DAVID HOWELL has been studying the contents of the well-leaked report of Sir David Serpell's committee on the future of British...

)USTRY spokesmen responded quickly this week to a Ike call by London and South East hire or reward drivers, scribing it as...

0-YEARLY tachograph calition checks are coming ;er, and will probably be acipanied by annual increases le calibration fee. le...

LORRY DRIVERS who picket premises other than those of their employer could find themselves challenged in the courts, under the...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium may have 25 per cent too many depots, chairman Peter Thompson said last week when he presented...

BEDFORD ROADCALL, a 24-hour all-year breakdown service for heavy commercials, has now been extended to include Bedford light...

the dust AFTER 60 YEARS in busine Falmouth Transport Comps will end on January 31. The company's transpi operation has failed...

E SERIOUS differences between the Government and the transrt industry over major lorry controls in urban areas were high. hted...

DERBYSHIRE County Council is playing brinkmanship with the Government by threatening to impose county-wide bans on 38-tonne...

A NEW LEYLAND company with its registered office in France was formed on January 1 this year, with a capital of FFr250,000...

NATIONAL Freight Consortium has won its first contract for atised refuse collection, and is pursuing other contracts to take r...

LORRY DELAYS on Europe's frontiers are costing the consumer £5bn a year, according to the Confederation of British Industry....

CERTAIN EEC MEMBER countries are undermining competition in Belgium by transporting loads above the maximum permitted weights,...

A GIN DISTILLER is using Freight Computer Services' Microdrive fleet management system in conjuction with a fuel management...

PLACES are still available on the Freight Transport Association's next international certificate of professional competence...

SECRET BALLOTS in internal trade union elections would help make their leaders more representative of the views of their...

THE GOVERNMENT could soon come under pressure to force anti-tampering devices to be fitted to lorries' fuel injection systems....

A BYPASS for St Neots is only way to maintain preserve the character of historic town centre, said British Road Federation....

MITCHELL COTTS Trans! Services has gained an tional contract with Rei Warehouses to operati vehicles from Tetburi Gloucester....

E ONLY sensible way that an owner-driver could comply with the ifessional competence requirements was to become qualified rise,...

MO-MILE stretch of the M1 uthbound carriageway in rthem Ireland will be closed il March 5, while mainten* work is carried out....

TNT EUROPFAST is the company's latest urgent parcels delivery service, linking the UK with any of the Paris postal districts....

THE SERPELL Report into the financing of British Rail is only of use to the heavy lorry supporters who wanted to turn rail...

A LIGHTWEIGHT curtainside body for a range of chassis is now being manufactured by Windfoil at Rash's Green Industrial Estate,...

THE LATEST addition to the pidly expanding diesel autow ing market is an additive fr British Solvent Oils of Ma Street...

THUR SHERLOCK-MESHER is first honorary vice-president )e elected under the new conution of CM Lorry Driver of Year Association....

RENTCO NATIONWIDE has taken on Tom Rickman as national accounts manager, a newly-created position. He will report directly to...

DAVID CARTER takes over as UK bus and coach sales manager with Bedford. Formerly Bedford fleet manager for North East England,...

WE record with regret the deaths of ALBERT CULLING and ARTHUR VAN HEE. Mr Culling was owner of Culling's Coach Service and the...

COLIN SMITH has become fleetpart director of National Carriers Fleetcare. He will be responsible for the development and buying...

IN ASSESSING their 1982 results, those vehicle manufacturers at the Brussels Show who were able to find any cause for optimism...

MANN EGERTON, part of the chaps group of companies, close two of its three Ley1; distributorships in East Anil The cv centres...

A NEW COMPANY, Hampsl Transtech International, I been established and has ta over Lex Vehicle Engineeri the specialist vehicle...

SURPRISE exhibit at this ek's Brussels Show was N's 12.170F 4x2 rigid; a forrd control 12-tonner fitted th a turbocharged and...

IIROYAL Englebert Tyres has extended its range of Monoply Ivy duty tyres with the introduction of the R4 type. This is an ellel...

