OPERATORS who are about to apply for the renewal of their 0-licence are becoming increasingly concerned over the number of...

PARCELS carrier TNT is set to increase its UK operations by around 50 per cent within the next few months, it revealed this...

THE GOVERNMENT is proposing to increase the cost of the heavy goods vehicle full licence by £2 to £7.50, and is consulting...

BP OIL is radically changing its method of own-account distribution, but has rejected the idea of contracting out deliveries at...

DRIVERS made redundant by a Transport Development Group company, McKelvie and Company, have got the Paisley branch of the...

PLANNING permission is being sought for the first motorway service station on the M25, ,Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has...

THERE is major scope for improvements in London's road network, the Freight Transport Association has told consultants studying...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's year, but its membership services come. Compared with 1983, when the disposal of surplus...

IVECO introduced a direct injection turbocharged diesel engine for its Daily van range at the Turin Motor Show this week. The...

HAULIERS running to Saudi Arabia face over 300 mobile weight statiOns carrying out spot checks to enforce new Saudi vehicle...

SEDDON ATKINSON has won its biggest single order for two years, and the biggest since it was taken over last year by Enasa, the...

SCOTTISH tipper hauliers are trying to revive the tipping group in south central Scotland which fell part five years ago in the...

THE EEC COURT of Justice has given a ruling in two test cases concerning the use of the tachograph on journeys made by hauliers...

THE IRISH Republic's doomed State-owned road haulage fleet made a profit last year and may yet be saved. Coras lompair...

A £5.64m two-year contract starts this month on improvements to the A82 trunk road on Loch Lomondside. It covers a 4.4km...

THE GOVERNMENT proposes to raise tolls for lorries using the Forth Road Bridge. It plans to raise the present 80p standard...

HANSON Transport, the familyowned Huddersfield business which shares directors with Lord Hanson's Hanson Trust, has made Rod...

UNITED Transport, the British Electronic Traction group's British and European transport holding company, has elected three of...

TWO PERSONALITIES closely connected with the Lorry Driver of the Year finals have died. Gerry Aston, who was reelected LDoY...

CHANGES at the Road Haulage Association's head office this year include the transfer of a senior officer to a regional office....

HAROLD BAGGOTT, executive chairman of Leisuremaster, the Tricentrol group coaching company which includes Tourmaster of...

APPEALS against convictions for overloading by Ron Hall International Trucking of London were adjourned at Dudley Crown Court...

LIMITS for redundancy payments, unfair dismissal compensation and statutory guarantee payments were increased from the...

ROAD transport CMR insurance "guru" Alan Donald is one of the speakers booked for a halfday CMR conference being run in London...

SEALINK UK is charging operators £33 per linear metre to carry vehicles of over 5.5ry length on its newly-introduced...

BRITAIN'S second major truck racing Grand Prix is being run this weekend at Brands Hatch in Kent. The Lucas/Truck Superprix,...

TWO of the more diverse groups within the National Freight Consortium have been merged into one, but the companies within them...

AS PART of a major sales drive in the UK fire-fighting vehicle market, Renault Truck Industries has revised its Dodge Commando...

IENERAL MOTORS' plans to further expand its European comiercial vehicle operations have received a setback with the news at the...

IVECO UK has added four 160.16 16-tonners to its parts delivery fleet operated under contract hire by BRS Northern. Each...

LIKE so many other hauliers operating 4x2 tractive units, agricultural merchant Chas Draper of South Wigston, Leicestershire...

Britain by Don-Bur under last year's loint venture agreement (CM, December 8, 1984) have been supplied to Dawsonrentals (Truck...

By Alan Millar ONLY SIX of the 12 London Buses routes put out to tender by London Regional Transport have been awarded to...

LEN WRIGHT Travel is buying a fleet of ex-London Buses DMS-type Daimler Fleetlines to operate on its LRT service. The company...

DIRECT competition between Surrey independent Tillingbourne Bus and National Bus subsidiary Alder Valley has broken out between...

MOVES to make life easier for coach drivers taking tourists around the country are being considered by the Government. Cabinet...

SALVADOR Caetano UK has added the Viana to its range of coach bodies built for British operators. The Viana has similar...

DAF, SCANIA and Metro-Cammell Weymann have done best in the shrinking market for new coaches and buses this year, Society of...

CAN someone please inform me from within the hallowed portals of Hermes House and Roadway House why there has been no unified...

I HOPE the following tale will maybe make those buyers of foreign trucks, stop and think before they part with their hard-won...

IN the issue of Commercial Motor published March 30 a news report referred to our increased profitability at the interim stage...

I READ with interest your article in CM February 9, and your advice for operators to look around when renewing insurance...

This NFC subsidiary is prospering, but first attitudes and not just structure had to change in order to restore profitability....

by Janus AT THE RISK of seeming obsessed by the gloomy subject, I intend to write once more about lorry taxation. For the...

Strathclyde PTE got in first with these flexible services and now the passengers love them. Noel Miller's got a soft spot, too,...

Revived Dumfries firm achieves 0.2m turnover. Bill Brock looks at Penman Engineering's products ALMOST 18 months ago A. C....

British Coachways was a catalyst BRITISH Coachways, a name that burst on to the coaching scene in September 1980, lasted but...

WHEN he was asked to write Bus Operators: 3, Hants and Dorset (Ian Allan; £7.95), David Fereday Glenn said it was like...

AROUND 1,000 restaurants, pubs, wine bars, bistros and country hotels, underlining the availability of good, but inexpensive,...

MODERN sales trends encourage fleet operators to base new vehicle purchases on whole-life cost rather than be swayed by the up...

IT IS DIFFICULT to realise some 20 years after the event that Lord Beeching, who died recently, was accused of being unduly...

I HAVE the utmost sympathy with train drivers who suffer long-term effects from killing people on the line, but the Criminal...

ALTHOUGH it was started in 1983 with one vehicle — a 1967 AEC Regent V — the South East Bus Collection and Preservation...

"IN THIS GAME there are no prizes for coming second or even joint first," said Dennis Benson, managing director of Multipart,...

HIS NAME recalling an early velocipede, Roger Hobby, chairman of the Road Haulage Association's National Tipping Service, is no...

GOODS vehicles are becoming more sporting by the minute. A "virtually standard" Peugeot 504 pickup truck is to be used this...

Report by David Wilcox, pictures by Peter Cramer TRUCKFEST attracted more than 70,000 people to the East of England...

T BRITAIN'S TRUCK FESTIVAL 85 Manufacturers back dealers in much expanded trade show AS A TRADE SHOW, Truckfest was much...

but, reports Bill Brock, not necessarily cheaper to operate than the petrol van MRTAIN Continental countries pffer financial...