UNLESS they are prepared to have fisticuff confrontations between their farmers and foreign lorry drivers, the French...

THE BRITISH TRANSPORT industry is pressing for firm assurances that there will be no repeat of the incidents last week in which...

AULIERS are unlikely to b late in the event of hijac ch as those last we ccording to the Freight ansport Association, While the...

ROAD CASUALTIES in the third quarter of 1983 are estimated to be nine per cent lower than a year ago, according to provisional...

THE CONFEDERATION of British Industry has asked Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson to introduce a Budget that will...

LAST YEAR was the worst on record for business failures in the motor trade, according to business information company Dun and...

THE PORT of Felixstowe has published the 1984 edition of its handbook, detailing shipping services using the Suffolk port,...

THE RAI Commercial Motor Show is being held in Amsterdam from February 9-18 at the RAI International Exhibition and Congress...

HAULIERS reacted angrily this week to the latest round of increases In dery prices, which followed an unfavourable change in...

THE ROAD BUILDING programme is to get extra cash in the years ahead, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has pledged. He told...

At peak traffic times there were lane closures on one day in four, she said. The periodic lane closures were on top of the...

WAGE RISES of E5.50 on basic rates look like being agreed for most of the areas in which haulage drivers have still to settle...

Philip Biddlecombe Graham Lyall Les Snelsen NATIONAL CARRIERS Contract Services has made four promotions; two are...

NORMAN KAY, South Yorkshire PTE's director-general, has retired after 11 years' service. Norman Kay was responsible for SYPTE...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Jack Sankey, engineering manager with United Glass road transport subsidiary United...

RALPH ATKINSON has been promoted to branch engineer at BRS Midlands' Mortons branch in Coventry. He will be responsible for...

He is a qualified mechanical engineer and has six years' experience in selling cars and light commercial vehicles. Mr Beckers...

BAR DELIVERY Services, the jointly owned Whitbread/BRS Southern brewery distribution company, has taken on two operations...

COURSES on transport law and on tachograph uses and abuses are being run this year by the Freight Transport Association and...

METROPOLITAN VEHICLES has taken over the Ryland Group's Seddon Atkinson parts and service operation at Edgware Road, North-West...

THE RESPONSIBILITY of a transport manager for the operation of his or her vehicles is not necessarily a full-time job, the...

A MAJOR sales effort is being made by Econofreight to boost its general haulage business as part of a restructure into three...

AN ANGLO-IRISH consultants' report is expected to be published soon, detailing options for the upgrading of the Belfast-Dublin...

PARCEL CARRIER B. Davis Express Services has opened a new depot at Leicester, providing daily services to the East and West...

GENERAL ROAD accident figures in Wales are down for the first six months of 1983 compared with the same period of 1982. Heavy...

BRS SOUTHERN has moved part of its East London operation from Silvertown to Chadwell Heath. The new premises, handling...

FREIGHT FORWARDER Unispeed International has introduced round-the-clock working at its Dover base, and is looking for a new...

DESPITE arguments that the double weighing of articulated vehicles on conventional weighbridges was inaccurate, Norwich haulier...

A TRIAL SCHEME to provide a roundabout at the Liverpool mouth of the Birkenhead Tunnel could become a permanent arrangement if...

THE NEW £4m Garston by-pass on Merseyside, which will improve road communications with Garston Docks and the Freightliner Depot...

FIVE FIRMS, all sabsidiaries of clesfield, have won permission depot on Sundays. The firms appealed to magistrates to overturn...

CHRISTIAN SALVESEN has installed five Becker electro-hydraulic dock levellers at its recently opened Bury depot. The order...

DRIED-FRUIT packer Whitworths, has bought two ERF M16 16-tonners for its trunking and distribution work. The vehicles are...

SOUTH EASTERN Electricity Board has moved over to chassismounted cantilever tail-lifts for its latest distribution vehicles....

BIRDS EYE WALUs has specified Concargo Permacold insulated glass reinforced panels for its latest four-tonne payload...

FABER PREST HOLDINGS has set up Municipal Vehicle Equipment as an associate company to manufacture and market refuse collection...

BULKERPART has supplied pneumatic discharge equipment on a left-hand drive Daf 2300 6x2 for Belgian coal and heating oil...

AN AMERICAN-MADE heavy-duty air filter which is claimed to be capable of extending filter life by as much as five times has...

