freig complexes. And now, thanks to a groundwork study by the Lorries and the Environment Committee, the way ahead is open for...

IELAYS at Dover docks over :ustoms clearance for loads oming from the Continent ave now reached a staggerig 'norm' of 20 hours...

AFTER strong pressure from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Department of Trade and Industry, there are...

THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has urged the Government to change its mind over the tachograph. In a letter...

CARDIFF operator, Hills Transport (Cardiff) Ltd, has had one of its vehicles turned away from Hull Docks by dockers because the...

GEORGE Turnbull, former managing director of the car division of British Leyland, is to take up a two-year appointment with the...

A BRITISH driver I claimed that he was detait and beaten up by Fren police after he produced onl photostat of his vehicle M...

THE wraps have come off Greater London Council's transport policy for the next five years with the news that the GLC plans to...

YORK Trailers has trebled its second quarter pre-tax profits, compared with the same period, last year, and dividends are to be...

owed this to the policeman, t he rejected it. He said it s invalid as it had not been mped," Mr. Griffiths conued. He tried to...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week rejected a call to tell "the bureaucratic busybodies in Brussels" that we were...

A MAJOR new road scheme for the Thamesmead area of London, designed to give better access to the area, has been approved by the...

LEYLAND Cars is seeking support for a programme to more than double production of the Range Rover and Land Rover. The plan...

WHAT material for a drama of human emotions was there. Transport Minister Bill Rodgers hastily turned over the pages of the...

EAST Sussex County Council has been extremely good. It has put lorry bans on routes in certain rural areas, as well as in the...

the first prosecution under 1975 Dutch Elm Disease der, Beaconsfield (Bucks) igistrates fined a NottinghI timber operator for...

RESIDENTS complaining about noise and nuisance caused by vehicles operated by Howard Clayton-Wright Ltd trading as HCW...

AN appeal by Wincanton Transport Ltd, against its conviction by magistrates at Risbridge, Suffolk, of using a heavy goods...

Leadership... P and M Transport, of Bradford, has appointed a new director, Cliff Leader. He takes on responsibility for...

EAGLE Wings Ltd., of IV erwell Way, West Thur Essex, was fined nearly £ by Grays Magistrates o charges of using lorries out...

A new import entry form i be introduced by HM Cust and Excise from Novembe It will replace most exis forms, but those for trans...

iminer at Dover, said when stopped a lorry in a routine ?ck, last September, the ver told him he did not have permit. But a...

A proposal by Norfolk County Council to ban heavy goods vehicles from the centre of King's Lynn has been turned down. The...

MANY hauliers in the Eastern Borders area are "on the breadline". That is the message of a campaign launched by the Eastern...

Customs conference THE British Shippers' Council and the CBI are to sponsor a one-day conference on the EEC Customs Union in...

WHYTE'S Coaches, Newmachar, who hope to operate tours of one day and longer from Aberdeen, had their application continued by...

LLANDOVERY, Dyfed, saw the inaugeration of a new post service this week. The service — first to be introduced in Britain as...

JON Simon, of Vehicle Parks, who operate the new West London. coach park in Ashburn Mews, next to Gloucester Road tube station,...

IS elderly Daimler CVG6 ible-decker, in service with adon Transport, is a mobile t-bed for its new Hestairnnis Dominator. ['he...

FUTURE bus fare increases should be only those necessitated by inflation, and far more rare than they are today, said John...

BUS STOPS Webster for Metro TREVOR Webster, sales and marketing director of Leyland's passenger vehicle division, is to join...

CHRYSLER'S Truck Division is launching a drawbar version of the Dodge Barreiros tractive unit at the Scottish Motor Show in...

TIPPER bodybuilders, E. Wilcox Ltd, of Peterborou is to sell complete tipp semi-trailers direct from St( starting next month....

)dies based on AHP or Crane vehauf semi-trailers with ubery Owen axles and onoleaf suspension. Tipping ar will be Edbro SD18...

PERKINS Engines, the Peterborough-based diesel engine maker, is involved in a three-year joint research programme with the...

Sunshine cure THE Bandalight GRP kit from Bondaglass-Vos, of Becken ham, Kent, is claimed to provide a fast, permanent and...

To meet the needs of engineers and others who need a field office, Carawagon International Ltd of Thames Street,...

DESPITE constant rumours to the contrary, Renault denies that the van version of its baby car the Renault 5, will be shipped...

A GRAND PLAN FOE FREIGHT... PROPOSALS for a grand plan of fully integrated freight complexes up and down the country, and...

have always found it iscinating that the various lassis manufacturers have -oduced so many different lb designs while working...

is basically true: but it is not quite that simple. The cab structure has had a number of modifications made for the Ford...

Stephen Gray finds the Volvo tipper with Allison transmission, a pleasur• to drive Photos: Dick Ross WHEN we tried a Volvo F86...

TOGETHER with my colleagues I would like to bask undisturbed in the warm glow of success attributed to my company in CM July...

starved of cash as a result of inadequate rates, ignoring for as long as possible the frightening cost of new vehicles and...

Reel aVe • • al I was interested to read the article in CM July 8 — 'Get rid of the two year olds', and fully concurwith Mr....

I am a Class 1 driver, my question is: Why is it these big haulage firms on Continental work never seem to be interested when...

article 'Haulier's Burden' (CM July 1 in order to clear up a few misconceptions in the article. Mr Johnson credits the Floc...

'various shapes. Some, like the Volvo F88, offer suspension seats that can be set to suit the individual's height and weight....

AST week, we published the CM LDoY round-up, gave hints as to possible winners, loked at the course and published a map of the...

IF you've never had a windscreen go, you can't begin to appreciate the terror of the moment. I had one go recently: it went off...

;IR John Cohen (prefers Jack), the Tesco supremo, never changes. At his final dinner as Master of le Worshipful Company of...

But 'bolt-on goodies' are a waste of money says Stephen Gray 'SINCE the influx of foreignmade vehicles onto the British market...

by Ron Douglas WE all, at times, get so wound up in our own particular problems that we are unable to appreciate other...

and a box body added in Britain, seems an unlikely combination. But that is just what we have with the new Magirus Deutz 90 D...