NORDE has taken over Jake Equipment UK, and is running the business from new premises at Worksop, in Nottinghamshire. It also...

LUCAS has designed and produced a lightweight crane, which when installed inside the rear of a van or on a flat truck enables a...

WEST MIDLANDS Traffic Commissioners' refusal to delay their decision placing age limits on Staffordshire independent...

MUNICIPAL busman have been offered a three per cent pay rise for 1983 — in response to a claim which has been estimated at...

COST SAVINGS of between and 10 per cent could be ii by urban bus operators if adopted more efficient woi methods, rather than...

OPERATORS may be forced by "package deals" to seek future lers for the supply of complete buses, rather than separate les and...

LAND BUS has confirmed : it has won an order to ply 19 Olympian doublek buses to the public trans operator in Athens (CM,...

LONDON-BASED coach operator Len Wright Travel has launched a new London to Manchester and Lancashire coach service to rival the...

GOVERNMENT had a comfortable majority on Monday this ;lc when the Transport Bill was guillotined to shorten debate, on eve of...

BENNETT'S of Kilwinning has won authority to increase the duplication allowance on its Ardrossan to Glasgow service from one to...

IT IS A sad fact that after seven years of the Young HGV Driver Training Scheme, less than 1,000 youngsters have sat the course...

Low profiles all round at Brussels this year, with only MAN breaking new ground. Roadtrains and Sherpas came over poorly. Tim...

IT IS AN excellent and nstructive pennyworth. The interprise should do much to orward the interests of that lass of horseless...

lAVE THE Freight Transport kssociations's 15,000 members yarned all their suppliers not to aise their charges this year or, is...

COSMETIC manufacturers who claim to have discovered the secret of eternal youth are by no means alone in issuing misleading...

NORTHERNERS traditionally regard southerners as featherbedded, if not feather-brained, but this attitude has been reversed...

ALTHOUGH IN recent years he has been dogged by ill health, Harry Skelton, of Fillongley, Coventry, a farmer's son who became a...

A COUNTRY PARSON, the Rev N. D. J. Came, of Church Enstone, who supports the extension of M40 from Oxford to Warwick in the...

by Graham Montgomeri6 How to convert so as to operate at 38-tonnes? York Trailers' technical sales manager talks about the...

by Janus EARLY last month David Howell's civil servants gave him their standard speech calling for freer movement for goods...

Volvo Europa is based in Belgium, not, as you might suppose, in Sweden. Bo Egerdal its general manager, explains the company's...

I CAN WELL imagine the horror with which many of your readers read your leader "Home is Best" (January 8). Sheffield instead of...

MAY I MAKE a few comments on the letter by Mr Williams, managing director of Clwyd Waste Disposal, in CM, 8, January 1983,...

by Bill Godwin -IE MAJOR reorganisation of le Swiss commercial vehicle dustry, in which Daimler-Benz 3S played an important...

ILLEGAL SPEEDING will soon be an impossibility for many French lorry drivers. From the beginning of October all new vehicles of...

Van Hool's offered range in this country iE wider than ever before, and the vehicles ar mainly high-specification,...

We invited Joe Teirlynck, a well-known figure in Continental road transport, to wrii a candid account of the British scene as...

of the benefits of big, static installations but at a tenth of the cost has been launched by the retail division of Cohen...

A PORTABLE hand pump from Shoring Products has been designed for use with hydraulic equipment where multiples of hydraulic...

SUREWELD (UK) of Northamptonshire has introduced a new spot-welding gun to join its range of welding machines and accessories....

T BADGER is a new device to lind drivers and passengers rear seat belts every time the tion is turned on. Simple allation and...

TRIALS WITH the Welwyn Tools Leister hot-air blower "Electron" have it's claimed, shown that body repair work using tin and...

THE WORLD'S smallest longwave ultra-violet lamp is claimed to be the "Shirt Pocket" model from P. W. Allen & Co. Measuring...

THE ONLY SURE way to gain your certificate of professional competence is to set aside a period of time in which to study the...