REGRETTABLE though it is that 1,000 people at the National Freight Consortium are to be made redundant, NEC cannot be...

POLICE have started initial inquiries into complaints from hauliers about freight forwarder H&G European of Ilford, Essex (CM,...

ONE OF THE National Freight Consortium's loss-making parcels companies could disappear nest year if there is no recovery in its...

THE LAST outstanding collective wage agreement for the current pay round was settled last week when Devon and Cornwall...

HAULIERS denied strongly this week that the given them an opportunity of earning sky-high illegally. miners' strike has rates...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's national tipping service has made a generous gesture to our Ethiopian Send a Spare Fund. Roger...

ENTRIES are coming in from all over Europe for this year's Truckfest at Peterborough on Easter Sunday and Monday, April 7 and...

LOCAL authority vehicle maintenance and refuse collection services will be put out to competitive tender under new Government...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium paid £6m to buy SPD from Unilever but it has turned down a chance of expanding instantly in the...

LEYLAND Vehicles' former managing director Ron Hancock, summonsed on a charge of illegal insider share dealing, has been put on...

NATIONAL Freight Consortium shares are now worth 10 times their value three years ago, but shareholders have turned down plans...

HIGH RATES charged by Sheffield City Council could drive the National Freight Consortium out of the city, NFC chairman Sir...

THE SECOND case to come up for appeal at the Transport Tribunal over the new environmental operator licensing regulations has...

MERSEY Tunnel tolls are to go up from the end of April. One way journeys for heavy vehicles will go up from £1 to £1.20, and...

BOB ROBINSON, the Transport and General Workers' Union's longest-serving road haulage district secretary, retires next week...

THE FOURTH divisional manager under the restructuring of Southdown Motor Services has been appointed. Stephen Noble is to...

THE JOB of sales and marketing director, Leyland Trucks, has been filled by GAVIN BARLAS. It was vacated after CHRIS WOODWARK...

PHILL GREEN has joined Northampton commercial vehicle bodybuilder Besco Bodies as quality and administration manager. He was...

CHIEF engineer of Lancaster City Council Passenger Transport Department will be Gordon Jones, following the retirement at the...

ALTHOUGH Chingford, Essex haulier Albert Abbott claimed he had broken down on the way to Coleshill Magistrates Court, he was...

DRIVERS who sleep in their cabs and save their tax-free overnight subsistence money are putting their lives at risk, a...

A BID by Cleethorpes international haulier Peter Hooper, trading as Petrans International, to renew his operator's licence has...

SWEDEN may become the first country in Europe to levy a special charge on lorry drivers and other travellers who arrive at the...

AN EXTRA one-day seminar on the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations is being held by...

A REVISED range of Big Chief tipping semi-trailers is being offered by York Trailer. Production of 1985 models, available as...

THE SCAPA Hy-Flo range of tipping gears has been extended to include tipping frames. To aid bodybuilding and speed up...

RENAULT Truck Industries has re-entered the UK mixer market with a 6x4 Dodge Commando G24M mixer chassis. The 4.3m (169in)...

By Tim Blakemore And many are unhappy at the conflicting advice they are receiving from different quarters on the best way to...

FORD and Scammell Motors are among the six prizewinners in this year's British Motor Industry category of the Design Council...

TRANSPORT Minister David Mitchell scored eight out of 10 when he spoke on the Transport Bill at the annual Bus and Coach...

PHYSICAL action against British coach operators is being threatened by the Coach Tourism Council of Ireland which is affiliated...

GOVERNMENT failure to respond to a request for grant aid towards the cost of West Yorkshire PTE's £5.9m trolleybus service for...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley said this week that he hoped the tax relief provisions to enable National Bus Company...

FIAT UK has added diesel-engined models to its Ducato van and chassis cab range powered by the 2.5-litre Sofim 8.144.61...

A THREE-SPEED automatic gearbox is now available as an option on Renault 1,647cc petrol-engined Trafic T1000 vans and minibus...

ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES of Swindon has developed a range of low ground pressure, cross-country vehicles including two...

these Dusters DACIA Concessionaires, the UK importers of Romanian-built Duster light 4X4 vehicles and one-ton pick-ups, has...

RENOLD GEARS has won a £34,000 order to supply transmission units to Freight Rover for electric Sherpa vans. The order is the...

A MORE POWERFUL version of the S2LT 2-tonne underbody tipping gear produced by Anthony Carrimore of Harelaw, County Durham,...

asbestos-free r and d WHILE improved safety standards are usually attributable to legislation, in the case of nonasbestos...

MAY we through the medium of your magazine ask if any passenger vehicle operators, has, or is considering for disposal, a...

I READ the letter from Mr Hardie (CM, February 9) about Volvo outmatching Multipart and other competition regarding VOR parts...

IN RESPONSE to Terry Hardie's letter (CM, February 9) good for Terry — he has a sense of humour. The Multipart VOR guarantee...

I READ with great interest and at the same time great concern statements contained in the article (CM, February 16: ADDed value...

MOST fair-minded operators and managers would probably agree that road haulage depots are not always the easiest of neighbours...

by George Malcolm Mixed feelings about tax changes MEMBERS of the Road Haulage Association will have noticed that a survey...

Ever hopeful of an increase in the 38-tonne gross vehicle weight limit, many operators are upgrading their vehicles by fitting...

Air springs, rubber, parabolic leaf, torsion bar and, before long, even fibre reinforced plastic or composite springs . . . in...

In five years' time half of the trailers running in Britain could be air suspended, according to one manufacturer. Better ride...

Profit or greed? THE TOP PEOPLE of any trade association have, like the original Janus, to look in two directions...

The Cranfield Centre for Transport Studies aims to bring fleet operators and suppliers together. In this series, Derek Wright...

Hauliers act while clerics argue WHILE the Church of England disputes theology, hauliers are doing something for its physical...

Why weight? THE ROW about lorry weights, in Westminster and Brussels, has been running longer even than the miners' strike....