IT TAKES a long time for the implications of new law to get through to the man in the street and, it seems, transport...

EEC hours accord MOST COMMON Market countries want to reduce the fortnightly driving limit for the road haulage industry to 90...

A FIVE-YEAR campaign looks set to start soon to dissuade the Government from pressing strongly to for the British exemption...

ROAD SPENDING faces a slight cut in real terms in 1985/86. Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley said that spending on national...

TRANSPORT Minister Lynda Chalker has protested strongly to the Swiss Government about the planned commercial vehicle tax which...

LORRIES can easily be quietened to comply with GLC proposed noise limits, according to Greater London Council transport...

BOTH SIDES of the Metropolitan and South-East regional joint negotiating committee were scheduled to meet on Thursday night...

THE FINAL decision on whether there will be a public inquiry into the Greater London Council's night and weekend lorry ban has...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport this week commissioned "exploratory assessment" studies into traffic problems in four of London's...

CHRISTOPHER Morris of Raleigh Road, Bristol, a driver with UBM of Bristol is the winner of CM'S 1984 Mark Vane Award. Mr...

THE NEWLY-formed United Transport Distribution last week officially opened a new distribution centre at South Kirkby near...

A CALL to separate vat from customs duties for importers has come from SDP economics spokesman Ian Wrigglesworth. In a letter...

NON-SPECIFIC operator licence discs proposed by the Department of Transport would be a cowboys' charter, Road Haulage...

THE BURMAH-Castrol Award, which is presented for an original and constructive short paper on a set subject, is to be repeated...

TVVO senior National Freight Consortium managers have joined Systemline, the contract distribution divison of Lex Wilkinson, to...

REGIONAL manager-north for the newly established British subsidiary of the Portuguese coachbuilder Salvador Caetano is Duncan...

FRANK WOODWARD has been retained by Galcol Fleet Services (GFS) to advise on all aspects of fleet management and vehicle...

A WEST German lorry driver found an original way of concealing the evidence when he was asked by police to produce his...

IN LINE with plans to expand on the Continent, UK — Europe trailer operator Portbridge Transport International has opened a...

ARGOS, the catalogue showroom business, has awarded the contract to deliver to its new Aberdeen store to Freightliners. Three...

THE RANKS of better class lorry parking areas will be swelled next month by the opening of a 160-vehicle park in Liverpool's...

VALE OF EVESHAM haulier Spiers and Hartwell, is strengthening its five-nightly Evesham-Glasgow trunk haulage service by opening...

NOVATRANS, the combined road/rail freight specialist, has launched a direct service between Le Havre and Northern Italy. It...

BIFFA, the BET-owned waste handling contractor, is investing E2.8m in 1985 and E20m over five years on modernisation. Biffa...

THIS YEAR'S winner in the transport category of the Shell Energy Awards is Air Products. The company received the award for a...

CLAIMS of trailer and semitrailer non-asbestos brake linings lasting twice as long as conventional, asbestos-based linings are...

J. C. BAM FORD Excavators is one of several companies which are having discussions with Leyland over the purchase of the...

ESSO HAS published a directory to all its service stations in the UK selling diesel fuel. Service stations are listed by town...

BOTH SIZE and weight is minimised with Spicer's new family of mid-range Angle Ring clutches. Designated 310 and 350, the...

A NEW low-profile sliding fifth-wheel coupling from Davies Magnet of Thundridge, Ware, Hertfordshire, is 76mm (3in) shallower...

air deflectors. The wholly-owned division of the Lin Pac Group of Companies is currently updating its 50-strong fleet and all...

ALL CUMMINS UK and European commercial vehicle engines are now being offered with improved warranty cover. The revised...

NO FURTHER prolonged period of consultation will be allowed before the publication of the next Transport Bill, Transport...

MORE THAN 5,000 jobs in the bus manufacturing industry are in jeopardy because of the Government's public transport policy,...

A BLAZE at the premises of Heart of England Tours has destroyed seven coaches and severely damaged six more. Heart of England,...

THE BUS and coach industry received an unpleasant shock this week when the Government published a new scale of fees for...

EACH Scottish Bus Group depot is to become a business centre in its own right in the revised company structures being...

TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley has thrown out the National Bus Company's compromise for privatisation. The plan {CM,...

A GLASGOW bus driver, suspected of tampering with his vehicle's cash box with a knife, claimed he was only sharpening a pencil....

IT WAS very pleasant to receive the splendid silver paper knife as our award for second place in your livery competition. Your...

WHEN considering the road fund taxation paid by the haulage industry, it is evident that more is levied than can always be...

I TAKE LEAVE to question the statement in CM's report of the Road Haulage Association exhibition at Crowthorne (CM, November...

IN REPLY to Mr W. S. Broome's letter (CM, November 3) he has taken my comments on antilock completely out of context, and as I...

CM was on the ball in forecasting enormous growth in this sector despite difficult market conditions. A special correspondent...

Time is running out for companies which are considering buying or leasing new vehicles to take full advantage of first-year...

I WAS shaken when I heard the reason why Ron Boyce, dedicated chairman of the Lorry Driver of the Year Association's National...

TO MENTION Ethiopia and Christmas in the same breath is almost obscene but that, felicitously, is when eight DAF 330bhp 6 x4...

SHELVOKE and Drewry's famous 1927 Tiller-steered freighter is now on permanent loan to the Shuttleworth Collection at Old...

CLOSE to the Edge, the title of a television film made for the Department of Transport's campaign to reduce road accidents to...

CHANGES in vehicle design are by no means the only way of making pedestrians more clearly visible to drivers. In West Brompton,...

MORE than 2,000 pirates were crushed beneath the wheels of a 1924 John Fowler steam engine in a builder's yard in Dublin. The...

ONE IN FOUR commercial vehicles sold in Britain falls within the 7.5 tonne category. Compare this to the one in 20 sold 10...

Higher maximum speed limits have made the Dodge G08 a less economical performer, reports Bryan Jarvis, but on our Welsh route...

After initial trouble in our test, we found that the Ebro, although the lowest powered in our group, maintained an acceptable...

in our group test. Spec for spec, writes Brian Weatherley, all five have many similarities except for the Cargo's high ratio...

The new lveco has the best brakes, and its rapid acceleration is a bonus in busy traffic WHEN IVECO launched its revised light...

body, straight out of a hire fleet, gave Bryan Jarvis a wellbalanced ride, but disappointing fuel economy MAN-VW produces two...

If you've seen the TV commercial for the Roadrunner you'll know Leyland have proved that their new 7.5 tonne truck can take a...

John Durant lends an ear to the Barclays Small Business Unit THESE DAYS we see bank advertisements on television...

This pamphlet describes a plan to regenerate industry and is run in conjunction with the Council for Small Industries in Rural...

volumes. Ford believes the way to get ahead is to offer the best parts back-up as possible. And that means a high degree of...

MOST of us know Beaujolais as red wine, but not much more. Just another title for one of the famous wine growing areas of...

"WE GO down there, do the business and get back." For Mike Mudie, sales director of Mercedes-Benz truck dealership Oldacre...

BREWERIES do not immediately appear to have a need for the extra volume afforded by drawbar operation, but Ushers Brewery in...