Advertising Standards Authority about a Leyland...

A STRONG CALL for "radical and immediate changes" within the British Association of Removers emerged at its conference in...

ALTHOUGH 36 local residents failed to block the renewal of the three-vehicle licence held by Andrew Cunningham (South Wales),...

WINCANTON Vehicle Rentals moves its Avonmouth premises on June 22 to Fifth Way. It has already moved its Southampton premises...

A LICENSING Authority has moved to protect residents from the possibility of an operator hiring in more vehicles if his...

A FAINT possibility that the Government may be prepared to support the Road Haulage Association's campaign for Post Office...

AN EXPRESS import servic from western Austria to Lot: don has just started whic claims to be as fast, or fastei than airfreight...

OFFERS to buy the sha capital of MacBrayn Haulage, the Scottish Higi land and Island haulier beir sold by the Governmei (CM,...

LEYLAND looks set to tal over the sponsorship of ti Lorry Driver of the Ye; national final, which is bein held at Silverstone...

THE PUBLIC inquiry in' the Department of Tran port's plan for an East Loi don River Crossing starts Woolwich Town Hall c...

PROMOTED to' company engineer for Pickfords Removals is former divisional engineer John Dixon. Mr Dixon is responsible for the...

THE NEWLY-formed London haulier Tract° has appointed Fred Barnard as area manager at its operating centre in Warley, Essex. Mr...

FELIXSTOWE haulier Russell Davies has made a number of senior management appointments as part of a restructuring exercise in...

DENNIS HUTCHINGS has been re-elected President of the Freight Transport Association for 1985/86. Mr Hutchings is group...

LORD DONNET of Bal gay, Scottish Transpol Group chairman from 1978 t 1980, has died aged 68. As Alex Donnet, he w.z chairman...

ABELS of East Anglia, tl Norfolk-based furniture r movals specialist, has elevatt Philip Pertoldi to its ma board of...

RANSFLEET Services is :ing prosecuted for running lorry without an operator's :ence. The case, which is being ought by the...

HE RECENTLY set-up overnment studies into how solve environmental probms caused by lorries are unkely to find a "magic...

A PRESS outcry about an overloaded lorry carrying nuclear material resulted from the French haulier's ignorance of British...

AN OWNER DRIVER who admitted driving excessive hours delivering coal during the miners' strike has been ordered to pay fines...

EVEN though a haulier said there would be a reduction in lorry traffic, environmental representations have led to the refusal...

RULES in force from today mean that new employees are prevented from lodging unfair dismissal claims with industrial tribunals...

AN 18,000sqft warehouse and depot for Norfolk-based Abels, the furniture removals specialist, was opened in Huntingdon last...

FREIGI [TUNERS, British Rail's container subsidiary, is developing its European business and has appointed agents for France...

THERE will be delays on some Sundays in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham because of the closure of Movers Lane...

SCOTTISH mechanic James Kidd did his best to keep a fleet of ageing vehicles on the road for his delivery firm. But when the...

IVECO UK is to end it sponsorship of Watfor Football Club when th 1984/85 season closes in July.

7FIE LINKING of the M3 nd the M27 is a high Govmment priority, Transport .ecretary Nicholas Ridley said viten he opened the...

INTERNATIONAL hauliers can now use a new viewdata system to collect backloads from the Continent. Operators who subscribe to...

TOWNSEND Thoresen is spending .00m in the next year to double its freight carrying capacity on four cross-Channel ships. To...

THE SCOTTISH road haulage industry will not benefit from the iAin handout that the Government is giving to commercial...

RUNCORN Transport Services made its facilities available to its local fire service last week to help it practise with its new...

JUST OVER 100 Leyland Landtrains are being delivered to Nigeria in a £4.3m export order. Aproflm (UK), a building and...

DAF TRUCKS has opened a 1500,000 premises at the Acorn Industrial Park, Crayford, Kent — the first purpose-built main dealer...

ALL BUT TWO manufacturers are co-operating with the Road Haulage Association in a new survey of operators' needs for 38-tonne...

WEIGHTWISE of Durham has developed an in-cab computer to provide drivers with an accurate method of determ ining individual...

MAINTENANCE times for plant, machinery and light and medium weight vehicles can be reduced using a one shot lubrication system...

TWO BRITISH vehich manufacturers have established new dealerships ir Dorset and south-west Wales. Bedford has appointee...

[EARLY 3,000 apprentice agineers entered the Moore ad Wright sponsored "Best I British" engineering trainee dils .competition...

HE 1985 edition of the .thicle Builders and Repairs' Association membership rectory is now available MI its Gildersome, Leeds...

ATLAS Hydraulic Loaders believes that it will become market leader in the sales of hydraulic loaders with the introduction of...

A PARTNERSHIP with no other business apart from the operation of public service vehicles is not entitled to a restricted psv...

COACH and bus operators, this could be the year that your livery wins the ultimate accolade of an award in CM's respected...

MIDLAND RED South has introduced an open top tourist service linking Coventry, Stoneleigh, Warwick and Kenilworth. The new...

by our Parliamentary correspondent THE CONTROVERSIAL Transport Bill has finally left the Commons after nearly four months and...

BRITAIN has told Thailan that it will match an unex pected offer of financial ai from Belgium, which v■i offered to support Van...

DAF BUS has bodied the first prototype of its new SB220 rear-engined single deck bus chassis which was announced at the...

by Noel Millier LONDON Regional Transport's bus operating subsidiary, London Buses, is encouraging its staff to develop new...

NEW RULES governing the laden weight of buses and coaches have been laid before Parliament. The regulations change the way in...

LOWERING of the cetane value of dery will increase noise and smoke emission, industry tests have proved. The tests conducted...

VEG has introduced an air operated power actuator for drawbar couplings. It is expected to appeal mainly to operators who freq...

AS PART of the Government-sponsored QIIV90 quiet heavy vehicle research programme, the National Engineering Laboratory at East...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport intends to clarify the rules governing the length and width of containers, swap bodies and...

R OAD-USE pricing for lorries is advocated by Stephen Plowden in Transport Reform: Changing the Rules, published by the Policy...

KEEP UP THE MOMENTUM TO all thinking, caring people it must surely be very distressing to hear once again that there are...

DOES THE SERVICE MATCH THE SALES TALK? Our test of 10 next-day delivery parcels services this year was designed to stretch...

We used 10 carriers with nationwide networks to make our test as widely applicable as possible. Taking last year's 10 as a...

Having picked our 10 carriers we rang their respective head offices to find the telephone number of their depots nearest...

Having despatched all 10 parcels from Hitchin we were waiting in Dundee first thing the next morning to receive them. First to...

Guaranteed next-day delivery from Hitchin to Dundee is not the simplest parcels job, but nor is it the most difficult. We could...

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

i S the ever-growing popularity of vintage and veteran vehicle events, recalling a more spacious era, a protest against modern...

Good news from the Chamber of Trade on accepting booked deliveries. Now the RHA express parcels group takes on the Post Office....

SOUNDING OFF AT NOISE LEGISLATION The engineers were given figures from Continental investigations which mean that costify...

Ray Smith Demountable's Contar drawbar system is giving a Manchester distribution business greater flexibility. David Wilcox...

HIGH-VOLUME VAN The high-roof Bremen van in its diesel engined form is likely to appeal more to the fleet buyer than the small...

SALES TRAIL Thc local product may not be a lot to write home about, but the Americans are fiercely patriotic in their buying...

Scabourne Express's pledge is direct delivery to the near Continent within 24 hours, and double your money back if it fails —...