i Campaigning s starting to pay DURING the past five years there have been four matters on which CM has campaigned. The...

THE TOPICS in this year's IRTE conference programme could hardly have been more wide ranging. From computers to driver...

ABOLITION of tolls would cut the amount of money available for the roads programme, Transport secretary Nicholas Ridley told...

RECOVERY vehicle operators who rescue abandoned vehicles from the roadside will not after all be breaking the terms of their...

A FRESH LOOK should be taken at the loading and unloading terminals as well as intermediate stopping places used by lorries...

THE NEW RATES of vehicle excise duty for lorries have been approved by MPs after Treasury Economic Secretary Ian Stewart...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium's long promised break into the North American market has taken place. It has bought a £30m...

SIMPLIFIED Customs clearance procedures to be introduced on July 'I will be welcomed by both international hauliers and their...

DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL is selling advertising space on its 300 commercial vehicles and pool cars, and expects to bring in £75,000...

THE POST OFFICE is planning European freight services. It has been building up its network over the past two years, and now...

THE CHANCES of the National Freight Consortium becoming a ferry operator have been increased by a Government move to rule out...

TRAILER SALES and rental company Gylemuir Trailers of Newbridge, Edinburgh, has ordered 11 step frame tri-axle tipping...

POST OFFICE and Greater London Council lorries could be among the first to be fitted with London-only "hush kits" to meet the...

AVERAGE EARNINGS of Mobil's tanker drivers now exceed £13,000 a year, following a deal between the company and its Transport...

Leyland withdrew quietly from the Australian market last year, having latterly assembled more BMC Bathgate-derived models than...

THE number of Irish hauliers transporting refrigerated meat has dropped by an alarming 43 per cent within the past five years,...

CLAIMS by eight lorry drivers that Smith of Maddiston, a British Electric Traction subsidiary, had acted unfairly in declaring...

IRELAND'S ONLY truck park has been opened by the international freight forwarding company Walsh Western in Dublin's dockland,...

A MOM SCHEME to relieve motorway congestion in the West Midlands has been announced by the Department of Transport. A northern...

signal contest ahead NO OBVIOUS succession emerged from last week's Road Haulage Association elections, which confirmed...

BRENDAN BARRETT has been elected president of the Irish Road Haulage Association. Mr Barrett entered the haulage industry in...

SALES AND MARKETING strategy at Tankfreight has become the responsibility of David Armstrong Richardson, who has been appointed...

ANDY ROBERTSON, the Road Haulage Association's Western District assistant manager responsible for Devon and Cornwall, has been...

CHARD and Axminster Transport Services has appointed Geoffrey Neal as sales manager. Mr Neal joins the Chard, Somerset, road...

CITY OF OXFORD Motor Services has a new general manager — Arthur Townsend. From June 1 he succeeds David Graham, who is being...

HEART ATTACK statistics may be used by magistrates to help decide heavy goods vehicle licences following coronary attacks, a...

FOLLOWING the success of the first three Freight Transport Association/Institute of Road Transport Engineers transport...

The Department of Transport is expected to publish its revised code of practice on safety of loads in vehicles in the near...

POLICE are looking for a Lockerbie Transport Ford D-Series box van stolen a month ago, and loaded with colour televisions and...

RETIRED haulage contractor Andrew Geddes of Aberdeen, was fined a total of £990 by Sheriff Muir Russell at Stonehaven on May...

PRIVATE hauliers and garages could benefit next year from the proposals contained in a Defence White Paper released last week....

Municipalities Powered by a Perkins in-line 4.236 diesel rated at 58kW (78bhp) at 2,800rpm and 244Nm (1,80Ib ft) of torque at...

PYRENE's low temperature Pyroclean 599 liquid alkaline cleaner and Bonderite 1147 cleaner/coater phosphate treatments have been...

FITTING a hub odometer is about the only method of recording the running mileage of a trailer. Veeder-Root's series 7777 unit,...

Tail-lift fixed to chassis A CHASSIS-MOUNTED tail-lift, shown last week at the Institute of Road Transport Engineers annual...

LT: targets met DESPITE a year of 'significant' achievements in which all of its major service targets were met, London...

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE County Council has launched a bus service covering tourist attractions and points of interest in the...

A PATCHY IMAGE of the latest developments in international road and rail passenger transport technology was presented in Paris...

TWO COACH/CAMPING tour operators have collapsed in the past five weeks. Surrey-based Megermead Holidays and Hertfordshirebased...

