i T WAS INEVITABLE that the horrific multiple-vehicle crash involving a coach on the M6 would provoke an outcry about coaches,...

THE ACCENT is on 16-tonners next week. In one of our in-depth group tests, we put four of' the major 16-tonners through their...

THE TRANSPORT industry's last hope of stopping the Greater London Council's night and weekend lorry ban collapsed on Tuesday...

A MAJOR new campaign to get lorry drivers to slow down on motorways has been launched by Transport Minister Lynda Chalker. It...

United taken over "I he 13unzi paper group has launched an agreed takeover bid tbr United Parcels and looks set to clean up...

THE EiUNZL paper group seems set to buy United Parcels following a bid launched this week, and has firmly declared an intention...

HE POST OFFICE is seeking Government authority to break into the heavier parcel market which is now the preserve of private...

SHUTTLE coach operator Derek Randall Enterprises slates late delivery of coaches as one of the major reasons for its failure....

THE EEC COMMISSION is making a new bid to draft Common Market Regulations on the layout and construction of lorry cabs,...

EIGHTY-FOUR per cent of all commercial vehicles operated by the 800 member companies of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing...

THERE are few signs of a 10-year decline in the UK motor industry being reversed in the future, judging by a Society of Motor...

AS EAGLE-eyed readers have probably noted already, the caption to the cover advertisement on the contents page ot last week's...

CUSTOMS procedures will be revolutionised by the construction of a fixed Channel link, Freight Transport Association...

LEEDS and Bradford lorry drivers have followed their Scottish counterparts by seeking a £10 increase in their basic wage rates...

LAST YEAR'S pre-tax loss by Renault Truck Industries of E10.2 million represents an eight per cent improvement over 1983's...

A FIXED CI1ANNEL link of any kind was dismissed as an "unnecessary enterprise" by Sir James Duncan. chairman of the giant...

PETER GENT has joined PETS (Precision Equipment Transport Services), the Woking, Surrey-based specialist in moving high-tech...

DAVID POLLOCK succeeds Philip Frazier as managing director of Hyster Europe. Pollock was vicepresident of the international...

SPD, now the division of the NEC Distribution Group specialising in common user distribution services, has appointed three...

ALAN PEELING, formerly technical services engineer (bus operations) for London Buses, is now fleet engineer with Southern...

PLANNING RESEARCH & SYSTEMS (PRS), the London-based international consultancy, has promoted Keith Hobbs, who joined the group...

DON MORGAN, transport manager for the past 13 years at Smiths Crisps, died suddenly aged 53. He had worked there since 1968 and...

PREMIER Travel Services has appointed Ken Standen to manage its coach tours division at Kings Hedges Road, Cambridge. He...

BOB EDGE has been appointed secretary of Tozer Kernsley & Millbourn (Holdings). He has been secretary of Wadham Stringer, Tozer...

fast parcels market HE CROWDED express arcels market has gained nother competing operator n Network Overnight, a fedration of...

TNT DESPATCH POST, the private sector's main rival for the Post Office's parcel service, may expand into high street...

COLCIIESIER Borough Council is to consider a planning application for a lorry park, restaurant and filling station on the A 12...

FUTURE policy for roads in cities is to be aired at a conference in London this month, at which Woolworth's distribution chief...

guide to drivers' hours rules which, he believes, does not explain what is meant by the term "continuous driving". Judge...

HAULAGE FIRMS which allow their drivers to park lorries overnight in residential areas should be stripped of their operator...

SALFORD Van Hire, the truck rental and contract hire business, has doubled its contract hire fleet in less than a year. Last...

A l'k(xiltAMME. to rationalise Birmingham City Council's internal transport service is already yielding savings of .C60,000 a...

firm — have failed to block Lex Wilkinson's application for an operator's licence for its Massey Ferguson contract in...

THE FIRST right-hand drive Iveco Daily vans and chassis cabs with the turbocharged direct injection 2.5-litre diesel engine...

IV EGO'S revised eightwheeler with a more powerful Deutz air-cooled engine and die standard Ivey() cab in place of the low...

1 trucks of the future will be offered with a range of weight saving options to overcome the problem of the weight of its...

SERVICES in the PTE areas and parts of the National Bus Company's territory were hit by a 'Fransport and General Workers' Union...

HEREFORD trial area independent Dennis D. Buchanan has been granted authority by the West Midlands Traffic Commissioners for...

LEYLAND BUS and Walter Alexander ((:oachbuilders) of Falkirk are both to benefit from a 1:24 million order for new British Rail...

YEARS of decline in the use of Strathclyde PTE's Glasgow city bus services were arrested in the year to March 31 when it also...

NEOPLAN USA Finnish electric traction specialist Stromberg, and the Garrett Corporation have co-operated to produce a dual-mode...

