highly-integrated (and probably highly efficient) bus operators in the country will shortly be broken up into smaller,...

and outright purchase? What effects will be caused by the changes in first year capital allowances? These questions were often...

-1E. NATIONAL Bus nipany has lost its battle to :p four of its largest operat; subsidiaries intact after • nember 1. fransport...

Ill GOVERNMENT is determined to sell off Leyland Trucks and Land Rover to General Motors as quickly as possible. Although...

NEW STUDY of the permance of the UK freight lustry transport industry in rope starts this month. [he Department of Transrt and...

A WARNING SHOT has been fired across the Government's bows over rumours that it might increase dery tax in next month's Budget....

WHEN THE M25 London ringway is complete, only about 64km (40 miles) out of 164km (121 miles) will have lighting unless a...

BRITISH versions of Mits bishi's 3.5-tonne GVW Ca ter light truck — due to go sale before the end of the ye — will be assembled...

TNT ROADFREIGHT expects to break into more national newspaper distribution on the back of its current controversial...

IATIONAL Carriers.oadline, the National reight Consortium's limmed down and merged arcels subsidiary, is to have 6 branches and...

:HE FUTURE of Bill t.1 ins, the National Freight :onsortium's • parcels group nanaging director, looks unertain after his...

provide big contribution SECURICOR has admitted for the first time that nearly half of its turnover conies from its UK...

SHARES worth til when the National Freight Consortium was privatised in 1982 arc now worth £22, shareholders learned last...

EXPERT interpretation of lorry driver Clive Nightingale's tachograph chart secured his acquittal on a charge of crossing two...

DATAFRLIGH'f, the National Freight Consortium's computerised load matching system, is poised to go international. Datafreight,...

THE THEFT of containers loaded with cigarettes led to £1,118,033 damages being awarded against Containerway and Roadferry (NFC...

LEYLAND TRUCKS has started delivering 55 Landtrains and Landmasters to Aprotim (UK) to join 100 bought last year for a...

TIPHOOK is paying £3.2 million for PNO Trailer Leasing, .1 Danish trailer rental company with 1,000 trailers and four depots....

THE TRANSPORT 1)evelopment Group s A$7.4 million (£2.3 million) offer to take over the remaining 30 per cent of its Australian...

A NEW manager has been appointed to head BRS Truck Rental activities at Derby. Graham Scholes joins the BRS Midlands branch...

\X/AREI MUSE anki distribution director with freezer centre specialist Iceland Frozen Foods is Richard Boyland. He has been...

THE MANAGEMENT board of UK express parcels delivery specialist Lex Wilkinson has been announced, fbllowing the sale of the Lex...

'ITIE SENIOR management structure of Scottish Road Services has been reorganised in line with its policy of product...

A FLEET sales executive 1 the north of England a Scotland has been appoint by vehicle component man facturer Rubery-Owen Rot...

WESTERN National's ni company secretary is Pa Rendell. He will head a sm secretarial team to be set by the National Bus Cot...

Fitzgerald WE RECORD with regr the death of Frederick (Fit Fitzgerald aged 90. Fitzgerald preceded forni Freight Transport...

OBS ALLOCATED by Tharter Roadways became larder to accomplish within he hours limits, a lorry !river told the fake tacho;raph...

tO R '1 ransport Minister ) eter Bottomley has praised he crews-of the large fleet of Tecialist snow clearing ;chicks for...

THE THREE-vehicle national licence held by Haley Transport of Wakefield, a firm with associations with A. Haley and Son...

A SUBSIDIARY of Kammac Trucking, the Lancashire haulier which won a celebrated self-employed drivers case two years ago, has...

AUDI VOLKSWAGEN has transferred the import of most of its motor spares from road to rail. An indefinite contract has just been...

THE LORRY Driver of the Year finals return to Cranfield, Bedfordshire, this year, but with a new sponsor. United Transport...

SUTTON and Son (S Helens) which handles good: for the ICI Paints Divisioi works at Stowmarkct, Suf folk, has been given conscn...

ROAD transport access to the port of Antwerp will be improved when a tunnel is constructed beneath the Scheldt, probably...

WINCANTON Transport has taken over 13elling'$. British Isles distribution ol cookers and microwave ovens. The articulated...

OAD HAULAGE wage ttlements this winter once ;ain are running lower than Lose in industry in general. nd they are lower than...

111E FREIGHT Transport Association and the Greater London (.:ouneil are preparing to cross swords again. PTA planning manager...

CONCERN over the effect of paint on wheel nut tightness has been heightened by the loss of a pair of rear wheels from a Swansea...

TWIN-WHEEL versions Rubcry Owen-Rockwell's Ii dair independent air suspei sion for trailers go int production this week. The...

