If British vehicle operators choose to replace their existing fleets with imported products then the men on the assembly lines...

ider for positive action ainst "cowboy" clearing uses have drawn a cautious Ica me from Road Haulage so iation chairman John...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE's Solihull dial-a-bus service has been replaced by a conventional route using the same midibuses. Begun in...

A TENDER of £4.33 million from Sir Alfred McAlpine and Son (Northern) Ltd for the 23/4-mile length of the M56 between Stoak and...

kG RUS DEUTZ is launching a new 24-ton six-wheeler at the :emotional Commercial Motor Show next month. Designated 232D 26FK,...

:EIGHT forwarder, the Lep Group of Companies, has opened office in Swindon. It will concentrate initially on arranging the...

THE DECISION of 48,000 Ford workers to strike in support of a pay claim increase in excess of the Government's five per cent...

MIDDLESBROUGH-bE Beeline, part of Eilerm Travel and Leisure DiViE has acquired a coaching ' in Scotland. It bought the busines...

ARSON is suspected following a Elm fire at National Carriers Ltd's Gloucester depot last weekend. A man was questioned by...

THE Volkswagen LT range is to be extended for 1979. Makin, UK debut at the Birmingham Commercial Motor Show wil the LT 45...

RNMENT proposals for onthly examinations of )ad tankers are meeting with PP sition from some oil and ical companies. s follows...

BUSINESS NEWS Better BET BRITISH and overseas road transport operations helped boost the British Electric Traction Company's...

TRUCKS are aiming at n o tput of 15,000 vehicles for 97 . This compares with 3,0 0 for 1977 and slightly less n' 1 78. e...

LIE British Association of wn r Drivers announced this ee that it now has 11 freight 'fie s between Devon and 'es Yorkshire....

l e up... TA1N is the first European country in which MAN and kswagen are establishing joint distribution companies. om...

107AL of 30,409 goods icles were registered in the during August this year — 8 more than in the same od ast year. rovisional...

THE Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders officials have resolved the problem of footbridge access to a car park on the...

A DEPOT for 200 vehicles for Mitchell Cotts Transport was opened this week in Plymouth. Television personality Angela Rippon...

CHESHIRE County Council wants to ban tankers from the Runcorn-Widnes high-level bridge, as well as from the Mersey Tunnel. A...

TRANS Promotions Ltd, specialist management training consultant firm in transport and physical distribution, has organised a...

FOUR purpose-built accident unit vehicles have been handed over to South Yorkshire Police to deal with highspeed collisions on...

New trailers for old TRANSPORT operators who sign an agreement to buy or lease a Crane Fruehauf or Dennison dry freight, insu...

A DRIVER would be justified in refusing to take out an unroadworthy vehicle, ruled a Leeds industrial tribunal — but it still...

FOLLOWING a protest, the results of Class A of the CM Lorry Driver of the Year Competition have been altered. They now read:...

CAVE Wood (Transport) Ltd who represent the ro-ro and container services of Messina Lines of Genoa, operating regular services...

HATCHER Components Ltd, manufacturer of commercial vehicle accessories, will be introducing the Hatcher Slipstreamer at the NEC...

JG ESTIONS have been ad that the 250,000 tons of pn required over a period of nths for runway repairs td tensions at Manchester...

IN THE first year of operating a drawbar combination in place of an articulated outfit, Barber (DAF) Ltd, a transport company...

THE TRANSPORT Department has issued a new list of approved tachograph calibration centres. Additions to the list, which is...

CRANE Fruehauf Ltd is to produce a simple-to-maintain alternative to the corrugatedsteel or aluminium-clad ISO containers....

Confirmed bookings already amount to 320 and the RHA is urging prospective delegates to book early, as latecomers run the risk...

eight-wheel tipper . ew grp tanker A NEW eight-wheeler aimed specifically at the tipper market has been introduced by DAF....

THE LONG-AWAITED 6LXC from Gardner will finally make its appearance at the National Exhibition Centre for the Motor Show....

CHANGES to the Ford DSeries and Transcontinental models are announced today, with improvement in fuel economy being one of the...

SP TE comparing all the fer nt types of new generan d uble-deckers available vI eptember 15) on its ser:e 5 , South Yorkshire...

COMMUNITY bus regulations have been laid before Parliament to implement the provisions in the 1978 Transport Act about...

THE FIRST of Scottish Bus Group's 1979 intake of Leyland National single-deckers were delivered this month. The 11.3m A-Series...

VOITH fully automatic gearboxes are now being offered as factory-fitted options on Volvo Ailsa double-deckers. Following...

R YSHIRE bodybuilder Reeve Burgess Ltd last week delivd e 100th Reebur 17 minicoach based on the Bedford CF lSS S. 'h Reebur...

IN ORDER to ensure that T. E. K. Roscoe and A. W. Wood, trading as Blue Cars, Ruskington Drive, Leicester renew their fleet of...

IF RURAL public transpi improves, it may speed the cline of rural communiti claims a report entitled 7 Decline of Rural Servic...

KINGSMAN Coaches of Harpenden, Hertfordshire celebrated its victory in a recent battle in the Traffic Commissioners' court to...

WITH interest in articulated buses growing in many parts oft world, Scania in Brazil has co-operated with local bodybuilc Caio...

CRITICISM of Common Market transport management comes from Transport Minister William Rodgers and two of his top civil...

a d wipe clean. trovan GRP, is the new wipe clean truck van body from York Truck E ipment. It's a strong yet light integral...

f0 R VIEW of the Post Mi e is probably like mine Ise • to be. All very parochial Ind mall, with little red vans, 'ilia boxes,...

operators warn& THE GOVERNMENT will continue to support local bus services — no one who heard John Horam, Parliamentary...

01 the 2,600 or so cornonents that go together to lak€ a vehicle of this size, just ifer 600 items are common either to the 200...

oes the CPC exam reflect the needs of the modern transport idustry, or is it only a theoretical qualification? Before venturing...

IS the day of the salesman transport management. we you noticed how the anber of top jobs, escially in the State sector of e...

All MacGraw I ATTENDED a preview of Convoy recently (on London release now). It was directed by Sam Peckinpah, whose name I...

HOPE you will not think too adl of us if I put forward some epl es to your judges' om ents about our entry to the 'Liv ry of...

CM readers are likely to fall for bland conclusions unsupported by facts and yet he, in his letter (CM, August 25) produces not...

May I say Commercial Motor made a very enjoyable day for me on September 3 at Cranfield Aerodrome. I'm not connected with road...

The time when general haulage lorries were run for seven years and contract vehicles for five years have passed in Western...

Science is a wonderful thing. It enables anyone who thinks bridges are cissy to drop a vel icle with unerring accuracy in the...

A man was described in The Daily Telegraph as - aged 5ft 9in tall" and born on "May 1 /8, 1951." What he did on the other 7...

The three posters, of which nearly 60,000 copies were distributed by the Road Haulage Association's Vehicle Security Committee...

Thirty-six schoolgirls who made an educational tour by rail to Galway left the train in such spotless condition that CIE, the...

"Residents are being asked to nominate the ugliest spots in East Sussex,'' a newspaper reports. My bride would gladly have...

News that Russian road-going vehicles will make their first appearance at the Commercial Motor Show at Birmingham next month...

Until the other day I thought Tralee's only claim to fame was the rose whose beauty was so fervently extolled by the late John...

"That's Life,' the BBC television programme, has established a cult of complaining in verse. It has been followed by a girl...

The new assistant manager at the Manchester office of Anchor Euro Transport Ltd is Allen Fowler. He comes to Anchor with...