THE AIR of optimism which was apparent at the Scottish Motor Show this week was based on reality rather than hope. Although the...

LONG WAIT for a decision on the Armitage Report may be ling to an end. Transport Secretary David Howell gave the ingest hint so...

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board may be split in two. The Board's months of doubt over its future ended finally on...

MANAGEMENT this week ised the "commendably ma3" attitude of its 1,100 oil ker drivers who voted for a :ond time in favour of...

MOTORWAYS will continue to receive top priority for salting ant snow ploughing this winter, Junior Transport Minister...

TWO British companies won export deals to the MI East. ERF and Crane Fruehauf secured contracts for tra units and semi...

GIORGIO MANINA, managing director of IVECO, announced at the Scottish Motor Show last week, that having survived his...

HE WOOD INQUIRY into the ossibility of large-scale lorry ans in Greater London (CM, ovember 14) has already had Pound 50...

ITH JUST over ilsory a fourth arket. a month to go before tachographs become comtachograph manufacturer has joined the British...

OTTISH milk haulage firms ,posing the proposed ending their contracts by the ScotM Milk Marketing Board have st their complaint...

A LORRY CONTROL scheme in rural Hertfordshire is costing operators around £45,000 a year, according to the Transport and Road...

INDUSTRY representatives thi week welcomed the news tha the Department of Transpor has announced the preferred route for the...

THERE HAS been a vast amount of misrepresentation about what the Government has done on legalising citizen' band radio,...

A CONTAINER service to frac via Turkey, has been launche by Whittle International Freigh Ltd. The new overseas servic will be...

ONLY TWO of the ten EEC men ber states — France and We! Germany — have laws on con pulsory training of drivers heavy vehicles...

INTERNATIONAL road transport between Britain and the rest of the EEC has been harder hit by the recession than traffic flows...

THE GREATER London Council pending appeal to the House Lords (CM, November 14) ov , the legality of its cheap faro scheme...

TNT OVERNIGHT has launched its two-way air link service be tween the British mainland and Ireland. This move has been made to...

LICENCE application by a driver/salesman working under franise from Snap-on Tools Ltd, selling to garages and mechanics )m a...

FREIGHT TONNAGE at Gatwic could increase from 111,00 tonnes to 480,000 tonnes b 1991 if a second terminal at th airport is...

lE BOLT-ON air suspension Inversion, first shown in protope form at the Motor Show a lar ago by Ray Smith Demounibl es Ltd,...

R. BRADLEY Municipal Vehicles Ltd of Clay Cross, Chesterfield, ha added a new multi-purpose, high-performance refuse collector...

SIMON Engineering Dudley L has a new lightweight hydraul access platform, designated tl RA 82. It first appeared at tl...

for Motor Vehicles Used on the Public Highway, which persedes the 1973 edition (BS AU 159b), now being withdrawn. It ecifies...

code of practice providini guidance on the design, con struction and operational safe' of vehicle tail-lifts. Entitled 13: 6109...

L. CHURCHILL has discovered at there is a possibility of a 3terial defect in a "small imber" of its 220 engine Inds. This is a...

HREE DAYS have been set aside next week for the House of Lords o consider the Greater London Council's appeal against the...

HOT ON the heels of the a nouncement of a joint Natior Express Trathens express coa tie up National Holidays, the E tended tour...

OCAL AUTHORITIES should be given power to fix the starting and inishing points for new express bus services being operated by...

DESPITE appeals by several operators against the granting of stai carriage licences to Trefaldwyn Motors Ltd, Transport...

SCOTTISH BUS GROUP inspec tor Thomas Muir told his bosse that he wanted time off to al tend a mass for a friend who ha , died,...

BRITISH coach operators are to be offered the chance to purchase large quantities of a new brightly coloured brochure entitled...

DVERNMENT statistics show further drops in the size of the bus id coach industry last year, although buses and coaches hung on...

WIGAN-based Lancashire Cz riage Company has introduced new coach body based on tl Dodge 50-Series. The body is available...

subsidiary, has appointed tart Metcalfe managing direc, He takes over from Frank ion, who has retired. Mr Mete has joined...

since the company acquired a Uniroyal air deflector busi-. ss earlier this year, it has . ned its attention to axle-load...

be used with engines rangini from 750cc (45cuin) to three-litri (180cuin) in capacity. It weighs only 5 kg (11 lb) am is...

LEYLAND TRUCKS has announced a scheduled maintenance pro gramme designed to eliminate "over-servicing" and to more closeir...

generation tipper control valves introduced at the Scottish Motor Show last week by Edbro. The new control valves are...

EFER to the letter from Mr B. Palmer (CMSeptember 26) garding problems with a TL idford. We do not have a TL, but we ve had...

IN ARTICLES titled "its a Fowlerup says Cumbria" and "Cumbria to Appeal" (CM October 31) you refer to Cumberland Motor Services...

I WISH to thank most sincerely all members and friends in all areas of the Road Haulage Association for their letters of...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

Leyland alone has three new models. Report by our Show team: Steve Gray and Bill Brock plus photographer Brian Weatherley 1 E...

S-A has responded to criticism with this better-all-round 40-tonner; the Rollsengined version tested gives first-class fuel...

Cars are part of virtually any business — so analyse their costs as you do those of commercial vehicles. Stuart Bladon has the...

How nice to find a successful independent in this field, writes Noel Millier, who also delves into the ultimate question: Which...

THOMAS TELFORD, who designed the Menai suspension bridge and gave the Scots 1,000 miles of road to aid their escape to England,...

THE YELLOW bars painted across roads at the approach to hazards — usually roundabouts — to encourage drivers to slow down after...

WHEN THE fun building sand castles begins to pall, expatriates in the Middle East can while away the time with the Commercial...

HAULIERS and British Rail may not be bosom chums but the railways do not have to vent their ire on Ben Maguire, secretary to...

RON DENNEY, Bedfordshii education technology advir has found a way of mak scarce and costly educatio equipment go round. A forr...

It did not take Steve Gray long to tour the bus and coach exhibits — only four stands have any sort of display 'OR the bus and...

It's Brock v Dunlop, and, more seriously, it is a dispute about treading safely. Is there a case foi 2mm minimum legal tread...

THE CHIEF objectives of the Certificate of Professional Competence are, first, to ensur that a minimum standard of managerial...

THE ordinary bus goes where ni coach or train can take you, and the National Bus Company has latched on to this as a tourist...

We asked our Engineering Editor to explain the tendency for manufacturers to polarise around these outputs. Is he cynical in...

J ANY ATTEMPT to pose as srious political or economic tinkers, trade union officials, ien more than politicians, start ith a...

By Douglas Ainley ;OMING EVENTS cast their iadow before" and every emoyer will be affected by the Dvernments proposed...

.IWEST GERMANY the Jrnission of own-account traffic ) the well-established ombiverkehr piggyback routes, ow put forward by the...

A HYBRID-DRIVE system for city buses, incorporating hydraulic energy recuperation and storage, has been developed by the...