The statement by Sainsbury's distribution director L. S. Payne that the recent road haulage strike has destroyed the confidence...

kNSPORT Minister William nt proposals with his EEC [us — including changes in Lmercial vehicles. lr Rodgers told the House...

TRAFFIC using the Dartford Tunnel under the Thames will have to pay increased tolls from next month. The new tolls are payable...

NEW DEPARTMENT of Transport figures for the amount of, extra duty that commercial vehicle operators would have to pay if the...

['HE PRESENT economic downtrend continues, Britain will ts poor as many Mediterranean, Latin-American and Asian ntries by 1990,...

DIESEL and petrol supplies should remain steady — at least for the next month, and there is no reason for panic buying of fuel...

cost £1001 THE BEST estimate of capital cost of introdut tachographs is about E100 lion, with recurring ant costs of about E40...

Following recent promotions at CM, we are looking for a replacement for Bill Brock. This is an interesting job and would suit...

OFFICIALS have had preliminary discussions with several hundred firms about the Section 8 scheme, and these activities had so...

CURRENTLY undergoing trials with local authorities is a FAV 1800 DH 4 x 4 chassis fitted with a Rolba gritting body It is...

iGHT Transport Assocition preit Malcolm Banks described nptions that the haulage customer d pick up the bill for increased...

PRODUCT liability legislation is inevitable in Britain and the motor industry must Make changes to ensure that it can be met...

SO NOW WE KNOW. Or at least Trevor Skeet, the Tory Member for Bedford does. The searing light of incontrovertible facts and...

EIGHBRIDGE to be used ;pot checks on lorries is it built on the Al in South shire, and will come operation later this year. is...

THE NUMBER of goods vehicles of over 28 tons gross vehicle weight on operators' licences in this country more than doubled...

LIVERPOOL'S £40m inner ring road will considerably benefit commercial vehicle operators said Ronald Williams, chief engineer,...

TRANSPORT Department fully appreciates the need to ed as quickly as possible on a new link between the MI and I and favours the...

skULT, the French state d motor manufacturer, is iuire a 20 per cent stake Ack, the American lorry Leer. a result of the deal...

THE TRANSPORT Department expects to receive shortly a report from consultants, with recommendations, about how to keep track of...

ROAD Haulage Association National Chairman John Silbermann has blamed the actions of Secretary of State for Employment Albert...

CRMCISM of the volume of legislation facing the transport industry has come from Peter Hendy, chairman of the Avon and Wessex...

THE ROUTE of the prop MI-Al link road has fir been confirmed. In the House of Comr last week, Transport Un Secretary John...

A NEW groupage service for less than container load carg Baltimore has been launched. Russell Davies (Forwarding) of...

)RIVER who claimed he had falsified his driver's record in er to avoid paying tax on his overnight subsistence amount 5 not...

teiNS by Brain Haulage to convert a former Spillers bakery at ikon, Liverpool, into a haulage depot face strong opposition m...

ONE of the chief reasons for the increase in the price of food had been the vast increase in transport costs, the head of the...

DURING its first year as part of the AGA group, Frigoscandia, the cold storage and refrigerated transport company, recorded a...

. PEOPLE. in the Midlands are waiting for Transport Secretary William Rodgers to "take the decisions about Midlands road...

COVENTRY Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to make a study of the long-term effects of January's road haulage strike on the...

A SEMINAR aimed at helping manufacturers improve their distribution is being run in London and Manchester. It is called...

I ALL-PURPOSE utility hide, the Yak Yeoman has announced by Mancher Garage Ltd of Oxford ad, Manchester. Ithough it is of...

MULTILIFT Ltd of Harlescott Industrial Estate, Shrewsbury, has developed its own hydraulic lifting system to compete in the...

4ANCHESTER bacon supq has recently taken dery of two rather unusual ides. bey are 16-ton -gvw four?,el rigids — but fitted...

HAULAMATIC has introduced a new dump-truck to supplement its range of heavy duty on/off highway vehiclesi The new model is the...

JINDSCREEN wiper blade which is said to clean as well as e the screen has been introduced by Safewipe International, Box 83,...

THE MITSUBISHI 1200 one-tonne pick-up exhibited last year at the NEC is now available on the British market. It fills a market...

A SIMPLE-to-operate porta arc welder has been int duced by ESAB. Called the THG 140, weighs just 24kg (531bs) z can be used...

A NEW RANGE of Yale hand-operated chain hoists is launched in the UK this week by the Materials Handling Division of Eaton...

;COTTISH independent rator is selling its double.c fleet because of a drop in fic. urnbartonshire-based elochhead Coach...

REDUCTIONS in some bus services are "probably inevitable" due to interruptions in diesel oil supplies, according to the...

INDEPENDENT coach operator will run open-top doubletours of Windsor this summer, despite opposition from don Country Bus...

AN INTERNAL driving competition for Scottish Bus Group drivers is being launched this year. Following SBG's first entry in...

THE FINAL stage of London Transport's plan to improve its bus route network goes into effect on March 31. Routes all over...

COACH OPERATORS worried about the failure national and local authorit to consult them when devis tourist management scherr...

LEYLAND'S National 2 single-decker is unlikely to resemble the Ribble prototype which appeared at last year's Birmingham Motor...

METRO-CAMMELL Weymann's Metrobus will not be affected by the corrosion problems which have hit some Scania-based Metropolitans,...

John Durant reports from the murky area of clearing haus( • A clearing house finds a haulier or a load for a fee, but if a...

When it makes better economic sense even own-account companies would do well to use a "plug-In - distribution ne - wor <, says...

\Gel Millier examines an important and developing sector in th( coach business. But will restrictions choke it to death before...

Bill Brock tests Fiat's 7/5-tonne HO, for once a vehicle which can be driven wi out an hgv licence. The results are impressive...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt reports on a new deal for shippers EVERY FORM of business depends on an efficient transport system and...

it was not happening for Shippams until the company hired Low - field and things improved. David Wilcox reports. MANUFACTURER...

diacuaaisit THERE WILL never be complete agreement on the contentious subject of the tachograph but now it seems that it will...

myself have made on the maintenance of the tachograph, my use of the word "prohibitive" is by no means 'abandoned' as you...

WE ARE ALL hit by the tacho — employer, driver and administrator. I myself wrote personally to Baroness Steadman warning of the...

THIS LETTER is prompted by the news story "Challenge GV9s (if you disagree) — LA" (CM, February 23). Consider that: 0 A GV9...

had a number ii use on our Continental vehicle for some time. Their average hf is under six months, and ther seems to be no...

If the Transport and General Workers Union's Midlands kyatollah is ever ennobled by a perverse Prime Minister, he Lihould take...

Few drivers and operators would not support the Royal Automobile Club's plea for the present basis of totting up traffic...

'justice' Mind you, this change would not automatically ensure justice. A friend of mine, an ex-CM man, was driving along a...

Two foreign manufacturers are now putting their money where their mouths are and are submitting sample vehicles for examination...

This scheme reminds me of a visit I made about 25 years ago to the establishment at Farnborough, where random samples of...

A competition to discover the Stirrer of the Year is sponsored by International Paint and Affiliated Factors Ltd. It is...

London bus passengers are, I gather, indirectly obligated to thugs. Emergency radio sets, which have been installed in more...

When a fuel injection pump on a compression ignition engine is replaced, if the system has been opened for any reason (eg, to...

\ VEHICLE which is overweight nay contravene the law in two tvays: an offence may be cornnitted because it exceeds the imit...

LANCASHIRE United Transport has appointed a new traffic manager. He is Peter Morgan, currently with Warrington Borough...