TYNE AND WEAR Passenger Transport Executive, Northern General Transport, United Auto and OK Motor Services have lost their...

National Bus Company management has welcomed the views contained in the latest House of Commons transport committee's public...

FRANCE has ended the practice of no-passport 60-hour permit excursions from July 6 for immigration control reasons. The ban...

New engines soon from Gardner AT LAST week's Institute of Road Transport Engineers' exhibition the major exhibit from L....

IN HIS keynote address to the Institute of Road Transport Engineers conference last week, Lord Stokes of Leyland, the IRTE...

GEOFF WALSH of Auckland, New Zealand must have travelled farther than any other delegate to reach last week's Institute of Road...

VOLVO HAS a new cast aluminium alloy wheel which is being manufactured to Volvo's specification by a Scandinavian supplier....

THE STEP frame conversion on the Boalloy-bodied, 16-ton gvw Bedford TL at the IRTE exhibition was carried out by Chassis...

THE TRANSPORT of a boom section of a coal unloader 80ft long, 34ft high and 25ft wide and weighing 76 tons might be thought to...

WHO SAYS that wealth has not been redistributed under the Tories? A schoolmaster who qualified as a heavy goods vehicle driver...

LYNDA CHALKER, Minister for Transport, announced on the same day that almost a quarter of vehicle tax evasions reported by the...

SWITZERLAND'S proposal to follow Italy and France in charging for the use of motorways by levying a £10 toll next January has...

I WAS INTRIGUED by an FTA Press notice headed, "Uses and Abuses of the Tachograph Seminars." How, I asked myself, could...

LONDON TRANSPORT has influenced several composers. Two bus routes, both serving Chelsea's World's End, have inspired musical...

Sale of TIR carnets THE STATE of traffic in international haulage is not as gloomy as your comments on the RHA annual accounts...

Welding safety screen WATH RUBBER and Plastics, has produced a new transparent fireretardant pvc strip for use in mobile or...

is generally reckoned to have a 'fairly strong driver line-up in Ayrton Senna, Johnny Cecotto, Derek Rogers and Dave Hughes....

REPAIR COSTS to lorry trailers damaged during loading and discharging on short-sea rollon/roll-off routes could be greatly...

of British delegates were among those who took the opportunity to visit the Marseilles-Fos facilities. Nevertheless, for a...

FREIGHT has been put on road trailers in many cases with only symbolic lashings or no lashings at all, Jan Telle, principal...

of rail freight wagons built up between Italy and Sardinia, an advanced railferry was planned. The stateowned Garibaldi, which...

THROUGHOUT THE centuries, the Middle East served as a focus of international trade. Daniel Morgenstern, from the Israeli...

THIERRY DEDEYAN from the Chantiers Dubigeon Alsthom-Atlantique Group explained that the Corsica lines are a subsidised, public...

RO-RO ships are particularly suited for the Italian coastal trade, explained a paper by M. Monica, G. A. Pasquali and R....

RO-RO hull forms have been developed to take more vehicles and provide efficient cargo handling, but they do have drawbacks....

in rebuilding heavy-duty pavement areas in ro-ro ports has great advantages, said N. Nixon, of Nigel and Partners of Newcastle...

It was awarded to Tom Curran of Roadline for an act of outstanding bravery, but other people who displayed great care or...

I VISITED an own-account operator a while ago where I learned that the last transport manager had been sacked and the firm had...

THE MT 6.90 is rated at 6.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight, the lightest of the MAN VW commercial vehicles available in the UK....

MAN-VW is in business as a serious contender for major new lorry sales. That was the clear message from senior managers at...

THE MAN SR280 Highliner coach was one of the first new-generation integral luxury coaches to contest „the British coach market...

JOHN JEMPSON & Son operates one of the largest MAN fleets in the UK and yet has not bought a new MAN since 1980. This...

PROSPECTS for independent stage carriage operation in Greater London have probably not been better since the Twenties. The...

IN JANUARY this year Bedford announced that "mass production" of the Electric CF 1-tonne payload van powered by a 40kW (54bhp)...

Around the latter route, the Electric CF proved surprisingly quick, covering 41 miles at an average speed of 48.28 km/h...

IF THE WEATHER was disappointingly dreary for an outdoor display, the display itself certainly was not. Indeed, if there was...

How do YOUR costs compare? CM's ANNUAL Tables of Operating Costs is probably the most widely read publication of its type in...