. •• i . ailure s unacceptable 1E ANTI-LORRY LOBBY is not dead, but after this week's 1,000-mile economy run it is .4aker. The...

E DEMOUNTABLE bodies part of the licle or part of the load? Since last year .y have been part of the vehicle for ation...

A SIXTEEN-TON weight limit across Greater London could save operators 02m a year, according to the Wood Report which was...

THE WOOD REPORT will change people's concept of lorry bans the next decade, GLC transport committee chair Dave Wetzel I on...

IN ORDER to discover just how uncommon the Common Market is, Conservative MEP Robert Moreland is spending a week in the cab of...

THE DRAFT Regulations on the environmental conditions to be attached to operators' licences must be rewritten to remove the...

GULATIONS have been laid before Parliament to extend the ible tyre tread standards to the entire surface area with effect m...

JUDICIAL investigation has In launched in West Germany ) complaints by lorry drivers t they are being blackmailed police...

THE PROGRAMME for the 1983 CM Fleet Management Conference for which 350 delegates are already registered has had to be altered...

THE BRISTOL-based Peter Lane Group is moving into a six-acre site at Garonor UK's regional distribution centre at Portbury,...

A MAJOR restructure is on the way in October for British Road Services, as the National Freight Consortium adapts to its...

FAILURE to attract additional investments and a savage ratecutting war have been blamed for the closure of Welsh/Irish Ferries...

TRANSPORT oriented MPs furious at moves to have a CI plate shake-up on the HOUSI Commons transport select cl mittee. The new...

Commercial Motor's campaign to improve the image of road transport is "a non-starter and doomed to fail as all other campaigns...

OPERATORS would not try to carry on with their present methods if a London lorry ban was implemented, the Wood Report says, and...

THE TWO INDUSTRY representatives' dissent from part of the report stems from the adoption of tonne/km, rather than pure...

SEALINK is no longer allowing second drivers on its roll-on/off Harwich/Hook of Holland services to travel free, but is...

PARCELS" DISTRIBUTION company Courier Express has acquired the Midlands-based parcels carrier J. Brevitt. Courier has 26...

Daf share up OAF TRUCKS expects the c 14.5-ton market sector to re 23,000 units this year. Commenting on the first months'...

SECURICOR has specified AI boost air deflectors for all 31 its new Bedwas-bodied se trailers for use on its Fast I cels Trun...

Another Jap 4x4 E MITSUBISHI Shogun marKI in Britain by Colt Cars is company's first four-wheel'e model to be imported from...

SOVEX MARSHALL of Carlton, Nottingham, has carried out a series of improvements to its range of wheel-mounted Pacemaker vehicle...

ANT LIGHT three-wheeled commercial vehicle manufacturer Dunn-BIB has moved from Blackburn to Oswaldtwistle near Accrington....

NATIONAL FREIGHT member Cartransport has taken delivery of 39 Mercedes-Benz 1625 chassis each powered by a 184kW (247bhp) V8...

Repair shop BODY REPAIR-shop owners tending to re-equip th workshops can take advent of Blackhawk of Ashford's tit way offer....

IYLAND Cub bus is being operated by National Bus Company adiary Southdown on some new services developed by the .ator and East...

THE GOVERNMENT's White Paper on the plans for a London Regional Transport Authority are expected to be published soon, but they...

FROM SEPTEMBER 11, National Bus Company subsidiary Bristol Omnibus is to be divided into three separate companies. All bus...

PROPOSALS by four operators to direct competition with the local r Glasgow (CM, July 9) have been Commissioners with two...

G-G's off-pea extensions LONDON-BASED co; operator Grey-Green has tended its north Kent to cell London commuter network. The...

A NEW FIRE-protection system fires in bus garages has been d consultant Colin Todd. His system involves fitting heat detectors...

CLUB CANTABRICA HOLIDAYS of St Albans, Hertfordshire, officially opened a £500,000 coach depot and workshop in Wat Club...

CARNELL Tours of Sheffield taken delivery of the first Se 228 DT double deck coach t built for a British operator. 74-seat...

have to hang around this :et much longer, I shall turn tarian," I told photographer Wright, amid the soon to be hiered sheep at...

ANSFERRING from a city ire market where lorries had ?lbow their way passed cornters and shoppers' cars and are chaos was a...

apper — misplaced ticism? .RE can be no doubt that )h Cropper's letter on the lsing regulations ("Dear , July 2) raises...

I NOTE the article on page 15 of Commercial Motor, June 18, on MoTs for recovery. Indeed John Hancock, of Crane Fruehauf is to...

I WAS VERY interested in your road test report of 4X4 Sherpa in Commercial Motor of June 18. I hope that this means Leyland...

takes its toll A DIESEL-powered version of the Ford Sierra car gave me 726 Utrea/100km (38.9mpg) on a 2,000-mile trip to Italy...

3 OF THE SCOTS, William ion will be remembered for ast two achievements — he lined independence for Scotafter Henry II of...

World catalogue

THE Commercial Vehicle Bodybuilders and Repairers Guide 1983 (Kogan Page; £5.95) gives a national index covering more than 600...

the world's commercial vehicles from 3.5 to 38 tonnes. The INUFA Katalog, available through Albion Scott (£14.95 plus £1.75...

DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES are an increasing part of everyday life in industry, commerce and private life, ranging from highly...

NCIDENCE has a long arm. It ches out when an oil ipany decides that a certain - ease in price is needed to er losses on petrol...

EMPLOYMENT, that spurious use for the behaviour of mg thugs, cannot be quoted iustify violence towards )lic transport crews by...

SIGNS OR the lack of them have been making news. New experimental signs showing the frequencies of local radio stations...

SIGNS engaging the attention of the Freight Transport Association are those denoting more than 2,300 lorry-ban areas in England...

ONE OF THE WOOD Inquiry panellists (see p3) is among five Greater London Council nominees appointed to the London Transport...

EUROPEAN FERRIES has chosen a new chairman after KEITH VVICKENDEN died in a plane crash last week (CMJuly 16). KENNETH SIDDLE...

OAF TRUCKS' marketing director, Chris Thorneycroft-Smith, is leaving the company in October to become a main board director at...

PETER EDWARDS takes over commercial manager of south-west area of National press from August 1. He s ceeds David Kirby. Mr...

Charles Lawrence has been promoted to managing director of the transport group, filling the position vacated by David Yeomans,...

PLACKETT'S TRANSPORT has made Ron Patch operation depot manager of its Stapleford complex, responsible for more than 160...

MELL OF FISH and an air of om hang over Grimsby. The a-thriving fish market town ,outh Humberside is now a low of its former...

by Roger Black ave new ?Id CIALLY designed for ding carbon and stainless Is, aluminium and copper ys is this new era MTA 200...

suburb of Sevenoaks in with a population of 5,557. kind of place you could miss ou blinked while passing ugh. It lies just off...

DMNYrED 0 18 io m a 07 WORLD TRUCK conference inised by the Institute of Puring and Supply a few weeks discussed the in-house...

_PH CROPPER clearly feels ingly about the proposed v environmental controls on :rating centres provided for in 1982 Transport...

Suspension 7 THE OAF FTG 3300 DKX twinsteer 6 x 2 tractor, designed for the new 38 tonnes maximum weight limit, uses air...

the charts... system by accepting this Special Trial Period offer. The choices are offers for three, six or 12 months. You...

LAST YEAR's Birmingham Motor Show saw the introduction of Iveco's new 165.24 medium range rigid drawbar and artic unit, which...