I T OBVIOUSLY makes a lot of sense for Bedford to build a Japanesedesigned microvan in Britain. For a company which made a loss...

CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is being urged again to reverse his plan to phase out first year capital allowances...

I veco/Ford merger? lveco and Ford seem certain to co-operate closely, if not merge their truck-making activity in the near...

BRS denied union claims this week that its drivers were to be asked to break a picket line in the dispute between Mirror Group...

A MAJOR joint venture between Ford and Iveco, Fiat's commercial vehicle manufacturing arm, possibly involving a complete merger...

NEARLY seven per cent of drivers questioned in the first international survey of compliance with the EEC's social legislation...

"legal tangle" over drivers' hours, Freight Transport Association president Dennis Hutchings said this week. Speaking to FTA...

VOLVO TRUCKS •(Great Britain) is to re-apply next year for classification by the Society Of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as...

AULIERS will be faced ith the choice of another oil-on/off freight route to the - :ontinent next year when l'ruckline Ferries...

GLC ban fight goes on THE. FREIGI Illransport Association has called for another meeting with Transport Secretary Nicholas...

THE ROUTIERS Drivers Club is postponing its threatened boycott of Granada motorway service areas pending a high level meeting...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S prestigious Advertising Awards for 1985 were presented at a ceremony during the Scottish Motor Show last...

JRRY DRIVERS should be wing down fewer potholes the road if — as seems kely — the Government ;i:cepts new recommendations to...

LARNE HARBOUR is to undergo a £3 million investment to maintain its position as Northern Ireland's busiest ferry port, the...

THE MILL WOOD Rubber Company has won an order worth over £100,000 to fit spray suppression equipment of 2,000 Rentco trailers...

EAST SUSSEX County Council's campaign to catch overloaded lorries has been strengthened by the opening of an inland dynamic...

N TH-W STERN Licensing Aut arity Roy Hutchings has en ordered to reconsider a night and weekend ban on naintenance or movement...

BILL WARDLE, UK sales manager for ERF for the past 19 years, has joined newlyformed MAN-Volkswagen franchise Kilbuck...

MELVILLE MUNRO ROSS, who had a haulage contractors' business in Forgandenny, Tayside, for many years, has died in New Zealand...

Charles Warner had spent his entire working life in the business started by his father, Harold, in 1922. Today the group...

NEW plant manager, Dunstable Trucks, Bedford Commercial Vehicles, is James Cirar. He succeeds Ralph Langshaw, who WAS promoted...

AFTER nearly three years in France as head of Leyland subsidiary, Leyland Vehicules Industriels, Roger Dougherty returns to the...

OPERATIONS officer for Alder Valley, Richard Soper has been appointed traffic manager of Alder Valley South, one of the two...

BP Oil's biggest Midlands distributor, Hartwells Oils of Oxford, has appointed Les Davies as its Midlands area manager. The...

A 100 per cent success rate was achieved by the 23 students of EP Training Services of Esher, Surrey, who sat the October 4...

A MANAGEMENT board which has been set up to oversee the transition to independent commercial operation of Greater Manchester...

COAL CONVOY work in the miners' strike led a South Yorkshire haulier and • seven of its drivers to appear before Doncaster...

POLICE have warned early morning motorists near Felixstowe to beware of ice flying from the tops of container lorries left in...

WILSONS of Guisely, the Yorkshire-based manufacturer of Silver Cross prams, has changed its packing methods so that it can...

THE ROAD Haulage Association is going ahead with plans for its fourth overseas conference next year. Following the attraction...

by a special correspondent MIDDLESBROUGH haulier D. H. Pearson and Son has overcome North Yorkshire County Council and...

WAN/L, a manufacturer of supermarket trolleys, has had a Mercedes-Benz lorry fitted with a specially-designed Besco body for...

THE 1986 Ordnance Survey one-inch-to-ten-miles Routeplanner map of Britain has been published and is available for %42.10.