FRANSPOR'I Minisict Lynda Chalker has ruled out the idea of introducing a system of public inquiries when public service...

EFFORTS to control the novement and parking of :oaches around London's Vicoria coach station have been )locked by the...

A "DEVIOUS PLOT has been hatched to damage the reputation of George Day's Heart of England Tours company, Traffic...

LUNAR MODULE, the Luton minibus operator, has failed to block a National Bus Company subsidiary's plans to operate a rival...

LONDON Regional 'Transport's third round of tenders is for nine routes currently operated by London Buses and one by London...

LONDON COUNTRY Green Line has launched a high-specification coach service along the M25 ringway between Gatwick and Heathrow...

BY ADDING the G230 and G290 tractive units (CM, October 19) to its UK product range, Renault Truck Industries is now competing...

COST SAVINGS with Boalloy's Tautliner Grainliners over the past six months have led Copenhagen Transport to order 10 more. A...

A COMPACT power unit for bulk tipping semi-trailers has been built by Tamplin Engineering. The unit can compensate for reduced...

AFTER MONTHS of speculation, Freight Rover has finally been named as the first customer for GKN's composite springs. But...

A NEW trailer repair specialist opened in West London last week. The venture is called King Pin and has developed a family...

THE LATEST Joloda pallet loading system helps Freshbake refrigerated distribution to keep axle loading Its Ford Cargo 0811 with...

JOST, Europe's largest fifth wheel and landing leg manufacturer, has developed a replaceable wearing ring insert for fifth...

SPICER Power Products of Wolverhampton has re-engineered its Chelsea 910 and 911 series of power take-off transmission units to...

Freight Roper's 1986 model line-up has changed little outwardly, but includes a number of important detailed revisions...

THE SHERPA'S dashboard, controls and interior trim have all been improved. Like Mercedes-Benz, FR has started using fibre...

LAND ROVER has modified its luxury workhorse, the Range Rover, with significant changes to engines, transmissions and...

SEATING SPECIALIST Restall Brothers, of Warley, is now offering folding rear-seat kits for Bedford Astramax and Fiat Fiorino...

VOLKSWAGEN's 4)(4 Transporter — the Synchro (CM, March 9) will not be available in the UK until early 1986, but light...

DACIA's Roinanian-buili 4x4 GLX Duster will have a revised specification for 198(t which includes an updated dashboard with...

L ORD Chapple of Hoxton called hauliers sitting ducks — then let fly with both barrels. He was addressing one of the RI - IA's...

.N4 EM BERSHIP of the RHA is up this year for the first time since the early 1970s, director general Freddie Plaskett...

N 0"1" BAD, but nild do better was hauliers' imerpretation of Western Area Licensing Authority John Carpenter's opinion of the...

T HE DECLINE of British truck manufacturing was mapped out by Leyland Trucks UK operations director Robin Woolcock. The state...

T HE GULF between what RI IA hauliers and the Department of Transport wants on operator licensing and enforcement was driven...

0 IL PRICES stirred up most feeling at this year's conference. One haulier asked the RHA to arrange a boycott of one major...

p ENSIONS will become a vital issue for all hauliers if the Government presses ahead with its plans for the abolition of the...

S TRONG SUPRORT for the Road I hulage Association's campaign For a defence of due diligence against overloading prosecutions...

B E POS1T1VE about cabotage, hauliers were urged by Government spokesman Lord Brabazon of Tara. "We cannot cling to the idea...

CM looks at the possible implications of a 60mph speed limit and third-lane ban for coaches C OACH operators and drivers and...

While brewers' distribution vehicles with dramatically lower platforms are appearing: modifications to current designs are not...

. . WHERE RAIL CAN HELP ROAD BRITIM I Rail's hatred of road transport has reached almost paranoic levels in the past....

N OW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the Certificate of Professional...

WHAT AN OIL FILTER CAN DO DURING the afternoon and early evening of July 25, an empty 1977 (Sregistered) Dodge 16-tonner rigid...

broader choice of power and driveline and is :I better pertOrmer than the previous model. So the competition should not allow...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT "IF a haulier's sole reason for noncompliance with the law is the absence of the necessary resources, the...

have their ups and downs, as my friends at INT tell me. Only the other day, they took sonic of their Despatch Post tilling...

- 1-lOW can I make a profit? My customers won't pay illything like what it costs Inc to operate." "lhat was a recurring theme...

First, keep fuel in bulk and sited in the least cold spot; move to winter grade derv; and regard today's larger choice of fuel...

There is an excellent precedent for temperature controlled radiator shutters: until 1958 the vertical vanes in the famous...

Is there a new hot heir apparent in the world of cab heaters? Jack Semple investigates. A LORRY driver can stay warm when he...

In the Highlands they know about snow and cold weather. Karen Miles has been finding out how Scottish Road Services' Inverness...