PRIVATE capital for road building is a new concept. It appears to be so obvious that we are bound to ask: why was it not...

IE SIGNALS for Lloyd's Register of Shipping to take over the avy goods vehicle test station network may not yet be green, but...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport is not satisfied that there are sufficient means to ensure that goods vehicles comply with...

/AD TRANSPORT dealt with .58 per cent of inland freight in 80. 3iving this figure in the Corn)ns, Transport Under Secrey...

ERF MADE a trading loss before tax of £3.272m for the year ended April 3, 1982. This compares with a £4.219m loss for the...

THE GOVERNMENT is determined to do everything it can to check the growth in heavy lorry traffic, to control more effectively...

BRITAIN'S road programme is being seriously delayed by a rundown of investment, British Road Federation chairman Tony de Boer...

HAULIERS will have to reasso their charges in light of anothi round of dery price increase last week, the Road Haulage AI...

NEARLY 400 jobs will disappear from Karrier Motors' Luton and Dunstable plants as part of the final phase of the separation of...

ROAD Equivalent Tariff should apply to all Scottish island and west coast ferry services from 1984/85, the House of Commons...

study group, but Transport cretary David Howell stressed, week that there are still a N problems to be solved bea the two...

THREE-MONTH check of avy lorries in Wales earlier s year revealed that nearly e in 10 was overweight. 4ccording to Transport...

THE MINISTRY of Defence has ordered almost 500 of the latest Bedford four tonne M-type all-wheel-drive vehicles. This order...

THE NEEDS of industry must be given priority when the Severn Bridge is rebuilt over the next three to four years. The Freight...

FROM NEXT January, the three Benelux countries will scrap many of the documents drivers are compelled to produce at frontiers....

does nicely MOST of Sealink UK's ferry services m national rail strike next week. will operate normally if there is Only a...

(ESSOCK BRIDGE, the A9 link , 'cross the Beauly Firth between nverness and the Black isle, is ixpected to open to the public...

;ORY DISTRIBUTION head )ffice moves from Bracknell to ts divisional headquarters at Norbury, South London on June ?B. The new...

A BIRMINGHAM operator lost his Licensing Authority when the Ira Brian Parish, operating as B. D. Parish, had his operator's...

Amey Roadstone Corporation's seven southern regional workshops which offer repair and engineering facilities. The workshops,...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's joint courses with the Centre for Physical Distribution Management move into the third part...

NORTHERN Ireland Carriers has been given legal authority to sell 12 De Lorean sports cars which it impounded as security for a...

AN IMAGINATIVE road building programme would do much to "put some red blood into our anaemic economy," said Edward James, a...

NORFOLK HAULIER, Twinkle Transport Ltd, of Sprowston, is being allowed to pay £210 in fines and costs in instalments of £50 a...

FURTHER results from the Cu Lorry Driver of the Year regional finals have reached the offica Norwich. Class A: M. Grainge...

WELSH Under Secretary Michael Roberts has opened the 1E17r A4042 New Inn, Pontypool by-pass scheme. The by-pass, completed...

OURIER and Data Transit, Flitch last year became part of me OHL organisation, increased s turnover for the first five sonths of...

A SEMINAR on alternative fuel systems and vehicle productivity is being organised by the transport and distribution specialist...

THE' INTERNATIONAL Materials Handling Exhibition returns to London's Earls Court next year In an attempt to capture a larger...

MORE operators were prosecuted in Shropshire for overloading commercial vehicles during the first three months of this year...

MAJOR CHANGES have been made to the Freight Rover Sherpa range, and a completely new 2.8 tonne gross model has been announced....

1AF'S REVISED range of middleweight commercials, launched inarnationally at the Amsterdam Show (CM February 13), has had its...

BUSHEY Hall Transport Equipment of Watford, Hertfordshire introduced two new products at the Vehicle Bodybuilders and Repairers...

A FAST lorry-parts distribution service has been launched in Bristol by Lex Tillotson. It is called Rightpart and guarantees...

RENAULT Vehicules Industrials is developing a splitter version of its recently announced (CM June 5) gearbox for launching in...

