The changing attitude of the upper echelons of the Road Haulage Association towards small operators and the membership...

sabotage' split POLICY row within the British Association of Owner Drivers threatened to split the organisation this week with...

FOLLOWING our mock CPC examination at this year's Fleet Management Conference — where the pass rate was only four per cent — CM...

WILLIAM Brunskill, former managing director of a transport company which handled major steel haulage contracts in the...

RAIL services between Iran and Pakistan were suspended this week at the request of the Iranian Government. No reasons for the...

BRITISH operators have been warned that refrigerated vehicles will not be allowed into France without proper certificates....

PUBLIC relations chief Reginald Watts warned the Road Haulage Association that it must not underestimate the ability of...

A COMMERCIAL vehicle show is to be staged by the Road Haulage Association at its Brighton conference next year, said RHA...

DRIVER . members of the Transport and General Workers Union in the West Midlands were refusing to move Ford vehicles into the...

AT A pre-Motor Show reception in London last week Lucas Industries chairman Bernard Scott detailed the involvement of Lucas CAV...

THE GOVERNMENT'S fly per cent guidelines are no coming under threat fro Britain's 10,000 road tanke drivers. They want a rise...

RF'S long-awaited new lorry lant is to be built on a site at rexham in North Wales, and hould begin to produce Vehicles early...

0.1 ADDITIONAL speed conrol hump system is proposed n Albion Street, Rotherhithe, n south-east London as part if a Transport...

)0N International has signed licensing agreement which ,ill make its brake and clutch -iction materials available in ;razil....

ON THE EVE of the International Motor Show, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders released sales figures for September...

MAGIRUS Deutz is not to merge with Fiat/Allis Ltd. This was announced this week to refute speculative comment, according to a...

Today the Show, next Friday the post-mortem. Will it live up to expectations? Has £20m been wasted? What are the customers'...

THE MOVE to make 20 seats on National Travel's White Arrow coaches available to non-smokers is being followed on all National...

FALMOUTH is making a bid to establish a ro-ro ferry terminal to take the pressure off Plymouth, and has distributed a...

ACTION is being taken by t Road Haulage Association i response to police evictions drivers from their sleeper cab This follows...

COMMERCIAL vehicle pr.( duction dropped in Augus with export productio showing a particularly shat drop. Compared with Augu...

k CAMPAIGN for a 35-hour Vorking week has been aunched by the United Road fransport Union. It sees this move as a positive...

-IUMBER McVeigh has confirmed that it is to end its transport verations from Boston, Lines, with 24 redundancies. The closure...

Why not write it? WE ARE looking for a News Assistant to replace Alan Millar who is now one of our features writers. If you...

Tasker orders £2m WORTH of orders have. been won by Craven Tasker for British trailer operators. A £0.75m order from United...

FORTY British delegates set out tomorrow on a 12-day study tour of United States and Canadian removals operators. The tour is...

NEW regulations on the lead content of petrol will bring Britain in line with EEC directive 78/611/EEC by 1981. From January...

LORRIES carrying oilrig supplies do similar work to ships' stores vehicles and should be given the same concessions from...

HESTAIR Dennis has appointed two more dealers for its new 16-ton haulage chassis — and they are both involved in haulage....

in used or sale AROUND 10 of Tate and Lyle's controversial Bedford TK lorries will feature in British Car Auctions'...

of seven 25-minute programmes on safety at work this autumn. The programmes are aimed at helping safety representatives and...

EAVIER lorries and better traffic management schemes have een called for in an official report to Energy minister Tony Benn,...

MORE SHOULD be done by councils to develop Dykes Act lorry routes, according to Transport Under Secretary John Horam. He told...

A NEW freight ferry has begun to operate on Schiaffino Ferries' Dover-Dieppe crossing. The 1,126-ton L'Aude, crewed by 14,...

Ford prices up THE £30,000 Ford is brought closer by the announcement of some of the company's 1979 prices. The range is led...

A NEW road bridge which links Tayside with the British trunk road network has attracted vociferous criticism from hauliers....

A LORRY ban in West Yorkshire is premature and unrelated to any traffic figures, according to a local Freight Transport...

GREATER London Council denied to CM this week that any part of its future roads plan is secret. A newspaper report suggested...

FURTHER damage to the Severn Bridge is not as serious as some commentators were suggesting last week. The Transport and Road...

A COMPREHENSIVE car and commercial vehicle insurance service — Freightcover — has been launched by the Freight Transport...

WEIGHT-SAVING is the major feature of a new grp cab introduced by Foden at the International Motor Show in Birmingham today....

HUMBF.RSIDE Fire Brigade has taken delivery of a rescue tender based on the Stonefield 6x4 chassis. Bigger than the Range...

FOUR electric personnelcarrying vehicles based on the Bedford CF will be operating around the NEC as demonstrators and also to...

Mack • MACK is showing a normal control 6x4 chassis at the 1978 Motor Show. It is fully equipped by Wreckers International...

A RANGE of three Sovietbuilt Kamaz commercial vehicles which have only just arrived into the country are being shown at the...

