This week's issue of CM is our annual Ferries Numbei with our ferries issues our continual aim is to provide better service to...

CF fight ails through to stop US bid HE VOLVO/SCANIA ierger is off. This weekend, he Volvo board decided to iscontinue...

CRANE Fruehauf's fight to stay independent is likely to resume after a Monopolies Commission report on the Fruehauf Corporation...

-IOLLOW PROMISES" on lad development in Scotnd" is how the British Road aderation and Transport ction Scotland describes the...

HESTAIR-DENNIS'S new double-decker, the Dennis Dominator, was officially launched last week when the Guildford based company...

THE GREATER Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive admits the services it runs are bad and need improving. In a major discussion...

GERMAN FREIGHT forwarders have joined British hauliers in condemning delays at Dover's Eastern Docks caused by Customs...

MORE THAN £1.1 million worth of Dodge commercial vehicles and Chrysler cars have been ordered by British Rail through Chrysler...

LEIGHT TRADE through whaven, in Sussex, is showing a 33 per it increase, this year, compared with 76. kart now, work has...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has published formal proposals for a new South Docks road in Hull. The new road would start at the...

IHREE SOUTH WALES com)anies had their applications or 0 licences refused by the _icensing Authority, at CarJiff, because none...

THE FINAL TESTS of dynamic weighing equipment at Barham, in Kent, were watched by John Horam, Parliamentary Under Secretary of...

k CHESHIRE operator with a leet of 30 lorries told a local nquiry at Sandbach that all us efforts to co-operate with...

Action mem ACTION in saving the life of a boy injured after touching a rail power line earned Freightliner maintenance shopman...

ovals • SHOULD there be a tariff system for removals? That is the question the British Association of Removers wants its...

FLEET OPERATORS will or more light vehicles can call on Fleetline, a recovery service desig specifically to meet tl needs....

FOUR CONVICTIONS, including two relating to axle overloads, led to Leonard Green (Haulage) Ltd, of Rotherham, being called to...

Reefer contract NORTHRAY Foods Ltd, of North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, has signed a five-year contract with Frigoscandia to own...

Campaign change BRITISH LEYLAND is to undeaake a campaign change on Atlantean double-deckers fitted with G2 automatic...

WEST MIDLAND Traffic Commissioners have departed from their policy of giving preference to the Passenger Transport Executive...

DINING the ranks of manutcturers who are announcing ew vehicles for the Frankfurt 'tow is MAN. The Munich company will e...

TRAILOR UK Ltd, the British subsidiary of Trailor SA of France, is to supply Continental style T1R trailers to UK operators....

DRK-SKIPMASTER skip handling bodies will now be available :-stock through York Truck Equipment Ltd's 12 factory . anches....

IN A MAJOR STEP to improve penetration of the world's largest diesel engine market, CAV is to begin manufacturing diesel fuel...

Main effect of the change is that, with the new "U-type", the position of the nave relative to the rim has been reversed...

DAF Trucks will be introdu leg a new tractive unit — tl 2100 series — at Frankfu show later this month. The new series has be(...

by the Technical Editor lternative engine, the DH825 ated at 112kW (152bhp), will ot be offered in the UK. The new machines...

VW debut VOLKSWAGEN has launched its first diesel engine for industrial use. Developed from the Golf engine, it develops 33kW...

awL Ugeg I have read your Special Report on Haulage Costs (CM August 12) as illustrated by Mr John Silbermann and as I am an...

How operators prepare emergency kits for Europe and Middle East EXPERIENCE teaches haulers running to the Continent ind the...

Crusaders and Merriworth trailers. Traffics consist of general goods, chemicals, and vehicles in ckd form. Runs are made to...

IN THE 10 YEARS since their introduction, Inland Customs Clearance Depots have smoothed the passage of containers and...

a CM seminar DIFFICULT though life may have been in the past few years as the economy recovers, and the signs are that it is...

HOVERLLOYD'S LondonParis coach/hovercraft service is good value for passengers with a return fare of £24 and a much quicker...

Fire extinguishers are a must TALK to almost any transport man about his worries and it is a safe bet that he will never...

if there's fog, he's glued to the bridge once under way. But besides this, virtually all that goes on is his responsibility....

THERE'S no surer way for an operator to economise on fuel than to get the message across to his drivers to take it easy on...

LIKE the British, Dutch hauliers are pioneering new overland routes to African States, but UK operators of DAFs will benefit as...

SINCE the enlargement of the European Economic Community to the Nine the demand for road freight in Europe has attracted a lot...

ANY HAULIER with suspicions about the methods by which his competitors succeed in under-cutting his rates will sympathise with...