SAAB SCANIA says its production levels dropped by only eight per cent last year, and showed an increased penetration in many...

RUBERY OWEN-Rockwell has now officially "launched" its automatic slack adjuster for trailer brakes. The Al tri-axle...

YORK TRAILER is moving it parts operation to premises 01 the site of Wilson Master Bodie at Kirk Sandal!, South Yorkshire...

MULDER, NV — The Dutch company which claims to have pic neared lorry mounted mixers — has appointed the Sandbach, Che shire...

,elgium), based at the cornmy's Zellik cold store and stribution depot near Brussels. .1 started work in 1969 as sales Igineer...

THE GREATER pert of the Transport Bill Is essentially concerned with improving the quality of our transport system and making...

THE LIAISON Group of the Bus Industry consisting of representatives of all sectors of the Bus and Coach Council, bus...

DURHAM County Council h published two booklets timetables listing bus and tra services in the north and sou of the county. The...

THE TRANSPORT and Road F search Laboratory is continui its studies of the developme in commuter coaching followi the 1980...

BRITAIN'S two leading coachbuilders have reported mixed fortunes in recently published financial results. Plaxtons pre-tax...

Council leader John Gunnell nnounced this last week, when ne first stage of the Booz, Allen nd Hamilton management tudy of the...

A joint West Sussex CC/Volvo exercise has succeeded in removing larger loads of British rubbish at a lower cost. By a special...

A HIGH-LEVEL delegation of 27 transport experts from overseas countries, including India, Zaire, Thailand and Brazil, last week...

Noel Millier learns how one Lancashire undertaking is surviving in today's political cauldron. It has a loyal ridership and is...

Managing the British Airways vehicle fleet is no fly-by-night operation. 'Airside' access at Heathrow is extremely difficult,...

It is the biggest field for municipal commercial vehicle involvement, but Cleanaway claims to be the largest private company in...

YOU MAY OWN your own vehicles, but they must be housed — probably in someone else's garage. So if you do rent premises, you...

HAS WORD about the Peugeot 305 diesel van's fuel consumption got around? It would seem so. Compared with the same period in...

The Electricity Board feels they are arriving at a point where the economics make sense, writes Graham Montgomerie, but the...

WHEN was the last time a vehicle manufacturer asked for your advice? If you are a municipal authority, the answer could be...

VHEN the National Freight :onsortium was formed to buy he National Freight Co from the 3overnment, I assumed that the 'reight...

IFIE REV John Scott, of Ellistown, Leicestershire, can luote at least one precedent for I's proposal that a bus should 3e...

SATISFIED owners of Magirus Deutz lorries have a dissatisfied German fireman to thank. Conrad Dietrich Magirus, Ulm's fire...

SEABOURNE Express employees have winning ways. Moira Hooper, a 23-year-old export clerk, is a black belt (second clan) and won...

THE POLICE are accustomed to.. trying to recover other people's property that has fallen off the back of a lorry, but not their...

ALTHOUGH BAFFLED by the incomprehensible units of measurement that are replacing the civilised British ones with which I have...

BRITISH industry has trimmed its sails and the media debates reduced expenditure and the lack of it by local government. But...

ON-BOARD electronic analysis systems have been predicted for a long time for commercial vehicle installation. These could take...

THE WATER which accumulates in the air reservoirs (CMJune 12) in an air braking system may freeze in very cold weather. This...

ALL RECONDITIONERS and remanufacturers (engine, turbocharger, transmission, auto electrical, radiator) have the same basic...

A NEWLY formulated coating available from Lamacrest, cures the problem of damage to the decking or backs of vans, lorries and...

MAGNETIC planning systems manufacturer, Efficienta of Holland has developed a system of visual planning boards aimed at helping...

THE ABILITY to replace a punctured or damaged tyre is of increasing importance to transport managers and independent hauliers,...

A RANGE of four MIG/CO2 welding machines which between them are purpose designed to give individual workshops the choice of...

WHILE a diesel-powered car will cost less to run, will those economies pay off in the long term? The new Vauxhall Astra and...