TANKER DRIVERS' pay negotiations resumed this week, and the Transport and General Workers Union says it is pleased with the...

ONEFIELD Vehicles Ltd is now ly about a week away from ssible extinction, according to .3eiver Ernst and Whinney of asgow....

FODENS were well on their way into American hands this week, as the company's receiver announced its acceptance of an offer...

THIRTY-FIVE Hull-area hauliers have gone out of business since August 1, according to the Road Haulage Association. Area...

DEALERS' ability to handle p recession business will del who gets the biggest sharo the market, according to Ii cedes-Benz...

SEDDON ATKINSON is cutti back production next week ti one-day week, in response the deepening recession. The company has...

KING HOURS rest periods and other social regulations are not g strictly enforced once international transport drivers are ide...

sumer Council has told DTp that possession tax is an unnecessarily complicated means of countering tax evasion, and says it...

A FIVE-ton lorry ban around Reading would be ineffective and "horribly costly", according to the Freight Transport...

OPERATORS using the M6 during Motor Show times are being advised of special lanes for lorries, as a way of alleviating...

)MMERCIAL-VEHICLE standing costs need not be included in lculations of road equivalent tariff for Scottish island ferries,...

THIS WEEK CM extends its news service by giving a weekly list of trunk roadworks which may delay commercial-vehicle operators...

EGULAR users of West Ger'any's piggyback rail services .e to qualify for extra road aulage permits. The Department of...

ROLL-ON/roll-off haulage between Britain and Spain is poised for expansion — despite the current trade recession, reports JOHN...

FOLLOWING the military coup in Turkey, operators are now faced with the problem of not being able to use their vehicles in the...

THE CM £6000 study award scheme has attracted good-quality entries from the UK, mainland Europe and Africa. Entries are still...

BRITISH Road Services Data reight system has bee introduced at the Western BR, depot in Portswood Roac Southampton. Using...

ALBYN Transport and Haulagi Ltd, a South-east London com pany, has diversified into ware housing at East Moor Street London...

.ANSPORT manager who started to run a company in competiwith his employers was legally sacked, according to a Grimsby stria!...

Health and Safety Executive published a revised list of immended limits for airle concentrations of over potentially toxic...

.:IVE senior executives of the National Freight Corporation become directors of the National Freight Company Ltd on October 1....

TWO tractive units are to fill the gaps in the Mercedes-Benz range of commercial vehicles available in Britain, writes STEVE...

MORE THAN £0.9m wort! Perkins' diesel engines I been bought by one of Turk major commercial veh manufacturers, Chrysler Sat The...

SPITE its financial difficulties the USA (CM, September 20), lite Motor, through its UK .ncessionaires, will be exhibit] at NEC...

AN INSURANCE scheme covering the cost of unscheduled replacement of power-train components had been introduced by DAF Trucks....

BC starts on Oct 6 A RIDE THE FLAG as your Daily Express advertising campaign may well ensure that British Coachways...

THE WHITTLE Group's deregulated express coach services to London will have a special introductory day return fare of £4 until...

W. STONIER and Sons Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent, is not fit to hc psv licences, according to t West Midlands Traffic Comm sioners, and...

IN REACTION to both the recession and the Transport Act, 1 National Bus Company National Express route network has be revised....

iW express coach service has been refused access to Heathrow )rt's central passenger terminal area. uthend MP Teddy Taylor...

ITAIR DENNIS have annced full details of their new on range of rear underfloorined singleand double-deck chassis. iree...

SOCIETY of Motor Manufacturers and Traders registration figures for psvs shows that for most British and foreign manufacturers...

DAF DIESEL (GB) is to market its DK1160 engine in Britain as an alternative power unit for double decker buses. The unit,...

IN a surprise move Renault Trucks and Buses have announced that they are to launch a PR100 single-deck city bus onto the...

AS PART of the "second-generation" modifications to the DAF2800-Series, DAF Trucks (GB) Ltd have launched a further engine...

A DEVICE claimed to solve t problem of initial oil starvati of turbocharger bearings h been produced by Trans Euro Production...

I WONDER what Fred Alton, a general foreman at Ford subsidiary Basildon Radiators, thought of his son David's motion at the...

MARIA WALMSLEY has a secret admirer — her husband, Stanley. He has written without her knowledge to tell me how wonderful she...

NEXT YEAR will be International Year for Disabled Persons and the National Bus Co is getting in literally on the ground floor...

APPARENTLY it's never too early to start to keep up with the Joneses. In a letter to IVECO a St Helens boy said: "I hope to a...

DID YOU KNOW that Hero Alexandria investigated the u of pneumatic power for trar port in the first century AD? Tt is one of the...

MIKE READ, of ROSPA, is greatly concerned about a fire that destroyed two marquees at the final of the Commercial Motor Lorry...

MORE correspondence on /ell-worn CB theme, but first e state that I am totally noun the matter. m amazed at the degree of [ion...

HAVING READ an answer to Yorkshire Pudding (CM, August 30l I can give it a sub-title: Pie in the Sky. I have never read so much...

I READ with interest the article (CM, August 3M on CB radio, which I had hoped would have come down on the side of the...

Light, medium, artic. That's the running order of our three Workshop Ways spots this week. Here, Tim Blakemore follows a 307D...

Not always so, some workshop manuals aren't so easy to understand and to get hold of as they could be. But don't despair, says...

IY HAVING a planned routine laintenance programme an perator is already halfway to laking the most of his vehicle. ind it is...

Circuits and cables, THE wiring diagram for a modern motor vehicle which shows all the electrical components and with dozens...

Registration and licensing, 1 E REGISTRATION and arising of motor vehicles ms an important section of CPC Royal Society of...

THIS Conservative Government is committed to helping the smaller business (although some might disagree in the wake of record...