SUPPORT is growing in Europe for the extension of the driving day from eight to nine hours. There seems to be very little...

PRELIMINARY discussions in Brussels over the EEC Commission's proposals for more flexible rules on hours and the tachograph...

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board's Motec training centres have been granted a stay of execution, provided they work...

HAULIERS who have made maximum use of their existing West German permit allocation are being given special consideration with...

INTENSIFIED industrial action could be on the cards at Roadline UK from next month, if the current wages dispute with the...

LEX SERVICE Group, which includes Bees Transport, Carpet Express and Lex Wilkinson, is to pay its employees in Britain 000,000...

THE HAULAGE industry could be plunged into the heart of the miners' dispute this weekend, if two Gloucestershire hauliers' bid...

BRITISH Conservative MEP Christopher Prout has condemned delays in getting compensation for British transport operators whose...

DAF TRUCKS has now officially announced its joint development of a new cab with Spanish manufacturer Enasa. As reported in...

THE NEW HIRE or reward hgv drivers' card was at the centre of a stormy meeting of Transport and General Workers' Union regional...

THE OLLIS GROUP is to take over Guest Road Services later this month as part of its expansion policy. Guest operations will...

COURIER EXPRESS is offering a door-to-door delivery service to over 100 countries, with transit times between one to three days...

PARTS DELIVERIES direct to service engineers' homes are being considered by electrical giant Thorn EMI to improve efficiency...

HEAVY GOODS vehicles in use in 1985 could reach similar proportions to the pre-recession figures of 1979, according to the...

NO ACTION other than to terminate in 18 months' time the licence held by Peter Bacon Road Haulage, of King's Lynn, was taken by...

FLEETCARE, the National Freight Consortium's automotive care and maintenance subsidiary, has a new managing director. He is...

LONDON CRUSADER, the National Bus Company's coach broicing and marketing business in the capital, has strengthened its sales...

TWO COMMERCIAL managers join the National Express division of the National Bus Company on May 1. This completes a...

GEORGE NEWMAN, the Road Haulage Association's directorgeneral until his retirement in 1981, has died aged 66. He was an Oxford...

LEX WILKINSON has established a next-day delivery service to the Channel Islands, with collection throughout the United...

A PROMINENT West Yorkshire haulage business, J. B. Midgley, has been taken over by Archbold Holdings as part of Archbold's...

A REVISED trunk road map is available from the Department of Transprt, showing the British network and planned extensions as at...

KAMMAC TRUCKING is being recalled to public inquiry on May 15 by North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings. The grounds...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association, in conjunction with the Local Government Training Board, has arranged a series of seminars...

AN INTERNAL ferry service is planned between Kirkwall. Westray and Scalloway in Shetland, twice weekly to begin work in time...

AN ADVANCED design of S-cam brake from Leyland Trucks will have its first showing at the Institute of Road Transport Engineers...

TWO NEW WHEELBASES — 3,580mm (141in) and 6,606mm (238.61n) have been added to Leyland's 16-ton gvw Freighter range, and a new...

CRAVEN TASKER has won an order from a major Middle East defence force to supply 43 high mobility, semi-trailers in mixed...

IMMEDIATE INDICATION of a fault in a refrigerated or temperature controlled vehicle is provided for the driver by a new digital...

IVECO'S SOFIM plant in Foggia. Italy, has produced its 500,000th 2.5-litre 5 1.5kW (6 9bhp) naturally aspirated diesel engine,...

SPECIALIST vehicle bodybuilder Locomotors of Andover has built a three-way entry refrigerated body based on a Ford 0811 Cargo...

NATIONAL TRAVEL coach operating subsidiaries of the National Bus Company are to be reorganised into specialised coach units...

TRATHENS COACHES of Plymouth has taken delivery of what it believes is the ultimate pop group touring coach. Its Sta rider...

DUNNETT'S Motors of Keiss was granted an extension to its existing stage services from Caithness to Inverness at a hearing in...

The first vehicle is one of 15 being built to Rapide specification and is fitted with 73 reclining seats, toilet, servery and...

LEYLAND BUS remains the principal supplier to the Scottish Bus Group, taking 54 per cent of its 1984/85 order for new vehicles....

the new voluntary code of conduct on coach speeds drawn up by the Bus and Coach Council in collaboration with Transport...

from the defunct Ward Motors plant at Shepley near Huddersfield have now been collected by the Greater London Enterprise Board...

WELCOME BREAK, the motorway catering company formerly known as Motoross, has launched a Welcome Break top coach driver award....

(see p3) and its attendant deliberations on the future of the Livingston and High Ercall Motecs has assured one of the...

I NOTICED in Commercial Motor's Coach & Bus News of March 24 that the DTp Permanent Secretary, Mr Lazarus, told the House of...

IF WE are to have a safety year, let's hope it has a firmer basis than the initial outpourings suggest. All road accidents...

I ALSO share the sentiments of your correspondents Mr Mike Taylor (CM March 24) and Mr B. P. Palmer of Palmer Freight (CM April...

I WAS pleased to see my six-axle combination featured in Commercial Motor, March 2, but somewhat upset to be branded as a tax...

YOUR EXCELLENT Engineer's Notebook of March 24 dealing with fuel economy mentions our work on axles, ratios and fuel efficiency...

Coach of the year was a surprise decision at this year's major get-together. Noel Millier reports on the weekend's events...

Short routes and journeys plus the desire for robust simplicity led the municipal undertaking in this town to forgo a second...

(210 miles) circuit the G12 with its 7.35 tonne payload produced a similarly workmanlike performance. Powered by the same...

Low rates, low trade, low hopes. This sums up the feeling of hauliers in the beleaguered North East of England. The only...

THERE have been complaints of telephone tapping by the police in Much Griping. Fred Grass, the local coach operator, said that...

"COLD TABLE" took on a new meaning at a banquet held in a railway tunnel under construction at Heathrow Airport. A crane...

NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Transport Secretary, believes that bus operators regard transport as an activity for their sole benefit. The...

AS PART of its campaign to keep out lorries, the Greater London Council is giving British Rail £115,000 to help to develop and...

LONDON TRANSPORT'S representatives, clearly cobblers' children, were the last guests to arrive at the opening of Wincanton...

In this the second instalment of our coverage of the IFSSEC exhibition on fire, security and safety, Tim Cobb reports on how...

Young's the name and so are the vehicles at this very successful operation. Tippers are replaced after three years, which has...

We reproduce here the British Road Federation's study of the state of road planning in the Tyne and Wear area TYNE AND WEAR...

After struggling to survive ANC (Tyne and Wear) now has over 150 customers and a E1/4m turnover. Jack Semple has been to see...

'WHAT about tax, then?" asked vlaggie's brother Cromwell. I tried evasion. "You mean the 11/ programme Brass Tacks?"I isked...