FODEN has begun to t Rockwell S-cam brakes to a of its trucks in place of the ! cam Eaton brakes use previously. Tests have...

MERCEDES-Benz singledeck buses with a flywheelbased energy storage system coupled to a 37kW (50hp) diesel engine are soon to...

IVECO dealer Harper Trucks of Manchester clinched a 20vehicle deal with Ferrymasters to supply three-axled 38tonne 220.30...

TANKFREIGHT is replacing around 160 of the 200-plus tractive units taken over last year from Texaco with its fuel delivery...

AFTER surviving financial troubles which threatened to destroy it 18 months ago, French trailer builder Trailor has delivered...

HAT is to extend its Ducatu light van range for the British market with two new 3.5 tonne GVW models, available with either...

BOALLOY is re-entering t sliding door van market in joint development pr. gramme with Deckers of t Netherlands, a compai which...

PERKINS is to close the Ho ton plant in Peterboroug where its range of V8 dies( engines is manufactured. It says the move has...

2.1VERS at one of the .6°11,11 Bus Company's • eatened subsidiaries (see have been given 14 days appeal against a drivers' ars...

THREE MEN, including Malcolm Margo and Alan Margo, face charges alleging fraudulent trading and obtaining more than .1.1400,(00...

• ERE.K RANDALL, former ianaging director of Derek andall Enterprises Ltd, has 3peared before the Acton tagistratcs on 13...

JANUARY was the first month in more than seven years that no new Volvo buses or coaches were registered in the United Kingdom....

PUBLIC SUBSIDY for bus fares in the English PTE areas is to he slashed from April 1 under an order made by Transport Secretary...

FORMAL STEPS have been taken towards the formation of a public transport company to replace Tayside Region's transport...

LONDON BUSES and one of its independent sector rivals are both strengthening their London sightseeing businesses. London Buses...

DUPLE SERVK:ES has COT structed a luxury personn, carrier for Phillipsons, t17 Swedish Mercedes importe . based on the...

COACH DEALER Stuai Johnson PSV, of Harthil near Sheffield, has entere into a long-term agreement t dispose of surplus Scottis...

suitor might buy rid Rover, some of the company's atition was diverted across the North a. It is trying to clinch an £80...

NEW REGULATIONS on the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurances are coming on April 1 and will replace the...

GUIDANCE on die transport of dangerous substances in tank containers has just been published by the Health and Safety...

A 166 - PAGE guide book, Transport Studies Handbook, has been published by (Transport Publishing Projects, 0.50, 2)) per cent...

TRAINING grant point values have been reassessed by the Road Transport Industry Training Board. For road haulage, the value...

HINTON AND HIGGS, the Abingdon, Oxfordshire-based health and safety consultancy, has set up a heavy goods vehicle driving...

THE CHARTERED Institute of 'Transport is inviting applications for fellowships, scholarships and grants in road transport...

PERHAPS we were a little hard on Foster Tachographs' Tachotalk training video (CM . February I) in pointing out that the...

:I's Gold Scar Award fir third time in five years. • award coincides with the (ling of a body building spray painting area...

for may years, the roadworks carry on regardless. Here are some of the major ones that could cause delays in the coming week....

AUSTIN Rover prices rose by an average of 3.8 per cent on February 13 and included • A 1 . (M) South Yorkshire. lietween...

LOOK out liar a likely increase in the price of German vehicles and equipment. In recent months there has been a significant...

THE LARGEST exhibition for several years devoted to materials handling and warehousing opens next month at the National...

via junction 31 of the • M6 Lancashire. Between junctions 31 (Preston)and 32 (M35, Blackpool) the right hand lane of both...

UNDER A ciour Transport Minister David Mitchell's assurances of good pickings from bus deregulation for independent coach...

I WOULD draw your attention to page 22 of CM, February 1 — at the end of the article on Lynton trailers it reads: " . . . if...

THE PICTURE on the left (CM January 25) reminds me of a very old story (probably apocryphal) regarding the Ford (US) Motor Co's...

I HAVE been encouraged to see the interest your editorial about the European Transport Maintenance Council (CM December 14) has...

AS the •Department , of Transport has announced that a circular has been sent to all lorry . operators with details of...

['HE NETHERLANDS nay be a far smaller narket for commercial rehicles and bodywork han the UK, but as an ndicator of trends...

HAVING road tested several Volkswagen Transporter vans in recent years we have been consistently impressed by their...

years, they've been the scourge of the Conservative party, representing a company which had an insatiable demand for money and...

of its turbocharged 11.1litre diesel, finally overcoming an apparent reluctance to join the manufacturing fraternity offering...