A BOLD new look for one of National Bus's most enterprising subsidiaries is part of its latest drive for new business. Midland...

INDEPENDENTS would lose out in National Bus Company proposals to Surrey County Council, which have been made to counter the...

IN A NOVEL attempt to win new business for its services, Cornwall Express (Western National's Cornish coaching business) is...

THE BUS and Coach Council produced evidence of money owed to various coach operators and hotels by Shaw's Coaches of Barnsley...

OBJECTORS' appeals against an independent's licence for a Glasgow commuter coach service have been rejected by former Transport...

PUBLIC SAFETY would be endangered if the Associated Minibus Operators (Amos) proposals for London minibus services are...

GROWING private hire and touring work PTE's revenue support bill in 1982/83. The total support bill for the PTE's 1,300 buses...

UNDER-USED railway lines could be converted where appropriate to all-purpose or limited access roads or coachways, suggests...

A COMPANY "on the fringe" of bus manufacturing is among three serious contenders to buy the Ward Motors business from its...

BRITISH electronic company Dowty Electronics has launched a new public transport information and control system. The system,...

ENCOURAGED by the sale of more than 25 lorries as the result of its success in last year's Le Mans speed event, Leyland...

MAN-VW's British management certainly believes in hedging its bets. In an advertisement for a strengthened force of salesmen...

IN THE 25 years to last March motorists stuffed £133.45m into parking meters but the parking problem, which often necessitates...

BY A PLOY combining ingredients of "Jim'll Fix It" and "This Is Your Life," Mrs Jacqueline Metcalf was lured about 100 miles...

A 1905 MILNES DAIMLER 34seat double-decker, with much of the body expensively restored but sadly deficient in mechanical parts,...

WHEN is an accident not an accident? Frequently, according to the Kent county police in an exercise in semantics that...

WHEN FARES rise we mutter, moan and pay up. Citizens of Mdantsane in Bantustan are slightly more resistant. They boycotted the...

I WAS VERY interested to read the article "A consuming passion for the fuel facts" on the work of the Transport and Road...

AN ASSOCIATE recently back from the States has been extolling a system over there that could revolutionise attempts to...

I THOUGHT you may like to know that not all Commercial Garages try to "rip off" hauliers passing through (Dear Sir — "0 what...

Piece of mind and convenience is the attraction of the Association's allembracing scheme, and its directorgeneral thinks this...

WHEN A TRAFFIC accident occurs, the operator or transport manager is faced with some pressing problems. One is the need to have...

The Government's proposed restructure of transport in London does not go far enough in the opinion of Tory MP Peter Fry THE...

It's a wise and prudent haulier who takes full advantage of insurance but even he may not be aware of one of the latest...

A turbocharger does not always last the life of an engine, which is why Turbo International is thriving. As Britain's largest...

SPECIALLY designed for smaller articulated vehicles with trailer gross weights up to 10.02 tonnes (10 tons) is the 22DA from...

COMMA of Gravesend has introduced a wax-injection system suitable for small commercial vehicles. Called Wax Seal, the solution...

A SMALL VEHICLE fire left unchecked can cause thousands of pounds worth of damage to a vehicle, and the latest available

`There's,a sucker born every minute,' said hineas T. Barnum and were he alive today e might try his trickery with exaggerated...

Berger Vehicle Refinishes has produced two excellent booklets at £2 each aimed at providing ideas for those looking for...

VIEWED from the 1980s, the transport world of the 1950s looks almost as remote as that of 1900, concludes J. Joyce, author of...

TWO neat little books away from business which might use up a left-over voucher come from author Denis Miller, who seems to be...

TOM CURRAN of Roadline won the 1983 Mark Vane Memorial Award. He received his award for courage, but there were other entries...

NO SOONER had the New Year editorials contrasting Orwell's fictional 1984 with the less ominous real thing been read, than...

STEYR-DAIMLER-PUCH, of Austria, is looking east for new activities in the passenger service vehicle sector. The company...

THE MERCEDES-BENZ Transporter programme, already assembled at two facilities in Spain, is to be manufactured at a new plant in...

THE BELGIAN Government has allocated BFr.300m (E3.7m) for new works in connection with the expansion of road/rail piggyback...

RODATUR 84, a Spanishorganised European travel and tourism exhibition, will take place in the Barcelona Fair Centre from March...