LEYLAND VEHICLES' decision to close its Bathgate plant is undoubtedly disastious for those employed there. LV's management must...

OPERATORS ARE being given what could be their last chance of obtaining any down-licensing concession from the Department of...

THE WORST MAY be over for the National Freight Consorti um's parcels group whose outstanding wages impasse has ended. Parcels...

LESS THAN a year after it assured its workforce that they had a secure future, Leyland Trucks last week announced the closure...

VOLVO TRUCKS appears to have turned the economic corner and is planning to recruit over 100 new employees in Sweden later this...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley has poured cold water on the latest proposals for a twin-bore tunnel across the Channel....

THE GOVERNMENT decision to shut down Bathgate was greeted with fury by Opposition MPs despite ministerial pledges to do all...

A NEW EEC Commission forecast year for the Community road ha the railways, reports our Brussels indicates that 1984 will be a...

MERCEDES-BENZ's transport consultancy service has been extended to include computerised traffic simulation based on a test run...

HEAVY LORRIES are not the main pipes, the Freight Transport Asso Department of Transport inquiry. It has submitted its views to...

GOVERNMENT policies for highway management will be overcentralised and unnecessarily expensive, the Association of Metropolitan...

REFRIGERATED lorries and tippers are being offered by two BRS Truck Rental companies as part of their expansion in the market....

TRANSPORT COSTS have climbed by five per cent, according to the latest figures from the Freight Transport Association. But its...

YORK'S DEVICE for automatically applying the brakes of a reversing vehicle when it touches something has been renamed the...

exec sec THE EUROPEAN Transport Maintenance Council which held its first conference in Brussels in September last year will...

THE INSTITUTION of Mechanical Engineers has published the papers presented at its Driveline conference held earlier this year....

Dodge EXHIBITS AT last week's International Fire Conference and Exhibition, at the NEC, included the first Dodge G13 fire...

TWO NEW duties have come in one week for David Yeomans, managing director of Wincanton Group. As of June 1 he takes a seat on...

FORD commercial vehicles salesman PAUL EDEN-SMITH has started with Charthire Services as contracts manager. He will be...

THE CHELTENHAM-BASED tipping gear and hydraulics company, Telehoist, has appointed David Farrar as its managing director. His...

AS PART of a plan to strengthen its commercial vehicle recovery operation, National Breakdown Recovery Club has appointed four...

AN UNDER-SECRETARY at the Treasury, Timothy Lankester, has joined the board of Ocean Transport and Trading as a nonexecutive...

JOHN ASHMORE has left a fleet manager's job in industry to form a transport management organisation for West Sussex County...

NATIONAL Freight Consortium points out that VICTOR PAIGE is still a deputy chairman (CM, May 19).

TVVO KEY sales appointments were announced last week by Pickfords Removals. Bob Wiper has left Hoults Removals, where he was...

Roe factory blow ANOTHER LEYLAND BUS assembly plant is being closed this year, but the company is dismissing predictions of...

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL has provided a 12-seater Ford Transit minibus for the county's fourth community minibus scheme....

INDEPENDENT MINIBUS operator Alastair Kendall has introduced a London Victoria Railway Station to Coach Station shuttle...

AROUND 86 REGULAR international coach services operated by 36 coach operators from all over Europe are listed in the second...

THE NUMBER of people travelling by bus in Scotland rose last year for the first time in 30 years. According to the annual...

LEICESTER CITY Transport has lost its fight to retain the early stop sign restrictions that have protected the undertaking's...

INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT company Sea Route Ferry of Manchester has hired 10 new tri-axle tilt trailers from Trailerent. Five...

TRYING to forecast the future is dangerous enough. Trying to forecast what future generations will think of our actions is even...

THE 1982 Transport Act's environmental controls over hauliers' operating centres are now in force. It will be some time before...

A face-lift and more power from existing engine options, coupled with a competitive price tag, should make Toyota's van an...

THE MARK Vane Memorial Award is the project launched last year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road...

As phase two of Hereford and Worcester's privatisation of bus services looms, Noel Millier finds no shortage of bidders for...

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

All in the mixed bag of topics at last month's IRTE conference. It is clear that the "new" weight limit is still a prominent...

Software is becoming more flexible, and hardware prices are softening. Jack Semple looks at the advantages and pitfalls to...

The Transport Development Group is something of an 'eminence grise` in the transport business. The 130 subsidiary companies in...

As James Cameron settles into his new job as director-general of the Chartered Institute of Transport, David Wilcox asks him...

an lsuzu-based, one tonne payload van. Meanwhile the heavier CF has been given a new lease of life. Tim Blakemore inspects the...

BIG CHANGES have taken place over the past ten years in the standards of establishments catering for drivers. Gone are the days...