THIS is the last issue of CM for 1984. It has been a busy year for us with so much happening in the industry. We are not in...

AFTER YEARS of haggling, EEC transport ministers shook hands last week on their compromise deal that sets a 40-tonne limit on...

MOTORWAY safety was thrust savagely back into the public eye last week when 10 people — some of them lorry drivers — died in a...

sponsorship TRUCKFEST, the annual truck festival being held on Easter weekend at the East of England Showground, in...

WITHIN six months Southampton will introduce a total street parking ban for goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes. The City Council...

THE FIRST official wage settlement this year has been reached in the West Midlands. It is in line with the £5.50 basic wage...

THE GREATER London Council will take the biggest chunk of the money allocated to local authorities for capital spending on...

AN APPEAL for funds to research wheel stud failure has been launched by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. It is...

FEARS that Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive would be destroyed by the Government's bus liberalisation plans have been...

WHAT is immodestly being described as one of the most interesting bus system educational trips ever organised is being run by...

OVER 30 shell stands have already been sold for thr international Bus and Coach Exhibition being held at Earls Court, London,...

Mr Palmer, Department of Transport Deputy Secretary for transport industries, was giving evidence with five other DTp...

IN ITS RESPONSE to the Department of Transport's consultation paper on concessionary fares for the elderly and disabled the Bus...

DEPUTY chairman of the National Freight Consortium Victor Paige has been named by Social Services Secretary Norman Fowler as...

DUGALD GILL, inspector with Highland Omnibuses for the past three years at Fort William, has been promoted to district traffic...

AILSWORTH haulier Dave Hill is not breaking any weight limits these days. That's because he's two thirds the man he used to...

THIS YEAR Britain's manufacturing industries have more reason than usual to thank road transport. By maintaining supplies it...

ARE consultants and computer programmers part of the "season of goodwill to all men"? If we believe our friends in the...

SEVERAL years before the outbreak of the First World War American Army engineers were seeking to replace horses and mules with...

RUMOURS that the Bus and Coach Council does not wholly represent the needs and interests of its independent members have been...

DAVID TRIPPIER, Minister for Small Industries, was so impressed by AbeIs International's headquarters at Watton, Norfolk, that...

A SARDONIC Terry Law, chairman of NALGO's national transport committee, paints a primitive picture of the effects of...

"THE PURSUIT of Excellence," a campaign by which British Road Services is seeking perfection in all things, is, says the group...

THE MOTOR industry, led by Ray Horrocks, BL's group chief executive (cars), is lending its weight to the National Society for...

THE SCOTTISH International Tramway Association has been formed to look after a garden shed. This began life 80 years ago as an...

GEOFFREY Pygall, managing director of British Road Services, has every reason to enjoy Christmas. The £25,000 that he staked in...

is UK's driver ambassador to Sweden "FABULOUS", "marvellous", "unbelievable", "incredible", "smashing". Chris Morris, the 1984...

If you don't believe in Father Christmas, don't say so to Chris Morris. He's convinced Santa lives and is a Swede. Before he...

Preceptor in nostalgic mood LET'S REMEMBER the pleasant times of days gone by. Why not? Imagine a small West Country town in...

I NOTE that in the advert "Bedford means business" (CM December 1, pages 24-25) they inform us all that the new TL has had more...

YOUR MENTION of Redbourn (CM November 10) brought back memories of my early days as a budding commercial driver on the old A5,...

I WROTE last year to seek your help in encouraging transport operators to enter for the Shell Energy Awards. Again in 1985,...

ad old days' BEFORE commencing our detailed and, perhaps, nostalgic journey through the now tarnished pages of 1934, some...

IF THERE is any truth in the maxim "we are what we eat", a spot check on some transport cafés and truckstops could result in...

While in Sweden the Truckstop winners toured the main Scania plant in &Wendlje to the south of Stockholm. Awaiting shipment...

Tony Castle. Tony is one of the stewards in the ro-ro drivers lounge on board Sealink's St Anselm ferry. It is one of four...

USUALLY it's people like H. G. Wells and Leonardo da Vinci who are credited with the gift of accurate prophecy; with having...

THE BEST PART of becoming Britain's Lorry Driver of the Year comes later. Among a lengthy list of prizes the Michelin study...

Edinburgh, 1941 THE DATE was December 25, 1941. In Edinburgh pedestrians wasted little time window shopping although Princes...

myself' HOW MUCH MONEY do operators lose because customers give them imprecise delivery instructions? The trouble arises when...

THE LEYLAND HERITAGE (Temple Press in association with the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, £8.95) is a well illustrated...

TRUE or false?* Automatic warning signals on most motorways are: A Mounted overhead; B At one-mile intervals; C Mounted on the...

THE MYSTERIES of vehicle electrical theories are legion which is one of the reasons why many vehicle owners shy away from all...

"WHAT did you make of 1984, then?" asked IVIaggie's brother Cromwell. Sensing one of Cromwell's traps I replied cautiously, "A...