the new F. .d Tr..s.t and the Channel tunnel decision. There will, it can only be hoped, a few more developments in this year...

has been dominated by one vehicle. Now, two million vehicles later, it is being replaced, by something which, at least, looks...

ERATORS have just 27 s before they are forced to !ept the reality of the :ater London Council's ht and weekend ban for ies over...

EST MIDLANDS Traffic munissioner Ronald JackLI gave express services and ach tour operators in his a pre-Christmas dressing...

THE N 11W 0-Licensing requirements have resulted in a big jump in objections, the annual reports for the Licensing Authorities...

LEYLAND VEHICLES, BL's truck, bus and parts subsidiary made a ..;61 million loss in 1984, its company accounts show. The...

HAULIERS' costs rose by 5.2 per cent in 1985, but rates increased on average by only two per cent, two separate surveys...

OPERATORS who use builders' skips must now make sure that when they are deposited on the highway they have red and yellow...

A PAYLOAD of over 25.5 tonnes, space for 26 loaded metric pallets and an unusual cross-braced load-restraint system are three...

FOLLOWING last month's Government invitation to the National Bus Company's management to buy their companies in preparation for...

LONDON Regional Trar port has awarded only a qui ter of the latest route tend( to its own bus subsidiary. While London Buses,...

YORK IRAILERS is reac to revolutionise the tipp market with a still sect trailer which it has bet testing over the past thr...

TER a two-day hearing • week, the Transport Triial imposed restrictions on use of a depot at Chobn, Surrey, by N I: I I...

Ft - sums] ll plans to beme the first Japanese light mmercial manufacturer to port a 3.5-tonne GVW )del into the UK. The new...

PLANS lbr one Of Britain's largest overnight lorry parks with drivers' facilities have been lodged with a West of Scotland...

A LORRY DRIVER jailed for causing death by reckless driving after he had been on a drinking spree in his tractive unit has...

AN ESSEX lorry driver has been cleared by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court of causing the death of a Cambridge car driver by...

GOVERNMENT and the transport industry need to cooperate to achieve greater efficiency in UK road transport, according to 1)avid...

THE EEC COMMISSION came under pressure this month to introduce harmonised rules to increase the minimum tyre depth tread on...

ALLEGED offences involvii the fraudulent use of vehic registration plates and ti forgery of international rot haulage permits...

ins Lowfields 'WFIELD Distribution has Iointed Dave Allen as rations director. 1 le joins in Ross Foods where he ;...

A SUCCESSOR to J. T. Battenberg III, Bedford's chic eNeClIti VC and general manager who left List month to take up a new post...

NEILL WI ARTON has been promoted from UK sales manager to sales director by George Neville Truck Equipment of...

FINANCIAL controller for 3 has been appointed by NFC Distribution Group. ii Stoneley joins the NFC tribution division, which ,...

TFIL ROA1) transport industry was not exactly inundated with awards in the New Year honours list: directors of shipping...

A RE I - 11W) haulage contractor has been honoured by the farming community he served in the Buchan area of NorthEast Scotland...

KASSBOHRER has started shipping its first 21 Australian specification 1 2 in Setra S2261)T Imperial double-deck coaches with...

GAC IRELAND, the Irish Republic's American-owned bus mannt:icturer, plans to lay off its entire worktOrce of 200 from this...

THE OPPORTUNITIES offered by deregulation will be highlighted in a series of seminars organised by the Department of Transport....

big export contracts LEYLAND BUS could soft the blow caused by the slur in home demand for tit double-deck buses with lar...

THE SHORT distance cor munter bus service in Taysil (CM December 14, 198 operated by Davidson Tray of Forfar between 1)und and...

13121 . 1 . 1S11 AIRWAYS ha ordered nine Scania K 11 single - deck buses for use a leathrow Airport. l'he 1 lin buses will...

1 . 111i EN I) of the spring, per cent of Ford's car-deed vans will be capable of ming on unleaded petrol — :n if ti:w petrol...

)ALE Emergency Products I Scarborough has produced new vehicle-mounted atixiliry alternator which can he tted to most light...

AFTER an absence of more than 15 years, Land Rover is to re-enter the US market with the Range Rover. A wholly-owned...

A HIGHER-powered diesel Ducato will be available From Fiat UK from March. The stroke of the Sotim 8144.61 indirect-injection...

ZASTAVA ((13), importer of the Yugoslavian-built Yugo light vehicle range hopes to extend its UK conimercial line-up with a...

FIFTY YEARS ago, the urban speed limit was introduced and to it was ascribed a fall in the accident rate. Twenty years ago,...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S maxim about the loss of a horse-shoe nail resulting in the demise of the rider is apposite to your report...

HAVING recently read the article "Pu: over — vehicles safety check" (CM, Jul 22), which I found very interesting, I would like...

1 . 1 IS EASY to forget, with all the "hype" over Christmas, that this supposedly happy time of year poses extra problems and...

MAY I. doubtless along with many others, point out the week's deliberate mistake in CM December 14 — or was it the Hunt the...

just putting loads on to lorries and sending them round the country. No matter how well that bit is done, it's whether or not...

WORKING out how long a vehicle should be kept in a fleet can be a bit of a black art unless a very simple formula of replacing...

A QUESTIONER at the Commercial Motor Road Show held recently in Swansea raised the issue of updating service personnel in the...

With the local training grants to employers two types of grants are available. These are training grants which offset the cost...

nditions are satisfied. It must be uenibered that these are local training nits: if employers are members of an iustrial...

— though many colleges provide this service free — by means or consultancy grants. Consultancy grants will only be considered...

scheme is to promote a significant increase in the level of awareness of' intOrmation technology in the adult work population...

. 11 IL VEHICLE Builders itnd Repairers Association (VBPA) is organising two Bodyshop exhibitons in die north of England in...

FOR MARKET SHARE Part of Dal's approach to selling trucks is to align itself with mass audience events such as the World's...

W I I AT will happen if the deregulation of bus operation under the Transport Act, 1985, is a disaster? Will the Department of...

TIME OF CHANGE 'DR the chassis manufacturers this is IC season of selectively presenting atisties to project themselves in the...

New standards in fuel efficiency at high operating speeds for 38-tonne tractive units are set by Dal's top ATi tractive unit,...

AX/0 makers of anti-waxing additives ir diesel fuel have introduced small acks to keep in or by individual chides to prevent...

THE DEPARTMENT of Trade (Weights and Measures) has given approval to an automatic fuel dispensing system which accepts credit...

FAULTS in vehicles electrical circuits can be pinpointed immediately if a new design of fuse made by Safeguard of Weybridge,...

A DIESEL fuel heater which traps water and gives improved fuel consumption has been launched by Parte°. The unit heats fuel to...

SUN visors in four colours and more than 10 different shapes to fit most commercial vehicle models have been introduced by...

KEEP AN EYE ON BRUSSELS NOW that the changes to the EEC drivers' hours rules have been agreed, hanhers attention will switch...

ALTHOUGH the Road Haulage Association has a slogan — "Professional Haulage" — so far as I know it has no motto. As a New Year...