THE "HURD edition of the Distribution Services Directory, last published in 1980, is to become available early next year. The...

AN ESSEX haulage company admitted carrying a load in a dangerous condition and was fined 1:250 by Ipswich magistrates last...

EEC COMMISSION proposals to liberalise road transport of goods to and from ports could cause more problems than they solve. MEN...

A HEE haulage contractor has been fined 5125,000 at Edinburgh High Court for VAT frauds involving £107,000, and attempted tax...

trailer theft ALAN BLAKEY, a director of three Lincolnshire haulage companies, has been cleared of allegations that he stole...

A NEW 13-tormer, - a stronger 16-tonner and a ZF six-speed gearbox on selected middleweight chassis make up Bedford's TL model...

VAC, is to lower the threshold for turbocharging on its LT vans and chassis cabs from early 1986. Until now turbocharging has...

PEUGEOT "FALBOT hopes to introduce a four-wheeldrive version of its 504 onetonne pick-up next year. The all-wheel drive...

THE FIRST of Neville Charrold's redesigned Ratesaver steel tipping semi-trailers has been supplied to R and T Ritchie, of West...

BEDFORD, with exports this year 40 per cent up on 1984, and Ford have scored significant export successes. The sale of Bedford...

BY THE END of this year all the 500 Esso Petroleum lorries will be equipped with anti-lock brakes. Esso began its anti-lock...

FORD is set to ro11oW Volvo in using disc brakes on both axles of its six to 12 tonnes GVW range in Europe. It seems likely...

CSC SPECIALISED VEHICLES of Newport Pagnell has built two Post Office trailers for the London Postal Region. They arc scheduled...

THE PRICES of exchange brake shoes from Multipart — Leyland's all-makes commercial vehicle parts subsidiary — have been reduced...

OPTARE, the bodybuilder established by redundant Leyland workers, has announced details of its City Pacer 25 midibus designed...

GETTING in on the Act is the title for the next Bus and Coach Council annual coaching symposium to be held in Birmingham from...

MAN has reconfirmed its intention to go on selling coaches in the highly competitive and uncertain British market by launching...

EDBRI1)GE Truck and Bus of Wakefield is offering to repower Leyland Leopard and AEC: Reliance coaches with new or reconditioned...

A CROWN Court has been asked for a ruling on whether drivers are still on duty when their coaches arc locked up overnight in a...

LONDON BUSES is changing its bus maintenance procedures and will carry out ['LOSE Of the work in fouryearly major bus overhauls...

THE BUS and Coach Council has lodged a formal cornplaint with the EEC's competition division, alleging restrictive trade...

SPANIS1 I coachbuilder Ayats is poised to re-enter the British market with its high floor Apollo and Diana coach bodies.

at GMT GREATER Manchester's Joint Transport Board members have now been appointed and will act as the area's shadow transport...

PREMIER lRAVLL uf Cambridge took over the operations of Young's Coaches of Rampton, near Cambridge, yesterday (Friday)....

T HE SCOTTISH Motor Show has always been different. It brings together i-i a unique way the three main parties involved in t ie...

rwo Scottish operators explain what they were looking for at the show y Oti CAN read on page 34 what the vehicle manufacturers...

COACH and bus operators who went to the Scottish Motor Show expecting an extensive public service vehicle presentation will...

BROADER BASE, THINNER ON TOP F 1RST we spoke to J. T. Battenberg Ill, chief executive and general manager of Bedford...

load space is far more important. The traditional answer for these buyers has always been to purchase a long-wheelbase chassis...

AMID the publicity which has come in the wake of the recent spate of coach crashes, it is perhaps inevitable that there would...

I SEE we are closing the barn door after the horse has bolted again. When are these deskbound bureaucrats going to seek the...

Renault engineers reckon to have achieved half their targets so far in a research enterprise culminating in this lab on wheels....

D OES a governor limiting a coach to 70mpli without provision to override it ( - Mist: danger by depriving the driver of extra...