Wigan, was acquired by Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd in July of this year, is making a bid to improve its position in the...

PESCA Engineering Ltd, one of the UK's biggest suppliers of locks, makes its first appearance at this year's Motor 'Show. , The...

THE RISK of fire and toxic, fumes arising from welding and cutting operations during repairs to commercial vehicle bodies and...

a t more reliability LONDON Transport's plan to improve the efficiency of its bus services is due to come into effect next...

THOMAS Electronics of New Mills, Derbyshire, is exhibiting the latest version of its Geartron automatic gear control system at...

THE FIRST sizeable batch of Leyland National single-deckers on the secondhand market is selling well, according to a major...

EXPEDITIONS Quixote, a new British travel operation run by Twickenham Travel to operate motor expeditions for groups of up to...

No free rides WEST Midlands PTE has ruled out any suggestions of free Christmas travel on its buses. West Midlands County...

DAF has appointed Baker West of Handsworth, Birmingham as its psy dealer for the UK. Baker West will be able to supply both...

WALLACE, Arnold Tours parent company Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust has increased its pre-tax profits over the first seven...

THE LONDON based subsidiary of West German coach operator Wahl Coaches is planning to expand its fleet. Wahl at present...

SELF-Changing Gears have unveiled a new automatic gearbox designed for European markets (stand 220). The four-speed...

CUTS in Nottingham's city centre bus services have made five 1973 Leyland Nationals surplus to requirements. The services, now...

GREATER Manchester Transport is planning to put forward its own one-clause bill to Parliament to help it counteract fare...

SURREY County Council ha: published its Draft Public Transport Plan for 1979. ThE plan sets out the Council': thinking for the...

TEAMS from London Trans. port won both major trophies at the National Road Trans• port Ambulance Associatior First Aid...

LONDON'S future road pattern should be geared towards helping lorry traffic and meeting the needs of the metropolis once the...

6tvt police 1,76i1e going to work recently, a OAF 2800 truck jack-knifed when a car pulled up in front of it; this was on the...

iit 066lieuna I suppose it was predictable that those responsible for some elements of the stand fitting for the Car and...

seminar at Montreaux and in particular to the remarks made by Dr Anton Heines. He is absolutely correct. obstacles and...

five of the CM Volvo supplement, October 6, where the caption to the photo in the top right-hand corner "Volvo claims that a...

in the past, little has been written in depth specifically on the history of the Morris commercial. I am at present...

Curtain up A unique curtain-raiser to the Motor Show was staged on Sunday when 180 vintage, veteran and modern commercial...

Two years ago Hugh Gardner, who held a public inquiry into compulsory purchase orders for the Water Orton section of M42...

John Weinthal, the Australian press and public relations manager of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and his...

"I'd like to give you our flat number" is the message from a scantily-clad beauty on a 15in x 10in poster issued by the...

Bobby Lawrence, who has been a member of the National Freight Corporation since its inception 10 years ago, is very much in the...

For a year before he joined Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport Department in April, 1926, Fred Bickerton was out of work....

A hundred service stations selling dery are said now to be offering lorry drivers Green Shield stamps. The Green Shield company...

Paul Rivett has taken on a newly created post at National Carriers of group general distribution director, responsible for...

Stonefield has also taken on George Gibson of Hestair Eagle as its sales executive with responsibility for world sales to...

'WO TRENDS are evident imong the various power units in show at the NEC either on the lands of the manufacturers or nstalled in...

312 Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Ltd, Woodstock Factory, Oldham, Lancs EXHIBITED prominently on the Seddon Atkinson stand are two...

WITH ONLY a few months to run before the end of its exclusive contract for the supply of bus chassis to the British market with...

Andy Thorns looks at prospects for CV sales in Europe during the next 10 years LANNING a new vehicle model or a complete range...

single-door 73-seater version in the colours of Greater Manchester Transport. Both feature the slightly revised production...

WHEN FORD introduced the H-series or Transcontinental range of heavy trucks, many people regarded it as a strange departure for...

ON JUNE 30 we published a full list of exhibitors and their stand numbers for the 700 stands which will appear at the NEC...

26 1otor Panels (Coventry) Ltd, albrook Lane, Coventry HE LATEST development from lotor Panels is aimed at the 7 to 6-ton-gvw...

by CM Technical writers COMPETITION grows no easier for the accessory and component manufacturers, but at least the operator...

INSPITE of the well-documented plans of the Worshipful Company of Carmen, there are people who insist that the hippies, or...

345 Cargo Van Equipment Ltd. PO Box 17, Bridgend Industrial Estate, Bridgend, MidGlamorgan, Wales THIS is the first time that...

332 Chrysler UK Ltd, PO Box 46 London Road, Ryton on Dunsmore, Coventry IN ADDITION to having three light vehicles on its own...

356 Peugeot Automobiles SA Peugeot House, 333 Western Avenue, London W3 DEUGEOT is yet another French manufacturer trying to...

Ron Douglas returns this week with a scathil criticism of the tachograph and a plea f maintaining flexibility WHILE the...