CAMBRIDGESHIRE road haulier is giving up business in the termath of the lorry drivers' strike, following union action hich has...

USTOMS officers at most of ritain's ports are due to go on trike at 23.00 hours tonight Friday) in support of the pubc...

A NEW national scheme that will give concessionary half fares to the elderly, blind and disabled is contained in a new...

BRITAIN'S leasing industry set new records in 1978 with expenditure by members of the Equipment Leasing Association reaching...

THE CHARTERED Institute of Transport and the Institute of Road Transport Engineers have formed a joint standing council. Its...

GOVERNMENT statisti released this week reve trends in road transpc operation over the last years. They list, in a 196-pa...

%CH operators and trade union . esentatives have reached a new ement which gives south western drivers a basic wage increase of...

E TACHOGRAPH does not provide a kgic formula for either road safety or ustrial efficiency", said Bill Mills, !ctor of...

Or at least if the Welsh Wizard was not versed in such technicalities himself, there were those in his Party who were, and the...

OPERATORS disagree with the imposition of prohibitions, ay can always appeal against them at the time, said West Aland...

The Dunlop tyre factory at Speke near Liverpool is to close down on April 19. The factory produces tyres for lorries, buses...

BRITISH Institute of Management chairman, Leslie Tolley, speaking at Cranfield School of Management last Friday, presented a...

IE FIRST Scammell Routeman eight-wheeler with the new , yland TLI1 engine has entered service with the Arney Roadme...

Dover ro/ro OVER 41,000 more commercial vehicles passed through Dover docks last year compared with 1977. This, says the...

SNOW and ice has left Britain's local authorities with a £125m bill for repairing the roads and clearing snow. Nationwide on...

OPERATORS and transpo managers who are entitled claim Certificates of Pr , fessional Competence und , "grandfather rights", mu...

A SEMINAR for light vehicle operators concentrating on cost-effective management planning has been arranged in London for March...

I. YOUNG of Southampton is transferring its long-haul freight -attic between the South of England and Central Scotland rom road...

Tax unacceptable THE FREIGHT Transport Association has come out against any plans to replace the vehicle excise duty (road...

STAND bookings for the Midland Transport Exhibition have been quickly taken, report the organisers, Fleet Planning. MTE '79 is...

DRIVERS diverted from Tower Bridge because of the newly imposed 5-ton-unladen weight limit have been caught out by two...

A FLEET engineer who w responsible for maintaining vehicles drank heavily at took an additional week holiday without...

CANIA is offering two additional wheelbases for the L881 ries rigids this spring. Intended primarily for bulk haulage...

NEW STANDARDS have recently been issued by the British Standards Institute for the strength requirements of towing brackets and...

A COVERED version of the Ingimex lightweight float body is now available. The float, made for quick assembly onto the chassis,...

LPINE Refrigeration Deliveries Ltd of Staines, Middlesex, who perate distribution vehicles in the liveries of Lyons Maid and...

THE INTRODUCTION of two new towing poles increases the Harvey Frost range to a total of 13 different models catering for...

SCOTTISH and Newcastle Breweries have taken delivery of a DAF 2300 tractive unit fitted with Allison fully automatic...

THE FIRST example of a ne road rescue unit has be purchased by the Fife Fi . Brigade in Scotland. The vehicle is a fast, full,...

GREY-GREEN Coaches of London has started a new Europabus service to Hamburg with onward connections to Sweden and Finland. The...

LONDON Transport is holding a competition for schoolchildren as part of this year's celebrations of 150 years of the London...

THE 24th International week of the coach is due to take place at Spa in Belgium from May 22 to May 26. The week will include...

DYFED County Council in Wales has published its draft public passenger transport plan for the next five years, reviewing...

A SPOKESMAN for the National Bus Company has welcomed a report by the National Consumer Council entitled Rural Rides —...

EAST LOTHIAN Distri Council is to oppose a move Scottish Omnibuses to rai bus fares by an average of ni per cent. Councillors...

TRANSPORT authorities a willing to invest money in nE buses, but the industry seem' to be incapable of deliverii them on time,...

VOLVO International has won a large order for buses from ti Punjab Urban Transportation Corporation for public transpo in the...

ICENS1NG authorities have complained that their staffs are 'aced with more and more work to explain the new EEC .egulations to...

to Northern Italy, where the legal maximum weight is 44 tonnes_ Though my contact Dante Gavioli, of Volvo BM, and Gigi Lubrina,...

Court of Justice's so-called "judgment" on Great Britain's refusal to fit tachographs is naive to say the least. I have seen...

May I please, by means of your letter column, seek to correct some misconceptions which have become evident in some...

cial Motor and a keen photographer of transport vehicles myself, I was very interested in the colour photographs taken of the...

HISTORICALLY, lorry-mounted cranes were fitted to logor brick-carrying vehicles. Now many other operators find that...

Lorry cranes can save money by pushing up productivity and cutting handling damage AORE AND MORE operators re finding that by...

m crane serv icing kLL LOADERS must be serviced Ind lubricated regularly, as ecommended by the manufacurer, in order to ensure...

by Brian Chalmers-Hunt :ITT1NG a lorry mounted crane leeds more thought than just ixing it to the chassis frame and loping for...

SO MANY of the maximumweight tractive units provided to CM for test are equipped with sleeper cabs that we might be accused of...

REGULATION 100 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction andUse) Regulations 1978 requires that all glass or other transparent...

MANY modern compression ignition engines are fitted with the DPA distributor-type pumps, mounted at the side of the engine and...

REDUCTIONS in the maximum working hours for lorry drivers are compelling hauliers to look much more closely at their overall...

Mercedes-Benz vehicles are in use in 170 countries throughout the world. For decades we have been gathering experience, in...

Do you know the output of your truck per hour, per day, per mile? How much each trip or delivery costs? Whether output and...

There is an extensive Mercedes-Benz service network throughout Europe. As manufacturers, we set standards for all dealers, in...

In 14 European countries, there is an emergency repair service on Sundays and holidays, as well as during normal working...

Mobile service vehicles operate on the most important European and Middle East freight routes, with.specially-trained...

For a long time to come, diesel engines will be the most common power-units for trucks. Mercedes-Benz are, therefore, working...

Worth is a small town in the Rhinevalley near Karlsruhe. There you will find the most modern truck assembly plant in Europe,...

1. The "Mercedes-Express" a brochure giving specialised information for everyone interested in long-distance transport. 2. The...